After dodging power outages for many months, California experienced its first power outage on January 17th, being the first time since World War II when state officials ordered blackouts to protect the coast from the Japanese. The blackouts stretched from Central California to 500 miles north at...

'Discuss the view that secession, rather than slavery caused the Civil War" Although during the conflict both the Unionists and Confederates may have strongly believed that secession was the sole cause of the war, we can see now that this is not the case. This is reinforced by Abraham ...

In our society government system programs often do reach those people who are in need the most. In the 1960's there was a war on poverty and $7 billion dollars was put into this war by federal, state, and local governments. Even though there was so much money invested, the poor remained large...

The popular initiative process has played a role in the evolution of a stronger state presence in local affairs. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the California Constitution was modified with a series of measures approved by the voters that reflected the "progressive" mood of the times, ...

Euthanasia A considerable size of society is in favor of Euthanasia mostly because they feel that as a democratic country, we as free individuals, have the right to decide for ourselves whether or not it is our right to determine when to terminate someone's life. The stronger and more widely held...

THE GRAPES OF WRATH: A Style Critique "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth..." So starts The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most popular books of the twentieth century. Written by John Steinbeck, it...

In ancient times the death penalty was a foundation for the Law of Herod, Lex Talionis, and the ever quotable "an eye for an eye...." Capital punishment is the execution of a person convicted of committing a crime so heinous that certain societies feel there is no retribution short of dea...