Race and Ethnicity Related Controversies in the News Any given society relies on newspapers as one of its major source of information and basically sets the tone for the rest of the media on how it should conduct its coverage (Jennifer‚ 2003). Given this fact‚ it important to question the way information is presented to the public by journalists. In their endeavor to provide the public with information‚ journalists reproduce world views that are culturally embedded in a bid to distinguish the
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Civil liberties are a major part of the U.S and all over the entire world. Civil liberties are freedoms of a citizen to exercise rights‚ such as freedom of speech or assembly‚ without being interfered by the government. These laws cannot be violated for any reason at all. There may be no laws created to go against these civil liberties which are protected in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. There are various diseases‚ contagions‚ and other viruses that question whether or not if one’s civil liberties
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Making English Official is Unnecessary English is the common language in America. No other viable language exists to replace English as a main way of communication. Because citizens who do not speak English are protected by the First Amendment‚ establishing English as the official language of the United States would be a direct infringement upon their freedom of speech and could isolate communities of immigrants who haven’t learned the language yet. In America‚ most business and work
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The War on Terror has produced several different viewpoints on the utilization of torture and its effectiveness as a means to elicit information. A main argument has been supplied that torture is ineffective in its purpose to gather information from the victim. The usefulness of torture has been questioned because prisoners might use false information to elude their torturers‚ which has occurred in previous cases of torture. It has also been supposed that torture is necessary in order to use the
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Euthanasia Essay: Assisted Suicide is Wrong Assisted Suicide is Wrong A Saskatchewan farmer‚ Robert Latimer‚ was sentenced to life in prison last year for the 1993 second-degree murder of his severely disabled daughter‚ Tracy. He asphyxiated her with exhaust from his pick-up (Heinrich). Assisted Suicide is somewhat related to Euthanasia. The word Euthanasia comes from the Greek language: eu meaning "good" and thanatos meaning "death". The meaning of the word has evolved from "good
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Tomahawk racism out of sports teams! A fight over whether some names of sports teams are racist and should be forced to change them. The Washington Redskins is the main target because it is by far the most racist in the eyes of Native Americans. One of the many arguments is if the term “Redskins” is offensive. In the Webster dictionary it is usually an offensive term. In one case‚ a Cleveland Indians fan started a conversation on the racism with Chief Wahoo on Twitter. The fan tweeted a picture
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with conflicts with Iraq and other states trying to obtain nuclear‚ biological and chemical weapons‚ it is the greatest threat to the world security today. Also‚ the enemy could be anyone‚ Iraq today‚ North Korea or Libya tomorrow. Further‚ Krauthammer states with an unstable period ahead of us‚ the best hope for peace is the American strength and will‚ making the rules for the world and enforcing them when broken. The U.S. is by far the only major power leading in toward the 21st century‚ rather
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suggested that this duality induced youth (previous generations) to take political position and choose to take part in one or the other. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991‚ the world went from a bipolar to a unipolar political view (Krauthammer cited in Wohlforth 1999‚ p.5); this may have caused‚ in the current generation‚ an increasingly diminishing interest in political issues. According to Akeil (n.d.‚ p. 11)‚ globalisation under a capitalist unipolar view of the world‚ promotes the
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Sex Education in Public Schools Where do our children get the information about sex education? Schools are the one institute that children regularly attend; they are geared towards increasing student’s knowledge and improving their skills. Sex education in public schools now seems to be more and more of a controversial issue. People are arguing whether sex education should be taught in public schools or whether it is the parent’s responsibility to teach their children. I believe it should be the
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Why legalize marijuana? "I see America with half the number of prisons‚ half the number of prisoners‚ 10‚000 fewer homicides a year‚ inner cities in which there ’s a chance for these poor people to live without being afraid for their lives‚ citizens who might be respectable who are now addicts‚ not being subject to become criminals in order to get their drug‚ being able to get drugs for which they ’re sure of the quality." Isn ’t it a gateway drug to harder substances? "The effect of criminalization
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