Death Penalty - Herrera Vs Col
.... of Americans in favor of the death penalty increased steadily, culminating in an 80% approval rating in 1994. Since 1994, support for the death penalty has again declined. Today, 66% of Americans support the death penalty in theory. However, public support for the death penalty drops to around 50 % when voters are offered the alternative of life without parole. (See also, DPIC's report, Sentencing for Life: American's Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penatly)
Religion
In the 1970s, the Na .....
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Delinquints
.... have been the focus of several delinquency studies. An early study comparing delinquent and nondelinquent brothers showed that over 90 % of the delinquents had unhappy home lives and felt discontented with their life circumstances. Only 13 % of their brothers felt this way. Whatever the nature of the delinquents' unhappiness, delinquency appeared to them to be a solution. It brought attention to youths neglected by their parents, or approval by delinquent friends, or it solved problems of an unhappy .....
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Democracy
.... same. Imagine bureaucracy as a great fast-moving train; even if another engineer takes control, it is incredibly hard to make any large adjustments without severely unstabilizing the train. Similarly, it wouldn't matter if any political party is in power, because any fundamental change would upset a lot of people (one of the unwritten laws of politics: to make a drastic change is to invite political suicide). In the case of a philosopher-king, a lot more could be done because he would have the power of a .....
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Democracy History
.... should also be participation by all citizens in the responsibilities of government by voting in elections. The American Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal." This does not mean that all people are equal in every respect. It only asserts that all individuals are equally human. This being true, all people have the same natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In a real democracy these truths--common humanity and natural rights--are recognized. In additi .....
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Desensitized America
.... response more than “well, I don’t exactly remember, but there is always a bombing somewhere, so I am not surprised.” I think that the majority of American society, and many other countries in the world can claim a great number of violence and deaths, but lately these instances of horror take place in more and more schools, and involve children of much younger ages. If an outsider peered in, I could only hope that they would be disgusted at what they saw. Sometimes we miss the article in the paper as we fl .....
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Does God Exist
.... cause--God. This argument assumes that a first cause is needed
to explain the existence of anything. Aquinas also assumes this first cause to
be God. How can anyone rationally conclude that there is a God from the
simple statement that a first cause is necessary? Therefore, a first cause does
not prove God, it only assumes that there is a God, at best. Could one not
put matter in the place of God in Aquinas' argument and still assume there is
a first efficient cause? The theory that matter "is", is .....
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Domestic Violence
.... Men have always been physically larger than women and since most
societies are male dominated, too no surprise the woman has almost always been the most
common victim. In Roman times, a man was allowed to divorce, chastise, or even kill his wife
for adultery, attending public games, or public drunkenness. All of which the husband was
allowed to freely partake in. During the middle ages it was mans right to beat his wife or kill her
for so much as giving her husband a dirty look. The .....
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Does The Mass Media Cause Unde
.... to promote their ratings and popularity. One way to do that is to concentrate on what sells: sex, violence and disaster.
Having said this, why is it then, that many in society still believe otherwise; why do they continue to believe that pornography is “evil” and is a major cause for violence against women, specifically rape? There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has very little to almost no correlati .....
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Drinking And Driving Offences
.... for "Refusing" will count as a second conviction, not a first, and will receive the stiffer penalty for second offences. For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you can make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs is one of the offences. Evidence of your condition can be used to convict you. This can include evidence of your general conduct, speech, ability to walk a straight line or pick up objects. The penalty of the first offences is a fine .....
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Drugs And Teenagers
.... was only on weekends, at parties. I used drugs 'recreationally' and therefore thought I had no addiction problem. I used drugs like nicotine, marijuana or LSD to be happy or to have fun. I needed drugs. I kept using drugs; I used drugs like marijuana to fit socially. I had problems in my life, emotionally, that drugs only seemed to solve. Drugs made my problems worse. I started snorting cocaine. I injected heroin into my veins. I almost died. I was addicted"
In today's highs schools the availability a .....
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Drugs Debate
.... constricting drugs is actually necessary for providing liberty to citizens. It is generally the case that in retrospect, a previous user of a mind constricting drug, when sober, or even in some cases, when high, regrets consuming the drug. The opening quote of this essay describes William Burroughs' view on opiates and he was in fact using them at the time when the passage was written. It is evident in his words that he realizes the immoral outcomes of using opiates and the "sickness" which it produces. Mo .....
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Drug Education
.... study concluded that DARE students were more likely to use drugs than students without the education.
Many tax payers demand to see what impact their money is having on substance abuse. The SMART program conducts many tests to show how effective or ineffective the use of drug and alcohol prevention or education programs really are. SMART has come to a conclusion that there is a “Null Hypothesis”, which means that X education programs has no significant effect in bringing substance abusers into l .....
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Drug Legalization
.... took away one of America’s most prized possessions (516). It is brilliant for the ideas of Prohibition to be resurrected by Hamill in this instance. Since drugs are constantly in demand, Hamill believes, as do others, that prohibiting the use of illegal narcotics today poses the same problem that banning the use of alcohol did in the 1920’s (516). Lastly, Hamill’s proposal for legalization gives a reasonable amount of hope for his plan to succeed. The author’s plan calls for a ten year experiment in .....
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Education In America
.... medical field is where group consensus originated. Doctors found that having an opinion of a legion of doctors as opposed too just having the opinion of one doctor is more beneficial to the patient. The same has expanded into the business sector. Businesses encourage and often require meetings or group sessions to discuss various topics. In these meetings many ideas or viewpoints related to a common topic are laid on the table. These topics are then evaluated, reviewed, contemplated, and then put into ef .....
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Environmental Law
.... In order to begin destruction of the property and begin rebuilding the site the Nollans had to secure a permit from the California Coastal Commission. Upon submitting the permit application, the CCC found that the permit should be granted on the condition that the Nollans provide public access to the beach and to the local county park, which lay adjacent to the property. This provision called for the Nollans to use a portion of their land to be used as a public walkway to the beach and park. The Nolla .....
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