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Teaching Creationism In School
Number of words: 1386 - Number of pages: 6.... who oppose creation science are usually scientists, educators, and civil liberties organizations (Grunes 466).
The majority of those people who desire for creationism to be taught in the public schools cite that it is scientific. They push for the teaching of creation science which is defined as "scientific evidence for creation and the inferences from that evidence" (Tatina 275). The inferences from that evidence are "sudden creation of the universe from nothing, recent formulation of the earth, creation of man and other biological kinds, a worldwide flood", and "the insufficiency of mutati .....
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Affermative Action
Number of words: 1262 - Number of pages: 5.... when hiring or accepting, but to expand employment and educational opportunities for minority groups (22). Therefore, Affirmative Action is legitimate because it does reduce discrimination in the work place and related areas such as University acceptance of college students. In the end, it should in no way be abolished. Scott2 However, Affirmative action is highly controversial. Right now Proposition 209, in California which bans all programs involving race and sex preferences run by the state, has passed but it will not be put into total action due to some questions of constitutional .....
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Sectionalism And The Breakup Of The U.S
Number of words: 1019 - Number of pages: 4.... The south, however, depended upon slavery as
a basis of production, and the only way to operate large farms at the time,
primarily being the large cotton plantations of the south.
Several people tried to resolve the issue of slavery with compromises
and bills that set clear rules and laws to appeal to both sides. The most
prominent being the Missouri compromise. This document set the standard for
slavery at the time. It also managed to further divide the country into two
opposing groups geographically separated by the 36 degree 30 minute line. The
bill clearly stated that no states abo .....
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Birth Control
Number of words: 1417 - Number of pages: 6.... with each act of intercourse. These have no side affects but must be used exactly according to instructions. Spermicides can be up to 94% effective if used correctly. Contraceptive pills or oral contraception are a common form of contraception for women. They contain two hormones, oestrogen and progestogen, which prevent an egg from being released by a woman's ovary each month. There are several different types of pill so if one does not suit you then another one might. It can reduce pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) and period pain. There is evidence that the pill offers some protection agains .....
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U.S. Scourge Spreads South Of The Border
Number of words: 2053 - Number of pages: 8.... named Jose, a Tijuana taxi
driver in an open-necked, baby blue silk shirt, he sizes up the tourists
trudging off the footbridge from the United States. “Taxi, sir? You want
pharmacy? I get you a good pharmacy,” he urges, stepping from a line of
beckoning taxi drivers in big belts and straw cowboy hats. “Good prices! No
prescriptions!” Do I look like I want drugs?! I didn't even solicit the
business. I almost felt weird because this is exactly what I was planning to do
my paper on. Soon he is nosing his long yellow Oldsmobile through scruffy
streets choked with pharmacies .....
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Canada's Immigration From 1852-1990
Number of words: 605 - Number of pages: 3.... the grains. This lack of rain caused many Canadians to
immigrate to the U.S. for a better life. Not very attractive to immigrants to
Canada.
Around the beginning of the 1900s the economy was boosted by the increasing need
for Canadian food products. Europe had a large population explosion and tax
increase caused more and more to move to Canada. With the construction of the
CPR it was much easier to go west and settle the land which was cheap or free.
The Canadian government was promoting it's self every where with it's fur and
grains to encourage new comers and settlers that moved to t .....
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Power And The Declaration Of Independence
Number of words: 1259 - Number of pages: 5.... and the ability
to do something, "With all thair strang *poweir" (OED 2536) Nearly three hundred
years later in 1785 the word power carried the same meaning of control, strength,
and force, "power to produce an effect, supposes power not to produce it;
otherwise it is not power but necessity" (OED 2536). This definition explains
how the power government or social institutions rests in their ability to
command people, rocks, colonies to do something they otherwise would not do. To
make the people pay taxes. To make the rocks form into a fence. To make the
colonists honor the King. The c .....
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Police Brutality
Number of words: 833 - Number of pages: 4.... Powell would stand trial yet again, but this time in federal court for
violating Rodney Kings civil rights. Both were convicted and sentenced to prison
terms {Brutality In Los Angles 7} The Rodney King video and trial sparked a
question in many peoples mind through out the nation, “How big of a problem is
police brutality? Little did they know that this would be the beginning of a
streak of police related violence.
Sandra Antor a Miami, Florida residence was driving through South
Carolina heading north on vacation. When she was stopped by a South Carolina
Highway Patrol of .....
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Race Relations In The New Worl
Number of words: 1479 - Number of pages: 6.... state but at the same time using Native Americans as a cheap form of labor. Although the Native Americans had supplied the British with food and other vital necessities, tensions still persisted. The British and the Native Americans interacted very often in trade surroundings, but the failure of each group to understand and accept the other group's culture prevented any lasting cooperation between the two groups. Simple misunderstandings during a trade agreement could turn into violent confrontations as a result of the large difference in culture and beliefs. In March 1622, one Native Am .....
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When The Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
Number of words: 1985 - Number of pages: 8.... nation, he gave voice to a long lain dormant morality in America, a voice that the government could no longer ignore. The government finally answered on July 2nd with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is historically significant because it stands as a defining piece of civil rights legislation, being the first time the national government had declared equality for blacks. The civil rights movement was a campaign led by a number of organizations, supported by many individuals, to end discrimination and achieve equality for American Blacks (Mooney 776). The forefront o .....
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