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Compulsory military service for eighteen-year-olds in the United States

In my personal experience, many 18-year-olds fail to make much productive use of their time, especially those who do not pursue education beyond high school.

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Ice cream as metaphor for reclaiming childhood innocence

Sometimes, when I am feeling particularly blue, I take a walk past my favorite ice cream stand and order the same order I used to have every summer as a little kid. Eating an ice cream cone, especially a soft serve ice cream cone, is taking a trip back in time.

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U.S. economic interests and involvement in Vietnam

U.S. involvement in Vietnam from very different perspectives, even though they sound very similar in title and purpose. Author Hearden notes that the U.S.

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Does media violence cause real-life youth violence?

Is television alone responsible for 10% of youth violence? (Statistics, 2005) Does society need to "shoot" or annihilate the messengers who bring literal and "real-life" acts of violence and bad news?

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Transcendentalism in Emerson, Fuller, and Holmes's works

Philosophies and schools of thought have guided human society in its pursuit for greater knowledge and real truth about life and human existence.

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The right to bear arms and responsible gun regulation in America

Gun control became an issue for Americans in the 1960s when President Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, all with guns. People began to demand that the government do something to stop the spread of guns and murder (Ruhl, Rizer, & Wier, 2003/2004).

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Robert Merton's theory of deviance and anomie in social structures

Rather than attribute deviant behavior to psychological or biological impulses, Robert Merton explains deviance in sociological terms.

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Military versus diplomatic achievements in U.S. foreign policy, 1930–1956

The Achievements of the Military are More Decisive than the Achievements of the Diplomats (With Reference to the U.S. Foreign Policy between 1930 and 1956)

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Discrimination against gays and lesbians in the American workplace

While many people today may not remember a time and place where minorities and women were discriminated against openly in the American workplace, the time was not in fact so long ago.

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Pornography, the First Amendment, and Catharine MacKinnon's feminist critique

She is right to protest that crimes are committed by men who are deeply involved daily in viewing pornography, because some of those men have the idea that it is okay to use women's bodies to relieve their carnal cravings. Violence against women should never be protected by the Constitution.

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