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The Wonderful War On Drugs
Number of words: 1089 - Number of pages: 4.... be allowed to spend billions annually fighting this hopeless war? Looking at this information you begin to realize that, not only does this “war” affect every person in the U.S., but it is also a war with no winners. War is never pretty, and the war on drugs is no exception. For this “war” to work it must stop drugs in at least one of three areas. Either by stopping drugs at the border, stopping drug dealers at home, or preventing drug use within the country. Military and law enforcement has failed to accomplish any of these, and it is not because of limited funds. “Last yea .....
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Why Al Gore For United States President
Number of words: 552 - Number of pages: 3.... raise their children. Some parents can’t afford childcare and healthcare for their children. In order to reduce these problems, gore has decided that he wants to put care giving, support groups in many small communities. As well as after school childcare that is high quality and low cost.
He also has some changes to make on our health insurance benefits. All children and parents will receive health insurance, small businesses will receive the same rate as the big businesses, and there will be prescription drug benefits for all that are eligible. Al Gore aims to insure fifteen million .....
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The Jacksonian Democrats
Number of words: 970 - Number of pages: 4.... that in America everybody is free and independent, as taken from the opinion of Harriet Martineau, a British author (Document D). On the other hand, the outlook from inside the country was opposed according to New York City businessman and Whig politician, Philip Hone. Hone described two riots he witnessed that had broken out between minorities in the country (Document E). Martineau viewed America in the big picture; she saw the country as an outsider, a tourist, seeing the sights. Whereas Hone observed the United States on the streets as what it was, not as it appeared.
Jackson may .....
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Our Town
Number of words: 3678 - Number of pages: 14.... does not recognize battered women's syndrome as a distinct mental
disorder. In fact, Dr. Lenore Walker, the architect of the classical
battered women's syndrome theory, notes the syndrome is not an
illness, but a theory that draws upon the principles of learned
helplessness to explain why some women are unable to leave their
abusers. Therefore, the classical battered women's syndrome theory is
best regarded as an offshoot of the theory of learned helplessness and
not a mental illness that afflicts abused women. The theory of learned
helplessness sought to account for the .....
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Marijuana
Number of words: 1685 - Number of pages: 7.... India, the use of spread to other parts of the world. It was first introduced to Europe in the 1850’s, but its use there was very rare until the last few years. has a fairly long history of use in Mexico and Latin America. It was first introduced into the United States around 1910 by Mexican laborers.
During the Vietnam War many drugs were easily available to the soldiers in the war. Many of these men turned to to subside the misery of war. When they returned home, they continued the habit. Thus, in the 1960’s, became a symbol of rebellion for the so-called counterculture (Eve 24 .....
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Politicians
Number of words: 872 - Number of pages: 4.... 'feminist invention'.
It is acts like this that are aiding in the 'moral annihilation' of politics. The overall impact of such politics is undermining the intelligence of the American populous by turning political campaigning into a childlike power struggle. Both the Democrats and Republicans have reverted to a state of guerrilla media warfare.
Every time election year rolls around we begin to hear the usual complaints of how politics is morally corrupt. It typically means we get to see the superficial image-oriented campaigning, negative attacks against one's opponent, and the thirty-secon .....
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BLACKS, PRISON, AND INSTITUTIO
Number of words: 1425 - Number of pages: 6.... racism, that is, racism legitimated by the whole of society directed against the few of society. As a facet of that institutional racism Blacks are now forced to persevere the increasing trend of control by the US Criminal Justice System. Control by the USCJS includes the probation, parole, imprisonment, and death of Blacks. A study conducted by the Sentencing Project in 1989 found tat more than one-fourth of all Blacks between the age of 20 and 29 are under the control of the USCJS . This alarming figure becomes more so when you consider their are more Blacks in prison in this ag .....
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The New Initiatives Of George W. Bush
Number of words: 1183 - Number of pages: 5.... an arrangement powerful enough to postulate proven
achievement in return for appropriation. A few illustrations of the
appropriations Bush is proposing are: Establishing a $500 million incentive
fund to reward states for improving student performance (making federal
funds to states and local districts more flexible in return for greater
accountability and improved student achievement), and supporting expansive
education savings accounts for parents to increase their annual
contributions from $500 per student to $5,000 and withdraw funds tax free
to pay for education expenses from kinder .....
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The Communications Decency Act
Number of words: 1729 - Number of pages: 7.... Internet." (Cavazos
10)
"Privacy plays a unique role in American law." (Cavazos 13) Privacy is not
explicitly provided for in the Constitution, yet most of the Internet users
remain anonymous. Cavazos says, "Computers and digital communication
technologies present a serious challenge to legislators and judges who try to
meet the demands of economic and social change while protecting this most basic
and fundamental personal freedom." Networks and the Internet make it easy for
anyone with the proper equipment to look at information based around the world
instantly and remain anonymous. " .....
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The Importance Of Theoretical Frameworks For Understanding Foundations Of Political Science
Number of words: 1120 - Number of pages: 5.... James Madison saw
the United States as a stronger nation if there was conflict rather than a
consensus. Madison points out in Federalist #10 that citizens would be divided
into many factions that would compete for benefits. The chief cause of division
when Madison wrote this was economics in origin, but now race has emerged as a
major factor in dividing American society. Robert Dali founder of Pluralism
modernizes Madison's theory into theory of American democracy to incorporate
into the theory of pluralism.
Pluralism explains minority group politics in a process that attempts to show .....
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