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Papers on Politics and Government
Louis Leakey
Number of words: 2457 | Number of pages: 9.... expert that these were truly stone tools of ancient Africans, truly links to the past, Leakey knew that the rest of his life would be devoted towards discovering the secrets of the prehistoric ancestors of humankind. Despite not being accustomed to the school structure back in England and the accompanying problems he had in public school, Leakey was accepted into Cambridge in 1922. However, blows to the head sustained during rugby games resulted in epilepsy and headaches for Leakey, and he had to leave school in 1923. This, however, was a blessing in disguise, for Leakey landed a job as an African expert on an archaeological m .....
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Interracial Relationships
Number of words: 1591 | Number of pages: 6.... racial issues. Since 1972, surveys have asked whether the respondent would favor a law making inter-racial marriages illegal. "Since 1901, there has been a ban on these interracial marriages in Alabama" (Afgen). In 1980 the results showed that 30% of whites and 18.3% of African Americans favor such a law. By 1994, data showed 14.7% and 3.2% respectively. Similar trends have also been observed in busing and even integrated social clubs (Ties that Bind). A simple analysis shows that complete desegregation is moving in the right direction.
Regardless of these examples of desegregation, a deeper look shows that there are still signs o .....
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Alcohol
Number of words: 508 | Number of pages: 2.... necessary for successful recovery. has direct toxic as well as sedative effects on the body, and failure to take care of nutritional and other physical needs during prolonged periods of excessive drinking may further complicate matters. Some cases even require hospitalization. The effects on major organ systems can be dramatic. A wide rang of digestive-systems can be affected, such as ulcers, inflammation of the pancreas, and cirrhosis of the liver. The central and peripheral nervous systems can be permanently damaged. In advanced cases, abstinence from may result in a serious withdrawal syndrome, commonly known as delirium .....
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The Press And Media Cause Rampant Swaying Of The Election Votes Through Their Opinions And Reports
Number of words: 2657 | Number of pages: 10.... of such proportions that it brought about
his own downfall and the party's (Press and the Presidency, John Tebbel 1985).
This mistake would be the Sedition Act, which tested the first amendment and the
freedoms of the press. This obviously did not please the press and its opinions
were generally shifted to that of the Anti-Federalist. This was a deadly blow
to John Adams' presidency and the Federalist party. He himself was no stranger
to the press, he worked together with the Sons of Liberty and "cooked up
paragraphs" while "working the political engine" in the Boston Gazette (Brown
1975). Adams experience with the press h .....
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Tobacco
Number of words: 337 | Number of pages: 2.... a University of
Toronto survey found a third of Junior High School are puffing more.
Moreover the number of teens smoke occasionally jumped to 27.8% in 1994
from 22% in 1991.
Clinton's program includes Prohibition of sales to minors. Canada has
found such bans are useless because 59% of Ontario's smoking minors still
bought their smokes from a store. One of the bad things about prohibiting
tobacco advertising reduced marketing costs, causing tobacco industries to
earn "phenomenal profits". At Imperial Tobacco which controls 65% of the
Canadian market, operating profits have doubled since 1988.
No wonder Clinton's p .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 319 | Number of pages: 2.... laws with in the regulations of the court's ruling. Many people oppose the death penalty because they think it is morally wrong and cruel. Some even warn against the risk of executing people who are wrongly accused and convicted. Other people believe that if someone takes a human life then they deserve theirs. The early 1990's have executed about 150 people executed in the United States since 1976 and 2,000 people are on death row. The United Nations has to take a good look at this situation and put their own morality behind them when they decide what they want to do. Thousands of humans are in the hands of the UN. This topic ne .....
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The Bill Of Rights
Number of words: 329 | Number of pages: 2.... the time they first settled in Virgin and Massachusetts, the
American colonist relied upon the rights enjoyed by Englishmen. The
struggle for independence, however, demonstrated to them that rights not
specified and codified in constitutional documents were insecure. The
result was a movement as soon as independence was declared, to adopt
bindings constitutions that limited governmental power and protected
individual rights. Seven of the thirteen states adopted constitutions that
included specific bills of rights. The first state bill of rights was the
Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted as part of the state b's fi .....
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Affirmative Action Programs
Number of words: 567 | Number of pages: 3.... only 6.9 % of the seats on corporate boards of directors in 1994. Of the female senior managers in Fortune 1000 industrial and Fortune 500 service industries in 1992, 95% were white women, 2.3% were African American women, 1.8% were Asian American women and only .2 % were Latinos. Although 23 % of the female workforce is made up of women of color, only 15% of female managers are members of minority groups. The percentage of women in executive, administrative and managerial positions rose from 17.6% in 1972 to 43.8% in 1996. The number of women business owners has definitely increased greatly since the beginning of . In 1972, there .....
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Homeschooling
Number of words: 1673 | Number of pages: 7.... its concern for the larger good over individualism (Clark, 1994). Massachusetts enacted the first such laws in 1852 requiring children ages 8-14 to be at school at least 12 weeks a year unless they were too poor. The laws proved to be effective, from 1870-1898 the number of children enrolling in the public schools outpaced the population growth.
Except for certain religious sects and correspondence schools home schooling remained limited for most of the 20th century. During the 1960's the hippie counterculture exploded into the scene. This culture led a revolt against the education establishment. Thousands of young Americans .....
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The 26 Amendments Of The US Constitution
Number of words: 3094 | Number of pages: 12.... (1791)
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous
crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in
cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in
actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be
subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb;
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,
nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just
compensation.
Amendment VI .....
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