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60 Km H Speed A Vehicle Driving
507 wordsIt is a familiar scene during prime-time television: A young woman is shown driving a red Mitsubishi Eclipse down a country road at very high speed. The woman is -on her way to her grandparents' home, and the car is going so fast that it makes the house rumble when she arrives. Meanwhile, the announcer declares: "It's uncommonly fast, and fun to drive, and it makes quite an entrance. " The steady stream of advertisements like these, which continue to promote dangerous driving behavior despite en...
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Alcohol And Tobacco Legalization Of Marijuana
868 wordsLegalization of Marijuana (Cannabis) is highly logical in a day where alcohol and tobacco products, (although restricted by age) are available to millions of people every day. Someone has to wonder why there is such controversy about the proposal to legalize marijuana. Cannabis would benefit the economy enabling new jobs in the U. S. The sale of Cannabis would benefit the government as well with a tax. Being an illegal drug Cannabis has more helpful causes than Of course, there are many argument...
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The Civil Rights Cases
1,097 words... intuitional is if the States are forbidden to legislate on a particular subject, and power is then given to Congress to enforce the prohibition, that gives Congress power to legislate generally on the subject and not merely power to provide modes of atonement against such a State action. This assumption, according to Bradley, is incorrect and is in violation of the 10 th Amendment that declares powers not delegated to the federal government, nor prohibited from the States, are reserved to th...
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Strict Gun Control Violent Crime
1,242 words... handgun killings per 100, 000 people compared to 4108 in the U. S. over the period of 1977 - 1983 ." They also noted that the "American murder rates for handguns are higher than the total Canadian homicide rate" (249). According to Sproule and Kennett, "Canada's favourable situation regarding murder relative to the United States is to a large measure the result of Canadian gun control, and Canadians must be vigilant against any erosion of our gun control The works cited above are based on re...
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Huck Finn And Satire
916 wordsOne name from American Literature that probably all school children know is Mark Twain. Along with that, one book from American Literature that probably all school children have heard about is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Truly, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a marvel of its own time and is still a great classic today as it illustrates for its reader the pre-civil war South far beyond anything one could imagine. The book itself makes such great use of satire and humor and criticis...
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Internal Affairs Unit York Times P
1,653 words... ely than they were pursuing drugs, ''s ays Assistant U. S. Attorney Steven Bauer. (Washington Post, Jan 18, 1993: p. 11) When cities enlarge their police forces quickly in response to public fears about crime, it can also mean an influx of younger and less well-suited officers. That was a major reason for the enormous corruption scandal that hit Miami in the mid- 1980 s, when about 10 % of the city's police were either jailed, fired or disciplined in connection with a scheme in which officer...
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Law Abiding Citizens Community Based Policing
1,089 wordsIn some cases, gun control may be favored even if the price is more death. Consider, for example, H. Laurence Ross's review of Gary Kleck's book Point Blank in the American Journal of Sociology. Kleck's book was awarded the Hindelang Prize, as the most significant contribution to criminology in the last three years; Ross praises Kleck's meticulous research and analysis, and Kleck's debunking of many of the myths surrounding the gun issue. And Ross does not deny Kleck's conclusion that, because h...
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Put To Death Death Penalty
807 wordsLooking out for the state of the public's satisfaction in the scheme of capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today's system of capital punishment is fraught with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. It satisfied the public's need for retribution. It relieved the anguish of the victim's family. Realistically, imposing the death penalty is expensive and time consuming. Retroactively, it has yet to be proven as a...
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U S Court European Union
766 wordsBXA Issues Revised Encryption Export Regulations. On October 18, the U. S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) announced further revisions to the export regulations on encryption products. The new rules amend the Export Administration Requirements (EAR) and liberalize the export and reexport of encryption products to the 15 European Union member states and Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland and Switzerland. The Administration first...
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Gun Control Laws Gun Control Legislation
759 wordsThe Gun Control Gun Control The question of weather or not to have tougher gun control laws is a major issue for the American society. Violence with guns in the United States seems to be ever growing. Gun violence claims the lives of an estimated 34, 000 Americans each year. It is evident that some people should just not have the right, or privilege to own a gun. Such was the case of Colin Ferguson, who boarded a Long Island Railroad train in New York City. Ferguson proceeded to pull out a 9 -mi...
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First Amendment Rights England Journal Of Medicine
1,681 wordsNora Parker January 19, 2000 English 10, per 2 Marijuana Prohibition is a Violation of First Amendment Rights Let me ask you something? if you had a choice, what would it be: Marijuana or Martinis? This question appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, May 12 th, 1998. Due to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 the only legal choice that you and the 18 million other adults who used marijuana last year can make is the martini (Against Drug Prohibition ix). The legal acceptance of alcohol, however, do...
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Face Value Black Community
647 wordsThe statistic I Marijuana Marijuana The statistic I chose to analyze was something I pulled from the Washington Post about a month ago. The article stated that 68 % of high school seniors admitted to trying marijuana at least once during their high school career. The article was about the resurfacing drug problem among the teenage age group. It was aimed at an audience of parents and others who could be affected by such an alarming rate. A number of thoughts crossed my mind when I read this stat...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Legalization Of Drugs
1,320 wordsLegalize It? : Debating American Drug Policy The controversy surrounding the legalization of drugs has raged since the late 1930 s and it seems it will continue well into the future. Such a debate has been apparent in the American marketplace of ideas before with the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920 s. With the illegality of alcohol the mafia could produce liquor and therefore had considerable control over those who wanted their substance and service. The role that the mafia played in the 1920...
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U S News Amp World Amp World Report
1,186 wordsPreventing School Violence Many parents know that from their child? s first day of school, his or her safety is out of their hands. ? They disappear into a world of mysterious cliques and rivalries, of grievances rendered in the primary colors of adolescent emotions and animated by comic book fantasies. ? (Adler 36) Parents try to become familiar with their children? s friends, but are not sure how to keep track of his or her enemies as well. This impotence causes major concern. Even though scho...
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Anti Saloon League Christian Temperance Union
728 wordsProhibition in the Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages. The leaders of the prohibition movement were alarmed at the drinking behavior of Americans, and they were...
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Cold War Nation State
1,523 wordsStill riding the Trojan horse The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt 960 pp, Allen Lane This is a book of extraordinary ambition. It could well have been called A General Theory of War, Peace and History. For that is what it proffers, at least for political history over the last half-millennium as perceived through European and American eyes. And it has a message: that, as Sir Michael Howard puts it in his magisterial foreword, mankind could be facing a trag...
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Value Of Human Life Police Discretion
970 wordsThe Law of Self-defense CONCURRING OPINION: We concur with Justice Whites interpretation of Tennessee State law. However, we propose that more restrictive standards should be used by policemen when dealing with imminently dangerous circumstances. The necessity standard that White proposes for governing the use of lethal force strikes the right balance in regulating violence. He insists that the police act reasonably by evaluating whether the felons interest in life outweighs the states interest ...
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Year Old Girl Police Force
1,241 wordsLudwig trial put cash-strapped RCMP under scrutiny BOB WEBER EDMONTON (CP) Wiebo Ludwig was the defendant, but many times it seemed the RCMP were the ones on trial. Eight weeks of testimony at Ludwig's oil patch vandalism trial raised repeated questions about a police force relying on tired, outdated equipment and in danger of taking bids on its integrity. But its not the first time. The Ludwig trial revealed only the latest example of a national icon so stretched that it sometimes no longer eve...
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Child Abuse Law Enforcement
554 wordsBad Choices During Pregnancy An unwritten don t ask, don t tell policy {in regards to pregnant women and what they put into their bodies}was once the rule and not the exception in our society. What this means is simple: doctors delivered infants without questioning the behavior of the mother. If the infant was born defective in some way, the mother paid. The infant paid. Society paid. After all, if the mother could not afford to provide all the care the infant needed because of special costs rel...
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Criminal Justice System Labeling Theory
1,050 wordsCan Labeling Theory Liz Bruce Can Critical Perspective Explain Crime? Many psychologists and sociologists have spent years trying to ascertain why criminals continue to commit crimes, and why certain prevention tactics still do not deter crime. There are two theories that became very prominent in the sixties, as to some of the reasons surrounding criminals, these theories are known as the labeling theory and the conflict theory. The two theories do very well in showing some of the problems that ...
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