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Papers on Politics and Government
USSR: The Doomed Empire
Number of words: 1105 | Number of pages: 5.... factors.
What America proved was that the economy works best when the government
stays out and individuals within the society do the work.2 It is only the
individuals within the society that truly understand what products are in demand.
Under Communist regime a few select rulers decide what are the needs of the
society, what resources are their country's scarcities, and how to obtain these
scarcities. Finding this information is a big job and requires endless amounts
of domestic attention. With this in mind the quote “Nature's laws are
immutable... Communism is only an ideal dream”3 becomes much clearer. One
leade .....
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Gen X
Number of words: 1130 | Number of pages: 5.... between the two groups. There is an ever growing generation gap between candidates and youthful voters. In the case of the 1996 Presidential election, Bob Dole was in his seventies, my grandfather is not even seventy. Bob Dole and many other candidates in recent and past years have had trouble relating to Generation X and vice versa. Another reason why Xers are turning away from the government is lack of political education. The last of the Generation Xers will be entering college in the 2000-2001 school year, to most of us college is much more important then politics. I know if I had the option of watching a presidential debate or .....
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Is The United States Giving Too Much To The United Nations?
Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4.... Why should any US citizen worry about what the UN does, we are the US, the most powerful country in the world? It should be a matter of your concern since the US is vulnerable, maybe not from some other falling superpower, but to some third world country that is trying to get their hands on a medium yield nuclear weapon. How does this effect the UN? Well the UN works with small third world countries to get them developing in the right the direction, away from weapons of mass destruction and more towards a better agriculture system of infrastructure.
What type of military support does the US give the UN? Currently the UN has a .....
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Abortion Should Be Made Illega
Number of words: 843 | Number of pages: 4.... carrying a child, only this woman is carrying the child in her. Both children are dependent on their mothers, both just dependent in different ways. (Schwarz 35) Take another example "Suppose a woman suffers a miscarriage, A sympathetic doctor will not tell her, "You have lost your fetus"; he will say; "You have lost your child"." (Schwarz 35) If an abortion is picked the term "fetus" is used as a cold scientific "neutral" word that switches the persons mind from reality, and also will flip the seriousness, and preciousness of a unborn baby. (Schwarz 35) Can it be so possible in today's society that we "get so caught up trying .....
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Affirmative Action
Number of words: 931 | Number of pages: 4.... these minorities are still not considered equals. Here is a quote from an article opposing . "I think helps to get a female an interview but once on the interview and once on the job, it gives males a basis for their resentment and skepticism of females..." (Cohen 18). This can cause additional tension between men and women that was not there before .
is a question of morals. The whole idea behind is to right the wrongs of the past. Well, it would seem a little unfair to the individuals that were not even born when this atrocity of discrimination was going on. Society should not punish the youth for the crimes of their .....
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Are Political Parties In Decline?
Number of words: 473 | Number of pages: 2.... donations for corporate involvements.
Parties are not more influencial due to more money, nor are they better
organized.
Yes: John Meisel Decline of Party in Canada
Strong point-
John Meisel states that the primary factor leading to the dircet
declination of political parties in Canada is the rise of the bureaucratic
state. Modern Politics have eclipsed the past when political parties did not
need to gain specific knowledge as the focused on a few key points rather than
large amounts of responsibility. Today too many complex issues are dumped upon
our elected representatives, and they have no hope in being able to de .....
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NAFTA And Its Effects
Number of words: 1125 | Number of pages: 5.... a growing problem. Also, Mexican workers have not benefited, and in some cases, are worse off today than just five short years ago. Futhermore, jobs have begun to flood across the borders and unemployment is still a concern even with the NAFTA resolution. Additionaly, the environmental benefits promised through improved state-of-the-art buildings have yet to materialize.
TRADE DEFICIT
The North American Trade Agreement has continued to create a trade deficit for the United States. The United States trade deficit with Mexico has continued to expand. It has increased from $1.26 billion in December of 1998 to $1.43 billion .....
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Facism And Patriotism
Number of words: 1265 | Number of pages: 5.... of patriotism has an expectation that it must be learned, the connotation, the shared meaning within the current cultural setting, demands that there be an element of free agency to patriotism that is not part of the shared definition of the totalitarian policies of either Fascism or Nazism.
This element of choice is the difference between pledging one's life to fight for the love of their country and being coerced and intimidated into obedience. There is also an element of equality associated with patriotism, as opposed to submission and sycophancy that is inherent to social systems that build on intolerance towards one's .....
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Abortion Is Bad
Number of words: 739 | Number of pages: 3.... a parents consent before having an abortion. This may help reduce the number of abortions each year, the people that passed these bills feel that maybe the parents will feel differently about the situation and be able to talk their child out of it. 20% of teens that are sexually active do not use any form of birth control, these are the teens that end up getting pregnant and getting an abortion. If these girls would use some kind of contraceptive it could stop a lot of the abortions performed each year. If you think about it, it is so much easier to take a pill then it is to be pregnant and have to decide on the life of another per .....
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Saddam Hussein
Number of words: 1516 | Number of pages: 6.... Survey says “yes”
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The basis on which Hussein is in power is controversial. He was not
elected to his position, he took it. There was a military coup in 1968 that led
him and his Ba'ath party to power. He was not elected, as until last year,
there had not been an election since the coup (Cooperman 49). This says that
Hussein has been a tyrant from the start, and his need for power is incredible.
He wants complete domination of the Middle East, if not the world.
Iraq is now a country struggling to survive. It is in the midst of an
embargo, and the people are suffering. Death rates are up, and the amount of
food av .....
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