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- 1751: Cults
- ... Press. Boston. 1970. 7. Fennell, Tom. Time: Doom Sects [False Prophets Attract the Vulnerable]. (April 7, 1997) 8. Lamaadar, Alia. Cults:Questionair. January 12, 1998. 9. Lamaadar, Alia. Cults:Questionair. January 12, 1998. 10. Muller, Bill. The Edmonton Journal: The Lure of Cults [Why Ordinary People Join Cults]. (April 1, 1997) Bibliography 1. Applewhite, Marshall Herff Heaven's Gate, The Novel. Received off of their internet site(www.heavensgatetoo.com) 2 ... 5. Graebner, William. The American Record. Alfred A. Knoph, Inc. New York. 1982. 6. Lacay, Richard. Macleans: The Lure of the Cult (March 22 1997) 7. Lamaadar, Alia. Cults:Questionair. January 12, 1998. 8. Muller, Bill. The Edmonton Journal:The Lure of Cults [Why Ordinary People Join Cults]. (April 1, 1997) 9. Porter, Anne. Farewell to the Seventies. Thomas Nelson and Sons. Don Mills. 1979. 10. Smith, Michelle. Michelle Remembers. Pocket ...
- 1752: America The Great
- ... power of the world. That title has stuck since then. However, different political leaders have caused this country to become unworthy of such a title. Most of these leaders were democrats, such as JFK and Bill Clinton. History has also shown that most wars have been won while republicans were holding office. Terrorist actions were stood up to more often with republicans in office also. While Ronald Reagan was president, from ... fear, America started a fight and ran away. This is believed to be another reason that JFK was assassinated. Another Democrat accused of sleeping around in the White House, has also had problems with terrorists. Bill Clinton has not had an easy time during his term. He has watched Iraq's uprising along with the troubles in Israel and Palestine. He has seen attacks on our country from its own citizens ...
- 1753: Religion In Public Schools
- ... be observed for meditation." This law did not work for long, because it still allowed oral prayer in public high schools. Later in 1981, the Alabama State Senator D onald G. Holmes successfully passed a bill that included all grades calling it "the moment of silence" this law said that "the teacher (was) to announce that the silent moment may be used for voluntary prayer." Although it would have to be ... be the religion in the classrooms. "School children not participating in the prayers or the bible readings (would be) asked or required to leave the room."0 This has been another big dispute because the bill of rig hts states that there shall be "freedom of religion"1 therefore this means that if a person does not believe in god or what ever the instance might be then they don't ...
- 1754: Billy Budd By Herman Melville
- ... 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 ships 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 ...
- 1755: Capital Punishment: Does the End Justify the Means?
- ... will make the front page, having become more and more a matter of routine in the last decade. Indeed, recent public opinion polls show a wide margin of support for the death penalty. But human rights advocates continue to decry the immorality of state-sanctioned killing in the U.S., the only western industrialized country that continues to use the death penalty. Is capital punishment moral? Capital punishment is often defended ... achieves the same goal without requiring us to take yet another life. Nor is the death penalty necessary to ensure that criminals "get what they deserve." The interpretation of justice through the eyes of human rights activists does not require us to punish murder by death. It only requires that the gravest crimes receive the severest punishment that our moral principles would allow us to impose. While it is clear that ...
- 1756: Police Brutality
- ... building being torched. {Burning 14} Following the riots it was announced that two officers Stacey Koon And Lawrence Powell would stand trial yet again, but this time in federal court for violating Rodney Kings civil rights. Both were convicted and sentenced to prison terms {Brutality In Los Angles 7} The Rodney King video and trial sparked a question in many peoples mind through out the nation, How big of a problem ... of thousands of cases all over the world. So the answer is police brutality is a big problem and should be stopped by whatever means necessary. Work Cited Brancato, Gilda and Elliot E. Polebaum The Rights Of Police Officers New york, A.C.L.U. 1981 Streisand, Betsy L.A. Chooses Sides : Cops vs. Aliens U.S. News and World Report Aprill 1996 10 Bruning, Fred Rogue Cops and Civillan Beatings ...
- 1757: Amen: Does Prayer Play An Important Role In Our Lives Today?
- ... upon religious beliefs from the very beginning. The Declaration of Independence says: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights. . . Certainly, it talks about God, creations, God-given moral rights, the providence of God, and the final Day of Judgment-all of which are religious teachings. And school prayer has been an important part of our religious experience from the very beginning. Our very First ...
- 1758: Religion In Public Schools
- ... shall be observed for meditation." This law did not work for long, because it still allowed oral prayer in public high schools. Later in 1981, the Alabama State Senator Donald G. Holmes successfully passed a bill that included all grades calling it "the moment of silence" this law said that "the teacher (was) to announce that the silent moment may be used for voluntary prayer." Although it would have to be ... be the religion in the classrooms. "School children not participating in the prayers or the bible readings (would be) asked or required to leave the room."0 This has been another big dispute because the bill of rig hts states that there shall be "freedom of religion"1 therefore this means that if a person does not believe in god or what ever the instance might be then they don't ...
- 1759: The Legalizing of Marijuana
- The Legalizing of Marijuana Recently, both California and Arizona took the long needed initiative and approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The California bill says that patients may use marijuana with a doctor's recommendation. It does not, however, allow doctors to prescribe the drug. Arizona voters passed a bill that swings out even further to the left than California's. Voters in Arizona think that people should be able to use any illicit drug for bona fide medical purposes. A recommendation by two doctors ...
- 1760: A Raisin In The Sun
- The civil rights movement brought enlightenment towards the abolishment of segregation laws. Although the laws are gone does segregation still exist in fact? What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the ... African dress. She ran around her house after putting on the dress saying, Acomogosiah! Another example on a larger scale would be the downfall of the African Apartheid. Jomo Kinate and Nelson Mandela were civil rights activists whose goal was to stop European power in Africa. Imperialism and ignorance drove The French and British to take control over Africa and its resources. Through Civil disobedience Jomo Kinate and Nelson Mandela brought ...
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