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Essay On The F.B.I.
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1090.... violations of mainly bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, and neutrality violation. During World War One, the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft violations. The passage of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act in 1919 further broadened the Bureau's jurisdiction.
After the passage of Prohibition in 1920, the gangster era began, bringing about a whole new type of crime. Criminals engaged in kidnapping and bank robbery, which were not federal crimes at that time. This changed .....
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Racism
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2011.... a bus. At the time she was tired of the treatment her and fellow African-Americans were getting. She said she was tired and on this fateful day she bgan the turning wheels of the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took place and gave blacks their future as they have now. It gave them the freedom that they deserved and needed. They were given the ability to vote; not having to be separated in such insane ways against whites, as they were. Positive helpers in the role of black’s rights were Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. King had a dream that little black b .....
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Teen Smoking
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1297.... has also increased up to fifty percent. In 1996, 77 out of every 1, 000 nonsmoking teens picked up the habit. In 1988, the rate was 51 per 1,000. The study was based on surveys of 78,330 Americans between the ages of 12 and 66 conducted by the CDC between 1994 and 1997. They asked if they ever had a daily smoking habit and if so, when they started. They were also asked when they smoked their first cigarette. There have been recent studies that prove that increasing the prices of tobacco will reduce the number of teen smokers. The tobacco companies know that increasing the .....
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Drug Testing
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1147.... may be physical it is nearly impossible to keep one’s privacy. The relationship between employer and employee is based on a contract. The employee provides work for the employer and in return he is paid. If the employee cannot provide services because of problems such as drug abuse, then he is violating the contract. Employers have the right to know many things about their employees. Job skills and training can even be investigated by the employer. The employee is to perform services and these services must be done in a certain manner. Someone who is incoherent because of drug .....
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Benefits Of Capital Punishment
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1325.... is the fact that if the killer is dead, he will
not be able to kill again.
Most supporters of the death penalty feel that offenders should
be punished for their crimes, and that it does not matter whether it
will deter the crime rate. Supporters of the death penalty are in
favour of making examples out of offenders, and that the threat of
death will be enough to deter the crime rate, but the crime rate is
irrelevant.
According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16,
1976, eight murders are deterred for each execution that i .....
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Imperialism: A State Of Powerlessness
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 818.... be a great number of British casualties in India before the British attacked from Great Britain. The British in India know that they will suffer if they push the Indians too far. This fact is why the British do not do anything when the Indians harass them. Orwell’s lack of power, as an authority figure, is seen when he says, “When a nimble Burman tripped me up on the football field and the referee (another Burman) looked the other way, the crowd yelled with hideous laughter”. He can do nothing about the Burmans harassment. He also says the Burmans laugh and “jeer” at hi .....
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McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1831.... with a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, on February 12, 1950. In that address, McCarthy argued that the United States was denied the fruits of victory from World War II by treasonous subversives in the U.S. State Department. He especially blamed the 1949 Chinese communist takeover on treachery within the U.S. State Department. In that speech, McCarthy stated fifty-seven Communists were working in the State Department (Matusow 48).
Even when Senator McCarthy was giving his very first accusing speech in Wheeling he had not any factual information whatever to support .....
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Censorship And The First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right To Free Speech
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1832.... we need to be concerned if we, as citizens,
have been properly protected under the constitution? Our concerns occur,
on account of special interest groups that are fighting to change the
freedom of expression, the right to freely represent individual thoughts,
feelings, and views, in order to protect their families as well as others.
These groups, religious or otherwise, believe that publishing unorthodox
material is an abuse of free expression under the First Amendment. As we
will come to find, our Supreme Court system plays an exceedingly important
role in the subject of f .....
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