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Drinking And Driving Offenses
Number of Words: 1196 / Number of Pages: 5
... the first offense here is the penalty and the defences you can make.
Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs is
one of the offenses. Evidence of your condition can be used to convict you.
This can include evidence of your general conduct, speech, ability to walk a
straight line or pick up objects. The penalty of the first offenses is a fine
of $50.00 to $2000.00 and/or imprisonment of up to six months, and automatic
suspension of licence for 3 months. The second offense penalty is imprisonment
for 14 days to 1 year and automatic suspen-sion of licence for 6 mont ...
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Gun Control: Simple Solution Or Ticket To Trouble
Number of Words: 1587 / Number of Pages: 6
... us to the question: what is gun control and how far should our government go with these laws? You want to make the nation a safe place to live, but you also need to abide by the Constitution, which is the basis of our nation.
As you can probably expect, there are many arguments on the pro side that are sound and quite relevant. Many of them are merely statistics that will help you see why many citizens demand a more staunch form of gun control. The first area of this pro argument is the number of guns that are available in this country. As of 1992, there were around 212 million firearms avai ...
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Serial Killers In The U.S
Number of Words: 3988 / Number of Pages: 15
... is complete.
The mass killer's victims may not be chosen for any other reason than being in
the wrong place at the wrong time.
Serial killers are a totally different and more dangerous threat to society.
They may not kill many people at one time, but they may kill for many years
without being detected. They are able to kill again and again without being
caught because they are careful in their choices of victims. They typically pick
victims who are vulnerable and un-able to defend themselves such as children,
the elderly or women. They also pick victims who will not be missed by society,
such ...
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Pros And Cons Of Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 2241 / Number of Pages: 9
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vacationing President Clinton and his wife, that capital punishment is
wrong. "I invite you to look at a picture of Timothy McVeigh and to
forgive him," said Miller. "If we profess to be Christians, then we are
called to love and forgive." Once the sermon ended, Rev. Miller, Clinton,
and their wives got together for brunch at the Sweet Life Cafi.
What the Rev. did not know was that 24-year-old Jeremy T Charron; an Epsom
New Hampshire police officer was gunned down in cold blood just hours
before Miller's sermon on forgiving murderers. That Sunday marked
Charron's 44th day as a full time ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... Europe as "hemp" and in the
United States as either "pot", "buds", "reefer", "weed" or the more direct,
"smoke". Marijuana goes back over five thousand years. It is one of the oldest
agricultural commodities not grown for food. Hemp, first cultivated in China as
early as 2800 B.C., soon stretched to central Asia where it spread like milkweed
or thistle. Marijuana soon began to crowd out neighboring grasses and reaching
heights of three to twenty feet stretched over large plains. Local people began
to use the plant for its strong, durable fibers which they used for rope and to
construct material ...
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Decriminalize Marijuana For The Good Of America
Number of Words: 2395 / Number of Pages: 9
... Harry J. Anslingler, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics and author of Marijuana: Assassin of Youth (Goldman 88). In his book,
Anslinger portrayed images of Mexican and Negro criminals, as well as young boys,
who became killers while under the influence of marijuana. With the added
public pressure, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. This law made the use and dale of marijuana federal
offenses. At this point marijuana was removed from the public eye, and heavy
users included poor Negroes, migrant Mexicans, and Jazz Musicians (Himmelste ...
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Why I Think They Should Legalize Pot
Number of Words: 413 / Number of Pages: 2
... directly from getting stoned. Smoking a joint is
not as likely to cause cancer as a cigarette, and weed isn't addictive. In fact,
there are very little bad sides to smoking marijuana. It doesn't even burn your
throat as much when you smoke it in a bong as do cigarettes.
Thirdly, if the price of pot went down quite a bit, then there would be
no crime because of it. Pot would be very good for our economy, and pot farmers
would make lots of money. It's easy to grow, hence the nickname "weed." And
the price would drop so much that a dime bag would be a penny bag, and a 100-
sack would be a dimer! ...
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Accounting Ethics
Number of Words: 1838 / Number of Pages: 7
... competition has been chosen
for the pre-advertising era because it most closely resembles the market
structure in an extreme sense. The elements of monopolistic competition
are as follows: product differentiation, the presence of large numbers of
sellers, and nonprice competition. Although accounting services between
firms offer very little service differentiation, the absence of
advertising serves as a replacement because clients are not necessarily
aware that other options are easily attainable. The post-advertising era
is explained through the model of perfect competition for which the
qualif ...
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Pre-Employment Drug Testing
Number of Words: 874 / Number of Pages: 4
... ability. The discipline of pre-employment testing is not a stand-alone function. However, A majority of companies feel that it is one of the three vital components in the hiring process. The other components are comprised of Screening and Interviewing. It is the employers responsibility to make the hiring decision as well as undertake the above components. It is the task of the person giving the pre-employment test to focus on evaluation, examination, validity, and reliability of information provided by the job candidate (Xukor, 1998).
Pre-employment testing has evolved to include many forms incl ...
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