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- 9231: Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
- ... at the forefront of all foreign policy negotiations around the world. When studying the World War I time period it is painfully obvious that Woodrow Wilson was one of the more prominent figures of the day. Woodrow guided the nation through a turbulent and inexperienced crisis. As a leader he followed all the criteria that make up a good foreign policy, whether it was proclaiming neutrality, entering the war at the ...
- 9232: Fraud
- ... hundred billion a year. Organizations loose close to 6 percent of annual revenue to fraud and abuse of social systems. Fraud costs Canadian organizations $100 billion annually. On the average, organizations loose $9 dollars a day per employee to fraud. On an average of fraudulent cases males received $185,000 and females received $48,000. A study done by the insurance industry indicates the groups most likely to commit fraud. The ...
- 9233: Euthanasia and the Robert Latimer Case
- ... to deal with. While no-one I have spoken to has been suicidal over the matter, they have seen the true pain and misery that some severely disabled individuals are forced to deal with every day of their lives. Still, many agree with myself on the point that a human life is just that, a human life; and that everyone alive has the right to live, no matter whether or not ...
- 9234: The Iran-Contra Affair
- ... federal appeals court, which found defects in the trial procedure. On April 7, 1990, Poindexter was convicted on 5 counts of deceiving congressional investigators and sentenced to six months in prison. In July 1991, Alan D. Fiers, Jr., CIA chief of covert operations in Central America in 1984-86, admitted that he had lied to Congress and that there had been a CIA Iran-contra cover up. Shortly after, his CIA ...
- 9235: Death Penalty and The Eighth Amendment
- ... penalty contradicts the whole idea of human rights. Human rights are significant because some means may never be used to protect society because their use violates the values that make society worth protecting. From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death....I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self-evident to me now ...
- 9236: Crime and Punishment
- ... the recent acquitting of a man jailed for raped and the murder of a girl. If he was executed at the time, he would of never had the chance to prove his innocence with the D.N.A. tests. He as an innocence man would have been killed. Legalizing execution for the punishing of murderers is a very important decision for Canadians to make. The result of the decision will decide ...
- 9237: Walt Whitman 2
- ... war was raging in both the north and the south during Whitman s golden era of his writing. In the North, the economy was blooming, and growing, and industry was getting better and better each day. While in the South, the price, and the labor of the war was taking its effect upon society. The economy was getting worse, and worse as time went on. The problems in the South grew ...
- 9238: The Canterbury Tales: The Knight
- ... a medevil knight should have. The Knight is one of the few characters in The Canterbury Tales who gets a relatively straightforward treatment. The Knight is described in the Prologue as an experienced fighter who'd distinguished himself on many pilgrimages (lines 45-60) and had fought in some fifteen battles (63). In addition, he is described as both "worthy and wise" and as "meeke as a maid." The Knight wears ...
- 9239: Capital Punishment: For
- ... locking up a human being behind steel bars for many years, vengeance itself? And is it "humane" that an individual who took the life of another, should receive heating, clothing, indoor plumbing, 3 meals a day, while a homeless person who has harmed no one receives nothing? Adversaries of capital punishment claim that it is far more humane then having the state take away the life of the individual. In February ...
- 9240: Capital Punishment
- ... by 1984. In 1980, thirty-nine states had enacted death penalty laws. From 1965 to 1983 favoritism of the death penalty has risen thirty-two percent. Now, seventy percent of Americans favor Capital Punishment. Washington D.C. had the highest murder rate in the country with 35.1 murders per 100,000 population. Nevada is second with twenty, Texas with 16.9, Florida at 14.5. South Dakota has the lowest ...
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