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- 4791: Why The End of Integration?
- ... still no significant changes in the test scores of the minority students. So now here we are in the late 21st century and it can all be summed up with what Chris Hansen of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City believes the courts are saying, "We still agree with the goal of school desegregation, but it's too hard, and we're tired of it, and we give ... stopped. They should spend more time improving the schools than integrating the students. There should be more schools like the J.S. Chick elementary school that doesn't look down upon it's 98% African American school. In that school the students outscore many of the magnet schools' students on the standardized tests. Minorities don't score lower on tests because there are all minorities sitting around them, they score poorly ...
- 4792: Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
- ... meeting to protest the police shooting of striking longshoremen. The Court ruled that "Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime." More recently, in 1985, the S upreme Court ruled that burning the American flag is protected by the First Amendment when the Court reversed the conviction of Gregory Lee Johnson, who was arrested for violation of the Flag Protection Act of 1989. The Court then ruled the Flag ... back without looking ahead. The supreme court currently is overwhelmingly conservative. Without the balance of conservatism and liberalism, a deficiency evolves. And this deficiency is human rights. The Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that two American Indians were not protected by the First Amendment when they religiously smoked peyote. This is only a sample of the conservatism which wi ll eventually plague America. The Court's decisions are close to eternal ...
- 4793: "Thank God it was ratified!"
- "Thank God it was ratified!" With the Constitution the elite society protected rights for every American that would secure and ensure our nation's existence for hundreds of years. Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States' government was in a state of chaos. To end the existing chaos and build ... was opposed to complete abolishment of liberty and therefore the most reasonable decision was to place boundaries on it. Madison and the elite class noticed how the Articles of Confederation disrupted the majority of the American people and created a system of government where liberty was so free that it hindered society. The decision to create a new system of government was in the best interest of all the people in ...
- 4794: The Downfall of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe
- ... Article 146 of the Basic Law, put simply, allowed for the annulment of the Basic Law, to be replaced with another governing system, without previously binding the people to any specific rules. Seemingly, it sanctions revolution, and, "as proved to be the case in 1990, this is not a purely theoretical conclusion" (Preuss 52). Some suggest that, by unifying through accession, Germany has made problems which could end up overshadowing the ... German Unification: Political and Constitutional Aspects." United Germany and the New Europe. Heinz D. Kurz, ed. Brookfield: Elgar, 1993. 47-58. Welsh, Helga A. "The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the GDR: Evolution, Revolution, and Diffusion." German Unification: Processes and Outcomes. M. Donald Hancock and Helga A. Welsh, eds. Boulder: Westview, 1994. 17-34.
- 4795: The Reagan Tax Cuts and Foreign Policy
- ... party agreed to establish a Nuclear Risk Reduction Center in its capital and to establish a special facsimile communications link between these Centers. These Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers became operational on April 1, 1988. The American National Center (known as the NRRC) is located in Washington, DC in the Department of State. The Soviet National Center became the Russian National Center with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and is located ... Mifflin Company. http://www.house.gov/joe/welcome.html http://www.reaganhome.com/taxcuts.html http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/election/connections/foreign/reagrus.htm Hyland, W.G., ed., The Reagan Foreign Policy (1987). The American Heritageฎ Dictionary of the English Language, Third The Atlantic Monthly, February 1994; Reagan and the Russians; Volume 273. The Joint Economic Committee reports on the Reagan Tax Cuts
- 4796: Proposition 187: Don't Mess With Texas
- ... Texas. For instance, Catholic Bishop John Ricard points out that if Texans explicitly set out to identify all illegal aliens, and stop them from receiving care, we are likely to have a discriminatory situation. Every American with tan skin and a name ending in "z" is likely to be perceived as potential illegal immigrants ("Health" 248). The National Christian Coalition also points out that "to measure national health care decisions more ... Texans at risk. As we prepare for the possibility that similar proposals might be advocated in Texas, let us all remember the ideals of humanity that we like to say that we all share. Every American likes to think that they have a kind and caring attitude toward the less fortunate, but a short case study published in Newsweek shows exactly how kind and caring legislation like Prop. 187 would be ...
- 4797: President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative: In Relation With the Soviet Union
- ... life would be after such an incident would change life as we know it drastically. In the event of a nuclear war with the Soviets we would have lost approximately one hundred and fifty million American lives. 2 The planet would be destroyed to the extent that even thoughts who survived would have no place to live. No Government, or persons, can win a nuclear war and as long as their ... all, people don't think there is any hope to avoid a nuclear war, it has taken away peoples hope."10 That hope was restored in 1983 when President Reagan announced his commitment to the American people to do what ever it took to make the SDI fly. For a lot of Americans his commitment to this program was an alternative to a nuclear holocaust.11 The SDI is a sidelight ...
- 4798: Paramilitary and Survivalist Groups
- ... is a great possibility for catastrophe (Evans 1-2). Although most militias and paramilitary groups are small, when compared to the federal government, even when they are united, they may pose a threat to the American public. By using bombs and calling in bomb threats, these groups have proven themselves to be dangerous to the public. They also, threaten the people of the United States, not physically, but with their conspiracy ... these groups, based on where they are located. There are multiple causes for the growth of these groups. These groups have proven themselves to be dangerously threatening t democracy, although maybe not entirely to the American public. These groups feel that they can justify racism through the Bible, or with their fears of the white race dying. They have caused mass catastrophes, and probably will continue to in the future, unless ...
- 4799: United States v. Nixon, President of the United States
- United States v. Nixon, President of the United States Throughout American history, the fear that our leaders may sometimes think themselves above the law has always been evident. The fear is that power brings corruptness. To prevent this, however, the system of checks and balances has ... he believed the decision cut too closely the right of executive privilege in the case that the information is irrelevant and the President needs to keep his privacy. This case was positive proof to the American people that the justice system in our country is indeed working if even the President's wrongdoings can be rectified. It was a statement of equalness among all and set forth the precedent that nobody ...
- 4800: The Influence, and Views of Netanyahu On The Middle East Peace Plan
- ... 1978. When he went back to Israel, he was there for about six years when he became the embassador to the united states for Israel. Later when he was an Israeli diplomat he renounced his American citizenship. In 1996 he became the Prime Minister of Israel. He now has the most influence from the Israeli side of things. Benjamin Netanyahu has done many interviews and addresses with the American people. One such interview he did to express his views was with Time Magazine. Time asked him if he were a Palestinian, how he would regard toward Netanyahu? He replies, "If I read the controlled ...
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