.... of the prospective buyers to make sure that guns are not sold to convicted felons or to those who are mentally unstable. Even the proponents of the bill agreed that the effect of the bill on curbing the gun violence might be minimal considering the fact that the majority of guns used for criminal purposes were purchased through illegal dealers. However, the Brady Bill represented the first major gun control legislation passed by Congress for more than 20 years, and it meant a significant victory for gun control advocates in their way toward even stricter gun control legislation in the future. Gun Rights vs. Gun Control The .....

.... Schneider proves her point very accurately. She defines the terms clearly and doesn’t present her argument in a confusing manner. Schneider is fair in that she supports the NEA in a calm manner and doesn’t attack the opposing side. I strongly agree with Schneider on the controversy over the NEA. I believe that art is an important part of society and that it reflects society. Some may think the art is vulgar or graphic, but that is how society is. Society is harsh and changes all the time like art. Society can also be vulgar and graphic by the way that people talk or act. I agree with Schneider that art is a form of sp .....

.... than the other is preposterous. By our own nature we, as a society, strive to dominate others and become the "King of the Hill". This is our major downfall, by doing this we injure our society and the bond that holds this country together. Why does this occur you might ask? That is a question to be answered only by anthropologists and sociologists; for students do not have the time or inclination to sort through behaviorisms and psychological mumbo jumbo. Many of our youth were taught to stay within their own ethnic groups. This mentality is what gave rise to the Klu Klux Klan, the Chinese prisoner camps of World War II, and the .....

.... to the obvious problems he presents. Bob Dole, a republican candidate, has already done some work on welfare reform. He recently passed a bill which allows the state to create programs that will move people from welfare to work. His reform plan will effectively lower welfare recipients by requiring able-bodied people to work, single-teen parents to stay in school, and limiting welfare to five years. Dole knows what he wants to accomplish and has innovative ways of doing it. Powell has a large cult following and would be a great candidate. His only problem: he hasn't decided to run yet. Arlen Spector believes the governmen .....

.... addressed in out society today. What really has caused the American people to distrust our government and when did this trend actually begin? I do not believe there is any clear answer to these questions and I do not believe it would ever be possible to pinpoint any exact reason for the feelings of the American people. One reason cited by some is that it is the fault of poor leaders. Two commonly blamed leaders are President Johnson and President Nixon. Two of the biggest drops in the public's confidence in our government occurred in 1964, during the bombing of Vietnam, and in 1972, during Watergate (Nye). Although the .....

.... president to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the hardships in Soviet Russia. Truman was inaugurated on April 12, 1945 taking on the largest burden of his life and he quoted to one reporter, “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” Among these weights was the building pressure of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor where Truman had to make the crucial decision to kill millions by dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman witnessed the signing of the United Nations peace charter established to preserve peace. After following Roosevelt's policies Truman decided to enact his .....

.... population that is up to 3%, thirty percent of the Gross National Product used to go to service the payment of the national debt . This, of course, resulted in the decline of the growth rate of the GNP. What made it even worse is the fall of natural gas revenues during the 1980's. “ In the days after the dual fall of the price of oil and the value of the dollar, the demographic expansion had pushed the GNP's growth curve below the horizontal for the first time in years. ” Such economic conditions were very much responsible for the instability and the weakening of the legitimacy of the FLN government. “The plummeting of .....

.... be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." Bush has not retracted, commented on, or clarified this statement, in spite of requests to do so. According to Bush, this is one nation under God. And apparently if you are not within Bush's religious beliefs, you are not a citizen. Federal, state, and local governments also promote a particular religion (or, occasionally, religions) by spending public money on religious displays. FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: Robert Newmeyer and Glenn Braunstein were jailed in 1988 for refusing to stand in respect for a judge. Braunstein says the tradition of rising in court st .....

.... change. The different casual connections between attitudes and behavior can be seen clearly in the case of prejudice. In some cases, the attitude (prejudice) leads to behavior (discrimination). Discrimination may be subtle, as when a person refuses to associate with targets of the prejudice. It may be accepted social practice, as when members of one group refuse to hire or promote people who are different from them. In extreme cases, it can take the form of efforts to control or exterminat Frasier 2 members of the group. In the United States, prejudice has led to the lynching of blacks, bombing of synagogues, the massacre of Nativ .....

.... the affirmative action, they must employ someone who is underrepresented. This type of situation happens often. It is not the qualifications, but the color of the skin that employers look for today. Affirmative action is a step backwards. We are back to color and race differences. We are all Americans and should be treated as so, not what ethnicity we are. Affirmative action should be abolished solely because we do not want to make the same mistake our society made in the past --- discriminate according to color. Two wrongs do not make a right. Many people say that we should keep affirmative action to render fairness to the .....