On April 23, 2010 the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, signed Senate Bill 1070 Immigration Law. This controversial bill, which abuses immigrants, recalls the racial laws of Nazi Germany in which the Jews were persecuted during Hitler's regime. In the Arizona case, the target of this law is the Latin...

Gun Control or Government Control? . When you hear the term "gun control", many things may come to mind such as school shootings, like Columbine or Rocori, "kids killing kids", the Brady Law and second amendment rights. As Americans face an ever-growing problem of violence, t...

Nearly every day the newspapers and the television media print stories about serious offences. During the last years, the publication about facts and backgrounds of sexual offenders and child molesters has grown, and the public interest goes along with this. For violent offences, the rate of viole...

Malcom X All men are created equal. This statement was the basis of the civil right movements of the 1960's. Malcom X is a man that promoted a society in which all human beings were equally respected. He believes that blacks should achieve that goal by any means necessary. In a time when black...

My team and I believe that legalizing marijuana would be a good idea. It would lower violence, help the government, and would be used in modern medicine. The first point that my team and I would like to make is the positives to legalizing marijuana. If marijuana was legalized, we believe t...

Try to picture this scene: your favorite movie stare is caught with drugs on his person after being stopped by the police. Before even being take to trial, your celebrity is treated as if he didn't do a thing. The trial comes around and because of his status as an actor the charges are ...

The Civil Rights Movement The momentum of the previous decade's civil rights gains led by rev. Martin luther king, jr. carried over into the 1960s. but for most blacks, the tangible results were minimal. only a minuscule percentage of black children actually attended integrated schools...

If someone asked me what the most important event that happened in the 20th century and had the most affect on the United States of America, my answer would be the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has changed modern America, it has enabled it to produce star athletes and top movie st...

A VINDICATED SLAYER: A CLOSER LOOK AT GEORGE ORWELL'S "SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT" The impact of removing an animal from its natural habitat by destruction seems demoralizing to some people. Nevertheless there are times when this course of action is required due to aggressive behavior fr...

Although gun control may help to keep some citizens safe, nevertheless, the freedom and rights of the individuals would be violated because the right to bear arms is guaranteed in the Constitution. With restrictions on gun control, the gun laws will punish honest citizens, however; the criminals who...

I believe that too many women have abortions for reasons which are not just enough for the killing of a human being. Abortion has been seen as a controversial issue for hundreds of years. As more people discuss it, new dimensions are added to the argument and this may be why laws vary from ...

The patriot act as a document is appalling in its entirety. However to discuss the document and what is wrong with it, in its entirety, would take fifty pages. I have decided to discuss one specific provision, discuss its impact and suggest an alternative provision. In the wake of the September 11th...

The argument of legalizing marijuana is akin to the age-old battle of Creationism vs. Evolution, because everyone has his or her own opinion. In my opinion, marijuana should be legalized. "I didn't inhale," was President Bill Clinton's reply when the news asked about his experimentation with marijua...

The United States Federal government should significantly reform the legal proceedings of the justice system?s criminal sentencing policy. This statement can be considered a proposition of policy because it suggests something should be done. The statement attempts to uncover a change in the conduc...