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- 2031: Violence Against Women Act
- ... This act is based solely on interstate commerce and is thereforeConstitutional. Because of abuse, Sara Benenson was afraid to get a job because it would anger her husband. She was afraid to go back to school and she was afraid to go shopping or spend any money on her own. All three of these things clearly interfere and affect interstate commerce. Women like Mrs. Benenson are the reason the act was ... connection with interstate commerce,as long as it has a rational basis, makes it possible for Congress to legislate it. In the United States v. Lopez decision, The Supreme Court struck down the Gun Free School Zones Act. It's reasoning was that Congress had overstepped it's power to legislate interstate commerce. The Court decided that this act was not sufficiently grounded in interstate commerce for Congress to be allowed to pass it. The circumstances in this case are entirely different than in the case of Sara Benenson. For one thing, the Gun Free School Zones Act was not nearly as well based in the commerce clause as is our case. The Gun act said that violence in schools kept student from learning and therefore limited their future earning ...
- 2032: Hunger Of Memory
- ... with his family gave Rodriguez comfort and a feeling of safety that was not felt outside of his home. Rodriguez was forced to leave that comfort and safety every morning though once he began attending school. The author describes hearing the cold, harsh sounds of the English language and wishing that his teachers would welcome him in Spanish, instead. The author explains that, as a child, he regarded Spanish as his ... as an American citizen like the other children in his class, and this discouraged him from readily learning English. Ultimately, Rodriguez did learn to speak the public language. Some of the teachers at Rodriguez s school were concerned with his and his siblings unresponsiveness in class and their unwillingness to speak English. They spoke with his parents and suggested that speaking English at home would make an easier transition for the ... did Rodriguez hear the warm sounds of Spanish fill his house. Speaking English began to separate his family. As he and his siblings began speaking more and more English outside of the home, primarily at school, the parents had a more difficult time communicating with their children and, therefore, conversations became strained and less frequent. While his home life considerably changed, Rodriguez s life at school became drastically different. Previously ...
- 2033: Alternative Medicine
- ... employees enrolled in Kaiser-Permanente and Health Net HMO’s. The administrative agency that provides the programs is the Self Insured Schools of California, (“SISC”), which is a cost-containment consortium of hundreds of California school districts. Currently, SISC provides coverage for more than thirty-five thousand employees and their eligible dependents. In addition to medical coverages, the office also provides life, vision, dental, prescription and mental and nervous policies. The ... 1993, the National Institutes of Health chose Dr. Joe Jacobs to head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring cost of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments such as: AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain, which have yet to yield to standard medicine”(Toufexis,1993). The cost of standard medical care has risen ... physical therapy may be required to resolve the injury. Otherwise, in the case of a minor injury, cold packs, pain medication and rest may be appropriate treatment. Costs for traditional physician treatment are generally very high. For example, a standard MRI will cost at least a thousand dollars. Referral to an Orthopedic Surgeon and subsequent treatment including possible surgery, medication and subsequent physical therapy can cost tens of thousands of ...
- 2034: Is There Hope For The Psychopa
- ... they are inadequate and shamed, and because of that, they are teased and made fun of. One of the major characteristics of a future sociopath includes being incapable of following rules. The youngster may skip school, bully, steal, torment animals and/or run away from home.The child is likely to develop Attention Deficit \Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. At an earlier age than their peer group, the child may smoke, drink ... should be closely monitored. Those that are convicted of crimes are usually incarcerated. Some sociopaths may be able to, instead of a jail term, choose a residential facility that has counseling, but there is a high drop out rate in those facilities. Another alternative to jail for the adolescents with delinquent behavior, and who are in trouble with the law include wilderness programs that are designed to provide difficult and dangerous ... as often staying out all night despite parental rules that begin before the age of 13 13. running away from home at least twice (once not returning for a lengthy period) 14. frequent truancy from school • significant impairment in functioning socially at school or work The diagnoses of a sociopath is extremely difficult because they have so many mental problems to contend with that the complete diagnoses might not occur. ...
- 2035: Jimi Hendrix
- ... to the music which affected his music so greatly later: "‘everyone from Buddy Holly to Muddy Waters and through Chuck Berry way back to Eddie Cochrane’" (Wilmer 38). He played in a few bands in high school, but then dropped out before his senior year. After working as a laborer for a few months, Jimi decided that he was not destined for that line of work, so in 1959, he enlisted into ... diversity and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in "If 6 was 9" on Axis: Bold As Love when he said "I’m gonna wave my freak flag high." Hendrix’ first forays into professional music came after he received his honorable discharge from service in the summer of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black ...
- 2036: Infanticide
- ... 1800's Foundling Hospitals were established to provide care for illegitimate or unwanted infants. There was much debate whether the Foundling Hospitals would help to reduce the rate of infanticide. Studies show there was a high rate of infanticide within the hospitals themselves. (King, Once A Week, Sept. 1865) Most of these institutions prove to be more cruel than direct infanticide. Due to insufficient hospital staff and the inefficiency of adoption ... small infants. Further study revealed their parents have in fact suffocated the children. A study which was conducted in three Quebec City hospitals between 1985 and 1994 showed that cases of infanticide were twice as high as coroner reports indicated. (Internet, CFRA News Talk Radio) Our compassion hinges on the child, not just on the mother. Killers of older children, no matter how desperate, evoke little mercy. Susan Smith, the South ... are more prone to cause serious physical injury to a baby. n Help keep the teenage pregnancy rate headed downward, contraceptives should be made available at no cost in public health clinics on and off high school campuses. n Teen parent programs are available in most communities and teaches young mothers how to take care of both her unborn child and newborn child. The program also will a
- 2037: Global Stratification- A Socio
- By: James Cory E-mail: captainobvious@rocketmail.com The industrialization and technology of the world’s higher income nations has a negative effect on the plight of the world’s poorer nations. The high-income nations’ industrialization encourages child labor, poor living conditions in exchange for material things, and higher world pollution. When the higher income nations became industrialized in the 1800’s, the lower income nations were slow ... may most likely be in decrepit shape. The striving for Western goods puts personal hygiene and safe, comfortable living space to the “back seat” in favor of displays of conspicuous consumption. The image that the high-income countries projects to those of lower income is that of nations where everyone owns a car and commutes to work in the city, while enjoying the pleasantries of the wealthy. Many people in middle-income countries drive cars that lack the pollution controlling devices required of cars in high-income countries. Although fewer in number, these cars have the capacity to do much more harm to the environment. For example, Mexico City often has a warning that the pollution level in the city ( ...
- 2038: Literature And Its Affect On S
- ... ideology. Having an extremely influential past, literature indirectly affects the television world that has swept over the minds of the baby boomers and their offspring. In a recent survey compiled by students at Glacier Bay High School, there were unanimous results that supported the fact that television was America's favorite form of entertainment, yet literature could possibly be the most beneficial. The roots of literary influence are imbedded in the very ... United States reads about four books per year, yet the average family watches over five hours a television every day. What is wrong with this picture? People wonder why shootings are happening in America's high schools and teenage crime is at an all-time high. The answer is quite simply the culture of the late twentieth century is lazy with their minds and their talents. If a computer cannot ...
- 2039: John Dalton
- ... but "although they were never hungry they were poor" Dalton was lucky he was a Quaker , other boys received little or no education, but as Quakers Dalton received a fair education at the closest Quaker school . For Dalton it was an achievement going to school since in those times only one out of two-hundred and fifteen people could read. John Dalton went to the Quaker school at Pardshow Hall. Dalton was quick when it came to studies and in mathematical problems he was good and seem to be tireless of them. John Fletcher was Dalton's teacher, he was a ...
- 2040: Youth Violence
- ... occur everyday. Kids feel that Robocop and Hulk are great models, but these characters are a bad influence on children. Growing up to be a violent person isn t the right road to take. At school, the fight for status and status related confrontations cause violence. Academically poor students are usually those who are aggressive troublemakers, in or out of class. In addition to all these factors, your individual factors also ... conflicts between other students. Although these are many ways to reduce youth violence, the most effective to me is training in conflict resolution. These conflict resolution programs have grown in popularity in schools, elementary or high schools throughout the world. On this conflict resolution course, you train to look for different views to settle your problems. Most kids today feel that violence is the only way out of problems, but it ... course will teach you how to talk through your problems. This will not only help you a young person, but it will help you all your life. Recently, this course has been applied her in school today. In Escuela Americana and many other schools in El Salvador, students feel that it is important to be recognized as the strongest, or the toughest. About two months ago, I met with a ...
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