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Emboldened by the election, President Bush and his allies in Congress have renewed their call to open up the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The Senate is expected to vote on this as soon as the week of March 14. This will be an incredibly close vote, with a handful of Senators…

For many of us, water is just a free beverage to save a few bucks at a restaurant. As all economists know, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as free water. Water is something we take for granted far too often without taking in the real…

It has proved true, historically, that there is a natural tendency of governments to assume as much power as possible. To prevent this from happening in the United States, the framers of the Constitution divided the functions of the federal government among three branches: the executive branch, legislature or the lawmaking branch and the judiciary….

A rhetorical analysis Bono’s acceptance speech to the NAACP Bono Vox, Co-founder of DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) and lead singer of U2, in his commencement speech to NAACP, Bono’s speech is full of passion and hopes to mean inspire people to do as he did, and fight for a change. Bono’s purpose is to…

Susan Keith and Michelle Martin’s essay, “Cyber-Bullying: Creating a Culture of Respect in a Cyber World,” highlights the importance of addressing cyber-bullying as a significant form of child violence and harassment. The essay introduces the concerns surrounding youth violence today, specifically emphasizing the rise of cyber-bullying alongside the increasing popularity of the internet. Furthermore, the…

The threat of nuclear war puts enough stress on people that anaccidental nuclear war could be the result. With more and more of thesuperpowers defences being controlled by complex computers, the chanceof a malfunction increases as well. Add this to normal human error andgovernmental mistakes and you have a recipe for disaster. For this paper…

Several nights ago, my eight year old daughter and I were lying on the sofa together watching a movie. I remember stroking her hair as she fell asleep and thinking, as I often do, how much I love her. If you are a parent, then you know exactly the kind of moment I am describing:…

Julian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks which “is an independent, non-profit online media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources”. Since the apparition of Wikileaks, Julian Assange is a controversy man and everybody have is own opinion about him. Moreover, since Mr Assange decided to reveal information about US Army…

Is Feminism Dead?             To say that feminism is dead is to make a strange statement because feminism is a political movement and not an organic entity. When a living being ceasing to breathe or function, it is dead and can never come back. When an inorganic political movement evolves or changes and this evolution…

I have eventually decided that I should undertake an issue of sedate importance in the universe today. That issue is abortion. You have heard the statements from all sides I am certainly. It is a personal pick. It is slaying. It is something the authorities should hold no topographic point in. It is something the…