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- 2721: The Seat Belt Law
- ... including myself. My dad always taught me to assume the other person will do something wrong. Therefore, I always wear my seatbelt. Within the past few years, the talk about seatbelt violations has been a big controversy. A new legislation is tightening down on seatbelt laws. In Michigan and many other states, under the current law of 1986, police may ticket those people who are not wearing a seatbelt if, and ...
- 2722: Marijuana
- ... at 13 and quickly graduating to blunts, cheap hollowed out cigars filled with the powerful grass. "Pot isn't considered as harmful as other drugs" he says. "It's thought of like alcohol, not a big deal. Everybody smokes, deadheads, geeks, even the GQ's. It can't kill you." Marijuana is getting more and more popular with a younger crowd. Marijuana is on a constant rise in America, but can ...
- 2723: The Mafia and Street Gangs
- ... bootlegging. Every large city, including Pittsburgh, soon had its own Mafia chapters. Prohibition, which was a legal ban on the manufacturer and sale of intoxicating drinks, generated a wave of illegal activity since there was big money to be made. (Omerta?) Stefano Monestero founded the Pittsburgh faction of La Cosa Nostra in 1926. He was successful in the usual mob rackets like protection, money, gambling, and bootlegging. (Exactly What Is The ...
- 2724: Asian Organized Crime
- ... grandchild-families. A typical family has between 20-200 members, therefore the whole family group may number in the thousands. Sometimes, a strong child has his own children, consisting his own new family. For example: Big Father | +-----------+------------+ | | | child child child / Small Father | +----+----------+ | | child child A Lone Yakuza has no family in which he belongs to. He has no companions to help him. Because the Yakuza is an organized business, going alone ...
- 2725: Prohibition
- ... In 1874, a group of Protestant women established the Womens Christian Temperance Union(WCTU). Drys organized the Anti-Saloon League.() These supporters of temperance werent just averages middle class citizens. Many drys were big business men and popular politicians. Henry Ford was a very large member of the move for prohibition. Mr. Fords theory was that if the American citizens spent their money on liquor that they couldn ...
- 2726: Capital Punishment: Right or Wrong?
- ... Amnesty, pg. 2 ) ( Waldon, pg. 1 ) ( Amnesty, pg. 3 ) Capital punishment is not a good method of dealing with killers. One reasom why the death penalty should not be used is money. There is a big misconception that it costs less to kill a person than to keep him in jail. In reality, it costs more. People are told that it costs more to keep a killer in jail, but what ...
- 2727: The Death Penalty
- ... time passes by he can be released. The government will not have made the mistake of killing an innocent man. Another reason for why the death penalty should be abolished is because racism is too big a part in deciding capitol punishment. A bigger percent of the black population is put on death row than white people. There is no way to completely get rid of racism in the courtroom because ...
- 2728: Censorship In The United States
- Censorship In The United States Censorship within these United States is not only an immoral and big-brotherly practice, but also an insult to all of those who call themselves US citizens. Every day censors everywhere try to sanitize TV, radio, print, and even the Internet. They deem what should and should ...
- 2729: Teen Homicide
- ... in Saturdays, newspaper it talks about a liquor store catered to Bergen teens. What happens when the store does not give the teen liquor anymore? The teenager goes in the store to rob it and bang an accident happens, the whole incident goes in as a homicide. Who is to blame? Why did it have to happen? Many of the teenage homicides happen because of accidents, drugs, and stress. When a ...
- 2730: Thesis: More should be done to reform the United States Prison System
- ... breaks the law, I think he should be punished, not coddled. Violent criminals should do hard time. That means instead of lifting weights, prisoners should be given a hammer and chisel and forced to break big rocks into little rocks." (Van, 1) In addition to these problems of frivolous lawsuits and unnecessary comforts, there is also the issue of the early release of prisoners. Many prisoners are being paroled because of ...
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