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Cult Leaders And Their Abuse O
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 526.... of the Housing Authority and award receiver to gather extra followers to join the suicide. Here he had overstepped the line to abuse the power he was appointed by putting other people's lives at jeopardy. Being in his position, he was most likely aware that he had many supporters believing in him who would gladly follow his lead. It is at this point where he chose to abuse his power by taking advantage of the people who had the most respect and admiration for him. Charles Manson is an example of a cult leader who abused his power, however with intentions very unlike Jim Jones .....
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The Republican Party: Overall Issues, 1860-1868
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 587.... authority of Congress, of a territorial
legislature or of any individuals, to give existence to Slavery in any Territory
of the United States."
In the first four years of the 1860's, the North and South waged war
over these issues, with the Republican North emerging victorious. The
Republicans took charge of the national political power. Although he worked
with an anti-slavery platform, President Lincoln attempted to make a generous
peace with the South, with hopes of expanding the power of the Republican party
with support from the South. Examples of this can be .....
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Affirmative Action Is Wrong
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1117.... nature and would enable us as a
society to reach a point, at some future date, when they would no longer be
needed" (Shapiro). It is my opinion that we have now reached that date.
Continued use of the policy is much like continued use of a strong
medication. When a patient is suffering from a terrible disease, as was
the United States suffering from discrimination, strong medication is
sometimes needed to cure the problem. But once the disease is taken care
of, further use of the medication does not help the patient, but actually
weakens them.
Supporters of Affirmative .....
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Sobering Studies
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 578.... If everyone who drank at Penn State went to an alcohol counselor, the lines would dwarf those apparent for this year's Penn State-Michigan game. What students (as well as everyone else who drinks) need to realize is that drinking is not a solution to any kind of problem. Alcohol, like caffeine, nicotine and heroin, is a drug. Beverage companies can paint them any color they want, but nothing is going to take away that fact. Like any drug, alcohol is potentially addictive. The best test is to figure out whether you use the drug, or the drug is using you. As the summer is .....
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Inside The IRA
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1189.... in Ireland. This tradition generally only found effective expression when after a period of non-armed agitation, large sections of the Irish people, faced with the British governments denial of the legitimate demand for the Irish independence, exercised the right to use armed struggle…..
Armed struggle and uprisings against British rule took place in 1798, 1803, 1848, and 1867, but because of the Great Hunger, which saw a million people stave and a million more emigrate, only sporadic and weak resistance occurred. Organized resistance and the IRA did not become notab .....
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Euthanasia
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1007.... the person who caused the death a defense to criminal responsibility. Is there a difference, do you think, between a person who, at a dying person's request, prepares a poison and leaves it on the bedside for that person to take, and a person who helps the patient to drink it or who administers it directly at the request of a dying person who is unable to take it personally? Is there, in short, a real distinction between killing and letting die? Well, this is the difference between passive and active , and if you believe in , you must decide which one is correct or even a .....
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Communism In The Soviet Union And Why It Failed
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1531.... occurs and
that the effects of industrialization is to heighten and intensify the internal
contradictions in capitalism." To put it bluntly they believed that the
ownership of industry would be in fewer and fewer hands where the workers would
plunge into a state of ever-increasing misery. These impoverished workers grow
in numbers and organize themselves into a political party which would lead a
revolution in which they dispose of the capitalists. The proletariat would
establish a society governed by a " dictatorship of the proletariat" based on
communal ownersh .....
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Constitutional Democracy
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1883.... popular consent. Popular
consent means that government must obtain consent for its actions from the
people it governs. It is similar to majority rule, a political process, in that
the most popular acts or ideas of the people will be adopted by our government.
There must be an allowance or willingness on behalf of the unpopular group to
lose.
Popular consent may provide a means for judging parental consent laws
for minors seeking abortion. Since minors are not legally allowed to be
competent to engage in sex, to enter into contracts, or to form sufficient
"informed consent" t .....
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