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Kill A Mockingbird Racial Slurs
495 wordsHarper Lees To Kill A Mockingbird tells a tremendous story that touches on issues of racism and injustice in Alabama during the 1930 s. Lee presents to her readers a realistic view as to how people of that time spoke and behaved. She also uses language that some consider offensive to help illustrate the injurious episodes of our countrys past. The content of the novel has caused much controversy over time. As a sad and upsetting result, To Kill A Mockingbird has been removed from a number of sch...
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World Wide Prohibition Act
1,615 words... rnetgamb. html. I only included this article because I wanted to show what kind of people were behind the regulation push. This is actually a letter written on behalf of a number of churches urging regulation of the Internet. Bloomberg News (Nov. 3, 1999) House subcommittee gives green light to gambling ban. Retrieved from the World Wide Web Oct. 17. 1999. web This article is brief in nature, but critical in the development of the Internet gambling issue. It talks about the committee's vote,...
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People Who Smoke Passive Smoking
1,064 wordsPeople have many different views about smoking in public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they want. But non-smokers like me, feel that people who smoke are actually endangering my life and the lives of non-smokers. Smoking causes heart disease, lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Smoking is attributed as the number one cause of lung cancer. The majority of non-smokers who have lung cancer receive it because of involuntary smoking or passive smoking. While p...
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Bear Arms Machine Guns
1,516 wordsThere is a famous quote, which states: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people. " This quote is technically true. But if there are no guns, it will be a whole lot more difficult for people to kill people. Sure people could use different weapons such as knives and golf clubs to kill people. But the victim will have a significant better chance of defending him or herself from a weapon other than firearms. I was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to the United States when I was six. I still go visi...
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Violence In A Changing America
1,381 wordsColumbine, Co. Through the news we have witnessed the horror, gore and serious crime that has extended its influence even to the youth of small towns across America. America has experienced a cultural change where solid values no longer serve as a deterrent to crime. This spread may have resulted from the desensitizing media under the, If it bleeds, it reads. marketing ploy, or perhaps the rise of the Internet. However, occurrences such as those at Columbine illustrate the violence that plagues ...
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The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons A Debate
1,084 wordsThis book is structured as a debate between the authors on the subject of nuclear proliferation. Waltz "argues that because nuclear weapons 'will never the less spread, ' the end result will be stabilizing. His main point is that 'nuclear weapons make wars hard to start' and that even radical states will act like rational ones because of the mutually deterrent effort of nuclear weapons. Sagan... fears the worst because of 'inherent limits in organizational reliability. He contends that the paroc...
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Supreme Court Ruled Full Faith And Credit
1,049 wordsSame Sex Marriage, Acceptance in the United States Marriage is much more than merely a commitment to love one another. Marriage entitles financial responsibility, as well as authorized financial benefits. It is the institution that provides automatic legal protection for the spouse, including medical visitation, inheritance of a deceased spouse's property, as well as pension and other rights. Society has become accustom to what they believe is normal by their traditions and religious beliefs. Ma...
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Abortion Clinics Hundred Years
1,210 words... uns is not the answer to solving school violence. Large inner city schools have metal detectors at the doors but sometimes that doesn't stop all the potentially harmful objects from entering the school. It is a step in the right direction but not all schools need them so desperately or can't afford them. For now, we need to try to deal with it as it comes and maybe educate the teachers on what to do in different types of terrorist attacks. Attacks on abortion clinics are terroristic too. I a...
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Gun Control Advocates Gun Control Laws
1,602 wordsA gun is a mechanical device that expels a projectile. In most cases the projectile is a gyroscopically stabilized bullet which can accurately travel a large distance. Most guns burn solid propellants to produce high-pressure gas, which drives the projectile through the barrel. Guns have been used for hundreds of years in the history of our world and nation. Although, gun control has been a major debating issue during the past few decades. On one side there are those who completely agree with th...
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Pretty Good Privacy U S Government
1,544 words... them how to enjoy the good things and avoid the bad things. This isn't the government's responsibility. It's ours (Miller 76). " Not all restrictions on electronic speech are bad. Most of the major on-line communication companies have restrictions on what their users can "say. " They must respect their customer's privacy, however. Private E-mail content is off limits to them, but they may act swiftly upon anyone who spouts obscenities in a public forum. Self-regulation by users and servers i...
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Gods Word Supreme Court
1,501 wordsQuote from Literature Many Christianity INTRODUCTION Quote from Literature Many people try to discredit what the Bible teaches, but my faith comes from God, through his word, The Holy Bible. Billy Graham wrote, Because the Bible is Gods inspired Word, it does not contradict itself or teach falsehoods because God cannot lie. We may not understand every detail of Scripture, but we must never lose sight of the fact that it is Gods Word and not mans ideas or opinions. Quote from an Authoritative Sou...
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Food And Drug Administration Outlawing Cigarettes
1,132 wordsCigarettes-Killing Our Country- This year alone cigarettes will kill over 420, 000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases. These horrible illnesses were known to originate from cigarettes for years, and recently nicotine, the main chemical additive in cigarettes, was declared addictive by the Food and Drug Administration. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned about he...
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Impact On Society Reproductive Cloning
1,436 wordsInfinite Possibilities If Mirrors Face The inevitability of human cloning is unavoidable. Although a majority of individuals disapprove the idea of cloning humans, I firmly believe that, not only will human cloning be widely practiced in the near future, but it will also benefit the health and well-being of all humanity. Just visualize for a second that you are one of the human clones that will exist within this decade, and imagine putting up with all the arguments that many opinion leaders are ...
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League Of Nations Whaling Commission
1,313 wordsThe Resumption of Whaling by Norway The following paper is about the resumption of whaling by Norway with a focus on the American attitude towards whaling in general. Whaling is a very sensitive issue for many people, including myself. There are many people who feel that whales are highly intelligent mammals, akin to humanity in many ways. They cite the fact that whales mate for life, the size of the average whales brain, and the proof that whales communicate with one another; all of these trait...
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Full Faith And Credit Defense Of Marriage Act
1,221 wordsBaehr and her attorney sought their objectives entirely through state law, not only by filing in state rather than federal court, but also by alleging exclusively violations of state late Hawaii Constitution. The state moved for judgment on the pleadings and for dismissal of the complaint for failure to state a claim; the states motion was granted in October 1991. Thus, the circuit court upheld the heterosexuality marriage requirement as a matter of law and dismissed the plaintiffs challenges to...
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Couple Of Weeks Weeks Ago
1,014 wordsTo who ever finds this letter, My name is Ted Jones and I am 15 years old. I am writing to you to tell you what life is like in the 1990 s so you can compare it to your life. I am also writing because you may find it interesting to read about the past in the first hand. I have three sisters, Lucy who is 18, Hannah who is 13 and Jodie who is 8. Jeanette lives with her boyfriend and her daughter Nicole who is 5, so that makes me an uncle. My two other sisters are still at school. My parents names ...
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Human Cloning Research Ian Wilmut
1,910 wordsAccording to the American Heritage Dictionary, cloning is to make multiple identical copies of a DNA sequence, to reproduce or propagate asexually. A clone is a group of genetically identical cells descended from a single common ancestor, such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell as a result of binary fission. The process of cloning has challenged every mind in the world. Is it right to make a human being from the cells of another? In this paper I plan to discuss...
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People Of Color Mardi Gras
2,720 wordsPre-Civil War New Orleans New Orleans is a city in southern Louisiana, located on the Mississippi River. Most of the city is situated on the east bank, between the river and Lake Pontchartrain to the north. Because it was built on a great turn of the river, it is known as the Crescent City. New Orleans, with a population of 496, 938 (1990 census), is the largest city in Louisiana and one of the principal cities of the South. It was established on the high ground nearest the mouth of the Mississi...
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Gun Control Activists Law Abiding Citizens
2,079 wordsRight to Bear Arms Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where women are viciously attacked and raped, and where children are caught in the crossfire of drive-by shootings. The damage that these criminals are doing to our society cannot be ignored. However, the effort by some misguided individuals to eliminate the legal ownership of firearms does not address the real prob...
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Male Hormone Testosterone Dangerous Side Effects
1,831 wordsTravis Redfield Should steroids be banned from society? Its amazing what athletes will do to achieve higher levels of performance and to get an edge on the rivaled competition. Often people do not realize the long term effects that result from the decisions they make early in life. This resembles the obvious phenomenon with steroids. Steroids became a spreading exposure to athletes in the Olympics and other major sporting events during the 1950 s. This use of steroids among athletes became appar...
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