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Papers on Society and Social Issues
Managing Waste, To Save Our World
Number of words: 209 | Number of pages: 1.... trash is the "in thing", yet it is hardly convenient. Lets
face the facts, sealed toxins "won't affect us for a good twenty years".
Although this may be true, there are still many advantages to waste
management.
Today, more people are in favour of companies who invest in "green
products". As a result, companies have removed phosphates, bleaches, and
have made their paper products out of recycled papers. At home, families,
are saving things, like leftovers, and making sandwiches for the next day.
Industries are also manufacturing most of their christmas cards out of
recycled paper, since it takes 20 trees to make a ton of it. .....
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Curfews Should Be Established And Enforced By Parents, Not By The City Law
Number of words: 1027 | Number of pages: 4.... for the next party or such. This is the first step towards limiting freedom for minors. The next step would be to establish the curfew across town, so that minors under a certain age would not be able to walk the streets without an adult to accompany them. Thereby, limiting and taking away their Constitutional rights.
Curfew laws restrict the freedoms and Constitutional rights of the vast majority of honest law-abiding young people, while having very little effect on teenage crimes or gang activities. They effectively place all teenagers and children under house arrest even though they have done nothing wrong, thereby intrudin .....
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Slavery And Reparation Due
Number of words: 561 | Number of pages: 3.... the right to vote, and were classified as less than human. Black slaves built America with bare hands, blood, sweat and tears. As such, Slaves Descendant should be compensated for our Ancestors over 440 years of labor without pay.
Will Slaves Descendant ever be compensated with reparation for all that our Ancestors have been through? My Ancestors suffered as slaves under the Constitution and laws of the United States until 1865. In fact, some would say that Slaves Descendant still suffer today!
In 1867, Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania presented before Congress, the “REPARATIONS BILL FOR THE AFRICAN SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATE .....
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The Right To Life
Number of words: 632 | Number of pages: 3.... believe that a woman should have the
right to an abortion only if she was raped and can not afford to have the child,
or if she does not know who the father is. If the woman just want's to have an
abortion for no reason, believes that the baby will be born with a handicap, or
will be born with a disease, life threatening or not the abortion should not be
permitted to take place. Within the past year President Clinton has vetoed a
bill that will outlaw "partial birth abortions," I strongly oppose his decision
and believe that he should have outlawed them. In New Jersey, there is an
assemblywoman writing a bill that would outlaw t .....
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The Importance Of Tradition In Belizean Society
Number of words: 411 | Number of pages: 2.... Farm" who hated the humans and all they that they did but after they chased them out and became their own masters they adapted all the same customs that the humans had had. We rejected Europe's influence because we gained independence but we welcomed it from the US.
Most, if not all, of the ethnic groups in Belize abandoned their customs, traditions and blindly followed anything western.
Today the Mayas are the only ethnic group left in Belize that live almost exactly as they did fifty years ago, perhaps more. The Garifuna, also, hold strong to their culture and traditions but they do not use their traditional dress and today .....
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The Need For An Anglo American Lifestyle
Number of words: 548 | Number of pages: 2.... which
resembled Mount Fujiyama (100).
Both the Cubans and the Japanese were deemed less than American.
The Cubans were acceptable as long as they did not assert their hotness,
nor their Cubanness on the street under a shady palm tree(136), or hold a
prominent position in Anglo Miami. The Japanese Americans were bearable as
long as they were locked up. The public anger at the "treachery" of the
surprise attack on Pearl Harbor left many fearing disloyalty and sabotage
(98). Although both cultures were deemed unacceptable by Anglo-American
society, the Japanese Americans and the Cubans went about setting up their
lives as if they .....
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Swinger's Not Just On Playgrounds Anymore
Number of words: 1774 | Number of pages: 7.... is an option at Dave and Dawn's club. Their club is known as an ‘on-site'
club. This means that Dave and Dawn provide bedrooms for their members'
enjoyment.
"Ours is an on-premise club. We have bedrooms where sex does take place,
but only if it is consensual. We do not force our activities on anyone," Dave
said.
Dave adds that having sex is something most people associate with a
swing club, but often this is not true.
Bob McGinley, whose self-given title is the grandfather of swing,
believes many people have misconceptions about swinging. He says swinging
cannot be categorized as mate swapping or as group se .....
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The Beat Poets And Movement
Number of words: 1395 | Number of pages: 6.... and into non-academic setting-coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more popular and more read than anytime in history, not only spoken poetry but also sung poetry of a high order. "The literature, coordinated by pop music, with a way of dressing, with a way of life, it something that has influenced the youth of the world not only in Western countries but Eastern countries as well. (www.charm.net)"
Music has been influenced greatly by Beat writing. The lyrics of many great songs have forever been changed by the writing of the Beat Generation. "Bob Dylan's favorite poet was Al .....
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Racism And The Ku Klux Klan
Number of words: 1540 | Number of pages: 6.... despair and the beginning of a new era( Oneline pg. 1).
On an evening in May 1866, a few young men met with one of the most prominent member’s office at a Pulaski bar. In the course of the evening’s conversation, one of the members said, “Boys, let us get up a club or a society of some description” (Lester and Wilson pg. 53). The group of men were called the “Pulaski Circle” which included six members. One founding member was Captain John C. Lester, a soldier in the third Confederate Infantry, and later a lawyer, member of Tennessee legislature, and an official in a Methodist Church (Lester and Wilson pg. 16). A se .....
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Violence On Television
Number of words: 528 | Number of pages: 2.... often portrayed in violent programming. Most violent portrayals do not show the victim experiencing any serious physical harm or pain at the time violence occurs. For example, 47% of all violent interactions show no harm to victims, and 58% show no pain. Even less frequent is the depiction of any long-term consequences of violence. In fact, only 16% of all the programs studied portray the long-term negative consequences of violence, such as psychological, financial, or emotional harm.
One out of four violent interactions on television (25%) involve use of a handgun. Only 4% of violent programs emphasize an anti-violence theme .....
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