... 2. exemption from external physical control. 3. the power to determine action without restraint. 4. political or national independence. 5. personal liberty: slaves who bought their freedom. 6. exemption; immunity: freedom from fear. 7. the absence or release from ties or obligations. 8. ease or facility of movement or action. 9. frankness of manner or speech. 10. a liberty taken. 11. civil liberty as opposed to subjection to an arbitrary or despotic government. 12. the right to enjoy all the privileges or special rights of citizenship, membership, etc., in a community or the like. 13. the right to frequent enjoy, or use at will. Furthermore, the Declaration of In ...
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... two sections in which one is the section of "resource availability and waste", and the other "the continuity of life support systems pertinent to survival." Thus, the environmentalists believe that nuclear energy should not be used for various reasons. First of all, the waste product, i.e. plutonium, is extremely radioactive, which may cause the people who are working or living in or around the area of storage or use, to acquire leukemia and other cancers. They also show how billions of dollars are spent yearly on safety devices for a single reactor, and this still doesn't ensure the impossibility of a "melt down." Two examples were then given of Chernoby ...
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... men are created equal and with an inalienable right to pursue their own happiness. No one should be able to take these rights away from anyone. Also, in the 1950s, the civil rights movement became active and words like desegregation and equal rights for all became synonymous with the American way of life. Stand up and fight against those who have done you wrong! This is what gave homosexuals such a conviction to start fighting for their own cause. This paper will follow the progress of gay and lesbians in the twentieth century before, during and after World War II. What was their position in the armed forces during the war and what was government and military pol ...
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... will ever hold it, touch it, or even see it, but it is there. Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You may think something is terrible while someone else does not even care and yet another person may laugh, why? The answer is simple, everyone has his own identity and personality. Everyone feels, acts, thinks, and dreams differently. People may have some of these things in common with one another, but they will not be totally the same, it is like a fingerprint, unique. There are many origins to a person's identity, their family, friends, home life, religion, environment and others. But how does it get th ...
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... today exists in many different forms. There are many people who, all their lives, were brought up to believe that black people are of a lesser standard. It is no wonder that many people think African Americans perform inadequately even though these African Americans produce a high quality satisfaction. The people that doubt the work of an African American can obviously be seeing only the skin color. Lenita McClain states, "I am burdened daily with showing whites that blacks are people." Shelby Steele asks, "After all, since when had white Americans taken note of anything but color when it came it blacks?" Our nation, which is supposed to preserve equa ...
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... traced to an abundant amount of humans on Earth. On Earth we have available approximately 130 million km^2 [50.2 million mile^s2] of ice-free, fertile and barren land surface. This amount of land left i s continually being decreased because of an increase of the amount settlement. A food problem in the world can also be traced to overpopulation. The food problem is not characterized by a lack of food but a lack in quality of food. So what is the problem? What are the facts? The United Nations estimates that the population of the Earth in 2050 could be between 7.7 to 11.2 billion people. If there is a problem, what can be done about it? "Man treats his na ...
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... felons when released go back to what they do best. The felons are not supposed to have a firearm in their possession some abide by this rule and some do not. There possession should be searched through on a regular basis. Illegal Aliens are a big problem in the United States at the time being. If they do stay they should pay taxes like the average citizen. And should not be able to draw welfare. The laws restricting illegal immigrants should be enforced. And all illegals that do not pay taxes should be sent back to their place of origin. There are many types of people and should be many types of laws and ultimatly rights. This paper has only dis ...
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... farmers, and middle-class professionals. They were both better educated and younger then the Old Fighters, who had been the backbone of the party during its first decade. The Nazis now presented themselves as the party of the young, the strong, and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly, the weak, and the dissolute. Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy, he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy of fine arts. When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a Corporal. He was not a pers ...
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... set people apart don't stand out as much, If you were very intelligent people probably would not bring it up because it would draw attention. If somebody brought attention to somebody smarter then others, people would feel jealous, angry, and not as smart. One last reason is that people get to make their own choices. Something people enjoy in life is getting to choose who they marry, where they live, their job and other things like that. Choices are usually about every day life, only the person who the choice is about has the right to make the decision definate, not anybody else. That is why I think that an utopian society is not the right choice for ever ...
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... business women and scientific women. Actually, the subtle message that society gave was that the educated woman was actually selfish and evil. I remember in particular the searing effect on me, who once intended to be a psychologist, of a story in McCall’s in December 1949 called "A Weekend with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother, divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing flowers and hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet and square dancing, and she does ...
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