One of the lines in the third stanza is "If I stole your births and your names, / Your straight baby tears and your games, /Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, and/ Your deaths," This line is a crucial line because it does show that little regret that she did have towards that fetus she once had. The first part of that is about stealing births and names, you only have those once and the mother stole them. ... The next line is basically talking about the future the baby could have had but the mother took it away. She realizes this and grasps that the baby she ha...

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About 9 percent of all students are victimized at least once during a six-month period. ... Because the future of the nation lies in the hands of the children, they should be able to receive an education without fear and unnecessary burden. ...

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Is this what the future holds for our children? ... Out of the corner of my eye I saw Antione Jackson a local gang member who had been shot by a .22 caliber rifle from a black car passing by, once in the shoulder and once in the leg by the front of the bus. ... There was a fight at least once a week usually more, fights were kind of overlooked as long as no one was hurt bad. ...

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Drugs also hurt future generations because drug abuse, particularly of marijuana, is usually a problem among our future teens. ... If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse once and for all. ...

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Seeing how cruel the justice system can be to people who have not once harmed another human being, force me to be advocate to those who were wronged. ... I have seen first hand how one arrest can ruin someone entire future. ...

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Although, the court did do its job once it learned that evidence had been mishandled and the eyewitnesses were not reliable. Once this was found out the court decided to over turn Cousin's death sentence and did not attempt to pursue the case any further. ... It will also probably be changed more than once in the future. ...

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Capital Punishment can't be reversed once it's done. ... It needs to be faced, as a method employed to dissuade future criminals, capital punishment has been a total failure. ... Therefore, if capital punishment's purpose is to deter future criminals, it's bound to fail just as it has in the past. ...

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The Elderly Offender When people hear the word inmate, they usually think of a young minority male. In the past minorities between the ages of 18 and 27 made up half of the inmate population in America. America's prison population has traditionally been young and poor, but in recent years it h...

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He doesn't care about family, about friends, and his future, merely obtaining that money and doing everything in his power to do so. ... Once the night arrived, Dick assured himself and his partner that they were ready, and so the "robbery" went underway. ...

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This means that hundreds of more people died because those convicted of murder were released only to murder once more. ... He had been convicted of murder once before in Texas but not executed. ... It alleviates fear of future attacks. ...

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The innocent lives that have been taken with the approval form government should be enough to end capital punishment once and for all. ... The death penalty is not a proven deterrent to future murder. ... Once in prison, the prisoners serving life sentences are less likely to commit violence than other prisoners and often get into a routine. ...

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During the late 1970's to the early 1980's our society and the politicians began to think that the criminal justice system was failing once again and had become way to soft and kind to the criminals and their behavior. ... We also have the right to know that these criminals will be rehabilitated so they will not continue to commit crimes once they are released. ... This is not saying that these criminals should not have to face any consequences if they broke a law, instead this is saying that once a criminal commits a crime and is arrested, they should also receive the rehabilitation...

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I conducted intensive research in my career path which included, acquiring professional knowledge about the origin of the word "Police", the job outlook, education, experience required, job description, similar occupation, work environment and its future operation and functions. ... Also if there are any trends that will make this career choice more or less attractive in the future. ... I believe I am good fit for this work because I was once a protective security officer with Nigeria Department of State Services. ...

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This visit would allow her to meet her future partner, which would lead her to a life of crime and eventually put her in the ground (Historybuff, 2004). ... In 1932 once more Clyde managed to sneak away from the law as he was pardoned, even though the credit was given to his mother after letters that she had written to the governor. ... Not long after being pardoned Bonnie and Clyde met back up and would drive off in a stolen car that would begin the future of ciaos in the South. ... In the future months to come and into the new year Clyde would add three more murders bringing his total to ...

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After several months of this I became bored once more and realizing that's there is no money in this field either. An opportunity came along after a couple of months to become an electrician, once again I found myself doing another job I loved doing but thought "really do I want this when I"m sixty" no I want to be retired when I"m sixty. ... Once again not knowing what the future may hold in store for me. ... Once again past experience paid off I was an electrician again. ...

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Before you can learn about how it applies today and its future, you must know its past. ... In his book he made a case that the death penalty shouldn't be completely abolished, but as for certain crimes it proved useless in preventing them in the future. ...

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I once lived in poverty when I was in elementary school. ... The inclination to violence springs from the circumstances of life among the ghetto poor- the lack of jobs that a pay a living wage, the stigma of race, the fallout from rampant drug use and drug trafficking, and the resulting alienation and lack of hope for the future." ...

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The criminal justice system clearly is not perfect. There are many critical issues that it is facing. I am going to focus on four of these critical issues. The four issues that I have chosen to focus on are: racial profiling, corruption of police officers, the bail system, and the rehabilitation of ...

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(Love) Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (once a supporter of executions) commented on the unfair application of capital punishment in the United States in 1994 saying, "I feel morally and intellectually obliged simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed The death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake From this date forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." ...

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Capital Punishment: Is it right or wrong? The death penalty has not remained constant throughout American History . It has undergone numerous changes and reforms in the past two centuries, falling in and out of public favor. The death penalty has been in our legal system since our legal ...

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Is Gun Control Necessary? As a result of the many school shootings that have taken place in the last few years, there has been a huge push for stricter gun control laws. Many people don't feel safe in today's society. The government has been listening to the people and has already passed laws to...

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MY VIEWS ON THE DEATH PENALTY I've long said that I don't mind abolishing the death penalty. Really! Just as long as there's a major overhauling in the way that we treat criminals convicted of capital crimes. I'm interested in protecting the innocent, but I can't say that protecting the guilty from...

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"The Times found that during the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 percent to 101 percent higher than in states without the death penalty- (Bonner & Fessenden, 2000). Capital punishment is ethically wrong, it does not decrease crime, and innocent peopl...

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The founding fathers anticipated that gun control could become a serious issue in the future, so they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution. ... Whatever check or balance gun ownership might provide on the government is completely nullified once the government has a record of the location of every gun in private hands. ...

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The past century has been one of sensational crimes that have amazed many Americans. Form the Lindbergh baby to the exploits of Al Capone, to serial murderers like Ted Bundy. Crime has become a cultural phenomenon that has captured the interests of academics and the causal reader alike. To look back...

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