It is this balancing of good and evil actions that lead to the questions of proportionality and double effect. In contrast, proportionality, double effect, and jus in bello criteria never need be raised in Augustinian thought; as long as the killing is personally done with charity in the heart, it is justified. ... The indirect killing of non-combatants or neutrals is permissible according to the principle of double effect. ...

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The number of applicants to the University of California (UC) declining to position their race has nearly doubled since Proposition 209, the constitutional amendment banning race preferences, took effect. . ... This initiative would limit health care providers" ability to understand health conditions that affect populations differently and to design effective targeted. ... Approximately 44% of our patient population has a primary language other than English, and almost 70% are from communities of color. ... Annual population data compiled by the California Department of Finance is used to cal...

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The general population is becoming more interested in participating in their own health care decisions and therefore look at the possible choices there are, which include alternative treatments. The population is also looking for new ways to cope with the increasing stress in their lives from various stimuli. Also, as medicine develops and mainstream medical treatments are beginning to become ineffective, therefore frustrating the population with conventional medicine, individuals seek out other methods. ...

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By the year 2030, the sixty five and older population will double to seventy million, and the fastest growing segment of the older population is age eighty five and older. ... Soon America will look different; the average age of the population will go up to fifty-five. ... For the last few decades the influential baby boomer segment of the population dominated the American culture virtually in any aspect. ...

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Millennia pass and our population numbers soar. ... Disease as "nature's" population correction, rapid die-off from famine, disease, etc. are now an insufficient correction of over-population. these forms of die-off are not very efficient or effective in the long run. That is to say, human populations respond to stresses of this nature with remarkable resilience. ... It is increasing at 0.4% per year and is expected to double during the next century... The U.S., with only 4% of the world's population, creates 25% of its greenhouse gases. ...

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We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. ... There are simply not enough physicians to service the population's needs. ... Between 1960 and 1980, the enrollment at medical schools doubled. ... Others have suggested that the growth in the national income and population between 1980 and 2000 increased patients' demands for physicians services, while the increase of female physicians reduced the supply of physician services due to their reduced schedules. ...

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Two-hundred years later in 1990, the population reached and estimated 249 million. The cultural climate has changed to show 2.9% of the population being Asians and Pacific Islanders and 9% of Hispanic origin. ... These needs vary according to the immigrant population. ...

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The population is growing rapidly and half of all Brazilians are under the age of twenty. By the end of the century, it is estimated that Brazil's population will have reached one hundred and eighty million. ... Its population consists of seven different ethnic divisions. ... Eighty percent of the population is urban and twenty percent are rural population. ... The population is over ninety percent Catholic. ...

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For comparison, Blacks comprise thirteen percent of the U.S. population and Hispanics twelve percent. ... While women have gained seats in Congress, this thirteen/fourteen percent composition is lacking considering women make up about half the population. As society becomes more "minority-aware- a focus has turned on a sections of the population previously hidden or unheard. ... It also suspended all literacy tests in states in which less than 50% of the voting-age population had been registered or had voted in the 1964 election. ... Women in Congress The 1992 elections were marked as the...

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However, those twenty blocks between the Upper East Side and the Puerto Rican population of East Harlem represent a social and an economic gap extending from mainstream to marginal. ... Through these themes Bourgois (2002:17) portrays that the people living in El Barrio are known to blame the victim for their misfortune of being the underclass of the United States population and "living in the inferno" due to their inability to compete with the classes above them who are more able of succeeding since they have greater opportunities to do so. ... Population of the so-called "Spanish Harlem" i...

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The third standard failed because the article failed to give estimates about the total number of people effected by ISIS and instead referred to a large number of the population. ... He knew the government has the capabilities of keeping the general population misinformed and oblivious to the political situation. ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater ...

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After attempts to raise money by selling bonds, doubling tariffs, increasing excise taxes, and creating license fees, it was realized that another form of tax was needed (Paul 7-8, Witte 67). ... The tax was originally proposed to tax land in each state, with revenue to be handed out according to population. ... The progressive rates were not, however, set for "redistributing income from higher to lower income classes" or to distribute taxes "across the population in such a way as to cause the least hardship (Davies 21, 77). ... Supreme Court, by a 5-4 decision, declared the 1894 income uncons...

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Although it is the largest republic in Central America, has a relatively tiny population of approximately 4.5 million people. ... EMPLOYMENT IN NICARAGUA In Nicaragua, more than 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line (US$104) (dol.gov/ilab pg 2) with 80 percent of those people living in extreme poverty. ... U.S. agricultural exports to Nicaragua nearly doubled in 1995, with record levels of wheat and rice, and strong imports of soybean oil and mixed feed. ...

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The believing and overall ignorant population believe all of it as if it were fact. ... e has become so caught up in how great and powerful the human population think they have become that they cannot see how truly minuscule they really are. ... For example, some scientists say how the human population emits too many CFCs and other ozone "depleting" gasses. ... Why does it matter when these volcanoes spewed more "destructive" gasses than the whole population did in the whole history of man kind? ... The human population of all time cannot amount to the gases released from one volcano let alone...

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From the study conducted by Sproule and Kennett the rate of violent crimes was five times greater in the U.S than Canada, and "almost double the rate of firearm use in American than Canadian homicides" (32-33). ...

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Genetically modified foods have been a big topic for debate recently. People both for and against have very convincing arguments but I, Constance A. Morella, republican of Maryland's 8th district believe that I have the best possible argument for this, and I hope this congress sees the point I"m try...

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Immigration is the foundation of the United States as a whole. Every person came from somewhere, mainly different parts of the world, and decided America was a fertile and prosperous place to settle and thrive. This unique quality allows America to be the melting pot that it is today, full of divers...

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How Does Television Violence Affect Children's Behavior How Does Television Violence Affect Children's Behavior Does television promote violence and crime among children? Although most people look at television as an entertaining and educational way to spend time, some people think there is to...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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In the late 20th century, China's participation in international governmental organizations had doubled, while at the same time its membership in nongovernmental organization had increased from 71 to an astonishing 1,163 (Friedberg 2005, p.14). ...

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There is a clear double standard between young men and young women especially when it refers to sex. ... For women to make up 52% of the population and still only 77cent to each dollar a man makes is ludicrous. ...

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Stone graduated from the Colorado with a double major in Film and Math. ... Yet even with the growth of sexuality in our culture certain forms of it are still unaccepted by large segments of our population. ...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...

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Jonathan Tunney 7 December 2003 Development and Change War has been a part of society since the beginning of time. Wars have been won. Wars have been lost. People have died. Countries have tasted the spoils of victory as well as the agony of defeat. ...

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