Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today; more people are buying, selling and using drugs. People think it is a fast and easy way to get money, not knowing all the risks. There are many risks when deali...

Immigration has always been a contentious issue in the United States. Benjamin Franklin thought that an influx in German migration into the United States would flush out the predominately British culture at that time. Furthermore, a conti...

)Robert Geoffrey Edwards and Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988) pioneered in vitro fertilization (IVF), making the birth of the first "test-tube baby" possible in 1978. By quickly transferring the oocyte (the egg prior to maturation) ...

In June 1995, Los Angeles Times writer Kim Murphy described separate incidents involving a fifteen-year-old boy in Washington and a thirteen-year-old girl in Kentucky who ran away from their homes, apparently after corresponding with strang...

FBI STATISTICS SHOW that a woman is beaten by a man every twelve seconds in the United States. Its studies estimate that one in two women will be assaulted by a male partner during her lifetime, and every six hours a woman is killed in an a...

The end of history, as defined by Francis Fukuyama, an analyst at the RAND Corporation and author of The End of History and the Last Man, was the end of the conflict between the ideologies of Soviet-promoted communism and Western-style demo...

major world religion belonging to the Semitic family; it was promulgated by the Prophet Mu&hsubdot;ammad in Arabia in the 7th century &AD;. The Arabic term islām, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religio...

Conservative religious movement that seeks a return to Islamic values and Islamic law (&see; Sharia) in the face of Western modernism, which is seen as corrupt and atheistic. Though popularly associated in the West with Middle Eastern terr...