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A ‘Moment of Silence’ in Schools
In 1962 the Supreme Court decided that public schools did not
have the power to authorize school prayer. This decision made public
school in the U.S. more atheistic than many European nations. For
example, crosses still hang on the classroom walls in Poland, and the
Ten Commandments are displayed in Hungary. There ar

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Abington School District vs. Schempp
Required School Prayer
In 1949, a state-wide law was passed in Pennsylvania that required public school students to read scriptures from the Bible and recite the Lord’s Prayer everyday in class. This law stayed intact until Edward Schempp challenged it nine years later. Pennsylvania wasn’t the first or the only state to enforce law making

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Affirmative Action
Policies which are created to ensure equal opportunities for all persons are acceptable, and in fact are mandated by the constitution, however when these policies exceed their original intention and attempt to intentionally favor minority individuals, they become self-defeating. The most controversial legal issue pertaining to equality rights is th

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS DISCRIMINATORY
Affirmative action is a failed attempt to end racial discrimination in the work place and educational institutions. It has created a whole new brand of racial discrimination. People who are better qualified for jobs are turned away because a company or school has to meet a certain quota. This kind of discrimination should be stopped. People should

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Against the Legalization of Drugs
Everyone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems that drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so widespread that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most serious problems in today’s world, threatening the security and freedom of whole nations. Politicians, health experts a

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Age Discrimination
Abstract
The Age Discrimination Act of designed to prevent employers from terminating employees over the age of 40. This paper gives a brief overview of that Act and how it has evolved since its enactment including waivers and tender.
Age Discrimination
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). The act covers p

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America’s Youth Censored
The society today seems to be confused about the First Amendment, freedom of speech, censorship and how they work and how the government wants to try and change what our fore fathers wrote in the Constitution of the United States. Today people close their eyes to the fact the
Government is controlling everything we watch on television, what

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An Encounter with the Law
My first encounter with the law happened four years ago, when some people I used to know set me up as the were shoplifting. They asked me to drive them to a store in town. When we pulled to the town store, they all jumped out acting all goofy. I did not have any money, so I stayed in the car. I noticed that Sheriff Larson was on duty and had come d

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Analysis of the Immigration Problem
The world has gone through a revolution and it has changed a
lot. We have cut the death rates around the world with modern medicine
and new farming methods. For example, we sprayed to destroy mosquitoes
in Sri Lanka in the 1950s. In one year, the average life of everyone
in Sri Lanka was extended by eight years becau

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ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT 1985
between THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND and THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM



CONTENTS
A. STATUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND
B. THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE
C. POLITICAL MATTERS
D. SECURITY AND RELATED MATTERS
E. LEGAL MATTERS, INCLUDING THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
F. CROSS-

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Animal Rights Protests
Over the past fifteen years a powerfully charged drama has
unfolded in New York’s Broadway venues and spread to the opera houses
and ballet productions of major cities across the country. Its
characters include angry college students, aging rock stars,
flamboyant B-movie queens, society matrons, and sophisticated fas

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Banning Guns
According to the FBI there are thousands of innocent children killed every year. These children are being killed by6 guns. Some are accidental deaths by a child playing with the gun, some are from school shootings and others are by a stray bullet in a drive by. According to the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution we have the right to bear arms, bu

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Brown v. Board of Eductaion
The way that people viewed the issue of segregation in public schools changed over time. The change with regard to segregation in public schools and the need for Plessy v. Ferguson to be overturned became more clear and concrete over time. You can trace this change through three documents, the Harlan dissent to Plessy (1896), Petitioner’s Brief to

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Canada’s Copyright Laws
Canada’s copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce.
The reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due
to technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken, it is
very hard to track down violators. So although some form of a
copyright law is needed, the one we have has, too

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Capital Punishment
There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Cox). It is not intended to inflict any physical pai

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Capital Punishment
In most of the industrialized world, capital punishment is not used to punish criminals. Even South Africa, once notorious for its many executions, is giving up capital punishment. However, it is still used in the United States. The capital punishment debate in the United States has raged for almost four hundred years. Supporters of capital punishm

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Capital Punishment
After centuries of nearly universal implementation, the death penalty

remains a deeply debated issue. While one execution takes place, other

murders occur, and the question still stands: Will the death penalty safeguard

society and deter murder, or will it not? The death penalty cannot be considered

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Capital Punishment – A Deterrent to Crime?
Is capital punishment a deterrent to crime? Some believe it is while others strongly believe other wise. The decision to kill a human being simply has to do with morals. It’s a battle between justice and morality. If one opinion is more right than the other is all in the person’s mindset. Either way, it’s controversial.
There are man

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Censorship
Censorship can stop children from seeing violence and sex in art, but it cannot hide what is already there. Our movies, television programs, music, and others are based on human behavior. People begin to question the entertainment industry for movies that contain sex, violence, and drugs. Julia Stiles writes “The ‘O’ Must Go On,” and shows how o

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Censorship on the Internet
Censorship itself is not what most people are concerned about. Instead, how far will it go? How far is too far? When will it stop? Can the Internet ever be censored? These questions need to be answered before we can even think about censoring.

In order to fully understand censorship you have to know what the Internet is. The Internet

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