The 13th amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified in the year 1865 by president Abraham Lincoln makes it unconstitutional for a person to be held as a slave. There is one exception to this, a loophole that nullifies prisoners to this amendment. With...
Imagine walking home on a Friday evening after a late night class. You are tired and alone. You walk down the hall to your dorm, when suddenly you see a group of drunk boys. You ignore them, and avoid eye contact. They start catcalling you....
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (the “Regulation’), which comes into force on the 25 May 2018, individuals will benefit from enhanced rights in terms of their ability to request and access personal data from any entities holding such data about them. This note...
In a fourth pattern, elders live all alone in the city, the children having migrated to foreign countries or for higher education, jobs and so on. The children will be living settled and comfortable lives with family and children, with all material comforts. They will...
“NO! STOP!, DON’T HIT HER NO MORE” , SHUT UP ! That is a phrase we hear and we quickly jump in our minds of a women who being abused by a spouse or boyfriend. Then we think, OMG hope the kids are not watching...
Push Throughout the story of Push by Sapphire, the author writes about a teenage girl who is involved in psychological, sexual, and physical abuse. Clareece Precious Jones experiences these three forms of maltreatment throughout the book from her parents. Not only is she a victim...
Every year there are about 3 million reports of child abuse in the United States (“Child Abuse and Neglect Facts”). Abuse can be experienced in many ways, including physically and emotionally. Children who have suffered child abuse in their younger years can be affected all...
In a quote by previous governor of Virginia, Henry Wise, he states, “The principle of slavery is a leveling principle; it is friendly to equality. Break down slavery and you would, with the same blow break down the great democratic principle of equality among men.”...
In his article titled America in Decay: Sources of Political Dysfunction, Fukuyama, in his introduction, expounds on some of the early successes that were attained by the initiation of the US Forest Service. He states that prior to the Pendleton Act of 1883, appointments to...
Introduction In 1998, Drew Carey held a sit-in to protest the smoking ban in California bars. Although Drew is not a smoker, he smoked that night and called the ban “stupid.” Three years earlier, California enacted a state law that forbade smoking in bars and...
Abstract The subject of considerations in this work is Smoking Ban Act, the laws prohibiting smoking in public places, adopted by the British parliament in 2006 and entered into force on July 1, 2007. The aim of the considerations is to present the political and...
Is the USA Patriot Act Constitutional? The USA Patriot act was erected in response to the September 11th terrorist attack. Numerous factors have altered it since it’s creation. The act’s sole purpose is to provide the government with a upper-hand in catching dangerous criminals and...
Prior to beginning our research of vandalism we began discussing our own definition of vandalism and what it meant to us. The following is what we came up with for our own description of vandalism. Vandalism is the act in which one purposefully commits an...
Introduction People turn to vandalism because of the satisfying feeling of watching something physically fall apart. The disassembling of objects creates a sense of accomplishment for the vandalizer, as it fulfills their goal to break someone’s belongings. The vandalizer is motivated to damage the possessions...
My views on Graffiti is it Art or Vandalism that is the question many people want to know there are two sides to this debate the people who feels graffiti is art and also a form of self expression and the others who feels it...
History of Alcatraz What do you do with extremely dangerous prisoners? The answer is Alcatraz: “The Rock”, a small island off of San Francisco, California. Alcatraz kept some of the most ruthless killers and big name criminals locked up, safely away from society from 1943...
With his record of bloodshed and death, Al Capone may be considered to be the most notorious gangster in American history. His crimes–which include murder, illegal gambling, and bootlegging–will never be ignored and his death will surely leave a lasting legacy(pbs). Arriving as a child...
America’s Gangster On January 17th, 1899, a baby boy, who would very shortly become the face of organized crime in America, was born to an Italian-American family in Brooklyn, New York. Alphonsus “Al” Capone may have been as publically covered as a well loved celebrity,...
Introduction When criminal acts occur the victims in many instances would have preferred if the act had never been committed in the first place. They would have preferred that the criminal act had been prevented. Crime prevention therefore refers to any efforts to stop the...