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- 821: ATF
- ... collecting revenue, and protecting the public. ATF enforces the Federal laws and regulations relating to alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives and arson by working directly and in cooperation with others to: Suppress and prevent crime and violence through enforcement, regulation, and community outreach, Ensure fair and proper revenue collection, Provide fair and effective industry regulation, Support and assist Federal, State, local, and international law enforcement. They provide innovative training programs in support ... and develop a diverse, innovative, and well-trained work force in order to collectively achieve their goals. In conclusion The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) must respond to the public outcry against crime, violence, and other threats to public safety. They must also continue to do their part to maintain the economic stability of the country. Their main vision will help them chart the course to change the way ...
- 822: The History of Greek Theater
- ... the miracles supplied by it were replace by the sudden appearance of a rich uncle, the discovery or new wills, or of infants changed at birth. Many proprieties of the Greek plays were attached to violence. Therefore, it was a rule that acts of violence must take place off stage. This carried through to the Elizabethan theater which avoided the horrors of men being flayed alive or Glouster's eyes being put out in full view of an audience (King ...
- 823: Angel Island
- ... Irish attacked, beaten, and looted Chinese whenever they came in contact. The Irish and blacks worked in a segregated environment when working on the Brunswick canal in Georgia. The excuse for the segregation was that violence would break out between the two groups. In essence, this created competition and tension between the two groups. The Irish were Catholics, so they were shunned by Protestants, the group in power; but Irish had ... same privileges as other citizens. Although a great achievement, these guarantees of equal protection by treaty and federal law did little to effect what happened in actual society. The Chinese were still vulnerable to racial violence. The white man had different motives for bringing the Chinese over for the white man's benefit instead of thinking of the Chinese as equals. The year after the Civil War, blacks were thought to ...
- 824: Apocalypse
- ... that has overcome these people as the crowd divides further. Finally, force will begin to be exerted under the notion that the non-believers should be punished. As the non-believers put up further resistance, violence will break out. Innocent people will stand by and helplessly watch their loved ones being ruthlessly beaten. As the violence increases, those who are trying to fight back will be killed. The people who are left over will cry out in hysteria over the loss of their loved ones, yelling, "Why? Why did you have ...
- 825: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... world for being strong, good looking, and vigorous. There are very few pros's compared to all the con's of using steroids. Just a few con's are: increase in acne, mood swings and violence, kidney cancer, liver and prostate cancer, altered cholesterol, baldness in males, deepening voice, depression, headaches, heart disease, impotence, blood clotting ability reduced, menstruating irregularities, shrinking testicles, facial hair in women, and madness (psychosis). Those are ... speaker is the outstanding, All-American football player, Curt Marsh. Marsh was forced to retire with a severe ankle injury many years ago. Since then, he has spoken to more than 500,000 students on violence, substance abuse prevention, leadership, and positive thinking. Carl Eller, a former All-Pro defensive linemen for the Minnesota Vikings, had a $4,000-a-week cocaine problem. When he started to see opposing players sneer ...
- 826: Debate Over Man Being Inherent
- ... but rather a beast which comes out to destroy all the order and civility in life. Jack and his band of savages did not care for order, but rather for having fun and making random violence. They did not realize the only thing that could save them was some time of order or system. Even the boy who longed for the order of his former life could not resist occasionally being caught up in the orgies of violence because, as Golding states, the urge for chaos is a part of human nature. Golding and Rousseau differ on their viewpoints on the natural inclination of man. Golding's novel demonstrates his idea that man ...
- 827: Discovery Of Society
- ... by the idea of chaos revolting in the society and that is why he explains togetherness and not chaos to be what makes up a society. Durkheim, a bourgeois liberal, was concerned with the instability, violence and decline in social order. Durkheim felt that the common values shared by a society, such as morality and religion were the basis of social stability. In his opinion, these values were what maintained a ... by the idea of chaos revolting in the society and that is why he explains togetherness and not chaos to be what makes up a society. Durkheim, a bourgeois liberal, was concerned with the instability, violence and decline in social order. Durkheim felt that the common values shared by a society, such as morality and religion were the basis of social stability. In his opinion, these values were what maintained a ...
- 828: The Bible
- ... prisoners from the concentration camps were allowed back to their homes. Many of these homes were burned to nothing. However those towns still in existence were crawling with people who shunned these war victims - using violence and anger to push them back out of that town. These people continued the hatred the war brought out by blaming these victims for Germany's turmoil after the war ended. These people are as ... Germany was responsible for - the Jews did not ruin Germany, the government and the general population was responsible for all of her faults. These people chose their own path of cruelty and sin by promoting violence against innocent bystanders; thus, committing the same crime against humanity. They treated the victims with such anger that they made these homes graveyards for the Jews. It was their choice, it was their sin. Unfortunately ...
- 829: The Roots of Judaism and Christianity
- ... was a major factor in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, whereupon the German Jews were immediately disfranchised, robbed of possessions, deprived of employment, barred from the schools, and subjected to physical violence and constant humiliation. Once World War II occupied the attention of the democracies, Hitler and his supporters attempted "the final solution," the complete extermination of the Jews. About 6 million Jews --almost a third of ... Western democracies all but closed their doors to refugees. Britain meanwhile had gradually abandoned the Balfour Declaration, reducing the number of Jews admitted to Palestine in order to placate the Arabs. After repeated outbreaks of violence, investigations, and abortive British plans, Britain announced that it was giving up the mandate, and the United Nations adopted a resolution calling for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab areas. On May 14 ...
- 830: Communication Between Men and Women: They Can't be the Same
- ... women directly but not where both the genders communicate in the same way. (Lakoff 627) If the two genders do communicate in the same way, there is bound to be serious conflict that usually involves violence. The movie Thelma and Louise tells the story of two women who have run away from their traditional roles as women. They have been put under too much pressure from society and especially men. Both ... very directly to the rapist which included shooting him in the heart. By threatening to shoot him, it displays that she changed from an indirect form of communication to a direct form of communication. Though violence is not generally thought a form of communication, it conveyed the her feelings towards him very directly and clearly. Harlen did not know that Louise had changed her form of communication and preceded to communicate ...
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