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Term Papers on Legal and Government
Legalization Of Drugs: Against
Number of words: 1762 - Number of pages: 7.... drug
legalization is morally disgusting.The number of people who are addicted to
illegal drugs or are users of these drugs is quite shocking. Drug abuse is
clearly an injurious and sometimes fatal problem. The leaders of the
international economic summit in Paris in July 1989 concluded that the
devastating proportions of the drug problem calls for decisive action. On
September 5, 1989, President Bush called upon the United States to join in an
all-out fight against drugs. The United States Congress reports an estimated 25
to 30 million addicts of illegal drugs .....
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Divorce
Number of words: 834 - Number of pages: 4.... 45 states did the same, and by 1985 every state had either switched to the No-Fault law or changed their existing laws in some way. The result was a 250% increase in rates from 1960 to 1980 (according to a fifty state survey conducted by the Journal of Marriage and the Family). Also, younger people in the U.S. who are marrying for the first time face roughly a 40-50% chance of divorcing in their lifetime under current trends (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, P.5). And of those marriages that end in , many will end in the first 3 to 5 years (U.S. Bureau of the .....
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Illinois Vs. Nathan Leopold And Richard Loeb
Number of words: 1879 - Number of pages: 7.... and was planning to begin studies at Harvard Law School after a family trip to Europe in the summer. Leopold, who was very interested in wildlife, had already achieved recognition as the nation’s leading authority on the Kirtland warbler, an endangered songbird. Leopold agreed with Friedrich Nietzsche, and believed that legal obligations didn’t apply to those who approached “the superman.” Leopold’s idea of the superman was his friend and lover, Richard Loeb.
Leopold and Loeb’s relationship was described by Clarence Darrow as “weird and almost impossible.” Wi .....
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Russian Reform And Economics: The Last Quarter Of The 20th Century
Number of words: 1923 - Number of pages: 7.... the reformation of the USSR was becoming a reality, Russia's economy was
crumbling beneath it. Russia began its economic challenge of perestroika in the
1980's. The Russian people wanted economic security and freedom, while the
government was trying to obtain democracy. The previous management styles
needed to be changed along with the way that most businesses in Russia operated.
The Russian Federation consists of 17,075,400 square km, which is roughly
76.2 percent of the former USSR, and covers about 12 percent of the earth's land
surface. The Russian .....
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Bubonic Plague
Number of words: 1119 - Number of pages: 5.... Fourteenth century man had no concept of how the disease was spread or how it could be stopped. The plague was transmitted to western Europe from China along trade routes (Matthew 154). Once the plague had reached the coast of Europe, it was soon transmitted to the countryside through the commercial trade networks (Matthew 154). The first cases of the plague occurred in a European colony called Genoa (Blum, Cameron and Barnes 38). It was "besieged in 1347" by mongols, who flung plague riddled bodies over the walls of Genoa. This was considered "an early form .....
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Hip-Hop Nation Report
Number of words: 1013 - Number of pages: 4.... for some this has failed miserably with Hip-Hop being the strongest it has ever been at the present. But people are now starting to accept it somewhat; for example record companies have been cashing in on its popularity for some time now. The writer of the Feature Article Hip Hop Nation Christopher John Farley is not a Rapper himself, rather an open minded person who has written a article to increase awareness to the masses of the culture of this phenomenon. PARA1 Hip-Hop is not about living on the range where the buffalo roam; it is not about meeting the pe .....
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Inside The IRA
Number of words: 1189 - Number of pages: 5.... to the British military and political occupation in Ireland. This tradition generally only found effective expression when after a period of non-armed agitation, large sections of the Irish people, faced with the British governments denial of the legitimate demand for the Irish independence, exercised the right to use armed struggle…..
Armed struggle and uprisings against British rule took place in 1798, 1803, 1848, and 1867, but because of the Great Hunger, which saw a million people stave and a million more emigrate, only sporadic and weak resistance .....
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Democratic World Government - An Outline Structure
Number of words: 4497 - Number of pages: 17.... parliament passing universal laws in order to create an
identikit legal framework for all world citizens, suffer from three severe
problems. Firstly, the near-impossibility of persuading all of the world's
countries to hand over their sovereignty to a global government of this sort.
Secondly, the risk - of which we are, and must always be, very aware - of
permitting a future global dictatorship of a particularly intransigent kind
(imagine how difficult it would be to dislodge a Hitler if he was in possession
of the kind of absolute power available through suc .....
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