Guns can be bought and sold and the government would never know who has what. I feel that if someone is going to buy a gun they should have to go through a store and not only have a background check done but also a psychological evaluation done. Would this stop the violence? No but it would help eliminate any chances of a mentally ill person buying a gun and shooting a ton of people for no specific reason. I support our rights but if our rights are endangered by crazy people with guns we need to set
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September 13th, 2013 Crank by Ellen Hopkins is a novel about a high school girl who becomes involved in drugs. Kristina’s character is an example of a bad role model in the way that she handles relationships, addictions, and her attitude. Kristina’s judgment is shaky and her boy choices tend to lead her into trouble. Also, her addiction proves a valuable lesson of how one choice changes everything. She does nothing to try and control herself even though she is hooked. She was bad characteristics
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hand in my career as a correctional officer at a state prison. I see the imbalance every day and it doesn’t fluctuate. There are several reasons for this imbalance. Poverty, disrespect of legal structure, lack of discipline, inadequate education, and drugs are the main causes of the disproportionate ratio of minority inmates. The NAACP has a broken down some solid statistics on this issue as well. Poverty is one of the many contributing factors to why people are imprisoned. Poverty becomes more
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The CIA’s 50-year history of smuggling drugs into America is generating hatred for the United States throughout the world. Like Pontius Pilate, CIA washes their hands of the human tragedies and the corruption of government offices. They do this by remaining and by refusing to recognize the evidence, supporting corruption. For the past 50 years, the CIA has abused its power by deliberately drugging and corrupting America; and therefore should be prosecuted. According to the constitution, the people
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Bill 1 is an infringement on our basic civil rights because the Kentucky State Government is now involved with regulating what doctors can and can not prescribe; it denies access to medicine for lower socio-economic level patients, illegal, and legal substitutes will replace prescription medications and random urine tests and pill counts make patients guilty until proven innocent. The goal of this piece of legislation is to address the prescription drug abuse problem by limiting the availability of
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Francisco Lara CJR 240 March 1, 2011 History of the Prison System Prison is an institution for the confinement of persons convicted of criminal offenses. Throughout history, most societies have built places in which to hold persons accused of criminal acts pending some form of trial. The idea of confining persons after a trial as punishment for their crimes is relatively new. During the 15th century
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Ben Hoffman, a grieving cousin and soldier in the war against drugs. We lost Patrick to a dark path of sorrow and pain, with ups and downs of bad and worse. To all the students going to try new things, and just starting their lives. I'm a cousin of a man who died at age 21 from the never ending addiction to heroin. The moment the news was heard, the close people around him were crushed like part of them had died with him. His younger brother, who looked up to him his whole life, lost his role model
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Name of Case: Skilling v. United States Page: 133 Court/Year: U.S. Supreme Court 2010 Facts: The government accused Skilling and other in a wide-ranging scheme to deceive the investing public. Skilling was indicted with more than 25 counts of securities fraud. The government felt that Skilling benefited “profited from the fraudulent scheme” at the time of trial. According to 1346, Skilling did not commit honest-services fraud. Federal district court jury found Skilling guilty of 19 counts including
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everything yourself, and to “fight” with everybody around you for better life. The first problem that young people meet is to choose their future profession, it means that they have to choose the future of their life. It’s not an easy task to make the right choice of a job. You know children have a lot of dreams about their future : to become a superman or a policeman or a doctor … It’s very easy they think, but when they become older and see real world they understand that in all professions need to
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relativism: Imagine that you come across a culture—culture X—imposing their values on another culture. As a good relativist, you insist that they have no right to impose their values on other people. What if they turn to you and state that in their culture it is OK to impose their values on other people and you have no right to impose your value that you-shouldn’t-impose-your-values-on-other-people on them. As a consistent
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