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Public Places and Reasons to Prohibit Smoking

heart attack, according to a landmark study of more than 32,000 women" (Environmental tobacco smoke, 2005). This study found a "h...

Teenage Cell Phone Banning in the Name of Road Safety

A University of Utah study earlier this year illustrated this fact by showing how drivers between the ages of eighteen and twenty-...

Weapons Improvements

S. Truman ordered that a uranium-gun designed bomb nicknamed Little Boy be used against the city of Hiroshima, Japan. That attack...

Technological Differences Between Vietnam War and the Gulf War

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

College Campus Weapons Cannot be Justified

not only too immature to handle the responsibilities that would be necessitated with the presence of these "tools" in this environ...

Banned in East German

GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...

Sun Also Rises/A Banned Book

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

Punishment and Crime

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Gun Control in Kansas

engage in crime far more often without fearing for their lives from the victims. This is emphasized even more when one understands...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

The Dangers of Using a Cell Phone while Driving

driving, 2006). "Inattentive driving accounted for 6.4 percent of crash fatalities in 2003 - the latest data available - according...

Frans Hals and Rembrandt

(His own work 96). This produces a velvety-look to the players tunic, yet the instrument distinctly has the high gloss of polished...

EU and British Cattle Products

course of preventing panic (and a potential market collapse of commodities) was to ban British beef from the EU. One main ...

Modern Warfare and WMD Justification

was not going to tolerate anything like this battle again, finding itself compelled to drill this fact home to the Japanese. "If ...

Civil War Weapons and Military Strategy

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

Nuclear Weapons and Their Benefits

to support nuclear weapons a responsible one. One of the chief arguments against nuclear weaponry is that it is morally r...

George W. Bush's Inability to Find WMDs and Portrayal by the Media

certain degree of sympathy with Iraq and its leaders, regardless of how barbarian those leaders have proven themselves time and ti...

Amend the Constitution to Ban Gay Marriage

It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...

Book Banning

in the Odyssey, though on a modern scale. Additionally, Molly is patterned after the strong and determined character of Penelope, ...

National Missile Defense Laser Options

or not, but in any event, it is certainly possible to objectively evaluate the four particular types of weapons to see which is mo...

WMD, North Korea, the United States and United Kingdom

other hand, represents the request that protesters bring along with them whatever destructive devises they deemed worthy of such a...

Transmission of AIDS and Criminalization

have known better, might have caused the death of another. A punch may have landed the wrong way. Still, a manslaughter charge may...

Late Pregnancy Abortion

placed in jeopardy by the pregnancy, (by a fetus that is incompatible with life), is the only reason that that pregnancy can be te...

Global Peace and Dr. Albert Schweitzer

hippos in the river that Schweitzer came up with the phrase "reverence for life," which he later asserted was his only message for...

High School Libraries and Book Banning

their buildings. They fear that students will imitate some of the things in the book. At least, whenever a violent incident happen...

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

An Examination of William Golding's Lord of the Flies

When they are first stranded on the island, Ralph becomes in charge as they all work together to make shelter and gather the...

Justifying Banning Books for Children That Feature Homosexual Parents

examples of banned books concerning homosexuality can be found in Michael Willhoites "Daddys Roommate", Leslea Newmans "Gloria Goe...