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- 2961: Huck Finn Vs. 19th Cevtury Eth
- ... This attempt on Huck’s part to save the gang shows how his conscience was not influenced by the opinions of his surrounding world. He believed that no man deserves to die no matter what crime they commit, and I believe this opinion is one of truth and intelligence, and one that should be entrusted in every person’s soul no matter if they are living in the Ninetieth century or ...
- 2962: Why the Death Penalty is Dead Wrong
- ... payers pay an average of $3.2 million dollars per each death penalty case -- enough to sentence someone to 120 years in a maximum security facility. The death penalty is also not a detterent to crime. >>> Texas, one of the leading states in the number of people executed, also has an extraordinarily high homicide rate. Much higher then that of states such as Michigan, which has no death penalty. In fact ...
- 2963: Australians Against Further Immigration
- ... world. The use of water for irrigation, urban demand and sewage disposal, is already straining supply to the limits. Our main cities have grown beyond their optimum size. Pollution, traffic, urban sprawl, failing community service, crime and lower quality of life are occurring. Crowed, sprawling, smog covered cities, with all of the dysfunctional problems of Los Angles, are the inevitable consequences of further mass immigration. Yet the government plans to double ...
- 2964: A Tale of Two Cities: Summary
- ... in his home country of France. He is saved from being prosecuted by Sydney Carton, who a witness confuses for Darnay, thus not making the case positive. Darnay ended up being acquitted for his presumed crime. Darnay and Carton both fall in love with Lucie and want to marry her. Carton, an alcoholic at the time, realizes that a relationship with Lucie is impossible, but he still tells her that he ...
- 2965: America's Right Turn
- ... of co-opting numerous issues of the Republican agenda while still supporting popular Democratic programs, "While rhetorically proclaiming that 'the era of big government is over,' Clinton also co-opted Republican positions on family values, crime, welfare reform, and a balanced budget…Thus, this New Democrat had absorbed well the chief political lesson of the day, that America's right turn had gone too far and needed to be deflected back ...
- 2966: Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
- ... Com munist Dirk De Jonge. De Jonge had been detained for attending a meeting to protest the police shooting of striking longshoremen. The Court ruled that "Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime." More recently, in 1985, the S upreme Court ruled that burning the American flag is protected by the First Amendment when the Court reversed the conviction of Gregory Lee Johnson, who was arrested for violation ...
- 2967: The Canadian Justice System v.s. Aboriginal People
- ... 1971 murder of Helen Betty Osborne in The Pas Manitoba. While the trial established that four men were present when the young aboriginal woman was killed, only one of them was ultimately convicted of any crime. Following the trial, allegations were made that the identity of the four individuals who has been present at the killing was widely known in the local community. On March 9, 1988, J.J. Harper, Executive ...
- 2968: R. v. Keilty
- ... stigma" test. A person who is convicted of possession should not be also branded as a trafficker of narcotics also. Another principle brought to the court from the R.v.Vallancourt case is that a crime requires a minimal state of mental blameworthiness. This means that the person must bear a certain degree of moral fault for what he did. To convict the accused of trafficking in narcotics when everyone acknowledges ...
- 2969: Olmstead v. United States (1928)
- ... the value most highly kept by civilized men. Hence any intrusion upon that privacy is subject to the 4th amendment protections. [Government cannot be allowed to commit crimes in order to apprehend the private criminal. Crime is contagious. If the government breaks the law, it breeds a general contempt for the law.]
- 2970: Marijuana
- ... lack of interest in school, goals, and active interest “in illegal activity and dangerous behaviors like unsafe sex and violence” (Teen Addiction, 64). Young people have lack of attendance in school, poor school performance, and crime (Teen Addiction, 59). The main reason for the dumber a person gets the more they smoke is because that marijuana kills brain cells (War on Drugs, 131). The percentage of suicidal thoughts and no use ...
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