...Kye Cruz Professor Clements English 1301-TR 9:10 02 October 2012 Death Penalty in Texas The death penalty is a way of justice to those victimized. It is a crude action that decides the fate of individuals. It is an important issue because there are people for it and against it. For those living in the State of Texas there are certain regulations for crimes to fit the capital punishment. Whether these laws are 100% correct is the issue I want to bring up. History of the death penalty dates back to colonial times, but for Texas as far back as 1800’s. Between the years 1819-1923 hanging was the means of execution. In 1923, the State of Texas authorized the use of the electric chair, and executed the first offender by “electrocution.” The electric chair was in effect until 1964 after 361 inmates were executed. In 1972, the U.S Supreme Court declared capital punishment as “cruel and unusual” and all people on death row were commuted to life sentences. In 1973, revision to the Texas Penal Code allowed executions to resume and the State of Texas adopted lethal injection in 1977. In 1996, close relatives and friends of the deceased were allowed to witness executions by means of justice. People have argued over the death penalty since it began, but in 1958 it was suggested against the eighth amendment. People complained that it offended society’s sense of justice, religious views and human rights. Therefore, the Supreme Court began “fine tuning” the way the death penalty was administered...
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...Why Did the Lone Star Fight The Civil War was one of the most famous wars in history; with a gruesome 620,000 deaths from America legitimately fighting itself. The Civil War was brought upon the “United States” because of the controversy on slaves; the Confederacy (the south) wanted to keep slavery, while the Union (the north) wanted to abolish it. Texas was part of the Confederacy, which leads us to the question, why did Texans fight? Texans fought in the Civil War because of their love for Texas, belief in State’s Rights, and to protect/preserve slavery. Patriotism for their state was one of the reasons Texans fought. John Rabb, a Texan who fought in the Civil War wrote several letters back home, revealing patriotism for Texas more than...
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...Marion Sevillo was running through the streets of El Paso, Texas, shooting people left and right as the police tried to catch up to him. He was too fast however and the police were desperately shooting at his legs to slow him down. Suddenly he was tackled to the ground by a mountain of a man and slowly lost consciousness as the man pummelled Marion’s face into the ground. Marion woke up in a white room with nothing but a man in a black suit, who carried a gun. “You are Marion Sevillo, correct?” the man suddenly said. “Well I aint’ Elvis Presley,” Marion replied with a smirk. The man, quick as lightning, reached over and punched Marion’s already bruised face with a set of knuckle busters that he had not seen before. “I didn’t know that Marion was a guy’s name,” the man commented, producing a gruesome scowl from Marion. “Do you know where you are?”...
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...A major theme in my class is to not get caught up in cultural group think. Have the courage and intelligence to think for yourself.” His life philosophy of being a teacher and a student is evident with what Charlie does when not at FRCC. “I love to dabble in art, mess around on the guitar, love to exercise, read. Really, when I get home, I play with the kids, help them with homework.” You can tell that he enjoys being a father and spending time with his family. You will also find him absorbed in the latest book that his wife and he are reading and discussing, sometimes while watching the muted plays of the latest Bronco game on the tv. I was most struck by our talk about following your heart. “I think I made a mistake as an undergrad with not following my heart. I was listening to voices in my life that were saying you got to figure out some way to make some cash. What I wanted to do was try to answer the questions I had about the nature of existence.” The Philosophy program at UT-Austin is world renowned...
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...notable Omnibus bills are annual budget funding bills the last of these being the budget of 2009 that had a mere 410 billion dollar price tag. Of which 1.7 million was for honey bee laboratory in Texas and 1.5 million for work on grapes and grape products. (Pear) Since then the nation has been funded by continuing resolution bills. (itkowitz) The description that an Omnibus bill is likened to a school bus, were it starts out with one passenger and gathers more and more riders as it nears the end of the run, is an easy way to describe the process, but a more suitable example may be that they are like a freight train careening out of control moving downhill, impossible to stop and with the inevitable result that it will derail and wreak, and when it does it will be a very large mess to attempt to clean up. I was very surprised to find that President Reagan presented an Omnibus during a 1988 State of the Union address, and called for and end to this type of bill. He slammed the 42 pound document down on the podium and stated that if the congress sent another one that he would not sign it. He received a standing ovation from both political sides. (Wolfensberger) There was not another Omnibus funding bill for six of the next seven years. Maybe we Americans need another dramatic presentation? Don’t you...
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...Abstract This paper examines whether or not the death penalty is a deterrent to crime in general and more specific, it examines if the death Penalty is a deterrent to those who commit murder. Comparisons were made of states that have the death penalty and how it impacts crime in general whether the fact of having the death penalty makes citizens safer with potential killers knowing that the death penalty awaits them should they kill someone. It also examines if someone commits murder if giving the chance would they repeat the offense. In our democratic country, we believe that you have rights, that everyone has rights, that every person is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These basic human rights are safeguarded in the Constitution. In our country, we are expected to acknowledge the rights of others. Therefore, if someone disrespects or abuses the legal rights of others, it is not only wrong but illegal as well. People who steal your money or burn down your house or kidnap you go to jail when they are caught. That’s what happens to criminals who take away your liberty or your pursuit of happiness. But what should we do when a criminal deprives you of the most precious right – the right to live? Should the murderer simply go to jail, just the same as any other criminal? Should the killer of a love one, a father or sister or brother or mother simply be allowed to spend a few years in jail before...
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...of Lubbock, Texas by joining a youth commission. By joining the youth commission and trying to campaign the right to get sex education, there were a few bumps in the road, like having the campaign also fight for gay rights. But nothing stopped her and she kept fighting. The central theme of this film is the lack of sex education, and not having it in public schools. This theme is important because Shelby thinks it would be a good idea to add it so more people to have a better understanding of what sex really is. Throughout the film, the lack of sex education can be analyzed by what social issues it causes and why the issues are important, how sex education challenges the notion of child innocence, the sociological concepts that are helpful in understanding the film’s message and what king of social impact the film seeks to achieve and examine what questions for further discussions it rises. By analyzing this, it will give us an indication on why sex education should be put into the schools of Lubbock. In the film, according to Shelby, “one in fourteen teenage girls getting pregnant” (The Education of Shelby Knox), in Lubbock, Texas, which leads to the key social issues that are portrayed in the film. The issues consist of Lubbock, having the highest teen pregnancy rates, and the highest STD rates. These issues are important because teen pregnancies and STD’s can lead to a sexual health crisis. Another reason why these issues are important is because they can mess up teen’s lives...
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...I do not think that Oswald was the only shooter. I don't think Oswald killed the president at all. Jack Ruby killed and innocent man! The CIA killed JFK and covered it up by blaming Lee Harvey Oswald. The CIA had many motives. One the CIA and the Kennedy administration had a falling out after the Bay of Pigs Invasion and did not like each other at all. Kennedy was also done with CIA’s shenanigans such as trying to assassinate Fidel Castro. It was thought that after that mess up, Kennedy was going to disband the CIA so why not kill Kennedy before hand. Also after the Bay of Pigs Invasion Kennedy fired the head of CIA, Allen Dulles, who coincidently was a member of the warren commission, and had quite a lot of pull. First I'll tell you why Oswald...
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...HB4: The 2003 Tort Reform in Texas Tricia Guzman MGT6106.E1 – Law Applications for Managers Amberton University Professor David Campbell May 15, 2015 HB4: The 2003 Tort Reform in Texas Texas is known as a tort reform state. Tort reform is essentially any attempt to limit someone’s rights to seek redress in a court of law for a civil wrong. The goal of tort reform in Texas is to create and maintain a fair, honest, and predictable civil justice system that balances the rights of both plaintiffs and defendants. House Bill 4 (HB4) was enacted to curtail frivolous lawsuits, limit runaway jury awards, and reduce malpractice liability insurance premiums in 2003. Depending on whom you agree with, Texas tort reform has helped in some areas, but also hurt in other areas. The Need for Reform Prior to 2003, Texas was known as one of the nation’s “judicial hellholes.” The state’s system of justice allowed for laws to be applied arbitrarily. Enforcement of personal property rights and contracts varied depending on which local court had the case. Furthermore, certain counties had bad reputations regardless of the court. Judicial outcomes often depended on which attorney was before which judge in which county (Nixon, 2013). The following examples show the mess of the Texas tort system: * One out of every four doctors had a malpractice claim filed against them each year. * 85 percent of medical malpractice claims failed, but cost more than $50,000 to defend. ...
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...have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas, or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. * I have added quotes whenever I used three or more consecutive words from another writer. * I further understand that Academic Dishonesty includes, but is not limited to: cheating, plagiarism, fabrication and/or resubmission of work that was developed in total or partial as a response to the assignment of another professor in all or part. Student ID Number: | | Student Signature: | | Running head: THE SEVEN LEVELS OF CHANGE The Seven Levels of Change 12/3/2010 ORL 5063 Leading Organizational Change Palm Beach Atlantic University Reference Smith, R. (1997). The 7 Levels of Change. Arlington, Texas: The Summit Publishing Group. Smith has spent his career thinking about how people think. The frame of this model is divided in 7 levels from easy to impossible. LEVEL 1 Effectiveness—Doing the right things Level 1 changes are about starting a new habit. Change is about doing the right things and being effective. The right things are pretty much the right things everywhere, but still these are incremental changes that you have to go through. TOOLS: 1. WRITE IT DOWN. Writing down the ideas is doing the right thing. Ideas are everywhere, in magazines, books, newspaper. Wenger on his book said that...
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...As I got older I started to gain a reputation as being a good player especially once I got to high school. I went Andress high school, in the city of El Paso, Texas. Located right next to the border of Mexico. The city of El Paso is one of those cities that constantly gets looked over on athletically. Schools in the inner cities, like Dallas and Houston looked at us as if we weren’t able to play the game on the same level as they did because of where we are from. My senior year we were able to finally break the cycle. We became the first team in our city to make it to the state tournament. We fell short in the final four but we still changed a lot of people’s thoughts when it came to how my school competed. Just being a part of a team that changed history of my city. Many of my teammates were sad that we had lost, but I knew after the game I had played my heart out. I was proud that my team was even able to make it that fair of course I had wished we had one but I left that game without any regrets, because I know I had given it all I had. This event has to be the most significant events in my life. I will remember this for my entire life, that I lead my team to the final four. Not many people where I come from can say something like, so I hold it almost as an honor. I talk to people every day from back home in Texas and they still talk about my last year team and how talented we were, and how they...
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...may be held. The student might then cause trouble and the teacher would be blamed for not keeping the weapon in a secure place. Students already steal teacher’s wallets, phones and other items; there has even been a report of a student stealing a teacher’s car! Surely a student would try, and at least one student would succeed at stealing a weapon from an armed teacher at school. Besides that thought, people still believe that arming teachers on campus is fine, as long as other’s don’t know about it, such as in Utah. “Carrying concealed weapons in public schools is a right protected by law for permit holders in Utah, and teachers who carry firearms are not required to inform school administrators of the existence of their weapons” (Schlanger 1). In Utah, teachers are allowed to carry weapons in schools without informing anyone. There is a plus side to this argument. If no one knows that teachers are carrying a weapon, then no one can steal it to harm others and no one will feel threated. The teachers don’t have to tell their co-workers, the students or even the students’ parents and guardians. But who knows what would happen if someone found out about their concealed weapon in...
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...think about standing up for what you believe in. Defining some and not all of the Spanish phrases in this essay is an effective strategy to keep the essays spanish base. Anzaldua was limited by the things she could say and she decided to limit some of the parts that English speaking people could understand as a sort of payback. Why not serve up what she got dished out? I may not even be right about this, but this is what it seems like. She wanted to keep her identity while allowing most of the English speaking people to be able to read and understand this, but she also issued a challenge with this, to make those people research what she wrote and actually study the Spanish language. To me, this strategy seems to be pointed at people who don't know the language and have no clue the struggle that Spanish speaking...
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...Personal Narrative My senior year of High School, I had my mind set on where I was going to college: The Art Institute in Dallas to be a fashion designer. Everyone told me not to go, that I wouldn’t make it a month and wouldn’t be long before I was back home. I was determined to prove my family wrong. My parents and I took a trip to Dallas for a campus tour. I loved every minute of the tour, but on the way home my mom told me that if I wanted to go to school there, I would have to raise the money on my own. After I graduated, I decided to take some side courses like Art and Photography while working to raise the money. Because I was unsure of which career path I wanted to study in school, after two years of working for my family company, they decided it was time for me to look for a job and stop pursing school. At the age of 20 I started working for Cato’s a women’s clothing company, about a year into working there I was named first assistant and no longer thought about going to school or raising the money to go. Just being stuck in a dead end job for the rest of my life. I started drinking and not caring about anything or anyone. This attitude went on for about a year and half, until one Sunday morning my pastor was talking about starting your life over no matter how deep you were. In the middle of the service I realized what I was doing and that I was not only hurting myself, but everyone around me and that I need to stop. I ran out of the service crying. Jenni the pastor’s...
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...michael.jacobson@reedbusiness.com XpertHR • Practical guidance for HR professionals helping you: – Comply with complex and changing employment law across all jurisdictions – Reduce risk of fines from violations – Save time by finding trusted answers in one place Why is this important? • 2007 study by Jury Verdicts Research indicates that lawsuits by employees are up 400% in the past 20 years. • Recession. • Information Services. • As of 2009, there were, on average, 6.5 claims for every 1,000 employees, every year. Five most popular employment law search topics on findlaw.com: “losing a job,” “compensation” “discrimination and harassment” “wrongful termination” and “family & medical leave act.” “Ya fiyad.” “But, umm. Please don’t sue me?” Poll Question Have you ever fired an employee who later sued your company? • I’ve fired employees, but my company has never been sued. • I’ve fired employees and my company has been sued. • I’ve never fired an employee. Bet your bottom dollar… • $50,000-150,000 – cost range of defending an employer through trial. • $25,000 - 75,000 – cost range of defending an employer up to the summary judgment stage. – If an employee can prove the absolute minimum to bring a case against the employer, it may cost the employer ~$50,000 to have a CHANCE to win a frivolous case. – And if they lose the motion, that’s another 25-50k to try the case. – Keep in mind, a lot of these fees are covered by EPLI, but large defense costs raise EPLI...
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