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George Washington And Thomas Jefferson Grew It, Why Can’t We?
1258 Words - 5 Pages.... hemp has been a foundation in America for many years. But today, although consumers can buy materials made out of hemp if they look in the right places, it is illegal to grow it and is always imported to the United States from foreign countries. In fact, American business currently imports over $75,000,000 worth of hemp products annually. If these products were produced domestically, Missouri’s farmers alone could earn $100-$500 per acre growing hemp. Many Americans seem to be uninformed of the actual facts about the cannabis sativa plant and why it is such a useful crop. Therefore, the purpose of this essay is to present you, as the consumer and American citizen, wit ....
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Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
1005 Words - 4 Pages.... Ohio, was subsequently acquitted of obscenity charges brought against him for presenting the same exhibition.
LAW: Defining censorship
When it rules on an ''indecent art'' case, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether not subsidizing an activity is censorship.
The National Endowment for the Arts has been giving tax money to artists since the Johnson presidency. Some of its decisions have been controversial. For example, it subsidized an exhibit of menstrual blood, clothing made of condoms, and a depiction of Jesus Christ as a drug addict and sex object.
In 1990, after the NEA helped fund Robert Mapplethorpe's ''homoerotic'' photos and Andrew Serrano's crucifix in a jar ....
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Dumb Criminals
502 Words - 2 Pages.... who have this ability inborn are naturals, and are truly one of the beautiful people; the rest of us will just have to try and suppress what common sense we have. To accomplish goals we need to have a plan, but because we’re , plans are optional. No matter how big or small the job is, the plan is up to the individual. Just remember not to be thorough, and improvise as much as possible.
When doing the actual crime, make sure that the victims or the police have some way of identifying who robbed them, a link missing from the chain mail so to speak. Some examples of this would be to sign a ransom note or to rob a bank without a disguise. Another nice thing to do ....
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Capital Punishment: Right Or Wrong?
1153 Words - 5 Pages.... a murderer, justice is being served. By not punishing these murderers with the harshest punishment, we are pretty much telling them to go ahead and kill people, because there will be no real penalty for it. Which brings me to next point, if a potential murderer knows that if he is found guilty of murder, he himself will be killed, then he is less likely to commit the crime. The saying, “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” comes into play here. For example, New York State has a “zero tolerance” policy for murderers. Since this policy went into effect, the murder rate has been cut in half. This is because the killer knows he himself will be killed if he committ ....
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Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical And Legal Battle
640 Words - 3 Pages.... From the
collection of information we now have on marijuana's health benefits for the ill,
there is no longer any reason to keep it illegal. It should therefore be legal
for licensed physicians to prescribe marijuana for terminal patients for whom it
offers the only reasonable opportunity for living without unbearable pain.
Marijuana has been used many times to help ease pain and suffering. It
often eases nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, reduces the pain
of AIDS patients and lowers eye pressure in glaucoma sufferers. Cancer and AIDS
patients often lose a lot of weight, either due directly to their illness or
indirectly to the treatment of t ....
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Analysis Of Police Corruption
3192 Words - 12 Pages.... have been caught in New York, New Orleans,
Washington, DC, and Los Angeles.
Methodology: Corruption within police departments falls into 2
basic categories, which are external corruption and internal corruption.
In this report I will concentrate only on external corruption because it
has been the larger center of attention recently. I have decided to
include the fairly recent accounts of corruption from a few major cities,
mainly New York, because that is where I have lived for the past 22 years.
I compiled my information from numerous articles written in the New York
Times over the last 5 years. My definitional infornmation and background
data came from various b ....
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Why The Penal Laws Failed
1573 Words - 6 Pages.... created even larger barriers between the Catholics and
the Protestant's. The Penal Laws however, were destined to fail from the
very beginning, even with the complete support of both the English and the
Irish parliaments.
The Penal Laws were developed slowly over a span of one hundred and
three years as several desperate attempts to abolish the Catholics from
Ireland. The first penal law was implemented into the Irish community on
December 24, 1691 when William and Mary made an Anti Catholic declaration
for the oath of supremacy. The oath banned all Catholics from becoming
members of the parliament or any other position of power. Catholics could
not practice law, ....
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Howard Roark's Testimony At The Cortlandt Trial
746 Words - 3 Pages.... be altered, this greatly conflicted with what Roark had envisioned. He destroyed the building out of hatred for the alterations. It was almost as if he had been robbed, or if his main ideal was faced in front of a “firing range”. He does not see it as his own failure at all. He does realize the mistake in allowing Keating to propose the project, but he was ignorant to the fact that proposing is just as important as the unique design of the building. In other words, he did not realize that allowing Keating to propose the project to be a threat to his individualistic ideals.
Roark’s unnoticed failure greatly changes the logic of his testimony. He explains how ....
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