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- 10111: The Canadian Government
- ... of the war, Canadians were eager to help Britain and its allies, and Canadians served in the war on a voluntary basis and it seemed like there would be enough volunteers. By 1916, however, the death tolls in Europe were staggering. No matter how hard Canada tried, they couldn't recruit enough volunteers. It became apparent that Quebec was providing fewer volunteers than Ontario, although their populations were similar in size ...
- 10112: Bill of Rights
- ... people were coerced into bearing witness against themselves, and those confessions were used to convict them. COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Your answers to Census questions are required by law, with a $100 penalty for each question not answered. But people have been evicted for giving honest Census answers. According to the General Accounting Office, one of the most frequent ways city governments use census information is to detect ...
- 10113: Propaganda and Its Uses By Countries, Especially During War
- ... the right decision. Iraq maintained that they were being harassed by both Kuwait and the US and that their retaliation was purely because it was necessary. The United States claimed otherwise. Visual representations of the death of innocent civilians were powerful means of garnering sympathy for both sides. Each of the armies claimed that they were the stronger one and that the other one could be easily defeated. Both Hussein and ...
- 10114: Planck v. Indiana
- ... state justified in ripping them out of home-school and pushing them into a public school? In a sense, this is what has happened in the Planck case, however, the end result was the unfortunate death of their son Lance. The other side of this argument, that the state is justified in taking the Planck's children, is also difficult to argue because of the effect it has on the public ...
- 10115: Governments In Star Wars V.S. Governments in the Home
- ... members. As a result of this the power than fell to a small group of generals who elected Darth Vader as there leader and second in command much like a parliament would. After the first Death Star was blown up the emperor took total control of the government and using Darth Vader as his go between with his generals. As you can see the Empire had evolved from some what of ...
- 10116: Personal Freedom In the United States of America
- ... considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and sedition laws. One law forbade the publication of false, scandalous or malicious writing against the government, Congress or the President. The penalty for this crime was a $2,000 fine and two years in prison. The public was enraged at these laws. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison pleaded for freedom of speech and the press. The alien ...
- 10117: Ecuador and Democracy
- ... armed guards and captured Atahualpa. Atahualpa was hold for ransom, and incalculable quantities of gold, silver and other valuables poured in to Cajamarca. When the ransom was paid the Inca, instead of being sentenced to death. His crimes were incest, polygamy, worship of false gods, and crimes against the king. He was executed on 29 August 1533, and the Inca Empire was at an end. From 1535 onwards, the colonial era ...
- 10118: Constitutional Democracy
- ... engage in sex, to enter into contracts, or to form sufficient "informed consent" to agree to their own medical treatment, it is incredible that they would be regarded as competent to make a life and death decision about something that later in life they might themselves regard as a real person, with individual rights Drawing on several major contributions of the enlightenment, including the political theory of John Locke and the ...
- 10119: The Crucible: John Proctor's Marriage
- ... could never have what they shared, love. John loved his wife, not Abigail. He clearly showed his true feelings for Elizabeth and paid the price for his impure act with his life, and even through death, his love prevailed. Love was something that endured when all else seemed to have perished. It withstood all tests, overcame all obstacles, and truly was felt by John and Elizabeth. Even with the greatest test ...
- 10120: Les Miserables
- ... get married and at the wedding Valjean and Cossets love recognize each other. There is an incredibly dramatic part here when they hug. In the last scene we see and old ugly man on his death bed. Then a youthful face comes out all in white, Fantines ghost. Then another dressed in white then another. Everyone that was killed in the play was out on stage and in about a minuets ...
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