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- 14111: John Harlan
- ... 1877 to 1911. Johan Marshall Harlan II is best remembered as the lone dissenter of the separate but equal' defense to the upholding of Plessy v. Ferguson. John Marshall Harlan II followed in his family's footsteps regarding the furthering of his education. In 1920, Harlan graduated with honors from Princeton, thus receiving his B.A. Harlan went onto Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to do his graduate work, and returned ... Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm. Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had ... in New York City. In 1954, President Eisenhower appointed Harlan to the United States Court of Appeals. Less than a year later, Eisenhower nominated Harlan to the Supreme Court. On March 16, 1955, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eisenhower's appointment of Harlan 71 to 11, and Harlan began his sixteen year term in the High Court. Harlan has often been called the "intellectual leader of the conservatives on the ...
- 14112: Capital Punishment
- ... a life sentence; murder during kidnapping; illegal sale of cocaine, methadone, or heroin to a person who dies from using these drugs; murder during first- degree sexual assault; multiple murders; the defendant committed the offense(s) with an assault weapon."(AOL1) For the state of Delaware murder with aggravating circumstances, "including murder of a child victim fourteen years of age or younger by an individual who was atleast four years older ... with only one aggravating factor. In Louisiana, all you have to do is murder someone or commit treason. In Maryland, "commit first degree murder, either premeditated or during the commission of a felony."(AOL1) Mississippi's death penalty is exactly like this: "capital murder includes murder of a police officer or correctional guard, murder under life sentence, murder by bomb or explosive, contract murder murder committed during specific felonies which include ... shooters shoot at him and aim to explode his heart. When someone is sentenced to die in the electric chair, they have to wear a leather mask to cover their face not because they aren't to see what is going to happen to them but to keep their eyeballs from popping across the room. When someone is electrocuted their body temperature reaches one hundred thirty eight degrees farenheight.(AOL2) ...
- 14113: Definition Essay
- ... alone the soul surfer. However if you believe that surfers are just a bunch of beer drinking, marijuana smoking, partygoers then you have something coming your way. Surfing first came about in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s at the time of the ancient Polynesian rule over the East Indies. To the Polynesians it was only a royal sport in which only the royal family can participate in. The boards they used were ... trees. The peasants were told to make different shapes and styles of the board than the royal family. They also would not paddle out to the same waves as the royal family. For it wasn’t until the 1950’s that the surfing craze developed, and that’s when the “spicoli” trait first came about. The “spicoli” trait is the perfect example of stereotyping a surfer, the trait is classically ...
- 14114: Fixing Belief
- The Four Methods of Charles S. Peirce In “The Fixation of Belief”, Charles S. Peirce attempts to explain his four methods of establishing belief, in which he says all people have. These methods can be put to the test with any subject matter, and one shall always fit. For instance, let us look at the broad but always hot topic of religious matters, or affairs. First, take into account Peirce’s first method, which is the method of tenacity. Its definition is, “taking as answer to a question any we may fancy, and constantly reiterating it to ourselves, dwelling on all which may conduce to ...
- 14115: Female Genital Mutilation
- ... Female Genital Mutilation until the story of Kauziya Kasinga, a woman from West Africa. Her father did not believe in polygamy, forced marriage, or "female circumcision". He died when she was 17 and the father's sister inherited the home, banished the mother, ended Fauziya's schooling, and arranged a marriage as a fourth wife to a man she had never met. The aunt scheduled her for the circumcision and she ran with 3,000 dollars that one of her aunts ... is still done. Specialists in Denver, CO reported in 1998 that at least 6,000 immigrants have settled in the area from African countries, which widely practices FGM. Dr. Terry Dunn, director of a women's clinic in that city commented: "I know of one patient where it was clear it was performed in this country." About 4 mutilation cases are seen each year at the clinic (5). Female Genital ...
- 14116: Marijuana
- ... will be talking about what marijuana is and what its affects are , and should marijuana be legalized or not? I. Maijuana is a drug from dried up parts of the hemp plant cannibis. Marijuana isn't a narcotic. Marijuana cancause hollusinations and slows down the cardination and impared ability to preform skilled acts. In 4,000 years of history no one has ever died from a pot over dose. II. I think that marijuana should be legalized for many reasons. Another reason is because if marijuana was legalized our jails wouldn't get full becauseof all the people who get caught with the possecion of marijana. Some otherbenifits of legalizing marijuana is by lifting the ban of marijuana use and treating it like other drugs such as ... would also pay income taxes. Secondly there would be a reduse in the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and procecute users and sellers of marijuana. III. There are reasons why marijuana shouldn't be legal. One reason is because there was one study that shows their were about 55% of all fatal accidents in the U.S. were related to alcohol intoxication. Marijuana may prevent similar risks. ...
- 14117: Capital Punishment
- ... it was his or her right to take vengeance on the person that had wronged them. This mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined a person's rights and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for the retribution for their crime. However, some feel that those laws and punishments are too lax and criminals of today take advantage of ... Although in the past, the number of crimes that were subjected to capital punishment, defined simply as the death penalty for a crime, were outrageous. Amendments were made to reflect the changes in the society's views on the morality of capital punishment. That resulted in the narrowing down of the list of one hundred crimes to twelve, punishable by the death penalty in 1833, and in 1869 it was cut ... death penalty, the federal cabinet continued to commute those criminals from death to life sentences, hence the law was not being followed and justice was not being served. This soon was followed with capital punishment's abolishment in 1976, as a formal declaration of what was already happening or rather what was not happening. It is felt that because of this and the fact that there has not been an ...
- 14118: Evolution And Creation
- ... plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary communications of slight changes in the production or generations. The word evolution means The historical development of a biological group (as a race or species) (Webster s dictionary). The origin of the theory of evolution began with the French naturalist named Lamarck. This happened in around 1809. He said that the more an animal used its body parts the stronger they got ... scientist believe it to this day. this is called the theory of evolution. His book was called The Origin of Specie. Alfred R. Wallace, came out with a theory that was almost identical to Darwin s theory. Darwin s theory was much more developed and better known. For example Darwin pointed out that farmers would take certain qualities from two different plants and mix them together and it would produce the desired plant. ...
- 14119: How Social Darwinism Influence
- ... general public believed about Social Darwinism. So, the government spread the word that by invading these countries, they were “evangelizing” these “savages”. This is not at all true because they forced Christianity down the people’s throats, which is immoral. Also, they did not educate these natives so that the British had a reason to stay in that country to “evangelize” and “educate” the people. An example of this is the ... imperialism to the general public, imperialistic governments used the theory that the outcome of their “Social Darwinistic” invasions would come out to be Utopia. Therefore, they used Social Darwinism to market imperialism. The oppressed people’s belief in imperialism quelled the danger of revolution and insurrection for imperialistic nations. If the people of the oppressed nation believed that they were being cleansed of their dirty and evil ways, they would welcome the invaders as evangelizers. For example, in George Orwell’s Burmese Days, Doctor Veraswami worships the Europeans and states that the natives were the cause of disease and suffering. This apparently isn’t true because it can be proven that the Europeans brought over ...
- 14120: Canadian Identity
- Throughout Canada’s relatively short existence we have created quite a reputation for ourselves. Our great nation is known for many things , and I am proud to say that most are positive. Does Canada have a strong national ... the type of identity we should work to keep. The first thing we should examine is what exactly is meant by “strong national identity”. A very good example of strong national identity is the U.S.. I doubt there is a man on this planet who is not familiar with the U.S.. People immediately recognize their flag, and most people can tell you quite a bit about them. The same is true of Canada, and what do they know of Canada? In 1995 U.S. President ...
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