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    super max prison named Alcatraz or Justice on the Rock to hold the most wanted criminals. But over time they had to shut Alcatraz down‚ and then sent the prisoners all across the U.S.A Alcatraz is different from other prisons because first there wasn’t that many supermax prisons in fact it was the only super max prison. Justice on the Rock was alo different because it was the main prison where the baddest of the baddest went including Robert Stroud and Al Capone. Alcatraz

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    Alcatraz is a very popular tourist site. But why was it required? Prohibition of alcohol mad Gangsters and overall crime lords. This essay will explain the history of Alcatraz‚ why it had to close and some of the ghosts still lurking in the shadows. Alcatraz was different than other prisons because the Rock was made specifically for the worst gangsters‚ crime lords‚ robbers‚ murderers‚ psychopaths and others. Additionally‚ Alcatraz’s security was an enormous improvement than that of other prisons

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    thing we’re talking about will be the history of Alcatraz and why it close.Alcatraz was a very good prision but had to close because it was falling apart and couldn’t be a prision anymore. Alcatraz was built for the “Super Criminals”. Alcatraz was built with a lot of security for the criminals.James Johnston was the one making Alcatraz. He put searchlights. The guards could drop gas from the ceiling. They

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    Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company Issue: Ms. Palsgraf‚ a customer of the Long Island Railroad Company‚ was injured one day while awaiting her train. Her injury was sustained as two railroad employees assisted another passenger onto a train and the other customer’s package which contained fireworks (concealed) fell onto the rails as a result of the assistance provided by the company’s employees. Consequently‚ the fireworks caused an explosion when it came into contact with the rails and

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    Effects of Three Mile Island The Three Mile Island accident took place in Middletown‚ Pennsylvania‚ on March 28‚ 1979. During this accident even though there was no meltdown‚ there was some radioactive gas that was let out into the air. As a result more than 50‚000 people were evacuated from their homes (Levine 60-3). The Three Mile Island incident had a major impact on public opinion‚ the construction of nuclear plants‚ and the future of nuclear power. Three Mile Island was a three month old

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    Washington D.C. 00000 March 8‚ 2012 Role of ecological and environmental differences in natural selection of Geospiza difficilis in Darwin and Santiago Islands Introduction Few places are better suited for the study of biodiversity and evolution than the Galapagos Islands‚ home to Darwin’s finches. Free of most anthropogenic influences‚ these islands provide researchers with a natural‚ undisturbed environment in which to study the functions of natural selection as Darwin did 177 years ago (Grant‚

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    Alcatraz    Alcatraz is a super max prison that is located in San Francisco. In  the prison they put steel bars instead of aluminium and they put barbed  wire on all of the fences. They put gun holes so they do not have to risk  getting hurt and they put tanks above the cells that drop gas on the  prisoners. They also had prison guards in every part that the prisoners  could be in such as the movie theater the yard and most of the other places  on that island in the San Francisco bay.    The hole 

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    Plum Island Animal Disease Center July 23‚ 2008 an odd and creepy grey “creature” washed upon the Ditch Plains beach‚ close to East Hampton. It looked like a cross between a turtle and a pig. What was it? Where did it come from? This “creature was called the Montauk Monster and it has been rumored to have come from Plum Island Animal Disease Center‚ a center not far from East Hampton. This Montauk Monster was said to possibly be an experiment from the disease center. This “monster” was eventually

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    In the case Palsgraf v. The Long Island Railroad‚ 248 N.Y. 339‚ 162 N.E. 99‚ 1928 N.Y.Lexis 1269 (N.Y.)‚ Justice Cardoza denied recovery for the plaintiff. Justice Cardoza found that the railroad was not the proximate cause of Helen Palsgraf’s injuries. The concept of proximate cause is one that is less than precise. In today’s world of business can we still be sure that the reasoning used by Cardoza still applies? Has a new standard developed? In reviewing the materials in the text you should be

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    nuclear reactors to cool them down (Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident 3). Due to this‚ the reactors began to overheat and eventually got to a point where there was an core nuclear meltdown. Thankfully for the U.S‚ the power plant containment walls remained mostly intact and wherein most of the radiation stayed‚ and the event did not become that relatable to Chernobyl or Fukushima (Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident 3). That said‚ it is still arguably the third worst nuclear

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