Medicinal Marijuana Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve many purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time as the culture changed. Marijuana, whose scientific name is Cannabis sativa, was used for congestion as early as 800 B.C. in India (Chevallier 180). China also was a country that used marijuana for medicinal purposes. They used it for any i

Milk Why Milk Matters for Teens In my opinion, we don\'t get enough milk at lunch. I usually get 3 or 4 milks at lunch which requires me to spend more money on lunchs. One funny fact is that we have had the same sized milks since elementry school. Here are some useful facts about calcium and teens.Good nutrition is important for good health and can help protect against many dis

Clone Imagine actually seeing a dodo bird. Picture what it would be like to be an infertile couple with no hope of reproducing, then finding an answer. What if you needed a bone marrow transplant, but the waiting list went on for years. Then, one day there is one simple solution. All of these problems can be solved with one new scientific inovation: cloning. Even a mere twenty five

Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood I learned many new things about Planned Parenthood when Sarah Reeves came to speak to our class. One thing that I never would have thought was that it is a abstinence based program. I never realized that we had policies about teaching sex education such as having to teach an abstinence based program in order to teach at all here in Utah. I nev

Euthanasia Almost every family has had to watch the slow and painful death of a loved one or family member from some sort of chronic illness. They have to make careful but wise decisions for that person unless they are able to decide on their own whether or not they should be kept alive because of their illness. The better response to patients in pain is not to kill them but to make su

Marijuana Should Be Legalized Support the Country Smoked in cigarettes or pipes, mixed with food and beverages is marijuana, a Schedule one drug. Ever since the early 1900’s, the possession or intoxication of marijuana is prohibited in the United States. The popularity of marijuana began in the 1960’s. Marijuana’s usage declined in the mid 1970’s, although its usage has been rising sin

Black English Or Standard English (June Jordan) Black/Standard English Black English or Standard English' That was the question June Jordan¡¦s students were faced with. They wanted to write a letter to the police about the brother of a fellow student, Willie Jordan that had been killed by cops. Should the students use Standard English and write a professional letter which contains no

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was the king of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and one of the greatest military leaders of all times. Even at an early age, Alexander showed that he would a great leader. Through all his victories and conquests, he has become a great hero and has had a large impact on history. Alexander, born in 356 B.C. in Pella, the ancient capital o

My Response To Myths And Stereotypes Of African Americans Growing up as an African American female, I have been exposed to many forms of racism. Many times I have wondered how and why “white” people were so hateful towards “black people”, who were by no means inferior to them. In my generation, I cannot say that I have truly “suffered”. My parents, on the other hand, could tell me ver

Chicano Gangsters What Causes Chicanos to Join Gangs and How Does That Decision Affect Their Lives' It is a cold and dark night in East Los Angeles. The streets are empty except for a few people on their way home. Then out of the shadows comes a car slowly driving down the streets. There are four young men heavily armed, just waiting for a target to come along. At a nearby house a riv

Plea Bargins I feel that plea bargains are justice avoided. Prosecutors accept plea-bargains not because the justice system is overworked and understaffed, rather it is the lack of desire to uphold the “justice” in the justice system. In the article reviewed the statement is made that approximately ninety percent of the cases heard result in plea-bargains rather than going through a ful

Dustbowl 1)Archibald MacLeish, Land of the Free 2) John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 3)H. L. Mencken, The Dole for Bogus Farmers 4) Carey McWilliams, Ill Fares the Land 5) “Migratory Labor: A Social Problem” Fortune MacLeish and Steinbeck’s writings are important because they both illustrate how people commonly viewed the Okies. MacLeish inaccurately describes the United State

Police Use Of Force In our society police are in a very precarious situation when it comes to the amount of force they can apply when dealing with a civilian suspect. Whether it be physical force, persuasion, or coercion; they must use discretion when deciding what course of action best suits the situation. They must take the precise course of action to fit the time, because if they ar

Police Brutality Everyone's Problem: Police Brutality and Race, by Tom Gregg This will discuss whether the police system in the New York City area is corrupt and/or racist. POLICE CORRUPTION I grew up in the Midwest, respecting the police as the "good guys"-- heroic fighters of badness, upholders of justice-- who ought to be obeyed. Now, living in the New York City area, I read

Plessy V. Ferguson Plessy v. Ferguson, a very important case of 1896 in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the legality of racial segregation. At the time of the ruling, segregation between blacks and whites already existed in most schools, restaurants, and other public facilities in the American South. In the Plessy decision, the Supreme Court ruled that such segregatio

Police Corruption Police corruption has always been a problem since police forces were put in place in response to riots. Police corruption is a problem that affects all of us, not just other police officers. It has become so bad that on any given day you can flip through a newspaper and find some article that deals with some aspect of police corruption whether it was stealing drugs and

Police Discretion Police discretion is a tool used by officers; it gives them the ability to utilize the law to the letter or not to enforce it to the letter of the law. Some say that latitude in decision making by frontline staff is one of the defining characteristics of human service organizations. Discretion is about making the right decision based on input of the situation and surr

Policing The Superhighway Policing the Superhighway In the age of the Internet and the information super highway, billions of people have access to a seemingly infinite number of bytes of information. Nothing is utopian in design however, and alongside this information come such evils as racism and pornography. Perhaps the greatest evil is that children can readily receive things su

Political Violence When it comes to political violence of today, it is not a very prominent thing in the United States. It does become very visible in other countries, and it is something that very rarely is ethically justified. When I began to think about this topic, my first reaction was no, it is never justified, because your government is what is in charge, and unless you live in

Pop Culture Vs. Religion The conflict between pop culture and religious values is an extremely popular and often overlooked bicultural bind. In many women’s lives not recognizing this bind could be emotionally damaging and lead to living double lives. Many girls that are raised in Christian homes are not exposed to true pop culture until they reach high school. They are often shelter

Prayer In School Prayer in Public Schools' With the state that the nation is currently in, prayer in today’s schools has once again become a controversial topic. Many believe that schools exist to educate. While children in public schools remain a captive audience, some perceive prayer to be coercive and invasive. While religion is considered private and schools public some argue th

Child Labor The industrial revolution was one of the hardest times in American history. With these hard times brought pollution, poverty, and prejudice. Along with these corruption’s brought one of the darkest sides of the industrial revolution and America’s past, child labor. The industrial revolution brought many social evils. One of possibly the most worse of the social issues

Child Labor Child Labor In the United States of America, people believe that child labor does not effect them, not knowing that the Persian rugs they put in their homes maybe made by children in small, dark, and cramped rooms. Some people do not realize that the basketballs children are playing with were made by children themselves. These are children that slave away and are paid lit

Drivers License Age Be Raised Drivers license age be raised Should the age to receive a driver’s license be raised and, if not, should graduated licensing be instituted' This is a growing question across America as well as other countries around our globe. The percentage of teenage accidents involving automobiles is on a constant rise. Whether caused by the lack of experience or u

Abortion Abortion Abortion is a controversial subject that has been the center of debate and rhetoric for several decades. But what exactly does this word “Abortion” mean' According to Webster’s dictionary it is: The termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival. Now let us take this a step further. The word “embryo” is defined as: An

Child Poverty Within the next few pages here I intend to address two issues. First I will try to give a personal review of what I saw this book to hold, and second I will try explain the revelence which this book has to the field of Public Administration. First try to picture children in a slum where the squalor in their homes is just as bad as that which is in the streets. Where pr

Gender Acceptance Of Couples And Singles If I turn on my television, or open up a magazine, or see a billboard on the highway, it becomes apparent to me that the “American Dream” is still alive and well in our country. With consumers buying fifty thousand dollar Hummers, trendy clothing taking cities by storm, and contestants winning hundreds of thousands of dollars on “reality” T.V. sho

Gender Is Cultural The traditional roles of a woman are far from that of traditional. Independence and liberalist attitudes are all relatively new trends for women and are the norm for most of the modern world. The commonalities of gender based expectations in other parts of the world greatly differ from those we hold in the United States. It may be a long time before total equality i

Child Poverty Child Poverty Child Poverty seems to be one of the major problems in the United States. Here I will tell about different authors' points of view on child poverty and how child poverty was created, the effects and some of the solutions the authors had came up with. I will start off by introducing the authors I will be talking about. Jonathon Marshall wrote the article

Ku Klux Klan Nazism to Klanizm Racism has been a reoccurring theme in the United States since the first immigration of the pilgrims to Plymouth Rock. Racism is the sick and twisted thought that one person is inferior to the other. Since the birth of Hitler’s devious regime racism has been passed on to many cultures and ethnicities throughout the world, and they carry on into today’s w