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Female Infanticide In India
Number of words: 1107 - Number of pages: 5

.... through a interpreter. “ There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods should have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6) Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous preference for sons over daughters many females are abandoned or allowed to die of starvation. Others cannot afford the dowry that would be demanded for the girl’s marriage. For other mothers, killing a female infa .....

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Personal Freedoms
Number of words: 356 - Number of pages: 2

.... to wear clothes of your choice and freedom to get a good education. Some of these things are so important that there is laws to enforce them. Like school for instance, you are legally required to attend regular classes until the age of sixteen. There are some freedoms that we are entitled to but that are violated by others. Take your right to safely walk down the street for example, in some neighbourhoods that is virtually out of the question. I feel that the freedom to live where I want, go to the school of my choice, wear the clothes I want to, style my hair how I wish, marry who I .....

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“Images Of Law Enforcement In The Toilet”
Number of words: 1097 - Number of pages: 4

.... 2000). I am not saying that all policeman always use good judgement. There are times when they do exert unnecessary force, and in those cases they should be subject to the full penalty of the law. However, “only one of the previous eighty-four coroners inquests in Clark County has found an officer negligent in the killing of a suspect” (Puit 1999). One example of an officer using unnecessary deadly force is in the case of Officer Mortensen and Officer Brady. In this case the two police officers were off duty, however, it still shows that an abuse of power came into play. Brady adm .....

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Welfare
Number of words: 885 - Number of pages: 4

.... In some situations, people who may be able to pay daily needs, but can't afford large medical bills may also be able to receive Medicaid. Some services paid for are bills such as doctor's visits and nursing home care. Most Medicaid funding comes from the federal government. The rest is supplied by the state. Each state runs their own Medicaid program. A.F.D.C. provides cash benefits to dependent children and the parents or the guardians taking care of them. Most families that qualify for A.F.D.C. have just one parent in the home. About 80 percent of these families are headed by a woman. A. .....

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The Horrible Truth Of Child Labor
Number of words: 2031 - Number of pages: 8

.... will have to be emphasized, and prompt action must follow. All humans have the same rights, but an astonishing number of them are not aware of them. It is this lack of knowledge, and lack of power to do anything about it, that is the cause of the continued child labour workforce. Therefore, to abolish child labour, the general populace must first be aware of the harsh reality, and then create and implement solutions to ameliorate the problem. Most people around the world know little of the horrible truth, if they did a large part of the anti-child labour battle would be won. More peopl .....

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Australian Life
Number of words: 611 - Number of pages: 3

.... wanted to be treated equal . They dressed in tweeds , flannel tops , with blue jumpers in the cold and yellow oilskin jackets in the rain . They wore hard wearing blucher boots and broad felt hats . The bushman would often have a drinkdown the pub . They often told stories to each other as their past time . The bushmans homes were made from slabs of bark , green hide . The houses were simple and didn't always show advantage . Nor dose it have to , the bushman's home (bellow) is there to shelter him . In the 1880's writers and painters portrayed the bush life as better then the cit .....

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Daycare: The Effects And What To Look For
Number of words: 1523 - Number of pages: 6

.... decision for you to make that is if you want the best for your child. The question that arises is what to look for in a daycare for these children and will it have any effects on the child as it grows. This paper will describe many things that studies as well as people say should be in a daycare. Also it will discuss the possibilities of long term effects on the child in the future. There has been an enumerated amount of studies done on daycare’s, some had positive results while others had negative results. So many different studies could really confuse a person. The fact is according .....

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Slavery
Number of words: 632 - Number of pages: 3

.... Slave Trade. This was an organized route where Europeans would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods, capture Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops and goods and bring them back to Europe. The African people, in order to communicate invented a language that was a mixture of all the African languages combined, called Creole. This language now varies from island to island. They also kept their culture which accounts for calypso music and the instruments used in these songs. Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the Act .....

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An Ethical Dilemma
Number of words: 548 - Number of pages: 2

.... but lets take a look at the dissatisfied customers. Orion Olson was injured at the age of three by a severe dog bite causing vision and neurological problems. When he turned eighteen he was already homeless but soon received the first $7500 installment of the $75,000 settlement. This money quickly took him off the street but did not last long. He then turned to a large factoring company by the name of J.G. Wentworth. He sold his remaining future payments of $67,500 for the lump sum of $16,100. He is now homeless again and has nothing left to sustain him. Another client by the name of .....

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Family Values: Importance
Number of words: 571 - Number of pages: 3

.... similar values of the family. A nation, being of mostly socially compatible people, functions in a similar way as a family. The nation selects its “national family values” by legislation which becomes law. Civilization, over time, has brought about values which have become essential to all. Family values have brought considerable amounts of happiness onto us throughout the course of our history. Where would we be without love and compassion? We would probably be in worldwide chaos if there still even was a world left. People would only regard each other as just mild acquainta .....

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