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- 1521: Capital Punishment
- ... cage filled with live mice or sparrows. This toy became a bestseller. The reformers in Europe reached their goal eventually; the death penalty has been abolished in many European nations such as the Scandinavian, West Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland. The U.S.A. is one of the few countries that have retained the death penalty. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, famous for his criminal cases, believes this is an ...
- 1522: Counterfeiting: We're In The Money
- ... an illegal practice that has has been around for years and, unfortunately,is getting worse. "Last year, ...the Secret Service cooperated with the Italian authorities' seizure of $43.8 million in counterfeit U.S. currency, Germany's capture of more than $19 million in counterfeit cash, and the Canadian authorities; seizure of than $129 million in counterfeit U.S. currency." (Gomez, Bertha. "Officials Say..") In a small town north of Chicago ...
- 1523: Euthanasia
- ... J13). Other opponents feel that it can get out of control and become an abuse of power. Just who can decide who can live and die is an issue that reminds some people of Nazi Germany where those in power decided that individuals who were no longer valuable to the community were killed (Encarta). Many doctors are also troubled by this issue, because they say a creed that they will preserve ...
- 1524: Studies in Religion Euthanasia - A Moral Issue
- ... like this would be euthanised, for no reason. Another argument, one which many people who are for Voluntary Euthanasia might consider just simply fear-mongering and not a decent fact, is that of history. In Germany, before World War II, Hitler had old Germans, normal citizens, not just Jews, euthanised. Involuntarily. This caused a big outcry and, luckily, this horrendous occurrence ceased. However, the people who are against euthanasia say that ...
- 1525: A Definitive Argument On Euthanasia
- ... and observations made by these two people, who are not to my knowledge, experts in euthanasia. Another way that McCurdy tries to use ethos is in paragraph 10. Unfortunately, his parallels between euthanasia and Nazi Germany neither help his argument nor lend structure to it. Needless to say, McCurdy does make a good point, saying that we should reject a definition of euthanasia that ignores the difference between those motivated by ...
- 1526: What Causes Infectious Diseases to Strike?
- ... another filovirus; Marburg. Around the same time as the river outbreak a shipment of twelve African green monkeys caught far from their natural habitat left Uganda. The monkeys ended up in the town of Marburg Germany. It was here that laboratory technicians were to study tissue and blood samples from the African monkeys. Twenty-five of the thirty-one laboratory workers died from exposure to Marburg. Since this occurance multiple cases ...
- 1527: The Harm of Illegal Drugs
- ... 29 million, 12 million of them use it regurlary.”(Carr 56). At high school level one-half of all students have tried marijuana. The next drug, heroine, is a narcotic drug derived in 1898 in Germany as a pain reliever. It was discovered during the search for a non-addictive morphine substitute. It was not carefully tested. Heroine is a bitter, odorless, white crystalline power. It can be injected into the ...
- 1528: Biological Warfare and Terrorism
- ... packages were disguised to look like lunch boxes or soda conta iners and it was reported that the chemical agent used was an impure or dilute solution of sarin, a nerve agent developed by Nazi Germany during the '30's. This was the beginning of a frightening future for the modern world. "Organized and indiscriminat e murder" (Tokyo, A1) on a large scale is clearly possible and chemical weapons are likely ...
- 1529: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... a trip and thought it was paradise. So first my mom and sister moved to Las Vegas, then I sold the house in Pittsburg and moved the boys and myself out here. David was in Germany, teaching. We got an apartment at Desert Shores. The boys couldn't wait for their dad to come back. You know, David was an extremely confident man." Jackie lowers her sunglasses and looks at me ...
- 1530: Death Can Come Too Late: Active and Passive Euthanasia
- ... premise that once society begins to accept active voluntary euthanasia, we will spiral downward into a state of immorality that will allow for indiscriminate killing of any unwanted persons, such as was the case in Germany under Hitler. Those that use this argument state that, if we do not draw a line, we will be unable to prevent substantial harm to others, and that the moral line should be drawn at ...
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