Papers on Politics and Government
Brown Vs. Board Of Education
Words: 1387 - Pages: 6.... that there be separate facilities separated by at least 25 miles. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling and Braya College was segregated. Then in 1931, the issue of segregation was challenged by the Lemon Grove Incident in San Diego. In this case, which was used as a precedent for the Brown v. Board of Education case, the parents of Mexican children demanded that their children be given the same education as the local ranch owners' children. The judge favored for the Mexican children and ruled that school desegregation was illegal.
The 1936 Berlin Olympics marked a historical moment in history when Jesse Owens broke the racial boundari .....
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State Of The Union Address Essay
Words: 368 - Pages: 2.... he presented these ideas using more encompassing and urgent
language than before.
"We face no imminent threat, but we do have an enemy: The enemy of our
time is inaction," Clinton declared at the start of his speech. He finished, as
he did in last month's address, by invoking the symbolism that the nation is
about to pass into a new millennium. "We don't have a moment to waste," he said.
"Tomorrow, there will be just over 1,000 days until the year 2000. . . . One
thousand days to work together."
The speech proved shorter than predicted and far more organized and
disciplined than some of his previous appearances before Cong .....
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Arbitration Case: Discharge Of Peter Seichek
Words: 1766 - Pages: 7.... wearing his
protective clothing, waiting for a co-worker to return with needed parts, in
order to continue the job. With the welding hood on, they could not positively
determine that he was asleep, and six or seven calls to get his attention in the
noisy, factory atmosphere is not extreme.
In reference to having been caught sleeping before, Mr. Holloday, testified
that on August 16,1982, that he found Mr. Seichek asleep in the reception area
and on August 17, he was found asleep on a tool box near the time clock. In
both instances, Mr. Holloday awakened him, directed him to clock in and return
to work. Mr. Seichek complied with this dire .....
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Abuse Of The Innocent
Words: 790 - Pages: 3.... to research laboratories. A large number
of animals are raised for slaughter each year. A cow "has a natural life
span of twenty- five to thirty years, but only survives for an average of
five".1 An estimated "seventeen million raccoons, beavers, bobcats, lynx,
coyotes, muskrats, nutria, and other animals are trapped each year in the
United States for fur".2 They suffer from unbearable pain for several
hours before their lives are ended by the trapper's club. Is the price of
live worth the price of fur? Psalm 104, 27-30. All creatures depend on you
to feed them throughout the year: you provide the food they eat, with
generous hands you sa .....
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Gandhi
Words: 3049 - Pages: 12.... of finishing his degree from the Inner Temple. He was called to the bar in 1891, and even enrolled in the High Court of London, but later that year he left for India. After one year of a none too successful law practice, decided to accept an offer from an Indian businessman in South Africa, Dada Abdulla, to join him as a legal adviser. Unbeknown to him, this was to become an exceedingly lengthy stay, and altogether was to stay in South Africa for over twenty years. The Indians who had been living in South Africa were without political rights, and were generally known by the derogatory name of 'coolies'. himself came to an awareness .....
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Alcohol
Words: 996 - Pages: 4.... by an emotional
and often physical dependence on alcohol, and it frequently
leads to brain damage or early death. Some ten percent of the
adult drinkers in the United States are considered alcoholics
or at least they experience drinking problems to some degree.
More males than females are affected, but drinking among the
young and among women is increasing. Consumption of
alcohol is apparently on the rise in the United States,
countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
and many European nations. This is paralleled by growing
evidence of increa .....
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The Alien And Sedition Acts
Words: 1730 - Pages: 7.... enumerated. These unspecified powers were implied powers. To explain these powers, Hamilton said it would be natural - or implied - that the federal government would gain control over any territory gained through conquest of purchase, although the Constitution made no mention of territorial control. In essence, Hamilton wished to use the implied powers to build a strong and authoritative central government.
In 1789, the Minister to France Thomas Jefferson, to Francis Hopkinson of Pennsylvania, protesting that "I am not of the party of the federalists. But I am much farther from that of the anitfederalists." However, the situation was so se .....
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Massachusetts Juvenile Justice
Words: 3140 - Pages: 12.... Court of Massachusetts headed these demands for reform of the juvenile justice system and enacted legislation that, among other things, abolishes the trial de novo system in the juvenile courts, requires the trial of juveniles charged with murder, manslaughter, aggravated rape, forcible rape of a child, kidnaping, assault with intent to rob or murder and armed burglary in adult court and permits prosecutors to open to the public juvenile proceedings when they seek an adult sentence. Although proponents tout these measures as a sagacious solution for the vexatious problem of juvenile delinquency, abolishing the trial de novo system, provi .....
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Terrorist Bombs In The U.S.
Words: 2421 - Pages: 9.... attacks takes this form. According to a
recent Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) report,
bombings or attempted bombings increased from 2,098 in 1990 to
3,199 in 1994 (the latest year available), a 52% increase.
Property damage from bombings rose to $7.5 million, with 308
people injured and 31 killed. This does not take into account
the tragic Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Some ATF experts
believe that it is the ready availability of materials and easy
access to instructions and explosives information on the
internet that has been the reason for this increase of
bombings.
There are several theories in the c .....
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Animal Rights
Words: 1071 - Pages: 4.... and spray the cosmetics into their eyes to see if it causes them redness, stinging, or even blindness. They also have baboons strapped down with their heads in vices to do certain tests on them. Animals are also used by pharmaceutical companies to produce drugs and health supplements. They estimate that 17 to 22 million animals are used each year for medical research, and these estimates do not include rats, mice, fish, and farm animals. That means that 90% of all research animals are not included in the statistics. Too many animals are being tested and they do not even need to use the animals for these tests. They can use computer softwa .....
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