Essays Tagged: "debates"

Physical Child Abuse

culturally embedded developments. It is clear that some very large context and controversies shape debates about particular issues about child abuse. Reasons for being in favor of disciplining a chil ...

(4 pages) 337 3 3.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The big bang theory

y controversial; it has been decades, even centuries that geologists and paleontologists still have debates to prove their points. Well whether it is either science or god its up to you to decide. But ...

(4 pages) 183 3 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Legalization

in the U.S. forthe past several years. The people vs. the federal government is just one ofthe main debates over legalization.In the past marijuana was required to be grown on most plantations inthe s ...

(3 pages) 77 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Congress - this essay gives a snap shot of the current make-up of our Congress, brief definitions and demographics...

ith a count of 228. This gives the Republicans a lot of power and influence, not only in the direct debates and voting, but they also get to hold the majority on all committees during the current sess ...

(3 pages) 127 0 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

ELECTORAL REFORM IN CANADA: AN EXAMINATION OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

en the focus of intense scholarly debate. Electoral reform in Canada has been a main focus of these debates and "proportional representation (PR) is currently proposed as a solution to a large number ... 2001).The advantages and disadvantages of adopting a PR system in Canada have been at the heart of debates for many years. A thorough look at the advantages of adopting a PR system demonstrated that ...

(11 pages) 294 3 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Capital punishment (In Cold Blood) is practiced today in the U.S. and it is a reasonable penalty. This essay also relates to the book In Cold Blood

ssarily capital punishment. The death penalty is a very controversial subject that has sparked many debates.Capital punishment is a good deterrent towards crime. After someone is killed on death row, ...

(2 pages) 80 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Society's Restraint to Social Reform" in Canada

requirementthat recipients perform unpaid work as a condition of receiving socialassistance.Recent debates on the subject of welfare are far from unique. They are allsimply contemporary attempts to d ...

(6 pages) 75 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

The Many Faces of Freedom in America. Refers to the definitions of William C. Havard, Edmund Burke, Robert S. Ross, and William J. Murray

the struggle and debate over differing ideologies of freedom. Furthermore, history shows that these debates led to wars which spanned the globe and in which millions of lives were sacrificed for freed ... structure inevitably draws between the individual and the community has been the core of political debates in our country for decades. Where and in what circumstances should that line be drawn? Are w ...

(7 pages) 115 0 3.7 May/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Mill's Theory of Liberty

iculate one's opinions, the freedom toparticipate in intellectual, political, religious and general debates andarguments, and the cognate freedom of the press. The second, of theliberty of action, att ...

(14 pages) 360 1 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

persuasive essay on Cenrorship of the Internet and the Tyrrany of Our Government

when the question of censoring the Internet arises, I cringe. Governing the Internet dominates many debates, censorship leading the fight. The Internet is the largest and most accessible form of mass ...

(5 pages) 345 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

"The World of Uncle Tom and Company" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel during the time of the debates that lead to the Civil War and near the time of the Compromise of 1850. The book provides a ...

(3 pages) 81 0 4.0 Dec/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Illegal Immigration

Illegal ImmigrationImmigration, legal or otherwise, is a huge issue right now.Debates rage about how many immigrants should be allowed into thecountry and how zealously we should ...

(2 pages) 308 1 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Essay on Huck Finn, by Mark Twain. Relationship between Huck and Jim was nothing more than an alliance of two people, who run away from the society for one simple reason - to be free.

name Mark Twain. Throughout its whole history, this book had caused lots of different opinions and debates. "Huck Finn" reveals a story about a thirteen-year-old boy, Huck, and a runaway slave, Jim. ...

(3 pages) 123 1 3.4 Jun/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Expansionism and Slavery during the 1800s

eralist Party met him with opposition. The opposition, however, was on a national basis. The heated debates were about issues that effected the entire nation, and were decided along party lines, inste ... eeply routed along sectional lines. The question over the expansion of slavery brought about heated debates in congress until finally a solution was reached in the Missouri Compromise.In the next majo ...

(1 pages) 127 0 3.2 Aug/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Are Criminals Born or made

The statement 'Are criminals born, or made?' is wide reaching and still the subject of many debates. Beginning over a hundred years ago in the late 18th century social and criminal anthropolog ...

(8 pages) 561 3 4.3 Sep/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Abortion Pro-life point of view

your life or another, you have heard of the topic of abortion. You have heard of the arguments and debates of whether abortion should be legal or not, but have you ever wondered exactly what is abort ...

(6 pages) 328 3 2.8 Sep/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The Economics of Clean Air

swer their comes two questions and likewise more and more people taking sides. There have been long debates not over the effectiveness of such regulations, but the lack of opportunity such regulations ...

(5 pages) 143 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Animal Rights

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in England in 1824 was formed there has been long running debates on the topic of animal rights. The first societies were formed to protect and maintain human ...

(5 pages) 187 0 3.9 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Napoleon Bonaparte

This essay is about Napoleon Bonaparte, it talks about how he effected the frech economy and debates whether or not he can be considered a great french leader or a contemptuos oneNapoleon o ...

(4 pages) 99 1 3.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Divorce (effects of divorce)

private individuals? Is the lack of detail concerning marriage arrangements causing all the divorce debates? Does divorce cause problems or solve them? Why is marriage such a religious experience and ...

(9 pages) 639 0 4.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters