... out, people just naturally started walking along the old grades, socializing, exploring, discovering old railroad relics, marveling at old industrial facilities such as bridges, tunnels, abandoned mills, sidings, switches and whatever else they could find. Of course, none of the corridors were paved or even graded, they were simply abandoned stretches of land. These corridors were given the name "Rails-to ... trails. "The world is strikingly different on a trail. The scores of happy, contented faces of young and old will tell you so. When people are out of the confinement of whatever in...

• Word Count: 1430
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... foreign nationals entering the United States for an extended period of time should be required to demonstrate a fair ability to speak and understand English, or at least a willingness to improve whatever minimal skills they may have by enrolling in an English-as-a-Second-Language class" (Schweier 1). This will prove that they will do ... whatever it takes to become an American citizen. Conversely, wisdom dictates that immigrants who are bilingual are more likely to obtain jobs than those who are only proficient in English, thus ... needs to be a balance with humanity and reality (Grun...

• Word Count: 2316
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of the tragic loss of the Russian nuclear submarine the Kursk, and which states that submarines mostly operate in an extremely hazardous environment, more unforgiving that outer space. Her article goes on to tell that a submarine is no place for a feminist experiment or a civilian mandated compromise that could endanger innocent lives. (This disaster was actually caused by a new prototype torpedo, which ... a recent poll of some submariners, some stated that they have no doubt that women could succeed and do the job in the submarine force (online). Discrimination, Space, or just cooties...

• Word Count: 1191
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... think a terrorist might live there, and they casually dismiss dozens of innocent casualties or even deaths as unfortunate but necessary. Of course, it goes without saying that they would never do such a thing in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, no matter who they suspect of being there. However, ... the indiscriminate use of powerful area-effect weapons, you can take comfort in knowing that somebody in Israel will promise an investigation ... that quietly goes away without ever penalizing anyone. It's even worse if someone in your family or extended family joins a terrorist organizat...

• Word Count: 3452
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... have been in and out of prison many times and don"t pay much attention to their children when they come to visit. So, how much contact goes on between the parent and the child? The Survey of State Prison Inmates (1991), by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that 46 percent of ... counsel stated that, " Approximately half of children whose mothers are incarcerated live with grandparents, and one- quarter live with their fathers." If the child goes to live with someone that they presumably know the child often feels more secure and have an easier time adjusting to their situation (Fir...

• Word Count: 3878
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." He believed that even broadening the interpretations of the constitution slightly was completely unconstitutional. Jefferson goes on in the document to list the powers of Congress that the constitution explicitly enumerates. These powers include "the power to lay taxes for the purpose of paying the ... enumerations of power completely useless". It would make Congress the "sole judges of good or evil" and give them the "power to do whatever evil they please." Jefferson goes on to address the sugge...

• Word Count: 1022
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of what is right and wrong, just and unjust is subjective, and a blanket set of laws cannot be enacted by an overseeing legislative body over the entire world. Kennan even goes so far as to say that the legalistic approach "makes violence more enduring, more terrible, and more destructive to political stability." Kennan also explores the possibilities that could have come ... perspectives of different analysts of diplomacy. Grossman's argues that the diplomat's philosophy is composed of four principles: optimism, commitment to justice, truth in dealing, and realism tempered by pluralism...

• Word Count: 1630
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... art to express opinions, are targets of this type of censorship. Some musicians hold opinions that may offend others. Sheri Waters, author of the web article "Controversial Music: The Beat Goes On" says, Music mirrors the society that creates it. Should we be concerned about our society? Absolutely. Violent and sexual lyrics are indeed something to be concerned about, but the ... 1950s, crime-glorifying rap lyrics forty years later - the campaign quickly expands into an effort to stop many things - all comics, all hip-hop - and to blame those things for whatever goes wrong in kids" live...

• Word Count: 1335
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... United States and the crash was due to a faulty repair job performed by Boeing engineers. I quote from a Japanese pollster, Takayoshi Miyagawa, "the Japanese people think we should make by ourselves whatever concerns human life." Another case in which Japanese pride is well demonstrated is when the space shuttle the Challenger exploded. For a year afterwards the Japanese repeatedly said, "if we had ... built it; it would not have happened!" This goes to prove how highly the Japanese's think of their craftsmanship. However, in 1988 they refused to use an American vaccine, which protected...

• Word Count: 2464
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... are healthy food places. For example, he states that you can drive down a street and find more fast-food restaurants than you can find a place that sales a simple grapefruit. Zinczenko goes back to talk about his own personal childhood experience. He came from a broken family and was often left to find his own means of food, which led him to make ... up to them. He believes that everyone knows exactly what they are eating and can make their own decision on whether or not it is wise for them to eat whatever it is that they want to eat. One issue also tied to portion size is the fast-food...

• Word Count: 1794
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... (Rodriguez, Delwiche, and Kasoosji 602). Farm workers have no right to bargain with their growers for basic rights and humane conditions. Erik Nicholson states, "Growers feel they can do whatever they want" (Smith). Apart from this, growers think that bargaining with the workers will motivate immigrants to come to United States illegally as these people will take advantage of ... hygienic food. These conditions cause harmful health problems among farm workers. They get infected by various diseases like obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, stroke, asthma, diabetes and the list...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How would you feel if your home, the one place you and your family can feel safe to practice and believe in whatever they wanted to was constantly being invaded by your next door neighbor who thinks otherwise. You would most like be furious and attempt to put an end to the reign ... lied to its citizens about the Gulf of tonkin incident. Which was one of the main factors that led us to even be able to join the war. This just goes to show that the government had already knew what they were trying to get themselves into and that the citizens would have had wanted no part in it. So in ... ...

• Word Count: 1714
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , but just like how Roosevelt had his blinders, so many privileged Americans have the same. Their race has been almost wiped away into extinction, because it was either move in whatever direction you are told to move (basically herded like mere cattle or sheep, or else you would end up dead), or try to do what Roosevelt wanted everyone to do ... by these ideals, and the growth of a country with imbalanced power that was everyone imagines as complete equality, which we are far from (race, sex, class, disabilities, and the list goes on). While the democratic idealism is much easier on the ...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of many people globally are at risk. The current matter of the nursing shortage has been going on for more than a couple years and only continues to worsen as time goes on and solutions are not made. Many factors including stress, job dissatisfaction, work overload, etc. contribute to this growing issue. This report will focus on these issues and what options ... us daily. Some handle stress differently than others. Although work-related stress should be expected when it comes to nursing, One must remember that this stress is in addition to whatever stressors are affecting the individu...

• Word Count: 3165
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... unnaturally talented athletes whose performance is not a result of immense dedication as was that of the previous record holders (Connolly, 2000). Thomas Murray (2008) says that "we may lose whatever is most graceful, beautiful, and admirable about sport." The question that is "is the use of performance-enhancing drugs sporting" is next to be examined. A column by William ... in sports so as to create the most entertaining and fair form of play possible, in NBA for example, goaltending (swatting the ball away from the rim just before it goes in) was disallowed as teams were fielding the...

• Word Count: 4945
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ideals may be required to see alternatives. "I will follow that method of treatment which according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient and abstain from whatever is harmful or mischievous. I will neither prescribe nor administer a lethal dose of medicine to any patient even if asked nor counsel any such thing nor perform the utmost respect for ... including physical, social, emotional, and economic factors, whose hope for continued living and cure is gone, and who is faced with the alternative of suffering until inevitable death." He also goes on to say,...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... held disguised with no outside communication, lawyer, trial by jury, and no release of names of the suspects. This is one of the unjustifiable example of human rights that still goes on today. Another statement proclaims the right of every human being to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness." It never actually defines hapiness, but we can say that it ... up to the true meaning for what it is because of the unwilling efforts of the american people to help stabilize the government policies. The government will continue to do whatever it wants, and will continue to do as long as the...

• Word Count: 744
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... been alive in 1913 they would have absolutely rejected the Sixteenth Amendment to the constitution in which the congress was granted "power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without any regard to census and enumeration." (United States constitution, Bill of Rights 16th Amendment). Simply put Libertarians believe taxes are ... labor," (33:9) in order make certain that we all pay our fair share. DRUG PROHIBITION "A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded...

• Word Count: 7034
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... within households diversify their activities in order to increase income, reduce vulnerability and improve the quality of their lives. Some fall prey to poverty due to others actions meaning a person goes out to get a loan and the moneylender has hidden clauses that the person does not see. When they default on the loan the moneylender can take everything causing the person ... Cose's book: Unfortunately, Mr. Cose declares, white America will not leave them alone. Every day, the members of this class are humiliated and treated with disrespect, made to know that whatever their accomplish...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... biologists or environmental scientists who were equipped to address the problem. Clearly, in this case it makes sense to have the state step in and use their specialists to correct whatever environmental problem the community is facing. Luckily the decision on which resource management system to implement is not binary. We can choose to combine state and local controls using various ... point become inefficient to pollute because of the costs of pollution on the polluter. However, if the polluter is free to pick up and leave, and often they are, this goes out the window and you have a s...

• Word Count: 1721
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . (1) In Elliott Liebows", Tell Them Who I Am "The Lives of Homeless Women", he describes how the women would tell each other that, "A job is the way out of homeless." Liebow goes on to tell us how the women face hardships getting jobs because on the application they had to put an telephone number and the only one they had was the ... . Therefore, millions of hard workers are shut out of the private housing market. Job training, education, trade schools, and other systemic economic incentives and welfare disincentives should be applied with whatever funds are available from foundation or ...

• Word Count: 1729
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... hateful reason. The principal reason, however, is that home schooling offers freedom, along with responsibility, to make their own decisions regarding how they wish their children to live and learn. Whatever initially leads parents to make this choice, home schooling nearly always turns into something far more than an alternative education choice, it becomes a lifestyle choice of personal responsibility and freedom ... children who are taught at home tend to have stronger relationships with his or her father or mother. This is because they spend a lot more time together than a child who...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... very tiny and passes easily from mother to baby through the placenta. Since the fetus gets its nourishment in the womb through the placenta, when the mother drinks alcohol, it goes right into the baby's system where it can stay for days, causing the unborn child to be intoxicated. (Little et al., 1990). Although the alcohol can affect the development of ... a lower than normal intellectual ability ranging from borderline intellect to severely mentally retarded. More subtle damage can occur that is "like a buck shot-scattered holes in the brain that affect whatever area that was developi...

• Word Count: 2014
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... patient from becoming a danger to himself or to others. This is where the state enters into the equation, where the state is the governing body in charge of determining who goes to the institutions. It should be noted that the major problem with all state- run care facilities is that the number of patients who require care far outnumber the resources ... States is punishing more individuals, rather than actually working through the death penalty to curb the overall percentage of violent crimes. According to those who dislike the death penalty (for whatever reasons, be they moral, politi...

• Word Count: 5114
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a crime. (Henderson 3) "Despite some two-hundred years of debate, capital punishment remains one of the most hotly contested and widely discussed topics of bother public and academic discourse. Scarcely a week goes by without a new political or legal issue, murder case or impending execution fuelling the fires of controversy." (Smith 235) The death penalty has been the subject of many debates over ... opposite effect of increasing murder rates." (Sorensen, Wrinkle, Brewer, Marquart 489-490) These studies and others like it have made the argument that the death penalty deters crime virtu...

• Word Count: 2739
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate