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- 16391: Asher Lev
- ... Torah. He sent out a message that his first love was no longer the Master of the Universe, but rather art. Asher Lev's choices in this novel serve to estrange Asher from the only world he knew growing up, the Jewish community. The take him from being a boy who liked foolish drawings, to a man who would sacrifice anything to do what he loved.
- 16392: Murder
- ... people would tend to agree, that there are circumstances in which killing someone else is just fine, and even desirable. But what are those circumstances? What exactly is justifiable killing? Is abortion OK? How about war? Euthanasia? These are topics that are in hot controversy these days, as civil rights groups battle political standings that have been around for dozens of years. Capital punishment is among those instances of justified killing ...
- 16393: Corporal Punishment Is Physical Abuse
- ... law codes of Hammurabi and Moses, in laws of Sparta and other Greek city states, in early Christian church teachings and in Anglo-Saxon common laws. It is still used in many parts of the world and remains in the criminal codes of several European communities. In the twentieth century, corporal punishment has received severe criticism. Many people believe it is a barbaric relic of a bygone age, completely opposite with ...
- 16394: Is Capital Punishment Biblical?
- ... price for all sins, by dying. Everyone needs to repent, but nothing as drastic as death is expected. BIBLIOGRAPHY Falls, M. Margaret, The Christian Century, Against the Death Penalty: A Christian Stance in a Secular World, The Christian Century Foundation, Cicero, IL, 1986. Finlay, Terence J., The Ten Commandments, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, NY, 1961. Harrison, R. K., Numbers An Exegetical Commentary, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1992. Hoekema ...
- 16395: Date Rape
- ... is unwanted and forced upon by someone you know, it is known as date rape. It occurs daily and is prevalent on virtually all college campuses across the nation and in cities all over the world. Date rape generally occurs when a man is alone with a woman. Although it has been reported that men have been raped by women, it is much more common for a woman to be raped ...
- 16396: Australian People
- ... make up 24.3% of the population. Burial services are very similar to the ones practiced by Americans in the US. The Aboriginal buries their dead and marks the burial grounds to symbolize the sky world in which they will be reincarnated. The Average Australian family consists of three members. The Father is the dominant member. There are some extended families of grandparents. Some Aboriginal now live in cities although most ...
- 16397: Bach, Johann Sebastian
- ... structure. It starts off with a full orchestra and then you hear the two violin solos and then it switches back to the full orchestra and so on. Today Bach is known all over the world as one of the greatest composers ever to have lived, producing what has been described as 'pure' music. His skill at writing for the keyboard instruments and for choirs also has had a significant effect ...
- 16398: An Argument for the Legalization of Drugs, Based on John Stuart Mills' "Revised Harm Principle"
- ... to support these jails, and the loss, or at least diminution, of a productive citizen. In order to buy drugs illegally, the user may be forced to expose himself to the fringes of the criminal world--something he would never do under any other circumstances. If drugs were legalized, the criminal stigma would be removed from their purchase, possession, and use. The government would collect taxes on drug sales and, conversely ...
- 16399: Breast Cancer
- ... solution to cancer may be hormone therapy. The hormone, usually tamoxifen, slows growth of cancer cells by blocking some growth enhancing properties of estrogen. "Tamoxifen is the most commonly used breast cancer drug in the world. It works, works well, and does it with relatively few side effects," said Dr. Wickerman of a Dallas clinic. The controversy over Tamoxifen is that it might cause other types of cancer. In 1981, the ...
- 16400: Opinion on the Death Penalty
- ... of nowhere that proves he is innocent of all charges. How do you pay back this poor person's family? A long liable suit would follow, but I'm sure all the money in the world would not bring back their family member. What are the police officers going to do? They thought that they had the right person for the crime and now, with new evidence, they were proven wrong ...
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