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- 1251: Case for Legalizing Marijuana What
- ... affluent individuals tend to move from marijuana to more potent hallucinogens such as LSD. There is no established medical use for marijuana or any other cannabis preparation. In the United States, its use is a crime and the laws governing marijuana are similar to those regulating heroin. Many authorities now urge that the laws be modified to mitigate the penalties relating to conviction on marijuana possession charges. The Case For Legalizing ... make unwarranted entry into dwelling places. They forbid seizure of personal property, except when very clear reasons are approved by the courts. They allow every citizen to remain silent in court when accused of a crime. Legal decisions have extended these rights, so that every citizen may feel safe, secure, and sheltered from public view in the privacy of his or her home. The Right To Privacy In recent years, Americans ... production of marijuana cigarettes. Thousands of dealers would be put out of business, and a secret part of the economy would come into the open. It is difficult to say whether this change would reduce crime because criminals would probably continue to sell other drugs. But it would have an impact on the amount of money flowing through criminal channels, and this might weaken organized crime. Lastly, the federal budget ...
- 1252: Socrates
- ... Anytus had Socrates arrested on charges of corrupting Athens young and turning them away from Paganism, the Greek religion involving a belief in many gods. Anytus announced the death penalty as a punishment for this crime. It was obviously an outrageous sentence for a crime that was not even committed. Socrates was brought before a jury and instead of using his debating skills to defend himself, he did nothing in his own defense because he was convinced that the entire ... trial was a joke. The jury voted on the death penalty. Now Socrates had a chance to appeal to the court. He was entitled to suggest forms of punishment other than death to satisfy his crime. Instead of proposing a reasonable penalty, Socrates suggested ridiculous ones which angered the jury; causing them to vote on the death penalty once again. Socrates did not seem to mind at all. He was ...
- 1253: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- ... 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 ...
- 1254: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... cat. The wife, trying to save the life of the cat, catches hold of the axe. Then entirely out of his mind, the narrator plants the axe in her skull. To avoid detection in his crime, he bricks his wife into a cellar wall. But the luckless narrator accidentally bricks the cat into the wall as well. After searching for the dreaded cat, the narrator concludes that the beast has "in ... of a candle and exchanges it for the candle at his benefactor's bedside. Of course the benefactor suffocates; the evidence burns away; the taper is disposed of. The scheme is a success, as the crime goes undetected. For a number of years the narrator enjoys his good fortune. But he begins to mutter to himself, "I am safe," and finally, "I am safe--I am safe--if I be not ... narrator feels the pangs of suffocation, as if it were he who is now being poisoned. Finally, completely dominated by his perverse spirit, the narrator rushes madly through the heavily populated avenues to confess his crime to the authorities. He relates all that is needed to convict him of his crime, then falls "prostrate in a swoon." (275) Those whom Poe satirizes in "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A ...
- 1255: JFK: Was His Assassination Ine
- ... the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal with many issues, ranging from business and finance to crime-fighting and war issues. Perhaps it is not as important to decide who it was that killed him, but why. President Kennedy's decisions and courses of action were not popular with everybody, and thus it is not surprising that his assassination was inevitable. The people who might have wanted John F. Kennedy dead can be classified into the following groups: Russians, Cubans, Mobsters (Organized Crime/Mafia), Special Agents (CIA), G-men (J. Edgar Hoover's FBI), Rednecks and Oilmen (Right-wing Extremists), and the MIC (Military Industrial Complex). Each group had its own motives for killing John F. Kennedy. Many ... into Kennedy's assassination. While there is no definitive proof that the FBI conspired to kill Kennedy, it would have been real easy for them to get away with it if they did commit the crime. This, coupled with Hoover's and Johnson's well-known hate for the Kennedys, causes most researchers today to consider the FBI as prime suspects. As if President Kennedy didn't have enough foreign ...
- 1256: GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology
- ... friend. "The key thing in golf is you want to know how far you want to hit your next shot, which determines your next club selection," says Kathy Speight of Skylinks. Skylinks is a personal computer attached to a golf cart which tells you your position on the course in real-time. It also tells you the distances to hazards and holes with an accuracy of one yard. Other useful caddie ... as close to the ball as you want. That's your reference point. Select your club and hit the ball." The GPS antenna on board receives signals from satellites. And from this, the cart's computer can work out its longitude and latitude on the earth. The accuracy at this point isn't good enough for a golfer, so Skylinks has come up with something called pseudo-range correction. An antenna ... a more accurate, permanently-based GPS station. Skylinks combines the information from this antenna to give us a system that is a hundred times more accurate than a standard mobile GPS. Using an on-board computer, its position is then combined with a program called Smart Map. "Smart Map is a very detailed survey of every feature of the golf course -- every tee, green, fairway, and sandtrap," says Richard Beckmann ...
- 1257: The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... the current laws regulating alcohol, including laws governing age, limits for driving, and distribution (Bring 13). The three general areas where people are opposed to legalization of marijuana center their arguments on health care, increased crime, and social aspects. Marijuana is more dangerous than cigarette smoking. There are a number of myths associated with the use of marijuana and its effects on your body, which people who are opposed to its ... has ever died from overdosing on pot (Hagar 2). These are just a few of the myths used various groups in order to keep marijuana illegal. Along with these myths come the false belief that crime will increase if marijuana is legalized. Allen St. Pierre, Assistant National Director of the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws (NORML), says that legalization will wipe out the already 60-billion dollar black ... argument for marijuana legalization is revenue enhancement for the U.S. Government. Much of the money will be saved due to less law enforcement, court time, and the cost of incarcerating prisoners whos only crime is possession. (Schmoek 3). The U.S. spent roughly one billion dollars on marijuana enforcement last year and the DEA has proposed a 400% increase in anti-pot spending, yet domestic marijuana production has ...
- 1258: Bonnie And Clyde
- ... arsenal of firearms. Clyde loved and named his guns, and regarded them as tokens of his power. At the age of sixteen, Clyde dropped out of school to work at Proctor and Gamble. Clyde s crime streak started with helping his brother steal a small flock of turkeys and transporting them to Dallas to sell for Christmas money. Dallas officers saw the back seat full of live fowl, and pulled them ... job at Proctor and gamble and began burglarizing small businesses in Dallas, Lufkin, and Hillsboro, Texas. Although Clyde was introduced into the gang by his brother, he soon became accepted and became the leader. Their crime spree started with stealing a couple of cars and burglarizing a few houses. After a burglary in Denton, all of Clyde s gang was caught, all except for Clyde who took off on foot and ... so he could be moved to a hospital. While in the hospital Clyde received parole, and returned home. After Clyde returned home he got a job, then once again quit, returning to a life of crime. He joined with his accomplices and went on robbing. One night a robbery turned wrong. As they were robbing the place, a gun went off in the pocket of one of Clyde s accomplices ...
- 1259: The Internet
- ... get help about child illnesses, breast-feeding, pregnancy, childcare, or any other parenting problem that may arise (Licklider C1). Another thing that is very helpful is that if something were to go wrong with a computer, chat rooms area available that have many people in them to help fix the computer, as long as it is something within reason (Gay 1). Internet in the classroom is an excellent thing. The Internet is very colorful so it keeps students attention. It is very simple to use, so ... are in any other foreign languages. What is the purpose of it being World Wide if most other countries cannot understand it? Another bad thing is that it can be time consuming to get a computer fixed. If a business owner relies on the Internet for making appointments or deals, computers breaking down can be very costly (Perez 1). Computers are not cheap. Most families cannot even afford them much ...
- 1260: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... years of research have produced no documents of reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value. The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all over the United States believe, with the legislation of drugs, crime will result in an increase in drug-related crimes. Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. The untold multitudes of dealers would be put out of business, and a major source of financial loss to the economy would become one of financial gain. It is difficult to say what effect this change alone would have on crime, however, since criminals would probably continue to sell other off the point . But it would definitely have an impact on the amount of money flowing through criminal channels, and this might weaken organized crime. Despite of those who oppose the legalization of marijuana, it would be a boom to the economy. During prohibition, alcohol was still sold and used, but people were doing it illegally. The 21st amendment ...
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