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- 1711: Legalization Of Marijuana
- ... up the question why not legalize marijuana as medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee unanimously voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal restrictions against the use of marijuana for " legitiment medical use." City council women Christine kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego "to go on the record we ... stay in our society and is only going through the stages that alcohol had during the prohibition era. Marijuana will become legal due to the knew administration which is liberal and who's leader , president Bill Clinton who had acutely used marijuana during the nineteen sixties. Due to all these factors marijuana will become more widely accepted by the American people who will pressure congress to rewrite the laws on the ...
- 1712: Sports and Nationalism
- ... Olympic Games from 1936 and on. Canada's only recognizable accomplishments during the Olympics were its hockey team, which dominated most of the winter games during the periods of 1936-70's. The passing of Bill C-131 made governmental funds available to all Canadian athletes starting at the amateur level. Massive restructuring of coaching programs and athletic facilities were carried out to ensure that Canadian athletes were properly developed for international competition. John Munro, who was one of the heaviest supporters of Bill C-131 expressed his opinion on the importance of sports as a "nationalist" tool by saying, "many nations, most notably the Soviet Union, its Eastern-bloc allies, and the United States, have used sport…whereby ...
- 1713: The Pros And Cons About Legalizing Marijuana
- ... they are not drastic and are rare. They say that marijuana does not make men impotent or sterile and that for some, it enhances their sex lives. Feelings and emotions become more colorful to them. Bill Drake, author of "Marijuana: An Herb for the Aging," states that marijuana may actually arouse an interest in sexuality in the elderly. Jamaican studies, from "Hemp for Food," have displayed that mothers who use marijuana ... on Growing Hemp. New Orleans: 1993. ---. This is What The Government Says About Marijuana. Berkeley, Lexington, New Orleans. Cronin, Russell. "High Hopes for the First Legal Cannabis Crop." The Independent 12 July 1993: 6. Drake, Bill. "Marijuana: An Herb for the Aging." 1986. Online. Netscape. 10 Feb 1997. Florida Legalization Organization. Hemp for Food, Fuel, Fiber & Medicine, The Economy and the Environment. Lacrosse, Florida: 1989: 1-3, 5-8, 15, 80 ...
- 1714: How Should The United States Treat Todays Criminals?
- How Should The United States Treat Todays Criminals? It’s a cold world . A person’s rights are violated every second of everyday. That person wants to see that justice is done! In corrections the “Justice Model” is a better system of justice then the “Medical Model”. Unlike the “Medical Model” the ... fair and just sentencing guidelines. In life a person has to chose between right and wrong. The philosophy of the “Justice Model” is that when a person makes the decision to violate a person’s rights he/she made this decision of his/her own free will and is held accountable for that action. In the ”Medical Model” when a person makes the same decision, it is believed that there are ...
- 1715: Brazil 2
- ... 21 years of rule moved seamlessly into the more pluralistic system established after 1985 and were key participants in the writing of Brazil's 1988 Constitution. While the 1988 Constitution enshrined many social and political rights, it also retained, at the insistence of the military and powerful regional oligarchs who had benefited from military rule, a fundamental imbalance in which the more traditional, more rural states of the north and northeast ... and its rigidities; the imperatives of the political calendar; and a dangerous vulnerability to external conditions. The 1988 Constitution, because it had incorporated such a high degree of specificity on social as well as political rights, made policy questions, which in other political systems could be resolved by legislation, weighty matters of constitutional amendment, thereby placing very high barriers to governmental reform by requiring a cumbersome process of constitutional revision. This ...
- 1716: People Accused of Violent Crimes Should Not Be Allowed To Post Bail
- ... arrested, they are in suspicion. Therefore, a state appointed judge is also going to realize that this person must be a threat, especially if accused of a violent crime. It does not violate the accused rights, because once under arrest, their rights are strictly defined as what the judge's final decision is. This leads me to my next point, that these accused people are a threat. The purpose of bail, as defined by the Nebraska Statute ...
- 1717: Black Panthers
- ... hundreds of Black Panther Party members from across the country eventually spelled out the demise of the Party. Nevertheless, the Panthers made a lasting impression on the nature of not only black nationalism and civil rights, but they helped create and motivate thousands of young, lower-class citizens to stand up for their human rights while helping to redefine the New America.
- 1718: Black Female Bodybuilders
- ... image of a physically strong woman, she "even tweaked the color in the central image because I didn't want my race to be a determining factor in how the piece was read."46 VII. Bill Dobbins' 1994 photography book The Women features twenty-seven female bodybuilders and fitness competitors, including four black women, among them the then-reigning Ms. Olympia Murray. Images of Murray dominate the book with a total ... and that image will continue to inform the collective understanding every time a black woman takes the stage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.All of the women interviewed for this article identify themselves as being of African descent. 2.Bill Dobbins, The Women, New York: Artisan (1994), 11. 3.The phrase "Middle Passage" refers to the transport of Africans to the Americas via slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean. 4.K. Sue Jewell, From Mammy ...
- 1719: Billy Bud
- ... very different, the most important of which is Billy Budd. Billy is the focal point of the book and the single person whom we are meant to learn the most from. On the ship, the Rights-of-Man, Billy is a cynosure among his shipmates; a leader, not by authority, but by example. All the members of the crew look up to him and love him. He is strength and beauty ... personality, hardly here [is] he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship s companies of the merchant marine (14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-arms. A man in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living ...
- 1720: Tupac Shakur: Stealing From A Dead Star
- ... 115,507 for jewelry purchased from a business owned by a personal Friend of Knight’s accountant. According to the suit, Knight claimed the jewelry was gift to Tupac but the CEO never paid the bill. (Tupac’s estate is now being sued by the jeweler) (Gill). The bail money for Tupac was in a contract that locked Tupac in to a Faustian deal with Knight. Suge Knight agreed to put ... Tupac himself was only a victim cheated by smarter people who did their stealing with contracts and calculators. Either way, he’s not who he claimed to be. Either way, he’s dead and the bill is due. Either way, it’s like peeking behind the curtain in Oz. The sad thing is, Tupac Shakur is said by those who knew him to have been a gentle and contemplative young man ...
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