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Sexuality According to Constructionist and Essentialist Perspectives

In particular, Wikholm (2002) cites the work of Karl Ulrichs and his descriptions of "men with an inborn attraction to other men."...

Life in a World With Either Conventional or Nuclear Weapons

decades. He also rejects the notion that governments that are controlled by the military would be quicker to employ nuclear weapon...

China's Sterilization Enforcement Debate

birth control policies are directly related to her dire need for population control, most contend that China unequally enforces he...

Alowing Cloning Would Be a Mistake

more to this argument to quote Scripture that indicates Gods commandments that human beings venerate life. Furthermore, by request...

Debate on Globalization

forms of global interaction (Held and McGrew, 2000). Rather then chance encounters, globalization refers to "entrenched and enduri...

Issue of Dual Citizenship

the countrys demographics have changed in only the past decade. In the early days of massive immigration, those arriving fr...

Debate on Mental Health Parity Legislation

is still very much on the burner as far as an issue we want to see addressed before we recess" (Landa, 2001; p. 8)....

Social Welfare Policy Arguments Both For and Against

injustice. Mead is compassionate but tough. He does not buy into notions that suggest society must do something about the poor. Af...

Pros and Cons of Stem Cell Research

cells. THE HARVESTING AND RESEARCHING OF STEM CELLS In November 1998, the University of Wisconsin and several other leading unive...

Disclosure and HIV

society. SOCIETAL MISUNDERSTANDING It is extremely unfortunate the effect AIDS has on the individuals afflicted with the ...

Debate on the Bell Curve

upon such a broad and inaccurate scale. One of the reasons why critics argue that the bell curve is inadequate at determini...

Conservationists Face Off Against Clearcutters

that even in a clear cut area, once the building is up or the subdivision in place, grass, trees and other green leafies are added...

Dynamic v. Constrained Court Debate

he was not willing to create an entirely separate distinction for the law books. Instead, he opted to have each of the fifty stat...

Salt on Food and the Nature v. Nurture Argument

their salt intake so as not to further complicate the situation, which is clearly indicative of a nurturing response to the natura...

Notorious Scopes' 'Monkey Trial'

In twelve pages this paper discusses the intense creationism v. evolution debate this trial sparked in a consideration of evolutio...

The Debate Surrounding Abortion as Revealed in Contested Lives

abortion conflict at the grass roots level is enlightening towards the understanding the national debate. According to Ginsburg,...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

The Ethical Dilemma of Animal Testing

The biomedical testing of animals is examined in five pages through a fictional proposed law that ban animal testing with the exce...

Camilla Paglia's 'The Rape Debate' and Reasoning

In five pages an article from Camilla Paglia's Sex, Art and the American Culture entitled 'The Rape Debate" is evaluated in t...

Intelligence and Its Genetic Component

something reliable. For example, IQ scores do successfully predict the number of years one will be in school, their degree of acad...

Evolution, Creation, Belief Interdependence and the Writings of Philip Kitcher and W.V.O. Quine

In five pages this paper discusses these writers' views on the evolution v. creationism debate and the applicability of belief int...

The Olinkan Tribe and Female Circumcision

Tashi first came into the clinic, she could barely walk due to complications from her circumcision. A pelvic examination revealed...

Should Schools Allow Spanking?

Once a staple along with eraser dust and gym class, corporal punishment has fallen into disfavor in public schools. This paper exa...

Arguments Surrounding the Issue of Prayer in Schools

place for religion in the schools. The debate is heated. First, it should be noted that there are many good reasons for inclusion....

COBRA and What It Means to the Economy

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

Discussing Ethics and Issues of Abortion

In this paper consisting of seven pages the ethical issues that continue to fuel the abortion fiery controversy are presented in t...

Objectivism v. Ethical Relativism

I want to do? Are there really any obligations which reach me from outside the realm of my own desire? To put it into a more pithy...

Two Topics Under Examination, Racism and Homosexuality

The writer develops two differing topics in this paper. The first is a response to a 1994 article entitled The Biological Evidence...

'Political Correctness' and Propaganda

In five pages this paper considers propaganda and what is politically correct as well as a creationism and evolution discussion wi...

Vice and Virtue Internal Debate in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

agree that the most significant debate Jones had with himself concerning virtue and vice was when he decided to marry Sophia, one ...