For instance, according to the text of the resolution, ephedrine use can result in increased heart rate and blood pressure, can stimulate the central nervous system, and can lead to stokes, seizures, psychosis, arrhythmia, heart attacks and even death. ... The highly publicized death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler influenced Durbin's decision to sponsor this bill as did the ephedrine heart attack induced death of a 16-year-old constituent (O'Meara, 2003). ...

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Even though we are safer as a nation does not exclude the possibility of other terrorist attacks. ... Americans need to be reunited with courage and as of the present day we have thrown fear aside and taken a brave-heart like attitude in our battle against terrorist to ensure our safety. ... Even though this may be true we are still susceptible to terrorist attacks and we were caught up in our own illusion that just because we are a "Super Power" terrorists attacks would not happen on United States" soil. President Bush implemented the Homeland Security Act, which is an elaborate syst...

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According to Obama, the plan is "antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who's willing to work for it, a place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top but grows outward from the heart of the middle class" (Madison). ... "What we've become accustomed to with the President, unfortunately and regrettably, is that instead of offering real solutions to fix this country's problems, he offers these baseless partisan attacks," he said (Madison). ...

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Hitler's statement is similar to how the media has depicted a war on terrorism since the attacks on the World Trade Center and used this impersonal force as the backbone for gaining public support for intervention in the Middle East. ... Hitler described it best in Huxley's essay when he said, "Whoever wishes to win over the masses must know the key that will open the door of their hearts" (para. 5). ...

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There were many reasons for this "termination " some good hearted and some not, like ending restrictions on the purchase of liquor and firearms, eliminate costly federal spending, to settle land claims, and stripping Natives of tribal land. ... Native American politicians were obligated to defend the idea of the reservation and to attack the notion, carved in Greenough's statue, that Indianness was un-American and dangerous. ... Federal lawmakers continued to attack the integrity of Indian homelands.The federal government also displaced Native communities in the name of progress and natio...

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Allowing Syria to become a base of planning and marshaling resources for future terrorist attacks puts America's safety at stake, therefore strong action is not a choice, but a requirement. ... He claims to have the "interest of all" at heart, yet he wishes to use violent tactics against a regime that is still a part of said "all....

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"Is abortion ethical?" The question that had everyone talking about morality, abortion became a hot topic in 1973 with the case Roe v. Wade. Action groups were formed and the women's rights movement was changed drastically. People everywhere were divided into sides; pro-choice or pro-life. ...

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