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- 8821: Legalization of Abortion
- ... four hours to a hospital and have the rapist's semen removed before conception. The last reason why abortion should be wrong is the use of it as genocide. With the growing technologies in the world today, society is able to see and hear their child inside the mother. Technology today also allows humans to find out if there is something wrong with the child or if the child is male ... the child will be a certain gender. There is nothing wrong with this, but many parents after finding out the child does not have the gender the want abort it. Almost fifty years ago the world stopped a man named Hitler because he was committing genocide. The reason he was murdering millions of people was because he wanted a race of blond hair and blue humans to rule the world. If the Holocausts were consider wrong fifty years ago, why is not the genocide that is happening in the United States. Also the world would be a dull place if society was made up ...
- 8822: Historical Background To Anima
- ... history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understood more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is injustice in the world. He said that all injustice and inequality is a result of one underlying conflict in society. He called it a 'class struggle', that is, a conflict bet the class of people who can afford to ... peaceful progess toward equality and socia justice was impossible. The only way to establish justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches, help capitalists to keep the ... people were extremely discontented with their ruler, Tsar Nicholas II, who had little interest in governing and was neglecting the count badly. Making conditions even more miserable for the people were the hardships the First World War and a particularly cold winter. By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution. fact, they got two for the price of one, the first in March when the Tsar ...
- 8823: Machiavelli
- ... tough enough to use brutality against the few, to help the public good of the princedom. He especially admired Moses because he was worthy to talk to God. Moses had the opportunity to create a new civilization with the Israelites because they were being treated badly by the Pharoah. Therefore, Moses took advantage of their discontent with their new master and led them in a revolt. Eventually creating a new civilization. Machiavelli admired Moses because of his strength of character that carried him through the difficult trouble of gaining power. 3. Discuss Machiavelli s opinions on the uses of cruelty to accomplish certain goals. ...
- 8824: Cultural Relativism
- ... about differences in moral beliefs. The conclusion makes an assertion about the nature of moral facts or truths. In general, he argues, one cannot assume anything about what is or is not true about the world, from premises about beliefs about the world. A culture may believe that the earth is flat, but believing so doesn't make it so (nor does belief that the earth is round make it so). Nor does disagreement over the shape of ... the truth of the premise cannot guarantee the truth of the conclusion. Rachel's claim that physical facts are independent of beliefs about those facts is not justified. We never have access to the physical world apart from, or independent of, some scientific or conceptual framework. There is no "view from nowhere" which we can use to determine whether our judgements about the world are true or not. Moral facts ...
- 8825: Myths
- ... from the human belief that reality is intelligible. Myths are invented and accepted by people because they just do not settle for the experiencing things but want to discover the sense of things. Around the world, people tell stories of how the world came about, where they came from, why there is evil and death, why there are laws, why they is a summer, even why are turtles so slow. Some stories are so simple as to be ... at the beginning of things in s dreamtime, one that emerges from that of the original time. The use of mythology in today's society is important in the determination of certain aspects of the world. Many theories have been advanced from myths. Theologians have tended to view myths as foreshadowings or corruptions of Scripture. The world ending in the year two thousand is what many people believe today. They ...
- 8826: The Nomination ofAndrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... was achieved at Horseshoe Bend in March of 1814. Eventually he forced All Indians from the area. His victory's impressed some people in Washington and Jackson was put in command of the defense of New Orleans. This show of American strength made Americans feel proud after a war filled with military defeats. Jackson was given the nickname "Old Hickory", and was treated as a national hero. In 1817 he was ... enforce it." It seems to me like a slap in Justice Marshall's face, that Jackson was and always will be an Indian fighter. I think he just liked pushing around the Indians because he new that whatever resistance they had was no match for the U.S. army. To emphasize his po int, in 1838 (one year after Jackson left office), a unite of federal troops rounded up the 15 ... on December 10, 1832. He declared his intent to enforce the law and was willing to seek and agreement in a lowering of tariff's. In 1833 congress passed a compromise bill which set a new tariff, when the other southern states accepted the new tariff the threat of S. Carolina breaking away form the union was brought to a "happy" end. The Second Bank of the United States was ...
- 8827: ADHD On Child Intelligence
- ... disabilities. Tests such as the Wechler Intelligence Scale are used for intelligence testing, yet, much debate exists because of the need to change the test to meet the child's attention deficits (Braswell, 1991). A new intelligence test has been created by Naglieri (1997) called the Cognitive Assessment System to help diagnose and measure ADHD intelligence. This test is based on the premise that traditional tests don't measure processes such ... on how intelligence is affected by ADHD, it is easy to see that it is a subject yet to be firmly defined. Intelligence tests have been erroneously utilized in diagnosing and categorizing ADHD children and new tests must be developed in accordance to their disorder (Naglieri, 1997). The current increase in ADHD children seems somewhat suspicious. Is it an increase in the children, or a decrease in the deserved attention they ... Beiderman, J. (1993). Evidence for the Independent Familial Transmission of ADHD learning disabilities: Research for a family genetic study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 150, 891-897. Braswell, L. (1991). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with ADHD Children. New York, The Guilford Press. Dulcan, M., Benson, R., Scott, T. (1997). Summary of the practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with ADHD. Journal of the American Academy of ...
- 8828: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... experienced harsh and dangerous working conditions. The workers felt powerless. In the late nineteenth century, the demand for factory labor grew and so did the industrial work force. Immigration was the source of expansion. The new immigrants were coming to America to get away from poverty and oppression in their homelands. With the coming of these new groups of immigrants came constant ethnic tensions. They were also paid very poorly and began to replace higher paid British. Irish, and American workers. American workers had very little job security. Many of the workers ... Gompers, leader of the AFL, had a goal to secure wages, working hours, and working conditions. The AFL grew very rapidly. However, the union made very few gains for labor. Despite the creation of these new labor unions, seemingly almost all the advantages lied with capital. With almost nowhere to turn, American workers looked to progressivism. Progressivists believed in the concept of progress and a time for change. The progressivists ...
- 8829: The Ones Who Walk Away From Om
- ... sing whenever possible and do my best to take part in any and every choral group, as well as take advantage of solo opportunities. I have little doubt that I can make it in this world on my own competency and talent. Also, I believe that if you truly want something and work hard enough at it, anything is possible. I especially believe this in my own case. However, that level of disbelief still exists. Nothing is ever certain, including my own future. I am terrified of the future; I am afraid of the "real world." There is nothing more frightening to me than that first step into reality, that first day after I graduate college. I have no idea what I will be doing. Who knows whether or not I ... possibly sacrifice that for anything or anyone. If it were to be true Utopia for me there would be no child locked in a basement. I don t see how there could be a "perfect world" with consequences and limits to this bliss. A perfect world for everyone but this child? It doesn t seem quite fair, or even thinkable. It is certainly unreasonable. Is it truly a perfect world ...
- 8830: Education System After The Revolution
- Education System After The Revolution The Post Revolutionary Period from 1776 to the 1830's in American history, was an important time in the development of the political ideas of the new United States of America. It was a time when great leaders rose to the occasion of establishing a framework for government in America. Underneath, all of the democratic development laid another significant system fighting to ... dame schools and reading and writing schools. The main objectives were not designed for free thinking or self improvement, but rather conformity. Conformity to understand and obey God's word and the laws. However, the new education system was trying to plant it's roots in soil fertilized with nationalism and patriotism. With this new sense of freedom there was a great love and respect for America, but how to properly bury these roots was a question of great debate. The major cause of debate was how to organize ...
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