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» Politics and Government Essays and Papers
The NAFTA Scam
<view this essay>.... lobbyists, wants
to apply NAFTA to Chile and the 27 countries known as the Caribbean Basin,
and ultimately to all of South and Central America.
In this UNITE FIGHT size we investigate the problems with NAFTA and the
ways we can take action to fight back against the business interests that
are pursuing this anti-worker strategy.
NAFTA isn't working for American, Canadian or Mexican workers
NAFTA's impact on American workers
American workers know what has happened to them because of NAFTA: loss of
jobs and a decline in living standards. How could NAFTA have such a
devastating impact on American workers?
In 1993, the year before NAFTA was passed, the U. .....
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Tools Of Foreign Policy
<view this essay>.... Nation and to become such a strong independent state in the world.
Terrorism is a main concern of all US citizens and something that our Government works very hard at everyday to ensure the safety of our country and its people. By resolving terrorism the US helps to further carry out its foreign policy goals of World Peace and National Security. The Foreign Policy tools we use in (potential) Terrorism situations are diplomacy, trade sanctions and treaties & alliances. Being in the organization NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the UN (United Nations) helps us to conduct friendly relations with our allies as well as our advisories and to talk out .....
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Time For Reform? Considering The Failures Of The Electoral College
<view this essay>.... Each state has the same
number of electors as there are Senate and House of Representative members for
that State. When the voting has stopped the candidate who receives the majority
of the Electoral votes for a state receives all the electoral votes for that
state. All the votes are transmitted to Washington, D.C. for tallying, and the
candidate with the majority of the electoral votes wins the presidency. If no
candidate receives a majority of the vote, the responsibility of selecting the
next President falls upon the House of Representatives. This elaborate system of
Presidential selection is thought by many to be an 18th century anachronism
(Hoxie .....
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Belzec Concentration Camp
<view this essay>.... down to Heinrich Himmler. Himmler, in turn, ordered Odilo Globocnik, the SS commissioner occupying Poland, to construct a camp at Belzec. One of the first gas chambers that were built was at Belzec. Deportees from Cracow, Radom, Galicia, Czechoslovakia, Holland, as well as Belzec went there. Christian Wirth, formerly of the Brandenburg euthanasia program, built the gas chamber. His building contained three rectangular rooms, each about thirteen by twenty-six feet, with ceilings just over six feet high. A 240-horsepower engine from a captured Russian tank was installed in a shed just outside, and exhaust fumes were piped into the chambers. Many believed that ca .....
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Islamic Women
<view this essay>.... of property, it is clear that Islamic men believe that they are above woman. However, they are supposed to support them and make sure that they have everything that they need to help raise their children and praise the god. In Islam, marriage is not a sacrament, as it is in other religions. It is a contract that man and woman sign and in which the woman can clearly includes her own clauses and negotiate terms. It is rare however possible for a man to have more the one wife. However, when that happens the man is responsible for caring and supporting both of them. In order to marry another woman however, the man must have the permission of his first wife. Altho .....
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Response To Wilson's "Just Take Away Their Guns"
<view this essay>.... the authority to “pat down” people suspected with reasonable-suspicion
would have too many negative effects to even consider enforcing in the
United States.
The first part of Wilson's plan is to train police to be able to
spot people that look like they are carrying guns. How does one pick
someone out of a crowd that looks like they are carrying a gun? I don't
think it is possible to look at someone and tell if they are carrying a gun
or not. That is ridiculous. Just because of the way someone looks doesn't
mean that they are carrying a gun. What criteria should be used to
determine if someone looks like when they are carrying a gun? Do they put
on .....
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Young Adults And Alcohol
<view this essay>.... to smoke, and with the choice of marriage without parental consent. Our young adults are encouraged to join the army and fight for their country. We however believe that until the age of twenty-one our young adults can not handle alcohol.
There is an ever-growing problem on campuses all across the nation: the abuse of alcohol. College freshman, usually nineteen, enter college with a bias involving the drinking law. In almost every aspect other than the drinking age, these freshmen are considered adults. However, they are told by the law they are not responsible enough to handle alcohol.
Elizabeth Whelan declares, "Banning drinking by young people makes it a .....
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Role Of Mass Media In Politics
<view this essay>.... believe that
the majority of the populace would tend to agree more with this second point of
view. The government or politicians of this great country try to appear to have
the semblance of truth or honesty in all of it's endeavors.
And sometimes it does. However, on occasion within its own discretion,
the media investigates and tries to inform us by the televised news, major
newspapers and (large) radio personalities of cover-ups, conspiracies and or
wrong doings by our so-called leaders. Are we always told the truth by the mass
media? By the government? By the media speaking for or as directed by the
government? Or has the line between truth an .....
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