Currently all 50 states have either a law enacted or are proposing Megan's Law which requires the registration of all people convicted sexual crimes because sex offenders are more prone to re-offend and it assists in protecting the public. The law requires the registration if convicted of a sex offense or certain types of kidnapping and the various laws that require registration. ... Megan's Law authorizes the local law enforcement to notify the public about serious sex offenders and convicted kidnappers that reside, are employed, or frequently visit the community. ... Currently a...

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GST is an explanation for suicide ideation for law enforcement officers. ... What is causing this increase in law enforcement officers' deaths? ... This is causing people to be violent towards law enforcement officers. ... Does the occupation of working in law enforcement increase the risk of suicide? ... Literature Review Studies conducted within the realm of law enforcement officer deaths show there is a rising problem with the death of law enforcement officers in the United States due to homicide and suicide. ...

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Huck Finn's Conflict: Laws of Society vs. Laws of the River There are many people who influence our lives and what we believe. ... Huck is slowly casting away of the laws of society for those of the river. ... Darkness sets in and he "never went near the house, but stuck through the woods and made for the swamp" (138). ... Watson and describes feeling "light as a feather, right straight off, and [his] troubles all gone" (241) and "how near [he] was to being lost and going to hell" (242). ...

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If we can admit that, then we should also be able to admit that it's time to make amends to those who were most harmed by those laws." The numerous studies were done on the effects of marijuana on the person, and the community as a whole has opened the eyes of some nonbelievers to understand that marijuana is nowhere near as harmful as cocaine, heroin, meth, and other such hardcore drugs. ... Colorado has since passed a law, allowing for offenders who have been charged previously with marijuana charges to petition to have their charges dropped down to class 1 misdemeanors or to have ...

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Megan's Law is a law that very few people know about. Recently there was a survey done at Defiance High School about Megan's Law . ... Megan's law is a law which now federally requires convicted sex offenders to register with a public database whenever they change residences in a state in which the law applies to their conviction(s)(ory.edu1). ... The federal version of "Megan's law- was signed by Mr. ... There is one young man that really does not agree with the law. ...

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Sometimes the Federal Government has to step up to the plate and mandate some laws and take some action but once they do is there any way to turn back from them? ... Thus, while urban drivers, unable to obtain gasoline due to local shortages, limited their driving to near the home and workplace, much of the rural gasoline supply went unused, unable to be accessed by those most in need of it (Cook, 1995). ... Although speed limits most immediately bring to mind the notion of public safety, this was not the concern of lawmakers at the time of the law's enactment. ... The law was given a tem...

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The next noteworthy milestone that he crossed in aviation was when he flew at night for the first time near Arkansas. ... The crime was highly publicized, and, as a result, a law called the Lindbergh Law was passed. This law declared that the kidnapping was a federal offense. The law is formally known as the Federal Kidnapping Act of 1932. ... When his sister-in-law became ill with a fatal heart disease, Lindbergh became curious why surgery could not be used to repair hearts. ...

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Physics is the study of the properties of matter, and the laws governing the natural world. ... Kinematics, forces, Newton's Laws, and momentum can all be demonstrated through the Rube Goldberg machine, and other scenarios. ... Gravity affects the marble as it accelerates down the near frictionless PVC pipe. ... According to Newton's Second Law of Motion, the forces are unbalanced. ... Inertia is Newton's First Law of Motion, and because the marble does not have breaks, it continues down the ramp. ...

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Officers may stop motorists at border crossings and checkpoints near the border. ... During a checkpoint, law enforcement officers are stopping every driver at checkpoint. ... Retrieved from http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/checkpoint_laws.html. 3. Law enforcement officers are allowed to use drug dogs without reasonable suspicion at check points and road blocks. ... However, the law enforcement officers are not allowed to detain you indefinitely until the dogs arrive. ...

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Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement On June 17, 2003, President Bush fulfilled one of his campaign promises by banning racial and ethnic profiling in all 70 federal agencies with law enforcement powers under the direction of the Justice Department. This will affect roughly 120,000 U.S. law enforcement officers including those from the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Coast Guard. ... Nonetheless this is a step in the right direction and a great start but in the near future more must be done about this rampant problem. ...

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The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found that the law's insurance requirement is constitutional (Levey). ... Judge Martin, who took the lead on the decision in Thomas More Law Center v. ... They are challenging the law in the Florida lawsuit. While the end is far from near, the 6th Circuit's opinion marks a small victory for Obama's bill as many officials declared that Congress does indeed have the authority to require Americans to get health insurance starting in 2014. ... Critics of the law say that it is violates their individual liberty and breaks groun...

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If you need to find an attorney specializing in trademark law, can be found in at the local bar associations and in the Yellow Pages. ... There are many different laws and acts that deal with trademarks. The Lanham Act defines the statutory and common law boundaries to trademarks. ... Some factors that might cause some misleading information from the registrant's trademark are the similarity of the uses of the two products, their nearness, and the defendant's good or bad faith in using the mark, the quality of the second product, and the sophistication of the consumer. ... Although t...

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In 2006, New Jersey passed a law that permits same-sex couples to engage in a "civil union," the legally recognized long-term relationship between two people of the same-sex (Nunan). This law took effect in 2007. In May of 2007, a law creating domestic partnerships, for same-sex couples was passed by the state legislature of Oregon. This law took effect in 2008. ... Most world religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity, have at some point in time opposed same-sex marriage because they feel that homosexual acts are immoral for they violate natural law and/o...

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For my research paper I chose the topic of racial profiling and law enforcement. ... This article shows the one sidedness of reporting about racial profiling and its effect of law enforcement agencies. ... Law enforcement agencies have worked together in slowing the drug trade as shown in the article in the city journal. The DEA taught state troopers some common identifying signs of drug couriers: nervousness; conflicting information about origin and destination cities among vehicle Racial Profiling Isn't That B...

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With that said even though the number of male police officers is greater than the number of female officers today, in the near future the two numbers will be similar and equal. According to Statistics Canada (2011), there are about "15 percent " of women who are in the federal law enforcement agencies. ... Specifically, state agencies report 5.9% sworn women law enforcement officers, which is significantly lower than the percentage reported by municipal agencies (14.2%) and country agencies (13.9%) ". (2001, The Status of Women in Policing). ...

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An important aspect of what makes us human is the creation of laws and legal codes. ... Ancient Mesopotamia was known for producing the first known written laws. ... Later the laws were carved on stone pillars called a stela. ... "The religions of the ancient Near East bound together their societies, creating a religious culture and patterns of thought quite unlike those of modern Western civilization. The sacred writings of the Near Eastern religions are among the oldest and greatest classics of world literature. ...

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Abstract The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) is the starting point for our nation's counter-terrorism and national defense. ... After years of research, Congress decided on the Glynco Naval Air Station located near Brunswick, Ga. ... In 2001, FLETC initiated the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) first located in Botswana, training law enforcement officials in countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Following the success of this program, another ILEA location was approved in San Salvador in 2005, training law enforcement officials from countries throughout Sou...

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He was a german astronomer and a natural philosopher, noted for formulating and verifying the three laws of planetary motion. These laws are now known as Kepler's Laws. Kepler held the chair of Astronomy and Mathematics at Graz University from 1594 until 1600, when he became assistant to the Danish astronomer Tyco Brahe in tn the latter's observatory near Prague. ... These laws describe the essential features of planetary motion around the sun. ... The following pages are Kepler's Three laws and the explanation of what an ellipse is and its parts. ********** As for Ke...

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The United States' drone program in Pakistan is not only ineffective, but violates international humanitarian law by wantonly killing civilians and destroying their property, violating the sovereignty of Pakistan, and using UAVs as weapons of terror. ... In regards to the bombing, Hugh Trenchard, Royal Air Force Chief of Staff at the time said, "In warfare against savage tribes who do not conform to codes of civilized warfare, aerial bombardment is not limited in its method or objectives by rules agreed upon in international law.... And before any strike is taken, there must be near...

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Because of the rising pressure the public is placing on the government and corporations heavily invested in the legislative process, this issue will continue to garner attention and demand resolve from both the federal government and the general public in the near future. ... Furthermore, there was a shift to more conservative tendencies in terms of social views on the subject as seen in the Comstock Laws and these anti-obscenity laws were a bell-weather of the times. ... Because of these laws, there were no advancements were made towards the abortion procedure. ... Abortion laws began to ta...

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Dorigen agrees half-playfully and half-angrily that she will be his lover if he removes the rocks near the port. ... When the law student goes to Aurelius he tells him that he does not need to pay his debt. ... The ocean is near, and Dorigen and her friends sometimes take walks and gaze over the cliffs at the ocean. ... The law student is extremely intelligent. ... The law student displays honor and integrity on his part by excusing Aurelius of his payment. ...

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"The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite-based system for determining accurate positions on or near Earth's surface (Physical Geo p.43)". ... The ideal that eventually everything in the near future will be using the system of GPS, for example cars. ... There are some good things and bad things that come up with the GPS system the best thing we can do it set better laws to protect the system from being misused, and to protect the people it might be used on. ... Our government should reexamine the laws that Regan put up for the GPS system and from there they need to make the...

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An issue that has risen near the top recently in American society is that of the out-of-control wildfires in the western portion of the country. ... "It uses the tragedy caused by last year's wildfires as an excuse to rob the people not only of their forests, but also of their rights under federal law to seek strong protection for those forests. ...

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Constitution strictly limits the power of law enforcement officers to make searches. ... If the arrest takes place in or near an automobile, you may, incident to arrest, search the passenger compartment and any containers you find inside. ...

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Most countries have a law that talks about human rights. These laws state that the people have freedom as long as they don't use their freedom as a tool to harm the country or other people. ... Of course, being near a smoker when he/she is smoking can harm your health. ... Cigarette addicts sometimes choose to blame the law that allowed them free access to cigarettes, and the freedom to smoke. ... Laws were made to keep order in the country, not to be used as a life guidance tool. ...

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