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Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1012

.... Supreme Court case was known as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District. From the case of Tinker v. Des Moines Ind. School Board obviously came some conflicting viewpoints about the armbands. The school board said that no one has the absolute right to freedom of expression, where the Tinkers said that only banning armbands and not other political symbols was unconstitutional. The school board said that the armbands were disruptive to the learning environment, where the Tinkers said they were not. Finally, the school board said that order in the classroom, w .....


What Is America?
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 872

.... by Washington or Jefferson. Slavery, for instance, became more and more a controversial issue until finally, it led to a civil war within the less than united States. In 1861, the southern states seceded, and a war was fought between the rebels and the Union for four long, bloody years. However this battle did not end without a gain, for in 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves. Even after slavery was lifted from America’s moral back, the movement to reform America continued. Soon after the Civil War, women began to fight for equal .....


The Mythology Of Crime And Criminal Justice: Contributing Factors Of Crime
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1144

.... a crime, no indictment or conviction for the commission of such an act can be legally sustained. This provision is important in establishing the difference between government by law and arbitrary or dictatorial government. Under common law, a crime was generally classified as treason, felony, or misdemeanor, but many offenses could not be defined exactly, and the rule was adopted that any immoral act tending to the prejudice of the community was, per se, a crime, and punishable by the courts. Crimes are now usually classified as mala in se, which includes acts, such as murd .....


Homeschooling
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1673

.... their kids home to work (Clark, 1994). Ironically another factor behind public schools was the desire to use them to spread Christian morality, with its concern for the larger good over individualism (Clark, 1994). Massachusetts enacted the first such laws in 1852 requiring children ages 8-14 to be at school at least 12 weeks a year unless they were too poor. The laws proved to be effective, from 1870-1898 the number of children enrolling in the public schools outpaced the population growth. Except for certain religious sects and correspondence schools home schooling remaine .....


Animal Experimentation
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 657

.... into the eyes of rabbits. The animals are often immobilized in cages from which only their heads may show. They do not receive anesthesia during the tests. After placing the irritants into the rabbits' eyes, scientists record the damage to the eye tissue at specific intervals over a period of seventy-two hours. The tests sometimes can last anywhere from seven, up to eighteen days. Side effects from these experiments include swollen eyelids, ulceration, bleeding, swollen irises, massive deterioration, and blindness. During the tests, rabbits' eyelids are usually held open wi .....


The Black Panther Party
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2087

.... had taken its toll. The BPP was rife with dissension, both internal and external. The internal strife, division, intrigue, and paranoia had become so ingrained that eventually most members drifted or were driven, away. Some continued the struggle on other fronts and some basically cooled out altogether. The BPP limped on for several more years, then died what seemed a natural death. History will be the ultimate judge of the BPP's place in the Black Liberation Movement (BLM). But in these troubled times African people in the U.S. need to investigate both the positive an .....


The Death Penalty
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1349

.... death then to know that they are, some nights, eating meals just as good as what I am having, you need to remember what these people did. I do not feel comfortable with the idea that some person that killed or raped or robbed some innocent person could be released out of jail for “good behavior”. As said in the Bible, “Whomever sheds a man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6). This has been taken to signify “Let the punishment, fit the crime.” The Risk of Executing the Innocent. I really do feel that this should be taken very serious. We need to be able to tr .....


Humans Are Curious By Nature
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 796

.... a hypothesis is right, though we may be able to show with confidence that it is wrong"(448). Scientist have come up with many theories as to why the rein of dinosaur rule of the earth stopped "once upon a time" and in truth none of them can be proven factually at the moment. Though the "Disaster" theory does offer some scientific logic behind it since it offers some raw material which can be thrown into the equation. "The impact story, on the other hand has a sound basis in evidence"(453) he continues to state that scientist "…had revealed a massive increase of iridium in r .....



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