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    A Good Guy With A Gun

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    Wayne LaPierre, an American author and gun rights advocate, once said, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” which is an expression that has no implication with civilians stopping a criminal during a crime scene and is a statement that continues to lead everyone getting hurt in the end. No mass shooting in the past thirty years has been stopped by an armed civilian. A ‘good guy’ with a gun has never contributed to stopping a felon during a crime scene, so why

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    The Rosenberg Trial: Unfair Murder or Justified Execution Who was telling the truth-the Rosenbergs or Greenglass? Who was telling the truth-Sobell or Elitcher? It will be a long time, if ever, before we know for certain. We may wake up one morning to learn that the Rosenbergs were guilty. We may wake up to learn that they were innocent. But I doubt whether we will ever find there was a deliberate frameup. Fanaticism had the same momentum on both sides. --Radosh and Milton in The Rosenberg File:

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    under the law differently based on their individual experiences. Facts: a) negative racial stereotypes of African Americans in media, have reinforced negative attitudes and fears among many Caucasian citizens. b) The judicial system’s refusal to convict “bad” cops in cases involving African American victims reinforces the belief that African American citizens aren’t afforded equal protection under the law. c) Due to unethical profiling practices, law enforcement agencies interaction with people of

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    penalty because it would do more harm than good with the country. Concluding Paragraph, Summary: In conclusion, the death penalty is used in different states and it used for people that the state think deserve it. It is used for when a person convict a really bad crime and it depends on if the person has mental problems and didn’t know what they were doing. People think that the death penalty is wrong and tried to address it but none have be

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    Trial Vs. Circle Justice

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    guilty. With the circle justice I thought that they were too concerned about hurting others feeling which can prevent them from getting all the evidence from the case, also too I thought that the circle justice caused an outcome/ solution where the convict can get away with doing something easy and not actually changing. With a trial the person found guilty will get a punishment based on what they did and how bad of a crime they committed, the punishment will vary and it will be

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    BANCO INTERCONTINENTAL (BANINTER) The scandal BanInter was the second largest privately held commercial bank in the Dominican Republic before collapsing in 2003 in a spectacular fraud tied to political corruption. The resulting deficit of more than US$2.2 billion was equal to 12% to 15% of the Dominican national gross (LatinNews, 2013). The bank's main owner, Ramón Báez Figueroa, was accused of operating a secret “bank within the bank” by officials for more than ten years (Economist, 2003). Dominican

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    Walnut Street Jail

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    has been going on for hundreds of years, but the tactics that were used before and now are completely different. The Walnut Street Jail, sited on Walnut Street, was the first prison built in the United States. This penitentiary was meant to hold convicts

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    need or used for personal gain. He is simply there and ready to do his job as he has been taught and if someone does not appear to be a witch, he will not convict them simply because he does not along with said person. In Hale’s mind, there truly are witches. He is able to show his reason and intelligence early though by not rushing to convict everyone in sight of being a witch. He requires evidence and truth behind his convictions. The reverend’s main goal is to protect the people of Salem and allow

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    parents. While Pip is in the graveyard an escaped convict grabs him and questions Pip and when he finds out that he is living with a blacksmith he demands Pip to get him a file so he can free himself and some "whittles" which are scraps of food. The scene ends with Pip running off home.

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    to teach convicts how to read and write. Jimmy Baca shares what saved him and gave him hope with those he can truly sympathize with. Mary Pipher, a psychologist and author of Writing to Change the World, would describe Baca as a change agent. Throughout her novel, she emphasizes the importance of empathy to connect, spreading hope to those you’re trying to reach, and respecting one’s audience. In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s memoir Working in Dark, he explores why he feels empathy with convicts using his

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