|
Term Papers on Legal and Government
Capital Punishment
Number of words: 1317 - Number of pages: 5.... deters more than long prison terms do."(Cavanagh 4)
In relation to the times in the French Revolution where murderers and thieves heads were thrown into the guillotine, our society today is at a much higher level of thinking. Why should we bring ourselves to the level of thinking that was used almost two hundred years ago? The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that
"…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our socie .....
|
Just Say No! A Profile Of Cocaine And It's Effects On Two Lives
Number of words: 756 - Number of pages: 3.... then, the
paste is mixed with strong chemicals to make a white, powdery mixture. Most
cocaine comes from South America. It is estimated that about 400 tons of
cocaine is smuggled out of South America each year. Half of this cocaine ends
up on the streets of the United States.
Cocaine is a stimulant. That means that when it is used, it speeds up
the way the brain works. It causes the brain to send out too many electrical
signals that then get mixed up. Because the brain tells the heart how fast and
often to beat, using cocaine can make the heart pump s .....
|
Should Gambling Be Legalized?
Number of words: 3862 - Number of pages: 15.... stake, the average gambler does not stand a chance
against this big business. The casinos go to every length to analyze what makes
a gambler bet, stay longer, and loose as much money as possible.
Gamblers who come to casinos with the intention of winning money are
habitually disappointed. As casino crime lord, Meyer Lansky's universal
gambling truth states; "Gamblers never win, the house never loses"2 Slot
Machines and most table games allow players to make bets where the probability
of winning is relatively high. Frequent wins are characterized by low pa .....
|
Capital Punishment: Against
Number of words: 969 - Number of pages: 4.... God or a
supreme being other then ourselves. If a human being were to take another
human being's life then the aggressor would have to go on trial that would
let him be judged by a group of his peers. Upon the verdict of guilt in
taking 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 se .....
|
Body Image Standards
Number of words: 762 - Number of pages: 3.... self-image a woman has, the more beauty products she will buy to try and “improve” her looks. And there is no better way to make her think she is ugly than to subject her to thousands of unrealistic, airbrushed pictures of models to compare herself to. This way of thinking is further drilled into the female mind through women’s magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue and so on. Never do you find an article entitled “Big is Beautiful”. More often you will find “How to lose 20 lb.. so your man will love you!” sprawled across the cover of the latest issue. Occasio .....
|
Planck V. Indiana
Number of words: 1010 - Number of pages: 4.... the
officers that he did not know why they were there, was pushed to the ground and
had loaded rifles pointed at him. The children were then forcibly removed from
their parents custody, and at no time was any identification shown by the
officers. Curt, Lance Planck's younger brother, resisted this removal from his
house, and was threatened by an officer that he would be "dragged out of here."
After this scene, Emily, Stephen, and Curtis Planck were loaded into a van and
driven to an eye doctor in Anderson, Indiana. The examining doctor, Dr. Joseph
Woschitz .....
|
Resources On Internet
Number of words: 358 - Number of pages: 2.... including organizational, management, and intercultural communication; Internet resources. http://lcweb.loc.gov/ Library of Congress http://www.hbs.edu/dor Harvard Business School Search engine available to search among the documents in the Division of Research. http://search.amcity.com/baltimore Baltimore Business Journal, weekly publication on business news in Baltimore area. http://www.umuc.edu/library/evaluate.html Evaluating Internet Resources GUIDES TO ONLINE COLLOBORATION http://uclink.berkeley.edu:1607/11/NN/D.Richards_Peer_Editing Guide to Peer Editin .....
|
The Higher Education Act Is Unfair To Students
Number of words: 374 - Number of pages: 2.... Congress is using this law directed at non-violent drug offenders to show that congress is tough on drugs. This must mean congress supports murderers, rapist and thieves right to receive financial aid.
On December 15th, 1998 James Wolf was convicted of possession of less than one gram of marijuana. This conviction caused the former Western Carolina University student to withdraw from college because he could not afford to pay tuition and book fees without federal aid. In February of 1999 James Wolf was convicted of delivery of one kilogram of cocaine. When .....
|
|
|