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Power Does Not Come From A Gun

Power. A word from which many meanings derive. To each individual, it means something distinct and it is how one uses their power that makes up who they are. Power does not come from the barrel of a gun. A gun can do nothing without someone there to pull the ...

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Rosa Parks

Mcclain 1 The Summary , born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 in was raised in an era during which segregation was normal and black suppression was a way of life. She lived with relatives in Montgomery, where she finished high school in 1933 and continued her education at Alabama State ...

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Right To Die

Physician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas to the medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed terminally ill, be allowed to engage in physician-assisted suicide? According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, “one has ...

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The Sedition Act Of 1798

For the first few years of Constitutional government, under the leadership of George Washington, there was a unity, commonly called Federalism that even James Madison (the future architect of the Republican Party) acknowledged in describing the Republican form of government-- " And according to ...

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Modern Torture

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 states in Article 5 that "No one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Yet, almost fifty years after the declaration, physical and psychological abuse of men, ...

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Gun Control

Government 2301 02 November 1996 A Well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms , shall not be infringed. Amendment II, Bill of Rights ...

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Democracy History

The word democracy is derived from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratos, meaning, "rule." A democracy is a way of governing in which the whole body of citizens takes charge of its own affairs. As citizens of towns, cities, states, provinces, and nations, the people are the ...

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Dred Scott

There have been several cases in the history of the Supreme Court that have had a powerful impact on both the highest court of the land and the history of the United States. The decision can definitely be included in this category of monumental cases that changed the course of American history. ...

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To Have Intellectual Freedom Or To Be Censored

Topic: Should intellectual freedom be restricted? Should laws censor the freedom of thought? I. INTRODUCTION Although there are many counter arguments about the subject of the intellectual freedom, there is a simple truth that can not be forgotten. Every person should have the right to express ...

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Protecting The Innocent

Amy York April 24, 2000 Capital punishment should be abolished in the United States. There may have been a time when capital punishment was needed and acceptable, but that time is far behind us. The concepts and beliefs supporting capital punishment are outdated and have no place in our modern ...

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Physician Assisted Suicide

Physician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas to the medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed terminally ill, be allowed to engage in physician-assisted suicide? According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, “one has ...

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Ideals Of Law And Justice In Different Civilizations

The in history evolve over time and are altered in many ways. There are many factors that contribute to these changes such as the type of government, and the laws governing its people. As the laws change so too do the people living under the law. In early time, ancient law was instituted to ...

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Female Circumcision

" A Look Into Female Genital Mutilation" "She only loses a little piece of the clitoris, just the part that protrudes. The girl doesn't miss it. She can still feel, after all. There is hardly any pain. Women's pain thresholds are so much higher than men's" (Denniston, 7). This was a direct quote ...

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Physician Assisted Suicide

Physician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas to the medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed terminally ill, be allowed to engage in physician-assisted suicide? According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, "one has ...

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Won't Libertarian Socialism Destroy Individuality?

? No. Libertarian socialism only suppresses individuality for those who are so shallow that they can't separate their identity from what they own. However, be that as it may, this is an important objection to any form of socialism and, given the example of "socialist" Russia, needs to be discussed ...

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Communism

People all over the world look to the United States for the latest trends, fashions, and technology. The United States have set all these standards during the majority of the last century, by being a government that represents freedom. All over the world people who were trapped in Communist ...

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Bus Boycott 2

During the first half of the twentieth century segregation was the way of life in the south. It was an excepted, and even though it was morally wrong, it still went on as if there was nothing wrong at all. African-Americans were treated as if they were a somehow sub-human, they were treated ...

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Mental Illness

The name The name of my book is by Gilda Berger. is a disorder characterized by disturbances in a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior. The term can refer to a wide variety of disorders, ranging from those that cause mild distress to those that severely impair a person’s ability to ...

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Status Of Women In Society

Women have enjoyed significant improvements to their individual rights and their status in general, particularly during the current century. However, although the progress that has been achieved is relatively recent, the problem of women's proper place in society has been a topic of great debate ...

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Abort

ion is the ending of pregnancy before birth and is morally wrong. An ion results in the death of an embryo or a foetus. ion destroys the lives of helpless, innocent children and illegal in many countries. By ing these unborn infants, humans are hurting themselves; they are not allowing themselves ...

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