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Media And Democracy Essays and Term Papers
Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
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Television: Technology and Cultural FormRaymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural ...
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Censorship And The InternetFreedom of speech has been one of the most important and fought over freedoms that this country has ever known. Since its commercial inception in 1992, the Internet, has been a topic of debate for the past six years. The wide spread argument has to do with the content that the Internet provides. ...
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Introduction To Public Choice Theory"Everybody's business is nobody's business." Russell Hardin, Collective Choice, 1982.
The social phenomena discussed in this series of essays all center around the problem of individuals in groups faced with the choice of doing what is best for themselves or what is best for the group. Instances ...
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Cold War PropagandaCold War Propaganda
At the end of World War II, only two global powers remained: the USSR and the United States. Both harbored different beliefs and governments, and a confrontation was bound to happen. This confrontation however, wasn t a battle of weapons, but of wills. There were no major ...
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Bouchards View Of Canadian HisLucien Bouchard is one of Canada's most interesting politicians. Born in the 1930s to a rural town in Quebec, Bouchard rose to become Quebec's present premier. Most federalists have characterized Bouchard as an enemy of Canada but it is important to recognize the events that shaped the political ...
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Filial Piety In ChinaE-mail: liew_hwee_min@hotmail.com
Introduction Xiao, the Chinese word for filial piety is the defining feature in Chinese culture as filial piety was extolled as the highest virtue in China for centuries. I subscribe to the school of thought that filial piety is the root of Chinese ethics and ...
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The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
The Women's Rights Movement was and continues to be one of the most
incredible and inspirational series of events to occur in United States
history. One of the more credible aspects of these events happens to be
the bold, intelligent pioneers that paved the ...
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Bouchards View Of Canadian HisLucien Bouchard is one of Canada's most interesting politicians. Born in the 1930s to a rural town in Quebec, Bouchard rose to become Quebec's present premier. Most federalists have characterized Bouchard as an enemy of Canada but it is important to recognize the events that shaped the political ...
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Civil RightsIntro In a Democracy the majority does not need any protection, because it is the majority which has control. However, as seen through history, even majorities can be tyrannical, and the minority needs protection from them. “” is the term used when speaking of the privileges, immunities, and ...
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Regional Geography Of Great Britain NotesBritish people are descended mainly from the varied['ve?r?d] ethnic stocks that settled in Great Britain before the eleventh century. Prehistoric, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Normans. In prehistoric times Br. was joined to the rest of E. The first people, came there over dry land. Towards the ...
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Gender Gap In Political AmbitionGENDER GAP IN POLITICAL AMBITION; men tend to have it, and women don't!!!
The Continued Under-Representation of Women politician in Mauritius
Where are all the women in politics? Women need to have their voices heard. Mauritian female legislative representation had always been one of the ...
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Muslim Students' Association (MSA)Muslim Students' Association (MSA)
The northern Virginia-based Muslim Students' Association (MSA) might easily be taken for a benign student religious group. It promotes itself as a benevolent, non-political entity devoted to the simple virtue of celebrating Islam and providing college students ...
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Euthanasia And Suicideby Brent M. Pergram Master of Arts in Sociology
The specific sociological problem that is the topic of this research paper is euthanasia. The purpose of this research is to identify the variables associated with euthanasia. It also discusses the variables associated with various types of . I ...
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Australians Against Further ImmigrationOUR VIEW
Environment
Humanitarianism
Economics
Health
Defences
Education
Culture
Australia's immigration policy is disastrous, proceeding as if there is no
balance of payment problem, no foreign debt and no geographical or environmental
constraints to population growth. Continued ...
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Segregation And The Civil Rights MovementSegregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every
sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often
called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who
was an old, crippled, black slave who embodied negative ...
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Eutahania And Suicide In Americaby Brent Pergram, Masters of Arts in Sociology
The specific sociological problem that is the topic of this research paper is euthanasia. The purpose of this research is to identify the variables associated with euthanasia. It also discusses the variables associated with various types of ...
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Al Jazeera's RevolutionCase 2: Trend Hunting
Al Jazeera's Revolution
Some people call it the channel of controversy, others call it the channel of emotional and sensationalism and others named after it one nation's revolution, like the one that happened in Egypt and led to the fall of former president ,pointing at ...
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SaganThere is a bed in Seattle which is nestled in North America on the spinning Earth led by the Sun around the Milky Way, a speck of cosmic dust floating in the Universe. On this bed Carl died of an obscure disease for which there is no cure. Carl is a celebrated writer and astronomer, but most ...
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