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Pornography
Number of Words: 5241 / Number of Pages: 20
... acting
against the subordination of women. Any man, child or
transsexual who alleges injury by pornography in the
way women are injured by it also has a claim.
[emphasis added]
My goal in this paper is to suggest that a slight modification to
this subsection of the ordinance would make it very difficult for liberals
and legal conservatives to object to it. This modification would restrict
the cause of action to the same persons as the other sections of the
ordinance, namely, the particular victim of the specified injury. I shall
argue that such a modi ...
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The College Scandal
Number of Words: 1942 / Number of Pages: 8
... gifts from agents and coaches. These incidents happen because agents will do anything for money. They know that if their prospect makes it big, they will get a cut of the earnings. Marcus Camby is one of the many athletes to accept gifts from agents even though it is a complete violation of NCAA rules. Sports Illustrated staff writer Phil Taylor wrote an article entitled “Tangled Web” which is a story about Marcus Camby and his violation with the NCAA. “…John Loensbury, who estimated that he, gave Camby more than $40,000 in cash and gifts between December 1994 and March 1996” (67). Agents a ...
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Medical Malpractice
Number of Words: 1671 / Number of Pages: 7
... you have created a "breach of duty", due and owing to
the patient. 3) Causal Connection. Your failure to correctly diagnose,
("duty" you "breached") the duty due and owing to the patient and as a direct
and proximate cause of your breach, caused damages. 4) Damages. The result of
your failure to diagnose correctly, the patient sustained damages in the form of
an additional hospital stay, complications that may or may not be of a permanent
and continuing nature. (Brooten Jr., Kenneth E. p. 1) Negligence is the most
common civil suit filed against doctors. Liability for negligence will not be
f ...
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Capital Punishment: Injustice Of Society
Number of Words: 1401 / Number of Pages: 6
... punishment deters more than long prison terms do."(Cavanagh 4)
Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the
Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that "…people are
increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate
response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our
society becomes…We could execute all three thousand people on death row,
and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow."(Frame 51) In addition,
with the growing humanitarianism of modern society, the number of inmates
actually put to death is substanti ...
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Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And Different Punishments
Number of Words: 967 / Number of Pages: 4
... is called " Summery " crimes which is equal to our misdemeanor
crimes. Summery crimes were all minor crimes such as: Property crimes,
Vagrancy, Drunkenness, Prostitution, Minor Larceny , and all other minor
offenses.
Probably the most famous criminal in the Victorian period was "
Jack the Ripper ". Jack the Ripper was " the first modern sexual serial
killer" ( Sugden, pg.2) Jack's trademark was the killing of female
prostitutes. But not only did he kill them, he would surgically remove
organs and intrails and place them near the dead body. "Jack the Ripper"
wasn't his only nickname, ...
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Telecommunications Act Of 1996
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... (such as AT&T, Sprint, and MCI) and cable TV companies (such as TCI and Jones Inter-cable) are permitted to offer local telephone service. The "baby Bells" or Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC) (also called Local Exchange Carriers (LEC) such as BellSouth and Ameritech were permitted to offer long distance telephone services and cable TV services. The RBOC were also permitted to manufacture their own equipment and to offer online information services and electronic publishing (but under tight controls until 2000). Incidentally, electric utility companies, another traditionally highly regulated ...
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Euthanasia And The Robert Latimer Case
Number of Words: 1021 / Number of Pages: 4
... deal with. While no-one I have spoken to has been suicidal over the
matter, they have seen the true pain and misery that some severely disabled
individuals are forced to deal with every day of their lives. Still, many agree
with myself on the point that a human life is just that, a human life; and that
everyone alive has the right to live, no matter whether or not it is under
tougher circumstances than another person. Nobody has the right to take the life
of another person, and technically, the law states that nobody has the right to
take their own life as well.
A severely disabled person may have to ...
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Medicalizing Drugs
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... is a powerful case for medicalizing as much of the problem as feasible." This statement is ludicrous, it would not change society in the slightest other than we would now have higher taxes in order to support these individuals drug habit. These individuals would now have no reason to try and better themselves in society, which means they would continue to depend on the American public to support them.
People that are on drugs have no respect for themselves much less anyone else. They have fallen to a very low point in their lives and do not have the strength or the knowledge of how to pick themse ...
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The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 660 / Number of Pages: 3
... Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church said, "Applying without prejudice is an impossible feat in the judicial system. All of us carry a certain amount of prejudice, so who is the perfect one to make the judgement whether someone lives or dies?" Williams said, "I don't think any of us can stand and say this person deserves to die." The race of someone can be part of the decision that is made. Of the roughly 3,000 people on death row in the United States, 40 percent are black and 48 percent are white. Yet blacks make up just 13 percent of the national population and whites 74 percent.
should b ...
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Crime And Gangs In America
Number of Words: 600 / Number of Pages: 3
... people. They were better citizens than their educated, well-fed owners. Why? Some may say fear. Fear of Massah? Or maybe, the slave owners? Perhaps to a degree. Fear certainly is a motivator.
I do not think the average American criminal is much afraid of the law or society, today. Society is not their master. So I concede that fear will work, to a point. But only to a point and it really wasn't fear that made the slaves into decent people. I contend that it was more than fear that made the slaves of our history the way they were. The same things that motivated the early settlers to obey the ...
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