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Term Papers on Legal and Government
Policy Profile Of Senator Dick
Number of words: 2240 - Number of pages: 9.... and was the class Valedictorian. After graduation, Dick Lugar (as he is commonly known) attended Denison University, in Ohio, and met his future wife Charlene Smeltzer. In 1954 Lugar received his degree from Denison and went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College on the campus of Oxford University, in England. Richard and Charlene were married in September, 1956, and now have four sons and six grandchildren. After completing studies at Oxford, Dick Lugar went to the American Embassy in London, England and promptly enlisted in the Navy as an intelligenc .....
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Government's Welfare Programs
Number of words: 595 - Number of pages: 3.... from welfare, crime is reduced. This is because there is now more
income so the poor no longer have the need to go out and commit crimes to
attain that income. Welfare also aids in improving the economy because the
children of these families can afford to go to school and have a chance to make
someone of themselves. Instead of enrolling in welfare themselves, in the future
these people will make contributions to the economy and will be tax paying
citizens.
On the contrary, welfare is currently a great government expense that
tax payers pay for. Federal tax .....
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Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And Different Punishments
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all of the major crimes. These crimes consist of: Murder, armed robbery,
burglary, larceny, rape, and assaults on the police. The next called
category is called " Summery " crimes which is equal to our misdemeanor
crimes. Summery crimes were all minor crimes such as: Property crimes,
Vagrancy, Drunkenness, Prostitution, Minor Larceny , and all other minor
offenses.
Probably the most famous criminal in the Victorian period was "
Jack the Ripper ". Jack the Ripper was " the first modern sexual serial
killer" ( Sugden, pg.2) Jack's trademark was th .....
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A Stereotypical Media
Number of words: 1263 - Number of pages: 5.... idea is represented in the magazine, Newsweek. Printed on April 3, 2000, Newsweek prints numerous articles of news that are not so focused and in-depth, but still contains valid consistency. The magazine is M/C Phillips, Page 2 truly tailored to the middle class and so is its advertising. In the midst of clutter, from articles of political power, to the rise of the doughnut culture, sits an ad of poise and content. Posted by the Target Corporation, a store tailored to the middle class, the ad displays, a very young, beautiful woman covered shoulders to toe in iv .....
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Gambling Casinos
Number of words: 876 - Number of pages: 4.... in problem and pathological gambling. In Connecticut for example, the Foxwoods Resort Casino opened up in 1995 and the number of pathological gamblers sky-rocketed. In 1994, there were 235 calls to the Gambling Anonymous hotline and in 1995 (after the casino opened), there were 588. In 1997, the state of Connecticut also launched a massive media campaign for community awareness of the social problem and encourage to get help for people with gambling addictions because at least 70,000 adults in Connecticut have gambling problems. Pathological gambling is a .....
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THe Use Of Marijuana
Number of words: 589 - Number of pages: 3.... other physical harm caused to an individual due to smoking weed other than the affect on their lungs. Alcohol can cause liver disease, obesity, death, and many other health problems; however, it is legal. Marijuana doesn't cause more harmful affects to an individual than alcohol or tobacco does. Even so, marijuana's recreational use is still illegal in America.
No Limit rapper Snoop Dogg says in a recent interview with "High Times," If the government was to legalize marijuana, the crime rate would go down. People would just wanna chill." Snoop goes on to say .....
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Capital Punishment
Number of words: 1118 - Number of pages: 5.... death penalty steadily grew in acceptance. Over
200 crimes were punishable by death at the beginning of the 1800's. There were
just as many methods used to execute wrong-doers as there were crimes. Some of
the techniques used included beheading, stoning, drowning, hanging, crucifying,
and burying people alive. Also used were many nontraditional forms of
execution. One type of execution utilized elephants to crush the criminal's
head on a stone block.
As times changed, so did the death penalty. Laws aimed at abolishing
the death penalty began to evolve at .....
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Capital Punishment .
Number of words: 1794 - Number of pages: 7.... the convict's life, while Texas and Florida have used the electric chair in the past, the remedy for death is now by using leatheal injection to end the convicts life. Death has always been used as a way to deter criminals from engaging in criminal activity. In the days of the old west, a man would be hung if he was caught stealing another mans horse, and during the Cold War, death would be handed down if you were convicted of treason against your country in many of the nations involved. Today though, the death penalty is given in a selected amount of murder cas .....
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