The Public Smoking Ban in the United Kingdom versus Civil Liberties This essay will discuss smoking bans and related laws and their implications upon civil rights and society at large‚ particularly within the U.K. The recent introduction of the smoking ban has been before‚ during and since its inception been an extremely contentious issue amongst political groups‚ medical professionals‚ human rights activists‚ lawyers‚ businesspeople and the general public alike. Having heard the opinions of
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Public Smoking Ban Across the United States early 60 college campuses around the United States have smoke-free policies that affect the entire campus. Recently Chicago‚ Illinois passed the Clean Indoor Air Act‚ an important step towards smoke-free bars and restaurants. These recent actions post the question for the University of Iowa. The Iowa campus has around 30 bars near the downtown area. Would a smoking ban for the cities bars be good for the city or the campus? A public smoking ban on Iowa City
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Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) A November 2012 Congressional Research Service report found that‚ as of 2009‚ there were approximately 310 million firearms in the United States‚ 110 million being rifles. (Peters) So what exactly makes a rifle an assault rifle or assault gun magazine? An Assault Weapon is most commonly defined as a semi automatic firearm possessing certain cosmetic features. Most assault rifles such as an AR-15 fires a 5.56mm round. The bullet tends not to penetrate walls in close quarters
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Ban On Assault Weapons & High Capacity Magazines By: Ashlee Holt What is a high capacity magazine exactly? It is any magazine for a semi-automatic weapon that can hold more than 10 bullets. Pennsylvania voters want stricter laws on guns‚ including background checks on all purchases and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Democrats controlled both the House and Senate‚ and the nation’s crime rate was a major concern. The assault weapons ban was part of an extensive crime
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legislation has sparked many issues with the American people that abide by the laws in the way they use and buy their guns. Americans and representatives that are pro-gun are against the legislation to ban semi-automatic weapons. Within the past month senate Democrats have removed the plan to ban assault weapons from the pending gun- control legislation. This is to focus more on the politically acceptable use of universal background checks. These universal background checks would be enforced to
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Rifle Bans‚” starts off by listing out his reasons on why the assault rifle ban should not pass. The author’s main focus of the article was to dispel the illogical reasoning the government has been stating about assault rifles and large capacity magazines. Any citizen who supports the use of assault rifles can concur with the arguments that author has stated. The author takes multiple approaches to counter argue the reasoning behind the assault weapon ban. One of the reasons for the ban was that
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This is a fire hazard and can easily start a fire which poses another threat to public safety. Being that the National Mall is a huge tourist attraction‚ it should maintain its beauty. From a smoker’s standpoint‚ it would be unfair to completely ban smoking on the National Mall. We too pay taxes and contribute towards the cleanup. Also‚
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Opinionated Paper #1 Should Louisiana Government be allowed to ban smoking in public places? If smoking is allowed in public places then the freedom of the non smoker is taken away. If we don’t allow smoking in public places then the smoker’s freedom is then restricted. Therefore banning smoking is a decision between the health of a whole nation versus the freedom of a minority. Which is more important? The millions of people that die from second hand smoke or the smoker who always has that
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Elizabeth Nelson Wu Zhao Paper 11/4/2012 Wu Zhao’s rise to ultimate power was not without struggle. Born to the loyal royal official Wu Shiyue in ~624CE‚ Wu Zhao was privileged enough to learn music‚ writing‚ and other subjects not all women had access to. From her very beginning‚ Wu Zhao was ruthless in her aspirations for power. For example‚ to dispose of Emperor Gaozong’s wife‚ Empress Wang‚ Wu Zhao killed her own daughter by suffocating her and framed Empress Wang for the murder
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Blues and it’s Influence Blues is a music with a unique ethnic diversity. It started with the rural Black-American traditions of southern America. Originally it was associated with music of deep and low-down emotions. But in reality‚ it reflected how a culture lived and survived in happy and difficult times. Many musicologists try to associate Blues with both European and African tradition. Music Historian Robert Palmer may be most correct entitling it as a Black-American creation. By doing so‚ Palmer
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