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- 5711: The Mass Media and Politics
- ... the news the public receives. The mass media is the means by which the citizens of the United States are informed of current events in politics. This gives the media huge amounts of power and control. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell stated in 1974, "An informed public depends upon accurate and effective reporting by the news media. No individual can obtain for himself the information needed for the intelligent discharge ...
- 5712: The Watergate Scandal
- ... claimed that Nixon had secretly tape-recorded all of the conversations that occurred in his executive offices. Once Special Prosecutor Cox discovered this, he and the Ervin Committee tried to relinquish these tapes from the control of President Nixon. Nixon cited Executive Privilege and refused to hand over the tapes. Nixon then ordered the Attorney General to fire Cox even though the President himself had appointed him. Attorney General Elliot L ...
- 5713: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- ... maintain a lock on the industry. Later robber barons, such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, and, of course, J. P. Morgan, operated much the same way, eliminating the competition by one way or another until they could control their industry (Cashman 38). As the three or four thousand tycoons made their fortunes, defying government, and basically creating a plutocracy of businessmen, another large group was entering the American melting pot in larger numbers ...
- 5714: Should Canada Be Allowed To Continue With Genetic Engineering Without Federal Guidelines?
- ... child leads the life of an average 6 month old. Dr. Bowen states "We have the potential to do alot of harm, and an incredible amount of good. Let's harness the good, keep some control to it, and get our heads out of the sand." Developments have come a long way since genetic engineering was first discovered. Right now scientists are working on a bacteria that will break down crude ...
- 5715: Raving Is A Lifestyle
- ... am going to put a pill in my mouth that someone that I do not know has manufactured in their basement. Little did I know that this was a common theme in the scene, quality control for basement pharmaceuticals is a difficult thing. I down the ecstasy and wait nervously for some thing to happen to feel something that had been extensively described to me, but for which I still had ...
- 5716: Different Forms of Government
- ... Security Council gain Power through the expansion of Power. The bigger the Government is the more it will act inconsistent,different goals and lack of communication cause this. The activist Government is less in the control of the Electorate. When the Government did little policies were based more on the next election than they are now. Today there is more of a blur of what our elected officials do which causes ...
- 5717: The First Amendment
- ... school newspaper. Superior Court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students' rights because it limits editorial control of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. A newly proposed bill (A-557) would prevent school officials from controlling the content of student publications. Critics of the ...
- 5718: Bill Clinton's Election Will Brighten America's Future
- ... the Los Angeles riots, racial tensions run high in this country. Many African-Americans and Hispanics are resentful of the white power structure, and are almost at the point of doing something drastic to gain control. The Republican administrations have basically ignored these problems of the inner-city, hoping that they would just be erased by prosperity. These problems are not going to go away, and Bill Clinton is willing to ...
- 5719: Sexism
- ... a she and they do not like that a woman would be on the same level as them. Bill Clinton wife "Hilary Clinton" is yet another example of a woman put down for being in control. The newspapers tore Hilary apart for trying to "take over" the President's job. Why would it bother them that she may have been helping out the economy? Once again, the president is a man ...
- 5720: Shermans March
- ... why. General Hood led his army successfully far over towards Mississippi in hopes to decoy us out of Georgia. But we were not thus to be led away by him, and preferred to lead and control events ourselves. General Thomas and Schofield, commanding departments to our rear retuned to their posts and prepared to decoy General Hood into their meshes, whilst we came on to complete the original journey. (Thorndike, 243 ...
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