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Over Population
<view this essay>.... more waste created. A child born today in the United States for instance will produce fifty-two tons of garbage and consume 11 million gallons of water by the age of seventy-five3. Freshwater, drinkable water, is the most critical natural resource to humans. As time goes by, the world’s population expands more rapidly, but there is no more freshwater on the Earth than there was two thousand years ago, when the population was three percent of its current size4. Overpopulation has also increased industrial development, which contributes to massive urbanization and rising of living standards5. The increase in industry shrinks the amount of freshwater available be .....
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Capital Punishment Should Be A
<view this essay>.... fortune came just two days before Porter was to be executed. As reported in USA Today, Porter's release was the result of investigative research as conducted by a Northwestern University professor and students. The evidence gathered suggested that Porter had been wrongly convicted. Were these new revelations and the subsequent release of Porter a lucky break or a freak occurrence? Not likely, reports DeWayne Wickham, also of USA Today. He points out that since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, of those sentenced to death, 490 people have been executed while 76 have been freed from Death Row. This calculates into one innocent p .....
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Aids--Cause And Effect
<view this essay>.... When high-profile victims began to contract the virus, such as basketball star Magic Johnson, the feeling spread quickly that anyone, not just particular groups of people, could be at risk. AIDS impairs the human body’s immune system and leaves the victim susceptible to various infections. With new research, scientists think that the disease was first contracted through a certain type of green monkey in Africa, then somehow mutated into a virus that a human could get. AIDS is a complicated illness that may involve several phases. It is caused by a virus that can be passed from person to person. This virus is called HIV, or Human Immuno-deficiency Virus .....
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Freedom Of Speech, To Bear Arms, And From Dictatorship
<view this essay>.... my opinions without being punished by the government.
Many people today don't realize how fortunate they are to have as much freedom as we do today. This freedom is guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights making the backbone of this country for over two hundred years. The freedom to bear arms for one is the most important freedom to me because of how important owning a gun is, and how much fun they are. This freedom has come under fire lately because of all the shootings. I think owning guns gives me pride, and is one of the most important rights the American people have today.
Freedom from a dictatorship is another important freedom. We .....
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One Of The Six Basic Principles Of The Constitution: Federalism
<view this essay>.... has its own area of powers and no level acting alone can change the basic divisions of powers the Constitution makes between them. Each level operates through its own agencies and acts directly on the people through its own officials and laws.
The Constitution sets out the basic design of the American federal system. The document provides for a division of powers between the National Government and the States. That division of powers was implied in the original Constitution and then in the Tenth Amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively .....
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The Watergate Scandal
<view this essay>.... resulting from violations of certain constitutional laws.
The Watergate Scandal manifested on June 17, 1972, when seven
employees of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) were arrested
breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the
Watergate Hotel. (Watergate Scandal 1) Immediately following their arrest
many observers thought that these employees of CREEP were breaking into the
Democratic National Committee's headquarters for the first time. In fact
CREEP employees had broken into the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters six times between August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During
their sixth break-in on .....
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A Democratic Society
<view this essay>.... While democracy influences equality, communism and socialism frown
upon the very idea that all people should be treated equal. The very idea
that all men are created equally is very misleading. All men are not created
equally. Human beings are unequal in essence because they are unequal in most
physical and psychological characteristics along with health, intelligence, and
emotional balance. For most of us, living amidst inequality is common.
Equality is said to be having the same rights and freedoms as everyone else. In
modern society this is very true to a certain extent. The only thing equal
about people is that we are all born and eventually .....
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Democracy
<view this essay>.... on paper, but there would be different philosophies, disputes within the philosopher-king hierarchy itself, and of course, the never-ending task of stabilizing an entire country would daunt even the most qualified person.
It is a mechanical fault of itself, and not the many leaders caught up in a democratic bureaucracy that causes a country to stumble. A is where the government is run by all the people who live under it. To have a true , everyone must vote. People vote to exercise their democratic rights; if only 70% vote, then 70% control 100% of the government. Voting without adequate understanding and choosing candidates for the wrong reasons are symptoms .....
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