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- 3101: Affirmative Action: Opportunities of Character, Not Color
- ... affirmative action policies in college admissions must be eliminated because of the negative effects they have on campuses across the nation. There are numerous arguments that defend the use of affirmative action and advocate its effect on college campuses. Supporters of affirmative action believe that minorities are still disadvantaged and that it is "absolutely necessary to level the playing field" (Wilkins 334). They believe that minorities will never be given a ...
- 3102: Affirmative Action
- ... earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they can accept a more diverse group of students. This solution is ridiculous, simply because everyone has a chance ...
- 3103: The Mass Media and Politics
- ... The government officials are the men and women who make the laws and generally run the country. The mass media is at the beginning of a long chain, but nonetheless, the media has a powerful effect on politics in the United States. Works Cited Cirino, Robert. Power to Persuade Mass Media and the News. New York: Bantam Books, 1974. Gottfried, Ted. Privacy. Connecticut: Millbrook Press, 1994. Remy, Richard C. United States ...
- 3104: Constitutional Convention: Day by Day Occurrences
- ... Sherman's plan of "compromise", which Mr. James Madison (who is in great favor of this plan) has coined the phrase "The Great Compromise". Mr. Sherman now suggests if we have any law going into effect as a bill, it should pass through both houses of Congress before it can be approved by a president. I think this is a excellent way to give equal power to both houses! More details ...
- 3105: The 26 Amendments of the US Constitution
- ... of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article. Section 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of ...
- 3106: The Canadian Government
- ... rest of Canada during the 1960s and early 1970s.) kidnapped James Cross, the Britsh Trade Commissioner, and Pierre Laporte, the Quebec Labour Minister. As a result of this, the War Measures Act was put into effect. (This is an act giving police and the armed forces sweeping powers of arrest, search and detention. It was also used in World War I and II.) The FLQ killed Laporte and then released Cross ...
- 3107: Policy Profile of Senator Richard Lugar
- ... headed senator sent a message to Saddam Hussein---the current leader of Iraq---that the U.S. means business and is willing to enter a combat situation in order to have these American citizens released.(Greenhouse, 3) As one might conclude from the aforementioned refrences, Richard Lugar is a very active statesmen in the realm of foreign affairs. He acknowledges that this degree of involvement could be potentially harmful to a ...
- 3108: National Honor Society - Vice President Speech
- ... because I like to accomplish things. I have numerous ideas that can make our club better than it has ever been. I would like to be able to put these and many more ideas into effect. I hope that you will consider me for the position of Vice-President of the National Honor Society, Thank you. .
- 3109: The Downfall of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe
- ... neither West nor East Germany had a say in the other's decision on whether to form a unified state or what conditions such a unification would be contingent upon, respectively. Put simply, the net effect of the extension of the Basic Law to all of Germany did not guarantee the implementation of a new joint governing policy or a new constitution for the country. It seemed, as a result of ...
- 3110: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... enjoying at critical times the right the right of unlimited arrest and summary execution of suspects and hostages. The principle of such police surveillance over the political leanings of the Soviet population has remained in effect ever since, despite the varying intensity of repression and the organizational changes of the police -- from Cheka to GPU (The State Political Administration) to NKVD (people's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) to MVD (Ministry of ...
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