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America's Progressive Era and the 'Roaring Twenties'

had taken on an identity of their own, openly making bold statements for their even bolder owners. Colors played an integral part...

Penal System and Mental Illness

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

America’s Grade Schools and the Importance of Technology and Technology Integration

rest of the world in ways early educators would have thought unimaginable. From early ages, children are exposed to technology, a...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

America's Greatest President Abraham Lincoln

He loved this country and its people, and truly was inspired by what he believed to be just and right for the country. Because of...

How 911 Changed America's Political Landscape

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is discussed and includes such issues a...

Economic and Social Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...

United Nations and the Importance of America's Continuing Presence

far removed from the days when a country could independently govern within its own boundaries in oblivion to what was occurring on...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...

A Hypothetical Consideration of Corporate America's Opposition and Support of Iraq War

decision on this important topic, one should of course explore the firm and what it stands for. What is its vision and its mission...

HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

1979 Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt and America's Mediator Role

Minister Menachem Begin. With an olive branch extended, the U.S. wasted little time in initiating diplomatic efforts to promote p...

Nineteenth Century America's Rapid Urbanization Causes and Effects

a new class of wealthy industrialists (The Library of Congress, nd). A more prosperous middle class also emerged during these deca...

America's Enlightenment Still Exists

great extent, people still cling to religious notions. The observation made more than a century ago is still valid. Not only that,...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

Prison Privatization Argument

Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...

Methodology Analysis of America's Overweight Children

children mature earlier and earlier as time goes on, something studied by scientists over time. However, the theorists draw a conc...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

Early 20th Century and America's Foreign Policy with Regard to Mexico

In many respects our foreign policy to Latin America in general has been characterized more by neglect than any other factor. Laz...

Illegal Immigration Issues and America's Agricultural Policies

facets of daily life, from job availability to health care and public education, but the list is growing, even to the long term af...

Proposed Reforms to America's Tax System

a new system is necessary, its been difficult to get people to agree on what, exactly, that system should be. There have been prop...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

'Decarceration' Proposals by Prison Activists

embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...

Society at Large and Prisoners

that "prison is too good" for the likes of Bernardo (Whiteley, 1998). He needs to die, note these people, die painfully and slowly...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Spending Allocations of America's Defense Budget

brought us images of war, live and in color. Regardless of whatever political ideologies concurrently exist, no reasonable, think...