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…As long as there have been laws emplaced, many moral and civil boundaries have been of great dispute. Problems arise when the two unavoidable laws clash - when what is morally right is not always legal. This battle is ancient and is even written about…

…Coarsening of American Civility in Television Television programming serves as a catalyst to the coarsening of civility in American society. When children and adults view television programs there is a certain amount of retention…

…deciding if the new states that entered the Union were to be slave states or free states (27-32). Tensions mounted between the North and the South, and after the election of 1860, the Civil War broke out (36). The South thought that the states had the right…

…Abortion: A Women’s Right to Choose. Regardless of how we feel about embryos, fetuses, and their "rights"...about women and sex and responsibility...about God's will, Karma, or the Bible...the fact still remains: Women have always used abortion…

…. If you're lucky, Compassion Over Killing (COK), an animal rights civil disobedience group, will be picketing Miller's Furs, their enemy in the fight against fur. These impassioned activists see the fur trade as nothing less than wholesale, commercialized…

…Civil War During the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, over 620,000 accounted soldiers were killed. Known as the "the first modern war", historians generally agree that the reason for this was because this was a time of transition…

…Some say simplistically that the Civil War was fought over slavery. Unfortunately, there is no 'simple' reason. The causes of the war were a complex series of events, including slavery, which began long before the first shot was fired. Competing…

…The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events. At the root of all of the problems was the institution…

…easily, with 180 electoral votes. (Doc. 4) There had been civil unrest between the two regions for years before Lincoln’s nomination. Some abolitionist were quite militant in their views on slavery. Their were raids on Texas farms, instilling…

…, less civilized and unfamiliar in dealing with any sort of social situation, is shown as a monster with no ‘human’ conscience, and this representation would tend to indicate that Homer sees a need for Odysseus to triumph over the Cyclops. Odysseus makes…