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Indian Persecutions
Number of Words: 321 / Number of Pages: 2
... Another sensitive issue is about Fishing rights. Indians have always fished for a living (pour vivre) and thus they have been granted special tribal fishing rights. These rights are now challenged by environmental groups. A movie to illustrate the story of Indians : « Little Big Man », starring Dustin Hoffman is a 1971 Hollywood movie which broke all stereotypes people had about Indians : westerns : cow boys, indians.... Indians have often been treated unequally and many protests were held during the 1960s and 1970s. The most surprising protest was certainly the Indian occupation of the Bureau of Indi ...
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The United States Government
Number of Words: 3856 / Number of Pages: 15
... Wright, Lindsey and Jennings. In the 1982 elections, Mr. Clinton went after the position of governor with renewed vigor and defeated incumbent Republican Frank White. During the campaigning for the election a Time magazine article stated: “If Clinton does win, it could seem like less a comeback than a canny mid-course correction in the path of a young, bright political star.”
Clinton went on to win the next two gubernatorial elections in the state of Arkansas. In 1988 he had the possibility of a Democratic Party presidential nomination, but he refused to run. Finally, in 1991, Clinton announced that ...
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Government Should Establish Program To Reduce Juvenile Crime
Number of Words: 1391 / Number of Pages: 6
... plan is that many
states are attempting to incarcerate juveniles along with adults. Putting
juvenile offenders in with adults increases their chances offending again when
they are released by 65%. Subpoint 2: SHOCAP, a local crime reduction plan,
was shut down because it was ineffective. Subpoint B: Local plans are too
diverse and lack uniformity. Subpoint 1: A plan that can lift up the entire
country are far superior to those that can only effect small parts.. Iowa may
indeed have smaller problems than New York but Juvenile crime exists everywhere.
Subpoint 2:In the hands of the federal go ...
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The Watergate Scandal
Number of Words: 1494 / Number of Pages: 6
... employees had broken into the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters six times between August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During
their sixth break-in on June 17, they were caught. (Secret Agenda) At
approximately 2:30 in the morning on this date, they were caught by police
in the Watergate Hotel. Police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of
unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pen-sized tear gas
guns, and bugging devices. (Gold 75). The burglars and two of their
accomplices, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were indicted in September
of 1972. They were charged wit ...
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Our Town
Number of Words: 3678 / Number of Pages: 14
... distinct mental
disorder. In fact, Dr. Lenore Walker, the architect of the classical
battered women's syndrome theory, notes the syndrome is not an
illness, but a theory that draws upon the principles of learned
helplessness to explain why some women are unable to leave their
abusers. Therefore, the classical battered women's syndrome theory is
best regarded as an offshoot of the theory of learned helplessness and
not a mental illness that afflicts abused women. The theory of learned
helplessness sought to account for the passive behavior subjects
exhibited when placed in an unc ...
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Censorship: Gradual Loss Of Freedoms Promised In The Constitution
Number of Words: 269 / Number of Pages: 1
... to
complete police state takeover. We are being treated like recalcitrant teenagers
by those that think they know what is best for us, regardless of our feelings.
Generally, it is later discovered that the proponents of these kinds of
controlling maneuvers had something personal to gain. Be it power, control,
money, sex or property. Those that wrote this bill, pushed for it, bargained
away our rights in order to trade favors for something of their own, should be
scrutinized closely, in every aspect of their own lives.
If we continue to demonstrate, to march, to speak out, to make our voices
and ...
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The Prime Minister Of Great Britain
Number of Words: 1882 / Number of Pages: 7
... so far as
he can be ascertained, participation of a monarch is a pure formality. Anyone
suggested for this highest political office obviously has to be a very smart and
willing individual, in fact it has been suggested that he be an "uncommon man of
common opinions"(Douglas V. Verney). Not all Prime Ministers fitted this bill
exactly, but every on of them had to pass one important test: day-to-day
scrutiny of their motives and behavior by fellow members of Parliament
before they were ultimately elected to the leadership of their party. Unlike
Presidents of the United States all Prime Ministers h ...
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Interest Groups
Number of Words: 1023 / Number of Pages: 4
... organized around some form of economic cause, be it corporate interests,
associates, or unions. The number of business oriented lobbies has grown since
the 1960s and continues to grow. Public-interest groups have also grown
enormously since the 1960s. Liberal groups started the trend, but conservative
groups are now just as common, although some groups are better represented
through interest groups than others are. There are many ways that the groups
can influence politics too. The increase in interest group activity has
fragmented the political debate into little pockets of debates and have se ...
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The Wonderful War On Drugs
Number of Words: 1089 / Number of Pages: 4
... Looking at this information you begin to realize that, not only does this “war” affect every person in the U.S., but it is also a war with no winners. War is never pretty, and the war on drugs is no exception. For this “war” to work it must stop drugs in at least one of three areas. Either by stopping drugs at the border, stopping drug dealers at home, or preventing drug use within the country. Military and law enforcement has failed to accomplish any of these, and it is not because of limited funds. “Last year state and federal governments spent $30 billion plus on the battle against drugs”(Anony71). ...
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Misunderstanding Life
Number of Words: 2169 / Number of Pages: 8
... not do (be a angel). Even though this was the meanest teacher that was in the school and we disagreed on many things, I felt that he sensed that I respected him. In the middle of the school year I was often catching myself doing things that I wasn't supposed to, just to test my boundaries. The process of my intellectual life changing came about because of a thing that I did to a girl. One day a girl and I were walking back to class after gym, the gym was in the basement and our class was on the fourth floor. I think just because she was a girl and I had a reputation of being bad, I had to do somethi ...
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