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Daisy And Gatsby Tom Buchanan
1,432 wordsIn F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Tom Buchanan's attitude toward the other characters demonstrates his true personality. There are many things that make up his character which cause him to carry on in this manner. His attitude stems from the way he was brought up by his parents, and the values they instilled in him. Throughout his life everything was handed to him on a silver platter. So Tom feels that world is at feet and that he can do whatever he wants to whoever he wants without ha...
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Lack Of Love Brently Mallard
1,203 wordsIn Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour the apparent death of the husband signifies a major turning point in the life of Mrs. Mallard. Until this time, she has been a possession of her husbands, much alike to his clothing, and she now realizes that she is free. For Louise Mallard, the illusive death of Brently Mallard is her rite of passage into a new, free life. Louise cannot live unless her husband is dead. When Mrs. Mallard learns of her husbands death, she not only goes straight into a period ...
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Based On Sexual Matthew Shepard
1,951 wordsA quiet young man is tied up on a fence and beaten into unconsciousness and later dies. At his funeral a small cult pickets outside the church holding signs that say things such as "No Tears For Queers and "Fags Don't Go To Heaven. Multiple times before this brutal murder took place Congress silently condoned this behavior by not passing a hate crime bill that would have let the FBI and other federal agencies more thoroughly investigate the murder. The strong hate mentality towards and homosexua...
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Men And Women Years To Life
1,338 wordsIn California there is a law known as the 3 -Strikes Law. Other states such as Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, and a few other states have also adopted this law. (2) This 3 -Strikes and Your Out Law, states that if a person has two previous violent or serious felony convictions, he or she is sentenced to a life sentence with no chance of parole. (1) It also states that if a person has one previous violent or serious felony conviction (which includes burglary of an unoccupied dwellin...
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York Columbia University United States Government
2,083 words... tics researcher at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Ebers is attempting to duplicate Hamer's findings by conducting a similar study. Ebers claims that he has not drawn a similar conclusion. The ORI investigation was triggered by the report of a woman formerly a junior member of Hamer's lab, in which she questioned the methods of Hamer's research (Science, 1995). Whether or not homosexuality is hereditary brings up many issues, one of which is the Defense of Marriage Act ...
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War On Drugs People Of Color
878 wordsThe U. S. Constitution once counted Black slaves as worth three-fifths of Whites. Today, Black per capita income is three-fifths of Whites. Thats an economic measure of enduring racism. The Latino-White ratio is even worse. One out of three Black men in there twenties is now in prison or jail, on probation or on parole on any given day. The comparable figure for Latinos is about one in eight, and for Whites, one in fifteen. It is impossible to understand why so many people of color, particularly...
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Second Hander Delusion Believed That Good Roark
1,814 wordsThe courtroom verdict at the Cortlandt trial had a huge impact on the lives of every main character in Fountainhead. It was here that the revolutionary, Roark, is acquitted of the felony of destroying a public building. This verdict shakes the world of the evil Toohey, ultimately destroying him. It means the psychological destruction of Gail Wynand, a hard working businessman and friend of Roark's. It also brings on the collapse of Peter Keating, a spineless, mama's-boy and fellow architect and ...
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War On Drugs Marijuana Laws
1,405 wordsActivists hope ballot questions signal support for marijuana bills By Steve Leblanc, Associated Press, 12 / 5 / 2000 17: 05 BOSTON (AP) When researchers launched the nation's most ambitious heart study 50 years ago, they chose Framingham, a middle-class town west of Boston and cross-section of America. Now supporters of liberalized marijuana laws are hoping voters in this Massachusetts heartland are signaling a fundamental shift in public attitudes about the state's war on drugs. On Election Day...
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Bear Arms Machine Guns
1,516 wordsThere is a famous quote, which states: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people. " This quote is technically true. But if there are no guns, it will be a whole lot more difficult for people to kill people. Sure people could use different weapons such as knives and golf clubs to kill people. But the victim will have a significant better chance of defending him or herself from a weapon other than firearms. I was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to the United States when I was six. I still go visi...
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Weight Of Marijuana And Criminal Tax Law
1,498 wordsConclusive research has shown that wet (uncured) marijuana is not psychoactive. Before drying, decarboxylation of inactive THCA acid into THC has not yet occurred. During the curing (drying) process, the COOH bonded to the THC is released. The result is the psychoactive compound delta 9 THC. The State of North Carolinas laws do not distinguish between the uncured weight of marijuana from the cured (dry) weight, necessary for marijuana to be consumed or sold. No one purchases wet marijuana at a p...
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Difficult To Determine Possession Of Marijuana
1,224 words... state is itself an underestimate. The extent is difficult to determine because of the illegal nature of the trade; however, it is substantial. Emergency room mentions of marijuana and hashish have also increased dramatically, from 3, 818 in 1985 to an estimated 8, 200 in 1988 (NNICC, 1989). Note that there is a very high degree of concomitance associated with these figures. More than 80 % of the mentions are in combination with other drugs (NIDA, 1988). Without a reliable count of the number...
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Concealed Carry Permits Gun Control Advocates
1,075 words... as the efforts at gun control do not address the real problem of crime. The simple definition of a criminal is someone who does not obey the law. The simple definition of a law-abiding citizen, someone who does obey the law. Therefore, if the goverment would pass laws restricting ownership of firearms, which category of people does it affect? The simple answer, gun control laws affect law-abiding citizens only. By their very nature, the criminals will continue to violate these new laws, they...
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Synoptic Gospels Sound Mind
1,331 wordsRS 201 New Testament Lit. Dec. 11, 2000 Legion: An Exegetical Analysis In this analysis I will be drawing from five passages found in Mark 5: 9 - 13, which is the story of the demonic possession by the demon which is called Legion. I will be drawing on the context of the whole passage which is Mark 5: 1 - 20, but my main focus and purpose of this analysis is to shed light on verses 9 - 13. I have referenced three different versions of these passages in different Bibles, the KJV, NIV and the NRSV...
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English Common Law Separation Of Powers
1,809 wordsAUSTRALIAN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND ITS MANY RAMIFICATIONS The framework for law and government in Australia is seen as a system that is comprehensive of administrative law that has evolved through the years. Main elements of this are judicial review by the courts, merit review by administrative tribunals, investigation of administrative action by the Ombudsman and human rights agencies, and the conferral of information and privacy rights under freedom of information and privacy legislation (McMil...
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The Effects Of Illegal Drugs On American Society
2,375 wordsThe Effects of Illegal Drugs on American Society (1) Ever since the end of WWII, it has become a statement of good taste, among American politicians, to refer to U. S. as the greatest country on Earth, the globes strongest geopolitical power, the defender of democracy in the whole world etc. Even, as recent as twenty years ago, such referrals did correspond to the objective reality, as it was the case with Roman citizens referring to Roman Empire in 4 th century A. D. as the greatest and most po...
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Prison Guards Drug Offenders
1,886 words... are experimenting with "re-entry courts" that oversee the process of reintegration. In these courts, conditions of supervision are openly agreed to and openly enforced. If a new crime is committed, all bets are off and the parolee is prosecuted for the new crime. But violations of the conditions of parole - the technical violations that now fill up the state's prisons - are handled more along the lines of drug courts, with appropriate support services, close judicial monitoring, graduated sa...
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Credit Card Fraud Environmental Protection Agency
679 wordsCriminal Law According to EPAGLOa, the acceptable risk is defined as level of risk judged to be outweighed by corresponding benefits or one that is of such a degree that it is considered to pose minimal potential for adverse effects (US Environmental Protection Agency, n. p. ). Lets examine the potential risk for the employer based on the list of the following candidates: The candidate # 1 was arrested and convicted of breaking and entering. He has recently been released after serving a 6 month ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Marijuana Laws
644 wordsLegalization of Marijuana Today the issue of legalization of marijuana is gaining more and more public interest. The state of things is very critical in the USA. The cases of possession or consumption of marijuana and their law prosecution grow each year. According to the statistics put out by The Marijuana Policy Project, since 1965 there have been more than 11 million marijuana arrests in America, in 1997 the number of arrests was the largest in the U. S. history more than 695, 000. [ 1 ]. Thu...
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Act Ii Promissory Note
2,665 wordsAct II is largely a continuation of themes and character development that were introduced in the first act: Helmer's preoccupation with beauty in the household continues to be prevalent in Act II. Nora says Yes, Torvald knows how to make it nice and pretty around here. Nora seems to have been raised in a setting that valued appearance and beauty as well. Mrs. Linde comments that Nora also knows how to make things nice and pretty undoubtedly, because she is her fathers daughter. As for Helmer, No...
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Francis Ford Coppola Harsh Realities
1,659 wordsCinematic violence has been in films since the start of movie making. From Orson Wells tearing up his estranged wives room in Citizen Kane to Anthony Perkins slicing up Vivian Leigh in Psycho, violence has always been present in film in one form or another. It was not until the late sixties and seventies that such visionaries as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah, and William Friedken, to mention a few, came and put on film what was to become a trend in America...
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