Eventually, the police charged into the bathroom where they saw Williams kneeling with his weapon in his hand. ... While there is no federal law specifically addressing the issuance of concealed-carry permits, all 50 states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry certain concealed firearms in public, either without a permit or after obtaining a permit from local government and/or law enforcement (Concealed Carry). There are now 41 right to carry (RTC) states. Thirty-eight of them have "shall issue" laws, requiring that carry permits be issued to applicants who meet uniform stand...

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So when little girls carry around this crazily proportioned doll this is what they begin to view as beauty. ... People who suffer from this often see themselves as ugly or too big and turn to things such as plastic surgery to try to improve how they see themselves in the mirror. ... But many other things can play into how someone feels about themselves, such as how they were treated growing up by family and peers. ... Maybe we are introducing these things to children at such a young age because we know that they helped benefit our lives, but we aren't looking enough into whatever they ar...

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The cotillion/debut carries many similarities to the quinceañeras but at the same time it is different. ... Cotillions and debuts carry great meaning for families that hold them, there are also hidden values as to why they are held. ... Although non-Hispanics learn from this event, that is not why quinceañeras are held; they are held because it brings them closer to their culture. ... This makes it easier on the parents because they become the guests, rather than the host. ... Some parents have their children do this so that they don't fall down their social standing. ...

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They are unique among marine communities. ... When either of these lives is hurt they both suffer. ... With all the benefits the reefs carry, there are also many problems that go along with them. ... Marine fish are in great danger mostly because of the awe-inspiring beauty they hold. ... And if they do eat they generally die shortly after, due to digestive system damage. ...

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Once leaders know the behavioral traits of those they work with and for, they can then begin to develop a negotiating strategy that will benefit their organization the best. ... They also had good social skills, empathy, and problem solving ability. ... Contrary to Diplomats they displayed an edgier side and were less personable. ... Even though they may not be as advanced as the Diplomats or Tacticians they could hold their own in a less fierce negotiating style. ... It also requires that each party put themselves in the shoes of the other party to see things from their perspective. ...

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Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private military and security companies" (PMSC), in the course of the past 20 years, have increasingly taken over the traditional activities carried out by mercenaries before1. ... The outsourcing of a number of basic functions which traditionally were carried out by national armies or police forces, known as the top-down privatization, has blurred the borderlines between the public services of the State and the private commercial sector. ... It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the U...

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It is healthy for teenagers to share with friends and families their "latest crush" or how they spent their weekend. ... They have found that the work to be done is in the classroom and not trying to treat this as a mental disease or defect. ... Though I'm an optimist I'm also a realist and know that without new teachers, teachers like us who have grown up in a time where sexual orientation is becoming less and less a prejudicial issue things can't change without education. ... I know things won't change over night but I know by the time we retire as teachers we w...

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. ... Because of this, she claims that "when things started coming to me, they came to me as voices. ... King's readers are fascinated by the mind that can produce such horrifying stories, and they see him as a sort of preternatural being. ... Almost everyone in the town jumps to the conclusion that she has been put under a witch's spell.37 One of the first t...

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"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge" (Tzu 77). ... This being said, it is difficult to draw conclusions on which spies completed which action, or what class they were considered to be in. ... When they landed and started the first colony, ideas of a revolution were already stirring. ... His ideas influenced the actions taken by patriots to gain independence from the British, and gave them the they needed to win the Revolutionary War. ... The United states carried out multip...

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Flexible tubes carried the pressurized substances to the joints. ... The parts move on a conveyor belt and as they pass by, the robot welds them. ... They are used to pack M&M's and then weigh the package to see if the right amount has been packaged. ... Operators must finish the job after the robots have done what they can. ... Since robots can operated in isolated areas, fewer particles stick to coated surfaces as they dry. ...

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If the understanding of consequences aren't learned as a child there is an increased chance the individual will carry this trait into adolescence then into adulthood. ... Their ability to judge what would happen after they had assaulted someone had been hindered by the non-spanking law that was passed when they were children. ... They are children who don't hear you, so to speak, unless they are dealt with in a fairly dramatic manner, non-aggressive, non-assaultive" (Penkava 9). ... What they learn from their parents may or may not be beneficial to them later in life. One of t...

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To understand how the American media plays into a bigger picture of the foreign media it is important to understand how they both operate. ... While the press does cover stories and give some detail they cannot actually participate in the debates most of the time. ... (Zapp par. 4) The United States has to carry a large burden from other countries. Being considered the world's "super power" carries the responsibility of being able to protect all interest equally and playing big brother, which sometimes means our own interest conflict with the interest of those we are suppose to be aid...

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Issues: problems that affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements and history of a society 14. applied sociology: any use of sociological perspective and/or its tools in the understanding of, intervention in, and/or enhancement of human social life 15. diversity: the variety of group experiences that result from the social structure of society 16. sociological perspective: 17. symbolic interaction theory: a theoretical perspective claiming that people act toward things because of the meaning things have for them 18. social work: a profession that p...

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The natives were truly nomadic as they followed their food. ... Since they weren't strong enough and might not of had the tools to kill the bison, they need to figure out ways to hunt them without injuring themselves. ... The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live uponnothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away.... By wearing the formal suit and nice pants, they wanted to try and look as close to the white men as they could since it was dark at night. It also looks like it is heading towards Americanization by having the native americans having guns, they started to g...

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It is all put together by the time people spend on the phone and the way they hold the phone, close or away from the ear. ... Starting with the simplest things a phone can contain fragments on the outside, to the most extreme sickness it can bring us all down. Germs are everywhere and they can't be evaded, we can only reduce the count that our hands get in contact with. ... A website acknowledges different things like, "technology became an easier access the public in 1980, health problems increased dramatically. ... Even if these damages are not permanent, they have short term effects to...

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All of these things seemed to create weak soldiers who were likely to succumb to a major yet unforeseen and at the time unknown illness called combat exhaustion. ... They just wanted out of the war. ... Soldiers did not know how to cope with these things. ... There are countless things that the soldiers did or saw that could have affected them mentally. ... One soldier always carried a book from the states with him and read it repeatedly, claiming that the book was his "companion" during hard times of the war. ...

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This affected the laws which go into place and how things are conducted in government both on the federal and state levels and is by far not what democracy should include. ... But unfortunately things are able to be skewed into the favor of the official which has become corrupt or is taking part in a corrupt act. ... This impacted the American society because they felt betrayed by their president and became unsure if they could even trust him. ... Clinton also was supported by many others as a president as he was accomplishing things as president (Campbell 2000.) ... It carries on into the st...

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Even though 75 percent of the couples say there should be an even share of work done, only one-third actually carry out the act of sharing the duties of preparing meals (Ember, 2001, p.2339). ... As Americans do, they try to eat three meals a day. ... They believe that they can worship on their own their own time in their own home (Culture Grams 2002). ... They are required to stay in school from age five till they reach sixteen years of age. When they reach the age sixteen they can choose to take a test called the General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) to get out of school o...

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Among other things, he seems to have been dragging his feet about helping the U.S. in the contra war. ... They too came to hate Noriega, not least because he was responsible for the economic warfare that was causing their children to starve. ... In fact, there's one CIA-trained battalion in Honduras that all by it had carried out more atrocities than Noriega did. ... Could they have some sort of conscious? Did they somehow know that weapons of mass destruction didn't exist? ...

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(Larkin 6) During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America, the New World collided and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Not all things exchanged were beneficial, however. ... Small pox, yellow fever, and malaria were some of the devastating diseases carried into the New World. ... They only wore wool or linen dresses. ... Most of the time, they didn't. ...

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In Los Angeles, they account for about half of the city's murders. ... Brief History It is important to look at a brief history of gangs in order to gain an understanding of how they evolved in what they are today. ... They had close ties with the male gangs and often would carry weapons for them since they were generally less likely to be searched by police officers. ... They become accustomed to blaming society for their problems and feel that they have the absolute right to do whatever they want, whenever they want. ... However, there are several things that can be done within t...

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Members of the public and huge sports fan copy the jersey numbers and playing styles and they are also influenced by theirs sports star's use of drugs (J. ... They question the right of others to interfere with their decision to achieve their goals because what they are engaging in is a potential health risk. ... " They refer to this innate value as "the spirit of sport" and that all forms of doping are against the ethics of sport. Lincoln Allison (2004) in his article found online he comments on a study carried out to comprehend to relationship between the amount of drug ...

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This means that six percent of all murderers were caught, convicted, sent to prison, released, and they murdered again. ... Often opponents will argue that some criminals are so deranged, so fearless, so assured that they will not be caught that they will murder no matter what the penalty .. ... In fact, most murderers can rest assured that more than likely they will not be put to death. ... Of course, there is a possibility of wrongly sending an innocent man to prison, or wrongly fining an innocent man, but they contend that because of the finality and severity of the death penalty, the conse...

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Gabriel Marquez gave an example of the social and economic injustices committed in his home country, Colombia, in his Nobel Prize speech: "There have been five wars and seventeen military coups; there emerged a dictator who is carrying out, in God's name, the first Latin American ethnocide of our time. ... Mario Llosa said in Interviews with Latin American Writers, that by living in Europe, he received "a broadened education" and a "comprehensive perspective, which helped me understand the things in my own country."3 Other major factors in the change of cultural ideas surfaced from th...

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This is due to the traveling winds carrying such contamination to other parts of the world if a mishap should occur. ... Right now tailings are being left in huge piles near sites where they are being processed. ... With substances that are so harmful and detrimental, unfortunately, it could only be for a short time that they are controlled and studied. ... This regime protects our environment and our health, with standards being changed it is probable that things will be over looked and not taken into account. ... Not only do foreign companies lack any disregard to the poor companies they...

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