Adoption: Homosexuals Need Not Apply In the last decade the ever changing face of the American family "has seen a sharp rise in the number of lesbians and gay men forming their own families through adoption, foster care, artificial insemination and other means" ("Fact Sheet"). ... Homosexual couples hoping to start families look towards adoption to make their dream a reality, but in many states this is a dream that will never be realized. ... The president of the Family Research Council, Ken Connor argues "[t]here is an abundance of research that children do best when raised by a mother and...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As relations with Britain were beginning to falter towards the end of the 18th century, largely due to heavy taxation and imposing new governments, the country began to split. ... In the failure to reach a bipartisan solution the split within the country increased. ... These were people who were content with their simple lives, people whose religion preached pacifism, those who did not want to see their homes, families and lands ravaged by war, and those who felt that the colonial armies where not strong enough to defeat the British and did not want there land and possessions confiscated. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As relations with Britain were beginning to falter towards the end of the 18th century, largely due to heavy taxation and imposing new governments, the country began to split. ... In the failure to reach a bipartisan solution the split within the country increased. ... These were people who were content with their simple lives, people whose religion preached pacifism, those who did not want to see their homes, families and lands ravaged by war, and those who felt that the colonial armies where not strong enough to defeat the British and did not want there land and possessions confiscated. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eventually, a mental health disorder will affect the individual by pushing them into other areas of problem; such as a disruptive lifestyle, school failure, alcohol or drugs, family discord and even violence or suicide.Another huge impact of juvenile delinquents is the recidivism among juvenile detainees and the start to their long life of crime. ... The Programs were split up in different groups based on their success ratings; the groups were broken down into categories of effective, non effective, and promising. ... The remaining 62 percent is split up very unevenly, with 55 percent of ...

• Word Count: 2153
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eventually, a mental health disorder will affect the individual by pushing them into other areas of problem; such as a disruptive lifestyle, school failure, alcohol or drugs, family discord and even violence or suicide.Another huge impact of juvenile delinquents is the recidivism among juvenile detainees and the start to their long life of crime. ... The Programs were split up in different groups based on their success ratings; the groups were broken down into categories of effective, non effective, and promising. ... The remaining 62 percent is split up very unevenly, with 55 percent of th...

• Word Count: 2154
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Joint Select Committee majority report were responses to an escalating civil unrest during the Reconstruction Period of the United States. These acts were established to dismantle, or at the very least, control the practices of the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, the Klan...

• Word Count: 2591
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Just like other issues that split the nation, gun control has many facets to it. ... Those who are for stricter gun control laws are infringing on the liberties of those who want to bear arms, complicating the process for those who desire to protect themselves or their family. ...

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Reasons such as stress, financial and even family matters at home can affect the individual's performance at work. ... According to these employees, the topic of job dissatisfaction was split into other sub categories such as work overload and lack of cooperation among healthcare professional staff. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The English colonies were split up into three parts: The New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. ... In New England towns, if there were more than fifty families, an elementary education was necessary and most of the adults were literate. ...

• Word Count: 1667
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Every unit of work lost has an impact, but we have some agents that have been away on stress or Family Leave Medical Act (FMLA) for months and sometimes years. ... Instead of black or white, we decide to split the difference and take the gray path. ...

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Slavery is another topic that not only split our nation's people into two separate social groups, but also continued to be an argument built into the United States" framework for years to come. ... It became the nation's "family secret". ...

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Working families face many pressures that put an added stress on the individual, the family, and the company for which they work. ... These are global competition, a renewed interest in personal lives and family values, and an aging workforce (Carey). ... With the growing diversity of family structures represented in the workforce in the new millennium, it is important that human resource professionals better understand the interface of work and family relationships and the resulting impact in the workplace. ... The under-representation of these groups of individuals with potentially diffic...

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Here is one point where the ideal becomes fragmented and split:  some imagine Squanto, a savior who helped a group who were on the brink of death to survive, and then once the pilgrims had the ability to live on their own means of survival, it's almost as if he was some sort fairy godmother, waved a magic wand, things were better, then 'poofed' into disappearance (at least within storytelling). ... Paul Dunbar's "Sympathy" paints this metaphor between him and his race, the gap and loss of this time, and the brutality it leaves upon the souls generation after gen...

• Word Count: 1871
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The United Nations is in charge of making the world a safer and more stable place by preventing and stopping conflicts among its nations. The Security Council is the only organ whose resolutions are mandatory for member states. It has the authority to examine any conflict that might have internation...

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James Otis The Revolutionary War brought out dynamic personalities of men, which have made freedom a reality for us. One such man was James Otis who had a sincere concern for liberty and who believed in man's singular sovereignty, while publicly guarding against the practice of absolutism in government found in England under the rule of Charles II and James II. Otis argued that every man lived in a state of nature and was subjected to laws "engraved in his hearts."" He warned the new king Charles II that his usage owas for the most part destructive to his citizens at home and with ...

• Word Count: 2505
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate