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Hardships That Children Face
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 929.... good things, but the same child can and will pick up the bad things. This is a huge injustice because the child is basically being programmed before he or she has the chance to make up his or her mind. Hate can become acceptable in many forms such as bigotry, racism, or sexism. By the words and actions of a parent the child can be abused, which will in turn lead to the second thing that a child does and that is grow. As the child learns from the parents he or she also matures into a likeness in someway of that parent. This begins a cycle that only creates more injustice an .....
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Should Adopted Children Be Allowed To Locate Their Biological Parents?
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 380.... for the better, but that is not always the reality. These people
gave up their birth rights many years ago and should not go back on that. They
have moved on with their lives and might not want to be reminded what could have
been. So many hurt feelings and feelings of guilt could come flying back and
then put more of a burden on both of your lives.
There is another factor to think about in this situation. How is your
family suppose to react to this and how are they supposed to feel? This is the
loving family that took you in as there own for all these years, are they
suppos .....
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Animal Ethics
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1807.... of the
being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally
with the like suffering...”. What this means is that the suffering of animals
is not justified. He also states how he thinks a major way to stop the
suffering of animals is to stop the experimenting on animals. He states”...the
widespread practice of experimenting on other species in order to see if certain
substances are safe for human beings, or to test some psychological theory
about the effect of severe punishment or learning...”. When he is talking
about the experiments and suffe .....
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The Increasing Prison Population
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 355.... also
created a huge and rapidly growing industry funded by American taxpayers.
The private sector is heavily involved in prison management, and prison
privatization is one of the country's hottest industries. Some companies
manage entire prisons, while others specialize in particular operations
such as health or food services. And manufacturers prosper when they
provide the many additional necessary items, from uniforms and bedding to
surveillance and monitoring equipment.
If current trends continue, the prison population will increase rapidly in
the next decade. Even witho .....
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Did Immigrants Have To Leave Behind Their Cultures?
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 608.... days may have left no time for the immigrants to focus on the family values that they had always know, yet they were in a new country now and they needed to learn to carry on traditions and cultures where they were the minority. On the other hand, these immigrants added their cultures to the American society; thus none were forced to give up their roots.
If immigrants were not ready to start a new life then they should never have come to America. If they left behind their cultures, it is nobody’s fault but their own. Vecoli gave an example of Italian immigrants that emigra .....
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Concerns Facing The United States In The 1990s: Crime, Education, And Employment
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 416.... less
math, science, and history than other industrialized nations. Illiteracy
rates are high, and more and more students are graduating from school even
if they have been absent more days than allowed. To improve this,
committees have been organized will develop voluntary national and state
standards for education and authorize grants to develop model programs to
improve learning.
Employment is an issue that every American must deal with. In
society today, women are forcing their way into the business world.
Although females' incomes are generally less than males, both i .....
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The Need For An Official Language
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 614.... also tend to hang around with
the same kind of people, those who speak Chinese. There is no communiaction
between them and the outside. Later on, different kinds of small groups will be
formed. Different gruops will have conflict since they don't share the same
culture, habit and language. The harmony of the whole society is going to break.
Development and growth of our society will slow down, and everyone have to
suffer from it. To avoid this, communication is needed to eliminate the conflict
and misunderstanding. This means we need to have a proper language that everyon .....
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Legislating Sexuality
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1068.... War and Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation, slavery was prohibited. Women gained the right to vote with the
ratification of the Constitution's nineteenth amendment on August 26, 1920(Cooke,
157). Although African Americans gained suffrage through the fifteenth amendment
in 1870 (Cooke, 151), it was not until the passing of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 that they were actually freed from discrimination by the government(Cooke,
150). Why is it then that in today's modern American society, an institution
that prides itself on being "the home of the free and the land of the br .....
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