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Los Angeles Times Voir Dire
1,390 words... e blacks comprise 4. 5 % of the population countywide. The court maintained that the Sixth Amendment right of a fair trial does not limit governments ability to define the community from which jurors are selected. Albert J. Master, a Los Angeles Deputy Public Defender, stated that the decision on trial transfers conflicted with the historic American legal tradition of trying cases in the community where a crime occurred... giving the defendant a trial by peers and the immediate community a d...
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George W Bush President George W
1,113 wordsWar in Iraq War in Iraq has become another bloody page in American and world history. Many people compare it with the War in Vietnam. I think that such comparisons are false and forced. Each war has some common features and each of them differs greatly. There is no sense to compare wars but there is a great reason to avoid them especially when there are no chances for victory. I will explain to you my point of view later. Now I want to say that not everyone was agreed with USA policy against the...
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Christ Like Figure Prayer For Owen Meany
1,713 words? I? m going to be a hero. ? ? Pretty vague job description, isn? t it? ? These lines of dialogue are a spoken between the lead character, Simon Birch, and Ben Goodrich, who is played by Oliver Platt. This proclamation sums up the driving force behind Simon? s actions. His quest to be a hero is Simon Birch? s? muffin? . It is the thing that drives him forward through the film. Throughout the film he is constantly in search of a sign from god that will tell him when the time has come for him to b...
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Martin Luther King L A Times
3,042 wordsValues and Censorship Stacey Hawkins Values and Ethics 2 - 11 - 99 Censorship In the Media and In Music Censorship is not always protected by the first amendment. Obscenity is just one of the action not protected by the first amendment. There are limitations on the right of free speech. ? The word? censorship? means prior restraint of First Amendment rights by government. ? (Enforcement) Some say that there are some things that people should not know about situations that are going on in the wor...
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Musical Career Four Years
1,461 wordsCharles Charles Ives Charles Ives Charles Ives is known in our day as the Father of American Music, but in his day, he was known just like everyone else- an ordinary man living his life. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut on October 20, 1894 (Stanley 1) to his mother, Sarah Hotchkiss Wilcox Ives and father, George White Ives (A Life With Music, Swafford 4). His father was renowned for being the Unions youngest bandmaster and having the best band in the Army (The Man His Life, Swafford 1). Littl...
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Cloning Humans Clone Humans
1,196 wordsThe Future of Cloning Cloning humans has recently become a possibility that seems much more feasible in todays society than it was twenty years ago. It is a method that involves the production of a group of identical cells or organisms that all derive from a single individual (Grolier 220). It is not known when or how cloning humans really became a possibility, but it is known that there are two possible ways that we can clone humans. The first way involves splitting an embryo into several halve...
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People Were Killed Drug Testing
1,904 wordsDrug Testing in the Workplace Welcome to our team Mr. Dave Matthews. Here at Vandalay Industries, we take pride in hiring the highest caliber of workers such as yourself, and to ensure the safety of all our employees in the latex factory, we ask that you pee in to this plastic cup. While this may not be the best way to bring about a companys drug testing policy to a new hire, the fact remains that in most every position today, if no urine sample is given, it translates into no job for you! Drug ...
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Department Of Energy York Times
596 wordsFrom a confidential communication plan sent in 1994 to Energy Secretary Hazel Oleary and her chief of staff, by Audrey Hoffer, a public relations consultant employed by the Department of Energy. Last November, House Republicans called for Secretary Oleary's resignation after a report surfaced showing that she had used federal funds to hire a public relations firm to rank reporters by their coverage of the department. The memo excerpted below was subsequently obtained by the Associated Press. Unt...
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Chat Rooms Home Schooling
830 wordsHome Schooling s Net Effects Washington Post (online) 07 / 16 / 00 The article found in the Washington Post on July 16, 2000, addresses the role of the Internet in aiding home schooling. The Internet is revolutionizing the growing home-schooling movement. The Internet makes home-schooling a more popular option because of its vast capabilities. It is a key tool in education, serving as a teacher, textbook, and even a library. The concept of home schooling is not new, however, the ideas of cybersc...
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30 P M Sleep Deprivation
718 wordsHow Are Your Sleeping Habits? American teenagers are getting far less sleep than needed for them in order to function properly. The health, behavior, and academic performance of teenagers are suffering as a result of their sleep deprivation. According to parents reports in the 1999 nationwide survey, Sleep in America, sixty percent of children under the age of eighteen complained of being tired during the school day. Fifteen percent of these children also reported falling asleep during school (p...
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House Judiciary Committee Perjury And Obstruction
1,534 wordsThe abuse of power has never been welcomed by society, whether it is in the workplace or in the government. One who misuses their privileges is subject to immediate investigation and eventually prosecution. For some government officials, the result can be a dismissal from their position, for the President, however, it is known as impeachment. According to Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, the President, shall be removed from the Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Brib...
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Today Society Year Old Girl
2,092 wordsIs Human Cloning Acceptable in Today? s Society? Imagine a twelve-year-old girl that has been diagnosed with an illness that will be fatal in the next ten years. This disease targets the heart and slowly deteriorates the myocardium of the heart. The twelve-year-old girl is placed behind fifty people on a list for a heart transplant. For that little girl, there seems to be no faith to which she can depend on for her heart transplant. What options does this girl have besides waiting for a heart tr...
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Face Value Black Community
647 wordsThe statistic I Marijuana Marijuana The statistic I chose to analyze was something I pulled from the Washington Post about a month ago. The article stated that 68 % of high school seniors admitted to trying marijuana at least once during their high school career. The article was about the resurfacing drug problem among the teenage age group. It was aimed at an audience of parents and others who could be affected by such an alarming rate. A number of thoughts crossed my mind when I read this stat...
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Men Are Created Equal Washington Post
740 wordsOur Multiculturalism Multiculturalism Our country was founded on the belief that all men are created equal. This was meant for everyone. When our country was founded, many different cultures existed in our land. We abused other cultures because we did not understand them. The United States today is much different. We are a? melting pot? of cultures. Although our country was founded predominately by Caucasian males, our country today is run by men and women of all sorts of different ethnic backgr...
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Involvement In Vietnam Prior Restraint
1,110 wordsNew York Times vs. U. S. (1971) This case came at a time when America was at unrest. A controversial war had divided the country. Opinions and arguments about whether the US involvement in Vietnam was warranted occupied the minds of American citizens. The people were hungry for information regarding the war. The Pentagon Papers, somehow leaked to the New York Times and Washington Post, fulfilled this need of the people for information. The governments assumption of prior restraint seemed to be a...
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Freedom Of Speech Watergate Scandal
1,437 wordsIn Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's All The Presidents Men, the truth is uncovered at any cost. The theme of the story is the length that the investigative reporters will go to discover truth and help to shed light on it. The first amendment protects the freedom of speech and the press. It is the job of investigators to protect this right and defend it to the best of their abilities. These two men risked their lives and careers for something they strongly believed in. They went above and beyond...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sex Education Classes
1,809 wordsIn todays society there is an on going debate over sex education and its influence on our children. " The question is no longer should sex education be taught, but rather how it should be taught" (DeCarlo). With teenage pregnancy rates higher than ever and the imminent threat of the contraction of STDs, such as HIV, the role of sex education in the school is of greater importance now then ever before. By denying children sex education you are in a sense sheltering them from the harsh r...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sex Education Classes
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sex Education Classes
1,791 wordsSex Education and the Classroom In todays society there is an on going debate over sex education and its influence on our children. The question is no longer should sex education be taught, but rather how it should be taught (DeCarlo). With teenage pregnancy rates higher than ever and the imminent threat of the contraction of STDs, such as HIV, the role of sex education in the school is of greater importance now then ever before. By denying children sex education you are in a sense sheltering th...
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Millions Of People Napster Users
905 wordsShutting Down Napster is Not the Solution Almost everyone has heard of Napster and its long debated issue s of file swapping and sharing. Considering Napster s short-lived existence of about a year and a half, they have certainly opened many people s eyes. Some say the file swapping that Napster allows everyone to do is illegal; others says it s just another thing to do on the internet. Napster has done much good for the internet, adding one more good thing that the internet can do for us. Napst...
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