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Victorian Society Pet Names
1,287 words
The Statement of the Liberation of Women as Shown
in A Dolls House In reading Ibsen's A Dolls House
today, a person could find it hard to imagine how
daring it seemed when Ibsen wrote it over one
hundred years ago. A main subject of this play is
the emancipation of women from the restrictions
that society and men place on them. When Ibsen
wrote this play he was making a statement about a
womans role in Victorian society. That statement
is that society should allow women to be
independent, and th...
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Assault Weapon Ban National Rifle Association
3,095 words
... Guns and violence are not just found in
schools. In the state of Louisiana and Texas, more
people now die from gunshot wounds than from car
accidents. Since 1980 the citys homicide rate has
doubled. These violent outrages are spurred on by
deadly convergence of gangs, drugs, and even more
assault weaponry. Juvenile arrests in our nation
for homicides climbed from six to over one hundred
in one year alone (Hull, 1993). Police have
complained about being outgunned by drug dealers
with Uzis and...
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Chinese Exclusion Act Southern And Eastern
2,310 words
A Journey Though the Golden Gates of Promise Great
controversy exists over the true promises of the
Golden Gates in the United States. Discrimination
occurs with different ethnic groups, but for those
immigrants permitted into the country, the
opportunities are excellent. The laws and
practices established to control immigration into
the United States limit the amount of poverty that
can be present in the country. Without these
important practices and laws created by the United
States Congress, ...
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Gun Control Laws United States Supreme Court
1,095 words
... the right to bear arm, the NRA argues that the
Fourteenth Amendment enforces the Second (3). The
Fourteenth Amendment states: No State shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property without due process of
law; nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
(From Amendment XIV section 1. 1868) In this
argument the NRA stresses...
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Should The Drivers License Age Be Raised
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... noise that they are to wear seat belts at all
times. Limit your teen's driving during high-risk
times of the day and limit the area a teen can
drive. Set curfews for your teen and encourage
your teen to use good judgement. Parents can also
use 4 MYTEEN, a teen driver's monitoring service.
Designed by Officer Tom H. Deats of the Arlington
Police Department, this tactic uses a bumper
sticker which reads "HOW'S MY DRIVING - CALL 1 800
- 4 MY-TEEN", and is placed on the car that the
teenager use...
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United States Constitution Hate Speech
860 words
In recent years, in attempt to reduce hate crimes
and to protect the minorities, many colleges have
adopted codes and policies prohibiting offensive
speech based on race, gender, religion and sexual
orientation. While college administrators may find
speech regulations as an attractive solution to
all of these problems, experience has showed us
that restrictions of free speech on campus create
even more complications and confrontations between
students. By adopting speech codes universities
would...
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John Calhoun And A Disquisition On Government
1,924 words
... attractive to the ambitious and avaricious. He
also notes that government cannot possibly
equalize costs and benefits. Government is in
place so society can run and people must always
play a role in the maintenance of society, and
people must play a role in building it. He notes,
"Its honors and emoluments, however great, can
fall to the lot of but a few, compared to the
entire number of the community and the multitude
who will seek to participate in them. " As a
result, "one portion of the ...
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Supreme Court Decision Dred Scott V
1,781 words
... the state interest in protecting potential
life. First, it would seem apparent that the
unborn was not specifically mentioned at the time
because the framers of the Constitution did not
have adequate medical knowledge to know what we do
now about the biology of the unborn; or, they
assumed that it would be clear that the unborn was
covered, since they didn't deem it necessary to
specify that each stage of a person's development
was constitutionally protected. The Court seemed
perfectly conte...
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Security Guards Smoke Free
1,272 words
With Reference to a large range of scales and a
variety of settings describe ands explain the ways
in which the Visitor Experience might be enhanced
by different techniques of Visitor Management In
order to illustrate the concepts of enhancing
visitor experience through different techniques a
broad range of settings and scales need to be
introduced. With the use of these settings visitor
experience can be summarised on a broad scale, and
with such scales techniques can be provided that
help enha...
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Third Party License Agreement
1,658 words
NOTE: System EDGE 4. 2 pl 1 no longer uses the
Microsoft Master SNMP agent. System EDGE 4. 2 pl 1
can not be configured as a sub-agent under the
Microsoft Master Agent. 1) Save the distribution
to the file 'sys edge. exe' 2) Log onto the target
NT system as administrator 3) If you are upgrading
System EDGE on the target NT system and using the
Top Processes AIM, please stop any service using
the Top Processes dll before extracting the System
EDGE software. If upgrading System EDGE 4. 1 pl 4
or l...
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U S Schools Ethical Issues
1,597 words
The Use of Internet Filters Introduction The use
of internet filters as a method to block offensive
internet content in schools and universities is
very delicate question, especially because it
involves ethical issues. Any free access to
information cuts both ways, so no wonder that
internet is no exception to the rule. On the one
hand the arguments of those, who support use of
browsers for filtering sensible data in schools
and universities, sound quite convincing; however,
on the other hand, t...
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World War Ii Internment Camps
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United States Internment of Japanese Citizens
during World War 2 Introduction What were the
reasons behind the decision of the United States
government to intern Japanese citizens during
World War 2? Were they treated in the same way as
citizens of other states with whom America was at
war? Was this purely a security measure or were
xenophobia and racism factors? During World War
II, the U. S. government and many Americans viewed
Japanese citizens, Japanese Americans and their
children and other...
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U S Trade Tariff Barriers
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... Taiwan's Major Exports for the years 1997 and
1998. Taiwan's Trade Regime Like a number of its
Asian neighbors, Taiwan's economy was protected in
many sectors in the 1950 s and 1960 s. As part of
a trade liberalization effort encouraged by
Taiwan's major trading partners, notably the
United States in accordance with WTO accession,
many of these trade barriers have been reduced or
dismantled in recent years. However, substantial
barriers remain in a number of sectors. In an
effort to attract ...
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Short Term Horse Power
1,718 words
Policy instruments in the fishery sector come
under two general headings, ones that are
encouraging capital investment and greater catches
and those acting against over capitalisation and
overcapacity trying to reduce catches. Control of
fishing effort has been the major problem in
fisheries management since the mass mechanisation
of the worlds fishing fleets after World War two
and there have been large volumes of work
dedicated to the reduction of fishing effort and
attaining the holy grail of...
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Gun Control Laws Law Abiding Citizens
1,277 words
Gun Control is a term that refers to the attempt
to reduce violence caused by the use of firearms
by regulating their ownership and use. Gun control
efforts generally focus on passing legislation by
local, state, or national government to restrict
legal ownership of certain firearms. (Zimring,
1197) Most countries have some restrictions on
firearms. This term paper discusses gun control in
the United States. Proponents (people who are for
it) of strict gun control laws argue that reducing
the nu...
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Freedom Of Speech Benjamin Franklin
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History of Journalism When you wake up in a
bustling city like Toronto or a small rural town
like Sarnia, what do you do? You probably pick up
the latest copy of the Toronto Star, Globe 038;
Mail or Toronto Sun from your doorsteps or closest
newsstand. What do you listen to on the radio on
the way to work? You listen to the news. What do
you watch at 11: 00 oclock at night? You watch the
news. News is everywhere. Some people even call it
JOURNALISM! From the days of EXTRA! EXTRA! READ
ALL ABO...
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Cost Of Production Coca Cola
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International Business Coca Cola Entering The
International Business Coca Cola Entering The
Indian Market Introduction To give a short
introduction to the circumstances affecting this
case of Pepsi 038; Coca Cola it has to be said
that in general it is not just simple for MNEs to
invest and enter foreign markets as regulations
and restrictions differ from country to country
and hence influence international business
negotiations to a great extend. Therefore MNEs
investigating in foreign marke...
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Oregon State Driving Laws Oregon State Driving Teenagers
630 words
There are about one million teenagers at the age
of sixteen in the state of Oregon who will be
getting their license very soon, or if not
already. Now as of March 1, 2000 a teenager that
applies for their license after this date is
enforced to abide by certain ridiculous
restrictions. These new driving laws in the state
of Oregon should be eliminated. Admittedly, these
laws will be good for teenagers with nothing else
to do, except for the fact that it could lead to
breaking the law, which means...
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Institute For Social Research Sex And Violence
2,702 words
Sex and Violence in the Electronic Media Sex and
violence in the Electronic media is a pressing
topic. This paper raises a number of pros and
cons. But mainly, this paper deals with the cons
of regulating the media. During research, the most
pressing point found was the issue of censorship.
Censorship is the keystone of the publics apparent
outcry against the electronic media. To better
understand censorship, the term must be defined.
In Websters New World Dictionary, censorship is
defined as th...
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Drinking And Driving Accidents Involving
2,145 words
Should the age to receive a drivers license be
raised and, if not, should graduated licensing be
instituted? This is a growing question across
America as well as other countries around our
globe. The percentage of teenage accidents
involving automobiles is on a constant rise.
Whether caused by the lack of experience or under
the influence of alcohol, death has become all too
common among teen motorists. This problem is not
going to go away by itself; action needs to be
taken. The state must rais...
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