The Banning Of Guns Is Ineffective
.... was too much for them to bear,
they picked up their personal firearms and went to war. Standing against
the British armies, these rebels found themselves opposed by the greatest
military force in the world at that time. The 18th century witnessed the
height of the British Empire, but the rough band of colonial freedom
fighters discovered the power of the Minuteman, the average American gun
owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal
guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served
a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of
this country understood .....
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Jerry Falwell Vs. Hustler Magazine
.... distress and awarded Falwell money.
This case then went to the U.S. Supreme Court where they decided that
because Falwell is a public figure for the purposes of the First Amendment
law, he couldn't sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress by “
outrageous” conduct and therefore the Court of Appeals' decision was
reversed.
Today, this case is still significant and cited because it gave a new
outlook on the First Amendment. I feel that the Supreme Court made both a
good and bad decision in this case. The bad part is that during election
time most forms of news are filled with negative ad campaigns. The good
part i .....
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Hammurabi's Laws
.... for the person who received the goods, but wouldn't
receive a death sentence in most cases. You can see how str ict they were
on robbery back then, and probably not many robberies occurred. There were
also laws that dealt with stealing ox, sheep, ass, pig, or ship that,
unlike the previous laws, wasn't punishable by death but by a fine. In case
of kidnapping, the kidnapper would be put to death. Nowadays jail time
would probably result from such an action. Another law dealt with breaking
and entering a house. If you were caught of breaking and entering, you
would be put to death and buried at the house. Today a fine or jail time
w .....
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Serial Killing: Is It An Addiction?
.... milieu (as
indicated by changes in neurochemical and neuronal activity) in such a way
as to produce immediate reinforcement, but whose long-term effects are
personally or medically harmful or highly disadvantageous to society
(Pomerleau, 1988).
This viewpoint manages to catch all addictions, including both
substance and process, and define them in a learning context. A brief, yet
encompassing view of addiction's purpose is that of a coping device. The
addiction becomes a method in which the addicted individual can "manage and
magically control multiple forms of anxiety" (Keller, 1992, p. 224). Much
like a security blanket, or fa .....
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Drug Abuse
.... America, alcohol, is generally thought of as socially
acceptable and relatively harmless. But it can have devastating effects.
Alcohol might seem very harmless but it can harm the user very easily.
Alcohol is easy to obtain and consume. It is taken as a beverage and,
since it is legal, it can be purchased at the corner store. The immediate
effects on the user are relaxation and a slight anesthetic effect.
Alcohol is a very addictive drug. There are more than 18 million
alcoholics in America2 , an indication of how widespread its harmful
effects are. Alcoholics normally drink a lot on mornings and weeknights,
at times which se .....
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Corruption In The NYPD
.... individual police officer and police environment, and its
control must mainly should come from the department.
Any number of elements or combination of things can influence the
behavior of an organization. Within the police department ; the
organizational hierarchy , the police culture, and the interaction with
the public influence the level of corruption and brutality in the community,
and as long as the NYPD and the city of New York refuse to look into the
leadership of the department and the role it plays in ignoring and in many
ways encouraging misconduct by the individual officer. Michael Armstrong,
who was the chief .....
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Marijuana
.... contains more than 400 chemicals. When smoked, it
produces over 2,000 chemical that enter the body through the lungs. These
chemicals have a variety of immediate, short-term effects. In addition,
the repeated use of marijuana has been linked to a number of long-term
effects short- Term Effects of marijuana include both psychological and
physical reactions, known a s a high, consists of changes in the user's
feelings and thoughts. Such changes are caused mainly by THC, a chemical
in marijuana that impairs brain function. The effects of a marijuana high
vary from person to person and from one time to another in the same .....
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Why Gun Control Is Needed
.... our framers intend for these kinds of weapons to be sold to
anyone via the Internet or mail order catalog? After reading the
information that Mrs. McCall gave to me, I see that a majority of guns, in
use today, have one purpose and that is offensive military type tactics.
Could our framers imagine 10-13 year-olds in control of these firearms then
turning around and shooting other kids, teachers, and their families? Did
they imagine gangs wandering around unhampered by law enforcement and
military?
Now, let's talk about facts. There are 1,000s of cases of domestic
violence reported each year, be it rape, mugging, car-jackin .....
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Capital Punishment: Why Or Why Not?
.... on
the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association.
Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment
order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears," says,
Joseph de Maistre, an eighteenth century French Diplomat. He is right, if
we give up on punishing a deadly criminal, then we throw our society into
chaos and let the criminals freely do as they please. I would feel safe if
I knew that anyone who tried to fatally harm me would be put to death. But,
in today's society when someone can kill someone, get sentence for life,
then get paroled and then freed to go abo .....
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Heroin: The Most Dangerous Drug
.... needles, as is hepatitis and tetanus, which could also be
prevented through legalization and availability of sterile equipment. One
of the reasons heroin is considered both a very dangerous drug and perhaps
the hardest drug is the fact that the line between efective dose and the
lethal dose is so thin. An addict can have his or her fill and then the
next injection can kill them. It is strange, though, that heroin's affects
on the body are not all that severe. Heroin is actually relatively non-
toxic. If care is taken, a person can remain an addict for dozens of
years without any medical complications. Narcotics are pretty .....
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The Stalking Of Celebrities
.... autograph
hound.7 The stalking behavior due to delusional disorders affects 3 out of
every 10,000 people and only 1%-2% of all mental patients,” Dietz says. “
But it is increasing as our culture promotes celebrities as the religion of
the day.”8
“The knowing of the habits and secrets of celebrities has become a
national obsession,” says James Swanson, a lawyer and author.9
There is roughly a dozen types of stalkers. Obsessive love
motivates most celebrity stalkers, followed by erotomania--a person
believing that he or she is loved by someone famous.
Can't celebrities just put in a security system, hire a few body
gu .....
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Capital Punishment: Against
.... the other human being's life the group of peers will now have to
decide that person's fate or future. These people deciding the aggressor's
future do not have the right to take the aggressor's life for it is
unrealistic to justify one murder with another murder just for the sake of
an eye for an eye.
The ideal human would sentence this aggressive human being to a
sentence of servitude to try and repay society for the life in which he
took unjustly and so that some good may become of this tragedy. The ideal
human being would not try to take the aggressive human being's life just
for the mere fact that since the aggressive huma .....
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