With the introduction of child labor laws and the onset of compulsory education, schooling was taken from the confines of the home and centered within the walls of the public school. ... In 1985, approximately 50,000 children were being home schooled and today it has been estimated that nearly 1.5 to 2 million children (about 3 to 4 percent of school-aged children nationwide) are partaking in the home schooling phenomenon (Lines, 2000, 12). ... Also, children that are home schooled miss out on important milestones like graduations, transitioning to new schools, building new friendships, school...

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This movie, which was also known as "Doped Youth" and "Reefer Madness" showed high school students going insane and committing different criminal activities as a result of smoke Marijuana. ... One year later, the federal government passed the Marijuana Tax Law of 1937, which made the possession of Cannabis illegal, except for medical purposes. Although the federal government and private companies recognized medical uses for Marijuana for many years, the government slowly began to criminalize the use of Marijuana, which culminated in the government passing a law through th...

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There are laws currently in place that claim to preserve the rights of animals, but they are both largely ineffective and outdated when compared to modern science. There are already several laws that prevent animal cruelty and promote animal welfare, such as the Animal Welfare Act of 1966.  ... Animal rights laws that were passed fifty years ago no longer adhere to modern scientific research as it applies to the sentience of animal species and the treatment of animals with the rights that they are entitled to, much like man is legally entitled to rights and liberties. ... Elsewhere in Europe...

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The rise of recorded music together with more stringent copyright protection laws facilitated the development of the music business in capitalist society and more specifically the centralization of the American music publishing business and songwriters in an area of New York known as Tin Pan Alley in the late-nineteenth century. ... Theodor Adorno, a critical theorist and leading member of the Frankfurt school in Germany, coined the term culture industry in his critique of mass culture that made specific reference to popular music. ...

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