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- 71: Brief History of the NRA
- Brief History of the NRA The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated militia was integral for the security of a free state. It is an organization that opposes gun control, it believes in the individual defense of the uses of firearms, and it is interested in all aspects of shooting sports.1 Today, the organization stands with approximately 3.4 million members. Within the ...
- 72: The Second Amendment
- ... guns."The debate over whether guns are a hallowed tradition and a right guaranteed by the Second Ammendment of the U.S.constitution or whether they are a fearful danger contributing to crime and violence." ("gun control") Due to the outbreak of violence in our society, some people feel that repealing the Second Ammendment would solve the problem. These people feel that repealing the Second Ammendment would solve the problem. These people ... students deal with their problems "Twenty-five or thirty years ago, when teenage boys got into a fight... it usually meant a fist fight. In more and more neighborhoods... it now means a shoot out" ("Gun Control"320). Violence like that is a major problem on our streets and even in our schools. Almost everywhere now "youngsters are packing weapons, Some are involved in drugs or gangs; others carry them ...
- 73: Impacts Of Birth Control
- By: Chris outlaw E-mail: outlaw9488@aol.com Chris Outlaw His-255 5-30-00 Discuss the impacts of birth control on men and women. The aspect of sex and the use of birth control were touchy issues in the early 20th century. Sex was only for married couples that wanted to have children. The idea of sex before marriage was crazy. Because of all the beliefs about sex being only for procreation and not for pleasure birth control was not needed. There was one major event and one key person who are responsible for making the use of birth control acceptable in America. The major event being World War I. In World ...
- 74: Canada - Of The United States of America
- ... more Freudian “survival of the fittest” concept towards government where the rights of the individual are predominant and industry is publicly owned and run with little help from the government. Although there is some government control and ownership of industry in both countries it is much more common in Canada where “the state has always dominated and shaped the ... economy.”3 Of 400 top industrial firms, 25 were controlled by federal ... S. system. This may also be said true for Canadian's superior respect for law and authority. Canada's fathers of confederation stressed a great Canadian motto of “Peace, Order, and Good Government” which implies control of, and protection for the society. The parallel motto developed by America's founding fathers is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, this model suggests the upholding of the rights of the individual. Due to the Canadian motto being geared towards the rights and obligations of the community “ the crime control model .... emphasizes the maintenance of law and order, and is less protective of the rights of the accused and of individuals generally”.11 Due to the American ‘s stress on the rights of the ...
- 75: Canada - Of the United States of America
- ... more Freudian “survival of the fittest” concept towards government where the rights of the individual are predominant and industry is publicly owned and run with little help from the government. Although there is some government control and ownership of industry in both countries it is much more common in Canada where “the state has always dominated and shaped the ... economy.”3 Of 400 top industrial firms, 25 were controlled by federal ... S. system. This may also be said true for Canadian's superior respect for law and authority. Canada's fathers of confederation stressed a great Canadian motto of “Peace, Order, and Good Government” which implies control of, and protection for the society. The parallel motto developed by America's founding fathers is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, this model suggests the upholding of the rights of the individual. Due to the Canadian motto being geared towards the rights and obligations of the community “ the crime control model .... emphasizes the maintenance of law and order, and is less protective of the rights of the accused and of individuals generally”.11 Due to the American ‘s stress on the rights of the ...
- 76: Birth Control
- Methods of Birth Control Birth control pills are an oral contraceptive for women. They are monophasic, biphasic, or triphasic. Each type contains estrogen and progestin in differing amounts. Monophasic birth control pills maintain the same levels of estrogen and progestin throughout the course, while biphasic pills keep the estrogen level the same while increasing the progestin levels for the last 11 days of the pack, ...
- 77: Adult Education In The U.S
- ... is the most important and well-researched topic in the field of adult education. While the reasons for this are surely complicated, one important reason has to be the intuitively appealing desire to be in control of deciding what to learn and how to learn it. It also fits with the desire and need felt by most adults to continue to learn. These congenitally human characteristics are inherent in the concept ... and ¡°learning,¡± respectively. In adult education, however, most of the focus has been on self-direction (i.e., self-management of learning tasks). As such, the construct has been largely defined in terms of external control and facilitation, rather than internal cognitive processing and learning. Long¡¯s position was that, without the psychological or cognitive dimension, the focus is on teaching not learning. He argued that ¡°Pedagogical procedures whether imposed by a teacher or freely chosen by the learner remain pedagogical or ¡®teaching¡¯ activities. Hence we have other-teaching or perhaps self-teaching but not self-learning¡±. This distinction between external control and internal cognitive responsibility is the basis for the self-directed learning framework and model presented here. More recently, Brockett and Hiemstra (1991) have proposed an interesting framework by expanding the self-directed learning ...
- 78: Adult Education In The U.s.
- ... is the most important and well-researched topic in the field of adult education. While the reasons for this are surely complicated, one important reason has to be the intuitively appealing desire to be in control of deciding what to learn and how to learn it. It also fits with the desire and need felt by most adults to continue to learn. These congenitally human characteristics are inherent in the concept ... and ¡°learning,¡± respectively. In adult education, however, most of the focus has been on self-direction (i.e., self-management of learning tasks). As such, the construct has been largely defined in terms of external control and facilitation, rather than internal cognitive processing and learning. Long¡¯s position was that, without the psychological or cognitive dimension, the focus is on teaching not learning. He argued that ¡°Pedagogical procedures whether imposed by a teacher or freely chosen by the learner remain pedagogical or ¡®teaching¡¯ activities. Hence we have other-teaching or perhaps self-teaching but not self-learning¡±. This distinction between external control and internal cognitive responsibility is the basis for the self-directed learning framework and model presented here. More recently, Brockett and Hiemstra (1991) have proposed an interesting framework by expanding the self-directed learning ...
- 79: D-Day
- ... sound like all the divisions made it easily to shore but that is not true. Many amphibious tanks were unable to make the trek on the rough seas and sank. Two out of the three control vessels for the beach hit land mines and sank and countless landing craft were shelled by German coastal guns. There were also several drownings involving troops being weighed down by their equipment and drowning in water around six feet deep. If the soldiers managed to make it to shore they were still faced with German machine gun fire. Fortunately, the beach and it's surroundings had become the victim of a large sea launched missile attack clearing most of the German defences. Once divisions had made it on the beach and secured ... because the weight of the equipment they were carrying held them under the water. Other craft hit mines, losing troops, supplies and weapons. Most of the landing craft were being fired upon by German machine gun fire even when the crafts were still over 1,000 yards away from the beach. Some even ran aground while still 100 feet from shore. Attempts to improve the situation were made by groups ...
- 80: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... speech had been interrupted by all this, yielded the podium to Hitler. "The National Revolution has begun!" Hitler shouted. "...No one may leave the hall. Unless there is immediate quiet I shall have a machine gun posted in the gallery. The Bavarian and Reich governments have been removed and a provisional national government formed. The barracks of the Reichswehr and police are occupied. The Army and the police are marching on ... Jew." Hitler describes the struggle for world domination as an ongoing racial, cultural, and political battle between Aryans and Jews. He outlines his thoughts in detail, accusing the Jews of conducting an international conspiracy to control world finances, controlling the press, inventing liberal democracy as wells as Marxism, promoting prostitution and vice, and using culture to spread disharmony. Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler refers to Jews as parasites, liars, dirty, crafty, sly ... although Goebbels won a seat in the Reichstag. For the average German, the Nazis at this time had little appeal. Things seemed to be just fine without them. The economy was strong, inflation was under control, and people were working again. Adolf Hitler was simply biding his time, knowing it would not last. At Berchtesgaden, Hitler finished dictating the second volume of Mein Kampf to Rudolph Hess. In the summer ...
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