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House of Representatives and Proportionality

other house. Thus it is of a complicated nature; and this complication, I trust, will be found to exclude the evils of absolute co...

Jefferson's Relationship with Sally Hemmings

times of conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or...

Common Agricultural Policy and its Significance

commitment to guaranteed prices it is economically worthwhile to take all the land and utilize it; with chemicals and other aids, ...

Zimbabwe as a Good Choice for the Australian Cricket Team

players also feel uncomfortable playing in a country where the people are so unhappy, but these other players decided to go along ...

A John and Joan Case Ethical Analysis

into a girl had been followed by intensive social, hormonal and mental conditioning (54). This was the first case of sex reassig...

2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the Electoral College

are serious questions in a very serious political situation - we are talking about the President of the United States, still refer...

Conventional Theology and The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...

Voting and Legal Immigrants

as recently as the 1920s" (Worth, 2004). And, interestingly enough, until the city of New York abolished its school boards, "all r...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Roles of Tobacco Scientists

In his book, Question of Intent (which basically blows the lid sky-high off the shenanigans in the tobacco industry), author David...

Stem Cell Research and Cloning Issues

puts it as three to five times more significant than pain felt at a later stage of development (Strickler). From twenty weeks on, ...

The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...

Teaching Reading

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

Pyramide du Louvre by I.M. Pei

controversial as the actual building. (An adjective often preceding his name is "iconic.") For one thing, the idea that an America...

Non Smoking Workplace Law in New York

believes the law has already affected his business. "I had many customers who liked to smoke," said Georgikopoulos. "Now, many o...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Mystery Sonata in G Minor by Bach

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

Reproductive Technology and Identity

to be inferior (Chesterton, 1922). The idea behind this premise was to protect the American "identity" which in many ways was stil...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Five Articles In Critical Summary

Five articles on attacks by dogs in the literature are the subject of this critical summary, which examines their portrayal of the...

Opposing the Use of School Vouchers

In five pages this paper examines the school voucher controversy and opposes it based upon court cases and research findings. Sev...

Leibniz and Newton

This paper consists of seven pages and examines how calculus was founded by the ideas formulated by Newton and Leibniz in a consid...

Pros and Cons of Children's Low Sodium Diets

In eight pages this paper examines low sodium diet implementation for children in a consideration of its pros, cons, and controver...

Union at Risk by Richard E. Ellis

In five pages this paper examines Andrew Jackson's controversial controversies as covered by Richard E. Ellis in Union at Risk. T...

Satanic Verses/Salman Rushdie

This research paper addresses Salman Rushdie's most famous novel and the controversy that is associated with its publication. The ...

Overview of Galileo's Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

In four pages an overview of this work is presented in a discussion of various concepts contained within and the controversies tha...

Are Ratings for Movies Censorship or Can They Be Socially Justified?

"The system, whatever its details, is at heart a spin-doctoring plot against rising unhappiness about violent and smutty prime-tim...