However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. ... Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. ... But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because of the homicide rate involving guns and because of the violence created by criminals using guns. ... Denmark and Finland also have high rates of gun ownership and low crime rates. The experience of these countries shows that widespread gun possession is compatible with low crime ra...

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Although the bank loaner's scams played a big part, other things such as the economy and the rate of people losing their jobs caused things to downfall. ... I learned that the banks are now trying to give loan modifications by lowering rates, which will further help the customers. ... They were offering struggling homeowners a chance to re-modify their home loans, by reducing their mortgage rates by two or three percent. ... The banks are only lowering rates by 2-3 percent, At the Cerritos Library, some statistics about home foreclosures from the Library Database were available. ... It&...

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Although I had always been fascinated by tattoos, my mother was against them 110% and always tried to push me away from the lifestyle, warning me it would lead me no where. ... He was doing over 90 mph in my lame when he hit me head on. ... Not one shop was even interested in meeting me let alone hiring me as their apprentice. ... He told me that giving up should never be an option for something thats deep in my heart, and said if I wanted to learn, that he would teach me. He even gave me some of his extra supplies to get started. ...

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He keeps me safe from a lot of evil things. ... When we asked him to answer a few questions, his first response was "Leave me alone," but them added, "What the hell do you want from me. I do not have anything to say to you, just leave me alone; okay?" ... Then we asked if his kids would let him live with them, in a loud stern voice he said, "I told you I do not like to ask for any kind of assistance from people, plus they have their own life, they are married and have kids, they do not want to deal with me." ...

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(www.undp.org) Gandhi states on page 118 that "According to me the economic constitution of India and for that matter of world, should be such that no one under it should suffer from want of food and clothing. ... Another quote from Gandhi that appealed to me was on page 119. ... Whenever someone says they are "starving" to me, it is a moronic statement, because in reality they probably have no idea what it is like to be starving. All my life growing up I always had plenty of food for me to eat, however, my mother would always tell me that whatever I put on my plate I have to finish, because ...

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I suppose I could call myself Irish or Norwegian American, but I doubt it would help me identify with a family culture that I know nothing about. ... Meaning, without me saying the organization, I can induce thoughts and pictures in most people in the American cultures head by quoting a few tag lines, and they are not just from profit seeking companies. ... The abstract value of men and women working together as role models for the children based in family cultural situation has changed to a no-fault divorce and the idea of needing to take care of the "me" cultural philosophy. ... My friend to...

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1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ...

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One day as I was driving to my sister's house in Ravenswood, I saw an elderly man standing at the end of the off-ramp. The gentleman was holding a sign that read: "Homeless will work for food. God Bless."" As I rolled to a stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dollars. To m...

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Plagued by hundreds of years of slavery, discrimination, segregation, hatred, and victimization, blacks and other minorities have been looked upon as second rate in America. ... With the racial divide in our country widening in loom of current events between what seems to be a matter of blacks against whites, it leaves me asking myself if we are all human, what is it that makes us see each other as different, or unequal? ...

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Better Education: The Controversy Over School Vouchers Education remains America's most influential avenue of opportunity. Most Americans recognize the necessity of an elementary and secondary level of education to succeed within the highly competitive world beyond adolescence. Without a basic f...

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A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the media was there, the participants in this pro and con ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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