...The reason for writing this letter is to notify our community of the possible health risks established by the local gas company practices. The decision made to write this letter is to inform my much-loved community of people that may have been affected by this sudden break out of illnesses in the area and to spread the word of awareness to this situation to everyone else that might not be aware of this problem. After an extensive investigation I have come to the conclusion that we are in danger of health problems due to improper practices by the gas company within our community some years ago. Moving into this community a couple years ago was the best thing that happened to my family for it was home and felt like home. We have met some of the greatest neighbors and my children attend some of the best knitted schools in the community. My daily commute to and from work has been painless and I have really been able to save more money than usual; due to rising gas prices. Prior to me moving in, I was extremely anxious to move into such a new community that just so happen to be in a suburban area. With the city fairly close to us and shopping centers not more than two miles away is another factor that I have grown to love. Overall, this newly developed community has impacted my family lives for the better. A few weeks ago the local news was covering the latest breakthrough of illnesses impacting the families that stay in our community. After tuning in to this coverage my instinct kicked...
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...The Thin Blue line, directed by Errol Morris investigates the murder of Officer Robert Wood. Randall Adams was wrongfully accused of committing the crime and sentenced to life in prison. David Harris, who accused Adams of murdering Wood, was the real killer. Through the use of interviews, voice recordings, and reenactments, The Thin Blue Line challenges the justice system of Dallas, Texas as to whether they convicted the right man for the murder of Officer Robert Wood. Morris first heard about this case while he was working as a private detective during the 1980’s on Wall Street in New York City. He had heard through lawyers that he knew about a psychiatrist named Dr. Grigson who was known in Dallas as Dr. Death. The reason Dr. Grigson...
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...Criminal Justice System Crime is defined as an act or omission that is in violation of the criminal laws of the state, the federal government, or local jurisdiction, for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse (Mutchnick, 2010). Every year the U.S. Congress and state legislatures create new laws and abolish old ones. Criminal law consists of substantive and procedural law. Substantive law identifies what behavior is considered harmful to society, therefore making those acts or omissions a crime, and specifies a punishment. Procedural law identifies how crimes are to be investigated and prosecuted. This is the foundation of the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system enforces criminal laws by punishing the guilty and protecting the innocent. The police, courts, and corrections are the three components of the system. The police maintain public order and ensure community safety by enforcing the law. It is their responsibility to investigate crimes and apprehend offenders. The police have more interaction with society than other components as they are out in the community every day. Often times, they provide services to community functions and are involved in different fund raising events. The courts uphold the law by deciding criminal cases, conducting fair and impartial trials that determine the guilt or innocence of an individual and imposing sentence on the guilty. It is the courts responsibility to protect the rights and freedoms...
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...such as the Constitution or state law. The selection process as mentioned previous is done by legislative election where peers of the judges are deciding who is going to be appointed. As outlined in Article VI in the Virginia Constitution, judges are elected by a majority vote of the general assembly which is combined of the House of Delegates and the senate (judicialselection.us). To serve as a judge in the state of Virginia there are a few qualifications that must be met prior to becoming eligible for selection. Firstly, for selection as chief justice or chief judge, the potential judge must be a legal resident of the Virginia otherwise they will not be considered for a position as judge in the courts. Secondly, the nominee must be a state bar member for at least 5 years and not be older than seventy years of age. Retirement is also mandatory for a sitting judge who turns seventy years of age while in office. If the judge turns seventy while sitting, they have twenty days post birthday to continue serving until they retire. In the District courts, the same rules apply for potential judges, they are selected by legislate election and will serve a term of six years. Their qualifications are the same...
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...so that we can begin our day. We are going to discuss your role in the criminal justice in depth this morning. Please pay careful attention. As you all know you play a very important role in our criminal justice system. Failing to do anything that is covered under our responsibilities can make or break a case. So we have to pay very close attention to detail. If you have any questions please wait until the end of the presentation. I will address them then. The first step prior to ANY other action is the investigation stage. Investigating all of the suspects believed to be involved. This includes gathering evidence at the scene of the crime. If this is a case of probable cause this means gathering any witnesses with reliable information and writing a search warrant request so that you may fully investigate the matter. I believe that the investigation is the most important element. Without that stage there is no way of being able to prove one way or the other what happened or occurred. If necessary you can also request a search warrant for the suspect’s property. Keep in mind that we have to secure the warrants in order for the evidence found in the process of a search to be admissible in court. This is also a way of protecting the suspect’s 4th Amendment rights. In order to invade one’s privacy there has to be probable cause. A search warrant is only issued by a magistrate, if that burden has been met. The investigation process can also save the system a lot of money. I say this...
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...Marijuana Legalization in the United States Elisha Havraniak Ottawa University LAS 30012 Writing and Critical Thinking in the Liberal Arts October 11, 2013 Marijuana Legalization in the United States Marijuana has had a long history as an illicit drug, but is quickly becoming a mainstream issue. Some people use marijuana to ease their pain and treat their illnesses. Many others use it because of it mood-altering effects. Laws have been passed to regulate both of these uses of the drug. Those who advocate legalization favor easing or overturning laws against the possession and use of marijuana for recreational purposes, medical use, or both. In general most proposals for legalization fall into one of three categories: decriminalization for recreational use, legalization for recreational use, or legalization for medical use. In opposition to these three choices is the option to keep marijuana illegal for both recreational and medical purposes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the facts, pros and cons, regarding the legalization of marijuana. The information for this paper was obtained from scholarly and peer reviewed journal articles, books, and online sources. The research questions answered are as follows; * Could the legalization of marijuana rescue our struggling economy or could it provide much need relief to the overcrowded prison system? * Will the legalization of marijuana lead to a regulation nightmare…can it even be regulated...
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...Iqra Mirza August 10, 2011 English Composition 1 Professor Clark Research Paper Intermarriage and Interracial Among Foreign Intermarriage is the marriage between partners who are from different social, racial, religious, ethnic or cultural backgrounds. Intermarriage is also known as interracial marriage, interfaith marriage, and endogamy etc. This can be between any Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or any other religion. Therefore, intermarriage affects how children are raised, a person’s religious way of life, and can lead to possible family rejection. Intermarriage is one sign of the adaptation of a foreign population in their country. Such marriage, however, often meet numerous difficulties, from discrimination to cultural tensions between the husband and wife. Racial intermarriage involves the added difficulty of different racial backgrounds, which also create cases of discrimination and problems fitting into the community. Though mixed couples are often analyze and put under great pressure from their families and society, the meaning of intermarriage, interreligious, and interracial will maintain to grow and it can have a very positive effect on the families formed. Intermarriage causes many problems to the couples who are in these relationships. Interfaith couples, who are of different religions, tend to live together in common law rather than in holy matrimony. According to a study made in 2006, 452,000 couples in Canada were of interrelationships...
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...in the decade, February 1, 1960. On this day four young African American men, freshman at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, entered the Greensboro Woolworth’s. Woolworth’s sold items to both African American and white customers but they also had a segregated lunch counter for whites only. Each of the four men purchased a few small items, kept their receipts and proceeded to sit down at the lunch counter designated for whites only. They requested service and were denied. The men pulled out their receipts and asked why their money was good anywhere else in the store but not at the lunch counter. This prompted an African American employee of Woolworth’s to ask them to leave but they remained in those four stools until the end of the day and that concluded the first day, without any significant incident, of the Greensboro sit-ins. The four men were joined by another sixteen demonstrators the next day and on...
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...Judicial Politics And Behavior YourFirstName YourLastName University title Q.1 Firing or sacking is an informal word for dismissal which is termination of employment by employer against the employees will. Firing is a common term particularly in US and it is also known as as sacked, boned, axed, canned or given walking papers. Being fired as oppesed to qutting the job voluntarily (being laid off), is perceived being the employee’s fault thus considered a sign of failure and disgraceful. Since finding a new or another job is is difficult after firing and especially if the employee had not held the job or the position for a long period (Hugh, 2005). Mostly probationary employees are dismissed when an employer finds better equiped, skilled and experienced employees than the incumbent even though the employee has ot broken either of the rules. Many times firing is viewed as employees are very negative and m ostly with gross misconduct which is a serious action. Firing is done on basis of poor work performance, off job- site conduct, attendance problem and problematic conduct. Attendance problems are employees not turning up for work, tardiness or frequent absenteeism. Work performance problems leads to termination even when one has good attendance at a job. If the employees perfoormance does not satisfy the employers standards, the employee is finally fired. It can be on the basis of incompetence, neglect of maintenance, refusal to perform duties, negligence or...
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...Table of Contents Spanierman v. Hughes ……………………………………………………………………………………………. New Jersey v. T.L.O. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier ……………………………………………………………….. Christensen v. Royal School District No. 160 ………………………………………………………….. References and Works Cited ……………………………………………………………………………….. Spanierman v. Hughes, 576 F. Supp. 2d. 292. (D. Conn. 2008) Jeffrey Spanierman, a teacher at Emmett O’Brien High School in Ansonia, Connecticut, created a MySpace page for the purpose of communicating with his students regarding homework, learn more about the student’s personal interest and to conduct casual, non-school related discussions. (Neuberger, 2008) A colleague visited the page and was concerned with some of the content---pictures of nude men captioned with inappropriate comments and personal conversations between Mr. Spanierman and the students. The colleague spoke to Spanierman and convinced him to remove the page arguing that it was disruptive to students. Spanierman complied, but went on to create a new profile page with similar content. The colleague learned of the new page and immediately reported her findings to the school administration. The administration went on to place Spanierman on administrative leave and ultimately declined his teaching contract for the upcoming school term. (Neuberger, 2008) In the case of Spanierman v. Hughes, 576 F. Supp. 2d, 292, the Plantiff, Jeffrey...
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...The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story sometime after 1922, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens, Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman. Shortly after his arrival, Nick travels across the Sound to the more fashionable East Egg to visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband, Tom, a hulking, imposing man whom Nick had known in college. There he meets professional golfer Jordan Baker. The Buchanans and Jordan Baker live privileged lives, contrasting sharply in sensibility and luxury with Nick's more modest and grounded lifestyle. When Nick returns home that evening, he notices his neighbor, Gatsby, mysteriously standing in the dark and stretching his arms toward the water, and a solitary green light across the Sound. One day, Nick is invited to accompany Tom, a blatant adulterer, to meet his mistress, Myrtle Wilson, a middle-class woman whose husband runs a modest garage and gas station in the valley of ashes, a desolate and run-down section of town that marks the convergence of the city and the suburbs. After the group meets and journeys into the city, Myrtle phones friends to come over and they all spend the afternoon drinking at Myrtle and Tom's apartment. The afternoon is filled with drunken behavior and ends ominously with Myrtle and Tom fighting over Daisy, his wife. Drunkenness turns to rage and Tom, in one...
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...Bonnie and Clyde predicting her and her lovers death long before they met their end. The legend of Bonnie and Clyde is known by most as two lovers whose lives as criminal masterminds in the Depression-era, were full of luxury and high-speed chases. From movies to television show to Broadway musicals, Bonnie and Clyde are notoriously depicted as a glamorously romantic bank robing duo. When in fact...
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...The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and he tells the story sometime after 1922, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens, Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman. Shortly after his arrival, Nick travels across the Sound to the more fashionable East Egg to visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband, Tom, a hulking, imposing man whom Nick had known in college. There he meets professional golfer Jordan Baker. The Buchanans and Jordan Baker live privileged lives, contrasting sharply in sensibility and luxury with Nick's more modest and grounded lifestyle. When Nick returns home that evening, he notices his neighbor, Gatsby, mysteriously standing in the dark and stretching his arms toward the water, and a solitary green light across the Sound. One day, Nick is invited to accompany Tom, a blatant adulterer, to meet his mistress, Myrtle Wilson, a middle-class woman whose husband runs a modest garage and gas station in the valley of ashes, a desolate and run-down section of town that marks the convergence of the city and the suburbs. After the group meets and journeys into the city, Myrtle phones friends to come over and they all spend the afternoon drinking at Myrtle and Tom's apartment. The afternoon is filled with drunken behavior and ends ominously with Myrtle and Tom fighting over Daisy, his wife. Drunkenness turns to rage and Tom, in one...
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...of the firm’s staff knows about Giles and Regas’ relationship, but have not reported it. The partners of the firm are oblivious to the fact. * Currently, Giles is a supervising partner for one of the firm’s biggest clients, CAA industries. Coincidently, Regas was assigned to audit team of the same client. * Junior staff noticed the two were spending time together during workdays. * Ruth Revilo, Regas friend, tried to persuade her to end the relationship. * Regas suggested to Giles that they separate at least until the audit of CAA is complete. * Regas and Giles met in a public place and were spotted by the CAA Industries’ controller, Mark Sax, who started to suspect the integrity of the audit. * Sax contacted Herb Morris, the Managing Partner at the firm and explained the situation. When the two met, Sax expressed his suspicions that the romantic relationship might affect the audit process negatively. Morris promised to investigate. 2. Framing the Ethical Issue: In the case of Giles and Regas we see a variety of ethical issues including conflict of interests, integrity, credibility, and more. These ethical issues tie into one primary ethical problem. More specifically, the case demonstrates a conflict of interests created due to a romantic relationship between members...
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...pets. One of the pets they have together is a black cat named Pluto, which the narrator shares a special relationship with. As the narrator develops an alcohol problem, he gets mood swings and outburst of rage which leads to violence and the narrator torturing and hanging Pluto. After Pluto’s death the narrator’s house is caught on fire. When the narrator sees the ruins of his house after the fire, he sees a picture of Pluto of soot on the wall. This picture, and the mischief he done, eats up the narrator’s conscious at first but in time he procures another cat, which fills the place of the Pluto. But the tents to violence ones again and end up killing his wife and burring her and the cat in the cellar wall. When the police come to investigate his wife’s disappearing, on the 4rd day after the murder, the cat makes...
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