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    In preparation for my debate on the topics of intelligence-led policing and Compstat policing, I have discovered the many advantages and disadvantages of using intelligence-led policing and Compstat policing. According to Carter & Carter (2009), intelligence-led policing is the collection of and analysis of data relating to crime, used by law enforcement in “developing tactical responses to threats and/or strategic planning related to emerging changing threats” (p. 317). When applied correctly, intelligence-led

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    Speech and debilitate I am afraid of many things; I fear heights, large crowds, death even fucking moths, all of which I have justifiable reasons for but my biggest fear the fear of public speaking is nonsensical. I know it is a ridiculous fear there is no inherent danger involved in speaking publicly it’s no different from a personal conversation just louder but for some reason I can’t get over it and trust me I’ve tried. In my senior year of high school, I was given a throw away assignment something

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    that she desperately needed and now she is drug-free, financially independent, and owns a small food company. “Sometimes all we need is somebody to believe in us when we don’t believe in ourselves,” says Brooks-Godley. In short, the prostitution debate, like so many other issues, tends to be discussed in abstract terms, but her message shows that we need to remember how these policies directly affect real people’s lives. Naturally, many people assume, albeit incorrectly, that liberalizing prostitution

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    Configuration of Reality: 45th Presidential Debate Jay Van Bavel’s 2016 article addresses an important and relevant issue: voters’ deeply divided perceptions of presidential candidates. According to Bavel, approximately 70 million viewers tuned in to watch the final presidential debate on October 19, 2016. In theory, one would be valid in assuming that while processing such an event, everyone should be experiencing the same reality—all are watching the same debate, hearing the same words said by the same

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    American being the melting pot that it is, is made up of many different types of people that have different political priorities. During an election year, these priorities are discussed even more often and more heatedly. Newscasters light this debate fire daily, as do politicians. Some of these issues are absolutely essential to the American political life and should be discussed and evaluated in order to make America great. Even when parties are on opposite sides of an issue, they can agree

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    and speakers today are discriminated against in classrooms and other scenes where free speech and debate should be especially cherished. In 2017 alone, there have been multiple riots born of originally peaceful protests. Students in Middlebury College in Vermont revolted at a peaceful debate with far-right Charles Murray. While Murray tried to reach his building, a mob formed, forcing him and his debate-partner, Allison Stanger, to move to another building (Beinhart np). When Murray and Stanger tried

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    2:00-3:15 10/28/14 Evaluation Essay: Why the Flyers are better than the Sixers Growing up in the Philadelphia region I’ve heard more debates about sports than I have about politics. Most of these debates usually consist of “your team sucks” or “That team is from New York so that’s why they are awful!”. The problem with these debates is the people involved in the debates don’t offer any insight as to why their favorite team is the best. What makes a sports team successful is their success on the playing

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    The book Gender of the Gift by the Marilyn Strathern is a detailed evaluation of the problems faced by women and the society at large in Melanesia. The study mainly focuses on the native’s culture with the guinea mead’s field report as the center of interest. The report encompasses mead’s adolescence and sexual traits. The book also reviews several other anthropological reports all around the area. The way in which the author reveals the state of the art is quite confusing although the method of

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    there are still on going debates where people want their society to fall on that spectrum, some would rather have more liberty and others more security. In 2016 the Free Speech Debate put out a video debating whether no-platforming should be practised at universities. No-platforming can be defined a strategy that argues that certain peoples should not be given a platform to speak in a certain social space due to their rhetoric constituting hate speech . Both sides of the debate, the pro no-platforming

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    It explains why so many plays turn, like the Frogs, on a formal debate. The situation of the play affects its internal constitution. As drama is analogous to politics, so the dramatic action is assimilated to political action. For the Athenian audience, the fully expressive mode is competitive debate. The Frogs contains the largest number of references to the poet's function as an adviser. The world of Aristophanes' comedies is mainly

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