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    Richman Investments- Acceptable Use Policy   Richman Investments is the name for its installation of the Richman Investments software from Jive Software creating a virtual (type of company) community. It is a Web-based virtual community where members collaborate on documents‚ share insight and best practices and exchange ideas. Registered Users of Richman Investments are encouraged to be open and informal in their use of Richman Investments - one of the benefits of the system is that it attempts

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    Teacher Ever My parents and I had the finest life in Miami‚ Florida. When my uncle died we moved Detroit‚ Michigan to go live with my aunt and my mema while they mourned his death. He died by having a rare flesh-eating-skin-disease that ate away his flesh. I could not stand Detroit it was loud‚ crude and had rats in places rats are not usually in. The most terrible part about was that I had school coming up and I was not at ease‚ being told that I was going to have the worst teacher ever. We could

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    atrocities are committed. They then report back to the United Nations‚ who then decides if action is necessary. In the case of Margaret Atwood’s poem “Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture‚” the amnesty report is delivered in a very different way. This poem is about‚ in short‚ someone’s perception of a torture chamber. It is a less-than-glorified description of the room and the events that occur there. The speaker is really just a narrator; there is absolutely nothing to learn about him/her

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    subject of cheating is receiving a rise in attention‚ causing some to question if cheating is ever passable. One definition of cheating is to act unfairly in order to gain an advantage. Another definition of cheating is to avoid something undesirable by luck or skill. I don’t believe that acting unfairly to gain an advantage is ever tolerable‚ but developing your abilities to evade something is typically acceptable. To initiate the conversation‚ I will start with a convenience we use every day‚ a computer

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    because their peers shunned them or they were fortuneless. Many offenses were petty‚ but a lot of them were extreme. There were three main things that were most alluring of all‚ minor offenses and consequences‚ large-scale crime‚ and instruments for torture. ​Many of the trifling crimes were punishable by public shaming or manual labor. “ Justice had power to impose fines‚ and to consign an offender for a limited time to the house of correction at Bridgewell to labor on the treadmill‚ grinding corn for

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    Have you ever had something that brings you both joy and torture? In the book the Scarlet letter the main character Pearl punishes her mother by constantly reminding her of the horrible deed that she has done‚ yet Pearl also brings Hester joy. The author-Nathaniel Hawthorn-uses Pearl as a symbol of punishment and a gift. The author uses symbols and diction to convey the theme that even the most brutal of punishments can be confernting. Hawthorne uses diction to showhow Hester’s precious Pearl

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    If I were to grade Thomas Jefferson based upon his words and actions regarding slavery I would give him an C+ because of his hypocrisy‚ his decisions‚ and his inability to do the right thing. Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president of the united states earning the title after defeating the 2nd president John Adams in an electoral vote. He was a founding father of the United States and and the main author of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13‚ 1743 in Virginia and

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    encountered pure torture. From being senselessly abused to unceasingly overworked‚ there was not a day where Wiesel could sleep with a light heart. “I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast‚ beating me in the chest‚ on my head‚ throwing me to the ground and picking me up again‚ crushing me with ever more violent blows‚ until I was covered in blood” (“Night” 53). As a result of running into an angry SS officer‚ Wiesel first-hand encountered pure rage and torture. Being beaten

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    is it ever right to kill?

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    Is it ever right to kill? There is a lot of argument about whether it is ever right to kill anyone. What is killing? Well the dictionary definition is: to cause death/the act of causing death. But is that enough? Is there another type of killing? A type that is justifiable. For example if a person steals or puts you in mortal danger is it acceptable to take their life in return? But more importantly is it morally right? Helene Moszkiewiez worked in the resistance during the holocaust. She was

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    Terrorism and Torture In the threat of national security‚ the debate on torture is confronted with legal and moral dilemmas of permissibility. In the hypothetical case of the ticking-bomb terrorist‚ torture is perceived as either an advantageous means of national security‚ or a violation of human rights. Although it is a “slippery slope‚” in order to preserve the balance between national security and civil liberties in a democratic society‚ torture should be prohibited. Considering terrorist

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