THE PORN DEBATE XBCOM/275 THE PORN DEBATE One of the most controversial topics in the United States today is the pornography industry‚ a multiple billion dollar industry. The porn industry is even bigger than professional basketball‚ football and baseball put together. Americans spend more on pornography “in a year then they do on movie tickets‚ more than the do on all the performing arts combined” (Rich‚ 2011). The controversial porn debate is nothing new to the US‚ in fact as
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Abstract The history of the abortion debate has continued for decades. In today’s society the topic is very demanding and controversial. Prolifer’s as the name proceeds‚ frame the debate as the right to life for the baby. Individuals who are for Pro-choice may or may not address whether the fetus is in fact a life‚ and frame the debate in terms of woman having the right to choose what’s best for their bodies without worrying about the government getting involved. In the following paper I
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Buenos Aires‚ Argentina)‚ Venezuelan literary historian and man of letters who played a major role in bringing the works of Latin American writers to world attention. Jailed during the early years of the dictatorship (1908–35) of Juan Vicente Gómez‚ Blanco-Fombona fled to Europe‚ where he established Editorial América in Madrid (1914)‚ which presented Latin American writers to the European literary world. A prolific author‚ he wrote poetry‚short stories‚ novels‚ and essays. Of Blanco-Fombona’s vast
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I believe that there were multiple occurrences contributing the end of Greek‚ or Athenian democracy. These back to back occurrences contributed to the weakening of their city as a whole and as a result the eventual end of democracy. Though it seemed like there might be moments of democracy from time to time‚ these events were really the death knell. The most major were the Decelean War‚ the plague and death of Pericles‚ and the Macedonian take over. When Sparta turned its military attentions to
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Democracy: Has it Always Been Focused on Equality? How does the society that gave us the democratic government of equality for all show such discrimination? Athenian government in ancient Greece was an incomplete democracy that has developed over time. The Treatment of women and foreigners in Euripides’ ancient Greek world is less civilized than in democratic societies existing today. In a society dominated by men‚ women had a severe bias put against them. Women had no control over their bodies
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There are several different types of governments in this world. The United States run on a democracy. To have a successful democracy there needs to be a strong civil society‚ widespread education‚ active citizen participation‚ a social consensus and a favorable economy. The three most important of these five are having a favorable economy‚ widespread education and a strong civil society. The economy is an important factor of a government. Since the U.S has a government‚ like Abe Lincoln said
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Dictatorship and Democracy Benazir Bhutto was a renowned politician and the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan during a time that changed the face of the world; the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center‚ Pentagon and Flight 95. She was outspoken against the policy‚ rhetoric and agenda of Al Qaeda. On the 4th of October 2002‚ Bhutto gave a speech to the world stating that Al Qaeda not only victimized western society‚ but victimized Muslim Nations and the people of
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The Structure-Agency Debate provides an understanding to the attitudes towards police work shown by Captain Louis de Koster as well as his actions in the extract from Altbeker’s (2005) The Dirty Work of Democracy. This short essay will depict how I understood structure and agency to be taking place in de Koster’s context. Structure is the one extreme position in the Structure-Agency Debate whereby it is believed that a person is shaped by different elements of society such as social institutions
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Essay on Democracy – Its Merits and Demerits (free to read). The English word ‘Democracy’ is derived from two Greek words ‘Demos’ and ‘Kratia’ or ‘cratos’. Demos means crowd and ‘Kratia’ or ‘cratos’ means power. This is why the critics of Democracy have described it as Mobocracy. But in reality Democracy is not mobocracy but rule by majority of the people according to certain rules and regulations which are accepted by the people of a country. In the beginning there was direct Democracy. For
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The first presidential debate took place on Monday‚ September 26th at Hofstra University‚ New York. This time‚ being described as two of the least-liked candidates‚ democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump finally came face-to-face and launched the campaign into a new stage. Having his first experience moderating a presidential debate on Monday‚ NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt chose three major subjects of the debate‚ which were “America’s Direction‚” “Achieving Prosperity‚” and
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