"No! ... They believe that if they are able to go to war and die for their country, then they should be able to buy a six-pack. ... About two-thirds of the alcohol-involved crimes were characterized as simple assaults."" ... Arrests for DUI peaked in 1983 when there were 1.9 million arrests. ... If it were legalized, situations would become out of control; crime and death rates from car crashes and suicide would skyrocket. ...
The Patriot Act "allows investigators to use the tools that were already available to investigate organized crime and drug trafficking" ("What Is the USA Patriot Web."). ... One may say this society has entered the new digital world where there are no rules, and everything is up for grabs. ... However, if the government can't use all the information it already has to stop terrorist attacks within the country, then it is questionable as to whether or not the NSA is doing its job. ... Since the rise of technology, there has been a decrease in the level of privacy American society...
American Court System Life with No Possibility of Parole Imagine receiving a 25-year prison sentence with no possible chance of parole. There is not even a way the sentence can be reduced from the start. ... Present day mandatory minimum sentencing laws were established during the early 1970's. ... Mandatory minimums sounded like a great idea when they were passed- (4). ... The vast majority says no. ...
One student proclaimed, "I just do not understand how I can be learning about the American Revolution one day and then the Great Depression the next" [Bla14]. ... Statistics show that when some of the dropouts were asked why they quit school, only 15% were family related [OBr13]. ... Instead they need to impose a section where there is more parent involvement [Web12]. ... " [Deb09] Many parents were shocked that in elementary school the teachers were giving the children the answers. ... Has no one ever noticed that the ones who drop out are the ones who end up in jail or dead?...
For why declare that things shall be done for which there is no power to do"(The Constitution that Delicate Balance page 13). Nevertheless if every state has different rights then if someone committed a crime, for example, he could leave the state he did it in and go to another state were the law would protect him. ... An example of this would be violating your first amendment right by causing clear and present danger by yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater even though there is no fire. ... When they were asked to remove them, they refused, and were then suspended. ... For example if a lawye...
The term 'wrong' cannot be applied universally, because it is argued that because morality is relative to ones culture, there are no objective moral standards. Consequently, if the actions of those responsible were culturally approved, then it may even be the case such an act was morally right. ... But from a relativistic point of view there is no more reason to be tolerant than intolerant, and neither stance is objectively morally better than the other'6. ... They claim that because there is no compelling reason to treat moral disagreements any differently to normal disagreeme...
(Nuzum11) The highest authorities in America agree that there is no evidence that music can make a "good" person go "bad. ... (Nuzum 9) But there is no evidence that music can make an otherwise healthy person commit crimes, destroy other people's property, or, in some views, turn "bad." ... There is no parental advisory sticker on the bible, torah, or any other religious book. ... If censorship supporters are allowed to express their opinion then so is a lyricist. ... (Nuzum 193) There is no evidence to back up the fact that music has an effect on the small at risk percentage, but t...
No one can understand how I felt. ... After all, that is done, we all went to school to take the exam, when I got there, there were lots of people at the school, I was scared and felt like falling down from Somewhere high. ... By the way, we waited too longer more than 3 hours, chairs were so uncomfortable, I was sleepy and no phone, literally there was nothing to do. ... I didn't get what was going on, what were they doing, almost no idea about anything. ... But we had no one in America. ...
For instance, you just know for sure that there's no monster under your bed, or that doll in your basement isn't haunted or there's simply just a rat chewing the lines in the backyard, that's why the television shut off or the lights cut off, right? ... We were a pretty regular family until one day something changed. ... He then made a loud call, I then began to cry and scream unsure to what this call would lead to. ... That's something you see on TV its make-believe there is no way that aliens could be real. my father began to cry and explained that it was his fault t...
This meant that they were no longer looking and using the long standing European ways of artistic form . ... Similar to early modernism in America, there were sublets of art forms in late modernism. ... There is no really set way of painting under this set of artistic expression. ... There were a variety of brush strokes that outlined the body of the female. ... I was instructed to concentrate on the painting, and then close my eyes, and then describe what I saw. ...
They were stolen, sold, and forced to work for little or no compensation. ... " (1890) This is how slaves were treated, because they were not seen as men, and they had no rights. ... There were white women, so naturally they had the rights that all Americans had, right? ... There were many things a woman could not do simply because she was a woman. ... Today, all men are created equal, and if you are born here, live here, work here, sleep here, and die here, you are an American, no matter what gender or race you were born into. ...
At the turn of the century though there were nearly 1,000,000 newcomers to the United States. ... At the turn of the century there were many reasons for people to come to America. ... Then people started coming for the freedom. ... Now and then many people are coming to make a better life for themselves. ... About 14 million of these immigrants have no English speaking ability what so ever. ...
Many indentured servants were able to escape to neighboring towns since no one was really able to tell them apart from a normal civilian. ... The labor of the slaves was far more demanding on the plantations then a household slave, which was common in Africa. ... There was a hierarchy that was established in Chesapeake; at the top was the large planters, then lesser planters and landowning yeomen, and of course at the bottom was convicts, indentured servant, tenant farmers, and slaves. ... Due to small percentage of slaves the white felt like there wasn't any threats for resistance, the...
Fenton Johnson, who wrote an article in the Harper's Magazine, argues that, " if one subscribes to the principles that government should not serve specific religious agendas and that it should not discriminate on the basis of gender, there is no logical reason to limit marriage benefits to mixed-gender couples- (267). ... For instance, if it were a husband a man who died AT&T would more than likely provide deaths benefits to the surviving spouse. ... Maybe the problems arise because there is no legal agreement between the couple and no commitment so the partner could take advantage of t...
People were so preoccupied with grieving and mourning that no one knew who to point fingers at. ... In an article written by David Ray Griffin the sixth paragraph begins with the lines "There is no doubt that the attacks brought benefits. ... " It is clear to see that there were some major advantages from the attacks for the U.S. ... Civilians and or Soldiers and then blaming the attacks on Cuba as an excuse to go to war. ... It is clear to see from a scientific viewpoint that there is no logical way that the World Trade Center Towers would collapse in the fashion that they did simp...
What if your job not only made you work there, but then sent work home for you to do, and if you didn't do it, you were in big trouble? What if there were guys that hung around the water-cooler that were totally immature, humiliated people that were different, and the boss didn't do a thing about it? ... No one would idolize them if they were loud-mouthed, arrogant bullies that shot up their school, but instead it's the shy, polite outcasts that are doing it. ... My point is, that there were always kids who wanted to attack their school. The kids were always there, but shoot...
She is most likely portraying that no matter where the Indians went, they were quickly massacred. ... This, by no means, is a bad book. ... This people are giving no opportunity to share the land, in fact they are ushered into a corner and then slaughtered maliciously. ... He later found that the Americans were planning on building roads through there land. ... Along with these attacks there were other villages attacked the same way. ...
The term Nigga and Nigger should have no distinctive difference in their meaning. ... So they were "insufficient to task" or niggardly. ... As a result, the US Supreme Court and the Chief Judge ruled in favor of the infamous Dred Scott Case that as far as they were concerned, blacks were only 3/5's human and therefore had no rights that the white man was bound to respect. ... Part of the purpose of the word "nigga," both then and now, was to make blacks believe that they had no value, or right to be respected, and as a result, to take away confidence in any one that was black. ... Althou...
There were three distinct waves that brought Irish to America. ... They had no jobs, no food and rents were on the rise. ... Landlords of those sickened Irish were quick to evict hundreds of thousands of peasants, who then were moved into crowded warehouses with other with similar afflictions. ... When they arrived in Boston, as in other cities, they were forced to stay "with there own kind". ... Jobs that no one wanted to do were done by the Irish and after conditions got better Irish moved up the economic chain to the level they are at today. ...
Until they come to grips with it, there is no problem. ... And they are not supposed to harm anyone through "reverse discrimination." 3 Then there are those who are completely unaware of racism in the world. ... No one could know. ... And in their earlier years were known to ride on horses and kill blacks for no reason, just hate. ... Where there is a problem, there is a solution. ...
So, if there was no gun control and people could carry guns around with them as they pleased, the amount of gun homicides probably would not increase significantly anyway. ... On this day, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight were injured when they were shot at by someone, who was most likely James Eagan Holmes (Parker, Bunch, Lee, Ingold, Steffen, and Brown 1). ... But, that does not mean no one should. There will always be someone who will use a gun for evil, whether it is a firearm or a pillow. And while the system may not be the best at deciding who can own guns, there would be no wa...
There was then an increase in immigration from Italy. ... The majority of these immigrants came from southern Italy and there were many reasons for that. ... There were factors that helped to lure the Italians toward America. ... Some were turned away if it was believed they had no family or friends to help them start off and they had no money and were believed to be at risk of becoming a public charge. ... There were many new churches established that were connected to other institutions for the Italians (Pretelli...
The playgrounds weren't safe; there were no clean drinking fountains, nor any open fields to run. ... Williams's parents were very wealthy and they sent him to the best school LA had to offer. ... There is no basic ground between the two levels of class. ... A job already hard to keep becomes even harder because there is no car to commute with. ... For the upper classes there is no need for a job since everything is paid for. ...
If you were a skateboarder you were thought to be a loser or troublemaker. ... In the 50's you were cool if you had a Muscle Car and were rough and tough. Leather was in and so were poodle skirts. ... This means that no matter what people will always have something that they agree on. ... There were no one on one interviews with teens. ...
By the early 1800s, a nationwide tax assessment revealed that there were near six hundred thousand dwellings in the United States, and by the 1850s, there were well over three million. ... As spoken by Thomas Jefferson's secretary, Albert Gallatin, "We have no villages in America," instead American farmers' homes were "scattered all over the country.... Brick and stone homes were a rare sight, and were only really used in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey for the richer families; this was in agreement with German tradition, an ethic group that settled there. ... T...
