All Airline Pilots should be Armed Abstract The issue of pilots carrying weapons‚ while flying‚ is not new. Since the earliest days of pilots flying the U.S. Mail‚ they carried guns to protect themselves and the vital cargo of mail. Today‚ pilots are authorized to fly with weapons to protect the aircraft‚ their passengers‚ and themselves from hijackers and terrorists. It has become a last line of defense in case of a hostile takeover of the aircraft‚ turning it into a weapon of mass destruction
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Women’s rights have become a global and ongoing fight. There have been many advances that have taken place in the equalization of genders. The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Woman (CEDAW) has been an affective and instrumental device in bringing about change in many countries around the world‚ including the U.S. However‚ despite this progress there are many areas that still need attention in order to create a more equal world for women. Globalization has
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WHY THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT SPY ON US All the countries establish in its political constitution and in its legislation‚ the duty of the government to look over the life of its citizens‚ protecting them from the risk: the internal threats (inside the proper country) and external (outside the country) That is why‚ it is admitted‚ and it is even required‚ that the government possess a structure of intelligence that resists the action of dangerous forces‚ however lately‚ it has been found that in
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that: South Africa has been characterised by many years of workplace inequities and imbalances of the past particularly blacks who were treated in an inhumane manner and denigration. In 1994 the new democratic government came into power and had a moral duty to eliminate all forms of discrimination and thereafter level the playing field at the workplace‚ hence the affirmative action policy was introduced and legislated. Since blacks were marginalised certain jobs and skills were reserved for
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POLICYMAKERS SHOULD REDUCE THE GOVERNMENT DEBT The U.S. federal government is far more indebted today than it was two decades ago. In 1980‚ the federal debt was $710 billion; in 1999‚ it was $3.7 trillion. If we divide today’s debt by the size of the population‚ we learn that each person’s share of the government debt is about $14‚000. The most direct effect of the government debt is to place a burden on future generations of taxpayers. When these debts and accumulated interest come due‚ future
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make a big impact on a child. Study shows that‚” a change in lunch can make an effect on the obesity rate”(Walshmedpagetoday). The gov’t should control school lunches to reduce the obesity epidemic and health risks. School Lunch has been around for a long time in fact school lunch was started by President Harry Truman in 1946. School lunch is offered to all students to provide a nutritionally balanced meal everyday for low or free cost.Over the years obesity rates have highly risen which first
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and businesses. Since the internet has become so important in today’s society‚ people have been debating whether or not it should be monitored. No one likes being watched‚ but what if that monitoring prevented a murder or a terrorist attack? I believe that the state and federal government should be able to monitor the internet because it is a public place where people should have nothing to hide‚ the constitution has no provisions protecting internet privacy‚ and because monitoring the web can prevent
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The concept of “social welfare” existed in some form since the early days of humankind. In reading about the evolution of early societies‚ one may suggest that social welfare is as intrinsically a value as the preservation of life itself‚ although‚ it may have always placed secondary to the appeal of dominion. Observe the gradual shift in the political structure from communal living to eventual stratified economies. While nomadic tribes settled into fixed states driven by agriculture and domestication
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settlements in the New World. These settlements came together as one and created their own form of government. The foundational roots are the most important aspect of a well-organized system. Without a solid foundation‚ any nation would collapse. By incorporating ideas from the Greco-Romans‚ Christians‚ and Germans‚ they established fundamental principles like representative governance‚ limited government‚ and effective leadership. The Romans were abundant in their success as a regime. Their method
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Should all polluting activities be banned? Could pollution ever be justified? Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability‚ disorder‚ harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat‚ or light. The major polluting activities in our world are power stations‚ industries‚ cars‚ CFC gases in aerosols‚ refrigirators and manufacture of polystyrene
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