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- 3831: Legalization of Drugs
- ... substances. The question then becomes, who are we to place labels on certain substances by deeming them legal and prohibit others by creating penalties for their use? The issue of prohibition is certainly not a new one to our nation. In 1919, the 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages. "Suddenly honest, responsible Americans who just wanted a drink, were turned into criminals. Respectable bars became underground ... are foolishly spending them on a battle that we cannot win-the "War on Drugs." Prior to Ronald Reagan's "War on Drugs," America's crime rate had been declining. Since the introduction of the new wave drug laws, violent crimes have increased 32% between 1976 and 1985. Eighty percent of all violent street crimes are now drug related. Most of the violent crime associated with drugs can be traced directly ... manufacture and market their drug-related products and pharmacists could sell the products allowing both to make a considerable profit. The advent of drug stores, similar to liquor stores, would help the economy by introducing new businesses into the society. The government could levy a high excise tax on the drugs and could thereby make a considerable amount of money that they could put into education or something more important. ...
- 3832: Civil War - The War Of Northern Aggression
- Thesis: The world today is blinded from the truth about the "Civil War" just like they are the truth of the creation vs. evolution debate. They’re blinded in the same way as well, misleading text books. The ... he did in larger cities North (Kennedy 134). Another surprise will be that the North legalized slavery first in America. Believe it or not, Massachusetts legalized in 1641 while still a colony (Kennedy 71). Also, New Jersey still had slavery going on at the start of the war. In New Jersey to become a free black, you must be born after 1804 and be older than 21 years of age. So this means that everyone not born after 1804 is a slave for life ...
- 3833: Remains Of The Day
- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day gives an eloquent treatment of the issue of how a stoic English butler’s unemotional reaction to the emotional world around him is damaging and painful, and how he resolves to make the best of the "remains of the day"—the remainder of his life. Ishiguro explores some of the differences between the old English ... no show of emotion, and repression of personal opinion—and the no-holds-barred American culture of free expression of opinion and emotion. The American culture’s spread into England is hastened with the two world wars, and it ends Stevens’ old way of work, if not the job itself. Although Remains of the Day concentrates on a particular culture, and an obsolescent one at that, Ishiguro makes many insightful observations ... illustrates Stevens, and all of the old English butlers, as characters who basically amount to machines, unable to think for themselves. They see loyalty to the master as the only thing that matters in the world. Every time Stevens ends his lines with "sir," he is repressing his true identity. Ishiguro makes the reader wonder how on earth a person could get to be like this, for the sole reward ...
- 3834: Cats Cradle
- ... pag). In Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut uses satire as a vehicle for threatened self-destruction when he designs the government of San Lorenzo. In addition, the Bokonists practice of Boko-maru, and if the world is going to end in total self destruction and ruin, then people will die, no matter how good people are and what religion people believe. An example of satire that Kurt Vonnegut uses is when ... the people are hopeless and without direction, Bokonon invents his religion, "When Bokonon and McCabe took over this miserable country year ago they through out the priests. And then Bokonon, cynically and playfully invented a new religion" (Achebe 172). But then McCabe outlaws it and makes practicing any religion other than Christianity punishable by the deadly Hook, "Anybody caught practicing Bokononsim in San Lorenzo, will die on the Hook" (Achebe 134 ... the story is that no matter what religion people believe in, no matter what acts of goodness people perform, nothing in the end can save everything from total ruin and pointlessness. The destruction of the world by ice nine shows Vonnegut's tendency towards his negative view of the world. No matter what any of the characters wished for or did, the world was destroyed all the same by some ...
- 3835: Why Drugs Should Be Legalized!!!!
- ... substances. The question then becomes, who are we to place labels on certain substances by deeming them legal and prohibit others by creating penalties for their use? The issue of prohibition is certainly not a new one to our nation. In 1919, the 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages. "Suddenly honest, responsible Americans who just wanted a drink, were turned into criminals. Respectable bars became underground ... are foolishly spending them on a battle that we cannot win-the "War on Drugs." Prior to Ronald Reagan's "War on Drugs," America's crime rate had been declining. Since the introduction of the new wave drug laws, violent crimes have increased 32% between 1976 and 1985. Eighty percent of all violent street crimes are now drug related. Most of the violent crime associated with drugs can be traced directly ... manufacture and market their drug-related products and pharmacists could sell the products allowing both to make a considerable profit. The advent of drug stores, similar to liquor stores, would help the economy by introducing new businesses into the society. The government could levy a high excise tax on the drugs and could thereby make a considerable amount of money that they could put into education or something more important. ...
- 3836: Hydroponic Gardening
- ... great advantage is that you can grow plants out of their normal growing season. This is of great help to those who love to cook and like to use fresh herbs for their dishes. A world-renowned hotel, the Waldorf-Astoria, has taken advantage of this aspect of hydroponic gardening. In The Edible Indoor Garden, Peggy Hardingree states "Since 1978 award-winning executive chef Arno Schmidt of the famed Waldorf-Astoria ... outer space as an experiment to see how plants would fare in that setting. The United States military uses this method of growing plants to provide fresh food stuffs to remote duty stations around the world and on submarines. It has been stated in Future of Hydroponics, "It is a versatile technology, appropriate for both developing countries and high-tech space stations." (1). There are many diversified benefits of hydroponic gardening ... pollution of groundwater with nutrient wastes or soil sterilants" (2). It is evident that hydroponics has been around for some time and that its value was known and utilized by the ancient peoples of our world. This form of growing plants has a place not only in history but also in our world today. Types of Systems There are several types of hydroponic systems that a gardener may choose from. ...
- 3837: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe 487) for his transgressions against the didactics. The story's main character is Toby Dammit, who from infanthood, had been flogged left-handed, which since the world revolves right to left, causes evil propensities to be driven home rather than driven out. The narrator relates that by the age of seven months, Toby was chasing down and kissing the female babies, that ... a search to adopt a similar cat, which he finally locates "in a den of more than infamy...reposing on the head of one of the immense hogsheads of Gin, or of Rum." (66) The new cat is completely black except for an indefinite white splotch on its chest. It follows him home. At first he likes the cat, for it is quite affectionate. But his attitude changes; tension builds anew. The tension grows to hatred, caused in part by the narrator's discovery that, like Pluto, the new cat has been deprived of an eye. The narrator, only because of his terrors about his first cat, restrains himself from doing the new cat harm. But to his horror, the white patch of ...
- 3838: Marco Polo
- Marco Polo Marco Polo is one of the most well-known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo's life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan. Marco Polo was born in c.1254 in Venice. He was ... enduring fame, very little was known about the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice's influence as a city-state coincided with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all ... the only spiritual gift Europe was able to furnish the great Kublai Khan was oil from the lamp burning at Jesus Christ's supposed tomb in Jerusalem. Yet, in a sense, young Marco, the only new person in the Polos' party, was himself a fitting representative of the spirit of European civilization on the eve of the Renaissance, and the lack of one hundred learned Europeans guaranteed that he would ...
- 3839: Catch-22 2
- Joseph Heller satirizes, among other matters, red tape and bureaucracy in his first novel, Catch-22. The novel concerns itself with a World War II bombardier named Yossarian who suddenly realizes the danger of his position and tries various means to extricate himself from further missions. Yossarian is driven crazy by the Germans, who keep shooting at him ... on them, and by his American superiors, who seem less concerned about winning the war than they are about getting promoted. Heller spent eight years writing Catch-22, is a former student at three universities--New York, Columbia and Oxford--and a former teacher at Pennsylvania State College. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a combat bombardier in the Twelfth Air Force and was stationed on the island of Corsica ... 120) (Usborne) The protagonist and hero of the novel is John Yossarian, a captain in the Air Force and a lead bombardier in his squadron, but he hates the war. During the latter half of World War II, Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, near the Italian coast and the Mediterranean Sea. (Heller) The squadron is thrown thoughtlessly into brutal combat situations and ...
- 3840: Cross-Cultural Ethics
- ... convict or child labor by suppliers. All of these areas are viewed from different perspectives in different countries. Regardless of the company’s location, good ethical practices provides economic benefits. Cultural Influences Culture creates a world taken for granted: it forms the unconscious premises of thought and action. Culture tends to be pervasive, touching every aspect of life. The pervasiveness of culture is manifest in two ways. First, according to Jones ... maintenance of high ethical standards in a company creates an environment in which very costly violations of the law are less likely to occur(Gilbert 174). 2. Such standards also may reduce the likelihood of new government regulations that are costly to comply with. Although this potential benefit is rather speculative, we do have evidence that bad ethical behavior can produce more regulation. Gilbert found the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, for ... long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us," (Wal-Mart 5). Walton has proven that people can make a difference. Wal-Mart’s new CEO, David Glass, believes that if you have a vision in America, with dedication and hard work you can realize your greatest dream. Wal-Mart has achieved its current success because they have a ...
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