Persuasion and Resistance: Race and the Death Penalty in America Mark Peffley Jon Hurwitz University of Kentucky University of Pittsburgh Although there exists a large and well-documented “race gap” between whites and blacks in their support for the death penalty, we know relatively little about the nature of these differences and how the races respond to various arguments against the penalty. To explore such differences, we embedded an experiment in a national survey in which respondents are
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Introduction: The 2nd amendment gives any individual a right to bear arms, and it has been this way since the Bill of Rights was written up and approved in 1791. Now if owning and operating a firearm is one of the freedoms given to us, then why do we need to be restricted with gun control amongst our nation? One of the trending topics of conversation, which has been blowing up media sites recently, is the discussion of gun control. Gun control laws attempt to regulate the sale, acquisition, or
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highlight the pros and cons of flat tax, national sales tax, and the current tax system. Flat Tax Simplicity is considered a significant benefit of the flat tax system. One tax rate makes for easy calculation by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and straight forward payments from taxpayers. Because the flat tax taxes only one income, it is easier to understand and to report. The flat tax remains a popular idea in part because it eliminates double taxation. It eliminates the death tax, capital
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Brain Scans in the Courtroom Brain scans and neuroimaging, especially those obtained through MRI, fMRI, and CT scanners, have led to large advances in the world of neuroscience. In many cases, attorneys seek to use brain scans to help their clients on death row, many of whom are referred to as psychopaths because they have Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD). However, serious debate has grown around the increased use of brain scans in criminal cases. Neuroscientists, attorneys, and judges around the
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C H A P T E R 12 Evaluate Your Argument on the Issue In this chapter you will learn how to identify and overcome errors in reasoning. This is a special step that applies only to issues because resolving issues involves finding the most reasonable belief. Two broad kinds of errors are examined—errors affecting the truth of your ideas and errors affecting the quality of your reasoning. A step-by-step approach to evaluate arguments is also included. ecause your main objective in addressing an
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modest change has been achieved according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Medicare Readmission Penalties Max Penalty 278 Hospitals 8.3% No Penalty fiscal year 2013 and rising to 3 percent in 2015—penalties that could reach into the millions of dollars for some hospi- tals. Patient outcomes from July 2008 to June 2011 dictated the penalties leveraged in 2013. Health experts say high re- admission rates for pneumonia, as well as other conditions, are mainly driven
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The Time What is the most horrible of institutions that ever entered human lives? Anyone, by the perceived notion of institutions might start listing education, family, marriage, state, religion etc. But, if we think once, all these institutions have something in common. They are all time - framed, time – bound, and submit us to conformity, which is again fitting itself into the framework of larger time that is life time. So, I would say, it is time that is the major institution that changed the
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philosophical dia- logues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, let- ters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Plato is thought to have lectured at the Academy, although
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ESSAY FOR SBI DESCRIPTIVE TEST CYBER CRIMES Millions of people around the world use computers and the internet every day. We all use it in school, work even at home, computers have made our lives easier it has brought so many benefits to the society but it has also brought some problems and cybercrimes with them. Today, the world is moving towards a point where everything from banking stock exchanges, are traffic control, telephones to electric power, health care, welfare and education depends on
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Handbook of Business Strategy Emerald Article: The ethics of business strategy Fred Hansen, Michele Smith Article information: To cite this document: Fred Hansen, Michele Smith, (2006),"The ethics of business strategy", Handbook of Business Strategy, Vol. 7 Iss: 1 pp. 201 - 206 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10775730610618828 Downloaded on: 09-04-2012 References: This document contains references to 16 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight
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