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Search And Seizure Probable Cause
1,237 words... that are in plain view. This exception generally applies only to a fleeing felon. If the police are pursuing a suspect for a misdemeanor or a non-jail able offense, or other minor infraction, hot pursuit will ordinarily not apply. The sixth warrantless search is Search Incident to Arrest. When a person is placed under arrest, the police may search the person and the immediate surroundings for weapons that might be used to harm the officer. If the person is taken to jail, the police may searc...
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Lay Dying Dewey Dell
1,221 wordsThe action of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is simple: Addie Bundren dies; and in answer to her wishes, the body is taken for burial to Jefferson, some forty miles away. But the weather intervenes, and floodwaters require that the cortege take detours. Some nine days pass before the coffin, which before long clearly announces its passing to neighboring places, is finally laid to rest. These days involve battling flood water and a fire set by one of the children, the threat of buzzards, the h...
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Felt Guilty Cash Money
1,369 words"As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner consists of strange happenings throughout the story. One of the most awkward settings in the book is the relationship between husband and wife that occurred between Anse and Addie Bundren. What is seen in the beginning is that of a wife on her deathbed and a caring husband who wants to make everything better for his wife by making her wishes come true. I soon realized that this was just a masking technique Faulkner used to give us the wrong impression on how ...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,802 wordsJ. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. He comes from quite a wealthy family, has attended several private preparatory schools, but has been expelled from all of them. In the beginning of the book, Christmas is drawing near, and Holden has been kicked out of Peace Prep because he has failed most of his subjects. He does not want to tell his parents yet, so he decides not to go home until the beginning of the Christmas vacation. Inste...
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Separation Of Church And State
1,569 wordsPresently in America there are serious concern about issues dealing with the church and the state. The main issue is the separation of church and state within the United States, dealing with predominantly with the First Amendment and how Americans respond to this amendment. Throughout history, there have been many court cases dealing with the separation of church and state. The Engel vs. Vitale court case also deals with the First Amendment and, the on, that I will address the case of Engel vers...
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Martin Luther King Hannah Arendt
1,510 wordsReligion or Justice? Chicken or Fish? Could religion mean justice or do they contradict one another? Are religion and justice compatible with the violence? People have been trying to find the answers to these complicated questions since the ancient times. The relations of religion with the human laws were the subject of study of writers, philosophers and theological scholars. Nobody was able to prove the adequacy of religion to justice. A history of mankind shows that religion was the main reaso...
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Laws Of Nature State Of Nature
1,289 wordsThe Title Is Not Indicated In Assignment. The theory of power is the question the best world philosophers have been interested in since the ancient times. What is power? How should it interact with the individuals? The theories of power, its nature and relations with the people were studying by the outstanding philosophers, thinkers and scientists. One of the brilliant thinkers of the 17 th century was Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes noted that the man in his nature lives to survive. He stated that the ma...
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Han Dynasty Nomadic Tribes
1,629 wordsThe greatest East-West trade route, The Silk Road, was named so by the German scholar Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in the middle of the 19 th century. Later on it became the information super highway of its age, serving to trade not only goods but also knowledge and ideas between Western and Eastern civilizations. 1. The Silk Road was founded in the second century BC for military and political purpose instead of for trade. A court official named Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions by Ha...
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Dewey Dell And Vardaman Buried In Jefferson Mother
1,411 wordsAs I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a story about a family s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie Bundren, their wife and mother. Addie is a hidden character throughout most of the book. We read and see the views of her family while they take her to get buried in Jefferson, and gain different perspectives of this character upon which the story is based. All we know about her in the beginning is that she is lying in her bed dying while people surround her in complete silence...
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Notre Dame Glass Ceiling
3,236 wordsWomen In Educational Administration: The Glass Ceiling Women In Educational Administration: The Glass Ceiling Is Still There WOMEN IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION THE GLASS CEILING IS STILL THERE Several people at the conference dealt with the problems women encounter in getting into administrative positions in schools and colleges and when they do, the obstacles they encounter in making their jobs successful. Their discussions brought home to me the reality of my own mothers experience. As childr...
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Lay Dying Impending Doom
1,679 wordsIn the works, Oedipus and As I Lay Dying, we can look at the many themes that tie both of these pieces of literature together. We could look at the theme of how there needs to be a balance when dealing with difficult situations; there can t be different extremes that inhibit dealing with the problem. For example, Darl, in As I Lay Dying, seems to be in everyone s business, while Cash seems to remain mostly in the background. Jewel is in the middle, maintaining the balance. To the people with the...
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Human Rights Watch York City Police
1,934 wordsIn the past decade, many police departments have adopted a new theory that says serious crime can be reduced by controlling minor disorders and fixing up obvious signs of decay or litter. The theory is called broken windows, after a 1982 Atlantic Monthly magazine article by James Q. Wilson and George Killing. The article argued that when low-level quality-of-life offenses were tolerated in a community, more serious crime would follow. According to this view, broken windows, abandoned buildings, ...
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