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- 4461: Make Drugs Legal
- ... Legal Drugs are a major influential force in our country today. The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control it or even solve it. Ending the drug war seems to be impossible. We want to believe the war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is not true. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't recieved a chance but should be given one. Although ...
- 4462: The Paparazzi And The Legislat
- ... to stop the most aggressive of the paparazzi but many take away from the first Amendment, freedom of speech. Sen. Feinstein s bill, S.2103, differs from the House bills because it also provides for civil actions against members of the press for use of high-powered lenses, microphones, or helicopters used to trespass for commercial purposes. This provision attempts to supplement existing laws of trespass, creating a new legal cause ... also seek injunctive and declamatory relief (Quill, 21). All three paparazzi bills-H. R. 2448 and 3224 in the House, and S. 2103 in the Senate-would, in their own way, create new criminal and civil penalties for commercially motivated invasions of privacy that result from persistent chases or other invasive methods used by photographers, videographers and audio recorders (Quill, 27). Actors Brad Pitt and then girlfriend Gwyenth Paltrow were caught ...
- 4463: Family A Tough Bond To Break
- ... together. Odysseus, Telemacus, and Penelope all suffer hardships trying to keep the tight bond their family has, as close as possible. Odysseus is determined he will return to his wife and newborn son after the war of Troy was won. Many trials and tribulations are presented to Odysseus on his journey home. Polyphemus, the Cyclops, tries to detain the hero from returning to his home of Ithaca. Poseidon’s son failed ... his father and once again unite his family. Like Telemacus, Penelope feels that the suitors need to let her alone. She does not want to believe that her hero-husband had been killed fighting a war in Troy. She believes that he is on his way home to her and her princely son. This is the reason she never remarries. Penelope uses her cunning to prevent a marriage that she does ...
- 4464: The Pros And Cons About Legalizing Marijuana
- ... easily convinced to support the movement. Simply not enough evidence proves that marijuana can be used medically (Claim V). Unlike the D.E.A., lobbying groups such as the Cannabis Action Network and the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, believe that marijuana is a beneficial herb, and not a harmful drug (ICLU). Alternative media sources, such as "Marijuana As Medicine," state that marijuana can be used as medicine for: nausea, appetite stimulation ... Fuel, Fiber & Medicine, The Economy and the Environment. Lacrosse, Florida: 1989: 1-3, 5-8, 15, 80, 86-89. Gettman, John. "Marijuana & the Brain." High Times March 1995: 33-36. Hager, Paul. "Marijuana Myths." Indiana Civil Liberties Union Drug Task Force. Online. Netscape 9 Feb 1997. Hilts, Philip J. "Relative Addictiveness of Drugs." New York Times 2 Aug 1994, sec. 3:3+. "Now Research Indicates Marijuana is a Stimulant." Medical Post ...
- 4465: Book Review On Theodore Draper’s A Struggle For Power: The A
- ... A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution was published by Vintage Books in 1996. In his novel, Draper heavily relies on primary resources to show us the complexities of policy and personality that led to war. He makes a persuasive case that the American Revolution was principally typical struggle for power. Draper’s approach assists us to better comprehend the inconsistency of loyalties in people such as Benjamin Franklin, who was ... struggle generated by the British system of chartering colonies, which placed monetary control of public funds with the colonial assemblies. Thus, he focuses on actions of both sides from then until the beginning of the War. He argues that the British dependence of American trade and the Colonies’ phenomenal population growth only intensified Americans’ desire to control their own destiny. Draper, widely recognized as one of the most important historians, makes ...
- 4466: Illegal Drugs
- ... on drugs at the time of the crime. *More than 40% of youth in prison used drugs befor the age of 12. Armed patrols Search and destroy missions and helicopter surveillance. Sounds like americans at war, well this goes on every day on our own home soil and the battle fields are our national parks and forests and the enemy is marijuana. Marijuana is the most common used illegal drug in ... Control Act. this new act created five catagoriess of different drugs depending on how dangerous they were. It also made drug laws tougher than they were in the past. In 1981 the U.S. declared war on drugs, Congress passed more acts to toughen federal anti-drug laws. But new laws and tougher penalties were not enough to stop drug trade. In fact they didn't realy do anything while all ...
- 4467: Ariel By Sylvia Plath
- ... box car on her way to a concentration camp. She identifies with all the wounded and dead: "The tent of unending cries" (Plath 248). "What gives the speaker this solemn sympathy with the casualties of war is her female body. She knows these atrocities as a part of her very being, her genesis" (Bundtzen 249): There is mud on my feet Thick, red and slipping. It is Adam's side, This ... emerges superior, whereas in "Ariel" the genders do not matter for poetry does not have "a sexual prerogative" (Bundtzen 255). In "Getting There" and "Cut," there are no images of carnage, nor is there a war motif, rather just the shedding of "Dead hands, dead stringencies, " things that prevented her transformation. The Ariel poems "do seem to leave no way out" except another transformation and that is perhaps what Plath thought ...
- 4468: The Threat of Death
- The Threat of Death As the war on crime continues, two truths hold steady: eliminating all crime is impossible, and controlling it is a must. The main weapon used to control crime in this war is deterrence. The government's deterrent for committing murder is the death penalty. The fear of death will not deter every person who contemplates murder from doing it. Whether it is for religious reasons and ...
- 4469: Handgun Control in the United States
- ... this violence be broken? Certainly a federal law making handguns ill-egal would sharply decrease the number of guns sold and make their street price much higher, though, like Prohibition in the 1920s or the war against drugs in the 1980s, it might be very ex-pensive to enforce. But with 60 million handguns already in private hands, even an effective ban on guns might not be enough. One intriguing possibility ... turned in. A similar program today could help get illegally owned guns off the street, especially if combined with national gun control ( Mandel 85). It is growingly hard for law enforcement officers to fight a war on the streets against gang members and drug dealers who possesses more firepower than that of the officers. This can all be stopped if Congress would face up to the National Rifle Association and pass ...
- 4470: The Giver
- ... can be broken or else whoever broke it is punished or released. Only the reciever knows anything about the past. They get all the memories from the previous reciever. They are memories of things like war, love, starvation, climate, and lots of other good and bad things. Another bad thing is that they can’t love anyone. Their spouses are picked for them and they consider the word “love” improper English ... life is really like. Once the Giver showed Jonas the memory, the memory the Giver has is gone. When Jonas started his training, he started with pleasant memories but later saw what could happen in war time and the feeling of extreme pain. The receiver before Jonas got scared and tried to run away from the town to Elsewhere. The memories she received became lost in the town. The community has ...
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