... whether the change is for the best or the worst, life would become very repetitive. Parents are not alone in the battle against questionable reading material. There are many religious groups who make it their personal mission to rid America's libraries of books they see as damaging. One such group is the Christian Coalition and Citizens for Excellence in Education, who print lists with intentions of censoring the books on them. What is it in children's books that adults find so threatening? Parents often object to strong or degrading words and names, or ideas and events that promote satanic, anti-Christian, and witchcraft themes. Although these words a ...
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... the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the Colonies’ independence from Britain ), and it was adapted into the political structure. It says that “ It is there right, it is there duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”. This supports the idea of John Lockes theory of Power comes from the people. That if the law is bad or disobeyed the people have the right to change it. He also supported the idea of Right to Revolution, where the government is changed if its not doing the job. This can also be found and supported in the Declaration of Independence. In the Declaration it says that “ It is the ri ...
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... Decency Act calls for two years of jail time for anyone caught using “indecent” language over the net; as if reading profanities online affects us more dramatically than reading them on paper. Our First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press....” The Act takes away this right. The Constitution- defying traitors creating these useless laws do not they understand the medium they're trying to control. What they “claim” is that they are trying to protect our children from moral threatening content. This “protect our he ...
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... Planck to give up their children. Mr. Planck told the officers that he did not know why they were there, was pushed to the ground and had loaded rifles pointed at him. The children were then forcibly removed from their parents custody, and at no time was any identification shown by the officers. Curt, Lance Planck's younger brother, resisted this removal from his house, and was threatened by an officer that he would be "dragged out of here." After this scene, Emily, Stephen, and Curtis Planck were loaded into a van and driven to an eye doctor in Anderson, Indiana. The examining doctor, Dr. Joseph Woschitz, came to the conclusion that no treatment was needed f ...
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... Asia. It was from Pakistan's Air Bases, basically from the Frontier region, that US spy planes used to operate their missions. This close relationship between the two countries flourished during the 1950's, but started to diminish during the 1970's. After the Russian invasion in Afghanistan in December 1979, Pak-US military ties once again gained importance as Pakistan was considered to be the only buffer state left to fight against Communism. During this era the United States of America in the form of cash, military hardware and experts, pumped unlimited military aid into Pakistan. Towards the end of 1980's, after the Russian pull-out from Afghanistan and fa ...
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... and healthier for our bodies. Secondly, as known around the world, the most common cause of death is heart attack and the average man is at a 50% risk while a vegetarian man is at a 4% risk. Another fact most don’t think about is that every one out of three chickens is infected with salmonella bacteria. Speaking of bacteria and disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture implies that it protects meat-eaters through regular and thorough meat inspection while in reality, fewer than one out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues. As a matter of fact, breast milk of a meat-eating mother versus a non meat-eating mother is 35 times ...
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... the District Court to the Court of Appeals. In the Appeals Court, the Special Prosecutor filed for a writ of certiorari which was petitioned by the President. Both petitions were granted and handed to the Supreme Court. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the basic arguements were as follows. President Nixon's attorneys argued that the District Court was out of its jurisdiction when it issued the subpoena to Nixon, making the case void. They stated that the dispute between the President and the Special Prosecutor was strictly executive, and by mediating them, the court broke the doctrine of seperation of powers. They also argued with executive privilege ...
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... My overhead shows the different ways that states used for execution in 1994. In addition to the three most popular choices, a hanging and a firing squad are also used in a few states. According to the book “Should We Have ” by JoAnn Bren Guernsey, these choices were made with the goal of a more humane murder in mind. The gas chamber is a small, sealed room in which the prisoner sits strapped to a chair. A lethal gas is sent through the floor of the room, and death usually takes about five minutes. Lethal injections simply involve the insertion of a needle filled with poison into a vein and injected. This procedure can be effective, but also takes long amounts of ti ...
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... now seems more like an attempt at intimidation than one of simply becoming equal to the other nuclear super powers. The idea behind China’s recent frenzy to get all the weapons and technology available is for them to be able to elevate themselves to the level of a major world power. As stated by Mao Zedong, “The atomic bomb is not so big, but if you do not have it, you are not counted. OK, let’s make some such bombs”(Huaqui). China’s nuclear testing site is considered to be the world’s largest at over 100,00 square kilometers, capable of handling underground, atmospheric and live missile tests. With this capability, it is interesting to see that as of 1995, Ch ...
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... of 1891 to 1914. President McKinley and Cleveland based decisions concerning western (hemisphere) neighbors on moral grounds. Some people believed that the United States had a moral duty, and a Manifest Destiny, or God-given right to use its power to help oppressed nations, and in turn to rule them, to embrace the democratic government. Revolts and conspiracies against the Spanish regime had dominated Cuban political life throughout the 19th century, and the Cuban struggle for independence became an active revolution in 1895 after Spain failed to institute reforms promised to the Cuban people in 1878. In response to the fighting Spanish troops drove much of the ...
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