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Globalization and Its Effects on the American Economy

out to be international "bad boys" seeking out poor, uneducated people to exploit beyond all belief. Rather, they seek to minimiz...

Smoking in Public Places

health risks. Children: The risk to children comes largely from secondhand smoke, derived from the tobacco products their parents...

Huck Finn is Not a Racist Book

and wrong the past was, as he also introduces what were still subversive ideas concerning race. For example, take the way that Chr...

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...

Democracy and Public Administration

in fact, last summer when the governor of New Jersey appointed a "friend" to the position of state homeland security. The "friend"...

Tobacco Industry

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

Censorship

in 2005, according to the American Library Association (ALA) (Manzo 26). The ALA defines a "challenge" as "any formal, written com...

Failing Grade Issued to Cell Phones

in with their children before and after school. In a society where we know it is important to know where our children are, and to ...

In Favor of Zero Tolerance Drug Policy in High School

in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...

Annotated Bibliography in the field of Education

calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...

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...

Book Banning

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

Public Places and the Hazards of Smoking

include at least forty different proven carcinogens (in humans and other animals) and more than 200 poisons, such as aromatic hydr...

4 Concerns Regarding Education and Law

In eight pages this paper considers 4 legal and educational issues and includes an evaluation of school prayer, teacher and studen...

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...

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...

Massachusetts' Inhumane Racing of Greyhounds

being reported" (Howard PG). Massachusetts has a particularly poor track record for such cases. In what is being called the "wor...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

Single Sex Schools Should Not be Banned

the educators and the parents and the students decide, and leave the lawyers and judges out of it" (Hurd). However, its not that...

Relationship between Censoring Science and Public Policy

that the majority of American parents indicated that they wished their children to be exposed to creationism in school. The proble...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

White and Black Culture in Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's book Beloved exposes the way in which white culture dictates black identity....

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

Why Smoking in Public Should be Banned

goes into the air will harm them. Some take it so far as to want to ban cigarette smoking in outdoor parks for example, but usuall...

U.S. Public Places and a Smoking Ban

So great is the health dangers ETS represents, the United States Environmental Protection Agency classifies ETS as "a group A carc...

The Paradox of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper argues that Upton Sinclair's purpose in writing The Jungle was to argue on behalf of the benefits of socialism, ...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

2 Law Articles Addressing the Issue of Polygamy, Summaries

prohibitions against polygamy and bigamy. For example, in the Supreme Court case of Reynolds v. U.S. 1878, the Court held while a ...

Lance Armstrong and the notion 'Its Not About the Bike'

on Armstrongs body but the real heroics are attributable to the man and to the body itself! Armstrong was diagnosed with te...

Reviews of Articles on School Finance

That "bending" occurred in Virginia, where the Department of Education gave permission to four districts "Virginia to effectively ...