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Dianne Feinstein, a 76-year-old Jewish democrat, is one of my senators. Since graduating Stanford in 1955, she has gone on to be on the San Francisco board of supervisors, then the mayor. Most recently, she decided not to cosponsor a Stimulus Bill. She did, however, vote for a bill that would close down Guantanamo Bay…

Affirmative Action is a very broad topic and narrowing it down to the specifics is very hard to do. There are so many key and vital things to talk about in a paper about this subject that it is easy to stray away from one specific topic. The process of writing this and then re-writing…

Synthesis on Language and Gender Hegemony is a concept that has been use to describe dominance of one group over the other. There are also several processes by which a dominant culture maintains its dominant position; they can use the institutions to formalize power, the employment of a bureaucracy to make power seem abstract (and, therefore,…

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a strong supporter and advocate of the Marxist theory of government, was elected as head of the Soviet government from 1917 to 1922 after the overthrow of the last czar.  He left public service because of his worsening health conditions.  Knowing that his poor condition might turn for the worse but loathe…

Dry. Peter Baker and Gail Caricaturist for proof reading the finished work; finally to the friends in Perry House and the school for moral support and understanding. . 0 Introduction Since the introduction of the low-cost airline in Thailand in 20031, there has been a new evolutionary perspective to the concept of flying. The industry…

Background to the Case In June 1999, the Democratic Republic of Congo had filed its application to the International Court of Justice in which it had alleged that Uganda had carried out “acts of armed aggression” on its territory and that this was a “flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the Charter of…

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Congress meets in the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Both representatives and senators are chosen through direct election. Congress has a total of 535 voting members: 435 members in…

“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”  Winston Churchill’s famous quote aptly describes Britain’s intentions towards European integration. In this essay I shall attempt to show that Britain’s relationship towards European…

Known as “Old Blood and Guts,” was one of the most colorful commanders in the US Army. The famed commander of the Third Army during World War II displayed courage and daring as prominently as the pair of ivory handled revolvers he wore. In 1897 Patton entered Stephen Clark’s private academy for boys. He gained…

Achilles, Martin Luther King Jr., and their views on justice and honor. Achilles and Martin Luther King Jr. are two characters that, upon hearing their names, seem strikingly different and positively contrasting. One of them is a more modern figure in society, while the other is more of a Greek mythological persona. However, there is…