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The Obesity Lawsuit Against Mcdonald's
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This case study "The Obesity Lawsuit Against Mcdonald's" looks at the case, that was filed in the New York Court, in the year 2005, which stated, at the Bronx outlet of the McDonalds, two teenagers, by names of Ashley Pelman and Jazlyn Bradley are contracted severe obesity.... ... ... ... Their contention was that MacDonalds' has misled them to believe that their products were entirely safe for consumption....
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Miranda v. Arizona 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
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Being of little education and with a history of mental instability, Miranda found himself declared by the court as guilty of the crimes he confessed to and facing a 20-39 year prison sentence.... He confessed to all the crimes he was accused of within a grueling 2 hour interrogation process that was undertaken without any counsel present to advise Miranda of his rights....
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How long can an offender stay in jail
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Once, a detainee plead guilty his status changes into an offender, and his place of imprisonment changes from jail to prison.... Henceforth, the main difference between jails and prisons is in the status of the detainee.... This scheme is too easy to get it right.... ... ... ... This is why the role of different parties participating during the trial is also of great significance....
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Current Debates about the Factors Shaping the Selection and Production of News
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It is easier for the media to report on horrific stories on of crimes that happened in far way places, which report on easily recognizable dangers such as drunk driving.... urrently, it has been acknowledged that low level property crimes make up the majority of the reported crime, while the corporate offenses and white collar crimes that result in financial and social burden to society are afforded little attention and/ or ignored altogether....
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Why the citizens of Turkey are against the government
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"Turkish government guilty of human rights abuses, group says.... Many people believed that Turkey was moving towards better government, a democratic government.... One of the fundamental rights of any individual living within a democratic society is the right to peacefully protest....
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Civil Commitment and the Mentally Ill
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The criticism does not understand the nature of the responsibility of the accused person, which comprises moral approach, not the scientific one. ... On June, 30, 1983, in state Kentucky appeared the completely new verdict in the criminal case: “guilty-but-mentally-ill”.... The previous verdicts existed only in the status as “guilty” or “not guilty”....
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The Truman Doctrine - The Cold War
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Hitler built up his army, reintroduced conscription in 1936, war-tested his armed forces in the Spanish Civil War and moved his troops to the Rhineland in 1936 – Britain and France were guilty of appeasement by allowing him to do this even though the actions constituted breaches of the Treaty of Versailles.... By tamely giving Sudetenland to Germany, Britain and France were guilty of the worst appeasement. ...
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Morale and Policing in America
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Due to time and other dynamics, the policing nature is recently diffused.... This is not to say that serious crimes should receive less attention from the law enforcers.... The author of the paper "Morale and Policing in America" seeks to look into issues that affect police morale and the way they respond to their duties day in day out....
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Conflicting Reward Systems and Their Impact on Criminal Justice Administation
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Some of the most effective correction institutions that could help criminals deter from committing crimes includes boot camps, which are particularly practiced in military setups, house arrests, restitution and electronic monitoring (Hodge, 2009).... The judicial system issues judgments to people found guilty....
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Police Misconduct
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Police misconduct allows guilty criminals to walk free and hurts innocent people.... Because police misconduct can allow guilty men to walk the street and innocent men to sit in jail, governments should have appropriate measures in place to protect the public from police misconduct.... Use of excessive force violates the public's trust and can allow guilty criminals to walk free because of legal technicalities.... Because excessive force can punish the innocent and help the guilty, governments should have appropriate measures in place to protect the public from police misconduct....
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CRJ 422 Week 5 paper
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Assigning of tasks and duties to all members of the society in the form of employment ensures that everyone was economically stable thus reducing incidences of crimes and injustice in the society.... Both corrective and distributive justice purposes to ensure that individuals within a community fulfill their community roles and obligations to gain effectively from the....
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The Use of Covert Human Information Sources in Investigations
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This is because various commissions of inquiry conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States and even Australia have identified one of the greatest risks associated to covert human source to be a licence to commit crime which is influenced by the nature of the relationship that exists between the covert human source and the person under investigation.... A case in point is when investigating organized crimes, whereby covert human information can act as a means by which investigators collect enough evidence or information....
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Shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman
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That is, with the court case still going on and George Zimmerman not yet found guilty of murder, it is being said in certain quarters that the media and other groups are making it into a larger hate crime.... The paper "Shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman " highlights that NBC apologized for that error and even fired the producer who was involved in the editing, it is clear that the media played or played a negative role in portraying the crime as a hate crime....
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Critical Issues in Policing
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Critical Issues in Policing of submission Critical Issues in Policing Introduction The police force in the United States does not include military personnel.... In particular, policing is funded by the local governments and has several units across the country.... ... ... ... Police officers are distributed all over the country to deal with various security issues affecting citizens....
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Global Water Crisis
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From the paper "Global Water Crisis" it is clear that generally, due to the fact that the process of desalinization requires an extraordinarily high level of electrical energy, the economic costs and toll upon the existing power system will be massive.... ... ... ... Without question, the most basic and fundamental building block of human life is the resource of fresh water....
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The Rate of Crime on the Internet
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The paper "The Rate of Crime on the Internet" discusses that the risk of dissemination is best dealt with with the use of privacy-enhancing regulations.... Such regulations are critical in promoting other laws that will enhance the security of data from external violation.... ... ... ... The number of e-threats facing consumers and e-commerce providers using the internet is innumerable (Chou, 2012)....
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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The paper "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" describes that binge drinking can lead to various health problems and some social disorders.... Finally, binge drinking shouldn't be accepted since it is socially deviant behavior that violates the norms and the cultural value of society.... ... ...
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Advantage to the use of tasers by law enforcement officials
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In other words, apart from the deliberate use of guns in the commission of crimes, guns are responsible for thousands and thousands of preventable deaths per year.... In other words, apart from the deliberate use of guns in the commission of crimes, guns are responsible for several thousands of preventable deaths per year.... Not only does this figure evidence the extent to which crime has reached pandemic proportions in the country but underscores the nature of the on-the-job dangers which law enforcement officers confront every singe day....
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Criminal Identification Procedures in the 21st Century
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Since decades the American criminal justice system has relied on fingerprints as the most reliable and authentic way for facilitating criminal identification, going by the belief that no two individuals tend to have similar fingerprints.... In fact, in the history of criminal.... ... ...
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Arguments against Extended School Days
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This paper "Arguments against Extended School Days" sheds some light on the extension of school days by explaining explicitly the importance of extending the school day.... To meet this objective the author has arranged my paper into three sections.... ... ... ... While researching texts written sometimes back about schools, I found several authors who published books about the literature of education, particularly educational journals, pamphlets, newspapers, and bronchus....
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Playing Violent Video Games
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Even where association has been found, there is no research done on the association of crimes with playing violent video games.... Data collected and interviews of the district police officers as they would have the data of crimes. ... It is also expected that this research will establish that parental negligence is to a large extent responsible for the incidence of crimes as an impact of playing video games.... Evidence suggests that playing violent videogames lead to increased aggression and violence in those between 12 and 21 years of age but there is not evidence or conclusive work available on its association with crimes committed....
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Diversity and Nature of Nursing
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The paper "Diversity and nature of Nursing" explores what diversity means and how to promote diversity and cultural awareness oriented to nursing practice.... hus, the true nature of nursing demonstrates a necessity to be aware of diversity, take care of patients and be competent and successful not only in medical treatment but also in diverse relationships....
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Economic and Financial Impact of Natural Disasters
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A number of hundred miles upstream from the entrance of the Mississippi River, dilemma of a different nature is looming.... These choices require to reflect on the cost of the likely options and how effectual they might be.... For the Protection System of Hurricane,....
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The Case for, or Against, New Orleans
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A number of hundred miles upstream from the entrance of the Mississippi River, dilemma of a different nature is looming.... The paper "The Case for, or Against, New Orleans" explains if a fiscal crash causes drastic crashes in accessible stocks of fossil fuels that have an effect on the production of food and networks of distribution, human existence would be put at risk....
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To What Extent Can Propaganda Be Successful In The 21st Century
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Thus, propaganda is a form of communication, which is based on the information and is often asserted as bias or misleading in nature.... Thus, propaganda is a form of communication, which is based on information and is often asserted as bias or misleading in nature.... Similar illustrations, where the faults or offences of one group or individual is portrayed as the offence and guilt of the entire community reveal that the biased nature of propaganda information can also infuse inequality within the society....
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Hamlet - Shakespeare, Madness, and Music
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Hamlet pretends to be mad because he wished to hide his deeds like communication with the ghost, revenge, motive, guilty consciousness, Oedipus complex, and to confuse his enemies.... To cover up guilty consciousness: Gradually, Hamlet realizes that he must discontinue his relationship with his lady love (say, Ophelia).... Besides, he began to believe that he is mad because his belief was originating from guilty consciousness related to his lady love's madness and death....
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A critical analysis of article-3 of the European Convention on Human Rights
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Resultantly, due to its infinite nature, the Article 3 has been a critical issue.... Due to the lack of contents in the Article 3 of European Convention, The UK Court has emphasized the fundamental nature of Article 3 in holding that the prohibition is made in absolute terms, irrespective of a victim's conduct....
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The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The paper "The nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" describes that the growth-compatible institutions were perceived as essential to capacitate and motivate people to devote their time and efforts to positive economic development to leverage and enjoy the targeted outcome.... 'The nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' is admitted to be the most significant contribution to the field of classical economics.... The nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations The nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith is considered to be the father of modern economics....
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Psychology of Lying
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Psychology of Lying It is in the human psyche to protect itself with whatever resources are available to it whenever it senses any threat (Gilbert, 132).... ‘Lying' can be explained as the phenomenon where people intentionally provide incorrect or misleading information, either verbally or non-verbally, through their body language (Nurkse, 154)....
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The Film Noir Cinematography and the Major Scenes of the Movie
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The paper describes film noir as a terminology often used to describe cynical behaviour, sexual seduction and moves and deception in Hollywood crime movies.... There are not many events in the history of filmmaking that has left such a strong impact on cinematic tradition, like that of Film noir....
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Is the Financial Success of West End Musicals, a Positive Trend
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Some of the shows, which become hugely popular, leading to favourable financial figures are Jerusalem, Much Ado About Nothing, The Ladykillers, frankenstein, One Man, Two Guvnors, Yes, Prime Minister, Noises Off, Richard III, as well major productions like The Wizard of Oz, Shrek, Matilda and Ghost....
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An Overpopulation Crisis
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In the paper 'An Overpopulation Crisis' the author discusses an overpopulation crisis, which has been created due to the international past time of domesticating animals.... Pet keeping institutions or individuals who are in favor of keeping pets should fulfill the responsibility with due diligence....
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How Money Comes between People
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However, history teaches us that the problem has not been with the nature but on the value placed on these materials.... In summary, money has taken up a very huge part of our humane nature.... The focus of the ppaer titled "How Money Comes between People" is on relationships the concern is how money comes between people, how money blurs our sight that we soon forget the emotional, patriotic, and sometimes blood bond that hold us together....
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Criminal Theories: Similarities and Differences
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Some have postulated that criminal behavior is biological in nature, others that the reasoning's are related to social and physical environmental situations.... Criminal Theories: Similarities and Differences Why do people commit crimes?... This theory is normally more suitable to forms of deviant crimes such as drug use and prostitution.... While normally associated with ‘street crimes,' labeling may affect a white collar criminal after the fact but is not the genesis of that specific behaviour....
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Criminology 11
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While preparing the report, the parole officer usually contacts the victim to establish the nature and significance of the physical, psychological, financial and material harms they suffered.... Both of these objectives demonstrate the restorative nature of the sentencing phase in the Canadian system of justice.... If the person accused of a crime either pleads or is found guilty, the court has many options....
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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The book "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote is a classic example of a book that combined story-telling with facts and gave rise to a new trend in journalism; that of New Journalism.... Capote's award-winning account of the murder and murderers in the book "In Cold Blood" catapulted him to the peak of his career with its release in 1965....
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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King
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Sophocles achieves an amazing compression and force by limiting the dramatic action to the day on which Oedipus learns the true nature of his birth and destiny.... How much time passed before he discovered his crimes, how he reacted to the discovery, whether he remained in Thebes or went into exile, what his relations were to his children, all these questions were treated in at least some texts in a manner different from that of Sophocles. ...
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Existance of a Man in Nature
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From the paper "Existence of a Man in nature", the place is the role of an entity vis-à-vis a specific reference point or a certain constant.... This implies that individual responsibility is the best way to coexist (not govern) nature.... In summary, although resources can be controlled via legal avenues, nature itself cannot be controlled by a designated group.... On the other hand, from an ecological and spatial perspective, man is subject to nature (Huxley, 1936)....
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What are The Pressures For and Against a Common EU Immigration Policy
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The intention of the following research is to investigate the influence of the presence of the immigrants on the country economically.... The paper also discusses some immigration policies.... The writer of the paper suggests that an adequate amount of immigrant's inflow into an economy is healthy....
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Surveillance Studies: Policing and Surveillance
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For those who have already been found guilty of a crime, there is no longer any doubt whether or not correctional officers have a reason for their surveillance.... When a member of law enforcement almost literally has the power to watch everything any member of the citizenry chooses to do, at least while he or she is in public, then that is something that changes the nature of what it means to be a member of the law enforcement community.... Van Duyne mentions surveillance in relation to serious crimes like human trafficking, gang dealings, and drug trafficking, and in reference to many of the surveillance technologies used by police to watch possible criminals today, there is a wide variety of it, and there isn't much that modern technology can't do (Van Duyne 2001 p....
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Explain Marx's 'general law of capitalist accumulation' and discuss its contemporary relevance
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Marx's 'General Law of Capitalist Accumulation' and its Contemporary Relevance By Course Institution Date Introduction Karl Marx's The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation appears in Volume 1 of Capital written in 1867.... The general law stipulates that the accumulation of capital creates two polar opposites with the accumulation of wealth at one end and the accumulation of suffering at the other end of the spectrum (Wood, 1993, p....
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Odwalla Inc and the E Coli Outbreak
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In the following case study "Odwalla Inc and the E Coli Outbreak" it is stated that the purpose behind starting a fresh fruit juice company was simple.... Reportedly, founders Steltenpohl, his wife, and friend Percy wanted to create a business with minimal start-up costs to supplement their incomes....
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Discrimination against Homosexuals in the Workplace
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Outline The main argument of the paper concerns a mythic nature of federal acts, prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace.... The paper "Discrimination against Homosexuals in the Workplace" discusses that generally, the rights of people with same-sex orientation can be protected under conditions of humane social attitudes and the development of principles of equality in society....
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The Death penalty versus Life Without Parole
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Majority of the Americans support death penalty since they believe that death penalty is the only suitable punishment which may prevent people from engage in serious crimes.... Majority of the Americans support death penalty since they believe that death penalty is the only suitable punishment which may prevent people from engage in serious crimes.... The essence of American criminal justice system is that “partisan advocacy of both sides on a case will promote the ultimate objective that the guilty be convicted and the innocent go free” (Ferdic et al, p....
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Strategic Lessons from the Leader who Built an Empire
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volution, great for adaptations in nature, is also beneficial in business and leadership.... This essay "Strategic Lessons from the Leader who Built an Empire" discusses traits of a leader that make a company great or allow it to falter into a hostile takeover.... Strong leaders hone their skills and build loyalty not only with employees but with other leaders as well....
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Oral Terms of a Contractual Nature
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The paper "Oral Terms of a Contractual nature" states that the terms of a contract are important to understand the intention of the parties to the contract.... No Exclusion clauses -Oral terms of a contractual nature.... The terms can be oral or in writing or both which are express terms....
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Time and the Subjective Nature of Reality Demonstrated into the Lighthouse
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The author of the essay "Time and the Subjective nature of Reality Demonstrated into the Lighthouse" accentuates that The concept of time is a fundamental concern for writers such as Virginia Woolf as she explored the ideas of reality, chronology and the subjectivity of the world.... While Virginia Woolf's demonstration of the subjective nature of art is used to illustrate the concepts of time as they were held by the common population as opposed to those of the philosophical set, there are numerous other interpretations as well....
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Socially constructed deviance
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Poor people are assumed to have a lot of stress leading to drug abuse and other crimes and according to strain theory these people engage in crime to reduce stress (Agnew, 2006; Bank, 2004).... The whites only commit corporate crime and cyber crimes which are not taken seriously in the criminal justice system.... The young people are also accused of drug addiction and street crimes hence are likely to be arrested than old people.... This is because young men are viewed as irresponsible thus vulnerable to crimes....
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Cyberethics Issues
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The essay "Cyberethics Issues" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues in cyberethics.... The cyber ethics codes are proposed by Microsoft some of them are: do use of the internet to keep in touch with family, friends, work fellows, and other people.... ... ... ... The safer legal and disciplined use of the internet is the basic understanding of Cyber-Ethics (Cyberethics, 2011)....
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Briefing a Case: Craft v. State
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Moreover, evidence of other crimes are generally admissible if it proves motive, intent, preparation, planning, identity or opportunity.... egal History: The appellant was convicted of various offences including drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of fireworks and a knife and attempt to commit crimes and disturbing the peace.... The appellant had filed a motion to suppress evidence and when the motion was denied he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a six month custodial sentence and his driver's license was suspended for a year....
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