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Border Patrol Fourth Amendment
864 wordsWhen police set up traffic checkpoints looking for signs of drug use, walking a narcotics detecting dog around the car, and examining drivers licenses and registration does that practice violate the Constitutions protection against unreasonable searches? From August to November of 1998, police in Indianapolis set up six traffic checkpoints to look for signs of illegal drugs transported on city streets. Officers stopped cars, checked each drivers license and registration, looked for signs of drug...
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Seventh Grade Six Years
1,492 wordsSilence came in seventh grade. It was in seventh grade that I began the first of six years at a private school. In those six years I realized that it was not only I who had lost their voice; I was one among many who were denied the opportunity to speak. I distinctly remember the first time they betrayed me and informed me that my voice was invalid. A close friend of mine from elementary school wanted to attend and I was telling others about him- telling them how neat he was. The three people who...
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Law Enforcement Officers Driving While Black
1,501 wordsThe great era of civil rights started in the 1960 s, with Martin Luther King, Jr. s stirring I have a Dream speech at the historic march on Washington in August of 1963. At the same time Birmingham Police Commissioner Bull Connor used powerful fire hoses and vicious police attack dogs against nonviolent black civil rights activists. Although these years proved to be the highlight and downfall of civil rights in America, even with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act being pas...
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Told My Parents Stopped Talking Ancient
1,099 wordsMy name is Morgause, but you can call me Morgan. My family and I come from Egypt. An ancient land filled with mysteries and great ancient history of faro's, tombs and buried treasure. I love Egypt, and mostly I miss it a lot. Now I live in Germany. My parents wanted to move here and they wanted me to study German. They never ever told me why, all they said was that that was their wish and I shouldnt question it, and I didnt, even though I wanted to know so badly. My family was really close; we n...
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Short Term Memory H 2
1,036 wordsAttention is what enables people to process information about the world around us, and is constructed of channels. A channel is a single event or stream of information that enters a persons senses. A person can only attend to one channel at a time, filtering out all other sensory information. Someones attention to one channel can be disrupted by interference, which occurs when multiple items or events compete for our attention. Since people have limited resources, their attention suffers when th...
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World Trade Center Al Qaeda
3,393 words... knew three weeks before 9 - 11 that two hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who were involved in the bombing of the USS Cole in November 2000, were in the United States. Although their names were listed in a watchlist of potential terrorists, which contained names of people for which the entry to the US is forbidden because of their terrorist connections, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were not stopped at their entry into the US neither were they arrested later. Although the CIA knew t...
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Four Wheel Drive Set Up Camp
1,122 wordsBzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, I was awoken by the sound of my alarm clock next to my bed. I rolled over to check the time to see if I could close my eyes for a few more minutes. It was 4: 30 in the morning and it was time to get up and get ready to leave. I rolled out of bed only to find out that my friend was still asleep and snoring on my floor. I chucked my pillow at him and it hit him in the face. He immediately got up and I told him it was time to go. We tiptoed downstairs, being extremely careful so ...
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Racial Profiling In America
2,465 wordsRacial Profiling in America The contemporary understanding of the concept of race by scientists and other intellectuals is very vague. Nowadays it is argued that race is an artificial category, although there still exist attempts to classify people according to categories: for instance, such categories as class, race, and gender; these categories are proved to have no scientific basis. The term "race" is a modern concept that has adopted a whole new meaning, over the past few centuries, from the...
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Racial Profiling In America
2,321 wordsRacial Profiling in America The contemporary understanding of the concept of race by scientists and other intellectuals is very vague. Nowadays it is argued that race is an artificial category, although there still exist attempts to classify people according to categories: for instance, such categories as class, race, and gender; these categories are proved to have no scientific basis. The term "race" is a modern concept that has adopted a whole new meaning, over the past few centuries, from the...
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U S Economy Distribution Of Wealth
1,731 wordsCauses of the Great Depression In 1929 the stock market crashed, triggering the worst depression ever in U. S. history, which lasted for about a decade. During the 1920 s, the unequal distribution of wealth and the stock market speculation combined to create an unstable economy by the end of the decade. The unequal distribution of the wealth had several outlets. Money was distributed between industry and agriculture within the U. S. ; in social classes, between the rich and middle class; and las...
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U S Economy U S Goods
3,024 wordsThe Great Depression was the worst economic decline ever in U. S. history. It began in late 1929 and lasted about a decade. Throughout the 1920 s, many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; the main causes were the unequal distribution of wealth and extensive stock market speculation. Money was distributed unequally between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U. S. and Europe. This disproportion of wealth cre...
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Sexual Abuse Child Abuse
998 wordsChild Abuse: Saddest and Most Tragic Problem Today Child abuse is one of the saddest and most tragic problems in America today. Each year an estimated one to two million American children are being beaten, neglected, or sexually abused by their parents or guardians. Infants only a few days old as well as teenagers are subject to child abuse. There are four types of child abuse: physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse. Child abuse is a serious problem that plagues Amer...
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Franklin D Roosevelt U S Economy
4,155 wordsThe Great Depression was the worst economic decline ever in U. S. history. It began in late 1929 and lasted about a decade. Throughout the 1920? s, many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; the main causes were the unequal distribution of wealth and extensive stock market speculation. Money was distributed unequally between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U. S. and Europe. This disproportion of wealth cr...
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Seventh Grade Didnt Understand
1,488 wordsA Different Life Silence came in seventh grade. It was in seventh grade that I began the first of six years at a private school. In those six years I realized that it was not only I who had lost their voice; I was one among many who were denied the opportunity to speak. I distinctly remember the first time they betrayed me and informed me that my voice was invalid. A close friend of mine from elementary school wanted to attend and I was telling others about him- telling them how neat he was. The...
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Due To The Fact Genetic Engineering
1,168 wordsJust as the success of a corporate body in making money need not set the human condition ahead, neither does every scientific advance automatically make our lives more meaningful (Wald 45). These words were spoken by a Nobel Prize winning biologist and Harvard professor, George Wald, in a lecture given in 1976 on the Dangers of Genetic Engineering. This quotation states that incredible inventions, such as genetic engineering, are not always beneficial to society. Genetic engineering is altering ...
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Hockey League Sullivan George
3,469 wordsHockey is a Hockey Hockey Hockey is a great sport that is watched and played by many Americans. To play hockey there are many things that will be needed to survive. There are three basic parts of hockey that are needed to be learned to play this game. The first one is to learn the rules of hockey, the second is all the measurements of the game, and the third are the basics of how to play. First of all, the most important thing is to know how to play. There are many rules you have to know. Also, ...
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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Ban On Human Cloning
4,409 wordsJulie A. Hinson Human Cloning: Morally Unacceptable? When the President of the United States issued a ban on the cloning of a human being, many debates arose. Everyone has a different point of view on whether or not the ban is justified. Some experts believe that this ban is in the common good for the nation while others believe that banning such important research would be a travesty in the eyes of scientists. Each argument has its own valid points, but the ultimate decision for now has been ma...
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Mannlicher Carcano Rifle Lee Harvey Oswald
2,412 wordsIts one of the most controversial cases in modern American history. Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill John Kennedy by himself, or did a conspiracy do it? And if a conspiracy did it, did the conspiracy include Oswald, the CIA, or maybe even the Mafia? If you are like most Americans, you believe that a conspiracy killed Kennedy. And if you are like most Americans, you have mostly heard one side of the story. There were a lot of issues that were never really clarified. There were also a lot of contradicti...
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Gold Can Stay Mordecai Marcus
3,490 wordsAlfred R. Ferguson Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than " Nothing Gold Can Stay, " a poem in which the metaphors of Eden and the Fall cohere with the idea of felix culpa. Six versions of the poem exist, the first sent to George R. Elliott in March, 1920, in three eight-line stanzas under the title " Nothing Golden Stays. " In this version the poem lacked any Edenic metaphor...
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Board Of Education Magnet Schools
882 wordsShould Busing be used as a way of achieving integrated education? NO. After four decades of school integration America has given up, and the question is Why? I believe the answer is because absolutely nothing worked! Buying was a hassle, most magnet schools were set up for false reasons, and everything was very costly. With everything they tried there were still no significant changes in the test scores of the minority students. So now here we are in the late 21 st century and it can all be summ...
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