Professor Ballone 14 February 2014 Obscenity in Miller v. California Today in our criminal justice system there exists a policy known as “The Miller Test”. The purpose of this test is to determine whether or not a given substance is obscene or not. It is a test that is frequently used today by police‚ and its significance is clearly obvious. The “Miller Test” is a direct result from the outcome of the U.S Supreme Court decision‚ Miller v. California. In this case‚ a local business owner who specialized
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The Golden Rush was the digging struggled with success and failure. The gold of California was the attraction to the eyes of the world; the perfect land with all the possibilities to get richness in a short time. Argonauts undertook a dangerous journey to arrive after several days in California‚ some of them did not make it to their destiny for hunger or diseases. Others took advantage of the situation and made business such selling jerked beef‚ blankets‚ medicines‚ axes‚ and many items necessaries
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that contribute to both the expansion and development of the United States is the California gold rush. Before the gold rush‚ California was mostly unfamiliar to the rest of the United States. When gold was discovered in 1849‚ mostly men left their homes and started traveling across the country to discover the newfound riches. New towns began to pop up along the routes that travelers were taking to get to California. Populations growths were abundant in the new areas of the United States were there
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California Proposition 13 Name: Institution: California Proposition 13 What is proposition 13? Property taxes in California have been a controversial issue for very many years. In mid 1978‚ approximately ⅔ of voters in California passed proposition 13. Before it had been passed‚ property taxes increased almost annually according to the assessed value of the property. In the 1970s‚ there was a remarkable growth in the real estate market and the value of homes rapidly went up. Property values
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The California Gold Rush The California Gold Rush of 1849 is one of the most interesting and exiting events of the United States. From the wild stories of men striking it big‚ to the heart wrenching tales of people losing everything‚ these are what make it so alluring. There are many aspects of the California Gold Rush; effects on California; individual stories of struggle; and effects on the United States as a young country looking for stability. San Francisco was a small town of a few hundred
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myself for the wild ride. It was my thirteenth birthday and I decided I wanted to go to Disneyland. My dad and my bestfriend were with me on that day. All my life‚ I have been scared with rollercoasters. They were like mechanical monsters. The looming towers the stomach suspensing drops and tjhe terrifying countdowns never appealed to me. I had never even realized there was a rollercoaster at disneyland. I thought it would just be all "story rides" aka the ones I like. My good friend Sarah
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The 1800s in California was nothing like the California that we know today. The state was much less populous; there was little in terms of livestock and agriculture; places like LA and Hollywood were not nearly the large metropolises that they are now. Although there were many factors that played into this large expansion‚ there was one thing that none of it could have happened without: WATER. The creation of aqueducts led to the expansion of the California water system as we know it. Reservoirs
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expansion The California gold rush began 24 January 1848 because James W Marshall found gold in Sutters Mill‚ Coloma. The owner of the mill‚ John Sutter‚ wanted to keep it quiet about the discovery. But rumours spread and it came 300 000 people from the rest of the United States and tens of thousands from Latin America‚ Australia‚ Europe and China. It was not easy to get to California and many people died on the way. The immigrants were later called forty-niners and came to California to find happiness
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Disneyland is one of the best known and most highly visited recreation locations in the world. With this visibility and audience reach‚ the action of the Disney Company extends well beyond the boundaries of their theme parks. However‚ once a foreign expansion experience‚ named Euro Disneyland did not prove to be the successful venture that had been anticipated by its creators. Just a short time after the opening of the park in April 1992 reality proved to be not so magic. Euro Disney was much criticized
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California Gold Rush of 1849 “Gold‚ Gold in the American River” these remarkable words were once spoken by Sam Brannan (Allenj52). Brannan was a famous store owner from San Francisco that greatly influenced the California Gold Rush of 1849 that lead to westward expansion and the belief of Manifest Destiny. All of the thousands of immigrants rushing into California from the years of 1848 to 1853 all trying to “strike it rich‚” greatly influenced the population of California that lead it to be such
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