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Essays

Thesis: President Obama has announced a draw-down of troops from Afghanistan, mainly, it seems, due to the apparently unwinnable aspect to the conflict, because 1,870 U.S. troops have already died, because public opinion clearly has turned against the American involvement in the conflict, because of corruption by the Karzai regime, and because of the need to keep his promise to have the troops home by 2014.

Freedom of the press is a basic right granted by the U.S. Constitution. The government cannot restrict the press in its right to inform the people of the United States. However, when one examines the role of the news…

¶ … Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam offers an interesting image of how the idea of social capital applies in the modern world and how people are becoming more isolated so that the idea of democracy is under attack, given…

Doing nothing to fix our Social Security system will cost us, as well as our children and grandchildren, an estimated $10.4 trillion, according to the Social Security Trustees. The longer we wait to take action, the…

The major earthquake that struck offshore from Japan in March, 2011, was one of the largest earthquakes experienced in that region of the world in many years. It caused massive damage and it spawned a powerful tsunami…

Embedded: The Relationship Between Form and Theoretical Assumption in an Account of the Iraq War

The question of how life was created is one which has proven extremely tense throughout the duration of modern arguments. What was behind the design of the universe? What was responsible for the way the world has turned…

Many people generally hold that speech on the Internet should be unstopped and uninhibited. However, this is far from a black and white issue. Ranging from situations like online sex predators to availability of bomb-making information to sites that recruit international terrorists, most people suggest at least some limitations to free speech online for at least a few reasons. Others view this authoritarianism.

Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedures documents the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The film is a true documentary, and one that does not purport to be objective, neutral or unbiased.

¶ … beyond the printed page: Kindling a new future or a Fahrenheit 451?