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- 841: Decriminalize Marijuana for the Good of America
- ... would be greatly reduced if the United States adopted a policy towards the total decriminalization of marijuana. The current drug policy of our government is obviously failing. Drug laws have created corruption, violence, increased street crime, and disrespect for the criminal justice system. Current drug legislation has failed to reduce demand. It's just too hard to monitor illegal substances when a significant portion of the population is committed to using ... policy is implemented , but I believe it will show that the benefits far outweigh the detriments. 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. Two Marijuana joints create more airway impairment than do an entire pack of cigarette (Miner 44). One joint contains three times more tar than do ... 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 ...
- 842: Technology And Education
- ... THE Journal 16). Technology is an integral component of learning. Being that students learn at different rates, technology can individualize instruction. They can move at an appropriate pace providing a solid foundation of basic skills. Computer based technologies can administer individualized lesson sequences that branch and remediate according to student's unique needs, quickly and automatically track progress and generate reports (Peck and Dorricot 11). The Internet provides a communications tool ... routines so failing to work and deal with people. With such addiction there provides no room for advancement in education (Eddy and Spaulding 392). Technology can alter the content of what schoolchildren think about. Many computer experiences for students are through virtual reality and are visually appealing. Students can look at three dimensional animals, such as sharks, seals and whales on their computer screens. But what teachers don't realize is that students get easily engaged in these instances, and only get to see what is on the computer screen and not outside. Instead of being subjected ...
- 843: Evolution
- ... is necessary to you. Well I guess we can speak in broad terms that engulf the entire community. If we take computers for example we can think back about twenty of even ten years. The computer was the appliance of the rich or the important. Now not only does almost every building contain at least one computer but we leave incredibly important tasks to the computer. If we concentrate we can see that the computer is in the final period of transition between a luxury and a necessity. Lets take nuero surgery, for examples in 90% of the operations ...
- 844: The Industry Of Fools
- ... has come a debate on whether gambling is a good public policy or an addictive, dangerous sport. I feel that gambling in America creates lower productivity, disrupts family lives, creates burdensome debts, and involvement in crime on many different levels. Gambling is defined as "anything that puts at risk something of value on events whose outcome is uncertain". According to the American Gaming Industry, on average Americans wager $48 billion dollars ... casinos and legalized gambling promotes the dream of "striking it rich" rather than the tried and true methods of achievement, education, and hard work. Another area of society that is highly impacted by gambling is crime. Wherever there is a large amount of money and alcohol, there is going to be crime. If casinos move into an area, so do criminals. Also, a pro and con list about gambling on PBS's web site states that in most cases where casinos have been built, the crime ...
- 845: Capital Punishment
- ... penalty cannot be considered a proper economical and moral means of punishment to deter those who might commit capital offenses, or can it? In the past, capital punishment horrified people, which deterred them from committing crime. In England, the country from which the United States adopted the death penalty, the death penalty was imposed for a rather large number of offenses in an effort to discourage people from committing crimes. Methods ... exposed to cruel punishment, but rather given a long waiting period. If the criminal is put to death, it is usually done as mercifully as possible. One problem with the death penalty, presently, is that crime is not decreasing, but rather increasing. If capital punishment is supposed to deter crimes such as murder, it is not serving its purpose. Even philosophers, such as Beccaria, Voltaire, and Bentham of the Enlightenment Period ... and will soon meet all time highs. This fact brings up the question of economic feasibility of the implementation, as well as the question of weather the death penalty is actually an effective deterrent to crime. Currently, Texas leads the nation in both death row population and in the number of executions. Texas has 351 condemned men and 4 women awaiting sentence, and has had 46 executions since 1977. These ...
- 846: Bridging Technology And Academ
- ... archives, research institutions, newspaper and journal publications; trailblazer pages; and bibliographic utilities, such as library catalogs. Within these categories, there are resources that are applicable to a variety of sociological specializations, such as Theoretical Sociology, Crime and Criminal Justice, Aging and Health Care, Gender Studies and many more. Every major government agency in the United States has a Web site that provides extensive information about the agency, links to publications, grant ... and the Library of Congress. On-line library catalogs are an excellent bibliographic resource for students; before actually going to a library, searching can be done from a remote site, such as a home personal computer, or a campus computer laboratory. This adds a convenient dimension to library use, particularly for literature reviews and citation analysis. Reference works are also a popular resource on the Web. Full-text, keyword searchable versions of thesauruses and ...
- 847: Capital Punishment
- ... mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined a person's rights and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for the retribution for their crime. However, some feel that those laws and punishments are too lax and criminals of today take advantage of them, ie. organized crime, knowing very well that the punishments for their crime, whether it be murder, theft, or any other number of criminal activities, will be so negligible that it may be well worth their risk. Although in the past, the number of crimes that were ...
- 848: Smart Cards
- ... I will refer to the device as a smart card. Smart Card Forum (1996). The card itself tends to be similar in size to today's plastic payment card, except it has an actual silicon computer chip embedded in it. A small gold or silver contact connected to the chip inside the card is usually visible on the surface. This allows it to be programmed with a much more sophisticated range ... works with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000. Microsoft (1999). Again, these are systems already used by UNN. Staff will be required to enter the relevant data onto the system using a computer before being relayed to each of the meters on campus. It may be possible to use the existing computer hardware already available. If an upgrade was necessary then perhaps new computers would be required. In this instance, hardware such as monitors, hard drives (10mb), CD ROM s (48x), keyboards, Pentium III processor (preferably ...
- 849: Serial Killers 2
- ... main ones being their charisma or pleasant personalities, and the fact that they are psychopaths who feel no remorse for their actions. Because of the fact that many serial killers may be mobile, similarities in crime scenes may go undetected by law enforcement agencies. The nation's police departments often lack the modern equipment and technology needed to track and recognize connections between cases. It is generally accepted that many cases ... victims, an average of almost five people per case. Several cases involved between thirteen and forty-eight victims, and at least some included multiple killings by arson, a technique mostly used by members of the crime community to wreak havoc and revenge. The U. S. has had more than 150 documented cases of serial killers since 1800. Retired FBI analyst John Douglas believes that at any one time, there may be ... we may never know the whole truth. For whatever reason, he held one of the most powerful cities in the world, New York City, in a state of fear. Even the heads of several organized crime families were reported to have sent out their soldiers to find him. His rampage ended in August of 1977 and left six dead and nine wounded. The classic example of the sexual sadist type ...
- 850: Serial Killers --
- ... and they have serious personality defects, such as low self-esteem and a lifelong sense of loneliness. Although no two serial killers are alike, they all fit this description somewhat. In the sixth edition of Crime and Criminality by Sue Titus Reid, a serial killer is defined as a person who commits more than one murder but at different times (Reid, p. 134). Serial killers have been around for decades but ... Clark, p. 206). They are often the youngest or younger children in the family. They were abused or very sternly disciplined during their childhood. The disorganized murders are usually in an anxious state during the crime. They rarely use alcohol or drugs before or during an offense and are experienced minimal stress beforehand. They live alone, usually near the crime scene. They do not follow news accounts of the crime and do not move around in an effort to escape detention (Markowitz, p. 3). The disorganized killer is often spontaneous and his murders are ...
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