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    Gene McCarthy was just another senator until he chose to run for president. When he choose to ran he inherited a network of activists put together throughout 1967 ready to do anything they could to dump Johnson. As a result‚ his campaign would change the course of American history. McCarthy ’s campaign primarily challenged Johnson on his war and the military‚ something that had not been done by establishment politicians at that point. A little over three months after McCarthy announced his candidacy

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    Salem Possessed Analysis

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    Salem Possessed redefined the standard for the possibilities social history offers to understand the events and people of early America. Through a painstaking look at local records such as legal records‚ the Salem Village record book‚ the minister’s book‚ and tax records Boyer and Nissenbaum discovered a long-standing pattern of contentious behavior of which the witchcraft accusations in 1692 was just one episode. Their analysis provides an invaluable insight into the social history of New England

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    courts‚ they must be given the right to present their case at a revocation hearing before being incarcerated. In fact the probationer is given dates for two separate hearings; first they are granted a “preliminary hearing”‚ called a "pre-revocation hearing"‚ or “Gagnon I hearing”‚ which determines whether they must be incarcerated while awaiting an actual second hearing‚ which is called the “revocation hearing” or “Gagnon II hearing” (Latessa and Smith 2011). It is possible that they can be released

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    Humanity and violence was the biggest theme in the story. Cormac McCarthy is the author of the book “The Road”. He’s one of the authors who write post-apocalyptic novels. He’s expressing that the world is in shambles with little humanity. In the book‚ there is a new world because the old world was way back in the past and now it has changed. There is dead everywhere‚ the world is dark because that is how the apocalypse is‚ and many humans have turn into savages trying to survive. There could be people

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    Ubiquitous Love In the novels‚ The Road and All the Pretty Horses‚ by Cormac McCarthyMcCarthy shows through symbolism and setting‚ that ever-present love is a basic human need. In The Road‚ the boy symbolizes faith‚ and is the source of never-ending love. All the Pretty Horses‚ the horses symbolize an unfallen spirit‚ and is the basis of a deep love. In The Road‚ the desolate and godless world proves to be unforgiving‚ yet there is a beacon of light and love found through the boy. In All

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    Fair Trial

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    Is it part of the concept of a fair trial that‚ if an accused cannot afford legal representation‚ the state must provide it? INTRODUCTION ‘When a person is faced with deprivation of liberty‚ the most stringiest standards must be followed to ensure that the person is properly subject to that restriction.’ The notion of obtaining a fair trial has long been questioned as far back in the time of trial of King Charles I of England in 1649. His highness insisted upon his conception of the rule of law

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    Vengeance is a powerful thing in Salem. With young women accusing anyone as witches and putting them on trial hoping they will be hung made certain people believe these women were seeking revenge. There were multiple accounts of young women having conflicts with good citizens and later bringing them trial. For example Mary Warren versus Sarah Good. Sarah good was known as a dirty beggar. Her and her husband would go door to door and ask people for charity. One day Sarah knocked on the door of Mary

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    Gagnon I Hearing Analysis

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    issued rulings in Morrissey v. Brewer and Gagnon v. Scarpelli (O’Leary & Hanrahan‚ 1978). These cases set a precedence on how the process for depriving liberty for those on probation or parole (O’Leary & Hanrahan‚ 1978). It ultimately created the two-part hearing process‚ which is know as Gagnon I and Gagnon II hearings (O’Leary & Hanrahan‚ 1978). The Gagnon I hearing is what is commonly known as the preliminary hearing (O’Leary & Hanrahan‚ 1978). A Gagnon I hearing should occur in the jurisdiction

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    The right to a trial by jury is to give two americans their right to procrastinate against each other about what really happened in their situation they were in. Judges wouldn’t know who did the crime if both defendants had no physical or visual evidence of what really happened at the scene. A trial by jury is really based on the amount of evidence and points you’ve proved to the judge about the case. The most concerned day of our lives today is walking through the doors to a trial by jury‚ because

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    child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. (McCarthy‚ 3) They awake in darkened woods every day. The two neither choose to remain in the woods or communicate with nature. If at all they do‚ it is done only for a survival. There is no immortal beauty seen in the Road. It is “Barren‚ silent and godless” (McCarthy‚ 4). More than a description of desolated wasteland‚ The Road is suggestive of the impact of that the careless attitude

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