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- 7381: European Union
- ... the other 19 Members of the European Commission, which has the sole right to initiate draft legislation, are nominated their individual governments. History, How and Why? The creation of the European Union began after World War II (it was first called the European Community). The founding members of the Community first combined their big industries. They then set about creating a single market in which goods, services, people and capital could ...
- 7382: The Effect of Third Party Candidates in Presidental Elections
- ... Mississippi, and Georgia, and making him the most successful independent to run for the presidency. The American Independent Party was a "white supremacist . . . , ultra-conservative" (Mazmanian 130) organization founded in reaction to the 1960's civil rights movement and the Supreme Court's overturning of "separate, but equal" (Plessy v. Ferguson) statute that forced integration. George Wallace, then governor of Alabama, was a pronounced racist who became nationally known by refusing ...
- 7383: Socrates
- ... like disciples. They respected and followed in the philosophies of their teacher. Socrates most famous pupil, Plato, went on to become a great philosopher like his mentor. Socrates lived through and fought in the Peloponnesian War. After Athens defeat, the democracy was replaced by a tyranny. This did not bother Socrates much because his belief in government was a rather simple and apathetic one. He thought that no matter what kind ...
- 7384: The First Amendment: Free of Expression
- ... The 1969 supreme court ruling Tinker v. Des Moins Community Schools defined a student's freedom of speech best. John and Mary Beth Tinker wore black armbands to school as a protest of the Vietnam war. It was a silent protest; the Tinker's never caused one problem, although some students did make threats at them. The school's administrators made them take them off. Their case made it all the ...
- 7385: The Brady Bill
- ... replace it with the instant check system before then. Several Senate-passed provisions had also been dropped: the provision expanding the definition of antique firearms exempt from gun restrictions to include thousands of functioning World War era rifles, and the one allowing gun sales between dealers from different states. A new provision was added in the report which would require that the police be notified of multiple purchases. Soon after the ...
- 7386: Sophocles
- ... service of two heroes named Alcon and Asclepius, who was the god of medicine. Not only did he do this but he also served on the Board of Generals which was a committee that administered civil and military affairs in Athens. For some time after that, Sophocles was the director of the Treasury. This was where Sophocles controlled the funds of the association of states which were to be known as ...
- 7387: California's Proposition 184: Three Strikes and You're Out
- ... behind bars for life. The premise of the new laws became an easy issue for politicians to back. To oppose such legislation seemed to be political suicide, so most politicians backed the initiative. Although many civil liberties groups opposed such mandatory sentencing measures there was little they could in the face of tremendous voter approval. Many voters did not realize that this bill could put potentially incarcerate people for ludicrous amounts ...
- 7388: Censorship
- ... are also being brought against the educational system, films, radio, television, and against the graphic and theatre arts. However or whenever these attacks occur, they usually fall at least one of the following categories: Religion War & Peace (Violence) Sociology & Race Language Drugs Sex Inappropriate Adolescent Behaviour What is Obscenity? Clearly something hard to talk about constructively. "Obscenity" is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing obscene? It is ...
- 7389: Political and Economic Changes In Bulgaria
- ... the economic development portfolio created by them. This new caretaker government has already begun to dismantle the large number of government Ministries which were set up by the former Communists, the BSP. Literally thousands of Civil Servants are being made redundant, as the caretaker government attempts to pave the way for Administrative Reform in both the Central and Local Governments of Bulgaria. Just before this project went to press, on Thursday ...
- 7390: What Leads to Intervention?: A Case Study of Intervention During the Bush Administration
- ... world order and set the path that future Presidents would have to carefully tread. The world order that President Bush inherited was of a vastly different character then that of all his predecessors. The Cold War environment that the world had just left behind had provided a clear framework for national security policy and the use of the US military. The environment that Bush walked into was an environment filled with ...
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