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Crime In The United States
<view this essay>.... In the eight U.S. cities with more than one million
population, the decrease in the number of violent crimes was 8 percent. In the
64 largest cities, with populations over 250,000, Crime Index totals dropped 3
percent.
Crime Volume:
In 1995, the Crime Index total of 13.9 million offenses, 1 percent lower than
the 1994 total and 7 percent lower than the 1991 total, represented the fourth
consecutive annual decline. A comparison with 1986 figures, however, showed a 5-
percent increase over the last 10-year period.
By region, the Southern States recorded 38 percent of all Crime Index offenses
reported to law enforcement. The lowest volume was reported in t .....
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Howard Roark's Testimony At The Cortlandt Trial
<view this essay>.... project, as he agreed to let Keating do it. When Keating gave into letting the building be altered, this greatly conflicted with what Roark had envisioned. He destroyed the building out of hatred for the alterations. It was almost as if he had been robbed, or if his main ideal was faced in front of a “firing range”. He does not see it as his own failure at all. He does realize the mistake in allowing Keating to propose the project, but he was ignorant to the fact that proposing is just as important as the unique design of the building. In other words, he did not realize that allowing Keating to propose the project to be a threat to his individualistic idea .....
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All Drugs Should Be Legal, Or How To End The Drug War
<view this essay>.... the drug war? "Overwhelming reliance on law enforcement causes the prices of the drugs to rise, which in turn, causes a rise in crime and violence in order to obtain these drugs." "and [it also] devotes much time to drug law enforcement at a cost of tens of billions more a year. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are imprisoned, and millions are marginalized, at [a] considerable cost and danger to others, by records of drug arrests and convictions (Neier A18)." Would in not make sense to try something different in order to get a different result? Have we not learned our lesson from Prohibition? It only took us a mere 14 years to repeal prohibition (Lewis .....
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Why Drugs Should Be Legalized!!!!
<view this essay>.... manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic
beverages. "Suddenly honest, responsible Americans who just wanted a drink, were
turned into criminals. Respectable bars became underground speak-easys, and
legitimate liquor manufacturers were replaced by criminal bootleggers." Gang
warfare, bribery, and criminal activity reached an all-time high. Standards on
illegal alcohol were much lower than those on the previously legal alcohol which
led to the blinding or death of many consumers. Finally in 1933, politicians
buckled and repealed the 18th Amendment. The Prohibition attempt of the early
20th century provides the perfect historical support for the decrimina .....
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Hemp: A Help Or A Hindrance?
<view this essay>.... is an ancient drug, first mentioned in a Chinese manuscript in 2700 BC.
Its uses included treating gout, malaria, gas pains, and absent-mindedness.
Hemp was an integral part of early Indo-European religious ceremonies for
thousands of years. Records from Assyria in 650 BC referred to it as a drug
called azulla that was used for making rope and cloth, and which was also used
for experiencing euphoria. Hempen sails brought the Spanish, Dutch, and British
conquerors to the new world (Charpentier 18). In North America, hemp was
planted near Jamestown in 1611 for use in making rope. In order to keep a
constant supply of hemp available, a law was passed in .....
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Legalizing Marijuana
<view this essay>.... said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. Due to all these lobbying groups which show substantial evidence that marijuana can be used as a prescribed drug. Also many advocates who are pro marijuana complain that morphine and cocaine are legal and are very dangerous drugs, that brings up the question why not legalize marijuana as medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee unanimously voted to urge president Bill .....
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Teen Violence And Its Causes
<view this essay>.... most
important factor in a child's life. How they treat and act to their
children will determine how they become morally and sociably to society.
Divorce, lack of love, lack of discipline, and lack of attention are all
factors that support that parents determine how a child becomes. Parents
are role models, and raising their children together, with love, with
discipline, and with lots of attention is not only their job, but their
responsibility as parents. Parents determine how their children become.
As the years go by, we see a higher and higher divorce rate. As
this rate goes up, so does the crime rate. Couples today have forgotten
the word commitment. .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
<view this essay>.... have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. Due to all these lobbying groups which show substantial evidence that marijuana can be used as a prescribed drug. Also many advocates who are pro marijuana complain that morphine and cocaine are legal and are very dangerous drugs, that brings up the question why not legalize marijuana as medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee unanimously voted to u .....
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