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Police Brutality: What's Really Going On?
<view this essay>.... a stressful and not a very safe atmosphere, therefore the
reactions of the police officer aren't very well thought out it's all
instinct. Second if the officer gets the car stopped there are a million
possibilities of other reasons to lose their cool and beat the person
getting the ticket.
In the case of Rodney King this particular suspect was attempting
to get away with a drug charge and aggravated the police officers to the
point they had to restrain him. In this case the police reacted to a tense
situation with force and confidence that what they were doing the right
thing.
The police that the author talked to said they would have reacted
the same way and .....
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Gays In The Military
<view this essay>.... are ever present throughout all branches of
the military and a persistent hostility against this group is in American
society and the military. In order to effectively examine this topic the
following concepts will be discussed: an analysis of the current Department Of
Defense policy concerning gays, solutions to reduce homophobia in the military,
a policy model concerning homosexuals in the military ( Lepicer 1-14 ).
Prior to the arrival of the Clinton Administration with its agenda to
radically revise military policy regarding the acceptance and treatment of
homosexuals, Department of Defense policy was well established and clear. Legal
question .....
Number of words: 1998 | Number of pages: 8 |
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Divorce And Love
<view this essay>.... is one of the seven deadly sins. Whereas, it is common sense that due to human nature, people are never content with what they have. We always long for others even though we know that it is wrong and unfair. In the teenage drama, "Dawson's Creek", the main character's mother is caught having an affair with her co-worker. When asked why she cheated, she replies, "I had a perfect life" and admits that she longed for the feeling of needing something. In spite of the fact that it is just a television show, these instances do occur at a less exaggerated and realistic level. Adultery always breaks the trust in a marriage and often creates hatred toward the unfa .....
Number of words: 499 | Number of pages: 2 |
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Welfare: Toil And Trouble
<view this essay>.... it through the year while
they got back on their feet. What it has become is a target for gluttonous
mothers and others who have no values. Many mothers who are on welfare have
become used to it, and instead of using the money and aid to stay alive while
they look for a job, they are sitting at home waiting by the mailbox for the
next check to come in. In the meantime, many mothers are having more kids,
because-more kids, more welfare money. These women relish the thought of
getting free money in the mail-for doing absolutely nothing.
Welfare is destroying out culture. Many argue that welfare is necessary
for many families, and that it must not be cut. S .....
Number of words: 824 | Number of pages: 3 |
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Slavery
<view this essay>.... Enlightenment, were against . They held that all people had a natural dignity that should be recognized. Voltaire, an 18th century philosophe, pointed out that hundreds of thousands of slaves were sacrificing their lives just so the Europeans could quell their new taste for sugar, tea and cocoa. A similar view was taken by Rousseau, who stated that he could not bear to watch his fellow human beings be changed to beasts for the service of others. Religion entered into the equation when Diderot, author of the Encyclopedia, brought up the fact that the Christian religion was fundamentally opposed to Black but employed it anyway in order to work the pla .....
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Female Discrimination In The Labor Force
<view this essay>.... increase in female participation started occurring during the 1970's.
The number of women in the civilian labor force jumped from 23 million in the
1960's to 31 million in the 1970's. This leap would continue and increase in
the 1980's and on into the 1990's. The result, in 1995, is a female labor force
that numbers over 60 million. This comprised 46 percent of the civilian work
force (10).
A reason for the rise in participation by women may be in the way women
saw marriage and children. Fewer women saw marriage as a settling down. Women
who had children began to return to their jobs. The number of working women
that were either married or had .....
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Alcohol Advertisements
<view this essay>.... would not be influenced to
drink. 1195 national survey shows that 87% of smoking and drinking because
of the influence from the T.V(mitchell 86) arguments of lawmakers say one
way to curb drinking is to ban advertisements and promotions.(paul 105) To
most young adults the advertisements woos them into wanting to drink. For
example; if they came out with a new alcoholic beverages would you know
that it was there if it wasn’t advertised on T.V? Think about where did
you hear about your favorite restaurant ? Most likely you heard about it
on your television show between your favorite shows!! Two federal reporters
recommended that alcohol advertisements shoul .....
Number of words: 510 | Number of pages: 2 |
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Analysis Of The Human Cultural Identity
<view this essay>.... one of the most brilliant American exponents of
the Enlightenment culture. He had the time and the resources to educate himself
in many topics including history, literature, law, architecture, science, and
philosophy. He had the motivation and the connections to apply Enlightenment
political philosophy to nation-building. Denis Diderot was a French
encyclopedist and philosopher, who also composed plays, novels, essays, and art.
He greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers with his translations of
Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers,
usually known as Encyclopedie. He used this translation as a powerful
propagand .....
Number of words: 945 | Number of pages: 4 |
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