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Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Animal Testing Alternatives

doses of a chemical until half the group dies. Even though other countries abandoned this practice years ago in favor of alternati...

Business Communications and the Importance of Writing

for creation of the perfect document 2) Good writing is the project of rewriting 3) Bad writing leads to hostility and confu...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Overview of the Foster Grandparents Program

the facility of national service volunteerism. Foster Grandparents -- history, goals and funding Many older Americans are in a po...

For and Against School Choice and Vouchers

is about civil rights (Friel, 2004). One school district that just recently adopted school vouchers was the District of Columbia ...

Proposed Changes to the Existing Canadian Health Care System

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

Supporting Gay Marriage

family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...

Religion and Sociological Theory

merit. Indeed, religion is used to control the masses to some extent and people use religion for functional reasons. It helps them...

Prostitution Legalization

accounts, nearly doubled the crime rates. Prohibition does not work. The only thing that the continued criminalization of prostitu...

Women, Minority Women, and Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

weak are all gone)" (Darwin, 1968, pp. 116, 129; Christian, 2003). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to ...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and How It is Flawed

lives. If a knife is to someones throat, should he or she lie in order to save his or her life? Many people would say yes, but to ...

Increasing Government Inspections of Restaurants

This family is comprised mostly of aerobic, Gram-negative bacilli, many of which cause gastroenteritis in humans. Escherichia co...

Nigeria and Free Education at All Levels

areas, would the funding go further if it were entrenched in a project to feed, clothe and shelter the people? Money can only be s...

Literature Review on LEP

phonics are not the only answer to the problem of developing reading proficiency, particularly in regards to leaning a second lang...

Establishing a Legal Age for Drinking

Typically, the national laws that determine the age as which individuals in that society may legally drink and purchase alcohol te...

Defense of Laredo, Texas' Juvenile Detention Center

not enter the facility. Further, these individuals are children, after all, and what most thinking, caring adults want to do is t...

Second Trimester of Pregnancy and Abortion Rights

some point, the fetus has a face, but perhaps cannot survive on its own. The question becomes whether or not this fetus is a human...

Ex Convicts and Voting in New Jersey

police arrest and charge more black people with crime. It seems that white people get away with crime, or that false allegations a...

Old Testament and Deliverance of People by God

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

The Role of the Executive, Comparative Advantage and Terms of International Trade

export by reference to that which has the smallest absolute disadvantage and import that commodity where the absolute disadvantage...

Female Preference Shown in Policies of Sexual Harassment

This question of definition is addressed in the Harvard University procedure manual. In the manual, it is noted that defining sexu...

Teaching Reading

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

Church and State Separation Necessity in Canadian Education

of the public school system, discrepancies in standards, democratic rights and the need for financial efficiency, there should be ...

Africa and the Disciplines and the Need for African Research

anthropology and Moore states that "for at least the last two of these decades, the fieldwork done in Africa was central to the fo...

Iraq War Justification

In four pages this paper discusses President George W. Bush's justification of the war with Iraq in a consideration of the hypothe...

How to Live Creative Essay

and large, a combination of logic and illogic, it stands to follow that many decisions can and must be made without engaging in pr...

Intelligent Design and Scientific Evidence

This essay argues in favor of intelligent design by drawing heavily on Michael J. Behe's book "Darwin's Black Box." Three pages in...

Entry into Nursing, BSN

This research paper investigates the issue of whether or not a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) should the entry level require...

In Support of Gay Marriage

This essay uses scholarly articles to present an argument in favor of the legalization of same-sex marriage. The writer presents r...