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  • Gay Olympics

    Gay Olympics

    I had always enjoyed the summer Olympics and the way the athletes strive to be their best, but after watching the winter Olympics I couldn’t help but ask, are these really sports. I have no doubt that the races are sport. There is a definite outcome and no dispute over who won. Then you have these other “sports” like figure skating and ice dancing. Somehow I cannot take any point of view that would support

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    Essay Length: 474 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: July
  • Is Stem Cell Research Right for America?

    Is Stem Cell Research Right for America?

    There are so many benefits from stem cell research. Including but not excluding, cures to a number of diseases, improvements on human life, and more resources in drastic times. I believe that if we spent the time and money needed for this research the improvements on just about everything would be significant. Scientists should be allowed to do stem cell research using human embryos, because it can increase disease survivors, it will use our sources

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    Essay Length: 981 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights

    In the United States, the protest has always been an important tool of democracy, a way for the minority to let itself be heard. Take the Civil Rights movement. Today's race relations are better than they were fifty years ago because a relatively small group of people convinced enough of the country that racism was a disease that would kill everything that made America special. These people were following in the footsteps of an

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    Essay Length: 810 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Choosing the Right Computer

    Choosing the Right Computer

    The Computer The computer I chose was a Dell Dimension 3100. It has a Intel Pentium 4 Processor 521 with HT technology that has a speed of 2.8 GHz, memory of 256 MB DDR2 SDRAM at 533 MHz - 1 DIMM, 3 year on-site business standard plan, USB keyboard, optical USB mouse, 160 GB serial ATA Hard Drive with a 7200 RPM speed, a 16 speed CD/DVD burner (DVD +/- RW) with double layer, a

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    Essay Length: 990 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • Medicating Children Is Not the Right Thing to Do

    Medicating Children Is Not the Right Thing to Do

    Medicating Children is not the Right Thing to do There are many types of people who may have Attention Deficit Disorder, also known as ADD/ADHD, which is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. ADD is defined as learning disorder affecting children, adolescents, and some adults. Common symptoms of ADD are learning and behavioral difficulties as well as the typical problem of ADHD, hyperactivity. Males are more likely to have ADD with many other symptoms, such as depression

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    Essay Length: 1,363 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Animal Rights - Cause for Vegetariansim

    Animal Rights - Cause for Vegetariansim

    Animal Rights - Cause for Vegetarianism The choice of eating meat or not has been a debated issue for a continued number of years. There have long since been two sides: the proponents and opponents of meat consumption. More and more debates of its value and effect on the world have risen. Many claim it is wrong, while others think of it as a needed pleasure. Today, a greater percentage of the population eats meat.

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    Essay Length: 755 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right (death Penalty)

    Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right (death Penalty)

    There are many things wrong with today’s growing society; however, I believe the death penalty is the worst. I am strongly against the death penalty because it sets a bad example for our society, prisoners could be wrongly convicted, and it is cruel and unusual punishment. Our youth is learning from our actions. If a Timmy gets punched during recess, does the teacher advocate Timmy to punch the other child back? No, this is the

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    Essay Length: 400 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • Surpasing Laws for one Own Right

    Surpasing Laws for one Own Right

    Our society is an ever-growing community of law breakers, not to condemn themselves morally, but to stress what they believe to be just, and correct. Just as Martin Luther King Stepped in front of our nation and broke several laws, he did so in order to express his passionate belief of our constitution that "all men are created equal." Unfortunately, to this days we have trouble to fully synthesize are laws with our constitution,

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    Essay Length: 634 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Civil Right Movement

    Civil Right Movement

    Civil Rights Movement The struggle for equality has been a battle fought for hundreds of years amongst African Americans. After the Great Migration and the developments of organizations such as NAACP, many African Americans gradually understood their rights as American citizens and came together to change their lives. The fight was for black citizens to enjoy the civil and political rights guaranteed to them and all other citizens by the U.S. Constitution leading to the

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    Essay Length: 966 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Anna
  • Gay Marriage: With Liberty and Justice for All?

    Gay Marriage: With Liberty and Justice for All?

    Gay Marriage: With Liberty and Justice for All? At a time where a procedural republic is present, gay marriage is an issue that does not satisfy the ideal of liberty as self-choosing and unencumbered. However, this concern has become one of the most controversial subjects today because it violates the first amendment, which is the right of the people to peaceably assemble. How are homosexuals supposed to assemble for their cause if they are threatened

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    Essay Length: 919 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Jack
  • Divine Right of Kings in Oedipus and Modern Society

    Divine Right of Kings in Oedipus and Modern Society

    When the president talks to God Do they drink beer and go play golf While they pick which countries to invade Which Muslim souls still can be saved? I guess God just calls a spade a spade When the president talks to God. (Oberst) The concept of the divine right of kings has been impacting history in both literature and politics throughout the ages. Today, this concept is reemerging in contemporary American politics through

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Legalizing Gay Marriage

    Legalizing Gay Marriage

    11/11/04 Legalization of Gay Marriage Whether it be a big move or a new law change never comes easily. We as human beings like things to stay a certain way, we reject the unfamiliar. I agree change is uncomfortable however, that does not always mean something negative. In order for us to progress and evolve as a society change is essential. Homosexuality although a much more accepted life style now than in the past still

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    Essay Length: 774 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Bred
  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement gave rise to many great leaders, and produced many social changes that were the results of organized civil rights events that were staged throughout the South by organizations devoted to eliminating segregation, and giving the African American people the ability to pursue the American dream. The most important civil rights leader during the time was Martin Luther King Jr., and the most important event that took place during

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    Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Artur
  • Gay Marriage

    Gay Marriage

    “The Closet Straight” Homosexuality is a highly controversial subject in today’s society, in which some oppose it and others’ lives are consumed by it. Hadley Arkes, born in 1944, is a professor of law at Amherst College and is the author of the essay, “The Closet Straight,” which argues the homosexual views of homosexual writer, Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan has been the editor of New Republic since 1991; he has a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University

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    Essay Length: 948 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Max
  • The Fairtax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform

    The Fairtax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform

    The FairTax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform The FairTax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform April 15th of any given year is the most dreaded day for most taxpaying Americans. This one day is more stressful than the day the taxpayer turns 50 years old or the day of his daughter’s wedding. April 15th is tax day. Every American who earns a wage has the unenviable duty of filing a form 1040

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    Essay Length: 1,097 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • When Did the Women Get the Right to Vote Dbq

    When Did the Women Get the Right to Vote Dbq

    By the time women began to fight for their right to vote, the majority of the people were against, on the other hand some men were, in some way, in pro, defending the woman suffrage. Women were the most interested people to get their rights, therefore, a lot of them wrote stuff to convince the people and the courts that they were able to choose people, that women also think and could have an opinion

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    Essay Length: 811 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Victor
  • Comparing the Rights of Women from Essays Through the Eras

    Comparing the Rights of Women from Essays Through the Eras

    Society has long since recognized the concept of men being superior to women, both in the aspects of physical strength and the ability to earn living for their family. It was a natural concept that based and formed the modern society: strong versus weak, superior versus inferior, non-marginalized versus marginalized. In earlier time, this concept materialized itself in the battle of the sexes, or what we knew as men versus women. Naturally, the existence of

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    Essay Length: 1,021 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • African-American Civil Rights Movement

    African-American Civil Rights Movement

    African-American Civil Rights Movement Throughout the 1960’s, the widespread movement for African American civil rights had transformed in terms of its goals and strategies. The campaign had intensified in this decade, characterized by greater demands and more aggressive efforts. Although the support of the Civil Rights movement was relatively constant, the goals of the movement became more high-reaching and specific, and its strategies became less compromising. African Americans’ struggle for equality during the 1960’s was

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    Essay Length: 2,395 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Film: Philadelphia, Aids/gay

    Film: Philadelphia, Aids/gay

    "No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" the tagline for the film 'Philadelphia.' This already tells us its going to be a film fighting for justice that has been wrongly treated. Two men who are different one black, one white, one hetrosexual the other homosexual but does that really make them different? Gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he

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    Essay Length: 1,777 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Victor
  • Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture

    Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture

    Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture During America’s growth, homosexuality became a very taboo topic, one seldom mentioned and rarely discussed. Just as the Sexual and Racial Revolutions promoted acceptance of once discouraged social matters, the Homosexual Revolution has promoted the acceptance of the gay culture in today’s society. Undoubtedly, humorous homosexual characters in television and in other forms of entertainment are helping to increase the acceptance of the gay culture by portraying

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Top
  • Treat the Students Right

    Treat the Students Right

    This article was very entertaining. It describes the human being as a whole and how diverse we are. Even going as far to say how one body is diverse with the different cells that make it up. Diversity is something that needs to be accepted and dealt with in the right way. This article went on to break down just how in life we accept situations. It showed a three-step acceptance tool. Step one, recognition,

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    Essay Length: 332 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Effects of the United Nations on Human Rights

    Effects of the United Nations on Human Rights

    Effects of the United Nations on Human Rights The United Nations is an organization created at the end of World War 2 as a place to discuss international matters in peace and to solve problems diplomatically. During its years of existence the United Nations has dealt mostly with matters concerning peace keeping; but lately it has spread its influence over many different issues including the protection of Human Rights. In the many cases of Human

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    Essay Length: 1,958 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jon
  • Constitutional Rights

    Constitutional Rights

    As odd as sounds, we as American do not have a Constitutional right to privacy. Maybe our forefathers did not intend for us the have the right, or it was possibly overlooked. Some argue that the right to privacy is embedded in the Constitution. The reason we actually have a right to privacy is because of a 1977 Supreme Court ruling in a case Griswald v. Connecticut. Where a Planned Parenthood director was arrested after

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Right to Own Pitt Bulls

    The Right to Own Pitt Bulls

    Right to Own Pit Bulls The American Pit Bull Terrier has fallen under harsh criticism in recent years. Several attacks have led to Breed-Specific Legislation or BSL. Breed-Specific Legislation has led to the downright banning of pit bulls in several cities in the United States (“Breed Specific Legislation”). These legislations are unfair and ineffective. The pit bull is only a product of its owner and its surroundings. The pit bull is the most misunderstood and

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    Essay Length: 1,498 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Edward
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    Animal Rights “What is man without the beast? If the beast were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man” (Chief Seattle). While much has been done to protect animals, it is nowhere near what needs to be done to secure their inhabitance on earth and give them their rights. Animals have nerves so they can feel pain and they do suffer so

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    Essay Length: 1,947 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Top

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