open access to guns not only complies with the constitutional standard but also ensures the safety of the general public by limiting who purchases and acquires guns. There are numerous ways to access guns in the United States - legal ways include gun stores‚ pawn shops‚ gun shows‚ private citizens and Internet sales and illegal ways are not limited to gun trafficking‚ theft and straw purchases. It’s notable that background check is only required by federally licensed gun dealers. Guns sold at private
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The Sultana explosion “All of a sudden‚ the boilers erupted in a mammoth explosion‚ nearly splitting the Sultana in half” (Billings 1). The Sultana was going upriver on the Mississippi River when the boilers and the steamer stopped working (Billings 1). When all of a sudden a gigantic explosion on the boat killed 1‚700 people which is more than the Titanic (Billings 1). The boat was going up river and the boilers and steamer stopped working which caused the explosion (Billings 1). “The strain of
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Is hookah smoking safer than smoking cigarettes? Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking. Also known as narghile‚ shisha and goza‚ a hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber‚ a bowl‚ a pipe and a hose. Specially made tobacco is heated‚ and the smoke passes through water and is then drawn through a rubber hose to a mouthpiece. The tobacco is no less toxic in a hookah pipe‚ and the water in the hookah does not filter out the toxic ingredients in the tobacco smoke. Hookah smokers may
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Music and the Impact on Youth in America Film: 8 Mile Florida International University Synopsis 8-Mile Film The film begins in the rugged streets of the 8-mile section of Detroit‚ Michigan. A young man by the name of Jimmy aspires to become a rapper. The odds are stacked against him because of the complexion of his skin as well as the fact that he is a product of his own environment. Jimmy‚ realizing that his life has not really changed much since
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Smoking Problem of UK Teenage 1.0 Introduction Scientific experiments have already proved that smoking is harmful to health‚ but smokers around the world are still growing‚ especially teenagers. The number of smokers is growing rapidly‚ which is worrying. According to a survey report issued by the WHO’s Imperial Cancer Research Foundation and American Cancer Research Foundation‚ now there is about 1.1 billion smokers in the world. Every year 3.15 million people are died of smoking‚ that is
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[pic] Guns Germs and Steel Humans have lived on this planet for thousands of years. Over the time‚ they learned‚ developed‚ acquired knowledge‚ and civilized in the process. Yet‚ this learning can’t be construed to be complete‚ leaving a lot to be learned. Along the way‚ human race has evolved by generating vast amounts of food‚ domestication of plant and animals‚ along with battles and illnesses. The primitive human who survived on hunting has reformed into modern human as we
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becoming another statistic in the rising violent crime rate produced by guns. This has become an all too familiar scenario for families living not only in Chicago‚ but inner cities throughout the United States. Mainstream media would like for everyone to believe that it is the gun that is to blame for these crimes‚ while politicians use these unfortunate events to push their anti-gun agendas. Many legislators have addressed the issue of gun violence with ideas from stricter laws‚ to all out bans on certain
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The Deep Horizon oil rig explosion was categorically impacted by bias decision making. The leaders that day executed from a heuristic view‚ and also from an overconfidence bias. The two corporations colliding that day‚ BP and Transocean‚ underestimated the calamity occurring right before them. Twenty anomalies occurring simultaneously did not cause significant alarm to make a drastic and immediate decision to prevent the explosion. The team minimized the probability that the rig would explode
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and early 1990’s‚ teen gun violence increased dramatically in the United States. More teens started to acquire and carry guns‚ leading to an increase in gun deaths and injuries. A National Institute of Health study recently interviewed 1‚219 seventh and 10th graders in Boston and Milwaukee. Forty-two percent of students claimed "they could get a gun if they wanted‚ 28 percent have handled a gun without adult knowledge or supervision‚ and 17 percent have carried a concealed gun." This is a very serious
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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice http://ccj.sagepub.com/ Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males : An Examination of Social Embeddedness Deanna L. Wilkinson‚ Marquette S. McBryde‚ Brice Williams‚ Shelly Bloom and Kerryn Bell Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 2009 25: 20 DOI: 10.1177/1043986208328449 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/25/1/20 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and
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