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Law Enforcement Officials Convicted Sex Offenders
550 wordsMegan's Law has had a profound effect on not only convicted sex offenders and prosecutors, but also on the community including real estate brokers and apartment owners. Megan's Law is a collection of statutes that were passed in 1994 in response to the death of Megan Kansas, who was killed by a convicted sex offender who lived across the street from her home. Two of the laws are collectively known as the Registration and Community Notification Law (RCNL) and are composed of the: 1. Registration ...
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Existence Of God Concept Of God
1,619 wordsThe cosmological argument was first introduced by Aristotle and later refined in western Europe by the celebrated Christian theologian, Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274 CE). In the Islamic tradition, it was adopted by Al-Kindi, and Ibn Rush (Averroes). The argument has several forms, the basic first-cause argument runs as follows. Every event must have a cause, and each cause must in turn have its own cause, and so forth. Hence, there must either be an infinite regress of causes or there must be a starti...
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Unfair Advantage Counter Argument
1,524 wordsChivalry is the most significant concept throughout history. Chivalry, in its formal code, came to exist in the Middle Ages around the 12 th century. It is not clear as to whether the Romans, the Franks, or the Germans gave rise to chivalry, but each culture brought the seeds of conduct with them. The formal code was based on knightly conduct, with special emphasis on the courtly manners towards women. Chivalry was such an important aspect of morality that the church became heavily involved. The...
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Computer Programs Basic Skills
532 wordsIn Attacking Faulty Reasoning, T. Edward Date defines an argument as a group of statements, one or more of which (the premises) support or provide evidence for another (the conclusion). The premises of an argument are those statements that together constitute the grounds for affirming the conclusion. To more clearly understand the argument given in the news release from the Normaltown paper, it should be placed in an easier to read form, consisting of just the premises and conclusions. The Norma...
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Trench Coat English Philosopher
1,447 words"Everything you know about the Littleton killings is wrong. But the truth may be scarier than the myths" (Cullen 1999, p. 1). This is the title of an article that claims that "what was reported last spring about the motives and methods of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was untrue" (Cullen 1999, p. 1). The question that arises from this claim, is how can that be so? How can the "most notorious events from the shooting spree - reported over and over in news reports, on TV chat shows and now...
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King Of France George Orwell
459 wordsIn this paper I shall set out to describe, according to Bertrand Russell the logical form of two inferences, I shall also speak about their validity. The inferences are: Sam ate the sandwich so someone ate the sandwich; Sam believes George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, Eric Blair is George Orwell so Sam believes Eric Blair wrote Animal Farm. In between I shall speak about why Russell views proper names as disguised descriptions. The logical form of the first inference Sam ate the sandwich so someone...
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Abortion Is Murder Moral Community
1,300 wordsAbortion can be defined as the deliberate causing of the death of a fetus, either by directly killing it or by causing its expulsion from the womb before it is "viable. " With "the killing of an innocent human being without his / her consent is murder" and "abortion is the killing of an innocent human being without his / her consent" are premises to an argument with a conclusion of "Abortion is murder. " Lets break down the first premise. This premise is correct by saying that it is not right to...
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God Does Not Exist Exist In Reality
1,305 wordsSaint Anselm's ontological argument seeks to provide an a priori proof (proposition which can be known or justified independent of experience) of God's existence. However, Gaunilo, a contemporary of Anselm and a fellow Catholic, argued that Anselm's ontological argument is invalid, because an argument of the same form could have true premises and a false conclusion therefore, he introduced perfect island argument which is perfectly parallel to ontological argument. In this paper, I will discuss ...
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Regulation And Importance Of Indoor Air Quality Control
1,745 words... does with the ministry in 1998 - 99. That number doubled to 52 in the following year and has risen to 106 in 2000 - 01. The number of work refusals has jumped from two in 1998 - 99 to 10 today. (Sahai, 2001) Sufferers exposed to mould have complained about physical symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, difficulty concentrating, sinus congestion, cough, sneezing, skin irritation, dizziness, headaches, nausea, and eye, nose, and throat irritation. These symptoms are intensified and mo...
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Economic Implications Of Arctic Oil Drilling
1,893 wordsFor more than a decade, debate over drilling for oil on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [ANWR] has continued unabated. " This is the opening line of the introduction to the commonly encountered ethical paradox of economic interests versus moral interests. This paradox is steadfastly centered through the debate of oil drilling on the Coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The debate is considered and argued by diverse and infinitely intertwined societal org...
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La Bianca Living Room
1,278 wordsThe Homicides On the following day, August 9, Mrs. Chapman returned to the Cielo Drive residence and discovered a ghastly scene. The police were summoned and on investigation located five victims of a brutal homicide. Just inside the entrance to the residence and near the entry gate they located a Rambler automobile. Inside of the vehicle they found the body of Steve Parent. The bodies of Frykowski and Folger were on the front lawn. In the living room, connected by a piece of rope, police locate...
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Psychological Egoism Give Money
1,135 wordsPsychological Egoism is a descriptive theory about human motivation that we actually only ever look out for our own interests (Baillie). Therefore, human are selfish in every act they do; and there is no such thing as altruism, concern for others (Rachel's 70). For example, an egoist will say that Mother Theresa is helping the poor because she wants to get the worlds attention or such. However is that what she really wants? Many people appreciate this theory due to its simplicity. However, I bel...
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Pleasure And Pain Strong Feelings
1,184 words... n why knowledge and behavior sometimes conflict does not concern the knowing process but rather the conditions under which knowledge is achieved. Individuals may possess knowledge. But they also may be "asleep or mad or drunk. " These states are characterized by the presence of strong feelings, feelings not unlike "emotions" and "sexual appetites. " Such feelings, Aristotle tells us, "clearly both disturb knowledge and the body as well. " 12 It is this second state of affairs which for Arist...
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Controlled Substance Criminal Activity
502 wordsIn consideration of the execution or renewal of a lease of the dwelling unit identified in the lease, Owner and Resident agree as follows: 1. Resident, any members of the resident's household or a guest or other person under the resident's control shall not engage in criminal activity, including drug-related criminal activity, on or near the said premises. "drug-criminal activity" means the illegal manufacture, sale, distribution, use, or possession with intent to manufacture, sell, distribute, ...
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U S Government Legal Definition
1,915 wordsPersonal Legal Perspectives What are the differences among lost, misplaced, and abandoned property? Abandoned property is possession intentionally disposed of or else voluntary relinquishment of property. Abandoned property goes to finder. Lost property is possession unintentionally left by its proprietor or involuntarily parting where owner had no intent to part with it and doesnt know where it is. The finder of lost property holds it as a bailee, in trust for the benefit of the true owner. Mis...
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Annotated Bibliography Capitalist Economy
2,159 wordsLocke Karl Marx, a German author, and John Locke, a British educator, are both very well known philosophers. Both have written essays on the ideal government: Marx created Marxism and Locke defined democracy. Both forms of government have been tried throughout the course of time. Both, however, came from two different types of men, from two different periods in history, and in reaction to two different types of government. Though Marx and Locke would have agreed that power would be given to the ...
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Feet Tall First Premise
978 wordsQuestion # 1 - Evaluate the following argument for validity and soundness: 1. There are no sure signs by means of which my being awake can be distinguished from my dreaming. 2. If there are no such signs, then I don t know that I m not dreaming. 3. So, I don t know that I m not dreaming. To check the argument for validity it must be made sure that the first two premises reasonably lead to the conclusion that I don t know that I m not dreaming. We are not dealing with whether the three statements...
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Clear And Distinct Level Of Reality
1,379 wordsIn Descartes? Meditations on First Philosophy, he offers two main arguments from which he concludes the existence of God. In the Third Meditation, Descartes proposes his metaphysical argument, which states that God must exist, because his real existence is the only cause, which could have produced Descartes? own idea of God. In the Fifth Meditation, Descartes contends that existence is contained in God? s essence, so a non-existent God is by definition, a contradiction. This paper will analyze t...
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Digital Subscriber Line Telephone Companies
1,306 wordsWith the continuous demand for better and faster Internet performance, service providers have flooded the market with numerous high-speed Internet products. Consumers are faced with the decision to remain with the slow speed of dial-ups and modems or move up to one of the high-speed products. One such product is the Digital Subscriber Line, better known as DSL. There are several variations of DSL, but we will be focusing on ADSL, G. Lite, and VDSL. DSL is a technology for bringing high-bandwidth...
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Moral Obligation Free Speech
1,299 wordsPhilosophy Ethical Theories Topic 1 An argument can be made that Major League Baseball s decision to suspend John Rocker from baseball due to his expressing bigoted views in a magazine interview is not right. This argument states that free speech is an important moral value, and since John Rocker has the right to free speech, suspending him for expressing his bigoted views violates the spirit of free speech. Therefore, his suspension was uncalled for because all he was doing was expressing one o...
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