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    Terry is self-confident and one can see this when he shows his excitement to visit Herland. He is interested in going to see what he calls “Feminisia”: He believes that he will meet there multitude of women and further he thinks that he will become popular in Herland also as he was a very popular man among girls in his own country. Terry was very proud of his masculinity. He was an explorer who thinks women to be slave. “There never was a woman yet that did not enjoy being mastered”. (173) Terry

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    national star Terry Fox was dripping with sweat and grimacing from pain. Running 40 kilometers daily with only one whole leg is not an easy task. But Terry Fox was not stopped by this. The moment before he collapsed to near death‚ he was still running. Athletes‚ especially runners‚ rely on having healthy legs to carry them. This was what Terry Fox was “stolen” of. As a basketball player and a runner for his school and university‚ being hit with osteosarcoma was tragic. But Terry Fox never let his

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    Addiction as a Social Problem SOC 210 Although Addiction to drugs and alcohol can be viewed as a biological and psychological problem‚ it has many sociological implications that suggest it may be caused by cultural structures and society as a whole. Addiction plagues millions of Americans in today’s world. By definition it is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences‚ or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors (Lindesmith

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    ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Wireless communication has emerged as one of the fastest diffusing mediums on the planet‚ fueling an emergent "mobile youth culture that speaks as much with thumbs as it does with tongues. At one of our focus groups a teen boy gushed‚ "I have unlimited texts . . . which is like the greatest invention of mankind." His

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    Fact: Terry Teacher is scared of his student Lenny Loner.  He was warned by a former teacher of Lenny Loners behavior‚ of how he kept to himself‚ acted strangely‚ mumbled to himself‚ and argued.  Lenny was asked to write a short story‚ and he wrote a story about an unpopular student who went on the Internet‚ got information about how to make a bomb‚ and blew up the school building .  Terry was concerned and and spoke to Lenny briefly. Lenny explained that it was just a creative writing assignment

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    Terry v. Ohio 392 U.S. 1 (1968) The case of Terry v. Ohio is considered to be a landmark case because it is “understood to validate the practice of frisking (or patting down) suspects for weapons under diverse circumstances” (www.flexyourrights.org). These circumstances that allow for warrantless searches are applied only if and when an officer feels that peoples lives could be at risk‚ or if there is enough cause to believe that “a crime is in the process of being committed‚ a crime has already

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    Terry v. Ohio: Martin McFadden was a police officer in Ohio who noticed that two individuals appeared to be acting suspiciously. While watching these people from his police car‚ Officer McFadden noticed that these two men appeared to be planning a criminal attack. The two men were walking back and forth in front of a store while conspiring with each other. When McFadden approached the two men and identified himself as a law enforcement officer‚ he walked them down the street and frisked them for

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    In the article “What’s the Difference between Terry and Terri?” the author Terry Jeffery links the fates and medical condition of three individuals‚ Terri Schiavo‚ Terry Wallace and Donald Herbert. These three people each had a traumatic brain injury‚ and they each were in a compromised medical state for many years. Two of the patients had a miraculous recovery from their brain injury‚ and Terri Schiavo and her parents were not given the chance of a miraculous recovery. The author of the article

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    for someone to do that but with an artificial leg‚ now that was something different. Terry Fox was an athlete who lost his leg to cancer when he was only 18 and decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Terry Fox shoved any doubt that anyone had of him running across Canada on one leg to the back of their heads after he showed what he could do. Losing a leg to cancer did not discourage Terry Fox‚ if anything‚ it made him want to run across Canada and become one of the nation’s

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    Law enforcement officers in the United States often perform “Terry stops”‚ as part of the work routinely associated with police patrol. In policing the term “Terry Stops” which refers to the “stop and frisk” practice‚ was coined in 1968‚ and derives from the Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio‚ 392 U.S. 1(1968) . In that landmark case‚ it was ruled that the Fourth Amendment constitutional right‚ made applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment‚ that prohibits “unreasonable searches and

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