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- 2001: Rights of Egyptian Women
- ... the woman of Ancient Egypt held rights and maintained liberties enviable to many women today. Legal equality and land ownership gave women political power and financial independence while the devastation of disease and high mortality rates made motherhood a respected and appreciated institution. Domestic subjugation was avoided by the absence of a notion of racial purity, freeing the woman's sexuality and preventing external interference of the family. Although few of ...
- 2002: Comparative Essay: Mothers With A Divided Heart
- ... child is being well taken care of. Stay-at-home moms have the opportunity to become more involved in the children's school activities as well. This can be important to both because it shows interest in the child and that leads to higher self-esteem for the child. This way of living is beneficial for the children as well because there is only one set of rules to follow. The ...
- 2003: Rehabilitation of Criminals: A Waste of Time or Worth The Effort?
- ... this leads to criminal mischief. After school programs already in use at public schools have had a sharp decrease in criminal related mischief. Programs such as sports and homework help has helped in reducing dropout rates.
- 2004: Homosexuals: A Suspect Class?
- ... aside millennia of moral teaching. Since the Court found that private acts of sodomy are not constitutionally protected, Georgia was permitted to bar homosexuality on merely "rational" grounds--a far cry from the "compelling state interest" it would have had to meet if the sodomy had been protected. The rational reason, the Supreme Court said, was that: The law . . . [was] constantly based on notions of morality . . . if all laws representing essentially ...
- 2005: The Real Threat of Nuclear Smuggling
- ... Some suggest that systematic multinational measures be taken as soon as possible to inhibit theft at the source, to disrupt trafficking, and to deter buyers. The U.S., Germany, Russia and other nations with an interest in the nuclear problem should set up a "flying squad" with an investigative arm, facilities for counterterrorist and counterextortion actions and a disaster management team. Even though such an idea may seem extremely far-fetched ...
- 2006: Protection From Abuse and Neglect
- ... an abusive situation. The small scale association is limited to children so they can feel free to express their experiences and ask questions openly to others without having to worry about adult supervision. This may interest children to comment on situations and on general conversation that they normally would be scared to ask their parents. I feel that this is relevant to children in today's society because these situations of ...
- 2007: Loving in Truth: Creating a Society of Living in Harmony in the 21st Century
- ... this world can become a better place. It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in the mainstream aspirations. Various programs are springing up to help children. However, like the welfare program, for ...
- 2008: Humanism
- ... through out European history, and now constitutes a basic part of the Western approach to science, political theory, ethics, and law. Philosophical Humanism is any outlook or way of life centered on human need and interest. Sub categories of this type include the two following. Christian Humanism is defined by Webster's Third New International Dictionary as “a philosophy advocating the self fulfillment of man within the framework of Christian principles ...
- 2009: Hollywood's Attack on Religion
- ... film by nominating Scorsese for an Academy Award as Best Director. This response by the movie industry "provides a good example of the film establishment rallying around a bad film to protect its own selfish interest . . . that film, . . . was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere," (48) according to Mickey Rooney, one of only a few established Hollywood figures who spoke out against the film. And in the end, MCA ...
- 2010: A Civil Rebuttal
- ... search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means. Through this most specific definition given to us respectively by Sir Webster's dictionary, I choose in my best interest to refrain to you just what the meaning of philosophy is. I implore you to try and comprehend this matter in what exactly this word brought abrupt to us is about. The word philosophy has ...
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