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The College Scandal
Number of words: 1942 - Number of pages: 8.... of many incidents involving college athletes accepting gifts from agents and coaches. These incidents happen because agents will do anything for money. They know that if their prospect makes it big, they will get a cut of the earnings. Marcus Camby is one of the many athletes to accept gifts from agents even though it is a complete violation of NCAA rules. Sports Illustrated staff writer Phil Taylor wrote an article entitled “Tangled Web” which is a story about Marcus Camby and his violation with the NCAA. “…John Loensbury, who estimated that he, gave Camby more than $40,000 .....
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Canadas Copyright Law
Number of words: 865 - Number of pages: 4.... The problem with copying video and audio tapes is that for every copy you make the recording artist, the actors, producers and everyone else who collect royalties from the tapes lose money. If the companies start to lose money, they raise prices. Thus a vicious circle begins. As prices go up, fewer people buy original copies. If less people buy the original cassettes prices will once again rise. Another major form of piracy is plagiarism. The stealing of someone elses ideas or work. The biggest category of people who fall into here are students. Very often a student when doing a research pa .....
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Gun Control And Why People Think It Is Unfair
Number of words: 542 - Number of pages: 2.... United States of America and licensing restrictions penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere.
However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides .....
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Gun Control
Number of words: 1231 - Number of pages: 5.... clearly protects the individual rights of all citizens
to possess and operate firearms. This would easily make any and all gun
control laws unconstitutional. And therefore illegal. This translation,
however, is not accepted by all people. Including the United States
Government. They believe that the amendment guaranteed no right for
individual citizens to possess weaponry, but merely allowed for the
government to form and maintain an armed service (IE. United States Army,
US. Navy). Because of the different translations of our constitution, gun
control can be viewed by different peop .....
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Gandhi
Number of words: 3049 - Number of pages: 12.... successful law practice, decided to accept an offer from an Indian businessman in South Africa, Dada Abdulla, to join him as a legal adviser. Unbeknown to him, this was to become an exceedingly lengthy stay, and altogether was to stay in South Africa for over twenty years. The Indians who had been living in South Africa were without political rights, and were generally known by the derogatory name of 'coolies'. himself came to an awareness of the frightening force and fury of European racism, and how far Indians were from being considered full human beings, when he when thrown out of a f .....
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Adolescence And Moral Developm
Number of words: 238 - Number of pages: 1.... different ways. Second, because adolescents are capable of devising anew and idealisftic social orders to which all are expected to conform, we may view whtn as moral philosophers.
A number of researchers have noted other changes in moral development that point to the importance of adolescence as transition stage in moral development. Unlike children, the adolescent is concerned with what is right as opposed to what is wrong. also, adolescents become more preoccupied with personal and social moral codes. As they gain the competency to understand alternative points of view, they see tha .....
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The Mafia
Number of words: 1785 - Number of pages: 7.... out its aberrant
cells to colonize social tissues elsewhere, especially in the United
States” (True Crime).
Immigration to the United States, from Italy, began around 1870. “
Of the approximately 5.3 million that have followed, approximately 25
percent came from Sicily” (Italian 4). The mass immigration took place
for many reasons. Many wanted to move because of poverty and rampant
inflation. Others wanted to move because of social and economic
immobility. Another reason for immigration to the United States was
because Mussolini thought that the Mafia was a threat to his facist .....
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E-mail In The Workplace, Yours
Number of words: 912 - Number of pages: 4.... what takes place on their premises is company property and therefore they have the right to monitor e-mail. Employees feel in some cases, this is a violation of their privacy rights. I feel I have to agree with employers on this issue, however, to a point. I feel employers do have the right to access employees e-mail with the employee's consent as to when and how often and for what purpose. I feel there are differences as to why an employer would want to monitor e-mail. If an employee is strictly in a data entry, word processing or customer service position, I can understand the employer's n .....
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Juvenile Justice System In America
Number of words: 2179 - Number of pages: 8.... York City in 1824 so that institutionalized delinquents could be kept apart from adult criminals. By the mid-19th century, other state institutions for juvenile delinquents were established, and their populations soon included not only young criminals but also less serious offenders and dependent children. The movement spread rapidly throughout the U.S. and abroad. These early institutions were often very rigid and punitive.
In the second half of the 19th century increased attention was given to the need for special legal procedures that would protect and guide the juvenile offender rathe .....
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Euthanasia
Number of words: 341 - Number of pages: 2.... have had someone like Dr. Jack Kevorkian assist in their death are crying out for help, they are allowing death to be their last measure to result to in life. activists are allowing people to believe that it is an acceptable solution to result to when life gets you down. How can an individual solve a problem by getting rid of the people to whom the problems happen? Overall, people that wish to end their own life as a result to are not in their true mental state when making such a decision. People need to learn to appreciate what life can offer and not concentrate on the many obstacles t .....
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