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Border Patrol Fourth Amendment
864 wordsWhen police set up traffic checkpoints looking for signs of drug use, walking a narcotics detecting dog around the car, and examining drivers licenses and registration does that practice violate the Constitutions protection against unreasonable searches? From August to November of 1998, police in Indianapolis set up six traffic checkpoints to look for signs of illegal drugs transported on city streets. Officers stopped cars, checked each drivers license and registration, looked for signs of drug...
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People With Ocd Obsessive Compulsive
1,040 wordsObsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as OCD causes people to suffer in silence and secrecy and can destroy relationships and the ability to work. It may bring on shame, ridicule, anger, and intolerance from friends and family. Although it has been reported in children, it strikes most often during adolescence or young adult years. The illness can affect people in any income bracket, of any race, gender, or ethnic group and in any occupation. If people recognize the symptoms and seek treatme...
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People With Ocd Children And Adolescents
2,369 wordsOCD stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder. An individual with OCD tends to worry about many different things. One out of fifty adults currently suffer from this disorder, and twice that many have had it at some point in their lives. When worries, doubts, or superstitious beliefs become excessive then a diagnosis of OCD is made. With OCD it is thought that the brain gets stuck on a particular thought or urge and just cant let go. Most often people with OCD describe the symptoms as a case of me...
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Work Of Art Art Work
1,142 words... e case of water) - which cannot be predicted from a complete knowledge of the constituent parts (single gas molecules or hydrogen and oxygen). Can the thinking process be surmised from the study of a single neurone - or is the Whole brain under observation the precondition? We can never be sure that the essence of the Whole is, indeed, resident in the part. Holograms and fractals are one case: the shape of the Whole is absolutely discernible in the tiniest part. Still shape is only one param...
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Code Of Ethics Telling The Truth
1,345 words"Whoever holds the power tries to own the truth." Write a persuasive article in which you explore the above statement in your prescribed and related texts. The manipulation and deviation of a "supposed" truth can often be distorted by the "big guns" of society. Whoever holds the power, in other words, tries to own the truth. Does society allow this ownership of truth to be accomplished, or does it simply defend with obstruction? Influential industry professionals, in particular present in the wo...
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'arizona' Green Tea Green Tea Bottle
934 wordsHaving seen the packaging, the consumer picks up the drink out of curiosity, while other iced tea drinks have flashy fonts or colors for packaging, 'Arizona' Green Tea maintains its oriental look, providing a contrast that attracts the eye of the consumer and sells itself. The tea comes in a bottle with a light green opaque film around it. The film is illustrated and the top to the bottle is secured with a paper seal colored with an intricate and geometric design. The two other main ingredients ...
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Reading Education From Grade School Through College
1,504 wordsReading Education: from grade school through college It has always been the sad refrain of educators around the world that the quality of education has plummeted over the generations. Of such note is the work of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987). The work of Bloom can be gleaned at once to be the classic conservative lament; and his notion of education is more lamentably so, for he has not become cognizant of the ongoing discussions of various class and e...
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1 Change In The Nature Of Crime America
798 wordsEssay # 1 Change in the Nature of Crime in America The rapid growth of the crime control industry is a frightening aspect of contemporary U. S. society. Incarceration represents the ultimate form of surveillance: 24 hours a day, within four walls, monitored by humans, by machines, restricted in their movements. In 1993, American criminologist, professor of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland Gary La Free published his seminal study, The Changing Natur...
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Events Of September 11 Terrorist Attacks
1,371 wordsIt is not a secret that terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City had many bad effects. Thousands people died that day. The marvel of New Yorks architecture, the highest building of the city was destroyed. The world was in panic and in absolute helplessness for several days after the event. Whole country was shocked after realizing that it is possible for something like this to happen. This event was of a great importance and had influenced the perception of the world of many....
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Emotional Impact Ethical Issues
2,315 wordsWhat responsibility does the press have in keeping the public informed while at the same time, respecting the privacy and sensibility of individuals? The press has the power to influence virtually all areas of our lives. Words and images are combined to produce various messages and meanings. All that is presented to us undoubtedly has an effect; whether it be positive, negative or neutral. In some countries the press is seen as an instrument for exposing the truth, and in others it is seen as an...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
3,902 wordsIn a conversation with my girlfriend about battered women, she said, Id never put up with that and then asked, Why would a woman stay in an abusive relationship? As relationships progress, there are more emotional and financial ties which makes it harder to leave. The average woman will leave her abuser seven or eight times before making the final break. Women may be afraid of strangers, but it is a husband, a lover, a boyfriend, or someone they know who is most likely to harm them. According to...
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Code Of Ethics Telling The Truth
1,338 wordsWhoever holds the power tries to own the truth. Write a persuasive article in which you explore the above statement in your prescribed and related texts. The manipulation and deviation of a supposed truth can often be distorted by the big guns of society. Whoever holds the power, in other words, tries to own the truth. Does society allow this ownership of truth to be accomplished, or does it simply defend with obstruction? Influential industry professionals, in particular present in the world of...
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Age Of 18 Seat Belt
529 wordsHow much power should the federal government posses? The government is responsible for creating beneficial laws for its citizens, but many times over-steps its bounds. In trying to make laws to protect health and well-being, the government takes away from its citizens freedom and rights as competent adults. The government does have its responsibilities, such as dealing with foreign affairs, however, every time the government makes decisions for us we creep closer and closer to an Orwellian socie...
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Communications Decency Act United States Congress
2,404 wordsIntroduction Don Daufenbach stared at his computer screen. Bobby 2 vt was e-mailing him again, and this time he seemed excited. Sounds like we have a deal, was the message that came in, Daufenbach says. As for what I like... the younger the better, it said. In the next week, Daufenbach says, Bobby 2 vt sent him dozens of pictures of children having sex, hoping for videos in return. Instead, Bobby 2 vt ended up with a swarm of federal agents at his door last February. Daufenbach, it turned out wa...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
1,156 wordsBattered Womens Syndrome: A Survey Of Contemporary Battered Womens Syndrome: A Survey Of Contemporary Theories Battered Womens Syndrome: A Survey of Contemporary Theories Domestic Violence November 16, 1996 In 1991, Governor William Weld modified parole regulations and permitted women to seek commutation if they could present evidence indicating they suffered from battered womens syndrome. A short while later, the Governor, citing spousal abuse as I. The Classical Theory of Battered Womens Syndr...
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Important To Remember Frontal Lobotomy
2,992 wordsOne Flew OverPshycosurgery Introduction One Flew Over the Cock s Nest presents a flashing array of images and scenes that are impossible to ignore and impossible to forget. One particular scene, where Jack Nicholson is being led to bed with a marring scar on his forehead, is among the most socially disturbing. For, we find it hard to believe that humanity had scrambled the brains of those who could not live within the confines of society. Nicholson s character received a pre-frontal lobotomy. No...
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Law Against Paparazzi Rich And Famous Celebrities
521 wordsHow about creating a law against the use of telephoto lens and parabolic listening devices? How about creating a new crime? One that will penalize those persisting and persuading photographers, the Paparazzi also known to celebrities as stalkarazzi who follow the rich and famous for the thousand dollars snapshot that reveals some special, intimate moment or an embarrassing one. Should there be a law rebuking such act? Should there be strict laws preventing press photographers (paparazzi) from pu...
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