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Internet Censorship
<view this essay>.... education.” (3) I was slightly shocked when I saw this comment. Anyone who puts an animals’ life in their hands, has a responsibility to it. You don’t just forget to feed him/her, or forget to show them love unless it is intentional, it get so much worse, though. These people aren’t just forgetting to feed their pets, or give them attention, they’re kicking and beating them, poisoning and butchering these poor creatures, and what makes me sick to my stomach, is that some of these people do it for fun!! I recently ran across a link to a web page that contained a online petition to put a cat’s killers to justice with maximum sentence. This is the article I found .....
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Cults
<view this essay>.... you will say something to the public. sometimes are illegal to.
Religious are in every town and village there is no definition of a cult that is accepted by sociologists and psychologist or religion many types of activities will take cult like structures, an example would be any popular trend like physical exercise this is called the physical fitness cult. Famous athletes are a big figure when it comes to , many times Movie stars, professional athletes will endorse a product and a trend will start, making it turn into a cult. Also people who generate beliefs of something like flying saucer, aliens or any unknown figures can be cult. In religion when people .....
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The Theories Of Hobbes And Locke
<view this essay>.... bring to mind the alternatives of government and show us why we have a system to provide organization, authority, and protection. Hobbes first points out that we always do what is in our best interest, whether it be killing an intruder, lying in order to gain an advantage over another person, or worse, all of which add up to a state of continual war, fear, and chaos. Similarly, in the sense that we do what is in our best interest, Hobbes says that at one point in time we decided to voluntarily and mutually transfer our rights to another person or group in an attempt to get out of that miserable state of war. Hobbes also contends that if there is not a power to .....
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Affirmative Action
<view this essay>.... women and minorities in the work place, it is actually reverse discrimination, and it does not help the people that need it the most.
Some women and minority believe will benefit them in the beginning because there is an incentive to hire women and minority. This will do more to hinder than to help in the long run. Women and minorities in the work place have been looked up on as being inferior. In a lot of cases there white counter parts look on them as being charity cases. They think without they wouldn’t be able to get the job; therefore, these minorities are still not considered equals. Here is a quote from an article opposing . "I think helps to .....
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To Be Governed
<view this essay>.... the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be
GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted,
registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed,
authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general
interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited,
monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the
slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined,
vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked,
imprisoned, judged, condem .....
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Death Penalty
<view this essay>.... criminals that are rightfully executed. There is 28-step procedure necessary before any person can be given a death sentence. By having the process consist of numerous steps and involving many different people, human error is greatly reduced. The is not racially or gender bias, much to the contrary of what the affirmative team believes. The fact is that men commit more crimes, so they will be convicted at a greater rate then women. The ratio of men to women on death row and executed is 68:1 or 3400:50 (NAACP Spring 1996). From 1976-1994, men committed 7 times as many murders as women or a 7:1 ratio (Sourcebook ’94). Therefore, it may be statically shown that .....
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Teenage Pregnancy
<view this essay>.... teenage women. Eight in ten of these births resulted from unintended pregnancies. (Gormly 347) By the age of eighteen, one out of four teenage girls will have become pregnant. (Newman 679) Although the onset of pregnancy may occur in any teenager, some teens are at higher risk for unplanned pregnancy than others. Teenagers who become sexually active at an earlier age are at a greater risk primarily because young teenagers are less likely to use birthcontrol. African-American and Hispanic teenagers are twice as likely to give birth as are white teenagers. Whites are more likely to have abortions. Teenagers who come from poor neighborhoods and attend segregated .....
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Euthanasia
<view this essay>.... The controversial issue of has been going on for decades and as of nowadays, there is no end in sight. There are many views on the topic of , some believe that decisions should be made of the patientsˇ¦ best interest, while others insist that men have the responsibility to prolong othersˇ¦ lives. Both sides have their own ideas to base upon, and this contradiction has brought along the topics for discussions. Some people believe that a person with an incurable disease or severe disability that turns life into pain or so burden that a meaningful and desirable existence has ceased, then this person should be allowed to die. Another argument is that the r .....
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