1. Democracy and Capitalism
But today it serves as a paycheck for irresponsible and lazy Americans. ... This means that the only way to go is to set time limits on the welfare system, and to limit the benefits paid out. ... A poverty line is set, and this line is an average income amount that is set to show how much it would cost to support a given family. ...
This made the Empire very unstable and set a perfect environment for an invasion. ... The army was made up of volunteers, people who wanted to serve their country. ... For these showed the remarkable disinclination to serve. " By 100 A.D they were having troubles finding recruits because Roman citizenship had spread too widely. ... He said that they were inhuman and vicious; that they were thoroughly unmilitary, being discouraged by any little set back and that they couldn't follow the simplest plan . With all these set backs the military had no chance of defeating anyone. ...
As of today, the legal drinking age in the United States is set at twenty-one years of age. ... At the age of eighteen, an individual can vote, serve on a jury, stay out without a curfew, leave home, drive, smoke, buy weapons, have financial contracts, be sent to adult prison, join the Army and die for this country. ... Instead of restricting the eighteen year-old adults, the government should set up ways to better educate the public of the dangers and responsibilities that come with drinking. ...
Aly Colon, Diversity Program Director and member of the Ethics Committee at the Poynter Institute, presents a set of questions to help journalists decide what pictures of casualties to show, if any. ... - He also advises journalists to think about their audience and as a starting point provides another set of questions which are: "1) What will it want and/or need to see to understand such death? ... She says the second fact that the public needs to consider is that "News reporters serve as watchdogs for society at home and abroad. ... Dunlap's third and final fact is "Journalists ser...
This gives the defendant a set punishment, which is usually to good to pass up. ... "If all criminals cases went through a court with a set sentence for the nature of a crime, there would not be so many people getting out of the punishment or a lesser punishment that they may have deserved. Criminal justice would set a whole new standard. ... If we had set standards then there might be fewer people committing crimes for fear of the court. ... One of the government's main reasons for not banning plea bargains altogether is that it serves an interest to society. ...
Farmland serves as a source for local tax dollars, which helps keep a stable economy in rural areas. ... If there is a better solution I think it lies along the same ideals that the government set forth in the Better American Bonds Act that was previously explained. ...
Censorship against mankind The power of censorship is used profoundly everyday, to conceal the world's utmost problems. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury harshly attacks the censorship used by the government to make people ignorant to the issues surrounding ones life, and to show that c...
The past century has been one of sensational crimes that have amazed many Americans. Form the Lindbergh baby to the exploits of Al Capone, to serial murderers like Ted Bundy. Crime has become a cultural phenomenon that has captured the interests of academics and the causal reader alike. To look back...
Control On Guns Experts estimate that there are presently in excess of 200 million guns in the United States, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF). Each year this number grows by 4 to 5 million. There are 60 to 65 million legal owners of one or more guns. There is a firear...
Rap Music and Youth's Behavior ABSTRACT Parents are becoming increasingly concerned about the potentially misleading content of violent themes and lyrics in gangta" rap. The content of this branch of rap (rhythm and poetry) focalizes on extremely controversial topics such as politics, sex, r...
