Current Issues Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (849) essays
Current Issues essays:
Political Correctness An Extended Essay
... political correctness has existed for centuries. These changes in Australian law were made because a prominent portion of the Australian public of the time felt that it was politically incorrect for the situation to remain as it was. In 1986 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission Act ...
Gas Prices
... gas prices are so high. OPEC, the international organization, is another reason why gas prices are so high. What OPEC does is cut their oil production as consumers have seen recently. Supply is dropped yet the demand is high. As the OPEC nations reduce supplies, other non-OPEC countries ...
Advertising Ethics
... Advertisements in Schools Give Too Much Influence to Corporations." Opposing Veiwpoints 1st ser. 1 (2006): 81-86. Ads in schools leave students venerable to corporate values that are the opposite of what public schools education goals. The article states that commercialism ...
Whistle Blowing in Society
... United States and the United Kingdom in their efforts to form a dossier to justify the invasion of Iraq. Miss Gun was dismissed from her position and charged under the official secrets act ...
The steady incorporation of Eastern European states after the end of the Cold War What issues have emerged as a result of the EU expansion eastwards? How is the EU tackling these issues?
... countries having been subjects of the former Soviet Union have developed closed economic and political structures, which makes it hard for them to smoothly integrate. Many of the new member states are struggling with the adaptations of the EU laws ...
Taking on the Press by Melvyn Bernard Zerman, "Helpfulness to the Student Journalist"
... United States requesting them to "publish no further information of this character (159)."The Times respectfully refused and decided to take the issue to court. Zerman expresses ...
Teen Self-Injury: An Epidemic on the Rise
... oils ... adolescents, [and they also estimated] that 99 % of this group is female" (p. 8). This is, as Conterio & Lader, Ph.D., (1998) pointed out, "1000 out of every 100,000 people in the United States" commit acts ...
Ban on Public Smoking in Canada
... to completely avoid it. ... Health and the Environment. 2004. GreenFacts . 23 Feb 2009 . Martin, Terry. "Understanding Nicotine Addiction." About.com. 2008. About.com. Web. . Molyneaux, George. "Smoking, ban in public places." IDEA. 02 Sept 2006. International ... a powerful and fast-acting medical and ...
Fiscal Policy India and Canada
... price stability and the country's international payments position has improved. On the negative side, economic growth was very poor from the mid-1970s to the present and the unemployment rate, which is almost twice that in the United States ...
Consider the view that education makes people smarter, not better.
... in order to obtain the results that they desire. For example, in a recent survey conducted, ... in the society instead of discouraging such acts. Therefore, education makes people smarter but denies ... harmful effects and would continue to use such products and harm the environment. Therefore, it is ...