The United States is by far the richest and most powerful country in the world. We citizens take for granted luxuries that people of other countries can only dream. ... Addiction has crossed the line from being defined as a physical dependency on drugs to include such classifications as religious addiction, shopping addiction, food addiction, work addiction, television addiction, and love addiction. ... Of course there are those who believe that legalization will turn our whole country into drug addicts. ... Opponents say lock up drug dealers, but we are running out of room in our prisons. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

DeathPenalty The death penalty has been practiced around the world for many centuries. What is the death penalty? I will answer this question as well as go into some of the methods used now and in the past; we will also cover some of the arguments in ...

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Albert shanker, president of American Federation of Teachers until his death in 1998, argues that there is no evidence that privating the public schools works or that the public wants discipline and academic standards, which can be provided by public schools modeled after those of countries with better primary and secondary education than the United States. ... As of 1995, 13 states allowed students to cross-district lines and take with them their share of state and local educational funds. ... There were 786 charter schools up and running, with another 500 or so expected by the end of the yea...

• Word Count: 2004
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate