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Juvenile Justice

To many Americans today, the country is a hostage-but not from oversea terrorism as one might expect to think. No today, we live in fear from our own children; and these are the same young people who we are entrusting the future of this great country with. According to the Department of Justice ...

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Immigration To America

Immigrants come to America for many reasons. At the turn of the century, they streamed into Ellis island to escape political or religious persecution and poverty. Today immigrants come for many of the same reasons. Immigrants come different ways, perhaps in large trucks, or in Enrique and rosa's ...

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Guaranteering Civil Rights

As late as the 1950s, society in the Southern United States remained racially segregated by law. The segregation laws in these states were supported by an 1896 Supreme Court ruling. In the case of PLessy vs. Ferguson, the Court had ruled that "seperate but equal" public facilities for blacks ...

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The Morality Of Creating Life

The idea of creating life has intrigued people since the beginning of time. Mary Shelly in her novel Frankenstein brought this idea to life. In this novel, Victor Frankenstein created life by using advanced science and spare body parts. The idea of creating life is a current controversy. ...

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The Infamous Watergate Scandal

"The Watergate Complex is a series of modern buildings with balconies that looks like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1). Located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. it contains many hotel rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972 early in the morning became a very ...

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Eli Whitney

By 1790 slavery was on the decline in America. Apart from tobacco, rice, and a special strain of cotton that could be grown only in very few places, the South really had no money crop to export. Tobacco was a land waster, depleting the soil within very few years. Land was so cheap that tobacco ...

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Crazyhorse

When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux ...

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The Death Penalty

There have been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of on persons convicted of a major crime. It isn’t ...

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Capital Punishment: Injustice Of Society

Looking out for the state of the public’s satisfaction in the scheme of capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today’s system of capital punishment is frought with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. “It was a ...

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Career As A Military Officer

Definition: A military officer, a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, is responsible for the protection of U.S. citizens. This is a broad responsibility however and each officer has a distinct role that (s) he plays in the maintenance of national defense. As a member of the military, an officer ...

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The Case For Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?

? Throughout the twentieth century, major scientific and medical advances have greatly enhanced the life expectancy of the average person. However, there are many instances where doctors can preserve life artificially. In these cases where the patient suffers from a terminal disease or remains in ...

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Ireland 2

Yes = sea No = ní hea Thank you = Go raibh maith agat Thank you very much = Go raibh míle maith agat You're welcome = Tá fáilte romhat Please = Más é do thoil é, Le do thoil. Excuse me = Gaibh mo phardún Hello = Dia dhuit Goodbye = Slán agat/slán leat I do not ...

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Chad

is one of the most underdeveloped countries in the world because of its climate, geographic location, and a lack of infrastructure and natural resources. It's main cash crop that is helping it's economy is cotton, which accounts for 48% of exports.1 The industry of is mainly based on ...

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The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?

? In the United States, the legal drinking age for all 50 States and the District of Columbia is 21 years of age. The drinking age is 21 because the powers that control our government decided that when one becomes 21, one is magically transformed into a responsible person capable of handling the ...

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Abortion

Many of you who support say ‘the baby cannot feel any pain', or ‘it's not even alive yet'. On the contrary, the fetus is very much alive. The definition of ‘alive' is: to survive, feed, and to exist in one's environment. You tell me if that describes the fetus or not. At six weeks of ...

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Which are the main differences in the organization of the medieval Welsh and Scottish kingdoms that led to the ultimate conquest of the former by England and to conserving the independence of the latter?

In this paper I highlight some of the differences between Wales and Scotland in the thirteen-, and early fourteen centuries. I will examine the causes which led to the conquest of Wales, and favored the Scottish so they were able to remain independent. Among several factors I tried to emphasize ...

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Cannabis

Cannabis also known as medical marijuana, is an herbal therapy that dates back to the beginning of time. The use of marijuana brings an overall sense of well-being or more commonly known as euphoria or high. Researchers and scientists have found that cannabis can improve the effects of diseases ...

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Marriage

Each people in the world have different concepts and cultures about marriage. Most people follow traditional wedding, but some of them choose unique marriage. There are lots of types of marriage in the world such as international marriage, polygamy and polyandry, group marriage, and marriage by ...

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Law Caters to Men

After a few short weeks I have found one thing that really sticks out in my mind about law. Law caters to the elite but more specifically men. I always knew that women had extremely limited rights back in the early days of America but I never realized how severely limited they were. The text ...

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Censorship

Censorship -- the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society -- has been a hallmark of dictatorships throughout history. In the 20th Century, censorship was achieved through the examination of books, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other forms of ...

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