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- 5541: The Pros And Cons About Legalizing Marijuana
- ... Orleans. ---. Lies Lies Lies. Berkeley, Lexington, New Orleans. ---. Marijuana As Medicine. New Orleans. ---. Restriction Lifted on Growing Hemp. New Orleans: 1993. ---. This is What The Government Says About Marijuana. Berkeley, Lexington, New Orleans. Cronin, Russell. "High Hopes for the First Legal Cannabis Crop." The Independent 12 July 1993: 6. Drake, Bill. "Marijuana: An Herb for the Aging." 1986. Online. Netscape. 10 Feb 1997. Florida Legalization Organization. Hemp for Food, Fuel, Fiber & Medicine, The Economy and the Environment. Lacrosse, Florida: 1989: 1-3, 5-8, 15, 80, 86-89. Gettman, John. "Marijuana & the Brain." High Times March 1995: 33-36. Hager, Paul. "Marijuana Myths." Indiana Civil Liberties Union Drug Task Force. Online. Netscape 9 Feb 1997. Hilts, Philip J. "Relative Addictiveness of Drugs." New York Times 2 Aug 1994, sec ...
- 5542: Crimes
- ... Such groups are often called the "crime syndicate or the underworld." Organized crime specializes in providing illegal goods and services. Its activities include gambling, prostitution, the illegal sale of drugs, and loaning money at extremely high rates of interest. Many of these activities are often called "victimless crimes" because both the buyer and the seller take part in them willingly. Most activities of the crime syndicate are not reported to the ... many of the people fear the police and refuse to cooperate with them. All these factors increase the possibility that a person who lives in a slum will commit criminal acts. Most residents of the high-crime slum areas of many large cities are negroes or members of other minority groups. As a result, the crime rate for such minority groups is higher than that for the white majority group. Nonwhites ...
- 5543: Brown vs. Board of Education
- ... no logic in the statement “separate but equal schools are not equal.” They argue that the earlier problem could have been solved well by making schools “truly” equal and having students go to their closest school rather than busing them out of there way to make sure the each school meats a quota of minority students.
- 5544: Missouri Fox Trotter
- ... their pleasant gaits and surefootedness. According to the Missouri Fox Trotter Horse Breed Association, this is a "horse of all talents." ("The Winning Combination") The Missouri Fox Trotter Horse should stand fourteen to sixteen hands high (approximately seven to nine feet tall) and able to carry weight. All colors are accepted including pinto and albino, and they usually have white markings. A strong saddle horse, compact and up to weight, its head is attractive and alert, tapering to a small muzzle. (Edwards, Larousse Guide , 196) The withers are pronounced; the back is short and straight; the croup muscular and rounded; the tail set rather high; the chest broad and deep; the shoulders sloped and muscular. The legs are sturdy and well muscled. (Hendricks, 286) Its uniqueness lies in its ability to execute the strange gait known as the Fox-trot ...
- 5545: Horace Mann
- Horace Mann was the father of the American School System. Horace Mann’s had many reforms on education. He was born in 1796. Mann determined what the purpose of education should be based on his own experience and observation. Mann also had many ideas ... Mann thought also that schools should have nothing to do in their religion and politics. Ideally, this is what public schools and teachers try to do today. Religion is not a part of the public school today. During Mann’s twelve years as secretary of the Massachusetts board of education he sent back reports to the board as to the condition of schools and what he thought should be taught in ...
- 5546: Fair Labor Act Of 1938
- ... Lubin, explained to the joint Senate-House committee that during depressions the ability to overwork employees, rather than efficiency, determined business success. The economy, he reported, had deteriorated to the chaotic stage where employers with high standards were forced by cut-throat competition to exploit labor in order to survive. "The outstanding feature of the proposed legislation," Lubin said, is that "it aims to establish by law a plane of competition ... Roosevelt felt that attacking abuses of child labor and sweatshop wages and hours was a popular cause that might reunite the party. A wage-hour, child-labor law promised to be a happy marriage of high idealism and practical politics. On October 12, 1937, Roosevelt called a special session of Congress to convene on November 15. The public interest, he said, required immediate Congressional action: "The exploitation of child labor and ...
- 5547: Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
- ... the computer's memory, and could quickly be replaced by a different set of instructions for a different function. A computer could print customer invoices and minutes later design products or calculate paychecks. More sophisticated high-level languages such as COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) and FORTRAN (Formula Translator) came into common use during this time, and have expanded to the current day. These languages replaced cryptic binary machine code with ... It will take several more years of development before expert systems are in widespread use. In making a list of the most important inventions or developments of the twentieth century, computers would probably be very high on that list. But it would be incorrect to include computers on this list. It is clear to see that the modern day computer is the culmination of centuries of development, without which computers may ...
- 5548: Gangs
- ... or her throat. There's others that involve rituals and sacrifices. Teenage gang members are linked to conventional barrio life is obvious. In fact, much of the members' time is spent with the "family", at school, under the eyes of neighbors who are decidedly "square," and, sometimes, with conventional friends or dates. This linkage is usually overlooked in researchers' preoccupation with the life of the gang during the hours that it ... slang term, originally coined by gangs, specifies a youth who isn't in a gang, but who likes to "hang around" gang members wherever they meet and go. Shopping malls, homes, parties, locations near a school, music shops, etc. are typical locales for "hanging." "Hanging out" can act as a magnet for gang (sometimes called "peewees") or at-risk youths who are new to a neighborhood. "Tagging" is one form of ...
- 5549: Falkland Islands War Paper
- ... most part British and Argentine troops played by the rules of war. Patrick Bishop has classified the campaign as having “many of the characteristics of a nineteenth-century military encounter.”(18) Despite all of the high-tech weaponry available to both sides, bayonets were bloodied in several battles. Nevertheless, advanced technology did have a definite impact upon the direction of the war, especially during sea-based encounters. It is interesting that ... of the Falkland Islands for ten weeks before the Union Jack once again flew over Stanley. The effect of the loss upon Argentine morale was devastating. While the number of casualties had not been particularly high, (Argentina only lost about 700 soldiers in the war)(41) Argentinean armed forces had been humiliated at every turn. Within a month of the campaign’s end, every member of the junta, including Galtieri himself ...
- 5550: Legalizing Marijuana Legislation
- ... It is also used for patients who suffer from glaucoma. Patients with glaucoma say that smoking marijuana decreases the pressure on their eyes. Doctor Solomon Snyder, who is a professor of pharmacology at John Hopkins School of Medicine, and Doctor Grinspoon, who is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School argue that cannabis has been used extensively, and showed apparent success to treat a variety of illnesses. These illnesses include migraines, excessive menstrual bleeding to ulcers, epilepsy, muscle relaxant, convulsing patients, and even tooth decay ...
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