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- 13251: Halloween
- ... breaking the boundaries of social taboo by taking on a different persona, your true self. Also, Halloween is the best holiday of the year, because it was originally a wiccan holiday called samhain, the wiccan new year, or the festival of Baccuss, the god of wine and revelry. This holiday promoted celebration through drinking alcohol and happiness for the year ended. Drinking alcohol has also been known to bring people more ... helps people to realize their own mortality, and to experience the long dead adrenaline rush response that reminds modern humans of their links to primitive man, and the ties of their roots to the animal world. Halloween allows people to escape the stress of their every-day lives, it was originally a wiccan holiday, and the television stations play all the good horror movies. This is why Halloween is the best ...
- 13252: Christmas Is A Good Holiday For Many Reasons
- ... is a good holiday for many reasons. There are reasons that exist that make Christmas a bad holiday, but for the most part it is a wonderful time of year. Millions of people around the world will agree that Christmas is one of the most fun and exciting holidays. Christmas is a good holiday because students get a vacation from school, people get to exchange gifts with friends and family, and ... student has done well the first semester, he or she is sure to survive the second semester. Next, people get to exchange gifts with friends and family. Exchanging gifts is always fun because people receive new things. Who couldn't enjoy something that was given to them free. Also, people get to give gifts to their friends and family. Giving gifts always gives people that warm happy feeling inside. The most ...
- 13253: Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty
- ... the case may be appealed for a variety of reasons. The defendant's lawyer could claim that the defendant's rights were violated when he was arrested, that the defendant received an unfair trial, or new evidence that could prove the defendant's innocence has surfaced. (Guernsey,16) Next the appeal is taken to the Intermediate Appellate Courts (state) or the US Courts of Appeals (federal) who will decide if the ... and forbidden nearly everywhere. Currently the only accepted means of execution are: electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad and lethal injection. (Bedau1) The firing squad is only used it Utah upon request. (Guernsey, 54) Montana, New Hampshire and Washington are the only states that allow hangings. (55) The electric chair was introduced in New York in 1890 and is now used in 24 states. (Bedau2) The criminal is seated in a chair. Electrodes are attached to the head and a leg. Pulses of 2000 volts are sent through ...
- 13254: All Drugs Should Be Legal, Or How To End The Drug War
- ... tactics for 80 years. A change has to be made. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Isn’t trying for legalization desperate, and aren’t these desperate times. CITATION PAGE Lewis, Anthony. "Prohibition Folly." The New York Times 12 February 1996: A15. Wren, Christopher S. "Leading Conservative Voice…" The New York Times 22 January 1996: A13. Neier, Aryen. Letter. The New York Times 10 January 1995: A18. Ehrenfeld, Rachel. "Selling Syringes: The Swiss Experiment." The Wall Street Journal 10 September 1995: A18.
- 13255: Orson Welles
- ... Welles’ characters reflected his own personality and inspired others to write about human struggles, both good and bad. An innovative, dynamic individual, Welles spent his entire life experimenting with different mediums and bringing to the world his vision of man’s never ending struggle to conquer his own inner demons. Welles was a man whose life was one of paradox. His films reflected his inner conflicts and his attempt to assuage ... there is a famous hall-of-mirrors shoot-out where the villain and the hero exchange gun fire and the audience is unsure of what is going on. The scene is famous because Welles utilizes new camera techniques that bewilder the viewer with extravagant movements. Throughout his career, Welles employs clever editing that shifts from one character to another and uses light and darkness to extenuate the action. His movies, like ...
- 13256: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment The United States is one of the few countries left in the world to practice the savage and immoral punishment of death. Retentionists argue that the consequence of death prevents persons from committing the heinous crime of murder. It is proven that the death penalty does not deter ... International). In many cases “ a reprieve or commutation arrived just hours, or even minutes before the scheduled execution” (Amnesty International). Those wrongful convictions have occurred in almost every jurisdiction in the nation. Furthermore, despite the new death penalty statues approved by the Supreme Court, the numbers of the wrongfully accused have yet to decline. Unfortunately, the innocent persons convicted of crimes they did not commit are not always saved from execution ...
- 13257: Capital Punishment
- ... thousand people on death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow."(Frame 51) During the Late 1700’s and through the mid 1800’s King Louis XVI used the guillotine as a new way of Capital Punishment. He looked at the guillotine as a way to get rid of people who committed crimes of stealing, murder, and even those who went against his ideas. The way the guillotine ... eye" anti-human caves of religion- another factor that should raise immediate misgivings for freethinkers." The Guillotine was named after Dr. Joseph-Ignance Guillotine. He didn't invent it, but he helped it become the new way for the death penalty. This method was supposed to be the best because the people were said to feel nothing at all. Many people thought of the executions as a circus and would attend ... and save ourselves time and money. Richard Warsnop stated," the truth is that the cost of state killing is up to three times the cost of lifetime imprisonment." Juveniles are subject to the death penalty. New laws state that juveniles are subject to the death penalty if the crime they have committed is great enough. Innocent people can-and have been-executed. According to a 1987 study, 23 people who ...
- 13258: The Death Penalty for Justice and Safety
- The Death Penalty for Justice and Safety Jonathan was just 13. The pictures of him show a freckle-faced, eager scamp, maybe getting new sneakers for Christmas, rushing to grow up, hungry for life, hungry to get on with things. I imagine he was the kind of kid who’d pull a prank and then run for it, or ... spent staring up and being brutally violated for someone’s lust. And when his human dignity was gone, his innocence sullied, he felt something sharp plunge into his chest. Gasping, thrashing, his life in this world about to end, he must have twisted frantically, like a trapped dog being smothered. Struggling, panic then darkness, and finally only a limp child’s body, no longer worth the pleasure, thrown into a drainage ...
- 13259: Capital Punishment and Issues
- ... burning alive, crushing, tearing asunder, stoning, and drowning are examples. In the U.S., the death penalty is currently authorized in one of five ways: hanging (the traditional method of execution throughout the English-speaking world), electrocution (introduced by New York State in 1890), the gas chamber (adopted in Nevada in 1923), firing squad (used only in Utah), or lethal injection (introduced in 1977 by Oklahoma). In most nations that still retain the death penalty ...
- 13260: Graduated Driver's License Controversy
- ... peer pressure can cause people to drink and drive, it should be able to prevent it too” (Teenage Drunk Driving). The officials then decided to use Graduated Drivers Licenses. Graduated licenses are a trial for new drivers. This is when new drivers have a curfew. They must have a driver over the age of 21 with them at all times and have every passenger wearing their seat belt. Sometimes, the 90 days consecutively after they had ... Then teens can apply for an operator’s license with full privileges upon turning 18. However, they cannot have two reportable accidents or two traffic violations or one of each in the last 12 months (New manuals, tests and laws). It is believed that with this system, teens will be given an incentive to be violation free. After this change, the states with Graduated Driver’s License laws had a ...
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