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Drafting the Constitution

the Articles, the US was not a nation, but as the state were referred to vaguely as being united by "a firm league of friendship" ...

Issues in Semiotics

of signs and the laws governing them" (Saussure 15). However, Saussure admitted readily that this science "does not yet exist" and...

Childhood Obesity/The Role of Schools

and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...

Opposing the Justification of Torture

Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; notably, the United S...

Why High School Competitive Sports are Desirable

children, and many team players end up using steroids to get an edge over the competition. Clearly, there are two sides to this is...

Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

Stem Cell Research: Synthesized Viewpoint

cell research, some of which has found a bit of common ground among people on both sides, some that remains staunchly divided by a...

Immigration, Pros and Cons

human rights, democracy and peace is the standard," then European immigration to North America can be regarded as a blessing; how...

Human Rights Issues

short history, 1997). The womens movement won women the right to vote and national liberation efforts in many countries drove out ...

Position Paper Opposing the Concept of DNA Databases

were barely able to keep up with the amount of DNA information that was being generated, and so a government committee suggested t...

The Death Penalty, Pro and Con

death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...

Argument: Television Violence Does Not Harm Children

the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...

Anglican Church Unity

it is possible for these breakaway churches to form a communion or fellowship that can participate as a fully-fledged member of th...

Who Should Pay For The Infrastructure

subway are under-funded to a dangerous level (Ehrlich and Rohatyn 2008). A failing infrastructure is costly in many different way...

Recommending a Sect of Buddhism

the people of your kingdom should adopt. The Vajrayana "mythologizes the doctrine of emptiness" (Conze, 2003, p. 178). Through t...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

Human Rights and the Asian Values Argument

not be seen as universal needs to be considered, it may be argued that even in the west the concept of universal human rights is r...

GOVERNMENTS AND ECONOMIC CRISES

the U.S. (and the rest of the world) out of it. None of this is exactly true, but if you try to pinpoint the exact cause of the Gr...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Impact of Disruptive Family

be more delinquency in these families (Department of Criminal Justice, 2008). Children are less likely to graduate from high schoo...

A Review of the Promises Vs the Ethics of Stem Cell Research

of stem cell research. These first three chapters benefit from the contributions of James Thompson himself (the man that first is...

Brave New World

one that is ruled by sedation in many ways. There are no mothers, no fathers, no life long commitments, and a control through the ...

Religious Pluralism and Christian Theology

2008, p. 394). This led to the consensus that "just one form of religion" had to be imposed on the native inhabitants of diverse l...

Renewable Energy: Wind Power

energy are necessarily highly aware of the fact that reaping the power of the wind creates a "landscape" presence that some critic...

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON FAMILY FUNCTION VS. DYSFUNCTION

researchers have been able to tie environmental factors into family dysfunction; demonstrating, for example, that families in whic...

HPV

that the vaccine has not be proven safe; and, secondly, from the fact that HPV is not spread by casual contact, but is rather an S...

Capital Punishment: Morally Acceptable And Effective Crime Deterrent

far less heinous than murder, so how is it that the Bible can be mistaken for harboring judgmental opinion against capital punishm...

Cloning and Stem Cell Research: Ethical Dilemmas

of an action, but there is no obvious reason to suppose that intentions, but not motives, are especially strongly connected to the...

Government's Role In A Market Economy

do not believe government is the best resource for solving social or economic problems and that government involvement decreases b...

Who does the World Trade Organisation Protect?

Globalisation and international trade offers a great deal of potential the both developed and developing countries; facilitating t...