More violent crimes are being committed by young, poor and disadvantage teens. These teenagers have developed a very observed behavior toward the real world and resort to violence and killings to settle their faults. (Barrett 17) Gang violence and the availability of guns has caused a big increase...

Viewpoints on school violence "Is violence out of our hands" Flack jackets, riot helmets and gas masks everything your child will need to go back to school this year. Is this what the future holds for our children? Democrat Carolyn McCarthy from New York thinks so, unless t...

The goal of terrorism is to alter the political balance in favor of those who are terrorizing by the means of threats or deliberate violence (Carr 145). These terrorists know that they cannot attack the government and society forwardly so they use violence in order to disrupt law and order and make...

TOPIC What was the "third force"? To what degree was a "third force" operating in the period 1990 – 1994? The period leading up to the first democratic elections of 1994 is often viewed as one of the most violent in South African history. Although many had attribu...

Amendment 4, waived? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause..." Fourth Amendment The forth amendment which is stated above is...

My team and I believe that legalizing marijuana would be a good idea. It would lower violence, help the government, and would be used in modern medicine. The first point that my team and I would like to make is the positives to legalizing marijuana. If marijuana was legalized, we believe t...

Legalization of marijuana Legalization of Marijuana (Cannabis) is highly logical in a day where alcohol and tobacco products, (although restricted by age) are available to millions of people every day. Someone has to wonder why there is such controversy about the proposal to legalize ...

Legalization of marijuana Legalization of Marijuana (Cannabis) is highly logical in a day where alcohol and tobacco products, (although restricted by age) are available to millions of people every day. Someone has to wonder why there is such controversy about the proposal to legalize ...

The Suffragettes' campaign for women's rights really showed the government and society what women were capable of, and that they weren't just there to live in a man's world, with laws set by men and governments elected by men. In 1903, Emmiline Pankhurst's patience finally r...

The fight for equality has been ongoing since the creation of the United States. Between the 1960s and 1990s this conflict grew to be such a nation wide problem that the government has had to intervene and create laws to prohibit different types of discrimination. Women were fighting for equality in...

The patriot act as a document is appalling in its entirety. However to discuss the document and what is wrong with it, in its entirety, would take fifty pages. I have decided to discuss one specific provision, discuss its impact and suggest an alternative provision. In the wake of the September 11th...

Legalization of MarijuanaIn a day in time where alcohol and tobacco products, although restricted by age, are available to millions, one has to wonder why there is such controversy about the proposal to legalize marijuana. Of course, there are many arguments or both sides of this hotly debated issu...

The War On DrugsThe movie "Traffic" and the book "The Corner" by David Simon are clear examples of one, if not the most serious, problem that our society is facing, the use of drugs and the war on them. They explain the reality that affects a big segment of our society and the attempts by an ineffic...