In the mid 1980s smoke detector laws, requiring that detectors be placed in all new and existing residents, existed in 38 states nationwide. ... (National Safe Kids Campaign p. 3) Smoke Detector Placement The State law requires an operating smoke detector on every habitable level, including the basement. ... First Floor - Smoke detectors should be placed on the ceiling in the hallway near a stairwell to the second floor, unless there is a bedroom on the first floor. ... If you mount your detector on the ceiling, be sure to keep it at least 18 inches away from dead air space near walls and...

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The first of these laws was put into effect in by the U.S. government in 1994, and new laws have been helping the system evolve into the programs and registry lists we have today. Every time Congress passed a new law to help with the racking of sex offenders, many states would also change the way they operate and pass their own laws so that they can work more efficiently under federal guidelines. ... Attorney and victim advocate Robin Sax praises registries for "[putting] the power of information in the hands of the people so that adults can better educate themselves about their neighbors, the...

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Consequently, euthanasia should become a law if specific sub laws are put in place to protect the patient and their loved ones. ... That is why Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide should be legalized in all states and provinces of the United States of America if criteria and specific sub-laws are put in place to protect the ill and dying patients along with the patient's family and friends. When is a patient who is near death granted the option for a physician assisted death? ... In a final analysis, euthanasia should become legalized throughout the United States and its territori...

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On this day Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, placed two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon where he detonated them killing two people while injuring dozens of other bystanders (Bigman, 2013). ... Courts in America deal with law (Baum, 2012, pg. 1). Conflict leads to the court and court rulings have the ability to lead to a law that is created based off the ruling of the court when the law is interpreted (Baum, 2012, pg. 2). One prime example of case law can be pulled from the Thurman v. ... After the court interpreted the law and make their decision, the court felt that a la...

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Not only did Britain still refuse to repeal the Navigation Laws; goods formerly imported from England were cut off, forcing Americans to make their own. ... The Spanish colonists even claimed a large area near the Gulf of Mexico, ignorant to the fact that the area was ceded to the U.S. by Britain. ... There were many compromises made at the Constitutional Convention, such as representation, slavery, and laws concerning foreign/ interstate imports and exports. ... Many other laws were made concerning the importation and exportation of foreign goods and staple crops: "Congress may regulate co...

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Gun control only takes guns away from law-abiding citizens and it does nothing to stop criminals from buying illegal guns, who are unlikely to obey the law and register their guns. ... Over the years, many acts and laws have been passed. ... With all these laws and acts, legal cases arose. ... Although there are drawbacks, it is a good thing to consider in the near future if gun violence does not diminish. ... Gun control laws are not effective for public safety. ...

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From slavery to today, many laws has been implemented which would normally restrict blacks from improving their social and economic standards. ... A slave was considered by law as property and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by a free person. ... Supreme Court, directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. ... Oliver Brown, an African American railroad worker in Topeka, Kansas, sued the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his daughter, Linda Brown, attend Sumner Elementary School, an all white school near his home. ... In the l...

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We were given the right to bear arms, but citizens abuse this right and that is why we should have a stricter gun control law. ... Tucker argues for more laws regulating firearms in an order to reduce the likelihood of more school shooting"(Cothran 138). ... A stricter gun control law it could be a non-effective way of self-defense. ... teaches criminal deterrence and law and economics at the University of Chicago. ... "Even though there is a stricter gun control law it will not reduce violent crime and will not reduce school violence. ...

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They had been trained in sabotage at a school near Berlin and were carrying explosives when apprehended. ... Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon both stretched the law without legal reason. ... Bush's turn to see exactly how far he can bend the laws in times of war. ... The Bush measures bend the law, but "unfortunately we are at war. ... The only reason I am impartial and not completely against this new law is the statement made by Mullah Omar. ...

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Prohibition, which was laws outlawing the manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages. ... In the U.S. they worked for liquor laws and in 1919 secured federal Prohibition. ... The law was sponsored by Representative Andrew Volsted of Minnesota. ... After the Volsted act was put into place to determine specific laws and methods of enforcement, the Federal Prohibition Bureau was formulated in order to see that the Volsted Act was enforced. Nevertheless, these laws were frequently defied by bootleggers, and commoners alike. ...

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"Jim Crow Laws" or racial segregation was soon to play an important roll in history. ... Despite having the Fourteenth Amendment that states all citizens have equal protection of the laws, the Civil Rights Cases found a way around it. ... The near-total disenfranchisement of blacks in Mississippi led to a constitutional convention in 1890. ... In his "Niagara Address", Du Bois demands, "We want the laws enforced against the rich as well as poor; against white as well as black. ... She insists that the law must bring severe punishment to the lynchers, but that it couldn't be done witho...

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Under British rule, the colonists were denied these simple rights and were forced to coincide with the Parliamentary laws. ... Another such act was the Tea Act, which essentially gave the near bankrupt British East India Company a monopoly in the trade of tea (www.thedeclarationofindependence.com). ... The colonist were not represented in the English Parliament thus having no say in any of the acts and laws passed that impacted their lives. ...

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In the movie Platoon, The Viet Kong operated from secret bases in the jungle or marshes near the boarder of Cambodia. ... Issues that were absent were the protests taking place for example, the Buddhists protesting against new laws, set by Diem's "catholic" regime. ... Crops were built within a 1km radius, water was fetched near by, and family would live in the village. ...

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Its age limit was lowered to 18 for only a few short months because the law was categorized as age discrimination. ... Simply not following a law is a sign of immaturity. ... Alcohol is seen as something not allowed and young people get a sort of thrill from breaking the law when they drink. ... However, if a person sustains any major injuries they may not seek medical attention for fear of getting in trouble with the law, the school, or their parents. ... There are not near as many teenagers in other countries that abuse alcohol and drink recklessly as we see in America. ...

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This Act set up minimum wage laws for the workers, along with maximum hours, and an encouragement to start labor unions. ... While the nation looked only at the negative side of the depression, they did not see the place under the rainbow, and was blinded that this was a temporary event in which the end was almost near. ...

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One of the arguments used is that with laws against logging we are putting many loggers out of work. ... This is just one example of many that can be stated over and over again by the Wise User's as a fundamental concept that with laws restricting any type of action, whether it be logging, drilling, or grazing, lots of people are loosing out on the opportunity to make money by working in those fields. Added to the fire is the fact that the people making these decisions are not anywhere near the small town USA zip code that depends on logging for the communities income. The Wise Use le...

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Which in turn created more beer. 6000 BCE (Mesopotamia)- Many perishable items could not be stored for a long amount of time without pottery which was not emerged until 6000 BCE 4000 BCE (Mesopotamia)-Beer was widespread in the Near East by 4,000 B.C.E. it appears in a pictogram from Mesopotamia, which is known as modern day Iraq. 3400 BCE (Mesopotamia)-The first examples of writing date around this time, this was known as cuneiform. 2350 BCE (Egypt)- Documents from the reign of Sargon, one of a series of kings from the region of Akkad who united and ruled Sumer's rival city-states ...

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In my opinion, this shows that social welfare and poverty are not currently near the top of legislators priorities. ... Proper welfare laws that require recipients to seek employment within a certain time period seem to be most effective in the reduction of poor people in this country. ...

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The first proven evidence was found in 1991, showing that tattooing may have began in Italy near Austria, dating back to 4000 BC, where they found a man in permafrost (Flamepoint). ... In reaction to the harsh laws of the Tokugawa government that only allowed royalty to wear embroidered clothing caused the poor to flaunt full body tattoo suits (Priory). ...

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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. ... Slave households weren't as accounted for being that they were not recorded in a census nor recognized by law. ...

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BOOM! BOOM! WHHHIZZZEEEE! "Ooos and ahhs- are heard from the crowd of spectators as a huge blue crysanthemum with red pistils, a cluster of pink and blue peonies, and six long silver tiger tails light up the sky. Fireworks have been around for over 1,000 years. Fireworks have been used to help ...

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They were completely wrong as we can read in Martin Manning book titled Encyclopedia of media and propaganda in wartime America which says that Indians often get "()desert and near desert farms unsuitable for farming. ... General allotment brought huge forfeitures of homelands for Indians, they were very often tricked out of their inheritance or affiliated lands because of unacquaintance of law. ...

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The only law capitalists clearly state, and one must follow is that members of society can not infringe on the rights of others. ... His financial interest in what became the Pullman Palace Car Company laid the foundation of his fortune, and investments in oil fields near Oil City, Pennsylvania, increased his profit. ...

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Only a small share of legally admitted immigrants is sponsored by employers while the bulk are admitted because of family ties to earlier immigrants who may be living in poverty or near poverty. ... "President Obama, who in 2008 said he would push for a law that would grant many of these immigrants legal access to jobs in the United States, instead deported a record number of immigrants working here illegally" (Immigration and American Jobs). ...

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In the history of the United States nothing has brought more shame to the face of America than the cold, calculated method of keeping black people in captivity. People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ...

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