John F. Kennedy: Foreign Affairs
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In South Vietnam, the communist insurgency showed no signs of letting up. Many Vietnamese began to look towards the communist opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem, the country’s president, seemed more interested in establishing an autocratic regime than he did in promoting democracy. He kept power within his family and refused to share power with local leaders. On November 2, 1963, Ngo Dinh Diem died at the hands of his generals. Less than two weeks after Diems death, Kennedy himself was assassinated. So Lin .....
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Scottish Nationalism And Devolution
.... Scottish Parliament.
The parliament marks the first time in 290 years that Scotland has had their own rule. Right now the parliament will only be responsible for home affairs. However, there is a thought as to if devolution will be Scotland’s future. If devolution does occur, then one must think to themselves, is this a good idea? Is this going to affect the United Kingdom’s political system that is intricately in place between Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland? What happens to invest .....
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The Higher Education Act Is Unfair To Students
.... non-violent drug offenders to show that congress is tough on drugs. This must mean congress supports murderers, rapist and thieves right to receive financial aid.
On December 15th, 1998 James Wolf was convicted of possession of less than one gram of marijuana. This conviction caused the former Western Carolina University student to withdraw from college because he could not afford to pay tuition and book fees without federal aid. In February of 1999 James Wolf was convicted of delivery of one ki .....
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Watergate
.... asked to leave by the security guard. George McGovern was the opponent that Nixon really wanted because he figured he could beat him pretty easy. Having both Houses of Congress being controlled by the opposite party, Nixon became very fearful of being a one-term President.
John Edgar Hoover was the leader of the F.B.I. at the time of the Watergate affair. Hoover was a legend in his own time and was very feared by many. Nixon said that he had a very close relationship with Hoover and that he supporte .....
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The United States And Taxes
.... (Mann 139). Another case proved that direct taxes must bear immediately upon persons, possessions, and enjoyment of right. Indirect taxes are levied upon the happening of an event or an exchange (Dodge 88). The United States constitution requires all direct taxes to be apportioned. In Article one of the constitution it states the government’s intentions state income tax is not apportioned, it can only be classified as an indirect tax. The united states has ruled that the income tax is an indi .....
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When The Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
.... Martin Luther King Jr. stirred up the conscience of a nation, he gave voice to a long lain dormant morality in America, a voice that the government could no longer ignore. The government finally answered on July 2nd with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is historically significant because it stands as a defining piece of civil rights legislation, being the first time the national government had declared equality for blacks. The civil rights movement was a campaign led by a number .....
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Immigration Should Be Restricted
.... at further burden the citizen’s hope of finding a "good paying job". Business and industry owners do not care who they have working for them, as long as they hustle. So why, one may wonder would anyone hire an American worker at a higher rate, when an immigrant will do the same work for less pay? This increased competition for jobs is certainly related to the saturation of unemployed immigrants in the U.S.
In addition to the economic problems that arise with immigration, there are also many social .....
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The Theories Of Hobbes And Locke
.... we do what is in our best interest, Hobbes says that at one point in time we decided to voluntarily 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 sys .....
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To Have Intellectual Freedom Or To Be Censored
.... society and nation. As the censorship itself “ is the act of examining material to suppress or delete any part of that material considered objectionable”, according to Harer (1992:26) Furthermore, when you limit the freedoms, you prevent everything that can be used for the good of human beings, as no freedom means no development.
From the beginning of the existence of human beings, intellectual freedom has been seen as an inevitable fact of his/her life. So intellectual freedom - as a part human li .....
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The Constitution And Gun Control
.... the lawful purchase and sell transaction. The government is aware of this. All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. Law abiding citizens who are armed will prevent crime. You can hire all the police you want. They do not stop crime while it is happening. Armed citizens can stop the crime before it ever even happens.
How many times have you read about someone walking into a public place and opening fire? Sometimes the person even stops and reloads. What would you do if you were there? Hide .....
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Democracy Best Form Of Government?
.... people to act as their representatives. They are responsible for representing all the ideas and beliefs of the people they are representing. Indirect democracy is usually found in large areas like the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. A word closely associated with democracy is equality. The only way a for a government to be a true democracy, there must be certain kinds of equality in society. The four most well-known are equality of rights, suffrage, schooling, and justice. The equality .....
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What Is America?
.... never been predicted by Washington or Jefferson. Slavery, for instance, became more and more a controversial issue until finally, it led to a civil war within the less than united States. In 1861, the southern states seceded, and a war was fought between the rebels and the Union for four long, bloody years. However this battle did not end without a gain, for in 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves.
Even after slavery was lifted from America’s moral back, the .....
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The Death Penalty
.... However, this is extremely inaccurate. Electric chair victims can take up to 14 minutes to die, maintaining full consciousness as their flesh begins to scorch and burn off. During lethal injection, "even a light error in dosage or administration can leave a prisoner conscious but paralyzed with pain, serving as a witness for his own demise." The following is an eye witness account of an Arizona gas chamber execution given by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "When the fumes enveloped .....
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Environmental Protection Agency
.... for Research and Development, for Solid Waste Disposal, and for Water. Finally it's broken down regionally with bases in large cities like: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Purpose/Benefits/Clients
EPA's purpose is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment--air, water, and land--upon which life depends. To keep Americans aware of significant risks to humans and the environment where they work, live an .....
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Political Parties
.... products of representative democracy. During the centuries when laws were made by kings and their advisers, parties could not exist because there were no elected officials. Parties began to emerge in Europe and North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when elected legislatures became a dominant force in government.
In the earliest decades in which political parties existed, their memberships were quite small. In the United States and England, for example, most citizens were not allowed .....
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