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Fireworks An Explosive Morality Issue
1,860 wordsFirecrackers: An Explosive Morality Issue "Pop! Bam! Boom!" These are the sounds one hears passing by a Chinatown around February of every year. Indeed, these are the sounds of firecrackers, which are distinctive features Chinese people use to welcome a new beginning on Chinese New Year. According to older generations, firecrackers are considered not only a sign of getting rid of the old and welcoming the new, but are also believed to be able to dispel the evils. As a result, Chinese families de...
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Sleep Deprivation Regular Basis
1,059 words... ing asleep at midnight, the young person dreads the next day when they must go through it all again. Many public figures have suggested a later school starting time at 9 or so. As this would definitely make a difference, the situation can never be completely mended because teenagers today are simply busy. And unfortunately, sleep does not fit into their schedule as they try to participate in everything possible and prepare for college or their career of choice. As they sleep five or six hour...
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Readers Digest Sound Waves
2,571 wordsThere are many differences between Dolphins and Porpoises. People might think that the two are the same mammal, but they are not. Dolphins have cone-shaped teeth and porpoises have spade-shape teeth. The easiest way to tell them apart is that the porpoise is smaller in size and is broader across the back. Dolphins are classified in the Delphinidae species and there are thirty to fifty different kinds of species in this family (Min asian 204). The Porpoises are classified under the Phoceonidae fa...
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Readers Digest W O
2,577 words... iru's that killed tens of thousands of seals in the north sea in the late 1980 's, and later caused the deaths of hundreds of stripped dolphins in the Mediterranean. They did not find any. Nor was there any suggestion that the dolphins had suffered from a parasitic disease or pollution. (Bonner 6) This is how they came to the conclusion it had to be nets because the dolphins didnt die from any disease, but had marks on them. The scientists then put two and two together and they figured out i...
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Ralph Nader Presidential Debates
1,405 words... ory nominating process has also contributed to the Republican and Democratic domination of electoral politics for over 140 years 1. By winning party nominations through primary elections, voters can gain access to the general election ballot and thereby enhance their chances of election victories without having to organize third parties 1. Thus, the primary-nomination process tends to channel dissent into the two major parties and makes it unnecessary for dissidents to engage in the difficul...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Anabolic Steroids
1,747 wordsMany athletes of all ages are turning towards performance enhancing drugs as a way of improving their performance by giving them that extra edge. This is not only wrong but its cheating and harmful to the athlete. Performance enhancing drugs have been around for hundreds of years. The Incas of the South America country Peru used the burned leaves of coca trees to give them great amounts of energy when faced with battles, hunts, ect. Even today they use coca leaves as a way of giving them the ene...
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Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Proliferation
594 wordsThe dangers that can arise from mismanaged proliferation are profound and numerous. There is the danger that the proliferation process itself could give one of the existing nuclear powers a strong incentive to stop a non-nuclear neighbor from joining the nuclear club. For example, Israel (an undeclared Nuclear Power) used force to stop Iraq from acquiring a nuclear capability. There is also the danger that an unstable nuclear competition could emerge among some of the new nuclear states like Ind...
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Dangerous Sex Offenders Should Be Locked For Life
2,048 wordsDangerous Sex Offenders Should be Locked for Life (1) There can be no doubt as to the fact that sexual offenders pose clear and immediate danger to society's well-being. At the same time, the criminal act, on the part of these offenders is often being regarded as redeemable. As a result, people that are known to have unhealthy sexual obsessions are being released from jail as corrected members of society, after having served their time in jail. When this happens, the members of local communities...
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Gun Control Advocates Pros And Cons
1,925 wordsGun Control: the Pros and Cons Recently public debates on gun control policy gained new emotional and social colors. Current situation regarding to the concern of the government about gun safety can be illustrated with the following. In 48 states people can legally buy and keep guns, and in 43 states there is no registration or license required for that. In 46 states there are no limitations on the amount of guns, which an individual can buy at a time; only 4 states allow buying one handgun per ...
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Nuclear Power Plants Amount Of Energy
2,517 wordsModern technologies and industries use huge quantities of energy every moment, to run each machines, and to create heat, light and refrigeration, and people base their life-style on the certainty of readily available sources of energy. In almost all developing countries the demand for energy is growing as populations increase. Energy use is closely tied to health and well-being. The fast-growing demand for energy all around the world offers the opportunity for people to avoid the high-energy and...
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Gun Control Legislation Carry Guns
1,874 wordsGun Control For many years the problem of gun control remains one of the most controversial and debatable points not only because of its legal or political importance, but also due to its exceptional social and emotional background. Nowadays this issue attracted a new huge wave of public attention as a response on recent discussions in the Congress of the USA on the sufficiency of the existing controlling laws and the way we obey them. If to take a look at the statistics, the question of gun con...
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Partial Birth Abortion President Bill Clinton
2,497 wordsPartial-Birth Abortion Partial Birth Abortion (PBA) is a common term to refer to medical procedure of Intact Dilation and Extraction (IDX) as a method of interrupting pregnancy at its late terms. PBA is a special procedure of abortion, which includes extermination and intact removal of the fetus from mothers body. It can be successfully performed in the late second or third trimester of pregnancy, or in 20 - 26 weeks of it. As a rule, the surgical procedure consists of the following stages: (1) ...
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Second World War Years In Prison
2,510 wordsInterest Groups Despite the fact that the judicial process in U. S. and West European countries is based on the principle of complete independence from the potential factors of influence, in recent years, we witness the alarming tendency of court decisions being affected by so-called interest groups. Even as far back as fifties, the applying political or cultural pressure on judicial procedures was considered as being utterly inappropriate. But now, the students of law learn that the influence o...
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U S Constitution United States Constitution
1,370 wordsConstitution Paper (1) Both, U. S. Constitution and the Articles of Confederation came as a result of socio-political realities in America, at the time when they were being introduced. After gaining an independence from Britain, the representatives from all 13 American states in Continental Congress, decided that the higher coordination level had to be attained between these states. There were many factors that made legislators to consider creating a common law, which was to regulate relations b...
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Joint Ventures Foreign Country
844 wordsInternational Marketing In this paper I would like to summarize an article about International Marketing current events. With this purpose, I chose the article by Carmel Rosato Oil and gas companies urged to go global to secure future success published on March 29, 2005. Penetrating and evolving international markets is a very essential question in the modern marketing world. Carmel Rosato writes about the importance to accelerate the speed of growth through globalization and use the large oppor...
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Iran Iraq War Development Of Nuclear
1,726 wordsNuclear Nonproliferation In this paper, I will discover the views of different world countries on the inevitability of nuclear proliferation. I will address what will become of the rising proliferation of nuclear technology. I believe that allowing nuclear weapons to spread will only endanger the world in the long run and that unless we act now, we will not be able to see another two thousand years of the human race. The dangers that can arise from mismanaged proliferation are profound and numer...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Genetic Screening
2,601 wordsThe Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling Justin Broyles Apr. 12, 1995 Justice Theory Lance Miller Genetic engineering has developed and blossomed at a frightening rate in the last decade. Originating as merely an area of interest for scientists, genetic engineering has now become an area of which all people should be somewhat knowledgeable. DNA profiling has many uses, both positive and negative, in our society. Aside from its usefulness in many legal investigations, DNA profiling can ...
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Carbon Dioxide Air Quality
484 wordsDanger In The Air At North Intermmediate Danger In The Air At North Intermmediate School In Wilmington? Danger in the Air At North Intermmediate School in Wilmington? Is there danger in the air at the North Intermediate School in Wilmington? Apparently carbon dioxide levels have been found to be above acceptable levels in some class rooms. According to a report dated Dec. 9, 1996, by ATC Associations, an independent consulting firm hired by the Town of Wilmington to conduct Indoor Air Quality an...
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Grand Prix Steady Increase
1,178 wordsDeath Returns to Formula One Racing My first hint that something was wrong came Sunday afternoon when I logged on to the BBS (bulletin board service, a central computer acting as a host for other users to exchange messages) for auto racing. Someone posted a short but gripping note, I think I just witnessed the death of Ayrton Senna, he said. My eyes widened as I exclaimed what, in shock and dismay. A few hours later, the facts became more clear. Senna had crashed on the sixth lap of the San Mari...
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Wright Racial Tension
2,628 wordsPeople have an inherent fear of what they don? t know or what is different. This is the underlying concept behind the prejudices encountered by the protagonists in all of the stories I have read. Ignorance leads to hateful views and actions. Discrimination occurs based on standards such as origin, race, and appearance. Although it is clear that racism and various forms of hatred are rampant in society, the origins of such strong emotions are varied and unknown in many cases. Danger Zone offers a...
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