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America
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 997.... of a prison environment that serves as little more than a warehouse to store bodies in, works to harden the character of the person forced to survive in it, and when the time comes to release this person, he/she is released back into society without any rehabilitation or readjustment, made much the worse than when they were first in society. Of course the many released on parole commit further crimes. What is parole, something that has power over a person's hardened character?
"Correctional facility" is a lie. Where is the "correctional" influence in storing bodies for .....
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New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 340.... and the police and told her mother to take her to the police headquarters. A New Jersey juvenile court admitted the evidence, saying that the search of the purse was reasonable under the standard of enforcing school policy and maintaining school discipline. The court found the student, T.L.O., to be a delinquent and sentenced her to a years probation. The appellate Division affirmed the courts decision that there had been no Fourth Amendment violation, T.L.O. appealed . The supreme court reversed the decision . The court held that the fourth amendment prohibits unreasonab .....
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D-day
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1524.... Overload. Which was the code name for the entire Allied plot to invade and free France and Western Europe.
(1-4) The fourth term used when talking about is Neptune. Neptune stood for the first phase of Operation Overload. Which was the planning of the Normandy assault, the movement of the armada across the English Channel, and the battle for the beaches.
(1-5) The fifth term sometimes used when talking about is The Atlantic Wall. The Atlantis Wall was the German’s first line of defense in the west, which was along the English Channel coast of France. The wall was only .....
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Black Panther Party
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2905.... the Black Panthers. The Panthers and Huey P. Newton's leadership of the Party are as significant to the Black freedom struggle as more widely known leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A typical American history high school textbook not only neglects to mention Huey Newton but also disregards the existence of the Black Panthers altogether. Therefore, we must open this missed chapter in American history and discover the legacy and story of Huey P. Newton. Huey's experiences growing up were centered in his conception of the Black Panthers. Unlike King and many other civil righ .....
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Louis XIV
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 640.... mother was Anne of Austria. There is some dispute as to who actually fathered because his father was mentally unstable and did not like Anne of Austria. Whatever the reality, Louis was born on September 5, 1638. By all accounts Louis' childhood was not very happy. He was reared primarily by servants. At one point he almost drowned in a pond because no one was watching him.
His father died on May 14, 1643, when Louis was four and one-half years old. The regent who ruled France during the youth of Louis was Cardinal Mazarin from Italy. Mazarin's policies were clever, complex .....
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Hong Kong 2
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1353.... Despite China’s attempt to control, Hong Kong citizens struggle to maintain the democratic lifestyle to which they are accustomed.
The Chinese government’s restriction of free speech has oppressed many citizens of Hong Kong. Before the hand-over on July 1, 1997, a vigil was held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park for the victims of the June 4, 1989 massacre at Tianemen Square. Fifty-thousand people attended the vigil, which remembered
those who died while rallying for democracy. Said pro-democracy campaigner Szeto Wah, “Tonight. we are again using sparks of candlelight, so .....
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Great Depression
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1582.... Others believe it to have been caused by nature during an electrical storm that night and that the hydrogen was ignited by a spark.
For a legal look on the 1930's lets look to the Scottsboro trials. This trial was held against nine Negro boys who were accused of raping two white women on a train. The women were arrested, probably on charges of vagrancy. The women remained under arrest in jail for several days, pending charges of vagrancy and possible violation of the Mann Act. The Mann Act prohibited taking a minor across state lines for immoral
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Civil Rights
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1054.... Court orders the admission of a black applicant to the University of Missouri Law School 1941: A. Philip Randoph threatens a massive march on Washington unless the Roosevelt administration takes measures to ensure black employment in defense industries; Roosevelt agrees to establish Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). 1942: The congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is organized in Chicago. 1943: Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause black leaders to ask their followers to be less demanding in asserting their commitment to ; A. Philip Randolph breaks ranks to call fo .....
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