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- 11181: Don't Talk to Cops
- Don't Talk to Cops "GOOD MORNING! My name is investigator Holmes. Do you mind answering a few simple questions?" If you open your door one day and are greeted with those words, STOP AND THINK! Whether ... it and must be given to chance to read it. Without a warrent, an officer depends solely upon your helpfulness to obtain the information he wants. So, unless you are quite sure of yourself, don't be helpful. Probably the wisest approach to take to a persistant investigator is simply to say: "I'm quite busy now. If you have any questions that you feel I can answer, I'd be happy to listen to them in my lawyer's office. Goodbye!" Talk is cheap. When that talk involves the law enforcement authorities, it may cost you, or someone close to you, dearly.
- 11182: John Wayne
- The Duke takes his place in history. John Wayne, one of America s greatest actors and directors of all time. His fame and superstardom led to many problems in his career. His image as an icon of American individualism and the frontier spirit has overshadowed his career to ... his movie career he played football at USC under his birth name, Marion Michael Morrison. He held many behind-the-scene jobs at Fox before moving in front of the cameras in the late 1920 s in a series of small roles. Director John Ford, who befriended the Duke , recommended him for the lead role in Raoul Walsh s western epic, The Big Trail. Wayne did not let the stardom go to his head. He spent the rest of the decade making his way through a series of low budget films whose failing ...
- 11183: The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... Goldman 88). With the added public pressure, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. This law made the use of marijuana federal offenses. Marijuana reappeared in the mid 1960’s with the emergence of the “Hippie.” Widespread objection to the use of marijuana remained because of the set of valued and lifestyles associated with it, but use appeared in colleges and among middle-class youths ... marijuana adversely affects the reproductive system (Hagar 1). A persistent myth about marijuana is that it is a gateway drug, leading to the use of harder drugs. The Dutch partially decriminalized marijuana in the 1970’s since then the use of heroin and cocaine has sharply decreased. The opposite of this gateway affect is also present the United States. In 1993 a study by the Rand Corporation compared drug use in ... adds up to is millions of police hours spent on bootless missions, millions of hours of court time wasted, and millions of months in jail, using up space sorely needed to contain people who can’t wait to get out in order to resume mugging and murdering (Buckley 39A). The drug laws imprison a multitude of otherwise law abiding people, a disproportionate number of them who are poor or minorities, ...
- 11184: John Kennedy
- J O H N F I T Z G E R A L D K E N N E D Y Throughout the history of the United States there have been few great presidents. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of these great ... people. John was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. His father Joseph Kennedy became the youngest banker president in the US. He was a millionaire by age twenty-five. John's mother, Rose Fitzgerald, was a caring housewife and a glamorous woman. Including John, the family embraced nine children. They were, in age order, Joseph Junior, John, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, and Edward (Teddy ... very wholesome and extremely elegant. On September 12, 1953, John F. Kennedy married Jaqueline Lee Bouvier. Together they had a daughter Caroline in 1957. Later in 1960 they had a son John Junior. John Kennedy's education process is remarkable. He started out by going to a couple of Public schools in Brookline. He later moved onto Private schools in Riverdale, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut. In the years 1935 ...
- 11185: Lewis And Clark
- ... the American Revolution, died when Lewis was five years old, and for a brief time he lived in Georgia when his mother moved there with her second husband. After assuming the management of his family's Virginia plantation, Lewis joined the state militia in 1794 to help put down the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania. He continued his military career as an officer in the regular army, serving on the frontier in ... expedition into the frontier. In January of 1803 Congress approved a plan for an expedition. Jefferson had many reasons for employing the explorers. A boundless curiosity for botany, zoology, and geography was one of Jefferson s main reasons. Also Jefferson wanted to establish communication and some interaction with the Indians. The purchase of the Louisiana Territory was an entirely unexpected outcome. Robert Livingston, an ambassador to France, was told to discuss ... born into a Virginia plantation family in 1770, the youngest of six sons and the youngest brother of George Rogers Clark, the hero of the American Revolution in the West. When he was fourteen, Clark's family moved to a new plantation in Kentucky, and he would spend the rest of his life on America's shifting frontier. Beginning in 1789, Clark served as a militiaman in campaigns against the ...
- 11186: Cults
- ... is a clinical psychologist and professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a practicing clinician, cult researcher, and teacher for nearly fifty years. According to Dr. Singer’s investigations, members of cults are often subjected to unhealthy persuasion techniques. Excessive physical exertion is often used and leaves the person completely exhausted so that they haven’t the time or the energy to think for themselves. Repetitive motion such as swaying and spinning is also used to manipulate the person. This continuous motion has the ability to alter a person’s state of awareness making them easily disoriented. Other persuasion techniques involve painful bodily manipulation. Former members of one particular cult have reported that the cult leader would pass among the followers pressing on their ...
- 11187: Bartleby And Civil Disobedienc
- The extremely simplified definition of civil disobedience given by Webster’s Dictionary is “nonviolent opposition to a law through refusal to comply with it, on grounds of conscience.” Thoreau in “Civil Disobedience” and Martin Luther King in “Letter from Birmingham Jail” both argue that laws thought of as unjust in one’s mind should not be adhered to. In Herman Melville’s “Bartleby,” a man named Bartleby is thought of by many to be practicing civil disobedience. His actions are nonviolent, and he refuses to comply with anything his boss says. But his behavior has nothing ...
- 11188: Creative Writing: Equality
- ... Barley audible was the most annoying Michael Bolton song that I could imagine. As I got entranced by the dullness of the situation I noticed that the lights were slowly getting dimmer. As Michael Bolton's voice became silent, Dr. Zimmerman spherical body came waddling out. Dr. Zimmerman was a very large, gluttonous man. I had worked with him many times, and I had lost more than one of my ideas ... the more I wanted to hear. I wanted to shout to make him blurt it out, but it was impossible to speed him up, attention was the reason why he became a scientist. He didn't care about the effects of his discoveries, as long as he packed the expo center the next weekend. "The quest toward perfection is finally over. Your unborn children now have the opportunity to be everything ... slammed into me like a subway train. "There will be no such thing as an imperfect child!" The sound of flapping mucus in his throat was almost unbearable. The applause began, I knew it wouldn't stop for at least ten minutes because Dr. Zimmerman wouldn't let it. I ran to the bathroom to think about what had just happened. Dr. Zimmerman was referring to the G.A.M. ...
- 11189: The Ultimate Pet: A Pet Rock
- The Ultimate Pet: A Pet Rock A pet rock can be as comforting to me as any canine or feline. Some would believe that a man's best friend is a dog. However, living in a confined two bedroom apartment, I do not have the luxury or permission for a forty pound dog to be plopping around. This is why I have ... needs. Some people like big animals, some small. Some animals come in black, brown, white, yellow; yet some are spotted. The same goes for my rock. When I went "shopping" for my rock, I didn't want one too small, for it would get lost like a gerbil. I didn't want one too big like a Labrador, for I would trip over it every time I walked into the room. I needed a pet the size of a fat barn cat, like the ones ...
- 11190: Maya Angelou 2
- ... an English-language weekly published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance, and. studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for the southern Leadership Conference. She Commission on the Observance of International women's Year. Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African -American woman to hit the bestseller lists with her 'I know Why the Caged bird Sings " helds the Great Hall audience spellbound with stories of her own childhood. Maya Angelou's second achievement was in 1971 when she produced "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of water 'Fore I Die", in 1975"Oh Pray My Wings Are Going to Fit Me Well," in 1979"And ...
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