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Papers on Politics and Government
Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution To Natural Resources
Number of words: 1852 | Number of pages: 7.... childhood, and items such as bird nests, insects, minerals, and shells were added to the Museum¹s collection. At age thirteen Roosevelt took lessons in taxidermy and started a book-study on mammals and birds. In Roosevelt¹s freshman year of college at Harvard, he intended to become an outdoor naturalist. Discouragement in the naturalist field instead led him to politics, where his interests could translate into more visible activism.
In 1881, Roosevelt was elected to the New York State Assembly, and in December of 1887 he hosted a dinner for ten of his sportsmen friends. The group recognized that the extinction of the buff .....
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TLO Vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid?
Number of words: 497 | Number of pages: 2.... the fact that the teacher caught her smoking.
Obviously it is the teacher's responsibility to take the student to the
principal for suspension or other means of punishment. When TLO was asked
whether or not she had been smoking, she said no.
The school officials then had a reasonable doubt, and they now had by
all legal means the right to search TLO for evidence that she had been smoking.
The search of her purse, if she had been innocent, would have proved her
innocent, or guilty if she actually was guilty. The search was conducted
privately, and was by no means humiliating to TLO.
Finally the officials did search TLO's pur .....
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Origins Of Ideas That Form The Basis Of The American Governmental Tradition
Number of words: 772 | Number of pages: 3.... and to provide new Guards for their future security”.
This supports the idea of John Lockes theory of Power comes from the
people. That if the law is bad or disobeyed the people have the right to
change it. He also supported the idea of Right to Revolution, where the
government is changed if its not doing the job. This can also be found
and supported in the Declaration of Independence. In the Declaration it
says that “ It is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers from the consent of the governed”. That states t .....
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Real Face Of Terrorism
Number of words: 1523 | Number of pages: 6.... them was not one of coercion but of revenge. The hostage crisis at the American embassy in Teheran twenty years ago was another example of terrorism based on revenge. While that incident involved the political theme of the revolution in Iran and the authorities used it to promote their Islamic ideology, those that carried out the hostage crisis took over the embassy in a fit of rage and under the euphoria of anger against anything American. They had already achieved their goal, which was to rid the American backed Shah who ruled the country with terror; the hostage crisis was merely an outburst of revenge against the west. Terrori .....
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Islam More Than A Religion
Number of words: 1341 | Number of pages: 5.... scriptures, the Qur'an (Koran). Allah revealed the Qur'an to his messenger, Muhammad. According to Islamic beliefs, Muhammad is the last of a series of prophets (including Adam, Noah, Jesus, and others). Muhammad's message concurrently perfect and do away with the “revelations” attributed to earlier prophets. From the very beginning of Islam, Muhammad had indoctrinated a sense of brotherhood and a bond of faith among his followers. The Prophet Muhammad fled to Medina in AD 622, it was during this time that his preaching was accepted and the community-state of Islam emerged. During this early period, Islam acquired its cha .....
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Environmental Law: Nollan Vs. CCC
Number of words: 898 | Number of pages: 4.... California Coastal Commission. Upon submitting the
permit application, the CCC found that the permit should be granted on the
condition that the Nollans provide public access to the beach and to the local
county park, which lay adjacent to the property. This provision called for the
Nollans to use a portion of their land to be used as a public walkway to the
beach and park. The Nollans protested to the condition, but the CCC overruled
the objection and granted the permit with the condition intact.
Case Decision:
The Nollans filed a petition to the Ventura County Superior Court asking
that the condition to supply ease .....
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Abortion - Pro-Choice Views
Number of words: 1424 | Number of pages: 6.... feelings toward abortion, and the actual experience the had before and during the abortion.
Pro-life propaganda
In my study of pro-lifers, I have found that most of the time, they employ the use of a few strategies for making their views known. One tactic pro-lifers use to convince people of their views is to play on fear and emotions. Their graphic descriptions and gruesome pictures are a crude attempt to "scare" people out of abortion, while their pious talk and sobbing try to make us feel sorry for them and the unborn.
Another popular strategy of pro-lifers is to protest things like "Life begins at conception! The fetus is .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 4067 | Number of pages: 15.... lower than 50 years ago. This fact that it was more safe back then than it is now probably has to due with the fact that in earlier times, where was common, the value of life was less, and societies were more barbaric, was probably quite acceptable. However, in today's society, which is becoming ever more increasingly humane, and individual rights and due process of justice are held in high accord, the death penalty is becoming an unrealistic form of punishment. Also, with the ever present possibility of mistaken execution, there will remain the question of innocence of those put to death. This decline creates a situation in whi .....
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Should Cloning Be Permitted?
Number of words: 2074 | Number of pages: 8.... There might be a possibility that human cloning research may result in the discovery of a cure for diseases and the growing of human organs, but the disadvantages are that many years as well as money may be need it. Also several experts told the committee that cloning might be the only chance for many infertile couples to have their own genetically related children.(2.Gorman,Pg66). For what I see these cases are rarely seen, and the little amount of couples who suffer of infertility are more likely to adopt a child. Infertility, is not the cause. This is not the main reason why scientists are coming up with the idea of hum .....
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Homeless In America
Number of words: 774 | Number of pages: 3.... live on the
streets. So they must resort to prostitution to pay for the food that
their young ones need to stay alive. There are many other people that
become homeless for many different reasons. Some of these people can not
help becoming homeless. Some of these people are the illegal immigrants
that come here from other places to get a better life but end up not
having enough money to make it in this hard world that we live in.
Teenage runaways have different reasons for leaving home but all have the
same reason for becoming homeless. They simply just do not have enough
money. Others are drug and alcohol abusers and disabled peo .....
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