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Search results 861 - 870 of 949 matching essays
- 861: The Rodney King Case
- ... Now, because of the action of the Los Angeles police that night and the subsequent acquittals of the policemen, the public’s mind was clearly open to the issue of racism in American society today. The Rodney King incident was a wake up call for all of America. The actions of Sgt. Stacy Koon, Officer Laurence Powell, Officer Tim Wind, and ...
- 862: Capital Punishment: Right or Wrong?
- ... be served. Well maybe they should be thought of as killers themselves, bacause they put to death innocent men. Some other cases of innocent people being put to death invlove racism, or bad lawyers. Another reason that the death penalty isn’t a good idea is because no one has the right to take another persons life. Sure, the man who ...
- 863: Opposing The Death Penalty
- ... ve never been conscious or concerned with the likes of criminals. When we began speaking on the subject, I thought we were only going to talk about the institution of racism in capital punishment, and was quite unaware of the feeling this subject would arouse in me. Needless to say, I have formed some opinions on the issue which confused even ...
- 864: White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime
- ... unsafe products. In addition, its unacceptable for murder to be committed by means of a gun, knife, or weapon. As well as supporting isolation from other people, such policies cause racism and stereotyping. Police have pictures of "criminals" in their minds. These images are male people of color, ages 14-25. If you know who the criminal is, you will make ...
- 865: When Society Kills
- ... been convicted of capital crimes they did not commit. Of those 400, 23 were executed. The wrongful execution of an innocent person is an injustice that can never be rectified. Racism Race is an important factor in determining who is sentenced to die. In 1990 a report from the General Accounting Office concluded that: "in 82 percent of the studies [reviewed ...
- 866: Power Does Not Come From a Gun
- ... April 4, 1968. People tried to use their power to stop him and his fight. In the end, they may have succeeded in killing its leader, but the battle against racism lived on. Looking back, people say that Martin Luther King Jr. was a very powerful man. I have never heard anyone say his attackers or his murderers had. "I am ...
- 867: Censorship
- ... to clean up society, but can be over used in areas where it does not apply. Our world is not perfect. We live in a world filled with violence, sex, racism, etc. Certain literature like hard-core pornography should be censored to the general public. These types of explicit sex truly have no meaning. They degrade the human race by increasing ...
- 868: Capital Punishment Deters murder, and Is Just Retribution
- ... considered invalid by most supporters, including Ehrlich. He feels that execution of convicted offenders expresses the great value society places on innocent life. Isaac Ehrlich goes on to state that racism is also a point used by death penalty advocates.
- 869: Substance Abuse Increasing in Inner-City Minorities
- ... drug of choice is crack and the sentences are much more harsh for crack offenders, then they are for cocaine offenders. This is one of the prime examples of institutionalized racism in America. I feel that the way to combat all kinds of drug abuse is through early intervention. Recovering addicts should meet and share their accounts with pre- adolescent children ...
- 870: Essay On Human Sexual History
- ... problems like over population, rape, and sexually transmitted diseases, alternatives to sex are needed more than ever. Personally, I will not believe that modern society wants to stop sexism and racism until I see a change in the types of propaganda, advertising, and choice of media, society chooses to express itself with. Some people might say that it is the 90 ...
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