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… not fact. At no point did I go out and say 'Let's do it.' I am singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality. I ain't never killed no cop. I felt like it a lot of times. But I never did" -Rapper Ice-T, National Review,…

… and increasingly within our youth. In recent years, many school districts have implemented student athlete drug testing programs within their schools. Athletes were targeted because student athletics are voluntary and the "athletes are often held…

… <Tab/> <Tab/>Currently the United States Government has a problem with the overwhelming amount of people wanting to gain citizenship into the country. Today there is an estimated eight million illegal immigrants currently…

… figure in the fight for civil rights since his rise to fame in the late 1800's. Many who knew him believed that he was a straightforward man, and he was admired as a genuine hero to black Americans. In his later years he earned several nicknames,…

… of getting a massive amount of people to follow him and his beliefs. He did this by civil disobedience concerning the British, fasting for non-violence, non-violence all together, Ashimsa, and his own Satyagraha. He was very persistent in his fight…

… dominant trait that possessed the souls of men. It was inevitable emotions could provoke people to engage in acts without thinking; but it was the acts that were premeditated which were classified as evil and brutal. A. M. Rosenthal, the author…

… emotion involved in American self-perception in a song by saying, 'I'm proud to be an American. For at least I know I'm free.' Freedom is the founding pillar of the American self-perception. Self-perception is the culmination of how one views oneself.…

… In his argument "Should This Student Have Been Expelled?" Nat Hentoff is against the expulsion of Doug Hann from Brown University. In the letter to the editor Vartan Gregorian says Brown University has never expelled anyone for free…

… John Osborne uttered the statement, "Censorship is the most common social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice," his words, however old, remain true even today. Censorship. The very word…

… eye for an eye, a life for a life? Does this philosophy hold true in the twentieth century? Is the death penalty a 'Cruel and Unusual' punishment or is it now a necessary tool in the war on crime? With the increase in crime and violence…