Many people do not realize that if there was less capital punishment, a lot of money could be saved that could be used in many other ways. Many people are not aware how much it actually costs to put somebody to death. ... The death penalty costs California 90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - 78 million on the death penalty from 1973 to 1988 to achieve eighteen executions that is an average of 2.3 million per execution (Information center 1). ...

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Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. While this is common thought in America, empirical evidence illustrates that offenders in all racial and socioeconomic groups commit mainly humble and ordinary crimes, such as shoplifting, burglary or driving under the influence. A high percentage of people in trouble for "fancy" crimes are white, at the same time, a very low percentage of white offenders are in trouble for "fancy" crime...

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Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. While this is common thought in America, empirical evidence illustrates that offenders in all racial and socioeconomic groups commit mainly humble and ordinary crimes, such as shoplifting, burglary or driving under the influence. A high percentage of people in trouble for "fancy" crimes are white, at the same time, a very low percentage of white offenders are in trouble for "fancy" crime...

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Discoveries made by physical scientists and mathematicians were changing the ways people viewed the universe. Scientific investigation seemed to show that the universe was organized according to certain unchanging laws, and that people could discover those laws through the use of their reason. ... The AGE OF REALISM, from 1835-1910, explained why ordinary people behave the way they do. ...

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Allen Ginsberg's response to a post-war America is powerful and rebellious, challenging the values of ordinary American citizens and addressing the issues of McCarthyism, consumerism and capitalism that enclose him, in a corrupted American society where Ginsberg and fellow beat writers, and visionary artists were not valued. ... Religion inspired people to work rigidly, but for this they were rewarded with money, and therefore the dollar became worshipped. ... Under McCarthy's instruction, this included many poets, artists, film-directors, and it became so preposterous that people...

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People tend to cling to their own group and our sense of national unity is weakening. ... Carver's stories focus on ordinary lower-class people who aren't particularly smart or particularly successful as described again in Cathedral, "I'd wished she'd come back down stairs [my wife], I didn't want to be left alone with a blind man."" ...

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As the meaning and effects of globalization become more and more widespread, people across the world have formed grassroots organizations. ... This paper discusses some disadvantages of globalization and which have prompted people to protest. ... Ordinary people have become increasingly aware of these problems (due in part to globalization itself and the spread of instantaneous information) and protest movements have sprouted. ... The major issues of globalization that have prompted people to protest are environmental destruction, human rights standards, labor injustices, and the growth ...

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On the one hand, large numbers of Americans believe that the ordinary citizen should play a part in public affairs. ... Many people do not think that the political process pertains to them. ... As previously stated, educated people vote at a relatively higher percentage than those who are not. ... Essentially, people are more likely to take part in something which they comprehend. ... Many people remain pessimistic about the entire political process. ...

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What immediately springs to mind for most people with the possibility of cloning whole people is the ideas of creating supermen or a master race which dominated the Nazis. ... Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people believed to be inferior or below average mentally and physically (Glass). ... Euthanasia, the killing of people for the greater good, was also a means of purging the world of inferior people. Germany adopted a sterilization law in 1933, which made people with such hereditary disabilities as Huntington's Corea, feeble-mindedness, blindness and deafness, gr...

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"A sustainable city enables all its citizens to meet their needs and to enhance their well-being, without degrading the natural world or the lives of other people, now or in the future.... Cities must "strive to achieve a decent standard of living for all people and live within the limits of natural systems" (Berke & Conroy, 2000). ... According to the ecology global network, 55 million people die each year. ... Mills states in Sociological Imagination, ordinary men are directly aware of the troubles they face and are so bounded by their daily routines they aren't able to overcome th...

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This was a highly mechanized, industrial age in which people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. ... Criticisms of this theory suggest that people at the top mislead the American public, which means that people with greater information have more power. ... Corporate Ruling Class Theory If a ruling class hypothesis says anything, surely it asserts that within some specific political system there exist a group of people who to some degree exercise power or influence over other actors in the system '. ... (Business Week 1989 ) In 1992 TNCs...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Family Redefining the American Teenager The Rise of the Hot Rod Culture The Rise of the Excess Culture Baby Boomers and Redesign Converting from Chrome to Muscle The Automobile as Identity Downfall and Decline Conclusion Bibliography Introduction With the end of World War II, the United State...

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