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- 2631: Juvenile Justice
- ... almost the beginning children have been treated differently from adults who commit the same acts. The origin of juvenile corrections in the United States goes, back at least to the opening of the New York House of Refuge in 1825. This house of refuge was established to meet the same kinds of needs the JJS of today tries to meet, including avoidance of harsh criminal penalties for unfortunate children, segregating "predeliquent" children from hardened delinquents, providing "proper ...
- 2632: Karl Marx 6
- ... and these unions were now able to press for other laws to further improve the lives of the working class. After universal male suffrage was granted in 1867, in the early 1900s, Liberals in the House of Commons pressed ahead with social reforms. Finally in 1911, a Liberal government passed measures to restrict the power given to the House of Lords. In the early 1920s, Britain began to pass social welfare laws. They protected workers with accident, health, and unemployment insurance as well as old-age pensions. (World History p 612) After looking at ...
- 2633: The Central Government
- ... under the Articles of Confederation, you must need a unanomous vote under all states to make an amendment, while in the Constitution, you only needed a majority of two thirds of the Senate and the House of Representatives to pass it. For another, under the Articles of Confederation, each state in congress had only one vote, while under the constitution, the states had two votes in the senate, (where every state is equal) and one vote per representative in the house of representatives (where the states had representatives according to population). And for the last thing, under the Constitution, the government could regulate trade, make laws, and the states were more like one firm union of ...
- 2634: A Good Man Is Hard To Find The
- ... Barbecue (196), but experiences no personal shame at all in stating that "Little niggers in the country don't have things like we do" (195). The grandmother knows there is no secret compartment in the house she wishes to visit, yet she tells the children this compartment exists in order to convince Bailey into stopping. The family's inevitable demise originates when the grandmother sets them on the road to see this mysterious house, which begins the set-up for the spiritually symbolic interpretation of the story. Upon meeting The Misfit, communication is almost solely between The Misfit and the grandmother. The grandmother shrieks, "You're The Misfit!...I ...
- 2635: APrice Above Rubies
- ... realizes that this old woman represents, or is, the old woman in the story Yossi told her. Sonia has been following in her footsteps and leaving the Jewish community. Sonia ends up at Ramon’s house, which is covered in religious pictures and ornaments, even an alter, distinctly showing Christ on the cross, a God that died for our sins, a loving God, who doesn’t punish. Maybe Sonia is attracted ... she replied, “so have I.”, it showed that she had overcome her struggle and finally found herself, individualism. The search had ended, yet there was still something missing. Sonia Marches over to the Rebbe’s house in the next scene, demanding to see his widow. Initially, she is refused because her blouse is unbuttoned and her hair everywhere. The Rebitsen allows her to see her. Sonia asks the Rebitsen why she ...
- 2636: Araby A Revalation
- ... the Catholic school have been trapped by the church and cannot escape. Joyce longs to be free of the church and wishes that he could relinquish the ties that bind him to it, like the house. The house was formerly own by a priest who has since passed away. The death of the priest signifies the death of the church. The priest also has more significance to the story. He also represents the ...
- 2637: The Communications Decency Act
- ... bill on June 14, 1995 with a vote of 84-16. The Leahy bill does not pass, but is supported by 16 Senators that actually understand what the Internet is. Seven days later, several prominent House members publicly announce their opposition to the CDA, including Newt Gingrich, Chris Cox, and Ron Wyden. On September 26, 1995, Senator Russ Feingold urges committee members to drop the CDA from the Telecommunications Reform Bill. On Thursday, February 1, 1996, Congress passed (House 414-9, Senate 91- 5) the Telecommunications Reform Bill, and attached to it the Communications Decency Act. This day was known as "Black Thursday" by the Internet community. One week later, it was signed into ...
- 2638: The First Amendment
- ... of England's freedom policies however. In the Colonial Declaration of Rights of October 19, 1765, it stated "that it is the right of British subjects in these colonies to petition the King or either House of Parliament." And so our policy of the people to peaceably assemble had already existed. Although many laws and regulations were to some extent followed or regulated, nothing was set in stone thought it should ... to James Madison that the Bill of Rights was "what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." Madison was the biggest supporter of the Bill of Rights, he worked hard to persuade House to enact certain amendments. Then, after finally trimming down the 17 amendments to twelve, which were adopted by Congress, a copy of the twelve was sent to each of the states for ratification puposes. By ...
- 2639: The Electoral College
- ... the Electoral College in effect, the fate of the presidency still lied in the hands of elite America. Each state appointed a number of electors equal to the number seats that state carried in the house and senate. In other words, when a citizen cast a vote, he/she is not directly voting the president in, rather that party's board of electors. Considering there are 538 members of the Electoral ... very seriously but as Bob Dylan put i t, 'The times they are a changin.' Small states became increasingly upset that mathematically, they meant nothing to the election as a whole. In September, 1969, the house passed a direct election amendment by a vote of 338-70. Ten years later, a similar amendment received a 51-49 senate vote but failed to meet the 2/3 requirement. New bills with the ...
- 2640: Shoeless Joe Jackson
- ... was stated by Ted Williams, a baseball great and also a member of the Hall of Fame. "Eighty years after the World series that resulted in Shoeless Joe Jackson’s lifetime ban from baseball, the House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for him to be honored" (AP B4). Shoeless Joe was indicted by a Federal Jury, and even they think he deserves the credit he is due. By passing this resolution, the House took its first step towards making the famous Shoeless Joe a Hall of Fame inductee. "Although throwing ball games was not a crime in Illinois, Landis said, Jackson’s confession barred him . . ." (Seymour 331). Even ...
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