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- 3041: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and ... America and licensing restrictions penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere. However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban ...
- 3042: Racial Profiling
- By: Rahsaan DeLain E-mail: mosdef2g@hotmail.com Rahsaan DeLain Senior Paper Mrs. Carlo The issue of racial profiling in America is one of great importance to the future of American society. This issue fairly new, in terms of being recognized is old in its ways. Racism and stereotyping are issues that date back to many years ago. Racial profiling in America is on that needs ... primarily among African Americans and Latinos, they find a uneven number of them actually in possession of contraband. Therefore these people are arrested, reinforcing the idea that drug trafficking is primarily an Latino or African American thing. At the same time white drivers receive far less police attention, many of the drug dealers and users among them get away. This just feeds to the perception that whites commit fewer drug offenses ... better understanding of the practice or racial profiling in the media. In a recent poll taken by the child advocay group Children Now the children included said that,the news media tends to portray African American and Latino people more negatively than white and Asian people. Most of the major news media did not cover this story and the ones that did said, that the children were influenced by television ...
- 3043: Imperialism
- ... following the Age of Exploration, when European countries acquired colonies to support mercantilism, can be called old imperialism. In the nineteenth century, a new era of imperialism began, this time spurred on by the Industrial Revolution. Some reasons for imperialism were political, economic, and social. These are some political reasons. Feelings of nationalism itensified throughout Europe during the nineteenth century. Nationalism in the extreme promotes the idea of national superiority. Industrialized ... the right to take control of weaker areas. Countries also tried to increase their power through the control of more land and people. Economic causes also led to imperialism. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, countries needed colonies for Raw materials to feed the ever- increasing number of factories, Markets for finished products, places to invest surplus capital, and places to send surplus population. And social causes also led to ... that the souls of the non- believers would not be saved. The new era of imperialism brought about important and farreaching effects. Through the creation of global empires, the imperial powers helped spread the Industrial Revolution and the capitalist system around the world. Christianity, western European languages, and Imperialism benefited underdeveloped regions through improved transportation, education, and medical care. Imperialism also had its negative side. It undermined native cultures and ...
- 3044: A Review Of Courage Under Fire
- ... display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear of the mishaps and foul-ups of the war. In many eyes the war was seen as a chance to boost American spirit and make the government look empowered. Director Edward Zwick and writer Patrick Shane Duncan snatched onto this notion and expounded on it in their movie Courage Under Fire. Through its superb acting, successful plot ... and filming perfection, the movie becomes a powerful and brilliant examination of the consequences of guilt and responsibility, and the meaning of absolute truth. Courage Under Fire was the first Gulf War movie to hit American theaters. It is a movie that steers clear of the typical type set of the war film genre. Movies like Platoon and Apocalypse Now took us into the heart of the savagery of war and ... of the Iraqi desert. He is being assaulted by the Iraqis and in an instant loses his long time friend to the horror of friendly fire. He has ordered his crew to fire on another American tank under his command. Back home, the government is eagerly searching for Gulf War heroes and as a result, Serling is decorated for his bravery; yet, deep inside, he really knows that it is ...
- 3045: The Rodney King Case
- ... job well done. Now, because of the action of the Los Angeles police that night and the subsequent acquittals of the policemen, the publics mind was clearly open to the issue of racism in American society today. The Rodney King incident was a wake up call for all of America. The actions of Sgt. Stacy Koon, Officer Laurence Powell, Officer Tim Wind, and Officer Ted Briseno, which were captured on ... 11. 26 July 1999. Eastman, Jennifer. Los Angeles Riots. Great Events From History. rev. ed. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem P, 1997. 1259-60. Evans, Colin. Los Angeles Police Officers Trials: 1992 & 1993. Great American Trials. Ed. Edward W. Knappman. Detroit: New England P, 1994. 824-28. Garner, Karen. King, Rodney, case and aftermath. American Justice. Ed. Joseph M. Bessette. Pasadena: Salem P, 1996. 447-49. Mydans, Seth. Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted in Tape Beating. New York Times 30 April 1992: A1.
- 3046: The Life of Edward Albee
- The Life of Edward Albee The best American playwright since Arthur Miller." A master of depraved obscenity.' An unflinching dissector of dysfunction. A willfully abstract audience-basher. For about four decades, critics and theater-watchers have been calling Edward Albee names. His harsh ... producers rejected the mordant one-acter. But after its success in West Germany, Albee recalls, "my life changed." The play ran three and one-half years off-Broadway, while his next works, The Sandbox, The American Dream, and The Death of Bessie Smith, entranced theatergoers with their attack on a complacent society. And then came Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? first a phrase Albee saw scrawled on a Village mirror ... guarantee acceptance. If there's anything else you can do and be a full person, do it." Albee contends that it's "more and more difficult for a serious playwright to have work done in American theaters. What audiences there are feel they have a right to determine the content, that they have the right to be lied to." Why? Because of the "destructive growing force of commerce in the ...
- 3047: Pkt
- ... Kaldor who believed Keynesian economics was based on disequilibrium and uncertainty, and that challenges the general equilibrium assumptions of neo-classical theory. The main aim of post-Keynesian economics is to complete the unfinished Keynesian revolution. Post-Keynesian economists fundamentally used ideas from Keynes and his concept of effective demand, Marxist economist Michael Kalecki to provide a critique of neo-classical economics beliefs and an alternative theory of markets. These economists ... rate, because of the higher level of investment that it implied, would necessary be accompanied by a larger share of profits in national income, thus leaving workers relatively worth off. 2 In the 1960s, when American economy met a crisis which included inflation problem there was noting in the current neo-classical synthesis to suggest how the goal of full employment and price stability could be achieved conjointly, thus avoiding the ...
- 3048: The Gothic Novel
- ... reality; but it can only do so as long as it is separate from reality. He denounces critics who confuse art and life when they claim that the gothic was as subversive as the French Revolution, reminding us, that "a revolution in literature . . . is a very different thing from a social Revolution."(Kilgore 219). Often considered the modern Walpole, Summers was a scholar, antiquarian, and necromancer who raised the dead genre of the Gothic. He argued, correctly, that the richness of these novels lie in their ...
- 3049: Canabis
- Cannibis Sativa Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve various purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time to fit in with the current lifestyles. This pattern is also true in American history. The use of marijuana has adapted to the social climate of the time. Marijuana, whose scientific name is cannibis sativa, was mentioned in historical manuscripts as early as 2700 B. C. in China. (Grolier ... of power. Only the prohibition of marijuana, which some sixty million Americans have violated since 1965 has come close to approximating the prohibition experience, but marijuana smokers consist mostly of young and relatively powerless Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). Alcohol prohibition was repealed and marijuana prohibition was retained, not because scientists had proved that alcohol was the less dangerous of the various psychoactive drugs, but because of the prejudices and preferences of most Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). In 1937 the government issued the Marijuana Tax Act, which levied a dollar an ounce tax on marijuana, coupled with fines of $2,000 for drug posession and jail sentences for ...
- 3050: The Declaration of Independence
- ... in determining the very laws which dictated the way they led their lives. The Declaration of Independence was a formal document stating that the people of America were breaking away from Britain and that the American colonies were now "Free and Independent States." The Declaration of Independence was the cornerstone of American freedom and equality. By writing this document, the American Colonies could now begin the process of starting a new way of life and a new government. Obviously, at the time the Declaration of Independence was written the concept of "equality" was more limited ...
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