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Grand Illusion of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program

which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...

No TV in Court

United States seeing that might think they were watching a scripted drama rather than an actual court case. The media have been r...

Cigarette Smoking Should be Banned in the United States

even in parks or other outdoor areas. Above all, the FDA outlaws any dangerous medication that finds itself on the market and also...

USE OF FORCE AND PERSONAL SECURITY

(Colleges Confront Shootings with Survival Training, 2008). Most public safety experts suggest that weapons not be used to...

Argumentative Essay Opposing the Iraq War

trillion.6 The severe economic effects of this war in terms of costs that include war zone operations, troop deployment, equipmen...

Banning Smoking in Restaurants

dangers of second hand smoke would not exist in such a case. However, "Even the most sophisticated ventilation systems cannot comp...

Shorris’ On the Uses of Liberal Education

that could help many people rise up out of poverty. Shorris indicates how one woman, a woman in prison who had grown up and live...

The Recording Ban and Other Issues in Music History

advances in technology, new concerns arise. Again, the concept of downloading music has been discussed. But the issues that face t...

Nuclear Weapons: Problems and Solutions

as we do today-usually to describe the attackers of 9/11-but in the sense that nations that have nuclear weapons have the potentia...

Argument: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

McDonald's And Obesity

the company with violating the Consumer Protection Act when their ads focused on the toys that came with the Happy Meal (Burke 200...

President Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative

initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Studies, 2007). One must perhaps also look at the fact that the United States has been at war in Iraq for several years now and th...

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...

Military Technology and New Personal Defense Weaponry

of the M16s with the M4 which is a newer carbine (Cox, 2007). "The Army started buying M4s in the mid-1990s but mainly reserved th...

Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix

begin to see that different stakeholders involved had different concerns. The owners were divided. They realized that money would ...

Parents should be banned from their children's sport activities

feel their children are being treated unfairly, and this is the situation that sparked the fight in Boston. How should such incide...

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...

The North Korean Crisis

ability to add to these resources, the Yonbyon facility in North Korea was estimated at having sufficient resources and capacity t...

Weapons in WWII

submachine gun, with the common one being the MP40 for German soldiers (Heitmann et al.). With further development they finally "G...

The Restaurant Industry and the Trans Fat Ban in New York City

to caffeine, sugar, salt, alcohol, whole milk and any other ingredients these lunatics want to attack" (Jones and Hellmich). Tha...

Banned Product Dumping in Foreign Countries and Ethics

People have to abide by an ethical code to ensure proper behavior among the worlds business population. Yet, again, who is to det...

Forbidden, China, and Coca Cola

to do, especially considering the tension between Taiwan and the PRC (BBC.com, 2000). In other words, this seemed to be a case of ...

Was the Cold War Caused by Nuclear Weapons?

A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...

Police and the Pros and Cons of OC Paper Spray and Tasers

its trigger is pulled, compressed nitrogen shoots metallic probes from approximately 15 to 25 feet at a speed of about 160 feet pe...

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 ...

The Life and Influence of Ban Zhao

a book of precepts to guide the behavior of women" (Condravy). The book had an enormous "impact on the life of women from late-Min...

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...

Weapon Technology Advances and American Popular Culture 1920 through 1960

to make advances toward the enemy, and the advent of the machine gun in WW I replaced warfare which was fought as cavalry. The o...

Iraq War and Weapons of Mass Destruction

his underwear, is humiliation enough. Of course, the primary controversy is not how the war plays out on television, but the idea...