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Child Prostitution In Asia
<view this essay>.... staggering statistics, just like me, ask why. There are many answers, and none of them could possibly justify the sexual exploitation of children. Many tourists and locals for that matter think that children will be less likely to carry the AIDS virus, which is a misconception. It is estimated that 72.4% of the child prostitutes in Asia carry HIV. Many Asian men also believe that sex with a virgin will rejuvenate them, and that sex with a virgin will cure venereal disease. Many different countries have been promoting the brothels by selling child sex tours. Police also keep their information about brothels and pimps quiet, making Asia a prime pedophile playgr .....
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Gambling Addiction
<view this essay>.... solve all of his problems. Meanwhile he loses his wife who does not trust him anymore. His habit eventually becomes the focal point of his life. Now I'm not saying gambling is wrong, I enjoy it as a small-time hobby, but I think of it as entertainment only. You can't expect to win every time you gamble. I've even felt trapped in a rut similar to the man in the story above, where I thought I could win all my money back, and it never happened. It was then that I realized gambling should be done strictly for entertainment. Habitual gambling, or , is a danger to the public. Gambling is defined as any behavior that involves the risking of money or valuables on the o .....
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Air Pollution Report
<view this essay>.... is still there affecting us in some way, shape, or form. It has been known to cause illness and/or death. Many people are not aware of this. The Causes of Air Pollution There are two main causes of air pollution. One of the main causes is natural pollution. "Natural pollution is windblown dust, pollen, fog, etc." The other main cause is people pollution. "People pollution is the chief concern and most serious form. Most of people pollution is caused by industry, cars, trucks, and airplanes." The causes of air pollution go on and on. There are residential causes and industrial causes. Residential causes are those such as automobile emissions and forest fires. In .....
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What Wrongs Have White Administrators Done To Aborginal People In The Past? Have All Wrong Been Righted?
<view this essay>.... have been unfairly treated since European settlement.
Children have been taken from their parents, they have been humiliated. They
have shot down until not one Aborgine was left in Tasmania. Even though all te
worst of it has been over for the Aborigines - but has all wrongs been righted?
One of the most inhumane practices of white settlement in Australia
would be the taking of the Aboriginal children from their families. Some
Aboriginal children were brought up to feel ashamed of their race and heir
colour. "In a deliberate and callous attempt to conceal their cultural
identity," Aboriginal children were taken from the families an forcibly placed
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Ireland's Michael Collins And Emon De Valera
<view this essay>.... was to be to the contrary of de
Valera's; he said Collins was not an intellectual and was a man of violent
impulses. He took that statement further when he said the Collins would go as
far to tumble his colleagues on the floor and bite their ears in playful
attention. Now that de Valera's and Collins' personalities have been
established, we can now analyze the events and actual conditions under which
Ireland was under that led ultimately to her freedom.
All across Ireland people were repulsed by the executions which they
considered to be needlessly brutal. What they lacked was new leadership to
focus the restless energy of the Irish into effective po .....
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Constitutional Democracy
<view this essay>.... the national
government; that men are born equal and should be treated as equal before the
law. The framers of the U. S. Constitution sought to make these ideas the
governing principles of a nation. Constitutional democracy has three basic
elements. Those being interacting values, interrelated political processes and
interdependent political structures.
The first idea of interacting values is popular consent. Popular
consent means that government must obtain consent for its actions from the
people it governs. It is similar to majority rule, a political process, in that
the most popular acts or ideas of the people will be adopted by our government.
There m .....
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Alcoholism
<view this essay>.... family, after a long demanding day of work. This positive attitude that my dad has portrayed has been a positive impact on my life. He has taught me many lessons in my life. The biggest lesson learned is that nothing comes easy, not school, not work and not athletics. My father has inspired me to do my best in all of my activities. I feel that I can relate my life on a lower level with his on a higher level. Our views on work ethic and athletics are closely tied together. My father always told me that once a quitter always a quitter. Being a Varsity wrestler and football player, those words inspired me to always to obtain my goals no matter the obstacles standi .....
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Is Advertising Ethical?
<view this essay>.... out of any false statements used in an effort to deceive, and all relevant information, the good and the bad, must be included in the statement. I would like to discuss a few of the more abundant methods advertisers employ in order to deceive potential consumers and emphasize the features of their products. 1. Some advertisements all capitalize on half-truths and trickery. The people cheated are often too embarrassed to admit their gullibility and seek redress, or decide that the amount lost is not worth the cost of pursuing the advertisers. This allows the advertisers to continue their scam and trick even more people with their dishonesty. People have to .....
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