They will affect decisions that in turn will be the basis on how society will live in the near future. Because of their voting power the baby boomers will basically decide the future of the nation, how society will view beliefs, how laws will be enacted, and create more laws that will be made for the needs of the retiring baby boomers. ... Research and technology will also benefit from their retirement; their usual demands for better things will predict what new ways people will be doing or making in the near future. ...

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay When I was 19 I WENT abroad to study. I studied law at University College in London. . ... I declared I would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. ...

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FDR was born January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, NY, near New York City. ... After Harvard he attended Columbia Law School. He was admitted into the New York Bar in 1907, despite the fact that he never obtained his law degree. ...

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Another way Canadians planned to gain money near the end of the twenties was with the stock market. ... Canadian courts actually tried to defend racism; in one case they ruled that it was okay not to serve black people, "because there was no law saying it was illegal- (Newman 187). ... Some people fought for anti-discrimination laws, and though they weren't passed until 1940, people raised the sense of awareness of discrimination a lot earlier. ... On June 17, 1919, Bloody Saturday, the strike turned violent, demonstrators stopped a streetcar near city hall and set it on fire, after stre...

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Hitler was not even required to receive legislative approval when he made laws. ... With legislative approval not being an issue, Hitler made any and all laws he deemed suitable. ... With the civilian sector of his country under control, Hitler set off to rebuild the military that had been restricted so harshly in the near past. ...

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World's View on Iraq The United States government has made it perfectly clear that military action in the very near future is needed against Saddam Hussein and Iraq for weapons violations. ... South Africa has stated they feel the United States is putting itself in a very uneasy situation by attempting to take the law into its own hands. ...

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In mid-July, there was a large, citywide strike in Lublin, a city southeast of Warsaw, near the Soviet border. ... Solidarity also wanted everyone to have full access to the media, and wanted a law defining the limits of censorship, because it knew that it would be impossible to completely abolish censorship under the Soviet Union. ... and imposed Martial Law in Poland. ... This period of Martial Law continued until 1983, but even after the end of Martial Law, many of the rights that the Polish had won no longer existed. ...

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Such a tragic event in history is bound to be analyzed and portrayed in various different ways, but again, we must ask ourselves: was the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ethical, legal according to international law, or even necessary? After reading this novel and extensively researching the topic, readers should believe that the decision to drop the atomic bomb was unethical, illegal according to international law, and indisputably unnecessary. ... Clumps of smoke, near and far, had begun to push up through the general dust. [ ] Houses nearby were burning" (He...

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Due to many factors, South Korea enacted a Conscription Law in 1965 in which all eligible males aged 18 to 35 must complete 2 years of military service. ... Now 20 years later, peace is near. ... While some countries may think that this day might never come because of the constant missile and bomb tests near the South's territory, it is not quite true. ...

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Hitler's immediate actions following his appointment to Chancellor were deceptive in nature; however, legal according to the laws of Parliament which enabled him to hold various elections without the presence of certain parties until ultimately he obtained full powers from the Reichstag. After the death of Hindenburg, August 1934, Hitler enacted a law the preceding day that combined the offices of the President and Chancellor allowing him to take over as head of state and eventually abolishing the title of President making him Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. ... As the Red Army marched on...

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On the day August 6, 1945, the world began an atomic age when the U.S.A navels dropped a nuclear bomb and the city of Hiroshima and then immediately dropped another on its near city of Nagasaki, on the 9 August, both bombs killing over 200,000 civilians and destroying a nation. ... The action of dropping a nuclear bomb on nation willing to surrender violated the Geneva Convention, a law accepted and applied by the U.S. The Americans should have been accused on numerous counts of war crimes, for example – Class C War Crimes Law can be identified as widespread/ intended attacks towards civ...

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This position was likely formed from the same frustrations the thirteen colonies faced regarding British maritime law. ... As the 20th century neared, the US's position in the world became more ambiguous. ...

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