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- 3441: Death Penalty
- ... commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions. Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit ...
- 3442: The Police and Corruption
- ... are capable of exceeding the parameters of their power and authority: police and use of discretionary enforcement, Police justice, police harassment, and the unwarranted use of police authority. Police are allowed to and must use personal discretion in their determination of law enforcement. Unlike a judge or lawyer a police officer can not gather information and take time to make a prognosis to make a decision affecting the fate of a ... language used on them. One major way in which in which police cross the boundaries of their power and authority is police corruption. Corruption defined is a direct deal involving cash (or assets, or any personal gain for the officer) in exchange for official action or inaction. The national Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals postulates that: 1. The corruption of public officials at all levels of government- federal ...
- 3443: Under The Influence
- ... Bella Deer, had planned to see the principal, Martine Sorenson. Mona went to a lawyer to get a legalized view on the situation. The lawyer said that the Human Rights Act did not apply to personal school clashes. It also stated that the principal could only expel those whom they considered to be unmanageable. This discouraged Bella and Mona but they were still determined to help Celestine. Being rejected for first ... waiting for him when he got home that she had made. Mona had also tended to the livestock well while Duncan was gone. When it came to the subject of finding employment, a feeling of personal torment came upon Duncan. However, Mona would spare him the humiliation by reminding him of his good hunting skills and that he should Julius keep meat in the house. The family struggles were negative influences ...
- 3444: Alan Dean Foster
- ... Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA (1968, 1969) he spent two years as a copywriter for a small Studio City, Calif. advertising and public relations firm. His writing career began when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of Foster's in 1968 and published it, much to Foster's surprise, as a short story in Derleth's bi-annual magazine The Arkham ... Other pastimes include basketball, hiking, body surfing, scuba diving, collecting animation on video, and weight lifting. He studied karate with Chuck Norris before Norris decided to give up teaching for acting. He has taught screen writing, literature, and film history at UCLA and Los Angeles City College as well as having lectured at universities around the country. A member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the The Fosters reside in ...
- 3445: Drug Abuse
- ... it causes respiratory illness and kills mucus membranes. Heroin is the most addictive dangerous illegal drug on the streets. You'll become a so- called "junkie" if you use it. It affects the hygiene and personal appearance of the user a great deal, because nothing is as important to the user anymore as where that next hit will come from. Heroin is injected and sometimes snorted. It causes great euphoria, but ... support their habits, and all users, addicts or casual users, are careless and reckless when under the influence. Drug users commit property crimes, such as robbing a house or a store. Drug users also commit personal crimes, like mugging, armed robbery and even murder. Drug use, itself, can be a crime. It makes innocent citizens scared to walk out of their own homes, in their own neighborhoods. Drug abuse is a ...
- 3446: Ebonics Is Not The Answer
- ... linguistic proficiency. Attitudes toward the vernacular dialect may well have to be overhauled, and some fairly extensive linguistic training will need to occur. Teachers will need to know how to weave dialect instruction into reading, writing, and oral language development in order to connect it to real communicative functions. Society has a clear vested interest in educating its youth. In his most famous decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in Brown ... students who wish to learn are prevented from doing so by a lack of discipline and order in the classroom. After twelve years, students receive high school diplomas without having attained basic competence in reading, writing, or speaking proper English. At the heart of the American dream is the concept that every child, in every neighborhood, should have an equal chance to succeed in life. The primary responsibility of the educational ...
- 3447: Themes Of Death And Desire In
- ... to Desire. When the play was released in 1948 it caused a storm, its sexual content was controversial to say the least, but also it was, "virtually unique as a stage piece that is both personal and social and wholly a product of our life today." 2 The play tells of the visit of the main character, Blanche, a supposedly typical to Southern Belle, to her long estranged sister Stella, who ... young poet called Allan, only to be shocked by the discovery of his homosexuality. Upon discovering this Blanche says she is "disgusted" and Allan promptly commits suicide. With this we see Allan's desire for personal and social acceptance go unfulfilled, and it is this desire which leads to his death by his own hand. The subsequent shock and guilt on the part of Blanche, " partly account for her mental instability ...
- 3448: Euthanasia
- ... favor of auto-euthanasia, the person should also contemplate the arguments against it. First, should the person go instead into a hospice program and receive not only first-class pain management but comfort care and personal attention? Put bluntly, hospices make the best of a bad job, and they do so with great skill and love. The right-to-die movement supports their work. But not everyone wants a lingering death ... that there is absolutely no need for anyone to consider euthanasia. Most, but not all, terminal pain can today be controlled with the sophisticated use of drugs, but the point these leaders miss is that personal quality of life is vital to some people. If one's body has been so destroyed by disease that it is not worth living, that is an intensely individual decision which should not be thwarted ...
- 3449: Euthanasia
- ... v. Wade, because the issues have "compelling similarities," he wrote. Like the decision of whether or not to have an abortion, the decision how and when to die is one of "the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime," a choice "central to personal dignity and autonomy."11 On April 2, 1996, in the case of Vacco v. Quill, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit in New York struck down that state's law making it ...
- 3450: Euthanasia
- ... this controversial topic. Who has the right to choose death, and under what circumstances? What responsibility does a physician have to sustain life when witnessing a patient suffering? What role should law play in this personal matter, and who should have the authority to control individual wishes regarding his or her own body? Euthanasia should be legalized so, if we ever have a loved one that is suffering and death is ... long period of pain and suffering. Ask yourself which you would choose, early or prolonged death (Larue 153). Even if you do not think that you would end your life or another's life should personal views decide that it is not the right thing for another to do. Does any person have the right to control the choices of others? Not all the should everything be done to preserve a ...
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