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- 1461: The Human Cloning Controversy
- ... cloning. The moratorium means that no scientists can clone even one somatic cell that comes from a human being. Many researchers are concerned that laws prohibiting human cloning will threaten important research. U.S. President Bill Clinton said he was troubled by a scientists' desire to clone a human and urged Congress to pass a ban on human cloning experiments for at least five years. Clinton was speaking of Chicago-area ... as well as other world leaders and religious figures, proposes. Science, specifically genetics, is a field that is constantly evolving and progressing. The field of genetics has taken center stage in the debate over the rights and morals of cloning humans. The word "clone" strikes fear into the hearts of most people. "Clone" is a word that has the same meaning as "nuclear" to some. Just saying either word frightens people ...
- 1462: Thomas P. O'Neill
- ... Great Depression, arrived in congress from Massachusetts in 1952 and "came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and '70s." (Woodlief 4) He was a rampant liberal who "would usually vote yes on any bill that helped people (he once voted to put money into an appropriations bill to study knock knees)." (Gelzinas 6) When Reagan came into office in 1980 big government began to feel the pinch and O'Neill's big hearted liberalism was on the way out. In 1980, O ... with Tip in the Oval Office, his first time alone with the president. The President said," Tip, what kind of son of a bitch are you? I expect shit like this from those assholes like Bill Ryan (an ultra-liberal from New York). Tip, I've been friendly to you since you came to Washington, What do you think you know more about this fucking war than I do?" Tip ...
- 1463: El Salvador
- ... and Christian democratic communitarianism and declaring that both ideologies had been rejected by the people by way of the ballot box. This constitution consists of 11 titles, divided into 274 articles. Title One lists the rights of the individual, including free speech and press, as long as it “does not subvert the public order”. Other rights include free association and assembly, as long as nothing illegal is being done, the legal presumption of innocence, the legal inadmissibility of forced confession, and the right to free religion, as long as it stays ... sedition, natural disasters, epidemic, or other “grave disturbances of the public order.” According to the constitution, all Salvadorans over eighteen years of age are considered citizens, immigrants or not. As such, they have both political rights and political obligations. They have the right of forming a political party, or joining an existing one, and everyone (including women) over 18 can vote. However, unlike the United States constitution, every male over ...
- 1464: Establishing Information Polic
- ... communication are not to be used to distribute this sort of material. Furthermore, this definition should be all-inclusive in that it must cover all types of potential problems; from discrimination, to individuals personal information rights. The reason this is so critical is because this definition will form the framework of the company's information policy and will therefore be the critical legal element which stands to prevent these potential problems ... from liability should problems occur regardless of existing policies. In order to protect the company further from exposure to legal action, the formal policy must also include the procedure that employees can follow should their rights be infringed upon. Not only should victims of e-mail harassment or discrimination be encouraged to come forward and report the problem, they must also be assured that the company will not let such action ... This sort of training would save time by introducing new employees to standard procedures such as logging on and conducting daily communications. Computer based training can also make reference to company policy and procedure including rights of victims and consequences of those guilty of misuse. A self-administered computer based training program can be developed using standard office applications such as Microsoft Office and can be generated by a knowledgeable ...
- 1465: John Rawls and Utilitarianism
- John Rawls and Utilitarianism The social contract theory of John Rawls challenges utilitarianism by pointing out the impracticality of the theory. Mainly, in a society of utilitarians, a citizens rights could be completely ignored if injustice to this one citizen would benefit the rest of society. Rawls believes that a social contract theory, similar those proposed by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, would be a more ... to themselves. Rawls believes that the foundational guideline agreed upon by the those in the original position will be composed of two parts. The first of these rules of justice being one that enforces equal rights and duties for all citizens and the later of the two one which regulates the powers and wealth of all citizens. In the conception of utilitarianism possessed by Rawls, an impartial spectator and ideal legislator ... adjusting the policy for that society. By this theory of utilitarianism, Rawls argues that the decision making process is being integrated into one conscience and that this system gives no mind to the individual whose rights and freedoms may be ignored because there beliefs are not widespread. He goes on to say "Utilitarianism does not take seriously the distinction between persons"(Singer p. 339). Rawls argues that two principles of ...
- 1466: Minimum Wage
- ... National Consumers’ League, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, the National Women’s Trade Union League, the AFL, the National League of Women Voters, and the National Young Women’s Christian Association. The original bill that was written provided for 1. A five member Fair Labor Standard Board, 2. A minimum wage of not more than 80 cents an hour or $1,200 per year, 3. The general initiation of ... maximum workweek at 44 hours. Since then, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Bush, and Clinton have signed minimum wage increases into law. When President Truman was in office, he signed the conference compromise bill, which about 1.5 million earners received wage increases of more then 5 cents an hour, when the amendment came into effect on January 1950. “The Act has proved to be wise and progressive remedial ... million workers in lowest paid jobs in retail trade, services, and agriculture and were provided with no protection by the Fair Labor Standard Act. When President John F. Kennedy was in office, he signed a bill into law that raised the minimum wage from $1 an hour to $1.25 and hour, in 1961. From 1960 to 1969, the number of wage and salary workers increased 29.3 percent and ...
- 1467: Go Ask Alice
- ... is in love for some time. Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school. Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school. Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school. Richie, Ted, pushers. Bill, Joe, Lane, Jacky, drug-users. Chris, a girl with whome Alice goes to San Francisco. Mario Mellani, Alice's employer in San Francisco. Sheila, Chris's employer in San Francisco. Doris, a drug-user with ... old friend , who invites her to a party. At the party Alice is given a Coke with LSD in it, and for the first time she takes a "trip". She likes the experience very much. Bill, a boy at the party, gives her more drugs, an later occasions. During one of the trips she goes to bed with Bill. When she meets Roger again she feels quilty and does not know how to deal with him. At home again, Alice feels miserable because she's afraid she is pregnant. Her relationship with her ...
- 1468: Abortion is Murder
- ... the premise that all people are equal before the law. Lady Justice is blind to Race, Religion, _________ . We have declared that there is no such thing as sub-humans -- and that NO human being's rights are superior to another human being. If we want to live by the premises that we set up in this country, then we cannot overlook ANY human being -- NO ONE can be excluded. There are, however, a human beings that is ignored the protection to thier rights to life everyday. The aborted children. I dare the negative to PROVE that a child in her mother's wound is alive! Does the negative actually believe that a human being is alive when and ... Whites believed that Blacks were actually sub-human! If someone accepted that a Black person was a sub- human, then it became easy to continue slavery, and it became easy to abuse or ignore thier rights to life. We have disproved this premise in modern time, not ignoring the facts. In Hitler's Holocost, German soliders forced themselves to truly believe that the Jews were lower beings. We cannot ignore ...
- 1469: Monaco
- ... Monaco enjoy a stable government and economy. Monaco is ruled by a prince. The prince since 1949 has been Prince Rainier the third. Until 1962 the people of Monaco did not have all of the rights that they do today. In 1962 under pressure from France the prince sighed a new constitution giving his people new rights. The rights that came forward at this time where that the woman in society had the right to vote and that all people even if guilty of an haneous crime had the right to live out ...
- 1470: Censorship of Academic Materials
- ... to one person may merely be tiresome to another (Alpert 66). Therefore, if we were to censor every book that someone found obscene, then there would be nothing left to read. Censorship violates our fundamental rights and our sense of dignity. Parents have a right to determine what their own children read, but not what others read. Students should be allowed to determine for themselves whether they agree or disagree with what they see, hear, and read based on values instilled by their families. In society, everyone is guaranteed the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In order for these rights to be protected, the government devised the First Amendment. The First Amendment absolutely ensures that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom ... Education is set up to benefit the student, censorship does not allow for this to happen. Censoring academic materials is presenting a greater evil because it is not allowing for students to maximize their guaranteed rights. Censorship hinders a student's ability to progress into the future and take responsibility for his / her actions; therefore, censorship must come to an end. If the epidemic of censorship continues to flourish in ...
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