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- 3461: Legalizing of Homosexual Marriages
- ... returns. Social security provides benefits for surviving spouses and their dependents. They can inherit money and property from one another without a will. They are immune from testifying against a spouse, and marriage to an American citizen gives a foreigner the right to residency in the United States. Another advantage would be health insurance provided by employers. These benefits usually include the employee and their spouse. Employers generally will not include ... sex marriage," he said, "will only take us further down the road to social deterioration" (Weitzstein G14). "Government recognition of same-sex marriage," wrote Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network, "will forever change the American family as we know it. Forced homosexuality will be thrust upon America in public schools, homosexual marriage will be taught as a normal, healthy relationship" (Rotello 16+). Gay activists have been fighting for many years ... twice at their protests and literature about what they believe. Now that they want the same recognition religiously and financially, as heterosexual couples, the silent community speaks out. "There is no other issue on the American landscape where there is such a strong political consensus - Americans oppose homosexual marriages," said the Rev. Lou Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition (Gray E2). A survey conducted in June 1995 found that ...
- 3462: How Batteries Work
- ... the most common type of battery used today, invented by the French chemist Geoges Leclanche in the late 1860s. At the time this invention was very important and helped the start of the industrial revolution. It allowed people with portable electricity. This popular invention was called the dry cell or flashlight battery. The Lechlanche cell is very similar to the dry cell we use today. The positive pole is a ... the lead sulfate coating on each plate to lead and lead dioxide. After this the battery is recharged. Lead-acid storage Another widely used secondary cell is the alkaline cell, which was invented by the American, Thomas Edison in the 1900s. It works similar to the lead-acid battery, but it is much smaller. A disadvantage is that the battery loses a little bit of capacity each time it is ...
- 3463: To Say This Is Enough
- ... Initiative is shown by Lindo Jong, who tried to work with what she has in order to get her freedom. The major conflict in the novel lies in the mother-daughter relationships. Their daughters, being American borne, do not understand their mothers. The difference between the cultures, and the conflict to follow either of the two causes indecision and confusion in the daughters which causes a rift between them and their ... struggles in their life until they understand how brave their mothers really are. June s understanding of her mother s wish to find her twin sisters enabled her to see the world in her Chinese-American eyes; and through that, she is finally able to appease her inner conflict. Waverly finally realized that only by combining her Chinese and American sides will she be able to move on. Rose and Lena discover courage through understanding their mothers hopes. As Amy Tan said at the beginning of the novel, (mother) you asked me once what ...
- 3464: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- ... numerous swamps, and bad road conditions. Due to these conditions, communities throughout North Carolina became widely seperated. The colony was initially set up by the Lords Proprietors, an English founding company that helped finance early American exploration. When North Carolina was freed from British proprietorship, the Granville family, descendants from the original Lords Proprietors, con-tinued to hold their land rights. This area, which became known as the "Granville District," was ... s trail into Kentucky. In fact, by 1772, just one year later, about 1,500 of the former Regulators left North Carolina (12). The importance of the Battle of Alamance and its proper place in American history have been topics of discussion not only in North Carolina, but across the country. I gathered this fact from the area from which my sources came. I noticed that the efforts of the Regulators ... s role in the Revolutionary War. Because of the research I have done I am encouraged to find out more about the history of North Carolina. The Battle of Alamance should be covered in every American history course simply because it illustrates the desire for independence many colonists had during this time period. Endnotes
- 3465: Impacts Of Birth Control
- ... to go to the whorehouses was that there was rapid spread of VD. A soldier that is suffering from herpes, syphilis, or gonorrhea doesnt fight too well. President Wilson was very concerned about the American soldiers getting sick and not able to fight. He also wanted to stop the spread of VD Wilson decided that during boot camp the soldiers would be taught about VDs, and the effect of ... In the class the men were shown pictures and movies that showed what various vaginal diseases looked like, and what they would do to a mans sex organs. This was an effective in stopping the American soldiers from going to the French whorehouses. Another program the U.S. Government instituted to stop the spread of VD was to give out condoms to the soldiers. The government, however, wasnt condoning sex ... was needed to stop the spread of the non-whites. Sanger organized conventions to talk about her new ideas, and invited doctors. The doctors eat up her ideas about birth control. Margaret starts up the American Birth Control League, which was an organization that supported the use of birth control. By 1936, Sanger has the support of the doctors for birth control. In the same year the Supreme Court decided ...
- 3466: PORONO IN THE MEDIA
- ... to believe that media influences males and overstimulates them through pornography to the point that they become aggressive towards females. But this is completely baseless; just as pornography arouses or stimulates, it also satisfies. The American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography performed a study in which several college students were asked to spend one and a half hours in an isolated room with a large volume of pornographic media, as well ... not of sexual arousal. --- Reference Cited Christensen F.M. Pornography. New York: Praeger. 1990 Howitt, Cumberpatch. Mass Media, Violence and Society. London: Elek Science. 1975 Harmon, Check. Role of Pornography in Woman Abuse. (City unknown). American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. 1988 Hawkins, Zimring. Pornography in a Free Society. (City unknown). (Publisher uknown). 1988 --- Bibliography 1. Pornography, Christensen F.M., 1990, New York, Praeger. 2. Mass Media, Violence and Society, Howitt, Cumberpatch, 1975, London, Elek Science. 3. Role of Pornography in Woman Abuse, Harmon, Check, 1988, American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. 4. Pornography in a Free Society, Hawkins, Zimring, 1988. 5. Advertising, World Book Encyclopedia 1990, New York, Nault. 6. Pornography, Encarta Encyclopedia 1995, New York, Microsoft. 7. The Question ...
- 3467: The Missouri Compromise
- ... is the best possible solution to a conflict however it does not always work. One needs only to look at situations such as the Bosnia-Herzegovina to see that. During the events prior to the American Civil War, many different compromises were made in an attempt to impede the growing disagreements. However this merely prolonged the inevitable. The differences between North and South were far to great and compromise did not ... conflict after the Mexican war in which America gained new territories in the West. This doomed the Missouri Compromise, which was probably the most promising of the three. Had the Compromise been applied to all American lands then perhaps it could have succeeded. Instead the Missouri Compromise failed and only led to further conflict between north and south in the future. In 1849 once again the Union was facing the same ... it could be argued that the constant attempts at compromise is what brought about the Civil War. This shows that although compromise is the preferable option it was not a viable option to prevent the American Civil War. The difference between North and South were far to numerous and significant to be satisfied by compromise. Sadly in human history it is often results so that it is only possible to ...
- 3468: Legislating Sexuality
- ... but instead, enforcing prejudice and hatred against a group that is already struggling to gain equal rights and acceptance in a society that has long closed its collective mind to homosexuality. Since the dawn of American history, equal rights among U.S. citizens has been a hotly debated issue. With the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery was prohibited. Women gained the right to vote with the ratification of ... 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 brave", a vast number of Americans are hiding beneath a shroud of ignorance when it comes to ... two people love each other, it should be of no one's concern. Above all, this bill is grossly unnecessary. In a poll taken this past May, it was found that thirty-nine percent of American people found this bill superfluous while another thirty percent of the population were not even sure. Also, seventy-three percent thought that there were more important issues to attend to. Only thirteen percent found ...
- 3469: Global Warming
- ... so? On the other hand, is global warming a theory and a bad theory at that? The hypothesis of this paper is that if any global warming exists, it is not a result of Industrial revolution, and overall it will be beneficial to man kind. Why did I choose this topic? There are two sides and this is the other side of the global warming debate, which is rarely discussed in ... waters, and distribution of the biota of the worlds' nations. The engines and power plants, which evolved from this historical transformation of science and technology, threaten our stability. Just imagine for a moment how the American continent was changed by these revolutions: The frontier was conquered during the industrial age when science and technology were unifying in a grand experiment which, at the time, seemed like the manifest destiny of civilization ...
- 3470: Anger Management And Health
- ... the wrath of those around us. This is one reason we see anger as negative. Another reason may lie closer to Plato's concept of imbalance. The negative perception of anger is evident in the American Heritage Dictionary's definitions of the word anger (1): 1. A feeling of extreme displeasure, hostility, indignation, or someone or something; rage; wrath; ire. 2. (Obsolete) Trouble; pain; affliction. To say, "I'm getting angry ... of the body; certain muscles are contracted and opposing ones relaxed. (2) Apparently, anger is viewed negatively for a reason that is closer to Plato's concept of imbalance. It is also closer to the American Heritage's definition of being sick. The authors of When Anger Hurts: Anger in Modern Life explain the complications that chronic anger can create. Doctors have long suspected that anger increases the blood rate. Many ... Plato recognized, and no imbalance is healthy in the long run. With consciousness and relaxation, people may be able to achieve dominance over anger, rather than allowing it to have dominance over them. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 American Heritage Dictionary Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 1985 2 Gaylin, Willard, M.D. The Anger Within: Anger in Modern Life. Simon and Schuster, New York, NY 1984 3 Internet Research: Coping with Anger, 1996 ...
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