THE AENEID AS PROPOGANDA
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This 3 page paper discusses the creation of the Aeneid as propoganda for the rule of Augustus. Textural evidence given. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MBaeneid.rtf

Drug Testing Should Be Mandatory For Certain Occupations
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This 5 page paper argues that drug testing should be mandatory for airline pilots, school bus drivers, transit drivers, and heavy equipment operators. Supreme Court decisions on drug testing in general are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA229drg.rtf

EUTHANASIA: AN ARGUMENTATIVE PAPER
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This 8 page paper argues that euthanasia should be legalized. Three issues/rationales are given and supported with quotes from various texts. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MBeuth.rtf

Fast Food, Microwaves and Society
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This 3 page paper argues that fast food is a leading cause of obesity and that it’s generally not good for a steady diet. The paper also argues that microwaves change the properties of foods and should be used sparingly. While people will insist that fast-food provides employment and is handy, others argue that it’s junk. Bibliography lists 3 sources
Filename: HVfstfud.rtf

Why Affirmative Action Should Not Be Supported
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This 6 page paper argues against affirmative action. The 2007 Imus controversy is included as an example of race relations in society. Affirmative action is defined and explored. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: SA716AA.rtf

“Afrocentric Escapism”: A Review of an Article by Commentator Thomas Sowell
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A 3 page review of an article published in the April 14, 1995 edition of “The Washington Times” entitled “Afrocentric Escapism”. Sowell explores what he perceives as the creation of false history and tradition in the African American community. Sowell explains this practice as having evolved out of the dire need to escape the multitude of very real problems which are confronting the community. While the solution to such problems lies in education and the acquisition of job skills, those who are recreating the so-called black experience are instead focusing the attention of their young followers on the problems of the past. Includes many insights on the misperceptions of slavery itself. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPblkEs2.rtf

“Cloning Can Help Humans and Animals”
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A 7 page critique of the article “Cloning Can Help Humans and Animals” by authors Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge. These authors support the practice of cloning, contending that part of its positives impacts relate to the reduction of genetic drift in endangered animal populations. This paper notes that there are other considerations of cloning which must be made in regard to their impact on human populations. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPclone3.rtf

“The Secret Sharer”: Character Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Captain and Leggatt in this Late Nineteenth Century Sea Novel
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The author of this paper asserts that despite Conrad’s continued emphasis of the similarities between the captain and Leggatt, these characters are really more complimentary than similar. The conclusion is reached that both their fates and their backgrounds are completely disparate. Even the manners in which the captain and Leggatt acknowledge their own weaknesses are more complimentary of each other than they are similar. Leggatt has learned to live with his shortcomings, even to come to terms with himself. The captain, on the other hand, is almost always in a perpetual state of self doubt. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPsharer.rtf

"Justices Restrict Right to Sue HMO: Parties Can't Allege Malpractice if Insurance Refuses to Pay for Care"
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A 3 page review of this June 2004 article by Lisa Rapaport published in "The Bee". The author highlights the main points presented in the article and emphasizes that is useful not only in detailing the Supreme Court ruling but also in outlining the set of circumstances under which it occurred. It is just as useful, however, in the fact that it assesses what the ruling could mean to Americans.
Filename: PPhmoArt.rtf

"National Geographic": Political Propaganda or Insight into the Exotic and Fascinating?
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A 6 page discussion of the criticism that has been waged by some authors against "National Geographic". Analyzing those criticisms and evaluating them against one specific article in particular this paper concludes that "National Geographic" is not a political publication and it is not intended to be. The publication's "images are formed, selected and controlled, purveyed and read" (as one author has contended) all right but they are presented for the specific purpose of giving us a view of the exotic and the interesting not the political and controversial. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPntlGeo.rtf

"People-Seeds": An Analogy In the Abortion Argument
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A 6 page discussion of the concept of "person-seeds", a concept introduced by author Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971. This paper outlines Thomson's analogy and uses it to delve deeper into the issue of the rights and wrongs of abortion. No additional sources are listed.
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"Philosophy is irrelevant; all we need is technology"
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This quote begins a 10 page paper that examines our reliance on technology and our value of philosophy. The discussion looks at the technocracy movement of the 30's, yet strikes a more moderate resolution than the quote suggests. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BBptech.doc.