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- 3621: Internet Privacy
- ... being watched if it allows their shopping experience to be customized. According to the 1999 Personalized Marketing and Privacy on the Net: What Consumers Want survey conducted by the non-profit research firm Privacy and American Business, 61 percent of the 474 Internet users surveyed said that they would be positive toward receiving banner ads tailored to their personal interests rather than receiving random ads. This represents about 56 million adult ... paragraphs]. PC Magazine Online. [On-line]. Available: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/news/trends/t980610b.html [2000, March 27]. Westin, A.F. (November 1999). Personalized Marketing and Privacy on the Net: What Consumers Want. Privacy & American Business Consumer Privacy Survey [On-line]. Available: http://www.pandab.org/pabsurve.htm [2000, March 30]. Word Count: 945
- 3622: Bilingual Education
- ... he says, “Advocates of bilingual education believe that it represents the best chance for non-English speaking children -- who, not so coincidentally, often come from lower-income groups – to enjoy the richness and opportunities of American life”, but he also writes, “…Bilingual education is a failure, a tactic that in the end will harm the chances of the generally poor, non-English speaking children ever having a equal share in the promise of American life.” By simply having everyone learn a second language eliminates the lines of income, and ethnic background. Truly bilingual education would also eliminate the psychological effects it has on non-English speaking children. When they ...
- 3623: And Justice For All
- By: Robert Kelly E-mail: foolishmortal@angelfire.com Throughout modern American culture certain laws passed by the majority have been considered unjust by a wise minority. However, with the logical and emotional appeal of hard fought battles, voices have been heard, and the minds of the ... minority hope to pursue the majority into passing only just laws In relation to King and Thoreau’s opinions and ideals of laws that are unjust I can think of no better issue in modern American culture than the rights being denied to homosexuals. They stand to this day segregated from the majority and denied of the rights given to heterosexuals. The majority of Americans today oppose same-sex marriage and ...
- 3624: Abortion
- ... At least 30% of all pregnancies are now ended by abortion. · 81% of pregnancies to unmarried women are aborted. · 41%-46% of teenage pregnancies is aborted. · 42.9% of women have repeated abortions. · 46% of American women over the age of 45 have had an abortion. · 95% of abortions are done because of social reasons. · Women who are separated from their partners are more likely to have an abortion than other ... parent wants her to have an abortion. · She or the fetus has a health problem. · She was a victim of rape or incest. Bibliography Adler, N.E., et al. "Psychological Factors in Abortion: A Review." American Psychologist. 1992. 47: 1194. Alabama Physicians For Life, Inc. "Abortion Related Statistics." It's a Matter of Life. 1993: P.9. Clark, Charles S. "Abortion Clinic Protests." The CQ Researcher. 7 April 1995: P.297 ...
- 3625: ADA
- ... can see, undue hardship is very vague and unclear. The judicial courts on a case by case basis can only define and determine it. Since 1990, there have been thousands of ADA lawsuits filed by American citizens. Some of the lawsuits are obvious cases of discrimination that have resulted in favorable verdicts worth millions of dollars. On the other hand, there have been thousands of questionable lawsuits, which have also had ... understanding that persons with mental retardation are fully capable of being productive and contributing members of society." EEOC Commissioner Paul Steven Miller stated: "Persons with mental retardation are among the most vulnerable individuals within the American workforce. Employers need to understand that the ADA protects these workers from arbitrary denials of jobs they can perform, and the EEOC will enforce these protections aggressively" (n.a. no author. http://www.eeoc.gov ...
- 3626: Vegan
- ... have always been willing to do anything in order to achieve this. Animal torture is not entertainment, it is sick. Americans must not allow themselves to be entertained by such gruesome atrocities. However, the average American is totally unaware of the abusive treatment that entertainment industry animals go through. It will take a great deal of education to bring this problem to the attention of the American public. Americans as a society should be vegan. We have discussed whether or not veganism is healthier than the average way of life, whether or not animal testing should be banned, and finally, whether or ...
- 3627: Student Protest
- ... paper and not put in my “two sense”. In my opinion this student protest bullshit has no limit. Students should not be restricted to what they can and cannot do. They like everyone else are American citizens and should not have their rights as American citizens stripped from them when they enter a building teaching them all about the rights they possess. To me that is the very hypocritical. To teach one thing, and practice another! I mean come on ...
- 3628: Societys Restraint To Social R
- ... receive from social assistance alone. To actually show that workfare does not work, we must observe the United States, which has had federally mandated workfare programs for welfare recipients since 1967. Although the research on American workfare programs is inconclusive to some extent, many findings suggest that workfare is ineffective in reducing welfare costs and moving people from the welfare rolls into adequate employment. It was found that low-cost programs ... programs with extensive supports and services were more likely to place people in employment, there was a definite point of diminishing returns where the expenses outweighed the benefits.(10) Even the limited success by some American workfare programs is highly questionable. Largely missing from the research is the discussion of workfare's major limitation: The lack of available adequate jobs. In the wide scheme of things, it doesn't matter whether ...
- 3629: Questioning The Constitutional
- ... every belief or offend none. This way, government would be prevented from favoring one religion over another. Henry, Richard, "Government in America", Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1994 pg.141, 146, 148. Klinker, Philip A., "The American Heritage History of the Bill of Rights", Silver Burdett Press., 1991 pg. 99-100, 109, 93. "Darrow, Clarence Steward", "The American Peoples Encyclopedia vol.6 ", Grolier Incorporated, New York 1962, pg. 796. Witt, Elder ,"The Supreme Court and Individual Rights", Second Edition, Congressional Quarterly Inc., Washington D.C., 1988, pg. 99
- 3630: Models Of Political Ideology
- Political ideology in American Society can get a little confusing. This is due partially to the fact that the most commonly used model to explain political ideology is too simple. The linear model, as it is sometimes called, puts ... however, to explain the importance of the square model verses the linear model, the understanding of the different elements involved in these models must be explained. There are five main elements/political philosophies in most American political ideology models: left-liberal, right-conservative, authoritarian, libertarian, and moderate. The first, left-liberals, believe in governing themselves on personal matters, but they want government to control economics. The left-liberals "want government to ...
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