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- 971: The Right To Die
- ... afford the outrageous medical cost for their cureless terminal illness. "People have the right to live their life the way the may want to, yet when it comes to death that same person has no rights."1 If a person if faced with a terminal condition such as cancer, which leaves them in endless pain then that person should be able to die. In the United States 1,000's of ... bills. The most difficult for some people is paying those bills. The bills that didn't save your loved one and for that matter didn't even grant him/her a peaceful death. Those tremendous bill represent the way the law forced your own loved one to suffer without any hope. When a loved one is sick most people put there own life on hold to spend time with him/her ... terminal conditions have lost all hope. They see no cure in the future and with each day the experience more and more pain. Families are forced to endure more pain than needed simply because the rights have been taken away. The patients are helpless and so are the families. Doctors can't always heal the sick and in those cases people should be able to choose to end their life. ...
- 972: Group Polarization And Competi
- ... are nearly always competitive), will codify the differences between groups - leading to further extremism by those seeking power within the group - and thus, to further group polarization. In the above example, the two main combatants, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, were virtually forced to take uncompromising, disparate views because of the very nature of authority within their respective political groups. Group polarization refers to the tendency of groups to gravitate to ... power in the first place. In his attempt to gain power, Wilson managed to change his stance on virtually every issue he had ever encountered. From immigration to affirmative action - from tax cuts to abortion rights, he has swung 180 degrees (Thurm, 1995). The point here is not his inconsistency, but rather the fact that it is improbable that considerations of effective government would allow these kinds of swings. And, while ... forget" in order to carry on with the business at hand. Once again, in the recent government shutdown we can see this same sort of difficulty. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose competitive political relationship with Bill Clinton has been rancorous at best, blamed his own (Gingrich's) handling of the budget negotiations that resulted in the shutdown, on his poor treatment during an airplane flight that he and the President ...
- 973: The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
- ... by students why the federal government sets the legal drinking age at 21. Klug who agrees with young adults, and is in favor of lowering the drinking age to 18 has recently introduced "The States Rights Act of 1996" which would end Washington's financial coercion to adopt a national standard. Although the states are actually individually responsible for setting their own standards the government, in an effort to reduce the ... proposal is strong, he has many supporters who back him and his proposal. Three house members in particular are in favor of Klug's plan. Representatives Collin Peterson from Minnesota, Gary Condit from California, and Bill Tauzin from Louisiana are all co-sponsoring the proposal along with Klug. Collin Peterson, when asked about the proposal said, "states should be left on their own," and added, "I'm not in favor of ... who are trying to go backwards."(Tumulty 1) Recently, in Louisiana, two bar owners and two youths under 21 have challenged the MLDA in Louisiana, arguing that 18-year-olds should have the same constitutional rights as any other adults. When the State Supreme court agreed in a 4-3 ruling, this lead state officials and national safety experts to wonder if a lower drinking age in Louisiana would spread ...
- 974: North American Healthcare Syst
- ... couple of paragraphs were too long. I am a third year Bachelor of Science student majoring in Economics. EVALUATING NORTH AMERICAN HEALTH SYSTEMS INTRODUCTION Compensating the affairs of economic efficiency with the demands of sociopolitical rights is a constant source of tension in Canada and the United States alike. In no other element is this tension more apparent than in the group of complex markets we call the health care system ... service, and government administration. Under the system the health care provider bills the provincial plan directly. The Canadian Health Act, effective in 1984, clarified the national standards and may penalize provinces that allow doctors to bill for more than the Medicare rate. The Canadian provinces spend a third of their budgets on health and hospitals. High-tech medicine and an aging population have caused Canada’s medical costs to rise significantly ... incompetent in providing the public with a standard level of care, and reforms must be taken to contain the swelling costs. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? Economic efficiency and sociopolitical rights consistently clash in a capitalist democracy, and this tension is prevalent in the health care system. A basic economic concern is whether health care is like any other commodity. The health care industry can ...
- 975: Welfare Reform
- ... for these people on welfare. The main goal of the welfare program is to get people off of welfare and into jobs. The welfare program is meant to be only temporary. Under the welfare reform bill of 1996, Bill Clinton added many limitations on America’s welfare policy. The president’s plan proposes a two-year lifetime limit on welfare for most recipients. Work requirements and welfare time limits are two of the current ... earlier, the welfare program of the United States has brought about two opposing viewpoints; one of which is the belief that welfare is very advantageous to certain people. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of [her/him]self and of [her/his] family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary ...
- 976: Causes of the American Civil War
- ... a surge of democratic reform swept the North and West. There were demands for political equality and economic and social advances. The Northerners goals were free public education, better salaries and working conditions for workers, rights for women, and better treatment for criminals. The South felt these views were not important. All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to ... The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by free states could endanger existing slaveholdings. The South wanted to protect their states rights. The first evidence of the North’s actions came in 1819 when Missouri asked to be admitted to the Union as a slave state. After months of discussion Congress passed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 ... hoped to simplify construction of a transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. The removal of the restriction on the expansion of slavery ensured southern support for the bill, which was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce on May 30, 1854. This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. The northern Whigs joined antislavery Democrats to form the ...
- 977: Gorbachev: Analysis of Three Books About Gorbachev
- ... ideas for change are being debated, implemented, and tested. And the fact that no comprehensive program has been announced seems rather as a good sign to Lewin, since "for what single program could fill the bill?" (p. 116-117). As against Medvedev, Lewin does not spend much time describing "the battle against the bottle". He sums everything up in one sentence instead of two chapters and has a different view of ... this is due to a large extent to the fact that Lewin is writing his work two years after Medvedev. "Glasnost, democratization, self-government in the workplace, orientation to the social sphere, social justice, human rights, and respect for human individuality" - reforms in these areas took place after three years of Gorbachev in power and influenced domestic policy a lot according to Lewin (p. 119). At the very end of the ... democratic centralism and encouragement of socialist enterprise. It also means "the elimination from society of the distortions of socialist ethics, implementation of the principles of social justice. It means the unity of words and deeds, rights and duties". But Gorbachev does not forget to include Lenin and says that "the essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist ...
- 978: Cultural Diversity in Local Politics
- ... between native and immigrant minorities. Native minorities see the role of government in much more positive ways. After decades of fighting for basic civil right, the state is seen as an important protector of those rights. Legislation designed to bar discrimination in employment, public settings, education and housing are viewed as necessary and important implements to secure these rights. The role of government is to intervene, to make the playing field fair, and, to insure that minorities are protected from the abuses of the majority. Immigrant minorities, particularly those who have a strong entrepreneurial ... rollback of hard-won minority political gain. To apply the lessons of biracial coalition politics to a new generation of progressives in LA is the most important task in the years to come. Bibliography Boyarsky, Bill. "Competing for Jobs in the New LA," Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1992., sec. B, p.2. Browning, Rufus, P., Dale Rogers Marshall and David Tabb, Protest is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks ...
- 979: What Is Marijuana?
- ... individual. The strong belief in personal freedom appears early in the nation's history. The Declaration of Independence speaks of every citizen's right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The Constitution and Bill of Rights go further, making specific guarantees. The right to privacy in recent years, Americans have referred to privacy as one of the basic human rights, something to be claimed by anyone, anywhere. United States citizens feel strongly about this and often tell other countries that they must honor their people's claims to privacy and personal freedom. The marijuana ...
- 980: The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
- ... show that alcohol is easily obtained, and most eighteen- year-olds who do so drink sensibly. Next, Louisiana's experiments with lowering the drinking age to eighteen show no changes. Last, other eighteen-year-old rights prove that drinking should be legal. The problems and costs associated with underage drinking might be alleviated. Since underage drinking is an age-old problem, taxpayers' money is being wasted policing drinking establishments and prosecuting violators. (Charles S. Clark, “Underage Drinking,” March 13, 1992, p.3) Lowering the drinking age would apparently solve this problem. The Drinking Age Bill unfairly discriminates against eighteen-year-olds who can marry, carry weapons, serve in the military, and vote. (Charles S. Clark, “Underage Drinking,” March 13, 1992, p.3) Everyday, taxpayers' money is spent controlling underage drinking ... March 13, 1992, p.3) Since it is so easy for eighteen-year-olds to obtain alcohol in Louisiana and so many drink, drinking should be made legal for them. Finally, other eighteen-year-old rights prove that drinking should be legal. When the Vietnam War was raging, a central argument arose that someone old enough to die should be old enough to drink. Many parents agree that if their ...
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