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» Politics and Government Essays and Papers
The Environmental Protection Agency
<view this essay>.... about. It challenges a basic belief of
industrial society; namely, that mastery of nature is mankind's greatest
project. It may force a choice between health and beauty on the one hand
and prosperity on the other. It requires us to consider our relationships
not only to fellow humans but to plants and animals as well.
First of all, an agency like EPA has substantial power, because of
its expertise and its formal authority. Even when disputing its findings,
all parties to a controversy often find themselves focusing on the
information and analysis that EPA provides. The Environmental Protection
Agency is unique among environmental regulatory agencies in .....
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Same Sex Marriages
<view this essay>.... Given the importance of the issue, the
value of comprehensive debate of the reasons for and against legalizing same-sex
marriage should be obvious. Marriage is much more than merely a commitment to
love one another. Aside from societal and religious conventions, marriage
entails legally imposed financial responsibility and legally authorized
financial benefits. Marriage provides automatic legal protections for the spouse,
including medical visitation, succession of a deceased spouse's property, as
well as pension and other rights. When two adults desire to "contract" in the
eyes of the law, as well a perhaps promise in the eyes of the Lord and their
friends .....
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PRIVACY
<view this essay>.... problems arise. The Internet has been an advance in technology that has greatly increased the capacities of a computer. These new capacities have been the cause of some serious problems though. One very important trouble is the lack of on the Internet. People pass much important information over the Internet and they expect it to be safe from others. Information passed over the Internet can in fact be intercepted and read by other people. For many years, this has been happening, and it has always been a problem, but with more and more information being passed through, people want something to ensure their . The government does not want to allow everyday peo .....
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Adolf Hitler
<view this essay>.... spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative imagination. To fullfil his dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejectio .....
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A Time To Step Down
<view this essay>.... to resign from office. Due to the mounting evidence of President Nixon role in the 1973 Watergate scandal, (burglars broke in to the National Democratic Headquarters.) Richard Nixon resigned from office, his resignation August 8th due to proof on the following charges including obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential power, and the refusal to obey house subpoenas. Did Richard Nixon resign because he knew that he lost the faith of the Republican Party and most important of all, American people? The American people felt that they were lied to, because of the President denying all charges brought against him.
Nixon did the right thing by stepping down .....
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Charles Darwin And Imperialism
<view this essay>.... to trust more in empiricism and logical
thought than in faith and glory of the empire . One who contributed greatly to
this transformation was Charles Darwin. In his two most famous works, The
Origin of Species and The Decent of Man, Darwin introduces the concept of "the
survival of the fittest" and "natural selection".
The Darwinian ideas introduced into English society justified a great
number of political policies and social movements. England at the turn of the
century was still a largest power in the international system. The English
perceived, through the justification of Darwinism, they were fit to be the
imperial hegemon in the world. The .....
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Propaganda And Its Uses By Countries, Especially During War
<view this essay>.... from fiction.
The blame is often pushed to towards the other country. Iraq claimed
that they were the victims and that the United States was the aggressor.
Hussein declared that they had been victimized by Kuwait. According to Iraq,
they had to pay back money that they did not have and Kuwait was responsible for
the cutback on healthcare and other vital services. Since Kuwait voted against
raising the price of oil, Iraq was unable to receive any revenue. It was
because of this that Iraq invaded Kuwait. The United States claimed that Iraq
was the aggressor. In the American media, Iraqi tanks were shown to enter a
defenseless Kuwait amidst destro .....
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Fascism
<view this essay>.... and brutality of World War I showed that rationality and progress were not inherent in humanity, and that a radically new direction had to be taken by Western civilization if it was to survive. World War I also aroused intense patriotism that continued after the war. Popular enthusiasm for such movements was especially strong in Germany and Italy, which had only become nation-states in the 19th century and whose parliamentary traditions were weak.
is a form of counter-revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Rev .....
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