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Socialism

The term is commonly used to refer both to an ideology--a comprehensive set of beliefs or ideas about the nature of human society and its future desirable state--and to a state of society based on that ideology. Socialists have always claimed to stand above all for the values of equality, social ...

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Life On Other Planets?

1 Life in outer space? A figment of our wildest imagination or reality? This age old question has been lingering in the heads of human minds since the beginning of reasonable thinking. Today, these questions still remain unanswered, although extensive research has been conducted by scientists ...

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Should Top Executives Make The Money They Do?

? CONTENTS Abstract ........................................................... iii Introduction ....................................................... 1 High Pay Seems Small When Compared To Company Profits .............. 2 Top Executives Are Under A Lot Of Pressure ...

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Adam Smith

, a brilliant eighteenth-century Scottish political economist, had the advantage of judging the significance ol colonies by a rigorous examination based on the colonial experience of 300 years. His overview has a built-in bias: he strongly disapproved of excessive regulation of colonial trade by ...

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Adam Smith-free Trade

In the earlier days of recorded history, nations traded to obtain more goods, especially those they couldn't produce themselves, which seems like a logical enough motive. But by the 17th century, this motive for trade gradually eroded. The desire for goods was replaced by the desire to ...

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U.S And Japan Car Industries

It is unfortunate that the U.S. chose to use automobiles as its wedge to open the alleged "closed" markets of Japan. One Japan-based managing executive of the Big Three has even admitted that they consider the Japanese automobile market to be open. Japan is not the island of protectionism in a sea ...

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Evolution 2

We act like animals, we eat like animals, and we are animals. The many theories of evolution such as Darwin’s theory of evolution prove to us that we choose to believe that we are not animals when we really are. Evolution is the sequencial process of change over periods of time, which ...

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Bill Clinton - Redefines Democratic-Republican

In the early 1800's, the United States was but a promising seedling in search of viable political direction. The initial parties were known as the federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, the first of which soon diminished and the later eventually bisected. The result is the two party ...

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Capitalism

Today in the United States, a free market system or is the main economic system. I am interested in this subject because I someday wish to own my own business. I believe that in the future this topic will be very useful to me. Among the topics that I will discuss are the greeks and ...

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Is The US Policy On Drug Prohibition Effective?

? The Federal Government, while trying to protect us from our human nature, developed harsh anti-drug policies with the hope of eradicating drugs. At the time, these policies seemed simple enough: we will impose penalties on those who use substances illegally, we will intercept drugs coming from ...

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Blood And Belonging

critique of the book, , by Michael Ignatieff. This paper will explain the subject of the book and its relevance, discuss Michael Ignatieff's methods and conclusions on the subject and finally include a personal critique of the book by the author of this paper. The author of the book travels on ...

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Decriminalizing Prostitution And Legalizing Brothels In The United States

Do you know what is the world’s oldest profession? It is prostitution (“Prostitution” 669, Volkonsky 20). Academic American Encyclopedia defines, “PROSTITUTION [sic] is the performance of sexual acts with another person in return for the payment of a fee”. Since it is the oldest profession that ...

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Ben Franklin 2

When one takes a look at the world in which he currently lives, he often sees it as being normal since it is so slow in changing. When a historian looks at the present, he sees the effects of many events and many wise people. Benjamin Franklin was one of these wise people. His participation in ...

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Minimum Wage

is the lowest rate employees may legally pay for an hour of labor (Merriam, 741). The United States has a law to guarantee minimum hourly wages and to prevent the exploitation of workers and provide unskilled and part-time workers with a wage floor. People have argues that the has become less ...

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Traffic Control: The Need For Change

As the population of the United States dramatically increases and the number of vehicles on the nation's roads and highways skyrockets, new methods of traffic control and organization have become necessary, by utilizing new methods of transportation or by revising the current system. In the past ...

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Save The Internet

Did you know that 83.5% of the images available on the Internet were pornographic (Kershaw)? Did you know that pornography on the Internet is readily available to curious little children who happen to bump into them? Today, the Internet which has only become popular several years ago, ...

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Mad Cow Disease

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better know as is a relatively new disease. Most sources state that BSE first showed up in Great Britain in 1986 [Dealler p.5] but some say it popped up in 1985 [Greger p.1]. However the official notification was not until 21 June, 1988 [Dealler ...

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The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft

Since 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United States government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed by Bill Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government maintains that Microsoft’s monopolistic practices are harmful to ...

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Wallstreet, Movie

"Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works." If any three simple sentences could sum up the 80s, those are probably the ones. The 1980s were an age of illusions, one that was hedonistic in nature and self-loathing in practice. As Haynes Johnson recalls, it was “a society favored with material ...

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Karl Marx

was born on May 5, 1818 in the city of Trier in Rheinish Prussia. His family was Jewish, but converted to Protestantism in 1824. "Marx is a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or social scientist" (Singer 1). He was born to his Jewish parents, Heinrich ...

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