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- 1231: The Pros And Cons About Legalizing Marijuana
- ... get confused about. The one thing that pro-marijuana groups agree upon is that "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man" (Marijuana As Medicine). Marijuana and Crime Another issue considered by the mass media is whether marijuana has an effect on crime or not. As written in the "Anti-Legalization Forum," the D.E.A. believes that drug use contributes to crime and violence. Many police officers say that criminal activity is not caused by dealers, but by those that are under the influence of the drug. A study showed that among males (18-49 years ...
- 1232: Secrets In Scarlet Letter
- ... hidden inside it can engulf and even destroy a person. Arthur Dimmesdale, a revered young minister in the town, demonstrates what happens to the soul. Dimmesdale, as it is later made known, commits the serious crime of adultery with a young married woman named Hester Prynne living in the Plymouth Colony. Because of Hester s unwillingness to reveal her partner in sin, and Dimmesdale s fear of persecution and most of ... reverend s personal physician. When Chillingsworth uncovers Dimmesdale s shirt while he is sleeping, he finds an A scourged on his chest, similar to the one worn on Hester s bosom in penance for her crime of adultery. Hawthorne portrays him closely to Satan as he stares at the wound in great joy. Had a man seen old Roger Chillingsworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had no ... for long. The townsfolk know at the first signs of pregnancy that she has committed adultery because her husband traveled overseas for several years without return. During this time period, adultery is considered a serious crime, punishable by death. Due to the fact that her husband is presumed to be deceased, she is lightly sentenced. One of her punishments is to wear an embroidered A on her bosom to eternally ...
- 1233: Global Positioning Systems
- ... em up and we're in business. Of course, if your el cheapo K-Mart GPS receiver had a cesium clock, it'd cost about $200,000 and be about the size of a desktop computer. The way around that was to develop internal receiver clocks that are consistently accurate over relatively short periods of time, as long as they're reset often enough to keep them synched. Here's how ... a GPS satellite spreads a very low power signal over a large area. It's so low-powered that it's completely hidden in the RF background hash of cosmic rays, car ignitions, neon lighting, computer drive fuzz and so forth. That's where random code comes in. The receiver starts generating its own code and listening for matches in the background noise. Once it has enough matches to recognize the ... next passing satellite. BITS, BITS, BITS Of course, all this data I've described here has to find its way through 10,900 miles of space and atmospheric clutter and into your GPS receiver's computer memory. This is another one of the GPS's elegant design features. Remember how we explained that a communication satellite uses a relatively high powered, directional signal? Such a signal allows for a rather ...
- 1234: Modern Torture
- ... to stop the use of illegal torture there is a need for a central and international coalition with a centralized agreement on the correct and humane that can investigate and punish countries that commit this crime. A Judicial process through an international criminal court can punish the officer’s, doctors or politicians that allow and commit these crimes to be committed within their countries borders. Torture isn’t a tool of ... and identify symptoms on victims. Also, science and medicine taking such a large role in the complexity of modern torture will have very strong punishments for those doctors or scientist that actively participate in the crime. Some of these guidelines will include: — The Doctor or scientist shall not participate in the practice of torture or cruel, and inhuman procedures. — No Doctor or Scientist shall provide any instruments or utensils, substances or ... and Suggestions Due to the fact that torture occurs in so many countries regardless of size, economic welfare or governmental ideology, a serious of changes must be made in order to eradicate this international widespread crime. Current domestic laws in many countries not only help the offenders and torturers it also protects them from prosecution both nationally and internationally. The tortured victims therefore find themselves cut off from any help ...
- 1235: To Kill A Mockingbird Essay-ev
- ... that Mr. Ewell never called a doctor after learning of Mayella s injuries. Following the incident, there had not been any physical examination performed by a certified physician. If indeed Mr. Robinson had committed the crime, Mr. Ewell s first instinct would have been to get his daughter checked out. Upon finding his daughter assaulted , he would have wanted to have her injuries treated including the injury that might been caused ... important then a hard-working black man whose one arm is withered, simply because she is white and he is black. It was clearly shown that Tom Robinson was physically incapable of performing this horrendous crime. If Tom Robinson did commit the crime, then Mr. Ewell should have called a doctor. Mr. Tom Robinson was an honorable person whose only crime was feeling sorry for a lonely white woman. Tom Robinson was clearly innocent!
- 1236: MP3 Audio
- ... concerts. When the MP3 standard was first developed, it was solely used on computers. One could download the music, but then be stuck listening to it only there. Then Diamond, a well-known manufacturer of computer multimedia devices, invented the Rio. The Rio was a small MP3 player much like a Walkman. The device connected to a computer and the MP3s were transferred to it. This allowed the MP3s to be taken away from the computer and on the road for the first time. The worst part of MP3s is the fact that it is very easy to use them for bad instead of good. Many users do pirate the ...
- 1237: Gun Control
- ... the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a hand gun, the introduction of legislation for gun control, to try to reduce the crime in the United States, has been a hotly debated issue in recent years. Although many people feel that gun control violates the right of the people, given in the second amendment "the right to bear ... an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of social issues such as crime and drugs. Guns have become closely linked to drugs and murder in the public mind. Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have escalated the warfare in cities between long established loosely knit gangs. Predominantly ...
- 1238: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This decline creates a situation in which the death penalty ceases to be a deterrent when the populace begins to think that one can get away with a crime and go unpunished. Also, the less that the death sentence is used, the more it becomes unusual, thus coming in conflict with the eighth amendment. This is essentially a paradox, in which the less the death penalty is used, the less society can legally use it. The end result is a punishment that ceases to deter any crime at all. The key part of the death penalty is that it involves death -- something which is rather permanent for humans, due to the concept of mortality. This creates a major problem when “…there continue ... hour, there is not much incentive for a lawyer to spend a great deal of time representing a capital defendant. When you compare this to the prosecution, “…aided by the police, other law enforcement agencies, crime labs, state mental hospitals, various other scientific resources, prosecutors …experienced in successfully handling capital cases, compulsory process, and grand juries…”(Tabak 37), the defense that the court appointed counsel can offer is puny. If, ...
- 1239: Microsoft The Company
- ... BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction) programming with, then sophomore, Paul Allen. By 1973, Gates was a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen had enrolled at the University of Washington, where he studied computer science. Gates left Harvard after just two years of education, and planed on programming for many personal computers. He and Allen later founded the Microsoft company --a name which Gates had picked -- in 1975 (Cusumano ... on July 29,1998, a judge ordered Microsoft to hand over the "blueprints" for Windows 95 to Caldera, a company against Microsoft in antitrust violations. The judge believes this would help competition in the "unfair" computer market (lawsuit 1). The market is heavily controlled by Microsoft, but the customers are the ones who choose the company to begin with. Microsoft is also doing much more research than many of its competitors ... and Selby iv). Beginning with BASIC, moving into one of Microsoft's most popular programs MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), and going through many steps before getting to Windows, Microsoft has totally dominated the computer industry. Every product Microsoft comes out with has been a success, primarily due to the amount of money in research the company puts in. Microsoft has just been trying to make the most efficient ...
- 1240: “To legalize or Not to Legalize”
- ... the tax rate quite high to pay for the welfare and treatment. With the higher tax rate, it would mean a higher rate on drugs themselves which would then result in the addicts turning to crime to pay for their addiction. Some say that the illegality of drugs though causes more crime because people have to go through much more to get what they think they need. Crime goes both ways, no matter what happens crime will still be a factor in the legalization and illegalization of drugs. (Against the Legalization of Drugs - pages 362-364) If drugs are legalized, many think ...
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