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Latin America, China, and Changes Through Revolution or Reform

while the Nationalists were forced to retreat to the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. For Chairman Mao, revolution was onl...

1995's United States v. Lopez Case

and is one that should be evaluated in todays frightening climate of violence. The Supreme Court case United States v. Lop...

Ideas on Culture, Evolution, and the Human Mind

a light philosophical manner. While their work entitled Figments of Reality is rather intricate but written in an easy to read fa...

Police and Nonlethal Weapons

was killed by an FBI sniper (1999). Clearly, the need for non lethal weapons is significant as the twenty-first century unfolds. T...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

Teenage Crime and Recommended Punishment

several hours of community service. However, this same offender is likely to appear again, usually before the same juvenile court...

Different Views on Airliners Carrying Guns in Cockpits

pilots, and they should have the right to protect that cockpit with a firearm" (Burns, 2002, PG). The Airline Pilots Association,...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

Policing and the Useful Tool of Taser Guns

or heart attack. The use of the stun gun might add to the problem. However, studies on these guns suggest that they are not quite ...

Machine Guns and Warfare

employ the use of the new technology in the battle of Petersburg in Virginia(Bellis 2003). Interestingly enough, the inventor of ...

'My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

As a gun, Dickinson speaks for "Him" (line 7) and the Mountains echo the sound of her fire. Paula Bennett comments that "Whatever ...

Overview of Glock Firearms

such, these unique factors earned the newly introduced GLOCK the reputation of being "faster, simpler and safer to use than any ot...

Arming Airline Pilots

the cockpit with lethal force" (Up in arms, 2002, p. 3). There is a great deal of evidence to support Luckeys assessment, as liber...

Second Amendment Rights to Gun Ownership

Since the mid twentieth century our understanding of what our Second Amendment rights to gun ownership have been seriously challen...

Kellerman, et al.(1993), an Article Critique

This paper offers a critique of a 1993 study by Kellerman and colleagues, which pertained to the risk for domestic homicide create...

Youth Gun Violence in Great Britain and its Causes

goes on and on and on, but the results are always the same (Jasper). Black crime is growing, and is becoming an increasingly sign...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun'

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Gun Manufacturers and Lawsuits

the general public; however, such a charge has no bearing in this instance since the manufacturer had no control over what the ind...

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

Law Enforcement/Use of Stun Guns, Video Surveillance

stun guns and video surveillance technology has become increasingly widespread among law enforcement officers. However, this trend...

The Responsible Use of Technology in Law Enforcement

fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...

Addressing Gun Safety

practitioners to alert their clients to this possibility (Christoffel, 2007, p. 626). Impact of the problem on the client An onl...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

Exploring Inventions

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at important inventions. The gun and the bicycle are both covered. Paper uses four sou...

World War One Weaponry

very interesting is the fact that the tanks in WWI were developed by the British and French in the hundreds, but the Germans remai...

A Loaded Gun - Emily Dickinson’s Exploration of Oppression

Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...

Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada

lived there for some small portion of that early part of my life but he was not a strong presence in our family....He left us" (3)...

The Anti-Gun Campaign in the UK

into a specific behaviour pattern. During elections may be are biased views of the electorate to favour the government, however wi...

Burglary Rates and the Issue of Gun Ownership

In 2005, 3,984 burglaries were committed in the municipality. This translates to a rate of 0.011 burglaries per citizen (Nemerov,...