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- 16411: The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
- ... for eighteen-year-olds to obtain alcohol in Louisiana and so many drink, drinking should be made legal for them. Finally, other eighteen-year-old rights prove that drinking should be legal. When the Vietnam War was raging, a central argument arose that someone old enough to die should be old enough to drink. Many parents agree that if their children at the age of eighteen can fight and die for ...
- 16412: Marijuana
- ... However, others become dependent on the drug and have great difficulty in stopping its use. History Marijuana has been used as a medicine and an intoxicant for thousand of years in many parts of the world. In the United States, marijuana use has been prohibited by state and local laws since the early 1900's, and by federal law since 1937. In spite of these laws, use of the drug became ...
- 16413: Hammurabi's Laws
- ... as harsh today for the same crimes. The last law described deals with family values. The 28th law says: if a levy master, or a warrant officer has been assigned to garrison duty, military or war time help, and has a son able to carry on his official duty, the field and garden shall be given to him and he shall carry on his father's duty. This shows how important ...
- 16414: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... electrocution, gas chambers and lethal injections to dispose of the convicted. Some countries, like the U.S., have tried to minimise the pain of execution by introducing the electric chair. In some parts of the world, more pain is deliberately inflicted on the condemned, such as in the Islamic countries and Nigeria. In Nigeria the executions are done in public by a firing squad. The convicted are executed slowly, by firing ...
- 16415: Teen Violence and Its Causes
- ... time and realize how much of a commitment that is. Even though people say divorce is inevitable in some relationships, those are the couples who need to realize not to bring a child into this world. Some say, "It was an accident", BS. There are no accidents when it comes to the subject of a child's life. And causing pregnancy is a reason to get married, but the risk of ...
- 16416: Should Handguns Be Legal to All
- ... out the fact that states who have relaxed their gun laws have had an increase in homicides. Also the fact that more people have died from criminal use of guns than people in the civil war. Some feel it is extremely easy for just about anyone to get access to a handgun. The laws in some states don't require a waiting period , several forms of identification, or even a back ...
- 16417: Babe Ruth 3
- ... Ruth s arrival in New York, the team had never won a pennant. With "The Babe" as part of their arsenal they became a dominant force in major league baseball, winning seven pennants and four World Championships from 1920 to 1933. In New York, Babe and Helen moved into the Ansonia Hotel on Broadway, which was also the New York home for many celebrities. Unlike her husband, Helen was shy and ...
- 16418: Bach
- ... musical genre, that of instrumental music. Up until this point, Bach was mainly writing organ pieces and church cantatas. One of his most famous, Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme, became well known around the world and is still looked upon as a classic today. However, when he arrived in Cothen he began to focus on all other instruments and used his talents as a string player and knowledge of wind ...
- 16419: Becket
- ... the kingdom, but Henry II does not like the fact that Becket becomes a militant defender of the church against royal encroachment and a champion of the papal ideology of ecclesiastical supremacy over the lay world. The disagreement of each other's ideas triggers the collapse of their friendship. The obliteration of Becket and Henry's friendship happened in many ways. When their ideas clash, they realize how much they actually ...
- 16420: The Young Offender's Act: The Past, Present, and Future
- ... let them fight in the adult system. Do you remember when you were sixteen? How fragile were you? Did you think that you could, if faced with the situation, be put up against the adult world and be sentenced like one? Probably not, but if you take the logistics and technicalities, you become an adult when you turn eighteen years old. Yet, why do many people try and say that sixteen ...
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