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Abortion: Life Or Death Who Chooses?
Number of Words: 4437 / Number of Pages: 17
... from the moment of
conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their
knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of
science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human
being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that
make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being
and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family.
All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, an old man, is time,
nutrition and a suitable environment. It is de ...
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Capital Punishment Should Be Abolished
Number of Words: 1077 / Number of Pages: 4
... cruelty which is
inflicted on the executed in those countries. Other methods of execution, like
the electric chair and hanging, are also quite cruel to the convicted. That is
one of the reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
Does the death penalty really deter criminals?
There is very little valid evidence to suggest that capital punishment
deters criminals. The most recent study of research findings on the relationship
between the death penalty and homicide rates, conducted for the United Nations
Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, in 1988, has concluded that:"this
research has fa ...
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The Need For Stricter Gun Laws
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... and curtail the sail and manufacture of armor piercing
bullets, automatic rifles and Uzis. Unfortunately, we tend to interpret
the Constitution to broadly. Obviously, in the late 1700's, there were no
deadly weapons to contend with. They had muskets, which could hardly be
used in a very swift and deadly manner. Granted, the musket could kill,
but if you asked any semi-sensible person if they would rather use a musket
or a handgun, they would take a handgun any day of the week. This is why,
in my opinion, we need to radically change the way we go about handling
these problems.
With the rising ...
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Legalization Of Drugs
Number of Words: 2786 / Number of Pages: 11
... ten years. Physically, the
actual consequences of using illicit drugs is much less than of using drugs
like alcohol or cigarettes and the consequences will be diminished.
Illicit drugs can and will be made safer than they are in the present
system. In making comparisons, the best is to look at how countries are
functioning that have less enforcement on drugs and what the statistics
were after drugs were decriminalized. Within the last thirty years many
groups have their attempts. The use of drugs is a victimless crime much
like homosexuality. Homosexuals have fought for a great deal of freedom
tha ...
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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 su ...
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When Society Kills
Number of Words: 886 / Number of Pages: 4
... what constitutes aggravating and mitigating
circumstances. Defendants must have a dual trial--one to establish guilt or
innocence and if guilty a second trial to determine whether or not they
would get the death penalty. Defendants sentenced to death are granted
oversight protection in an automatic appeal to the state supreme court.
These constitutional safeguards translate into:
- a more extensive jury selection procedure
- a four fold increase in the number of motions filed
- a longer, dual trial process
- more investigators and expert testim ...
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Murder
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... his mother refused to pay a drug syndicate money after refusing to help import drugs for them. Truong Hon Phuc, 39, Le Thanh Long, 40, and Truong Thi Van have been chatged in relation to Tuan’s kiddnapping and murder. Truong Hon Phuc, who was extradited from London in December, faces charges including murder, kidnapping, extortion, conspiracy to import heroin and blackmail. Le Than Long, extradited from Hong Kong in May last year, faces charges including murder, kidnapping , blackmail and extortion. Truong Thi Van, of Clayton South, faces charges including conspiracy to murder and kidnap, blackmail ...
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Divorce Litigation
Number of Words: 289 / Number of Pages: 2
... given by an ecclesiastical court on the basis of some
wrong, such as adultery or abandonment, done by the defendant to the
plaintiff.
In the past, almost every state divorce law required the plaintiff
to prove one of a number of recognized grounds for divorce, included
adultery and desertion, even when both spouses wanted the divorce. The
divorce system also required that the plaintiff be without fault, and
therefore a variety of fault-based defenses were recognized.
By the mid-20th century most state legislatures had recognized one
or more no-fault grounds for divorce, usually co ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 871 / Number of Pages: 4
... crimes.
Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. The untold multitudes of dealers would be put out of business, and a major source of financial loss to the economy would become one of financial gain. It is difficult to say what effect this change alone would have on crime, however, since criminals would probably continue to sell other off the point . But it would definitely have an impact on the amount of money flowing through criminal channels, and this might weaken organized crime.
Despite of those w ...
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Canada's Copyright Law
Number of Words: 861 / Number of Pages: 4
... and audio tapes is that for every
copy you make the recording artist, the actors, producers and everyone
else who collect royalties from the tapes lose money. If the companies
start to lose money, they raise prices. Thus a vicious circle begins. As
prices go up, fewer people buy original copies. If less people buy the
original cassettes prices will once again rise.
Another major form of piracy is plagiarism. The stealing of
someone elses ideas or work. The biggest category of people who fall into
here are students. Very often a student when doing a research paper will
"accidently" forget ...
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