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Louisiana Territory Civil Liberties
492 wordsJefferson was an admired and outstanding statesman who was grappling unsuccessfully with the moral issue of slavery. Thomas Jefferson, the great author of the Declaration of Independence, opposed slavery his whole life, however he never freed his own slaves. He championed Enlightenment principles, yet never freed himself of the prejudices of his society. Jefferson was a plantation owner early in his life, and had slaves working for him throughout his life. Jefferson had tolerated while he didn't...
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Spread Of Communism Soviet Union
1,198 wordsIn the years following the end of the Cold War, many historians and social scientists have written accounts of what were some of the causes and effects of this period when the threat of war was almost always present. One such person was Melvyn Leffler and his work, The Specter of Communism, which described the origins and conflicts of the Cold War. Out of these accounts several interesting questions come to light about the true nature of the Cold War. One such question that has surfaced recently...
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Act Of 1765 Civil Liberties
1,572 wordsThere comes a time when a student outperforms his teacher, this is also the case in the colonization of the American Continent. It took a while for the inhabitants to realize that they were better off without the British monarchy, but the colonists did not realize this immediately; it took years of British oppression to cause the colonists to rebel. The primary reason that the colonists rebelled was that they were sick of heavy unfair taxes, and restrictions on trade. There were also several oth...
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Mandatory Drug Testing Welfare Recipients
1,916 wordsIt has become all too common for governmental institutions across the nation to pass rules saying that certain people are subject to random drug testing. The central question that is raised deals with the righteousness of being subjected to testing even when there is no overwhelming warrant. Under the protection of the unreasonable search and seizures, including bodily searches, in the fourth amendment of the constitution, certain people, such as students and welfare recipients, to name a few, f...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,725 wordsSurfing the Internet is like strolling through a library. With just one click of the mouse, a person can enter an amazing world of information. The Internet takes away the inconvenience of having to drive to the public library, plus, the Internet is open twenty-four hours a day. But, not only can a person research information on the Internet, he can shop for products, read the latest news and stocks, meet new people, not only in the United States, but in other countries as well, look for a job, ...
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Attack In Pearl Harbor
1,179 wordsAttack in Pearl Harbor in December 1941 shocked United States to its core. It signaled not only an utter destruction of an important naval base and the loss of many lives, it in the first place signified the beginning of a great struggle for nations survival. At time when France fails to Germany, and Russia and Great Britain are at the verge of failing, nothing seemed to prevent the Nazi and its powerful allies to conquer the world. And though Attack in Pearl Harbor was shocking, the nightmare o...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,664 words... t started to grow into wide use, the Government began to become concerned about what children were being exposed to online. Until the Government began to interfere, most libraries did not use Internet filtering. Many cases of minors being exposed to pornography began to appear. In the year 2000, Bill Clinton signed the Childrens Internet Protection Act (CIPA) as part of Federal Bill HR 4577. The CIPA required schools and libraries that had federal funding designated for Internet use to insta...
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Diego Ca Greenhaven Civil Liberties Union
1,473 wordsSpeak Your Mind: The Censorship Controversy in American Culture On a rainy morning in Detroit, Michigan, a twenty-something year old man by the name of Marshall Mathers awakes to hear a pounding on his front door. After muttering a few obscene phrases, he rolls out of bed and stumbles to his front door. However, instead of facing another autograph seeker, the rapper best known by his alias Eminem (or the real Slim Shady) is face to face with two police officers. Mr. Mathers, one says, were here ...
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Analysis Of The October Crisis In Quebec
794 wordsThe most extreme separatists in Quebec had never believed in democratic methods to solve the problem. The y wanted separation right away and would do anything they could to get that. In the 1950 's and 1960 's terror tactics such as bombing, kidnapping, and assassination to force governments to give them want they wanted were happening all over the world in pretty much all the countries. Since 1963 Quebec had suffered from scattered acts of separatist violence, mainly bombings which usually did ...
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The Constitutional Abuse Of Free Speech
887 wordsFree speech and the abuses that surround it are like wild horses that need to be broken and tamed. The laws that were created to protect free speech were made long ago and in a much different spirit. The days of the American Revolution were filled with political oppression, enforced by British rule. Speaking out against such obvious tyranny meant being crushed under the boot of colonial governors. Free speech was designed to combat these infractions against proper civil liberties. The first amen...
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Civil Liberties Union Senate Hearings
856 wordsBeginning in the 1980 s, religious fundamentalists and some parents' groups have waged a persistent campaign to limit the variety of cultural messages available to American youth by attacking the content of some of the music industry's creative products. These attacks have taken numerous forms, including a call by the Parents' Music Resource Center (PMRC) for the labeling of recordings whose themes or imagery relate to sexuality, violence, drug or alcohol use, suicide or the 'occult, ' and prose...
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19 Th Century Civil Liberties
913 wordsMc World is the onrush of economic and ecological forces that demand integration, uniformity, and that mesmerize the world with fast music, fast computers, and fast food, with MTV, Macintosh, and McDonalds, pressing nations into one commercially homogenous global network. The force of Mc World is driven by universalizing markets; it makes national borders porous from without. Four imperatives make up the dynamic of Mc World: a market imperative, a resource imperative, an information-technology i...
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U S Foreign Policy World War Ii
1,697 wordsBlack Nationalism Briefly define the concept of Black Nationalism. What are some of the critical factors or events that helped determine the movements for Black Nationalism? The issue for nationalists was not only human slavery or oppression. It was also the oppression of black people by white people. Nothing aroused the fury of nationalists more than the racial factor in human exploitation. Their identity as black touched the very core of their being and affected their thoughts and feelings reg...
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Colonial Era Civil Liberties
1,148 wordsMovie Review The colonial history of North Carolina is filled with numerous outbreaks of violence, due to independent spirit of people who lived in this part of America at the time. This is because it was much harder for colonial administration to maintain their authority there then anywhere else, since the area was scarcely populated, with lack of reliable means of communication and only a few roads. (1) The Battle of Alamance many consider as a prelude to American War for Independence, which b...
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Cellular Telephones Electronic Surveillance
1,737 wordsOverview The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 was adopted to address the legal privacy issues that were evolving with the growing use of computers and other new innovations in electronic communications. The ECPA updated legislation passed in 1968 that had been designed to clarify what constitutes invasion of privacy when electronic surveillance is involved. The ECPA extended privacy protection outlined in the earlier legislation to apply to radio paging devices, electronic ma...
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1,004 wordsThe topic of racial profiling amongst minority individuals in the state of New Jersey has been a heated issue for the past several years. This department has been charged with numerous allegations of racism and is the main focus for racial based events in police departments nationwide. Although racial profiling amongst police officers in the state of New Jersey has been a major issue for many years, it has not been until recently that action has been taken in order to investigate the alleged pro...
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Wall Street Journal Credit Card Fraud
2,118 wordsOverview If cyberspace is a type of community, a giant neighborhood made up of networked computer users around the world, then it seems natural that many elements of a traditional society can be found taking shape as bits and bytes. With electronic commerce comes electronic merchants, plugged-in educators provide online education, and doctors meet with patients in offices on-line. It should come as no surprise that there are also cyber criminals committing cybercrime's. As an unregulated medley ...
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Female Genital Mutilation Discrimination Against Women
4,701 wordsDespite 1992 constitutional changes that permitted the creation of four political parties, President Hassan Gouled Action and the Peoples Rally for Progress (RPP), in power since independence in 1977, continued to rule the country. Djibouti's two main ethnic groups are the politically predominant Issa (the tribe of the President, which is of Somali origin) and the Afar (who are also numerous in Ethiopia and Eritrea). The Afar comprise the largest single tribe in Djibouti but are outnumbered by t...
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Secretary Of Labor Put In Place
2,428 wordsAnalysis of the Red Scare " The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. " -Kipling, The Recessional Mr. Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with the last cry on the battlefield. World War I certainly did not. After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare, which began in 1919 ...
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Animal Rights Activists World Trade Center
3,183 wordsWhat are the causes of terrorism and how can it be stopped? Terrorism and guerrilla warfare, whether justified as resistance to oppression or condemned as disrupting the rule of law, are as old as civilization itself. The power of the terrorist, however, has been magnified by modern weapons, including television, which he has learned to exploit. (Guerrillas and Terrorists) There are many definitions and forms of terrorism: biological and chemical, nuclear, international, cyber, criminal, environ...
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