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  • Life Sentence

    Life Sentence

    Roger Dale Barrett is currently serving a life sentence for capital murder for killing Eunice Bradley also know as “Yogi”. Since prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in this case he was automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Tom Keith (a lawyer) reviewed photographs of the people that he had sent to prison he did not feel too comfortable with this one he felt the prisoner did not get

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    Essay Length: 290 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Monika
  • Aim: Investigate the Determinants of Exam Performance

    Aim: Investigate the Determinants of Exam Performance

    EC226 Econometrics 1 Assignment 1 2006-7 Aim: Investigate the determinants of exam performance Introduction The main objective of this assignment is to investigate how different variables such as age, ability, course and expenditure on alcohol affect an individual's ability to perform in a first year statistics exam. We will examine the effects of such independent variables on the dependent variable qtmark. Achieving this will require the production and analysis of several regressions and the use

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    Essay Length: 392 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Aims of the New Deal

    Aims of the New Deal

    Aims of the new deal The aims of the new deal are relief, recovery and reform relief is for the old the sick and the unemployed their were many different agencies for all the different aims but some were for more then one section of the new deal the ones for the relief part are CCC CWA FERA The what they do are CCC = civilian conservation cos they gave young men new jobs, food

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    Essay Length: 992 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • Taking an Aim Back at America

    Taking an Aim Back at America

    "Taking an aim back at America" Bowling For Columbine is a well-directed documentary that informs people about gun violence in America. Michael Moore is successful in showing that America has been going through many gun tragedies; and portrays the sense that America’s problems are out of control. He conveys this through informative facts, images, and comparisons. Throughout the film Michael Moore throws many cold facts on the screen that makes it obvious that the strong

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    Essay Length: 904 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Bred
  • Mandatory Drug Sentences Opposing Viewpoints

    Mandatory Drug Sentences Opposing Viewpoints

    This significance of this paper is to summarize and evaluate the debate on whether the petty drug offenders should be crowding our prisons, and also if some drugs should be legalized or at least decriminalized to reduce our prison populations. This issue is linked to Parenti’s discussion on drugs and the “War of Drugs”. Many of prisons in the United States are over crowded because of the petty offenders and the first time offenders that

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    Essay Length: 844 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Difference Sentencing Models

    The Difference Sentencing Models

    Retribution The act of retributing; repayment. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong. Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment. Incapacitation Executions maximize public safety through a form of incapacitation and deterrence. Incapacitating a person is depriving s/he of the physical or intellectual power of natural of il/legal qualifications (Webster, 574). Executing a

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    Essay Length: 514 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Bred
  • Pros and Cons of Sentencing Guidelines and Mandatory Minimum Sentences

    Pros and Cons of Sentencing Guidelines and Mandatory Minimum Sentences

    The United States Sentencing Commission is responsible for sentencing policy in federal courts. In 1980 they reformed the federal sentencing. The intent was to provide determinate sentencing. Determinate sentencing is a fixed period of incarceration without the possibility of parole, but time served can be reduced by accumulating good time. “Coinciding with the development of determinate sentencing has been the development of sentencing guidelines to control and structure the process and make it more rational.

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    Essay Length: 581 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: July
  • What Are the Distinctive Features of the Perfectly Competitive Model of the Market for Goods and Services? What Are the Implications for a Business Strategy Aimed at Enhancing Profitability?

    What Are the Distinctive Features of the Perfectly Competitive Model of the Market for Goods and Services? What Are the Implications for a Business Strategy Aimed at Enhancing Profitability?

    What are the distinctive features of the perfectly competitive model of the market for goods and services? What are the implications for a business strategy aimed at enhancing profitability? Perfect competition is an idealised market structure theory used in economics to show the market under a high degree of competition given certain conditions. This essay aims to outline the assumptions and distinctive features that form the perfectly competitive model and how this model can be

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    Essay Length: 1,936 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Bred
  • Cavour's Main Means of Politics Greatly Influenced His Aims and Actions That Led to the Unification of Italy

    Cavour's Main Means of Politics Greatly Influenced His Aims and Actions That Led to the Unification of Italy

    Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810-1861) was the second son of an aristocratic Piedmontese family. Being the second son of a nobleman, Cavour was supposed to be in the army, even though he was more interested in politics rather than the military. In July 1824 he was named a page to Charles Albert, the king of Piedmont who first opened war of independence against Austria. Cavour later resigned from the army at the end of

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    Essay Length: 893 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Capital Punishment; the Ultimate Sentence.

    Capital Punishment; the Ultimate Sentence.

    Capital Punishment has been part of the criminal justice system since the earliest of times. The Babylonian Hammurabi Code (ca. 1700 BC) decreed death for crimes as minor as the fraudulent sale of beer (Flanders 3). Egyptians could be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burial sites (Flanders 3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death penalty to be racist, barbaric, and in violation with the United States Constitution.

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    Essay Length: 1,410 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Max
  • Alternatives to Prison Sentences

    Alternatives to Prison Sentences

    Many of the people that choose to move to the U.S. tend to already be in poverty and searching for new hope. According to the book written by Daniel D. Chiras, "Environmental Science" Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006, a good percentage of the men and women move to the U.S. and find the jobs they are looking for are illegal jobs and aren't able to work. So they leave their own country and come to

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Jon
  • Aiming for Safety: A Survey of Public Opinion of Gun Policy in Wisconsin

    Aiming for Safety: A Survey of Public Opinion of Gun Policy in Wisconsin

    II) Aiming for Safety: A survey of Public Opinion of Gun Policy in Wisconsin In general, this study searches for the contrast men and women’s view on gun control. The main, important research question asked is why guns are killing so many children? There is not any posted theoretical framework. However, the key concept of discussion is childhood violence. The topic of childhood violence is expressed in many types such as: witnesses of domestic and

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    Essay Length: 1,654 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Sentencing

    Sentencing

    Sentencing is defined in criminal law as a punishment ordered by the court for a person convicted of criminal activity. Sentences usually consist of fines, corporal punishment, imprisonment including life, capital punishment, and/ or a combination of each. The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”5 This bill can cause controversy in sentencing a convicted murderer to

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    Essay Length: 830 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Edward
  • Sentence Variety

    Sentence Variety

    Sentence Variety For short, choppy sentences 1. Coordination: and, but, or, nor, yet, for, so Join complete sentences, clauses, and phrases with coordinators: example: Doonesbury cartoons satirize contemporary politics. The victims of political corruption pay no attention. They prefer to demand that newspapers not carry the strip. revision: Doonesbury cartoons laugh at contemporary politicians, but the victims of political corruption pay no attention and prefer to demand that newspapers not carry the strip. 2. Subordination:

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    Essay Length: 1,039 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Jack
  • Aiming at Retention of Talent

    Aiming at Retention of Talent

    Aiming at retention of talent Think Google, Infosys or Tata Sons. Great brands. Great places to work. And it’s largely word-of-mouth publicity by employees themselves that make these organisations highly coveted by job seekers across the country. That’s called employment branding (e-branding)-- positioning a company as a �great place to work for’ by using a well-crafted messaging strategy backed by consequential and relevant employee-oriented initiatives. In an era where organisations are falling over each other

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    Essay Length: 1,228 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Descartes Philosophical Aim and Method in Meditations

    Descartes Philosophical Aim and Method in Meditations

    Descartes philosophical aim and method in Meditations is somewhat complex. In first Meditation Descartes tells us how many, if not all things, can come into doubt. This is possible as long as we don't have any past teachings or foundations in concerns to what is in doubt. With no past foundations, we will no longer be able to have doubt placed upon something. From there we can finally discover the truth. Descartes basic premise is

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: regina
  • Arguement Against Minimum Drug Sentencing

    Arguement Against Minimum Drug Sentencing

    Argument against mandatory minimum drug sentencing There are many different argument both for and against mandatory minimum drug sentencing. However there are more arguments against mandatory minimum drug sentencing then there are for the support of the mandatory sentencing. One of the biggest arguments against mandatory minimum drug sentencing is that it was originally intended to target the higher level drug dealers but the majority of the cases have only been low level drug dealers.

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    Essay Length: 436 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Bred
  • Why Is Mitch’s Rejection of Blanche like a Death Sentence for Her

    Why Is Mitch’s Rejection of Blanche like a Death Sentence for Her

    WHY IS MITCH'S REJECTION OF BLANCHE LIKE A DEATH SENTENCE FOR HER. In the play, Blanche is already a fallen woman in society's eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone, she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier, and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behaviour. She has a bad drinking problem, which she covers up poorly. She lives in a state of perpetual panic about her fading beauty.

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    Essay Length: 470 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Yan
  • Wh Smith Aims

    Wh Smith Aims

    WH Smith aims WH Smith main aim will be to provide a good service to all customers, while providing an acceptable return for its shareholders. WH Smith has a key phrase which WH Smith basis its business around, 'Creating value for customers to earn their lifetime loyalty'. WH Smith listen to the customers needs better than any other business, as they provide an excellent service (customer service). This would help retain customers and gain a

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    Essay Length: 1,376 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Vika
  • Why Were the Allies Able to Defeat Germany in W.W.1? Having Defeated Them, Explain the Aims of the Allies in Drawing up the Treaty of Versailles.

    Why Were the Allies Able to Defeat Germany in W.W.1? Having Defeated Them, Explain the Aims of the Allies in Drawing up the Treaty of Versailles.

    In this essay the main points of W.W.1 and the Treaty of Versailles will be discussed: The main points in the victory of the Allies in W.W.1, an example of this is because they (the Allies) were getting arms from the Americans which gave them an unfair advantage against Germany, also what were the aims of the Allies when they made the Treaty of Versailles. They basically didn't want another world war. Another point about

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    Essay Length: 668 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Steve
  • In What Ways and to What Extent Did the Aims and Policies of the Great Powers in the Vienna Settlement Shape Europe Until 1852?

    In What Ways and to What Extent Did the Aims and Policies of the Great Powers in the Vienna Settlement Shape Europe Until 1852?

    The Congress of Vienna attempted to set Europe straight following the disruption caused by French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic imperialism within Europe itself. All European powers of any considerable size were invited to participate, including "defeated" France. Mercurial French statesman Talleyrand, priest, revolutionary, official under Napoleon, and in all regards a powerful representative of the French nation, was given a serious role at the Congress. Austrian minister Prince Clemens von Metternich played the key

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    Essay Length: 356 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Top
  • Plea Bargains and Mandatory Sentencing

    Plea Bargains and Mandatory Sentencing

    Plea Bargains and Mandatory Sentencing I would like to take this time to explain my position on Plea Bargains and Mandatory Sentencing. I will show both pros and cons for each topic, as well as give you my personal brief on which one I support. There are two types of plea bargains : The first one is a charge bargain. When the prosecutor allows a defendant to "plead guilty to a lesser charge”, or to

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Steve
  • To Hack Yahoo,hotmail,aol,gmail,aim,tiscali,libero and Any Special Eamil Password

    To Hack Yahoo,hotmail,aol,gmail,aim,tiscali,libero and Any Special Eamil Password

    Are You Afraid that your Wife is in the throes of a Passionate affair? Well, then there is very little point in your discussing anything of this matter with her. So either you wallow in puddles of Self-Pity, engulfed by feelings of Jealousy, Suspicion, Betrayal, Isolation, Hurt, Anger,& most of all Frustration; leading to the degradation of your own self-esteem & worth… OR ELSE You decide to switch to a more Action Oriented mode, and

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    Essay Length: 397 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Dreaded Sentence

    The Dreaded Sentence

    The Dreaded Sentence Most people hear words that form a sentence. After hearing the sentence, a person has two choices, listen and comprehend the said sentence, or let the words float carelessly through one ear and out the other. Usually, when my parents speak, I take to the later choice, but not this time. Had I known that these words would haunt me for the rest of my years, playing like a broken record player,

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    Essay Length: 1,278 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: Max
  • Compare and Contrast the Aims of a ‘secular'and a ‘religious' School.

    Compare and Contrast the Aims of a ‘secular'and a ‘religious' School.

    Compare and contrast the aims of a ‘secular’ and a ‘religious’ school. A school is ‘ a place where children go to be educated.’( Collins Dictionary 1991 pg 892), therefore is there any difference between a secular or a religious school, as surely, the main aim is to educate the children in accordance with the national curriculum and not in an accordance with a religion. However, if you are being educated with the concepts

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    Essay Length: 2,040 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Monika

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