In the 13th century, England replaced mutilation with hanging, as there method of execution. ... So capital punishment in America started with the belief, that to maintain control there must be some kind of justice system set up to where the Nation as well as the individual State has the power to punish the most serious of criminals without regard or hesitation. ... Some equate the American death penalty with the Nazi holocaust. ... There is also the argument over the cost of death row prisoners compare prisoners who have been given a sentence of life without parole. ... Not only were they at ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Federalism is a concept that started many years ago during the times of the ratification of the document we live by called the Constitution. ... With its largest effect was during the Civil rights movement. ... Washington put his newly acquired freedom to use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Ironically with all the women's suffrage bickering, women did not receive the ballot until 1920 by the 19th Amendment. ... The new deal had again failed with the creat...

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• Grade Level: High School

The mannerisms in which minorities are dealt with and looked upon show the true forms of intention and persecution these groups feel because they do not and can not assimilate to the majority party. ... Competition for labor with white workers would eventually lead up to the 1871 Chinese Massacre. ... From the first moment Asian immigrants stepped onto the land they were viewed with disdain in California. ... On the other hand, others wanted to start a new life in the new land, but most immigration decisions involved family. As the Chinese took over most of the jobs, complaints about the ...

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Because of fast and steady increase in crime and the fight for the right to own a handgun, the introduction of legislation for gun control, to try to reduce the crime in the United States, has been a hotly debated issue in recent years. ... However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. ... In addition criminals using guns have seen gun control as necessary because of the violence. ... 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...

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• Grade Level: High School

Crimes with guns and knives wouldn't take place without the students having access to those weapons. ... It is escalating to great proportions and this problem must be dealt with by our society. School violence starts out with the bully on the playground, or the pushing and shoving in the lunch line, but given the right set of circumstances what might have been prevented with some supervision instead turns into something deadly. ... A child who starts acting violently will often do so during periods of unstructured and unsupervised time. ... Sometimes after consulting with parents, the s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. ... The media has seemed to go along with these people more so than the people against the war on drugs. ... But marijuana should not be smoked as medicine because it is a harmful and addictive substance that can cause respiratory disease, mental disorders, and other health problems. ... The media was now in alliance with the war on drugs. With the media behind them, the advocates of the war on drugs started to fight with vigor alongside the largest media campaign ...

• Word Count: 5937
• Approx Pages: 24
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School