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Personal Freedom In The United States Of America
<view this essay>.... 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 to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Since the
early history of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the
utmost importance to Americans.
In Langston Hughes' poem, "Freedom," he emphasizes the struggle to enjoy
the freedoms that he knows are rightfully his. He reflects the American desire
for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot
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"Stop Seeking Certainty.." Minow's Response To Bork
<view this essay>.... of it's adopters" (Lyons, pp.
329). This view can be subdivided into two categories. Those categories
are the intentional and textual originalist views. The intention-based
originalists argue that the original intent of the framers can be discerned
from a neutral reading of the Constitution and peripherally related
documents. The problem here is that the framers, the adopters, the
ratifiers, and the electors all had possibly separate intent and it would
be difficult to know all of their intentions. According to this view, the
Constitutional text merely provides clues as to the intent of the above
mentioned groups. So peripheral documents, such as the .....
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Drinking And Driving Offences
<view this essay>.... to give a breath sample" is usually higher than either of the "exceeding 80 m.g." offences. Consequently it is usually easier in the long run for you to give a breath sample if asked. If, for example you are convicted of "Refusing ato give a breath sample" for the first time, but was earlier convicted of "Driving while impaired", your conviction for "Refusing" will count as a second conviction, not a first, and will receive the stiffer penalty for second offences. For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you can make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs is one of the offences. Evidence of your condi .....
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Sexual Abstinence
<view this essay>.... only way to protect ourselves. Abstinence is a safe choice in preventing the possibility of pregnancy. One-tenth of young women between the ages of 15 and 19 get pregnant every year, 83 percent of these pregnancies are unwanted or unplanned. Half of the unmarried teens who get pregnant do so within six months of their first sexual experience. In fact, between 1986 and 1990, teen childbearing increased by 16 percent. What's worse, pregnant teenagers often don't see a doctor until the time of delivery. The dangers of going through a pregnancy without seeing a doctor are not only serious to the mother and child, but may risk the lives of both. "I'm doing the bod .....
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Politicking Goes High-Tech
<view this essay>.... away. A candidate cannot wait weeks or even days
for the results to come back to him or her whether he or she is in the lead.
The results are needed within hours. After getting the results from the polls,
it is then time to determine what action needs to be taken to aid your campaign
(or more often hurt your opponent). The candidate then needs to create new
television ads to make himself or herself appeal to the interests of the people
or sometimes to counteract the bad things the opponent has to say. This fight
between the television ads is often referred to as Spot Wars.
While the Spot Wars help out the candidates (or harm the opponents with
derogatory .....
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Cuba And Embargo
<view this essay>.... isolation from the world community, Castro remains committed to communism. (Close Up Foundation) The United States and Cuba share a long history of mutual mistrust and suspicion. All aspects of U.S. policy with Cuba, such as the current trade embargo, immigration practices, and most recently the possibility of a free exchange by members of the media, provoke heated debates across the United States. While most Americans agree that the ultimate goals should be to encourage Castro’s resignation and promote a smooth transition to democracy, experts disagree about how the U.S. government should accomplish these aims. Some believe that the country’s current policy .....
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Delinquints
<view this essay>.... treatment, rather than punishment, for juvenile offenders. Young delinquents usually are sent to juvenile courts, where the main aim is to rehabilitate offenders, rather than to punish them. But the term juvenile delinquency itself has come to imply disgrace in today's society. A youngster can be labeled a delinquent for breaking any one of a number of laws, ranging from robbery to running away from home. But an action for which a youth may be declared a delinquent in one community may not be against the law in another community. In some communities, the police ignore many children who are accused of minor delinquencies or refer them directly to their paren .....
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Development Of Defense Of Provocation
<view this essay>.... homicide being committed. For provocation to be an
ample defence to murder it needed to be something which incited immediate anger,
or "passion" and which overcame a person's self control to such an extent so as
to overpower or swamp his reason. What this something can be has been the
subject of many views through the centuries, and these views have strongly
depended upon the type of person whom the law has regarded as deserving
extenuated consideration when provoked to kill. In the words of Viscount Simon
"the law has to reconcile respect for the sanctity of human life with
recognition of the effect of provocation on human frailty. " In this regard the
difficu .....
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