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Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
<view this essay>.... Rights." In this document lay the First Amendment which stated that the
people of the Uni ted States had the "freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government..." The First Amendment was drafted by federalist Madison mainly
as a political tactic to abolish anti-federalist resistance to the
Constitution. After its passage in December of 1791, the First Amendment
remained more idealistic than realistic. The First Amendment remained a
set of ideals which were not to be carried out during its first century,
then progressed to more realistic terms during its latter half of
utilization. .....
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Labor Union History In Califor
<view this essay>.... Huerta. The gains made be the United Farm Workers inspired workers every where to fight for living wages and reasonable working conditions, and it proved that poor people can claim their rights when they organize and speak in one voice. In a word, labor unions equal POWER. But it didn't start with Chavez. In 1894, California held its first strike organized by San Francisco and Sacramento Carpenters who pushed for a whole sixteen dollars a day. Well, they settled for fourteen. However, a year later the first official union was organized in California, the San Francisco Typography Society. Formed by printers at the Alta California newspaper, the San Francisco Ty .....
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Invaded By Immigrants
<view this essay>.... is undeniable that Immigration made Canada into the strong
nation that it is, I feel that Immigration as it is set up these days does not
build our country but tears it down. The open gates policy implemented by our
government leaves the Canadian social system wide open to be abused by would-be
migrants in other countries. It is quite obvious that the system currently
running is quite imperfect. This paper will attempt to show flaws in Canada's
immigration policy and suggest new policy's which fit better with Canada's
social landscape.
All over the world populations are growing at tremendous rates.
Nothing in this world happens by accident, the po .....
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Flag Desecration
<view this essay>.... flag shows that they are not true Americans. Flag burners commit a morally unjust and hateful crime by desecrating the American flag. They are the first to hid behind the first amendment (Freedom of Speech). For people to say they have the right to burn the American flag, sighting their first amendment rights, they have some kind of warped sense of expression. If people continue to desecrate the American flag, it will lose its significance and value. From 1968 to 1989, politicians and true red blooded Americans understood how important it was to respect the American flag. Congress passed a law in which it prohibited desecration of the American flag in 1968. .....
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Harsher Penalties For Violent
<view this essay>.... that the criminal should be
incarcerated for life. In which case the criminal is brought to a penitentiary, given a
home, food ,clothing and possibly a job. I realize that there are people out there who
believe that the system we are currently using is acceptable. In which case, they
may argue that the criminals of today are just misguided and misunderstood. They
are the ones who want less crime, and a hardly demeaning lifestyle for criminals.
What is the point of having a life sentence? We have people who have killed
in cold blood, sitting in jail to rot. This makes me think. Why should a criminal live
better than I am? We give the criminals of toda .....
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Flagburning
<view this essay>.... then there's nothing that we can do about it. Burning our dear nation's flag is destructive to this country, and it needs to stop. But they do have the right even though it's not right. What we who oppose flag burning need to do is protest against those who participate in flag burning, without causing violence. If we cause violence, then we would be stooping down to their low level, and it wouldn't solve anything. Flag Burning disgraces all who put their sweat and tears to fight long and hard for this country's freedom. Those brave honorable heroes are the reason why we are the United States of America, and are the reason why we are lucky enough to bear a flag .....
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
<view this essay>.... admissions into prestigious universities; however, protesters fail to view that minority drop-out Rates are nearly fifty percent higher than whites. In employment many unqualified applicants are hired solely in the fact that they are members of a minority group. The Women’s Movement as well as the Civil Rights movement has been negatively affected by , all that Martin Luther King Jr. worked and fought for is being denied by . I intend to show that and any similar programs must not have any place in today’s society, this program and any like it should remain out use. was first put into use during the 1960s. The Civil Rights movement of 1964 emphasized t .....
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Deppression And Teens
<view this essay>.... scars on the lives and psyches of an entire generation of young men and women. There is growing realization that teenage depression can be life- changing, even life-threatening. (McCoy 21) Depression is a murky pool of feelings and actions scientists have been trying to understand since the days of Hippocrates, who called it a "black bile." It has been called "the common cold of mental illness and, like the cold, it's difficult to quantify." (Arbetter 1) If feelings of great sadness or agitation last for much more than two weeks, it may be depression. For a long time, people who were feeling depressed were told to "snap out of it." According to a study d .....
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