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- 1051: Gun Control
- ... made for safer cities. The contrasts between extreme wealth and extreme poverty are fewer and less striking. Poor inner-city families do not disintegrate to the extent they do in black American ghettos. Canadian murder rates in big cities are about the same as in isolated rural areas. According to 'THE ECONOMIST" magazine; Blacks, 12% of the United States' population, account for 48% of murders, mostly when inner-city blacks kill ... a permit to the applicant. In California where CCWs (Carrying Concealed Weapons) permits are obtainable, a study reveals the following: (American Rifleman, pg.27) (American Rifleman, pg.28) When more people were armed, the crime rates went down proportionally! Is it not obvious that when more citizens are armed there is less incidence of crime? The examples from California and Switzerland are evidence to that fact. Enough freedoms have already been ...
- 1052: Computers-how They Affect Our Lives
- ... His inventions were failures for the most part because of the lack of precision machining techniques used at the time and the lack of demand for such a device. After Babbage, people began to lose interest in computers. However, between 1850 and 1900 there were great advances in mathematics and physics that began to rekindle the interest. Many of these new advances involved complex calculations and formulas that were very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use for a computer in the US was during the 1890 census. Two men ...
- 1053: John D. Rockefeller
- ... Board’s work with children’s clubs in farm arena grew the 4-H Club movement and the federal programs of farm and home extension. ROCKEFELLER SANITARY COMMISSION (1909-1915) In Rockefeller combined his special interest in the South and his interest in public health with the creation of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease. Its purpose was "to bring about a cooperative movement of the medical profession, public health officials, boards of ...
- 1054: Community-Based Policing: Law Enforcement For The Twentieth Century
- ... increase man power if necessary should be made. There is a distinct difference between C.B.P. and other models of policing and that is the way we can measure success, "measures such as crime rates, arrest rates and response times are obsolete, A(Moore 10)"these numbers have little to do with community needs and they only represent serious committed crimes and not the increase of public disorder (or fear) or other ...
- 1055: John Coltrane
- ... mother's father, the Reverend Walter Blaire. Walter Blaire would later on be a significant influence on Coltrane's music and spirituality. Coltrane's father, a tailor, served to be a source of Coltrane's interest in music through his fathers ability to play the clarinet, violin, and various other instruments. Furthermore, Coltrane's mother studied music. Both of Coltrane's grandfathers were ministers; and through their worship services, Coltrane began ... been carried into present day. Coltrane's works have been increasingly used by acclaimed directors. His works can be heard in Spike Lee's "Mo' Better Blues" and Oliver Stone's "The Doors." This renewed interest can be attributed to the social and aesthetic concerns addressed by Coltrane and his music. In 1986, to honor the immense impact of Coltrane in both jazz and America, the Philadelphia Historic Commission designated Coltrane ...
- 1056: Tiger Woods
- ... the war, back in the United States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him "Tiger". Tiger Woods took interest in golf at a young age. He would watch from his crib as his father would practice his swing. He began playing golf since before he could walk. When he got a few years older ... got his name. It was interesting to read about how Earl Woods vowed to call his next son Tiger to repay his friend Nguyen Phong for saving his life. I am not one to take interest in golf but this book was exciting. I liked reading about how Tiger started at a really young age and practiced everyday to perfect his game. Tiger is a good example of that if you ...
- 1057: Sexual Behaviours Of Universit
- ... different pressures coming from all aspects of their lives. We decided to focus our study on the sexual behaviours of students and how these behaviours relate to other aspects of their personal and academic lives. Interest was taken in how these areas would differ with relation to gender, age, and lifestyle. Interest was also taken in how alcohol affects these behaviours, and how these behaviours affect student s academic performance. When we began our research, we hypothesized that males with a higher self-esteem in general, would ...
- 1058: Capital Punishment
- ... a physician to be present. The deadly solution is normally administered by medically trained technicians. There is much evidence showing that Capital Punishment is a deterrent of crime. The most persuasive research compared the homicide rates of states that did and did not prescribe the death penalty. For instance, Michigan, which abolished Capital Punishment in 1847, was found to have had a rate higher to adjacent states, Ohio and Indiana, that ... Punishment. In 1939 South Dakota adopted and used the death penalty, and its homicide rate fell twenty percent over the next decade; North Dakota went without Capital Punishment for the same ten years, and homicide rates went up. Similar before and after studies in Canada, England, and other countries likewise found that the suggestion of Capital Punishment had deterred murderers better than the prospect of long prison terms. In Britain during ...
- 1059: Serial Killers 3
- ... my belief that the reason I never came under suspicion is because I was so normal in every aspect." (Tithecott 206). These killers attack all over the United States, but western states have much higher rates than those of the north and east. In addition, rates vary over time within particular countries and regions (Seltzer 94-95). As these characteristics point out, a serial killer can be almost anyone. Several serial killers have had fixations with law enforcement and posed as ...
- 1060: The Effects Of Rap On Inner Cities
- ... 18-year old have had sexual intercourse, while half of 17-year old have had sexual intercourse. To add to that, 6 in 10 girls between the ages of 18-19 become pregnant. While pregnancy rates among teens continue to rise, rappers continue to rap and call themselves “Playa’s” and rap about their, “bitches,” and sexual encounters. In a song titled “The B.I.G” Notorious B.I.G AKA ... women who have babies are forced to drop out of school, and raise their children. This takes them out of the work force, and hard working citizens are forced to pay higher taxes, with welfare rates going up. The rap artists’ are not only effecting the 21% of the 60% that choose to raise their children, but the 41% that choose to have abortion are presented with two big problems. Not ...
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