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Department Of Justice Heart Attack
906 wordsAlcatraz: United States Penitentiary As a result of the Great Depression, a new breed of violent criminals swept the streets of America. In response to the cries of alarmed citizens, Congress enacted a number of statutes, which gave the federal government jurisdiction over certain criminal offenses previously held by the states. With the suggestion of former US Attorney General, Homes Cummings, Congress agreed that a special penal institution of maximum security and minimum privilege be establis...
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Long Term Short Term
701 wordsMy job, and the job of my company, is to provide strategic consulting and advice to our clients. Eighty percent of our clients are in the steel sectors and therefore we are continuously involved in struggling with the issues of long-term development in technology, costs, markets, product specifications and industry structure. We operate world-wide and so we are continuously confronted with the need to think about global developments in the metals sectors. One of our key tasks is to provide under...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Medicinal Purposes
1,578 wordsWhen Olympic officials decided to give snowboarder Ross Rebagliati his gold medal back, the cheers drowned out the boos. It was a minor scandal involving a minor sport, but it spoke volumes about the world's shifting relationship with its favorite illicit drug. Marijuana. A decade ago, Rebagliati would have been ostracized regardless of whether cannabis was on the list of his sport's banned substances. What's changed today is that our attitudes towards illegal drugs are becoming more sophisticat...
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President Bush And The Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty
786 wordsWhen the Cold War came to a finish in 1972, the Soviet Union and the United States of America knew some sort of action needed to be taken to evade a nuclear war in the future. The U. S. wanted an agreement with the Soviet Union for the limitation of strategic offensive arms. From this dilemma, the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty was produced, and signed, by both countries to put an end to their aggression towards each other and to limit anti-ballistic missile systems designed to defend again...
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War On Drugs Legalizing Marijuana
1,705 wordsOne question that has haunted Americans for a long time is: Should the use of marijuana be legalized? Some say, Yes, while other say, No. According to Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, marijuana is defined as a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa, smoked or eaten for its hallucinogenic and pleasure-giving effects. (Bram, Phillips, Dickey, 445) Owning marijuana was made a crime in 1937 when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. Despite this law...
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Denis Diderot Sur Les
1,187 wordsDenis Diderot was the most prominent of the French Encyclopdiasts, and his attacks on the political systems of France were some of the largest benefactors to the French Revolution. Diderot spent thirty years of his life compiling the Encyclopedie- an immense contribution to the Enlightenment of Europe- and dedicating his the rest of his life to helping others expand their realm of knowledge, thus adding Diderot to the list of prime initiators of the Enlightenment. The roots of the Enlightenment ...
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March On Washington Gays In The Military
1,837 wordsFor some veterans of the civil-rights era, it's a matter of stolen prestige. "It is a misappropriation for members of the gay leadership to identify the April 25 march on Washington with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 's 1963 mobilization, " one such veteran, the Reverend Dennis G. Kuby, wrote in a letter to the editor that appeared in the Times on the day of the march. Four days later, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee's hearings on the issues of gays in the military, Lieut...
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Thirty Years War Order That A Strong Prussia
345 wordsThere are three reasons Prussia, between 1648 - 1762, came to be a European power. First, Prussia was surrounded by a number of weak states. The weakness of these state enabled Prussia to gain territory and become more powerful. Second, during this time, the region was in a state of chaos. Because of this, people were anxious for the stability and order that a strong state could provide. Finally, because of three brilliant rulers, especially Fredrick William, the Great Elector, Prussia was organ...
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Target Market Hispanic Community
1,108 words"Latinos are changing the way the country looks, feels, and thinks, eats, dances, and votes. From teeming immigrant meccas to small-town America, they are filling churches, building businesses, and celebrating this Latin heritage... In America, a country that constantly redefines itself, the rise of Latinos also raises questions about race, identity, and culture - and whether the United States will ever truly be one nation. " (Larger, pg. 50) This passage aptly describes the dawning of a new 'en...
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Blue Ribbon Sports Track And Field
2,251 wordsNike If you have a body, you are an athlete. And as long as there are athletes, there will be Nike. Bill Bowerman Introduction Undoubtedly, Nike is one of the most influential world leaders in manufacture and design of sport footwear, clothes and accessories. By 2001 the companys annual income approached 10 billion dollars. Nike is a multinational corporation that concludes contracts with 750 factories in 55 world countries. The quantity of Nike's personnel makes up more than 28, 000 full-time e...
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Latin American Countries U S Government
1,939 wordsWhy We Should Not Grant Amnesty to The Mexicans Introduction In the beginning of the XXI century the United States has faced the global threat of influential social changes. One of the most important aspects affecting these changes is a non-stop inflow of illegal immigrants from Latin American countries, and, first and uppermost, from the neighboring Mexico. In case the tendency continues, within the next few dozens of years the United States faces the risk to become the country where two cultur...
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Blue Ribbon Sports Phil Knight
1,488 wordsNike If you have a body, you are an athlete. And as long as there are athletes, there will be Nike. Bill Bowerman Introduction Undoubtedly, Nike is one of the most influential world leaders in manufacture and design of sport footwear, clothes and accessories. By 2001 the companys annual income approached 10 billion dollars. Nike is a multinational corporation that concludes contracts with 750 factories in 55 world countries. The quantity of Nike's personnel makes up more than 28, 000 full-time e...
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Jews And Gypsies Sylvia Plath
1,462 wordsTwo Poems Two Lives Daddy by Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) and My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963) are autobiographic poems that describe father-child relationships. Sylvia Plath portrays her father Otto Plath and Theodore Roethke portrays his father Otto Roethke. These two poems are ambiguous and reveal much not only about both poets childhoods, but also about their adult characters as well as perception of themselves. The task of this work is analysis and comparison of the poems Dadd...
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Second Hand Smoke Secondhand Smoke
1,354 wordsSmoking Ban Thirty years passed after Minnesota State became the first, who restricted smoking in public buildings. Now it seems that the majority of Minnesotans support the wider ban and consider smoking in restaurants should be restricted. At the same time they worry about what a ban on smoking in certain areas will do to the city's economy. In this paper positive and negative effects of a statewide smoking ban in Minnesota are examined. Introduction Thirty years passed after Minnesota State b...
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British Museum Thirty Years
483 wordsThe Chinese Pottery Chinese pottery The earliest Chinese pottery of which we have any records is the Neolithic ware from the river plains and loess highlands of north and north-west China. It was made between 5000 and 2000 B. C. and contains bowls, jars, pots and beakers of low-fires earthenware. This pots were not turned on a wheel but were build up by what is known as the Coil Method. That is, a long sausage of clay was wound carefully up into a coil shape and this coil was smoothed and patted...
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