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- 2461: Make US Citizenship More Difficult
- ... incredible example is the broad range of cultural foods found in the United States. In how many other countries throughout the world can you go to almost any given city and find Italian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Tex-Mex, Cajun, and Mexican food. Economically we can not afford to decrease the annual rate of immigration that we have. False statements that are passed between many Americans about immigrants are complaints that we ...
- 2462: Drug Prohibition
- ... to the United States (Spiegel 480). This subversion of government can even reach our beauracracy as the CIA is rumored to have allowed the Nicaraguan Contras to sell drugs in the US to fund their revolution against the Sandinistas ("CIA" 20). Therefore, in South America, our persistence on Drug Prohibition has not only been unable to prevent the further imports of drugs, but also could lead to the installation of Communist ...
- 2463: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and bear arms a constitutionally guaranteed right. Over the years, some ...
- 2464: Capital Punishment
- ... each year. Reform of the death penalty began in Europe by the 1750s.It was mentioned in the code of Hammurabi, and was championed by such academics such as the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria, the French philosopher Voltaire, and the English law reformers Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Romilly. They argued that the death penalty was needlessly cruel, overrated as a deterrent, and occasionally imposed in fatal error. Along with Quaker leaders ...
- 2465: Origanum Vulgare
- ... Mountains from where it is gathered. Before modern day medicines were invented for stomachaches, oregano was used for minor food poisonings and convulsions. Externally, oregano was used on skin irritations to cease the itch. The French included it in soaps and pomades. The Greeks crowned newlyweds with oregano and planted it on graves as well as using the herb medically. Oreganos German name, wurstkraut, reveals its use of seasoning sausages ...
- 2466: The Death Penalty
- ... as a form of entertainment. In 1939 things changed when the execution of Ugene Windeman was video taped by a photographer and pictures were published afterwards without the knowing or permission of British authorities. The French Government was very embarrassed and public execution was banned in France. During the past year in China, Amnesty International recorded over 2000 executions and believe that the real number is much larger. The guilty are ...
- 2467: Reviving The Death Penalty
- ... them speak out against killing right before they lost their own life". On the side of capital punishment are many great thinkers in our history, Rousseau, Kent, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Locke, and Hobbes' (Draper 113). French philosopher Montesquieu went as far as to say "The death penalty shall be prescribed as the medicine for a social malady". "Data shows that some murderers have killed again after a convinction and prison sentence ...
- 2468: William Clark's Slave York
- ... York was viewed as a subservient ``Sambo.'' Though some modern-day historians see York as something of a hero. Still, unlike Sacagawea, he still is relatively unknown. Sacagawea, who accompanied the expedition along with her French trapper husband and their child, received similar treatment as York. But she was turned into a hero early in the 20th century by the women's suffrage movement. And York? Scholars say he remained a ...
- 2469: Capital Punishment: Why or Why Not?
- ... and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears," says, Joseph de Maistre, an eighteenth century French Diplomat. He is right, if we give up on punishing a deadly criminal, then we throw our society into chaos and let the criminals freely do as they please. I would feel safe if I ...
- 2470: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and bear arms a constitutionally guaranteed right. Over the years, some ...
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