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George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The LegendWhen George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856, the Crimean War was raging and Queen Victoria of Great Britain had barely reached middle age. By the time of his death in 1950, the atomic bomb and television were realities. "By living for nearly a century, Shaw was in a unique ...
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Calvin CoolidgeOn August 2, 1923, was vacationing at his father\'s home at Plymouth,Vermont when one night he was awakened by the tragic news of Warren Harding\'s death. Harding ,who had been on a public speaking tour of the West, when his health began to deteriorate, tried poorly to alleviate the scandal that ...
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JFKJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century.
Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president. Therefore ...
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The Handmaid's TaleMany fictitious novels written today mirror real life; this tactic can provide readers with a sense of formality. Yet in some cases, fictitious novels provide readers with the shocking realization of a society's self destruction. I believe , written by Margaret Atwood, falls in the second ...
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Mandatory AIDS TestingAIDS has become a worldwide epidemic that has struck every identifiable group.
However, persons who are considered to be in a high-risk group of contracting
HIV, the disease believed to cause AIDS, are still stigmatized by the media and
other professionals as being diseased and abnormal. It is ...
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The Existence Of Prejudice: Past And PresentPrejudice and discrimination have been a part of American history since before the Civil War. Throughout history, the government has tried to enact legislation to change the views of society and give equal rights to all people. However, we still find ourselves struggling for equality among all ...
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Labor In AmericaThe Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water ...
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Bob Dole: A Race To The TopPeople understand they can't get all these tax cuts, protect their
favorite programs, and balance the budget," says Susan Tanaka speaking on the
promises made by presidential candidate Bob Dole to the American public (Gibbs
1996). Bob Dole proposed his tax cut package on Aug. 5, 1996 hoping to ...
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Stay Tuned: The Exploitation Of Children In Television AdvertisementsAcross America in the homes of the rich, the not-so-rich, and in
poverty-stricken homes and tenements, as well as in schools and businesses,
sits advertisers' mass marketing tool, the television, usurping freedoms from
children and their parents and changing American culture. Virtually an ...
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Congressmen And Their InfluencesThe notion that a Congressman ran for office for unselfish goals and went away
to Washington to serve his country and represent his neighbors seems quaint and
luaghable compared to the way that we currently regard members of congress.
Recent views have suggested that most people felt that while ...
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Term Limits For LegislatorsWhen the Constitution of the United States was adopted in 1789, it was
without direction regarding . At the time,
professional politicians were unheard of, and the idea of someone serving for
more than one or two terms was unlikely. So the Constitution did not formally
address the issue of term ...
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Gun ControlPart I:Introduction
The issue of and violence, both in Canada and the United States,
is one that simply will not go away. If history is to be any guide, no matter
what the resolution to the gun control debate is, it is probable that the
arguments pro and con will be much the same as they always ...
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Inherit The Wind Brady and Drummond, two former partners, beginning their legal lives working together. Now each one strives to be superior, confident in their ways and beliefs, trying to out-do the other. Despite a common goal, the two gradually became very different people, as is evident in the play and ...
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Impacts Of Birth ControlChris Outlaw His-255 5-30-00 Discuss the on men and women. The aspect of sex and the use of birth control were touchy issues in the early 20th century. Sex was only for married couples that wanted to have children. The idea of sex before marriage was crazy. Because of all the beliefs about sex ...
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Internet JunkiesWe have all seen the pictures, in our head and on television, of the typical Internet junkie: alone in the dark, he sits glued to the soft glow of the computer screen, hand on the mouse, eyes glaring into the screen. His eyes flutter through the endless web pages and online chats, fingers gliding ...
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Software LicensingIn 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the ...
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MarketingThe term Privatization is often loosely used to mean a number of related activities, including any expansion of the scope of
private sector activity in an economy and the adoption by the public sector of efficiency enhancing techniques commonly
employed by the private sector. While acknowledging ...
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RAP CENORSHIP*.INHEAD* *.AD* Music and Censorship Victor Lombardi December 1991 Second Reader: Alan Stuart Instructor: Richard Hixon Introduction Our society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of restrictions in time ...
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FDRs Influence As PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt’s Influence as president Some have called him the best president yet. Others have even claimed that he was the world's most influential and successful leader of the twentieth century. Those claims can be backed up by the overwhelming support that he received from his ...
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Capitalism In Mass Media- E.W.
"Media are special because of the uniqueness of the product the business deals in. The commodity the media business sells is our most precious: news, opinion and ideas."
Capitalism and its values are nurtured within the mass media. Popular American films have carefully targeted particular ...
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