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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 1317 / Number of Pages: 5
... whether it will deter the crime rate. Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making examples out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant.
According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He goes on to say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder of one innocent life, the execution is justified." To most supporters of the death penalty, like Ehrlich, if even 1 life is saved, for countless executio ...
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Should Government Spend Or Reduce Money To Stop Drug Abuse?
Number of Words: 891 / Number of Pages: 4
... alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs (Focus). Also, among of youths is also related to drug trafficking and criminal activity.
Every year, government is spending a lot money and time on the crimes, drug users, and addicted. But government policy regarding illegal drugs has proved a failure after 25 years because of the forfeiture laws which allow law enforcement agencies to keep the assets they seize instead of focusing on slowing the flow of drugs (Nilsen. Blumenson p35-114).
Illegal drugs cost our society approximately $110 billion each year (National Drug). In 1995, the illicit drug trade was a ...
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Equal Human Rights
Number of Words: 811 / Number of Pages: 3
... the army, especially Sherman's army. "General Sherman and his army soon began, thousands of slaves followed in their wake...and were never under the legal authority of their former masters. So the argument that the Emancipation 'freed no slaves' is a specious one"(www.w3f.com).
The Thirteenth Amendment was known as the continuation and enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. However, before the second writing of the Thirteenth Amendment there was a missing Thirteenth Amendment which was part of the Constitution before the publishing of the current Thirteenth Amendment. This first writing of th ...
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The Black Panther Party
Number of Words: 2087 / Number of Pages: 8
... strife, division, intrigue, and paranoia had become so ingrained that eventually most members drifted or were driven, away. Some continued the struggle on other fronts and some basically cooled out altogether. The BPP limped on for several more years, then died what seemed a natural death.
History will be the ultimate judge of the BPP's place in the Black Liberation Movement (BLM). But in these troubled times African people in the U.S. need to investigate both the positive and negative aspects of the BPP's history in order to learn from those hard lessons already paid for in blood. In particular we ...
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Tobacco And Kids
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... at the Medical College of Georgia report
that almost as many 6-year olds recognize Joe Camel as know Mickey
Mouse (Breo). That is very shocking information for any parent to
hear. The industry denies that these symbols target people under 21
and claim that their advertising goal is simply to promote brand
switching and loyalty. Many people disagree with this statement such
as Illinois Rep. Richard Durbin who states " If we can reduce the
number of young smokers, the tobacco companies will be in trouble and
they know it "(Roberts). So what do the tobacco companies do to keep
their indust ...
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The Writing Of The Federalist Papers
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... the president, and the judicial power in the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The legislative branch creates laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch interprets them ( Janda 72).
Madison felt that an important aspect of Separation of Powers is that the power of one branch should not be exercised by anyone who also holds a position in another branch. Madison states, “ It is equally evident that the members of each department be as little dependent as possible on those of the others…” ( Fed. 51 pg. A18). As for the Constitution, Article I, Section 6, states, ...
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Rebellious, Risk-Taking Youth
Number of Words: 240 / Number of Pages: 1
... these personality traits in the 5th grade are most likely to smoke in the 12th grade. Targeting smoking in high school students is important since studies have shown that adolescents who smoke daily in the 12th grade are likely to become established smokers as adults. Results of the study, published in the March issue of Preventive Medicine, show a strong association between rebelliousness in males in the 5th grade and daily smoking in the 12th grade. For example, the most rebellious males were three times more likely to become smokers than the least rebellious males. Risk-taking most strongly corr ...
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Number of Words: 6512 / Number of Pages: 24
... place in today’s society, this program and any like it should remain out use. was first put into use during the 1960s. The Civil Rights movement of 1964 emphasized the program. During that era discrimination among minorities and women was extremely high and there were many barriers. required employers to hire regardless of race, the of today has changed, and employers now hire minorities on the fact that they are Aguilar 2. minorities. This was not John F. Kennedy’s intent when he began the program in 1961. The main goal of was to give minorities and women an equal opportunity at employment and ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 3734 / Number of Pages: 14
... by laws in most states banning "mercy killing" and is condemned by the American Medical Association. Although it is not a crime to be present when a person takes his or her life, it is a crime to take direct action intentionally designed to help facilitate death--no matter how justifiable and compassionate the circumstances may be.1 With active , it is the doctor who administers the lethal drug dose. Since it is tantamount to homicide, the few U.S. doctors who perform it have been brought to trial but none of them have ever been convicted and imprisoned. Modern interest in in the United States began ...
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All Public Schools Are Not Cre
Number of Words: 390 / Number of Pages: 2
... main advantage to this is that it allows students to discover their interests. For instance, if a state requires that a student must take three years of chemistry or three years of physics, the student may choose one of those subjects and specialize in it. This in some way will help the pupil choose a college major and maybe a career.
A definite disadvantage to the decentralized system is the local school districts. Local school districts often levy property taxes, which are their major source of capitol. Many problems arise because the heavy reliance on the local property tax causes a disparity in t ...
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