Bishin conducts a test using statistical social psychology and the identity theory and proves that candidates prefer issues that constituencies are strongly passionate about. ... Bishin also discusses more about external and smaller political conflicts regarding social identities of constituents that highly concerns themselves with issues such as the Cuban trade embargo, gay and lesbian hate crime, assault weapons ban, and abortion. ... He talks about the Cuban trade embargo, gay and lesbian hate crime, assault weapons ban, and partial birth abortion. Some of these issues may be easier to test...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A quick laundry list of the minorities in the United States being under-represented might read as such: African-Americans, Women, Black Women, Hispanics, Gays and Lesbians, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, Indians (Native Americans). ... Three House members are openly gay, and two lawmakers, Senator Max Cleland, and freshman Representative Jim Langevin, both democrats, use wheelchairs. ... While some minorities such as Black Americans and women have had notable records in Congress, Hispanics and even more so Asian Pacific Americans, Gays and Lesbians, and American Indians are still more ...

• Word Count: 4202
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Then on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico the Manhattan project had its very first successful drop. Although the Trinity test was a success, the allied powers already had defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan, however, announce they would fight until the bitter end despite the very slim chances they had of winning. ... Hiroshima was a manufacturing center of approximately 350,000 people located 500 miles from Japans capital Tokyo, was selected because it not only held an important military base, but also it had not been targeted by conventional bombing raids, a...

• Word Count: 1007
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this case, the Duke Power Company required employees to have a high school diploma and pass a written test for advancement. ... It was communicated by the court that the intent was not to "preclude the use of testing or measuring procedures, but it does proscribe giving them controlling force unless they are demonstrably a reasonable measure of job performance". This statement allows for the fact that there are requirements and tests directly applicable to jobs, and that it was not the intent of the court to make these illegal. ...

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Various states have also proposed legislation banning further testing or research into human cloning (Stolberg). ... Under the flag of defending reproductive rights, certain gay rights advocates are pushing the idea of cloning as a means of preserving homosexuality in a general population which might otherwise decide to eliminate it. ...

• Word Count: 2354
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate