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Hcokey Night In Canada
Number of Words: 302 / Number of Pages: 2
... teams, before we lose everything to the United States. Also a salary cap should be imposed, I think the maximum a team should pay for a hockey player is 4 million a year (currently the highest is 8 million a year). One last thing, cut down on the number of teams! Hockey will get more and more boring if you keep on adding teams to places that get less than 13’000 people a game, that should lower the number of teams to about 15, which would be enjoyable and keep hockey at a very challenging level.
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Bill Clinton's Election Will Brighten America's Future
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... interests of logging and
automobiles? Another issue Clinton will have more success in solving is
racial conflicts. As evidenced by the Los Angeles riots, racial tensions
run high in this country. Many African-Americans and Hispanics are
resentful of the white power structure, and are almost at the point of
doing something drastic to gain control. The Republican administrations
have basically ignored these problems of the inner-city, hoping that they
would just be erased by prosperity. These problems are not going to go
away, and Bill Clinton is willing to adjust current policy so it favors all
Am ...
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Anorexia And Bulima
Number of Words: 1562 / Number of Pages: 6
... these feelings, tending instead to be childish in their
thinking, in their need for parental approval, and in their lack of independence.
Psychologists theorize that the patient's desire to control her own life manifests itself in
the realm of eating--the only area, in the patient's mind, where she has the ability to
direct her own life.
In striving for perfection and approval, a person with anorexia may begin to diet in
order to lose just a few pounds. Dieting does not stop there, however, and an abnormal
concern with dieting is established. Nobody knows what triggers the disease process, but ...
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The Edutained American
Number of Words: 2917 / Number of Pages: 11
... us to, from the clothes we buy, to the music we listen to, the films we see, books we read, politicians we vote for, religions we believe in. Our thoughts are not our own. What does this mean to the world in which we live? How does this effect our leaders, our schools and our families? And in a society so permeated with media, how do we regain ourselves? Part One: What are our influences? For many of us who attend college now, the media has been around us since birth. The television was a effective babysitter, and we grew up accustomed to the quick, joke-a-minute style of cartoons and situation comedie ...
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Pathogens
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... Methods Cultural characteristics Health Effects Routes of Transmission Occurrence in Water Sources Sources of Exposure and Susceptibility to removal or inactivation by conventional water treatment processes. Each of these parts is used in today’s world to identify and destroy existing, and new . What happens if someone ingests a pathogen before it is identified? Well that is one reason that the Department of the Environment is so concerned. Due to current environmental status new are appearing semi-daily, and consequently overwhelming those who are working to stop them. One major example of this is ...
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Gen X
Number of Words: 1130 / Number of Pages: 5
... that is at least a ten-year age difference between the two groups. There is an ever growing generation gap between candidates and youthful voters. In the case of the 1996 Presidential election, Bob Dole was in his seventies, my grandfather is not even seventy. Bob Dole and many other candidates in recent and past years have had trouble relating to Generation X and vice versa. Another reason why Xers are turning away from the government is lack of political education. The last of the Generation Xers will be entering college in the 2000-2001 school year, to most of us college is much more importan ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 4386 / Number of Pages: 16
... of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determined at that ve ...
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The Theories Of Hobbes And Locke
Number of Words: 980 / Number of Pages: 4
... and mutually transfer our rights to another person or group in an attempt to get out of that miserable state of war. Hobbes also contends that if there is not a power to keep people in awe, they will continually be in war against each other. In other words, there is no security without a system such as our own, with consequences for actions that infringe on the rights of others. The crucial part of this system is thus enforcement of policy. Hobbes explains this as, "And covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all." This makes sense that, without something for ...
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Hitler's Weltanschauung (World View)
Number of Words: 1480 / Number of Pages: 6
... "The day will come, that all of us, of German descent, will once more belong to one mighty Teutonic nation that will stretch from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, just like the Empire of the Middle Ages, and that will stand supreme among the peoples of this earth." Already the young Adolf could envision himself in such a position.
Much of the ideology that Adolf Hitler used was not original by any means. There were many thinkers and writers who laid the groundwork for what would become not just Hitler's, but the Nazi Party's Weltanschauung (world view). Three primary writers were Dietrich Eckart, ...
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Importance Of Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... capital punishment who are against it feel that the death penalty is not a deterrent and that it is barbariaertic of the past. It has no place in a civilized society today. One of the biggest arguments against capital punishment is people feel that it violates the eighth amendment which forbids cruel and unusual punishment. People against Capital Punishment believe the death penalty is absurd and is in un-christian practice. Further more, they feel society should not" encourage sentiments of vengenance cater to morbid interest in ritual execution." Criminologists also built a strong case that ...
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