Propaganda And Its Uses By Countries, Especially During War
.... voted against
raising the price of oil, Iraq was unable to receive any revenue. It was
because of this that Iraq invaded Kuwait. The United States claimed that Iraq
was the aggressor. In the American media, Iraqi tanks were shown to enter a
defenseless Kuwait amidst destroyed buildings. The American public was
convinced that their troops were only there to protect and that Iraq was
harassing Kuwait. Iraq quickly retaliated with their own propaganda.
Hussein showed footage of the damage that the US .....
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Proposition 187: Don't Mess With Texas
.... immigrants avoid paying this tax. Texas does not
have such a tax, so health care is funded by the taxes that everyone in the
state pays. That means that illegal aliens are paying just as much as "real
Americans" are in sales taxes, gas taxes, liquor taxes, and cigarette taxes. For
example, illegal aliens in San Diego, California accounted for 26.6 million
dollars in health care costs in 1994 (Serb 63). Not a single person would deny
that this is a lot of money, and therefore would seem to be an excelle .....
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Pros And Cons Of Judicial Review
.... chose to do such an important job.
If we were to look back at the ideas and thoughts of some of the
greatest political thinkers of our time, we would find that individuals such as
Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli, and John Locke, would share extremely different
views as to whether or not Judicial review, and the Supreme Court as a whole,
would be successful in their ideal government situations.
One of the earliest political philosophers Plato, would find our
present day governmental setup of the Supreme Cou .....
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Vote No For Quebec To Be Separate From Canada
.... Some of
these problems are unemployment and jobs. The residents of Quebec will no
longer be able to work in Canada just as Canadians will no longer be allowed to
work in Quebec. This will cause a rise in unemployment because many people
will be forced to quit thier jobs. The border between Canada and Quebec will
impose even more obstacels. Travel will become stessfull because passports
will be needed and duty taxes will be imposed. International trade will also be
a problem since Canada and Quebe .....
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Reforms Are Need In Canada's Government
.... Accord," was the opportunity for Canadians
to make a difference; to change the way the government ran, giving less power to
the politicians and more to the people. This was the issue of Senate Reform.
Why is Senate Reform such an important issue? An argument could be made that a
political body, which has survived over one hundred years in Canada, must
obviously work, or it would have already been reformed. This is simply not true,
and this becomes apparent when analyzing the current Canadian S .....
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The Government Should Make Use Of Revenue Sharing
.... amount of federal money than other states with similar
populations due to the differences in state bureaucracies. The state which has
an effective grant-writing bureaucracy and maintains relations with federal
bureaucrats and leaders is often able to get more money.
Federal bureaucracies are often very regionalized. They are staffed by people
from a certain region, and they primarily deal with people from that region.
They give more federal assistance to these regions too. The overall trend in
federa .....
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The Reagan Tax Cuts And Foreign Policy
.... This policy would impose a 25%
across-the-board cut in personal marginal tax rates. In the act of decreasing
marginal tax rates, and stimulating economic incentives, ERTA would increase the
flow of resources into production, thus lifting economic growth. This policy
received much criticism because its opponents argued that ERTA would be a
giveaway to the rich, because their tax payments would collapse. Reagan worked
hard and skillfully with the congress to obtain legislation to stimulate
economic growth .....
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The Social Security Crisis
.... belief is that Social Security is a saving fund where the
government takes a certain percentage out of our weekly pay. Then that money is
put into a savings fund where it is held until you retire. When they retire
money is returned to them in monthly checks plus the interest. This is where
they are wrong. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system where the current
workforce pays for the present retirees, and then when they retire they will
depend on the workforce and so on and so on. Which is fin .....
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Social Security In The Future? Maybe Not
.... alarm clock. It was only a dream its
April 1996 and I'm 18. The article about the Social Security in the paper had
me thinking and I must have a bad dream.
The Presidential election will be coming up this November ‘96 and the
question that many of Americans have on their mind is what are you going to
about the Social Security crisis? This question has our nation divided between
generations. The elder people of our nation (ages 50 and up) feel confident that
Social Security will be there for the .....
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California's Proposition 184: Three Strikes And You're Out
.... politicians backed the
initiative. Although many civil liberties groups opposed such mandatory
sentencing measures there was little they could in the face of tremendous voter
approval. Many voters did not realize that this bill could put potentially
incarcerate people for ludicrous amounts after the commission of a minor
offense. Even more voters did not realize the cost of implementing such a bill.
Now that this new legislation has been in effect for a year and the
tremendous negative effects it have .....
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Politicking Goes High-Tech
.... to make himself or herself appeal to the interests of the people
or sometimes to counteract the bad things the opponent has to say. This fight
between the television ads is often referred to as Spot Wars.
While the Spot Wars help out the candidates (or harm the opponents with
derogatory remarks), they can cost an enormous amount of money; and after being
played on television the opponent will return the attack with one of his or her
ads—then, the candidate will have to go back to work all over again crea .....
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
.... law including: freedom of speech and press,
separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, due process of law,
equal protection, and privacy.(Walker 3) The Encyclopedia of the Constitution
defines civil liberties as "those rights that an individual citizens may assert
against the government." In a formal sense, the ACLU is a private voluntary
organization dedicated to defending the Bill of Rights. Officially established
in 1920, the
ACLU now claims over 270,000 members. With offices in most of .....
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The Balance Of Power Theory
.... that all states act to
preserve thier own self interest. If they are to do this they must prevent
domination by any other state, which leads to the assumption that they must
build up power and form alliances. Throughout history we can see the B.O.P.
concept in action. The clearest example of the B.O.P. concept can be found in
the Cold War. In the Cold War the two superpowers the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
held a stable world balance between them. Both states sought to deter
domination by the other t .....
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The Brady Bill
.... in the
assassination attempt on the president in 1981. This bill was about a waiting
period on handgun purchases allowing police to check the backgrounds of the
prospective buyers to make sure that guns are not sold to convicted felons or to
those who are mentally unstable. Even the proponents of the bill agreed that
the effect of the bill on curbing the gun violence might be minimal considering
the fact that the majority of guns used for criminal purposes were purchased
through illegal dealers. Howev .....
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The Bush Administration's Relation With Iraq Prior To Iraq's Invasion Of Kuwait: Credibility And Misperception
.... constitute a limited context of the
issues that faced the Administration as it tried to deal with the leader of the
largest economy of the Persian Gulf region.
The Bush Administration's relations with Iraq prior to its invasion of
Kuwait were clouded in a context of misperception by both states and further
complicated by a lack of credibility on the part of key actors of both sides as
well. This tragic sequence of events that led to the invasion of Kuwait cannot
solely be attributed to personal .....
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