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English Unemployment in the 1930s

The concepts of unemployment and unemployment insurance have been controversial regardless of the temporal and geographic setting....

Crimes By Corporations and Their Relative Significance in the U.S.

one of her many incarcerations, who said he had stolen a loaf of bread, "You should have stolen a railroad. They would have made y...

Global Warming Real or Imagined?

The concept of global warming has been controversial ever since it was first broached in the 1970s. This is not surprising...

How to Reduce Infighting in the Bicameral Political System: A Modest Proposal

at the bicameral system that dominates American politics. Conventional wisdom has held that there are truly only two political par...

Abortion Yes No or Maybe

The topic of abortion never fails to be surrounded by controversy. Most think that this is...

Wealth Distribution and the Impact of Networking

means is that networks now exist at all levels of society, from financial networks to social networks that drive interpersonal com...

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...

Book of Job Exegesis

twenty-five hundred years. Many scholars date the time and place of the recording of Job to the age of the Babylonian Exile, which...

Are Cesarean Section Rates Too High?

physicians to their patients for cesarean procedures, rather than risk incurring suit by allowing a woman to go through the vagina...

House of Representatives and Proportionality

other house. Thus it is of a complicated nature; and this complication, I trust, will be found to exclude the evils of absolute co...

An Architectural View of Centre Georges Pompidou

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

Education for the Deaf

part of its grammar and utilizes space to impart nuances of meaning. For example, the word "look," can be changed to mean "grace, ...

Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Historical Overview of Voodooism

African for Spirit(Corbett). "Vodou is tolerant. It receives. It honors and respects us all as though we were gifts. It tells us t...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

European Union, Ireland, and the Conflict Surrounding the VRT Vehicle Registration Tax ; The Conflict between Ireland and the EU

in Ireland all cars are imported due to a lack of manufacturing facilities in the country. Therefore, this is a clever tool it kee...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Christology and Controversy

course, that is where a lot of dissension occurs. At the same time, it seems that if one does not accept Christ as a Savior, he is...

Humans' Routes to the Americas, Theories and Controversies

as walking, so the theory is that he entered North America using the shortest and easiest route which would have been the land mas...

Kennewick Man Controversy and the NAGPRA

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...