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- 4391: Police Brutality: What's Really Going On?
- Police Brutality: What's Really Going On? "Police regularly utilize varying levers of abuse, threat, and torture to extract confessions and demonstrate police effectiveness in fighting crime." Kerwin Brook. That's what the question is, is this a correct thought or are the police and their technics misunderstood? To understand why this "brutality" happens lets see what a police officer goes though ...
- 4392: Barbie
- ... for adults who love Barbie. Now that everything has a lot to do with the new technology, such as computers, Barbie is going high tech too. There are programs and discs to buy to the computer where Barbie is the main character. It is also a way to guide the kids in the high tech world that they live in. So Barbie isn't just anyone she is the most famous ...
- 4393: Teaching Respect To Children
- ... can be easily solved or would be nonexistent if their was respect. Violence would not be a problem, because no one would fight if they had respect for the other person. The next problem is crime. Nobody is going to steal or vandalize someone's property if they respect them. One other problem is drug use, this would not be a problem is people respected themselves enough to not harm their ...
- 4394: Witches
- ... that several of Jones's neighbors tried to get her to confess and repent. One of them, he said, "prayed her to consider if God did not bring this punishment upon her for some other crime, and asked, if she had not been guilty of stealing many years ago." (P.22)Jones admitted the theft, but she refused to accept it as a reason for her conviction as a witch. Hale ...
- 4395: Racism in Colleges
- ... grow up to be leaders of a new, equal nation that gives everyone an even chance at life and free from hatred. In the meantime, the laws should be increased against any kind of hate crime, especially in schools. To many of these offenses are slipping through the cracks of the court system without any kind of punishment whatsoever. No form of racial abuse should be tolerated in the slightest and ...
- 4396: United States of American: Personal Freedom
- ... social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and sedition laws. One law forbade the publication of false, scandalous or malicious writing against the government, Congress or the President. The penalty for this crime was a $2,000 fine and two years in prison. The public was enraged at these laws. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison pleaded for freedom of speech and the press. The alien and sedition laws ...
- 4397: 1984: The Party's Control Over the Thoughts
- ... O'Brien eventually explains to Winston, "The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about" (Orwell 209). The doctrine crimestop indicates the degree to which the definition of crime no longer encompasses action: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as thought by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought...(it means) protective stupidity" (175). Citizens, such as Smith, condemn themselves to death ...
- 4398: Blacks, Prison, And Institutional Racism
- ... leaders do not consider the results of having the future leaders of the Black communities imprisoned. Also most do not care. In the sentencing project it was pointed out that the "get tough" approach to crime in which there was an increase of arrests, convictions and lengthy sentences has decreased victimization rates less than 5% since 1973 . Despite the statistics the "get tough" trend, which is disproportionately aimed against Blacks, has ...
- 4399: Personal Writing: Living In Both Texas and New York City
- ... top of the charts on people and immigrants. On the other hand, Houston had been growing by large sum of in population during the past few years. Both cities are populated and the high in crime rate. As a matter of fact, I took a trip back to NYC on my spring break and I was amazed by the changes of a new major. The streets had been cleaned and there ...
- 4400: Court Cases
- ... the argument that the People failed to disprove the agency defense beyond reasonable doubt. A person who acts as the agent of a buyer in the purchase of narcotics may not be convicted of the crime of selling drugs. This was the question to be decided. Was the defendant a purchaser or a seller? The evidence was legally sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The defendant said ...
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