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Handgun Laws in Louisiana

This essay focuses on handgun laws in Louisiana and the controversy surrounding both the anti and pro-gun lobbies. This seven pag...

Controversy Over Utah's Wilderness Issue

In three pages this paper discusses the wilderness issue of Utah and its controversy. Three sources are cited in the bibliography...

History and Basis of the 1990s Abortion Bill

This six page essay explores the evolution of this critical piece of legislation and the controversy surrounding it. Nine sources...

Food and Genetic Engineering

through plant breeding through many generations of plants. One says, "that organic potato or ear of corn you so lovingly nurtured...

Disability, Eugenics, and Repeating History

In eight pages the Human Genome Project is examined in terms of the genetic controversy and considers whether identification of di...

Controversial Film Director Quentin Tarantino

This paper consists of five pages and examines the controversies surrounding this film director, producer, writer, and actors uses...

Voting and Legal Immigrants

as recently as the 1920s" (Worth, 2004). And, interestingly enough, until the city of New York abolished its school boards, "all r...

Jefferson's Relationship with Sally Hemmings

times of conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or...

Glover Moore's The Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821

this historical wrong by compiling his exhaustive research of the subject into an impressive volume entitled, The Missouri Controv...

Stem Cell Research and Cloning Issues

puts it as three to five times more significant than pain felt at a later stage of development (Strickler). From twenty weeks on, ...

2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the Electoral College

are serious questions in a very serious political situation - we are talking about the President of the United States, still refer...

Conventional Theology and The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Mystery Sonata in G Minor by Bach

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

Non Smoking Workplace Law in New York

believes the law has already affected his business. "I had many customers who liked to smoke," said Georgikopoulos. "Now, many o...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Controversy Surrounding Madonna's Immaculate Collection

other entertainer in history" (117). Her face has adorned the covers of everything from Rolling Stone to the National Review, and...

Issues, Reforms, and Controversy Associated with the CAP

consumers at reasonable prices (EU, 2001). Article 34 of the EC Treaty also adds the creation of the "common organization of the...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

Reproductive Technology and Identity

to be inferior (Chesterton, 1922). The idea behind this premise was to protect the American "identity" which in many ways was stil...

Controversy Surrounding the Harvard Comma's Use

bread, and turkey and dressing" meant to be understood that the "turkey and dressing" were together as one item but "bread" and th...

Teaching Reading

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

Pyramide du Louvre by I.M. Pei

controversial as the actual building. (An adjective often preceding his name is "iconic.") For one thing, the idea that an America...

Controversy Over Abercrombie and Fitch Catalogs

serious campaign. In some way, one could say that the A&F strategy is to attack, then retreat and lie low for awhile and then wage...

The Controversy over Bilingual Education

this program allows children to retain their heritage and their home culture (Rothstein 672). Further, proponents comment that som...

Roles of Tobacco Scientists

In his book, Question of Intent (which basically blows the lid sky-high off the shenanigans in the tobacco industry), author David...

College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Elitism and The British Broadcasting Corporation from 1922 to 1939

was introduced within two weeks of the BBC forming, and would act as a barrier to radio ownership, as ten shillings was a great de...

Controversy of Applying Genetic Engineering to Foods

the production of GE foods. Lastly, many of the same companies which produce GE pesticide resistant crops are the same companies w...