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    The United States Constitution affords all people certain rights. The Fifth Amendment states that we have the right against self incrimination. The Fourth Amendment protects us from unreasonable search or seizure. People have the right to confront witnesses and accusers. Nothing can change these rights unless the U.S. constitutions were to be rewritten and that is not likely to happen. In this paper we will be examining the Fourth Amendment, learning the requirements for obtaining a search warrant

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    system in a hope to curb crime and this has led to the creation of a prison solution. This solution is simple when someone breaks the law you lock them away, when that doesn’t work you lock them away for a longer period. Over the decades this method combined with the so called drug war has led to the overcrowding of the prison system. As Ernest Drucker wrote there are over 7.3 million people under the control

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    Some may say that Pablo Escobar helped his country Columbia greatly by spreading his illegitimate wealth across Columbia but the amount of terror and killing he spread across the western hemisphere far outweighed the money he put into the less fortunate communities. December 1, 1949, Rionegro, Colombia, Escobar was born. His family was extremely poor, for example one time he and his brother Roberto were sent home from school because they were unable to buy shoes. From an early age, Escobar had possessed

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    The per capita incarceration rate for African Americans is seven times greater than for whites. Since 1980 the proportion of Hispanics among all inmates in U/S/ prisons has risen from 7.7% to 16%. About one-third of all African American men in their twenties are under criminal justice supervision. The rate of unfounded arrests of Hispanics in California is double that of whites. Among 100,000 African American

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    Over forty million copies of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, sold globally since it was published in 1960. The Finch family live in the county of Maycomb, and life seems normal until their father, Atticus, takes on a controversial court case. Tom Robinson, a black man, is being accused by a white man named Bob Ewell for a crime that Tom did not commit. The Finch children have to adapt to the rising racist actions and allegations throughout the book. There is a symbolic

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    Jai Mareddy HIST 2222 Essay Chamosa 11/13/16 US Media Interpretation of: Rise and Fall of Pablo Escobar Abstract: Pablo Escobar is known to many as king of the cocaine trade, having controlled and dominated over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the US. He was born on Dec. 1, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia to Abel Escobar and Hermilda Gaviria. Pablo showed his finesse for criminal activities in college itself, when he ran a successful practice of selling counterfeit college diplomas to students. He later

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    Almost anyone who knows about the United States knows about the Bill of rights, or more importantly, in this case, the very first amendment. Everyone knows what the First Amendment is for and what it can do, but do they understand how far it can go and what it actually protects? Most people believe that the first amendment protects them from everything, which is false. The first amendment can protect the people of America from the government, but only to an extent. However, it does not protect the

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    security La Palma (now Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 or 'Altiplano') prison. On November 22, 1995, he was transferred to the Puente Grande maximum security prison in Jalisco, after being convicted of three crimes: possession of firearms, drug trafficking and the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (the charge would later be dismissed by another judge). He had been tried and sentenced inside the federal prison on the outskirts of Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico State.[4] After a ruling by

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    Slavery by Any Other Name Is Still Slavery When people hear the word slavery, they most likely will think of simply one person owning another, but many will not consider the fact that a more modern day form of slavery exists in developing countries worldwide, where an estimated 250 million children ages 5 to 14 (and an unobtainable number of adults) are forced to work in atrocious conditions (Jenkins). However; a merriam-webster dictionary defines slavery as drudgery which means boring, difficult

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    India it is simple to bribe the law enforcement officers. The influence on other prisoners of the jihadists, including the likes Bashir who was allowed to preach when he spent time in jail over the 2002 Bali bombings, is also often discounted by the prison authorities (Salna, 2011). In some states the financial systems, rules, and institutions did not retain pace with the swift spread of globalization. The globalization has created many wealth people all over the world. Typically, globalization led

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