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    Trends in Policing: Police Vehicle Pursuits ABSTRACT There has been a lot of debate and news coverage about police pursuits over the last decade. These debates have ranged from whether police should pursue any vehicle for any reason to if pursuits are not conducted then the criminal element will use the flight in a car as a sure way to escape apprehension. I plan to research and write about the various court decisions that pertain to pursuits. I will review pursuits that have ended badly and how

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    Flawed Perfection As the esteemed political activist and professor Howard Zinn once said‚ “If those in charge of our society can dominate our ideas‚ they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World exhibits a government that successfully controls the ideas of the masses. As Zinn acutely predicted‚ the need for police in the World State is nearly eradicated due to the tranquility of society. Individuals

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    knowledge‚ which leads to the pursuit of knowledge. I will be exploring the knowledge question of ‘to what extent does our first distinction as Personal Knowledge shaped and fulfill in the pursuit of knowledge?” under the prescribe tittle of “The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree? Where the topic targeted through understanding of knower’s perspective in relative to personal and share knowledge‚ which pursuit the knowledge for us

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    The movie “Pursuit of happiness” is trying to show us about American lifestyle. The story leads by Chris Gardner‚ the salesman who is very low social status‚ rise from his poverty to be rich man. It looks like the pursuit of happyness in Chris Gardner term means that chasing the wealthy life. At the beginning‚ his life is very suffering from his job. Gardner has invested in a device known as a "Bone Density scanner". He expects that he would sell all of his devices and it would make his family better

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    “The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree? The question ““The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree?” prompts us to investigate the part knower’s perspective plays in achieving knowledge. This question is particularly interesting because it gives us the opportunity to examine certain people like Albert Einstein whose unique perspective at the time has led to numerous scientific discoveries

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    “The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree? The knower’s perspective is completely shaped by their environment; the Western culture I grew up in‚ especially in my family‚ one’s value was determined by your occupation. This indicates that the more prestigious your job is‚ the more valued one is in society. The jobs those of a doctor‚ engineer‚ or lawyer; a connection between the three is the amount of schooling needed to reach the profession.

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    The Scientist’s Pursuit of Happiness by Johan Norberg‚ uses a third person look at the minds of the scientists mentioned within the article‚ such as Richard Layard‚ Easterlin‚ Ronald Inglehart‚ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and the other mentions of contributions towards the idea of the article. In which each information entails to some kind of argument in whether who had the better idea to the pursuit of happiness. These attempts of the pursuit of happiness stem from “Philosophers and Poets who have tried

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    striving for this possession filled happiness‚ many become sad‚ weary and give up on their dream of so called “happiness”. The article written by Darrin McMahon “In Pursuit of Unhappiness” ‚ goes over this issue in great detail. Achieving true happiness is nearly impossible in the way we try to maintain it. In the article “In Pursuit of Unhappiness” Darrin give a definition of “happiness”. Which he uses his own version and John Stuart Mill’s “ Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some

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    Bibliography: The Pursuit of Happyness – Sony Pictures. 2014. The Pursuit of Happyness – Sony Pictures. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thepursuitofhappyness/ [Last accessed 09 March 2014] The Pursuit of Happyness – Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopaedia. 2014. The Pursuit of Happyness – Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopaedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness [Last accessed 09 March 2014] The Pursuit of Happyness‚ 2006. [DVD] Gabriele

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    rather a good quality of life” (127). The pursuit of the good life–eudaemonia–undergirds every action the polis takes. Thus‚ while the polis constructs laws to prevent injustice and ease exchange of property‚ it extends beyond them. The polis springs into existence because of friendship‚ but that social life gives way to a higher form‚ wherein all members pursue the good life together. This pursuit drives each member to practice self-government‚ in the pursuit of attaining self-sufficiency. The laws

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