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- 4001: Paul Revere
- ... Revere learned early the lesson of perseverance, a lesson that would be an important in his later life, Revere would need to keep on going no mater what obstacles appeared in his way. Revere attended school in Boston where he got a sufficient education as well as in the shop with his father and the wharves of where he lived. As Revere grows in age he upholds many different jobs, including ...
- 4002: Freedom of Speech: Censorship on the Internet
- Freedom of Speech: Censorship on the Internet Introduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release ...
- 4003: Gun Control: More Or Less?
- ... The individuals who murder with guns do not care about the law. That is why we call them criminals. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had two illegal assault weapons in their arsenal at Columbine High School, the Intratec DC-9 and the 9mm HiPoint Carbine Assault Rifle. Like most killers, the two did not care about the law, they only had one thing on their mind. Murder. Another idea that has ...
- 4004: Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment
- ... Director of Mental Health for the Massachusetts prison system, Medical Director of the Bridgewater (Mass.) State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and Director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard University Medical School. A heinous crime occurs and most people ask the inevitable question: Who are these people capable of such inhuman acts? According to Gilligan, they generally are ordinary people who often describe themselves as robots, zombies ...
- 4005: Prohibition...A Waste?
- ... through alcohol, so it was up to the women to save us. “The extraordinary “Women’s War” broke out across the nation in 1873. Thousands of women marched from church meetings to saloons, where with prayer and song they demanded—with transitory results—that saloonkeepers give up their businesses. By 1900, millions of men and women were beginning to share this hostility toward the saloon and to regard it as the ...
- 4006: Serial Killers
- ... sentenced to life in prison. Jerry is eligible for parole in 1999 (1994,Compulsion to Kill, Time Life Books). Ted Bundy Ted Bundy was probably the most brilliant serial killer of all time. A law school drop out, this murderer of thirty six women was on a killing spree that lasted a decade. As a child, he grew up in a male dominated household. His father would scream, yell, and beat ...
- 4007: Capital Punishment
- ... if you committed first degree murder and had one of ten "aggravating" factors associated with the murder. In Arkansas you must kill someone with arson, kill a law enforcement officer on purpose, a teacher or school worker, kill a prison worker, a jail attendant, correctional worker, or someone who is in the military. Also if you are a hit man, otherwise known as contract murder. In California you must commit treason ...
- 4008: White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime
- ... we've discussed, the US education system is in a state of crisis. Schools do not have adequate funding to educate the kids. This is especially a problem in urban areas, where the alternative to school is life on the streets. Social services are also being eliminated, giving many no other option but to stay in poverty. Healthcare is a fantasy for many Americans, and yet our government can justify constructing ...
- 4009: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
- ... because “it is built into the system that those in the predominant race will be more concerned about crime victims of their own race,” as stated by Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh Law School (As cited in Gest, 1986, 25). Because of the immense possibility of discrimination in sentencing in capital punishment cases, each stage of prosecution must be controlled as much as possible. Although these offenders are the ...
- 4010: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
- ... because "it is built into the system that those in the predominant race will be more concerned about crime victims of their own race," as stated by Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh Law School (As cited in Gest, 1986, 25). Because of the immense possibility of discrimination in sentencing in capital punishment cases, each stage of prosecution must be controlled as much as possible. Although these offenders are the ...
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