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- 6871: America and Affirmative Action
- ... impede a fair assessment of their capabilities. Perhaps the biggest complaint that one hears about affirmative action policies aimed at helping Black Americans is that they violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and the Civil Rights laws., The claim is that these programs distort what is now a level playing field and bestow preferential treatment on understanding minorities because of the color of their skin. While this view seems very ...
- 6872: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... II, however, protected Arab-speaking poets who rubbed shoulders with his own Latin writers (Lindsay 44). Bertrand de Born became famous for writing warmongering songs that ³stirred up barons and provoked kings into going to war² (Grunfield 25). Walther von der Vogelwiede attained a unique position among troubadours by transforming ³the short poem of proverbial wisdom into a political weapon of satire and patriotism² (Hering 1). Wandering troubadours sang most often ...
- 6873: Gangs
- ... try to establish themselves as the only gang in a certain neighborhood. After a few gang fights hatred forms and gang murders and drive-by's begin to take place. When two gangs are at war it makes life very dangerous for citizens in the area. Less that 40% of drive-by's kill their intended victim yet over 60% do kill someone. This gang application is one of the many ...
- 6874: V-Chip and Television Censorship
- ... the parents, that will determine how programs will be rated. If a parent activates the v-chip, all programs with a "violent" rating will be blocked. What kind of violence will be censored? Football games? War movies? News reports?" Even though the V-chip legislation has already been signed into law by the President, it remains at the heart of a heated political battle. The strongest objection raised to the V ...
- 6875: Cleopatra
- ... other to Cleopatra and her children, which, in addition to Caesar’s son, included Antony’s twins Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios and his son Ptolemy Philadelphus. It was the boiling point when Octavian declared war on Cleopatra, and off the coast of Greece in the Adriatic Sea, they met in one of the most famous battles in history: Actium. The Egyptian defeat was often attributed to the early withdraw of ...
- 6876: Overpopulation
- ... the world for fossil fuels or uranium. *38 In short, the people of the Netherlands didn't build their prosperity on the bounty of the Netherlands, and are not living on it now. Before World War II, they drew raw materials from their colonies; today they still depend on the resources of much of the world. Saying that the Netherlands is thriving with a density of 1,031 people per square ...
- 6877: Feminists
- ... prefer to see this woman for who she truthfully is, instead of who she is not? This is what has become a "natural" thing for a woman to do, for her to put on her "war-paint" and fight for a man's attention. If a women had to fight for the attention of a man, would that not mean that the man is not interested in the first place? In ...
- 6878: Advertisements and the Consumer
- ... is that it will turn "average skin into a tea - rose complection." The fourth ad is by General Electric. This ad was printed during WWII (1942) and told a very familiar story. Men were at war and their wives did nothing but wait for their return. Don't despair! General Electric will take your sorrows away if you by one of the products! You know that money buys happiness and so ...
- 6879: Discrimination Against Women
- ... or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights an fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. Why can it spread so widely? It is perpetuated by the survival of stereotypes and of traditional cultural and religious practices and beliefs detrimental to women. Women always don't have ...
- 6880: Violence on Television
- ... in Europe, where we would be like sheep being lead by a greedy and ignorant shepherd. One last thing if people had never heard of the horrors of the concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Can anyone say that they don't believe that they would have happened a couple of more times in this four or five decades that have gone by and if it did do you ...
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