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Trigger Locks Violent Crimes
1,251 wordsWith the growing number of reports, on television, about violent crimes at school, it is no wonder that President Clinton is pushing for more gun control. Although the number of violent crimes committed in schools is far less than the number committed at home, the president feels that stricter gun laws need to be in effect. In the light of the recent shootings at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, there have been serious increases in the number of proposals to help regulate gun use. I...
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Modern Society Past Life
1,246 wordsAnne Tyler's, The Accidental Tourist and Morgan's Passing, illuminate man's alienation in modern society. In both, the quest for self-knowledge is the primary goal faced by the main character. The Accidental Tourist and Morgan's Passing both deal with characters attempting to overcome their alienation from society after being forced in isolation by a horrible occurrence in their lives. The focus of both novels lies on Macon's and Morgan's attempts to reconnect with society. Both male protagonist...
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Sexual Abuse Physical Abuse
897 wordsMaltreatment of children is not a new phenomenon. It dates back far into history, as far as the colonial times and even back to biblical times. During the recent years child maltreatment has had an increase in the publics eye. There are many factors to child maltreatment. There are four general categories of child maltreatment now recognized. They are physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and emotional maltreatment. Each category, in turn, covers a range of behavior. The maltreatment of children...
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Entire Life Sit Back
705 wordster> In what ways is Macon the Accidental Tourist? The logo on the front of all Macon's travel guides is a picture of a winged armchair and Macon's wife Sarah believed that this was not only the logo for The Accidental Tourist books, but for Macon himself. Julian describes metaphor of the winged armchair as "while armchair travelers dream of going places, travelling armchairs dream of staying put", and Macon does his best to help his readers feel as if they have never left home. He adv...
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Forensic Science Classification System
1,651 wordsDetectives arrived on the scene after complaints of screaming heard by a neighbor down the street. Besides the blood painted walls and drenched sheets, there lay a lump of human parts on the bed. What they found was the body of a prostitute that had been bound and beheaded with her liver placed between her lacerated legs. Recognized to be human only by the eyes that were missing from her skull, she had fallen victim to a psychotic eradicator. Jack the Ripper, known as one of the most historicall...
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Son In Law Paranoid Schizophrenia
1,937 wordsWas the death of Marilyn Monroe: accident, suicide or cold-blooded murder? In order to understand whether or not the death of Marilyn Monroe was an accident, suicide or cold-blooded murder one needs to look in to the life, childhood and career of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson at nine thirty am on the first day of June 1926. Her last name would later be changed to Baker. She was born to mother Gladys Monroe-Baker and a father who she would never know the true identi...
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Ben R Finney Polynesian Outliers A Computer Simulation Sharp
1,751 wordsAndrew Sharp claims in his Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific published in 1956 that the Pacific Islanders did not possess the necessary navigational and sailing technology to deliberately navigate the distances between islands of the Pacific when colonizing these islands. He claims colonization was random and accidental. However, more recent studies from 1972 on of Pacific navigation suggest deliberate navigation and colonization was possible and did take place. These studies have been supported b...
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Accidental Death Target Audience
960 wordsDario Fos plays were written in Italy during the 60 s and 70 s. During this time there was widespread dissatisfaction throughout Italy towards the government and various factions within the country, the nation seethed with discontent. Dario Fo was born in 1926 in the Italian state of Lombardy. During the fifties, Fo, along with his wife Franca Rame, had a succesful career as an actor, director and writer of comedies in conventional theatre. During the sixties, they abandoned conventional theatre...
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Gun Accidents Anti Gun
1,614 wordsAs early as 1976 it was estimated that more had been written on gun control than on all other crime-related topics combined. The literature that was written before this time was very flawed and severely biased. The reason for this bias was the academics could see no reason why anyone should own a weapon in a democracy, and why should they? The only studies that were done were problematic ones, such as gun accidents, gun violence, and gun ownership among extremist groups. Due to these early writi...
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Soul And Body Efficient Cause
2,177 wordsIn Hylomorphism Hylomorphism in General In De Anima, Aristotle makes extensive use of technical terminology introduced and explained elsewhere in his writings. He claims, for example, using vocabulary derived from his physical and metaphysical theories, that the soul is a first actuality of a natural organic body (De Anima ii 1, 412 b 5 - 6), that it is a substance as form of a natural body which has life in potentiality (De Anima ii 1, 412 a 20 - 1) and, similarly, that it is a first actuality ...
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Romeo And Juliet Claudio And Hero
861 wordsIntensional Or Accidental Similarities Of Romeo Intensional Or Accidental Similarities Of Romeo And Juliet T Intensional or Accidental? Similarities between Romeo And Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing! There are many similarities between Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet. Was this Intentional or Accidental? Even though Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy, and Romeo and Juliet, is one of his saddest tragedies, the two plots share many common incidents. Did Shakespeare mean ...
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Nuclear Power Plant Nuclear Fission
1,742 wordsNuclear energy-This is energy that binds together components of an atomic nucleus. This is made by the process of nuclear fission. Nuclear fission is produced when an atomic atom is split. The way nuclear pore is made is in a nuclear reactor, this is most likely located in a nuclear power plant. the fission that is produced is when a heavy element splits in half or is halved into two smaller nuclei, the power of the fission is located by the rate of the splitting of the nuclei at once which caus...
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