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Open Door Policy Won The Election
1,254 words... of foreign policy was as dynamic and considerably more far-reaching in import. Believing that there could be no retreat from the power position which the Spanish-American War had dramatized but which the United States industrialism had forged, he stamped his imprint upon American policy with unusual force. He established a moderately enlightened government in the Philippines, while persuading Congress to grant tariff concessions to Cuba. He settled an old Alaskan boundary dispute with Canada...
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Welfare Recipients Welfare Reform
852 words"No one likes the current welfare system. " As described in a report edited by Isabel V. Sawmill, an author of The Urban Institute, not many individuals were pleased with the welfare system preceding its reform in 1996. Governors complained that federal law was overly prescriptive, and were willing to take less federal money in return for more flexibility. The public believed welfare to be an "anti-work" and "anti-family" program. Welfare recipients found dealing with the system degrading and de...
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Family Feud Legal Action
700 wordsThroughout the book Feud, Altina L. Waller debunks the old myths of two families at war and shows us that not only was the Feud a family feud but there were many people not in the Hatfield and McCoy families that were involved also. Altina L. Waller looked at the Feud like nobody else had ever looked at the Feud. Her words support the facts that capitalism brought fuel to the Feud. Her perspective on Feud may change your views about the Feud. Everyone thinks that the Feud that happened in the la...
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Secretary Of State Amount Of Time
1,460 wordsDirect democracy is a way for average people like you and I to take care of public issues rather than leaving it up to representatives. Direct democracy can be applied in three different forms. The first is known as the initiative. Regular people, the voters, can take the problems we are facing in society and create laws that may eventually end up on the ballot. First off, there has to be a petition that is developed and sent to the attorney general for approval. Then, within 150 days the petiti...
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Physician Assisted Suicide American Medical Association
875 wordsActive euthanasia is a necessary course of action and should be allowed as long as the decision is being made by the family members or the patient themselves. The American Medical Association claims active euthanasia is against its policy, but improving the quality of life for a patient is, so what happens if the patients life could be made better by ending it? In a statement by the American Medical Association, they claim the intentional termination of the life of one human being by another mer...
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Years Of His Life Adolf Hitler
1,067 wordsAdolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889. He created a lot of myths around his early life in order to show that he was destined for greatness. In fact, there was nothing very extraordinary about his background. He was the son of a minor customs official and peasant girl. He was a poor student, and never completed high school. He also applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but was rejected for lack of talent. The young Hitler thought of himself as a misunderstood ar...
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Supreme Court Women Rights
886 wordsAbigail Adams was the wife of one president and wife of another. She was not just a mother and a wife, she was also very concerned with politics. Abigail often corresponded with her husband through letters, as they were often separated. The most famous of these letters was entitled Remember the Ladies. In this letter, Abigail advocated women's rights to her husband. She urged him to push the removal of legal codes which discriminated against women, lift laws that denied women their property righ...
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U S Trade U S Policy
1,099 wordsThe island nation of Cuba, located just ninety miles off the coast of Florida, is home to 11 million people and has one of the few remaining communist regimes in the world. Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, came to power in 1959 and immediately instituted a communist program of sweeping economic and social changes. Castro allied his government with the Soviet Union and seized and nationalized billions of dollars of American property. U. S. relations with Cuba have been strained ever since. A trade em...
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U S House Proportional Representation
1,168 wordsWhat exactly is proportional representation (PR), how does it work, and what are its advantages over our present system? The way it works is simple proportional representation system come in several varieties, but they all share two basic characteristics. The first way is they use mullet-member districts. Instead of electing one member of the legislature in each small district, PR uses much larger districts that elect several members at one time, (about five or ten). Second, the proportion of vo...
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Cyber Communism The New Threat In Millennium
1,106 wordsMy expedition into cyber-communism began when I read Brock Meeks' "Hackers Stumble Toward Legitimacy"[ 1 ]. The article addressed a recent hackers' convention. Interestingly, the keynote speaker was Eric Boucher[ 2 ] (alias Jello Biafra[ 3 ]), a rock star with no technical background. Numerous questions ensue. Who is Eric Boucher (alias Jello Biafra)? What does he believe? More importantly, why schedule someone with no technical background to speak at a hackers' convention? Addressing his belief...
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Point Of View Tony Blair
1,491 wordsEssay Outline: My essay is only around one thousand five hundred words long and in that one and a half thousand words I must give points of views from both sides as well as a introduction and this Essay Outline. The first opinion I will write about is the opinions of the labour supporters, saying how They suffered because of the petrol protests, the rights wrongs and how the wrongs were or tried to be sorted out and how long it took. Also in labours defence I shall write about how Tony Blair thi...
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19 Th Century Foreign Intervention
1,029 wordsFrom Coexistence to Conflict in 19 th Century Mount Lebanon Mount Lebanon has been a troubled region throughout much of Lebanese history. Through most of the 19 th century, the Maronite and Druze inhabitants of the Mount Lebanon region had successfully coexisted in an intricate inter-sectarian system. True to the words of Leila Fatal, Lebanon was at peace, as it had been for most of its history. Excessive foreign intervention, however, caused the status in Mount Lebanon to move from coexistence ...
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Similar In Many Ways Rise To Power
1,803 wordsDuring the period leading up to World War II, there were two men who were on opposing sides, the men were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. These men were each triumphant in their rise to power in their countries and they were very comparable in the ways that they succeeded. Their success was mostly attributed to their new ideas and their politics. Although Hitler and Stalin hated each other, the two leaders were similar in many ways. Hitler and Stalin each rose to the highest position attainable...
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Gun Control Legislation Five Day Waiting Period
1,077 wordsIn the 1960 s after the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kenedy, gun control became a major subject of public passion and controversy. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of thi...
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Baader Meinhof Political Prisoners
1,028 wordsAmnesty International was founded in London in 1961. It is an activist Worldwide Organization that deals with various cases of human rights support and proper fulfilling of the benefits given to citizens by their governments. This organization takes an active part in reconciling matters associated with political killings, torture, political prisoners, and even death penalty. To continue, AI comprises an account of internal changes and strains of Guatemala, Nigeria, and the bizarrely appalling im...
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Mein Kampf Nazi Party
566 wordsFrom 1920, when the Nazi Party was first established, continuing through the rule of Nazism, the Nazis Party employed effective propaganda to gain supporters. They utilized such strategies as appealing to emotions rather than sound, logical reasoning and choosing few simple points to be drowned into the masses. Propaganda also incorporated the technique of eliminating individuals so that only the party existed, allowing no foreign opinions to be introduced. Adolf Hitler was the skilled propagand...
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Law And Order French Republic
2,098 wordsAccount for the survival of the Third French Republic When the 3 rd French Republic came into being on the 4 th September 1870 France was in the middle of the Franco- Prussian war, which they were to eventually lose. When France signed the treaty of Frankfurt in May 1871 Germany imposed 5 billion francs worth of reparations, and the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France were ceded to them. France was also to be occupied by Germany until all the reparations had been paid off. Obviously the French...
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Germany And Italy B C
700 wordsThe two sides were: The Nationalists (a loose coalition of right wing groups, including Army high command, the Church, the landowners, monarchists, a the Falange [fascist party]) and the Republicans (looser coalition of left wing groups, including socialists, trade unionists, communists, anarchists, and moderate liberals) The Nationalists sought to preserve Spain's integrity, while Republicans wished to preserve the Second Republic. The Causes of the War Profound cause: long period of decline si...
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Jay Gould Stephen Jay
1,834 wordsStephen Jay GouldProfesor Stephen Jay Gould, who has died of cancer aged 60, was an unlikely figure to have been canonized in his lifetime by the US Congress, which named him as one of Americas living legends. A paleontologist, he was based for most of his life at the museum of comparative zoology (MCZ) at Harvard, where, since 1982, he had been Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology. But he was best known to the public through his unbroken sequence of 300 monthly essays in Natural History magaz...
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Minorities And Women Affirmative Action
893 wordsSupport for Affirmative Action As you look around college campuses you will see many people of different color and gender. What if most schools was dominated by only one color or gender? This is what would occur if affirmative action no longer existed. Today, affirmative action is one of the most controversial issues discussed amongst society. Affirmative action helps minorities. It also helps all people of different races and women as a whole, if used fairly in our society. According to the Mer...
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