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Compare And Contrast
Number of words: 973 - Number of pages: 4.... for future generations to come. As the years go by between generation and generation, one facet has remained a controversial topic, sex. The invention of the birth control pill allowed women in the ‘60s to feel a sense of sexual freedom and allowed them the opportunity to be with anyone they pleased. With this new found freedom, women and men were able to enjoy each others company and not have to worry about the risks of child birth as well as the spread of diseases. This helped the ‘60s to become known as the sexual revolution. In those times it was the thing to do, and with the newly .....
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Abortion - Pro-Choice Views
Number of words: 1424 - Number of pages: 6.... after their abortions. I think that the mental state of the mother depends very much on her personal feelings toward abortion, and the actual experience the had before and during the abortion.
Pro-life propaganda
In my study of pro-lifers, I have found that most of the time, they employ the use of a few strategies for making their views known. One tactic pro-lifers use to convince people of their views is to play on fear and emotions. Their graphic descriptions and gruesome pictures are a crude attempt to "scare" people out of abortion, while their pious talk and sobbing try to make us fee .....
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What Is Marijuana?
Number of words: 1619 - Number of pages: 6.... it may be habituating. The individual may become psychologically rather than physically dependent on the drug. Those who urge the legalization of marijuana maintain the drug are entirely safe. The available data suggested, this is not so. Marijuana occasionally produces acute panic reactions or even transient psychoses. Furthermore, a person driving under the influence of marijuana is a danger to themselves and others. There is no established medical use for marijuana or any other cannabis preparation. In the United States, its use is a crime and the laws governing marijuana are similar .....
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The Brady Bill
Number of words: 4210 - Number of pages: 16.... This bill was about a waiting
period on handgun purchases allowing police to check the backgrounds of the
prospective buyers to make sure that guns are not sold to convicted felons or to
those who are mentally unstable. Even the proponents of the bill agreed that
the effect of the bill on curbing the gun violence might be minimal considering
the fact that the majority of guns used for criminal purposes were purchased
through illegal dealers. However, the Brady Bill represented the first major
gun control legislation passed by Congress for more than 20 years, and it meant
a significant .....
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The Equal Rights Amendment
Number of words: 1099 - Number of pages: 4.... guarantee women's equal rights regardless of legislatures' indecisions.
The NWP had 400 women lobbying for equality.
Despite strong opposition by some women and men, the NWP introduced and
Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1923. In order to
become law, the amendment needed a two-thirds vote in both houses of the
congress of the United States, or a supporting petition of two-thirds of the
state legislatures. Then the amendment would have required ratification by
three-fourths of the states. However, it failed to get the two-thirds majority
required to move o .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 516 - Number of pages: 2.... percent of the homicides in the United States, women are rarely sentenced to death and executed (27). The poor and friendless defendants, those with inexperienced or court-appointed counsels, are most likely to be executed. For example, Orenthial James Simpson had the money to afford the best lawyers and was “guilty as sin,” but he was acquitted. According to Alison Coope, a disproportionate number of nonwhites are sentenced to death. Also, when the death penalty for rape was still used in many states, no white man was executed for raping a nonwhite woman; whereas, most black offende .....
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The Influence, And Views Of Netanyahu On The Middle East Peace Plan
Number of words: 1554 - Number of pages: 6.... he went back to Israel,
he was there for about six years when he became the embassador to the united
states for Israel. Later when he was an Israeli diplomat he renounced his
American citizenship. In 1996 he became the Prime Minister of Israel. He now has
the most influence from the Israeli side of things. Benjamin Netanyahu has done
many interviews and addresses with the American people. One such interview he
did to express his views was with Time Magazine. Time asked him if he were a
Palestinian, how he would regard toward Netanyahu? He replies, "If I read the
controlled Palestinian media .....
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Femininity
Number of words: 581 - Number of pages: 3.... (aggressive vs. maternal feelings, etc) In the role of the family, men have power in making decision and the women have control of housework. @@@@I had encountered to see the different aspects of gender role in two societies. These two societies have their own values and beliefs that keep the man and the women different. However, the role of man is somewhat similar, though women have no similarities in a large scale. In Japan, women are considered to be gentle, modest, marry and take up housekeeping, support the entire family in any circumstances, and always graceful. One of the diff .....
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Analysis Of Police Corruption
Number of words: 3192 - Number of pages: 12.... decided to
include the fairly recent accounts of corruption from a few major cities,
mainly New York, because that is where I have lived for the past 22 years.
I compiled my information from numerous articles written in the New York
Times over the last 5 years. My definitional infornmation and background
data came from various books cited that have been written on the issue of
police corruption. Those books helped me create a basis of just what the
different types of corruption and deviances are, as well as how and why
corruption happens. The books were filled with useful insite but were .....
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Importance Of Capital Punishment
Number of words: 607 - Number of pages: 3.... and it will deter crime.
The many opponents of capital punishment who are against it feel that the death penalty is not a deterrent and that it is barbariaertic of the past. It has no place in a civilized society today. One of the biggest arguments against capital punishment is people feel that it violates the eighth amendment which forbids cruel and unusual punishment. People against Capital Punishment believe the death penalty is absurd and is in un-christian practice. Further more, they feel society should not" encourage sentiments of vengenance cater to morbid interest in ritu .....
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