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Privacy Essay
Words: 615 - Pages: 3.... Those days are over now that New Jersey passed Megan's law and many other states passed similar laws. Since Megan's law was put into effect child molestation in New Jersey has declined over forty percent ("Megan's" 46). Laws similar to Megan's Law that apply to murders and drug dealers need to be passed.
Drug use unlike child molestation is going rapidly up. People are starting to take their drug addiction to dangerous such as their jobs. With some jobs such as a train engineer, auto mechanic, airplane pilot, bus driver and military personnel drug use on the job will most often prove deadly to innocent bystanders and the drug user as w .....
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Behind The Scenes
Words: 1891 - Pages: 7.... continue to debate what the nation’s founders meant to include when they wrote that there shall be “no law” abridging the freedom of speech or press. Today the U. S. Supreme Court blindly inches its way across the tightrope of censorship. Laws prohibiting obscenity and indecency have been successfully incorporated and public sentiment has historically served to curtail the over-zealous journalist. However the moral fiber of society has degenerated from its once prim and proper past, and the press now vulgarly oversteps the boundaries of decency with little retribution. In the words of Chief Justice Warren Burger, “ .....
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College
Words: 2393 - Pages: 9.... and twenty-second century. The injustice of social promotion should be ended and society must discover the best route to achieve genuine student success.
"Students who are socially promoted have no skills for life. The number of social promotions each year nears two million" (American Federation Teachers, afta.com). Social Promotion shows children that no matter what grade they achieve they will be promoted. This creates two problems. Students will not work to achieve; laziness is created in children. Second, the students who work hard and learn the material are often overlooked so that a teacher may help a student who is behind becau .....
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The Oppression Of Females In A
Words: 481 - Pages: 2.... here as examples, the portrayal of women can be broken down into several categories. First is the idea of beauty. The bulk of each ad is devoted to the beautification of women's hair, face, and body. Women are bombarded with airbrushed, perfectly lit, constantly happy pictures of gorgeous models that portray every ideal of our society. The main themes are the following: makeup, perfume, breasts and cleavage, and lots of skin. First makeup. Women are not expected to be presentable without the help of the latest chemical technique to remove blemishes, darken eyes, lengthen lashes, coat the lips, and remove shine. Next is the depiction o .....
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Scholars
Words: 300 - Pages: 2.... applicant for
the R.C. Easley National Scholarship. I have displayed excellence in the
classroom, in extra-curricular activities, and I believe with the education I
receive I will benefit society greatly.
Throughout my high school career I have prided myself on a difficult
class load and consistently good grades. While at Horicon High School I feel I
have challenged myself more than any other student. Instead of taking the usual
study hall I have elected to fill that time with another class. I will graduate
this summer with a total of 31.25 credits; more than any of my classmates. I
have maintained a GPA of 3.938 during school .....
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Berkeley
Words: 2565 - Pages: 10.... school of thought developed
quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of
sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible
things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the
materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did
not exist is George Berkeley. In truth, it is the immaterialist position that
seems the most logical when placed under close scrutiny.
The initial groundwork for Berkeley's position is the truism that the
materialist is a skeptic. In the writing of his three dialogues, Berkeley
develops two characters: Hylas .....
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Whale
Words: 1050 - Pages: 4.... waters. Some species, such as the white , or beluga, may travel upstream in large rivers. Some species migrate with the seasons; others remain year-round in the same habitats, where they find their preferred food.
The present-day distribution and abundance of some species has been greatly influenced by the commercial whaling industry. rs eliminated or greatly reduced the numbers of some species of baleen s in certain oceanic regions where s once frolicked in abundance. This is particularly true in parts of the Arctic Ocean and the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, where the blue was almost completely exterminated in the early 1900s. Some sp .....
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Psychology Comparison
Words: 2069 - Pages: 8.... York Times. Written by Amy Harmon, the report is titled ÒResearchers Find Sad Lonely World in Cyberspace.Ó The article goes on to explain that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University completed a study (later identified as the ÒHomenetÓ study) that examines the social and psychological effects of Internet use in the home. What they found, the report states, is that the initial depression and loneliness of the participants in the study did not increase use on the Internet. However, citing the researchers, the article states; ÒInternet use itself appeared to cause a decline in psychological well-being.Ó
After stating this theoretica .....
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Persuasion 2
Words: 1412 - Pages: 6.... while people who are less analytical and less involved are more likely to be influenced by the peripheral route. In advertising a combination of the two is common and effective. Computer ads rely primarily on the central route, because their target audiences are perceived as highly analytical. Promotion for alcohol and tobacco products employ the peripheral route because they wish to draw attention away from the possible negative effects that they are, in reality, associated with. To truly understand the effects of persuasion it is necessary to break the act down to its smaller components. The for elements of persuasion are 1.) The comm .....
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The Possible Future Of Mankind
Words: 523 - Pages: 2.... One day someone gets tired of
running after his lunch, and decides to have some fruit, drops the seeds on
the ground, comes back next year, and look and behold, a small fruit tree
has appeared. He then tries it with other seeds, and gets similar results.
Agriculture is born.
3. Agriculture
Now, people are really getting smart and organized. They live in
towns and cities. The overall quality of life increases and the time frame
is growing shorter, history-wise. New forms of technology are developed to
aid in crop yield, and this sparks the next stage... Industry.
4. Industrial
Welcome to the industrial revolution! The .....
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