Jefferson's phrases start with either "He has- or "For-. ... He notes "He has- at the beginning of every sentence because he makes it so that there is only one side of the dispute. ... He appeals this way because people get emotional as if they are feeling the anger themselves, as American colonies. ... The periodic sentences are long sentences where the main point comes at the end. ... Another example of a periodic sentence is "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these ...

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With deterrence and punishment among the goals for the "three strikes and you are out" law, it was also to ensure the toughest sentences excluding the death penalty, was given to habitual offenders to promote public safety. ... As states began implementing the Three Strikes law, prison populations started to grow larger, which led to the contribution to mass incarceration. ... As Three Strike law started to be adopted state-by-state the number of inmates began to grow. ... With that being said, the law is sending youth offenders such as drug dealers, away to prison for decades becau...

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Starting in the 1970's the Federal Government started an initiative to lock up people convicted of drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. Because of these initiatives prison populations have risen by three hundred and eighty percent. ... First, it costs the government much less money to sentence someone to house arrest rather than a prison sentence. ... Plus those sentenced to house arrest are forced to pay fees to help compensate for the costs of maintaining their house arrest. With about sixty-one percent of current inmates qualifying for house arrest in accordance with the law bef...

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He starts off by telling a story about a man, who arranged to have his quadriplegic son and wife killed. ... Perry was sentenced to death, and Lawrence Horn was sentenced to life in prison without parole1. ... " (Page 4 line 96) he asks questions to start a debate. ... In an article in New York daily he poured his heart out, with his hate towards the form of punishment. ... He puts it as if it is worse for one to live with the sin of killing someone for the rest of his life instead of resting in peace. ...

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In the early 80's people of the United States of America started to change their views from liberalism to conservatism. ... Georgia is a good example of how power was starting to shift over to the conservatives. ... After following out the previous procedures, the petitioner was sentenced to death. ... This tax cut took many peoples attention because all taxpayers received these cuts, not just the rich. ... The affected social programs included child nutrition, job training, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and food stamps. ...

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Now, with that leading sentence you make think that this essay is going to be about my belief in our great country, which I do believe in, but that is not what I'm going to write about and support. ... The reason I incorporated my first sentence into this intro was because we all know that fact, and sports have been around much longer. For example, there is the belief that Hercules, a son of Zeus, had started the ancient Olympic Games. ... They are organized with their school because they have a certain amount of time to get their stuff done. ... The benefits are endless in sports and pe...

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Some others believe that it started because the Unites States support Israel in the Palestinian war which Afghanistan and Israel is in battle. ... God said "Thou shall not kill" What part don't they understand in the sentence? ... To be able to start this peace and unity we are talking about, it should start from us. ... As a 14 - year old, high school student, I believe that peace should start at home and at school. By making peace with our family members, classmates, schoolmates, and teachers; peace will make its way. ...

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The word "war" cannot be defined in one sentence, nor can its meaning be expressed using a few words. ... Wars have been fought for hundreds of years, usually to satisfy one side with more freedom, power or wealth. ... Britain is not the original country to feud with Iraq; it is the United States. ... Perhaps war starts because one side wants what they can't have, like more wealth for instance. Everyone desires power and wealth, but if people start to believe that the only way to achieve them is to start a war, then there would be wars all the time. ...

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Maybe adult sentencing is the solution? ... degree murder should not be in the same prison with a forty four year old murderer, which is understandable because they probably would not survive in that environment. On the other hand, would you be satisfied with the same fourteen year old murderer getting out of a juvenile detention center when he is eighteen? ... That is a shame, imagine that you were the parent of one of the victims, would you be satisfied with that sentence? ... Recently gangs have started recruiting kids as young as eleven and twelve to be part of their narcotics dealing. ...

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Elsa came to the United States with her family twelve years ago. ... Even though, the United States is a big opportunity for Elsa's parents to start a new life but unfortunately, Elsa's parents does not want to come to the United States, because they will faced numerous problems in living in this new environment. ... There was not much they can do with the Americans". ... She was grateful that she had a chance to come and start a new life. ... I totally understand the meaning of this sentence that education is really important in one's life. ...

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Clement Atlee came to power in 1945 with many hopes for brightening Britain's future. ... The Labour government started the groundwork for the release of their land outside the motherland starting with India. ... In the end, three were acquitted, eight received long prison sentences, and the rest were sentenced to death. ... Because of Stalin's refusal to reunify Germany, the Western Powers attempted a unification of their parts of Berlin and other German territory to form the Federal Republic of Germany, later known as West Germany. ... Because Britain and other Western Allied Nati...

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Southern Vietnam didn't really like that, thus a civil war started. ... This president started pulling troops out of Vietnam. ... " This sentence stood out to me. ... They walk on past the farmer, with a gruesome detail of the man dying. ... As you can see, writers started composing terrific writings. ...

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Although I have no quarrel with illegal offenses, there are some "crimes" which are victimless, and make me wonder if they should be considered worthy of prosecution. Most of these offenses are within the Public Order Crimes category and are considered victimless because no harm is done to others and all parties willingly consent. ... This is truly a victimless crime because the decision to wager ones own possessions or income is solely up to the individual. ... Prosecution and sentencing of these non-violent criminals helps put our jails and prison systems to close to 100% capacity and over...

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But this committee thought it had free range to do as they pleased because they were looking for communists (D2). ... As the threat of a nuclear war was in place, some built bomb shelters to protect themselves when the war started (D5). People started to fear and hate everyone that was charged with having communistic ties. ... They were sentenced to death but some people protested their killings. ... Many young men feared their 18th birthday because that meant they were legal age to be drafted (D7). ...

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Therefore, I decided to write a topic I learned about in that class, so others can also how Constitution deal with important issues in our society. ... However, I am afraid if I choose any other constitutional issues, I will have to spend several pages to explain the background of the issues, because average Americans aren't familiar with them. ... But not until the civil right movement era, people started raise up the question that whether death penalty is against the Eighth Amendment or not. ... North Carolina, some Supreme Court justice argued that capital punishment is cruel and...

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Since the young age of 18 I have been fascinated with the idea of transmitting speech over great distances. ... My assistant Thomas Watson and I started to experiment with the multiple telegraphs and that research lead to the first sentence ever transmitted from phone to phone, On march 7,1876 I won the patent for a device transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically. and in 1877 I started the bell telephone company. ... The telegraph uses dot and dash Morse code and is limited to sending and receiving only one message at a time; the reason the telegraph can only send and receive is beca...

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As much as we try to come up with our own version of reality that will never happen because society is constantly influencing our beliefs since grade school, by our parents and all the mass media surrounding us. ... When reading that sentence a lot things come to mind, what is an old tradition? ... People in the United States never thought about the consequences of their actions after the war started. ... The textbooks and school curriculum teach that and on how that was what started the American imperialism. ... It is the same concept but with different outcomes depending on the person. ...

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Ujaama was charged with terrorism in the Southern District of New York for his efforts to establish a jihad training camp and also his efforts to start a violent jihad in Afghanistan. He pleaded guilty to the charges in 2007 and turned informant to lower his sentence. ... He was found guilty of all 11 counts against him, and received a life sentence plus 115 years. ... This is a much less controversial topic because it has safeguards implemented to protect the rights of American citizens. ... Although some may argue that the government has went to far on the war on terror because of the PAT...

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In the text of the speech, we can see many times throughout that Obama relies and imposes his ethos to create his arguments, but the cornerstone of his response lies in his past, which can be observed right after he begins giving details of his life as an American, starting with the phrase: "I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas" (239). ... Both of these phrases stand out in the text because Obama used a rhetorical device known as antithesis, which means that within each phrase they contain ideas that are opposite to each other, seen in black man and wh...

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The phrase in the source are sentences like "Man is a social animal" which could refer to the neglectance of nationalism or the embracement of a communist or a non-sovereign nation-state from a particular being or person. ... Because of this, more member nations in the EU are cooperating with each other and helping to upgrade the economy within each other. ... Lowering trading barriers and being able to trade with different countries increase the likelihood of internationalism. ... Free trade allows businesses to sell to a greater market and enables them to lower production costs bec...

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Home is the first place where children start to learn. ... Home used to present a warm place filled with love where everybody wished to be. ... Kids feel, "because the movie stars can do it, I can do it too." With this horrible sentence stuck in their mind, nothing can stop them from being crazy. ... School violence decreases along with major factors in society today. ...

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" The opening to the Constitution starts with the fear of religion influencing the rule of the nation. ... Lobbying is a multi-billion dollar industry with campaigns starting four years before an election along with TV ads that are played every half hour. In 2006, Jack Abramoff, former lobbyist and businessman, was sentenced to six years in federal prison for mail fraud and conspiracy to bribe public officials. ... It was the job of those who created this country to put an end to corruption before it started. ... Because once it started, there was no way of stopping it. ...

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"Asked to describe the situation in Little Rock that night, the editor of the Arkansas Gazette stated, "I'll give it to you in one sentence. ... Abbie Hoffman's involvement in the media started at an early age. ... He first started listening to the radio as a young kid and loved it. ... Seriously, this was a horrible thing to tell people because it was not true. ... The media with its powers also can sway the audience that is watching it very easily because can show just one side of the story....

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Humanists argue that capital punishment is not a just way to deal with the crimes of killers. ... A proven fact states that 70% of American residents are in favor of capital punishment and would rather see the convict be sentenced to death, than to live next door to him. ... All because he didn't bother to think about his actions. ... The government demands justice come to killers, and no other way deals with a killer better than capital punishment. ... Becoming a serial killer can take a long time, but the path starts with small-time armed robberies, confidence boosting crimes, and...

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Finally Lincoln led the Union to victory and started reconstruction of the country in 1865. ... Starting his argument with a short and simple sentence, "I would save the Union" (Lincoln, 13), Lincoln conveyed a straightforward message that saving the Union was the most important grounds for his policy. Then he disagreed twice with the people who considered destroying slavery the paramount object: "I do not agree with them I do not agree with them" (Lincoln, 13). ... He wrote: "What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the ...

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