Elections & Campaign Funding The articles I chose focus on congressional elections and campaign funding. The Supreme Court recently lifted the cap on amount donors can contribute in a congressional election. The courts decision threw out the $74‚600 limit for donations to political parties and the $48‚600 limit for House or Senate candidates in a two-year campaign season. However donors still cannot contribute more than $5‚200 to a single candidate per election‚ but without the overall caps‚ those
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The Alternate Speaker The story The Alternate Speaker is about a boy named Daniel‚ who is in a speech competition and has high hope in getting into the regional competition. Unfortunately‚ Daniel comes in as fourth place which means he can’t get into regionals‚ unless someone can’t make it. Daniel becomes sad‚ and looses hope in ever making it to regionals. He looses all hope until a girl in regionals gets sick and Daniel has to compete. Daniel gets so excited to compete in regionals. He enters
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who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a collage education he may steal the whole rail road.” Even though we have a while to get a collage education‚ we’ve made it here‚ to the end of 8th grade. Just like a rail road the train has to be set on a good track‚ just like our education. So far for this 8th grade class our tracks have been fantastic ever since we first started our journey. Our first stop was at kindergarten‚ where we thought school was just a place your
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Everyone has heard school lunch horror stories‚ pulling the lunch lady’s facial hair out of a half-eaten cheese sandwich or worse pulling it out of your mouth‚ but many wonder what really goes on in a public school’s cafeteria. As a future educational professional my greatest goal is students’ success. An important part of children’s success has to do with them being prepared to be successful. They need to be prepared emotionally as well as physically. Having a healthy and fulfilling breakfast and
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large economic benefits‚ why should governments fund scientific research?" In contemporary society‚ the importance of funding scientific research is quite high since "state funding helped get Google’s search algorithm‚ antibody cancer therapies‚ and DNA sequencing technologies off the ground."(Huppert and Taylor‚ 2013) However‚ it is also equally important to highlight that funding scientific research is extremely expensive. For example‚ in order to start up a biochemical research lab‚ you require
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that the need is ever growing (Bhattacharya et all. 2001). In the diagram displayed below‚ it is clear that mental disorders represent one of the top burdens worldwide‚ therefore has more than enough reason to take action more seriously in terms of funding. Figure 1: Burden of diseases worldwide (World Health Organization‚ 2003) One common theme found in the mental health care industry is the deficiency of acknowledgement‚ in terms of overall health status and the well-being of the people involved
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are not allowed to withdraw funding if they disagree with the art being shown. This rule essentially bans the government from applying any censors on the art shown in these programs. Basically once the government decides to fund a program of the arts they are required to stand by their decision under U.S. law. Also the government is not allowed to push their viewpoints onto publically funded programs. “As stated by the National Coalition Against Censorship‚ public funding for the arts does not allow
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Alternate Families: Same-Sex Couples Can Raise Children As it has been in debate for years since it was first brought to light‚ the concern of same-sex parenting continues to be brought up with jabs at its ethics and practicality. Since June 26‚ 2015‚ all U.S. states have legalized gay-marriage‚ making a huge breakaway for society. Yet‚ even with this huge development in our culture‚ the disputes against it still manage to work their way into society and daily discussions. With the recent legalizing
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state governments have always repeatedly maintained a commitment to the arts (Gummow). The art funding is a good use of a taxpayer’s money‚ because it supports health and wellness‚ it creates more jobs‚ and it is a part of education. The arts are so important‚ so that is why I think that the money that goes into the arts is money well spent ("Why Should the Government Support the Arts?"). The art funding is a good use of a taxpayer’s money‚ because art therapy is very beneficial. According to the
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The alternate ending What if belle fell for gaston and care not for the beast? or the princess and the frog never kissed? will cinderella still be recognized by her prince? if in the palace ball‚ she’s not in. what if rapunzel never grew her hair? will her prince be able to reach her lair? and if shadow never left peter pan’s side‚ then peter and wendy’s roads wouldn’t collide. what if aurora never shed her blood? having no one to wake‚ her prince will be sad. and what if
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