went along with our lecture. The first article‚ "Three Strikes and You’re Out: California’s new mandatory sentencing law on serious crime rates"‚ by Stolzenberg and D’Alessio. This article looked at information gathered from cities where the three strikes law was mandated. The research looked at monthly data and found that the three strikes law had no effect on recidivism or crime rates. Personally‚ though some may agree with the three strikes law‚ I find it in some circumstances to be unjust. For
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Terri Simmons Online Class The Pullman Strike George Pullman started out with humble beginnings and although he denied having dreams; he had vision. The vision was to make travel in rail cars more comfortable which would benefit not just the avid traveler but himself as well.
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Three strikes laws have been the subject of extensive debate over whether they are effective. Defendants sentenced to long prison terms under these laws have also sought to challenge these laws as unconstitutional. For instance‚ one defendant was found guilty of stealing $150 worth of video tapes from two California department stores. The defendant had prior convictions‚ and pursuant to California’s three-strike laws‚ the judge sentenced the defendant to 50 years in prison for the theft of the video
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Charleen Moore English 105‚ PCC Monday and Wednesday March 26‚ 2008 ARE THREE- STRIKES LAWS FAIR AND EFFECTIVE ? INTRODUCTION The American public is alarmed about crime‚ and with good reason. Our crime rate is unacceptably high‚ and many Americans feel like prisoners in their own homes‚ afraid to venture out for fear of becoming another statistic. Nation-wide attention was focused on so-called three-strike laws in 1994 when California voters approved an initiative mandating prison terms of
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Furthermore‚ the growth of unions increased by about 20 percent from 1933 to 1945 because there were new and different strategies such as sit-down strikes for workers driven by their need for respect. Instead of using the standard strike of standing outside and chanting‚ workers had come up with different forms of techniques that caught the attention of people‚ not in unions. The success of these new strategies is very helpful in creating new and improved unions. For instance‚ craft unions who had
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The Homestead Strike was a very violent‚ but important event to the people of the American Business Industry. The violent act of a desperate businessman‚ in attempt to retain peace‚ killed many men. The infamous story of the Pinkertons changed the ways of American business agreements. The Homestead Strike changed the traditional American business environment by creating new laws and the awareness of the need for peace in business world. The Carnegie Steel Company was a successful factory‚ which
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do drone strikes violate the sovereignty in other countries‚ they also violate the rights of basic human rights. Consequently‚ drones may be perceived differently in the eyes of Americans and Pakistanis. The
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Columbia Accident Case Study This is an edited version of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report released in August‚ 2003. It provides a comprehensive and often sobering example of management lapses that have severe consequences. The original report was over 280 pages. This edited version eliminates the much of the technical discussion and focuses instead on the organizational factors that lead to the accident. You may obtain the entire report from http://www.caib.us/news/report/default
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Miners’ Strike Exam Questions 1) You can learn from Source A about the role of women in the miners’ strike that women wanted to have a movement to support the miners and their families in the UK miners’ strike of 1984–85. The movement is recognised with bringing feminist ideas into practice in an industrial argument and empowering women to take a public role in a community with a male-dominated society. They showed this by their participation in enforcing the law to change rights of which miners
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I chose to write about the "Reach for a LUCKY instead of a sweet" ad created by Lucky Strike cigarettes and how they appealed to the average American woman of the 1920 ’s. We ’ll be going over what the average American woman of the 20 ’s was as well as why they were so fascinated with smoking cigarettes. Didn ’t they know that cigarettes cause cancer? Didn ’t they know that they could die‚ and leave their loved ones behind because of cancer? Did they truly believe that cigarettes were the miracle
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