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Junvenile Crime
In Chicago, an 11-year old gang member shoots a 14-year old girl to death. In turn, the young gang member is found dead a few days later with two bullets in the back of his head. His suspected killers are 14 and 16 years old. In Littleton, Colorado, two students opened fire on classmates and…
California,
Crime,
Juvenile Justice System
Taking Away The Right Of Privacy
Taking Away The Right Of Privacy Taking Away the Right of Privacy The global AIDS epidemic is having very strong social impacts on many societies. AIDS is being compared with the Bubonic Plague which swept Europe in a mad fury leaving only two thirds of the original population alive. People speculate that this disease is…
California
Incarceration vs treatment
The focus of this paper is incarceration versus treatment of low level drug offenders in California. The viewpoint in favor of incarceration is supported by the deterrence and incapacitation theory. This theory promotes increased arrests, prosecutions, and prison sentences as the primary means to dissuade drug use and street crime by removing the offender from…
California
Grapes of Wrath: Biblical Alusion
John Steinbeck always makes it a point to know about his subjects first hand. His stories always have some factual basis behind them. Otherwise, he does not believe that they will be of any value beyond artistic impression. Therefore, most of his novels take place in California, the site of his birth and young life….
California
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation is an innovative creator of blockbuster animated films. The animation studios develop and produce high-quality animated films using state of the art technology. DreamWorks Animation established itself in the entertainment industry and helped popularize computer-generated animation. In 1994, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen founded DreamWorks SKG in Glendale, California. DreamWorks Animation…
California
Crossing The Great Plains
CROSSING THE Great Plains The Oregon Trail was an overland emigrant route in the United States from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country, was the way to travel back in the 1840s through the 1860s. In 1843 the “Great Emigration” began and the west would never be the same after the out set…
California
Hawaii
Hawaii is known for its beautiful beaches, its nice year-round weather, and its culture. Thousands of vacationers come to Hawaii each year to get away from the stressful city and relax. But do they know how cruel the Americans were to the natives? Do they know how we corrupted their culture and their religion? Do…
Country,
Hawaii,
Tourism,
Traveling
What is Damage Tolerant Design
What is Damage Tolerant Design? Damage Tolerant Design (DTD) is a way of designing an aircraft in such a way that it will last a long period of time, corrosion resistance, be able to sustain defects and be able to safely be repaired, while also able to withstand the fatigue on the aircraft in the…
Hawaii
Diallo Incident One Officers Perspective
In the quiet post-midnight hours of February 4, 1999, 41 shots rang out in the entry vestibule of a South Bronx apartment house. Within seconds, a young man laid dead, four policemen standing over his lifeless body. A 22-year-old immigrant from West Africa was the unfortunate victim. The police officers: four white men from the…
New York City
Husband Battering
Husband Battering: A Serious Problem Billboards, radio, and TVads across the country proclaim that every fifteen seconds a women is beatenby a man. Violence against women is clearly a problem of national importance,but has anyone ever asked how often men are beaten by women? The unfortunatefact is that men are the victims of domestic violence…
California