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Abortion: Abusive Parents

Everyday there are pregnant mothers who abuse drugs and alcohol totally ignoring the living, growing person inside them. Then, when these children are born, they are usually born with a drug addiction or birth defects which sometimes leads to death. One thing's for sure, these children's lives ...

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Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907)

William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) was born June 26, 1824 in Belfast, Ireland, and was part of a large family whose mother died when he was six. His father taught Kelvin and his brothers mathematics to a level beyond that of university courses of the time. Kelvin was somewhat of a genius, and ...

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The Need For Federal Government Involvement In Education Reform

by____________ Political Science 2301 Federal and State Government OVERVIEW For centuries, generations of families have congregated in the same community or in the same general region of the country. Children grew up expecting to earn a living much like their fathers and mothers or other adults ...

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Just Say No! A Profile Of Cocaine And It's Effects On Two Lives

Greek mythology tells of a young god, Morpheus, god of dreams. Morpheus planted a special purple flower called the lotus. Soon the people of the land smelled the sweet flowers and ate them. They immediately feel into a deep and troubled sleep. From that day on, they awoke only long enough to ...

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Truckers

“The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.”(Chinua Achebe). A stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of ...

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Steroids

The use of Performance Enhancing Drugs or PED’s in sports today has become an ongoing battle. From the media to athletes, to the doctor who prescribe the drugs to now involving the Federal Government, the issue of whether or not it is cheating has played a major roll in today’s sports. Baseball ...

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How Was the Underground Railroad Advertised?

The history of the Underground Railroad has many books and articles written about it and they even have a few personal diaries and letters of correspondence but the question we ask now over a hundred years later after slavery has been abolished. Was the Underground Railroad effectively advertised ...

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Fear in Jekyll and Hyde

It is quite surprising how much fear can take over a person. In the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, fear is a thing that dominates everyone. At the time of the 1800’s, London itself was a fearful city. Mr. Utterson fears finding out who Mr. Hyde really is. Dr. Jekyll fears ...

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Abortion

Many years ago abortion was illegal and many women died because they didn’t want to have children. Some tried to terminate the children themselves or let an unprofessional do it for them. In 1973 the Supreme Court decided to let women have the choice to decide if they wanted abortion. Many lives ...

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To Drive or Not to Drive

Who is eligible to drive and what is the right age in which people should stop driving? A proven fact is that as people grow older they are more susceptible to disease and mental illness. Conditions like arthritis, though it is possible to be affected at an early age. This does not mean to say ...

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Sexual Education

“A mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity.” Different people will disagree about the veracity of this statement, but we know that it does not reflect the experiences of the majority of young people. Yet sex education ...

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Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He would be the tenth out of seventeen children that his father, Josiah Franklin, would have. His father had plans for Benjamin to join the clergy when he came of age and was sent to grammar school to prepare. He would excel in reading at a ...

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Importance of Education

Generally, at the start of a very young age, children learn to develop and use their mental, moral and physical powers, which they acquire through various types of education. According to Google, “Education is commonly referred to as the process of learning and obtaining knowledge at school, in a ...

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The Hippie Nation and Woodstock

In the mid to late sixties, hippies and wannabe hippies were making their presence known throughout the country. Hippie communes began to pop up and their ideas were misunderstood by the common man. In 1969, the hippies and wannabes came together for Woodstock, a festival filled with problems, ...

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Jurassic Park Setting

“There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.” (76) The reason that Hammond’s Island, Jurassic Park lasted as long as it did is all because of the setting. The three factors of Jurassic Park’s setting; the island’s location, the time that it was built, and the climate; ...

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Crevecoeur vs. Equiano: Slavery vs. Freedom in America

What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American slave? These two questions are ideal thematic rhetorical statements that both Crevecoeur and Equiano write about in various ways. Crevecoeur was not born in the United States, but once he arrived here, he was a free man who ...

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Staying in the Moment with Life

A Rose for Emily is a very complex story. Many people hate to let things go. People find security and comfort in their possessions and the company they keep. If all this is ripped away from a person, it can have a very negative effect on that person’s life. In Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for ...

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Gender And Crime

Examine some of the reasons why females may be less likely than males to commit crimes (12 marks) A number of sociologists have offered explanations as to why ...

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Women's Right and Morals

Culture and Women’s Human Rights In the middle of the year 2010 in a southern Afghan village near Uruzgan, a young Afghani woman at the age of 18, Bibi Aisha, was in attempt to run away from her in-laws. They abused her physically, treating her like a slave and she could no longer stand the ...

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Fast Food

Fast Food Across America, people become occupied with their busy lives as shown in the extremely common decision of “since there is no time for dinner, how about fast food?” Thoughts shuffle in the mind, has America become the “queen bee” of fast food? Does society consider nutrition an ...

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