The article I found was a foxnews.com article by Hollie McKay titled “Stars Bemoan Plans to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding”. This article focused on the debate over funding for Planned Parenthood and the response of celebrities. The article talked about the House of Representatives passing a bill to cut millions in federal funding for women's health care centers. This bill has enraged many people including many Hollywood movie stars. Some of the Hollywood stars speaking out include Scarlett Johansson
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For this Task I choose an excerpt from “Ordeal by Hunger the Story of the Donner Party”. I feel this particular piece of Non-Fiction gives us an eyewitness account of the tragic events suffered by the participants of the 1846 expedition to California by the Donner Party. The book is written by George Stewart who was a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley campus. Stewart wrote mostly fiction but ventured into some non-fiction historical work on occasion.
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Birthday Headlines Pauline F. Bacay De La Salle – College of St. Benilde Introduction As final requirement for Technical Writing class, the students were to research on events that were headlines on the day they were born, 20 years, 50 years and 100 years ago. They were to present this in front of a panel in specific schedules their professor has given. This also served as their final exam for the second term of school year 2012 – 2011. They were to follow the APA style in doing the paper including
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Miranda v Arizona Westwood College Miranda v. Arizona Every time someone is arrested the police officer reads them their right, which was not always the case. They read as followed "you have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you can't afford one, one will be provided to you." But why do the officers have to remind the people of their
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The laws for marijuana use varies a lot from the federal and state level. On a federal level, marijuana still remains a schedule 1 controlled substance. It is very much still treated like cocaine and heroin, in that it is highly addictive and has no medical value. The consequences of getting caught with it and charged on the federal side, can be very harsh. On a state level, the legality of marijuana is based on their laws that may have passed so people can have a certain amount. With that being
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Mike Chestnutt Explore the presentation of Kingship and responsibility in Shakespeare’s Henry IV part 1 and Marlowe’s Edward II. Your study should refer to relevant contextual material and also include appropriate readings of the play by other critics Kingship and responsibility are two extremely prevalent themes in the both of the plays, with every single character in Henry IV part 1 and Edward II providing the audience with an insight into both of these themes. Although each play represents
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Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). (1) Facts: Miranda was unaware of his rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution and offered incriminating evidence during police interrogations. (2) Issues: The question is whether or not the police is required to notify the arrested defendants of their Fifth Amendment constitutional rights against self-incrimination before they interrogate the defendants? (3) Rule: The U.S. Supreme Court established a “bright line” rule to
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week, the CEO of the largest affiliated controlling shareholder of my law school made a video supporting equal marriage rights. Following Professor Wardle's lead at his alma mater, Judge Smith gratuitously quoted Antonin Scalia's dissent in Lawrence v. Texas (in other words, Scalia's losing position in that case), the case that struck down all sodomy laws among consenting adults in the U.S., in Smith's Prop 8 dissent. Why? So Smith could copy Wardle's and Scalia's invective by comparing same-sex couples
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Abortion Debates HCM-331 Mount Olive College May 15, 2010 Abortion Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the United States today that has the ability to provoke debate in the legal, political, medical, ethical, and religious arenas. The passion and emotion behind the debate has polarized the Nation and propelled groups on either side of the issue to bring their stance into the spotlight. Some have worked outside the legal system with a sense of vigilante justice, and
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Writing Assignment- Constitutional Issues in Criminal Procedure CJC 3110- Spring 2011 April 24, 2011 The Goal most directly associated with my topic is course Goal 1: “Articulate the procedural considerations in the handling of criminal cases.”, and my personal interest in the Fifth Amendment: Due Process and Obtaining Information Legally. My curiosity has always been in the scope of the law surrounding the criminal justice, but more specifically I like to know in more detail about how to obtain
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