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Public Policy Essays and Term Papers
Time For Reform? Considering The Failures Of The Electoral CollegeTime For Reform? Considering The Failures of The Electoral College
Description: This paper discusses the many shortcomings of the Electoral College,
and posits possible alternative electoral processes which likely be more
democratic.
Time for Reform? Considering the failures of the Electoral ...
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Reducing Gun Violence“There are presently in excess of two hundred million guns in the United States, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” (Gottfried 13). Each year this number grows by four to five million. There are sixty to sixty-five million legal owners of one or more guns, and half of ...
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The Controversy Of Capital PunishmentA major controversy facing the world today is capital punishment. Criminals no doubt deserve to be punished, and the severity of the punishment should be appropriate to their culpability and the harm they have caused the innocent. However, there are many reasonable, less controversial, and far ...
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The Life And Death Of Julius CThe Life And Death of Gaius Julius Caesar In my opinion, no other man in the history of the world symbolizes military and political strength as much as Julius Caesar does. Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC in Rome, Italy (Encarta 2000). His father belonged to the prestigious Julian clan (Internet ...
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Trudeau: The Politics Of My WayUnlike the United States, with its generalissimo politics-Washington,
Jackson, Grant, Eisehower- the martial arts have been conspicuously absent from
Canadian politics. But there in one exception: in 1968 Pierre Elliot Trudeau
became the first Canadian leader to bring the gunslinger-Lone Ranger ...
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Hiring Quotas In EmploymentPolitics is assuming command of the American economy in the form of pervasive "equal opportunity" enforcement. In today's society, everyone is supposed to be equal and have equal rights, but in employment, there is more discrimination than ever. American citizens need to do away with affirmative ...
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Dams And ResourcesThe Environmental Impacts of Large Dams
Land and water are ecologically linked in a natural system called a watershed. From the smallest
droplet to the mightiest river, water works to shape the land, taking with it sediment and dissolved materials
that drain to watercourses and, in most cases, ...
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African Americans In The PostJefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, “You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... Is the slave to be benefited by it? Not at all. It is not humanity that influences you in the position which you now occupy before the country,” (Davis, ...
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Franklin Delano Rooseveltis one of our country's best known and most beloved presidents. He is commonly remembered for taking a tired, beaten, nation and instilling hope in it. This positive view of Roosevelt is held by Burns, who paints the picture of a man whose goal was to alleviate our nation's economic pains. But, ...
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Comparing Britain To JapanIn 1900 Britain was in many respects the world’s leading nation, enjoying a large share of world trade, a dominant position in the international money market, and possessing a far flung empire supported by the world’s most powerful navy. Japan was a complete contrast, sharing with Britain only ...
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Abraham LincolnLincoln, Abraham (1809-65), 16th president of the United States (1861-65), who
steered the Union to victory in the American Civil War and abolished slavery.
Early Life
Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, the son of
Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln, pioneer farmers. At ...
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The End Of AffluenceAs the first European settlers arrived in America, ideas of wealth and prosperity were fully implanted in their minds. These ideas soon turned into reality, and the United States dominated the global economy up until the post World War II years. In this paper, from the Book by Jeffery Madrick, ...
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Lysistrata Of AristophanesThe Aristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news of Athen’s warships had been destroyed near Sicily. For twenty-one years, while Athens was engaged in war, he relentlessly and wittliy attacked the war, the ideals of the war, the war party and the war spirit. ...
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Legalization Of DrugsSuch an issue stirs up moral and religious beliefs; beliefs that are
contrary to what America should "believe". However, such a debate has been
apparent in the American marketplace of ideas before with the prohibition
of alcohol in the 1920's. With the illegality of alcohol the mafia could
produce ...
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Why The End Of Integration?After four decades of school integration America has given up, and the
question is: "Why?". I believe the answer is because absolutely nothing worked!
Bussing was a hassle, most magnet schools were set up for false reasons, and
everything was very costly. With everything they tried there were ...
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Same-sex MarriagesThe proposed legalization of same-sex marriage is one of the
most significant issues in contemporary American family law.
Presently, it is one of the most vigorously advocated reforms
discussed in law reviews, one of the most explosive political
questions facing lawmakers, and one of the most ...
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Herbert Hooverwas president of the United States of America during the time of the great depression. His ideas of capitalism changed the way the government responded to the great depression. His view was that the government should not directly aid the citizens but the government should help out the businesses ...
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Image Of Child HerosThe image of a child hero or “trickster” is seen in many cultures.
This kind of role can tell a lot about how a culture acts and reacts to
things. The idea of the child hero in stories written and told before the
birth of Christ probably reflect the peoples beliefs that the child is the
future, ...
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