In the year of 2000‚ Santa Fe Independent School District approved a policy that would allow a student to give a prayer‚ which the district referred to as messages‚ at Friday night football games. These prayers were student initiated and were given through the public address system at the Santa Fe High School stadium. These prayers or ‘messages’ were given because students from the high school voted in favor of these student led messages. The practicing of giving these messages would violate the
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1 John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens born April 20‚ 1920 in Chicago. He was the Youngest of four boys‚ his grandfather ran the Illinois life insurance company which made a lot of money. and his dad built the opulent Stevens hotel. In his teens he saw his family’s good luck turn around when his dad was convicted of embezzling money to keep the hotel. Later on Stevens told the news that his dad was wrongly convicted. “Stevens ended up graduating from the university of
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The Importance of Unity In the song “Peace Train” by Cat Stevens (Yousaf Islam)‚ Stevens reaches out to the masses in an attempt to display the simplicity of supporting peace‚ while stressing the importance of a united world and its people by comparing peace to a train. The theme of this song is vague‚ but powerful‚ an informal declaration of resistance to war and hatred in general. Stevens expresses his feelings that peace someday will prevail by explaining how the peace train runs along the
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Steven Soderbergh is a fantastic filmmaker who went to great heights to produce and make Che part1. The film is about Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The many legends and myths that surround Ernesto’s life and death are what make the film bold. Che part 1 is a success since it focuses on one particular style of storytelling. It is faithful is portraying the life of Ernesto rather than trying to tell it. The film eschews Hollywood’s tradition of making biopics on famous individuals. In his film‚ Part 1‚ Steven
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not acting as a selling agent and that the sales occurred in a noncompetitive market. Stevens evaluated the NCAA ’s claim that the television plan enhanced the competitiveness of college football. Since the district court found no procompetitive efficiencies from the arrangement‚ Stevens rejected this justification. He also said that there was no need to penetrate the market against "nonexistant" competitors. Stevens likewise rejected the defense that the television plan was designed to protect live
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Authority: 1. What is your topic for this project? [2 point] Steven M. Wise‚ a teacher and lawyer at Harvard is educating students and standing up for Animal Rights. He hopes to achieve the goal of getting the first non-human animals their rights. 2. What is the complete MLA or APA citation for the interview/article? [3 points] "A Courtroom Champion For 4-Legged Creatures." N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 3. Based strictly on the article‚ how much expertise or training does the expert have on this particular
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Synopsis Schindler List is film that produced by Steven Spielberg in 1993. The film revolves around Oskar Schindler who saved the lives of over one thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the holocaust. Oskar Schindler saved the lives of the Polish Jewish refugees by hiring them his factories. The Polish Jews were relocated from the nearby areas after the Second World War started. German initiated the relocation of the Polish Jews. During this time‚ Oskar Schindler a business man in German came
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justice system. Answer: n (no deceptive argument) 9. Thurgood Marshall‚ a pro-criminal‚ bleeding-heart liberal‚ considers the harm a victim suffered irrelevant in a criminal trial. Answer: c (personal attack) 10. As Justice John Paul Stevens correctly points out‚ the defendant should have more rights than the state in a criminal trial. Answer: d (testimonial) 11. Victim impact statements force juries to base their decisions on emotion rather than on objective facts. Answer:
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“THE WRONG RULING ON VOUCHERS” Thesis Statement: “It was a bad decision on constitutional grounds‚ and a bad one for American education.” (New York Times‚ 2002) I. The controversy with Cleveland’s voucher program A. The voucher programs allows students to use stipends to choose where they want to attend school. B. The issue lies with the fact that students’ only options are between low-performing public schools and parochial schools. C. This choice is subsidized by tax payers and therefore
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most to you in life. Now imagine what life would be like if you never saw or heard from them again. This is what happens to Celie‚ the main character in the novel The Color Purple written by Alice Walker and the movie The Color purple directed by Steven Spielberg. The novel The color purple was published in 1982. The story is told through letters written by Celie to God. The only sentences outside the letters are the first two “You better not never tell nobody. It’d kill your mammy.” The story
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