These high-profile leaders believe that the global war on drugs is a costly failure and governments should end "the criminalization, marginalization, and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do no harm to others" (Ellingwood). ... Three Latin American leaders who signed the report, Gaviria and former Presidents Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, made the same recommendations two years prior but they fell on deaf ears. ... Ultimately, the measure failed, but he said, "People are changing their minds" (Ellingwood). ...

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People have always said,""sex sales."" ... Simply, because they weren't viewed as people that felt pain. ... This sort of turning a deaf ear and a blind eye toward such injustices must not and can not go on. ... When we see people namely women: as objects, figurines, wives, mothers, sex, objects, and not human. ... Now I implore people to think about that "what does that say about this society?...

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"It should be believed, that it is not without cause that God, Out Lord, has permitted that these parts, should be discovered in the name of You Royal Highnesses, so that his fruit and merit before God should be enjoyed by Your Majesties, of having instructed these barbarian people, and brought them through your commands to the True Faith" (Wheeler, pg 9). ... Just before the first day of the fiesta Cortes states that his interpreter who was told by another woman native of the city, that many of Montezuma's people were intending to kill Cortes and his men. ... "He was also terrified to ...

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(Nuzum 9) Some evidence exists through studies in a small population of mental institutions that music has a minor effect on a small percentage of emotionally disturbed people. (Nuzum 9) But there is no evidence that music can make an otherwise healthy person commit crimes, destroy other people's property, or, in some views, turn "bad." What the Supreme Court justices meant in their statements was that restricting music from all people is using much too extreme means to solve a problem that only exists in a very small percent of people. ... If the tobacco industry funded a study that ...

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Threats came and she had to defend her territory, her people, and her status. ... " The warning fell on deaf ears and Truman was forced to authorise an atomic bomb to be dropped on Nagasaki on August 6, 1945. ... The bomb claimed more than 350000 people and many more died later from heavy radiation doses. ... Her military resources had dwindled too, but then her people had learnt to be efficient, Simple home-gadgets manufacturing companies began manufacturing firearms. ...

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What immediately springs to mind for most people with the possibility of cloning whole people is the ideas of creating supermen or a master race which dominated the Nazis. ... Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people believed to be inferior or below average mentally and physically (Glass). ... Euthanasia, the killing of people for the greater good, was also a means of purging the world of inferior people. Germany adopted a sterilization law in 1933, which made people with such hereditary disabilities as Huntington's Corea, feeble-mindedness, blindness and deafness, gr...

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It also floods the Treasury of untold millions of dollars used to help the crippled, blind, deaf, aged, infirm, and builds hospitals and schools (Qtd. in Vogler & Bartz 3-4).? ... Young people, for better or worse, feel omnipotent and need to test the world when they break away from their dependent parental relationship. How easy is it for young people to run rings around rules?? ... Drinking among young people is not about the exquisite taste of fine wines, but a rebelling against the Puritan mind-set of this country. ... At first, my friend would be alarmed that people in the Uni...

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Despite the Declaration there was still a lot of division among the American people, bought on by lack of funds and foods, the strain of the long war and complaints about the inefficiency of the Congress. ... If we look at the case of the both the French and the Russian Revolutions, in these instances it was the poorer people of the nation rising against its elite class that defined the revolutionary action. ... The fact that the events prior to the American Revolution suggested a call for change by the American people, and that indeed huge changes were seen as the Colonies became the United...

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