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Interest Groups
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1023.... when problems
become evident when they monitor programs. The traditional interest groups have
been 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 .....
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Talk Shows In Society
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 892.... on improvement of society and the quality of life. They focus on topics such as children, the workplace, everyday life and sometimes have interviews with respectable celebrities. You can catch shows with titles such as “Teaching Your Children Responsibly”, or “How to Manage Your Work Week”. These shows actually educate people and teach the child right from wrong. They also have shows exposing things such as child or spousal abuse and make people aware of these dangers. People even feel a special attachment to their favorite talk show hosts and talk about them as if they k .....
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Social Security: A Brief History
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1006.... Buck (D-CA) made a motion to change the name of the bill to the "Social Security Act of 1935." The motion was carried by a voice vote of the Committee. On August 14, 1935 President Roosevelt signed the bill into law at a ceremony in the White House Cabinet Room.
From 1937 until 1940, Social Security paid benefits in the form of a single, lump-sum payment. The purpose of these one-time payments was to provide some "payback" to those people who contributed to the program but would not participate long enough to be vested for monthly benefits. Under the 1935 law, monthly benefit .....
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Tobacco
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 337.... 1994 to combat a
flood of cheap smokes smuggled in from the U.S. A pack of 25 now sells for
around $2.50 in Ontario, down almost 44% from 1993. Now, a University of
Toronto survey found a third of Junior High School are puffing more.
Moreover the number of teens smoke occasionally jumped to 27.8% in 1994
from 22% in 1991.
Clinton's program includes Prohibition of sales to minors. Canada has
found such bans are useless because 59% of Ontario's smoking minors still
bought their smokes from a store. One of the bad things about prohibiting
tobacco advertising reduced ma .....
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Hidden Politics
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1484.... entities, these three qualities are inextricably intertwined. One of many instances depicting this occurred at the Dedalus' Christmas dinner, in an argument involving Dante Rioridan, Stephen's great-aunt, and Mr. Casey, a friend of the family.
---And can we not love our country then? asked Mr. Casey. Are we not to follow the man [Parnell] who was born to lead us?
---A traitor to his country! replied Dante…The priests were right to abandon him. The priests were always the true friends of Ireland. (201)
As seen, Mr. Ca .....
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Cuba
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 612.... . Not that the U.S. is opposed to unilateral actions, but opposed to free trade--not likely. There is a growing populace of businesses within the U.S. that are lobbying for trade with . They wish to explore for oil, utilize it's skilled workforce, and open hotels. Unfortunately, because of domestic issues, the present U.S. administration stands powerless to further change our policy in . As Presidents have increasingly linked foreign policy with trade on the bi-partisan level, we can expect to see a continuation of this trend. Second, Time. The Cold War is over and slowly the .....
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Capital Punishment: For
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 635.... of human life. It
must be secured as well, by threatening with the loss of their own life those
who violate what has been proclaimed as inviolable-the right of innocents to
live” (Haag, 67).
Other opponents argue that there is the chance of executing an innocent
prisoner. Hugo Adam Bedu and Michael L. Radelet collected evidence of every
capital punishment case after the 1930's. They concluded that 23 innocent
people, out of several thousand cases in the twentieth century, were convicted
and executed, but all of these mistakes were made because there was .....
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To Be Governed
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 192.... nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be
GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted,
registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed,
authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general
interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited,
monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the
slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined,
vilified, harassed, hunted .....
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