... that results in unfair standards into higher education and the work force. The practice of affirmative action must be stopped. The main argument for affirmative action is that it creates equal opportunity for people in the work force and for students seeking admission into higher education. However, this is not a valid point. While affirmative action creates equal opportunity for some individuals, it discriminates against others, primarily white males. Therefore, affirmative action uses reverse discrimination to solve the problem of discrimination. Do two wrongs make a right? The answer is no. The first reason affirmative action should be stopped is that employe ...
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... advocates seem to vindicate abortion, accepting that abortion is not considered a form of birth control, but merely a method of controlling the woman and fetus future. Women are the sole determinate persons in stating if they are capable of withholding a full term pregnancy. As an advocate of women’s right’s to Pro choice, I am extending my viewpoints to you in this proposition. Many people have their opinions on abortion, usually being one extreme or the other. Advocates or Pro choice often finds themselves swaying their opinions of when abortion is morally ethical dependent upon the controlling factors. Advocates of Pro Life are consistently perusing aborti ...
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... poly told him that her dad abused her. This statement out raged many people, including Mr. Clauss. Just sit here and think how he feels. His daughter was just brutully murdered... and on top of all this he has to control his rage in the court room. Put your self in shoes for a minute, would you really want this man back on the streets on parolle for good behavior in prison. Would you find any relief in knowing he is locked up in a comfy jail cell with cable tv, and recieving a chance for parolle in 20 or so years. No this man needs to be on death row, awaiting execution. Rehabilitation isn't used on death row because the criminals have aready been fou ...
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... they want. Many of the issues that are used in free speech are those of Racist comments. That is why some people thing that freedom of speech on the net should be censored because they are offended by its contents. There have been many people that have gone as far as killing them selves to make people aware or the racism that has plagued the world today this is the most extreme and most desperate way to use your freedom of speech. The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prevents the government from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and ...
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... is the answer to America’s drug problem. In delivering his points to the reader, Hamill effectively makes good use of internal structure. Initially, the point of view utilized in this article exhibits an interesting way that the reader can personalize himself with the article. The constant use of “I” in the article lets the reader know that the author has had first hand experience with the drug issue. The first person point of view also reinforces the fact that this article is completely based on the ideas and beliefs of Hamill. In addition, playing a key role in this article, the audience remains convinced via the effective techniques in writing. In general, thi ...
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... standards, and transfer of technical information. The NIST provides facilities necessary for a complete and consistent system of basic physical and chemical measurements and standards in the United States, and it furnishes essential services leading to accurate and uniform measurements throughout the scientific community, industry, and commerce. In 1972, for example, agency scientists developed a helium-neon gas-laser technique that for the first time gave the precise measurement of the speed of light as 299,792.45 km/sec (186,282.396 mi/sec). The NIST also cooperates with public and private organizations to develop technological standards and test methodologies ...
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... Clinton is full of brilliant revelations like, "Racial diversity is our great meal ticket to the future if we can figure out how to get along and how to lift each other up." His bits of intellect might be useful if he proposed solutions to the obvious problems he presents. Bob Dole, a republican candidate, has already done some work on welfare reform. He recently passed a bill which allows the state to create programs that will move people from welfare to work. His reform plan will effectively lower welfare recipients by requiring able-bodied people to work, single-teen parents to stay in school, and limiting welfare to five years. Dole knows what he wan ...
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... “ an estimated 585,000 women do every year”. This article explains how pregnancy affects many women. By using this statistic, it gives the reader an approximation, but not an exact number. This is used to make the reader think that the statistic is very high. Another article in The Toronto Star, “Tamil health crisis probed”, on October 29, 1999,demostrates bias by saying, “ At least 70,000 people”. The article is talking about the Tamil community and how 70,000 people have been affected, but it does not give the amount of people in that community. This type of bias is often used in print media to make an article more important than it is. Bias through ...
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... to their families because of their illness, so we see them on the streets struggling to stay warm. Teenage mothers are also forced to live on the streets because their families will not help them. The fathers are not there and that forces them to live on the streets. So they must resort to prostitution to pay for the food that their young ones need to stay alive. There are many other people that become homeless for many different reasons. Some of these people can not help becoming homeless. Some of these people are the illegal immigrants that come here from other places to get a better life but end up not having enough money to make it in this hard world that we ...
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... men involved in the break-in. One of them was caught but was only asked to leave by the security guard. George McGovern was the opponent that Nixon really wanted because he figured he could beat him pretty easy. Having both Houses of Congress being controlled by the opposite party, Nixon became very fearful of being a one-term President. John Edgar Hoover was the leader of the F.B.I. at the time of the affair. Hoover was a legend in his own time and was very feared by many. Nixon said that he had a very close relationship with Hoover and that he supported him a lot. Hoover was said to be a man who you can really trust. Nixon knew that Hoover was very imp ...
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