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Gay And Lesbian Adoption
Number of words: 656 - Number of pages: 3.... of a mother and father (Gay Parent online Magazine). Unfortunately, some children are not able to receive this because of death, divorce, or abandonment, but some just miss out on this because of two greedy homosexuals who what to have their cake and eat it two. The safety of the children is also in question when kids are placed with homosexuals. Forty percent of child molesters are homosexual, and they only represent ten percent of the population (Statistics website). This fact alone should make anyone want to outlaw homosexual adoptions. Also one of the nations foremost psychologist's .....
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Teen Smoking
Number of words: 1691 - Number of pages: 7.... of smokers start at 16 years or younger with the most common age being 14 years old(freshman). It has also been proven also that teens who score lower in school smoke more than higher scoring students do. It seems that everyone smokes in our school. Our school is overrun with smokers. It is right now at least 50% smokers and 65% if you count the people who will smoke before their high school career is up. We practically encourage it. I mean Fireman’s Field practically condones . is defiantly a problem in our school, as well as schools all over the United States. I feel that is a huge .....
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Extreme Roles
Number of words: 975 - Number of pages: 4.... with. Femininity is displayed as weak and passive. In order to find a man, a women had to do anything, even accept the fact that there husbands would find a mistress on the side. It was socially acceptable to be intentionally blind to what your husband was doing. The same also seemed to take place in the Western world as well, although not at such extreme cases.. Helga assumed that Gallimard took up a mistress while living in the Orient. Masculinity in this novel seems to be, the more women you have in your lifetime, the more you are considered a man. "Gallimard: (To us): Toulon knows! And .....
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Affirmative Action
Number of words: 1768 - Number of pages: 7.... and women. More specifically, it
applies to various programs and policies designed to increase the number of
minorities and women hired by government and industry and admitted into
colleges and universities."(Faundez, 213)
Affirmative action is important especially in the work force.
Before affirmative action, minorities and women felt, and seemed to be,
discriminated against being chosen for the job. Affirmative action was to
help with the "increasing of opportunities for those that were previously
discriminated against"(Lemann, 145). Affirmative action was created to
not .....
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Corporal Punishment Is Physical Abuse
Number of words: 824 - Number of pages: 3.... want the restoration of corporal punishment for certain crimes,
hoping that it will effect the reaction against an ever increasing amount of
crime.
The use of corporal punishment on children has also dropped sharply. In
many school systems of the United States, for example, corporal punishment has
been outlawed, it is also illegal in countries such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark
and Norway.
Corporal punishment for certain offences is very effective, because it's
done quickly and feared by all. Not only will it teach the offender not to
repeat his violent actions but it will a .....
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Gun Control In The U.S.
Number of words: 543 - Number of pages: 2.... of rage), it is hoped that they will not still want to cause bodily harm after a couple weeks.
The problem with this method of gun control is that it stops the ordinary citizen from purchasing a gun on the whim, but it actually protects the common criminal. Underage buyers and other delinquents can purchase mass quantities of weapons through "dummy buyers" that have clean backgrounds. So if a burglar enters a house with full intention to maim or kill, the innocent victim (who can't get a gun to protect his family because he was arrested for drunk driving seven years ago) is simply a .....
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Computer Crimes
Number of words: 761 - Number of pages: 3.... person
arrested is a Russian computer expert who worked at a Russian software company.
Vladimir Levin, head systems operator for AO Saturn, figured out how to get
around Citibank¹s security system and transfer money out of their accounts.
Levin, of St. Petersburg, claims he should not be turned over to American
authorities because there is no evidence that any computers in the United States
were used in the scheme. The U. S. government says the funds were all routed
through Citibank¹s wire transfer department on Wall Street. The Justice
Department wants to charge Levin with conspiracy .....
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Substance Abuse Increasing In Inner-City Minorities
Number of words: 1099 - Number of pages: 4.... cover it
up, the poor don't.
Crack is cocaine mixed with baking soda and cooked in to rock form 6.
Even though crack and cocaine are the same drug (just in different forms) the
courts give out stiffer sentences for crack offenders than powder cocaine
offenders 7. According to federal law if a person is caught with five grams of
crack they get a mandatory five year sentence 8. To get a five year sentence
for trafficking powder cocaine a person would have to be caught with 500 grams 9.
African-Americans account for 88.3 percent of all federal crack distributors 10.
This sentencing shows ho .....
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Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
Number of words: 16539 - Number of pages: 61.... mainstay, but is no longer concentrated in a few major industries (ARC-About ARC-The Appalachia Region).
The main federal organization created to deal with Appalachian poverty was the Appalachian Regional Commission. The ARC’s mission is to be an advocate for and partner with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.
The Appalachian Regional Commission was established by Congress in 1965 to support economic and social development in the Appalachian region. The Commission is a unique partnership composed o .....
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The Increasing Use Of Street Drugs
Number of words: 784 - Number of pages: 3.... users don't think about how messed up their brain and body can get when just trying drugs. A common way that drug dealers rope in young people is by giving them drugs to try. It is after they like the drugs they come back to get more, only now they are charged for them. Now the drugs are no longer free and the dealers now have one more customer.
At a party or just with a friend, drugs can be found. Trying drugs to be cool is just how this addiction begins. Once, twice and before one realizes it, they're depending on these narcotics to complete a day. Addiction keeps drugs on a supply .....
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