Starting in the 1970's the Federal Government started an initiative to lock up people convicted of drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. Because of these initiatives prison populations have risen by three hundred and eighty percent. ... First, it costs the government much less money to sentence someone to house arrest rather than a prison sentence. ... Plus those sentenced to house arrest are forced to pay fees to help compensate for the costs of maintaining their house arrest. With about sixty-one percent of current inmates qualifying for house arrest in accordance with the law bef...

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He starts off by telling a story about a man, who arranged to have his quadriplegic son and wife killed. ... Perry was sentenced to death, and Lawrence Horn was sentenced to life in prison without parole1. ... " (Page 4 line 96) he asks questions to start a debate. ... In an article in New York daily he poured his heart out, with his hate towards the form of punishment. ... He puts it as if it is worse for one to live with the sin of killing someone for the rest of his life instead of resting in peace. ...

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It is also suppose to specify if a sentence is done concurrently or consecutively, and it restricts the amount of time that a prisoner can have taken off his or her sentence. ... So in other words, if you start early you can actually get five strikes before you are put away for good. ... This quote was made from a student at Stanford and I agree with his statement. ... The three strikes law seems to have its good side because it puts away several hardcore criminals. ... And at certain times I feel that I agree with this. ...

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He has the chance to voice his beliefs if he disagrees with a law. ... The verdict of the jurors who sentenced him to death was not just. ... It was proven that the U.S. allows you to stay in its country if you don't agree with its law, and you can break the law; start a movement to change it. ... Socrates sentence to death was unjust. The jury only sentenced him to death because they didn't understand the truth of how he philosophized. ...

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Maybe adult sentencing is the solution? For obvious reasons some people feel that a fourteen year old convicted on two counts of second degree murder should not be in the same prison with a forty four year old murderer, which is understandable because they probably would not survive in that environment. ... That is a shame, imagine that you were the parent of one of the victims, would you be satisfied with that sentence? ... Recently gangs have started recruiting kids as young as eleven and twelve to be part of their narcotics dealing. ... These juveniles are committing adult violent crimes an...

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In the early 80's people of the United States of America started to change their views from liberalism to conservatism. ... Georgia is a good example of how power was starting to shift over to the conservatives. ... After following out the previous procedures, the petitioner was sentenced to death. ... This tax cut took many peoples attention because all taxpayers received these cuts, not just the rich. ... The affected social programs included child nutrition, job training, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and food stamps. ...

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Now, with that leading sentence you make think that this essay is going to be about my belief in our great country, which I do believe in, but that is not what I'm going to write about and support. ... The reason I incorporated my first sentence into this intro was because we all know that fact, and sports have been around much longer. For example, there is the belief that Hercules, a son of Zeus, had started the ancient Olympic Games. ... They are organized with their school because they have a certain amount of time to get their stuff done. ... The benefits are endless in sports and pe...

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Some others believe that it started because the Unites States support Israel in the Palestinian war which Afghanistan and Israel is in battle. ... God said "Thou shall not kill" What part don't they understand in the sentence? ... To be able to start this peace and unity we are talking about, it should start from us. ... As a 14 - year old, high school student, I believe that peace should start at home and at school. By making peace with our family members, classmates, schoolmates, and teachers; peace will make its way. ...

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They feel no compulsion to going back and trying to start over, regaining people's trust and respect, of being stereotyped as a "prison rat," and spending life in a cramped chamber. Some even choose to take their own life after being sentenced to a life term. ... Many inmates will have opted for crime because they were not happy with their lives and wished for an outlet. ...

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With! ... Crime can start at a very young age, as young as third grade, when kids feel the need for attention. ... Schools are often a breeding ground for juvenile offenders because groups of kids are able to gather and cause trouble. ... Guns and juveniles seem to be another one of the main issues with juvenile crime because one in five juveniles said they carried a gun most of the time an! ... Changes in jurisdictional authority, sentencing authority, confidentiality, victim's rights and correctional programming all helped to start a decrease in juvenile crime for 1995 (Sickmund 28). ...

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The word "war" cannot be defined in one sentence, nor can its meaning be expressed using a few words. ... Wars have been fought for hundreds of years, usually to satisfy one side with more freedom, power or wealth. ... Britain is not the original country to feud with Iraq; it is the United States. ... Perhaps war starts because one side wants what they can't have, like more wealth for instance. Everyone desires power and wealth, but if people start to believe that the only way to achieve them is to start a war, then there would be wars all the time. ...

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Maybe adult sentencing is the solution? ... degree murder should not be in the same prison with a forty four year old murderer, which is understandable because they probably would not survive in that environment. On the other hand, would you be satisfied with the same fourteen year old murderer getting out of a juvenile detention center when he is eighteen? ... That is a shame, imagine that you were the parent of one of the victims, would you be satisfied with that sentence? ... Recently gangs have started recruiting kids as young as eleven and twelve to be part of their narcotics dealing. ...

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Elsa came to the United States with her family twelve years ago. ... Even though, the United States is a big opportunity for Elsa's parents to start a new life but unfortunately, Elsa's parents does not want to come to the United States, because they will faced numerous problems in living in this new environment. ... There was not much they can do with the Americans". ... She was grateful that she had a chance to come and start a new life. ... I totally understand the meaning of this sentence that education is really important in one's life. ...

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"...the death sentence is abominable, as abominable as the crime itself. ... Sentences with significant minimum terms can also provide the public with the protection from repeat offenders. ... There are thirty- two states in the United States that offer life without parole as a sentencing option. ... Instead of having these people being executed they should give them more help than ususal because of their state. ... Standing in an enclosure 20 feet away, five shooters are armed with .30 caliber rifles loaded with single rounds. ...

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To begin with, the first reason the United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico was because of John O'Sullivan. ... Its because he is saying that Mexico is not letting U.S expand and when americans heard this, they wanted to fight with Mexico because Mexico wouldn't let the U.S. become a big country. ... This quote may have been the cause of the war which was unjustified because after hearing this sentence, most of Americans might have fought for the land owned by Mexico which they believed to be suffering because Mexico's government could take care of them nice...

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Clement Atlee came to power in 1945 with many hopes for brightening Britain's future. ... The Labour government started the groundwork for the release of their land outside the motherland starting with India. ... In the end, three were acquitted, eight received long prison sentences, and the rest were sentenced to death. ... Because of Stalin's refusal to reunify Germany, the Western Powers attempted a unification of their parts of Berlin and other German territory to form the Federal Republic of Germany, later known as West Germany. ... Because Britain and other Western Allied Nati...

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Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. ... This president started pulling troops out of Vietnam. ... " This sentence stood out to me. ... They walk on past the farmer, with a gruesome detail of the man dying. ... As you can see, writers started composing terrific writings. ...

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The average prison sentence of men who kill their female partners is two to six years and women who kill their male partners are sentenced on average to fifteen years, despite the fact that they did it in self defense (Talvi inthesetimes.com). ... With that responsibility men were given power. ... Women really had no place to go they always had to just deal with the abuse. ... (Domestic violence Statics.com) Battered women who were once threatened by their abuser with a weapon will wind up killing the abuser with the same exact weapon as well (Browne 140). ... Once they do the abusers find t...

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But this committee thought it had free range to do as they pleased because they were looking for communists (D2). ... As the threat of a nuclear war was in place, some built bomb shelters to protect themselves when the war started (D5). People started to fear and hate everyone that was charged with having communistic ties. ... They were sentenced to death but some people protested their killings. ... Many young men feared their 18th birthday because that meant they were legal age to be drafted (D7). ...

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Whenever the word "death penalty" comes up, extremists from both sides start yelling out their arguments. ... I support the death penalty because I do not oppose it. ... I completely disagree with the premise. ... It saves lives because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again. ... Yet others disagree with Mr. ...

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Since the young age of 18 I have been fascinated with the idea of transmitting speech over great distances. ... My assistant Thomas Watson and I started to experiment with the multiple telegraphs and that research lead to the first sentence ever transmitted from phone to phone, On march 7,1876 I won the patent for a device transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically. and in 1877 I started the bell telephone company. ... The telegraph uses dot and dash Morse code and is limited to sending and receiving only one message at a time; the reason the telegraph can only send and receive is beca...

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As much as we try to come up with our own version of reality that will never happen because society is constantly influencing our beliefs since grade school, by our parents and all the mass media surrounding us. ... When reading that sentence a lot things come to mind, what is an old tradition? ... People in the United States never thought about the consequences of their actions after the war started. ... The textbooks and school curriculum teach that and on how that was what started the American imperialism. ... It is the same concept but with different outcomes depending on the person. ...

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Because of the new ability of people to discuss politics freely, this new change caused controversy because people did not always agree with one another. ... This started a lot of controversies and even allowed women to discuss politics with one another (41). ... In the south, if a free black was caught even playing cards with a slave, they were sentenced to "thirty nine lashes on his bare back" (48). ... Women started getting jobs as well because there were many new opportunities. ... If he hadn't started public openness with politics, then people wouldn't be printing them an...

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The phrase in the source are sentences like "Man is a social animal" which could refer to the neglectance of nationalism or the embracement of a communist or a non-sovereign nation-state from a particular being or person. ... Because of this, more member nations in the EU are cooperating with each other and helping to upgrade the economy within each other. ... Lowering trading barriers and being able to trade with different countries increase the likelihood of internationalism. ... Free trade allows businesses to sell to a greater market and enables them to lower production costs bec...

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Home is the first place where children start to learn. ... Home used to present a warm place filled with love where everybody wished to be. ... Kids feel, "because the movie stars can do it, I can do it too." With this horrible sentence stuck in their mind, nothing can stop them from being crazy. ... School violence decreases along with major factors in society today. ...

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