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- 9161: The Issue of Gun Control
- ... in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was 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 ...
- 9162: Capital Punishment
- ... or unintentional. They believe there are other ways of condemnation besides execution. In the case of an unintentional death feelings are that the perpetrators should have the right to live, but have to face each day with the fact that they killed someone weighing on their conscience. On the other hand, such as with a voluntary murder, the ideas are somewhat similar. They believe the murderer doesnt deserve the death ...
- 9163: The Mafia
- ... spreading the idea of organized crime. They take part in just about all of the illegal activities in the United States and throughout the entire world. From the beginning of the Sicilians to the present day La Cosa Nostra, the Mafia has influenced all aspects of America.
- 9164: Attacks On The Insanity Defense
- ... HOW IT IS ESTABLISHED The meaning of insanity is the legal definition as put forth in a rule such as the M'naghten Rule or whatever school of thought is in use on any given day. The legal test is applied in an adversary system which pitches lawyer against psychiatrist and psychiatrist against psychiatrist. Because of this, the psychiatrist is often perceived not as a scientist but a partisan for the ...
- 9165: The Death Penalty: To Be or Not to Be...
- ... the public's fear and anger over this issue to a near frenzy. When asked in January of this year, " How often do you see reports of violent crime on television ? " 68 % replied " almost every day ". Although the media have played an important role in raising the public's awareness of lawlessness, crime in America is far from a media - created phenomenon. Government statistics support the image of a nation which ...
- 9166: Cause and Effect of Speeding
- ... unpleasant experience. A ticket can be outrageously expensive depending on how fast you were speeding. Some states charge ten to twenty dollars per mile an hour over the speed limit. The officer assigns you a day to appear in court, if you choose to fight the ticket rather than pay the fine. Waiting in the courtroom to see the judge can be very close to a death sentence. The wait is ...
- 9167: The Debate Over Capital Punishment
- ... locking up a human being behind steel bars for many years, vengeance itself? And is it "humane" that an individual who took the life of another, should receive heating, clothing, indoor plumbing, 3 meals a day, while a homeless person who has harmed no one receives nothing? Adversaries of capital punishment claim that it is far more humane then having the state take away the life of the individual. In February ...
- 9168: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... another violent crime. To prevent the occasional repeat murder, everyone convicted of criminal homicide would have to be executed- a policy too brutal to consider and one that would require dozens of legal killings each day." The United Nations began urging worldwide abolition on the grounds that,"every human has an inherent right to life." It can be seen that there is no logical reason for reintroducing capital punishment. The fact ...
- 9169: Robert Boyle
- ... at Oxford. At the age of twenty-seven, he finally became what he wanted to be for so long, an experimental scientist.(Sootin pp.37-38) He continued at Oxford and received an Honored M.D., and later was accepted to be a member of the Royal Society, a big scientific group. It was a great honor to be a part of that scientific group.(Salzberg p.161) Arguably, Robert Boyle ...
- 9170: Roger Williams
- ... answered with The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy. Other works include Queries of Highest Consideration, an argument for complete separation of church and state; The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's; and George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes, a polemic against Quaker teachings. Of great personal charm and unquestioned integrity, Williams was admired even by those who, like both the elder and the younger John Winthrop, abhorred his liberal ...
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