Where Have All the Guns Gone? In today's society guns are everywhere. News casts shower the public with stories about gun violence, movie heroes blow away the bad guys, cartoon characters brazenly shower each other with flying bullets, and children shoot each other in school roo...

"Once inside, I was walked through a gauntlet of desperate men. Their hot smell in the muggy corridor was as foul as their appearance. None of them seemed to have a full set of front teeth. Many bore prominently displayed tattoos of skulls or demons. One could argue whether it was the look of ...

A History of gangs in the USA Although it is not fair and certainly not warranted to connect any ethnic group with organized crime, it is a fact that the massive immigration of the early 1900's fueled the creation of the early gangs, particularly in New York City. As more and more immigr...

Abstract Capital Punishment, also referred to as the Death Penalty, is defined as the execution of criminals by the state for committing crimes regarded as so heinous that it is the only acceptable punishment. The controversy of whether or not Capital Punishment is morally right or wrong is a deb...

Feb. 2, 1996 Feb. 19, 1997 Moses Lake, Wash. 2 students and 1 teacher Bethel, Alaska Principal and 1 student killed, 2 killed, 1 other wounded when 14-year-old Barry others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16, at his high Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class. school. Oct. 1, ...

What Causes Chicanos to Join Gangs and How Does That Decision Affect Their Lives? It is a cold and dark night in East Los Angeles. The streets are empty except for a few people on their way home. Then out of the shadows comes a car slowly driving down the streets. There are four young men heavily...

In the following pages, I will discuss the history, debate, past and current public opinion, and how it applies to American ideology and opposing values. Both sides have a fair amount of support and I have included direct quotes and paraphrasing from authors, celebrities, journalists, and ordinary...

Advertisements, mass production, sacrificing quality for time and quantity, the desire for bigger and better, these are the problems of commercialism. Commercialism has been advancing nearly unnoticed by most consumers even since Babylonian times. But, what makes it harmful enough to be explained i...

Increased Parental Responsibility and Gun Control Helps Decrease School Violence Sitting on the couch after a long day at work, I decide to turn on the television to forget about my worries. All of a sudden my life is snapped back into perspective. My rough day consisted of whether or not I...

The idea of putting another human to death is hard to completely imagine. The physical mechanics involved in the act of execution are easy to grasp, but the emotions involved in carrying out a death sentence on another person, regardless of how much they deserve it, is beyond my own understanding...

ABSTRACT: Effectiveness of gun control laws is a misnomer. Gun control laws are ineffective. In fact, they are considered to be counter productive to their purpose. The socioeconomic variables have more of an impact on gun related deaths than do gun control laws. Guns are not the root of c...

PRISONS DO NOT WORK Right now in the United States of America murderers, rapists, and child molesters are being set free. Prisoners are watching T.V., eating a meal, and using exercise equipment while law abiding citizens are starving and living in the gutters. Prisoners even have their own periodi...

Gun Control You're sitting in your room late one evening when you hear something downstairs. At first you ignore it thinking it's just a noise. Then you hear something even louder and it seems to be approaching your door. You don't know who this could possibly be being that you li...

Interpol has two inter-related governing bodies: the General Assembly and the Executive Committee. These are deliberative organs, with decision-making and supervisory powers, which meet periodically. The Organization's permanent departments constitute the General Secretariat which is responsible fo...

The Heritage Foundation - a Conservative think tank - reported that the rise in violent crime over the past 30 years runs directly parallel to the rise in fatherless families. In every state in our country, according to the Heritage foundation, the rate for juvenile crime "is closely linked to the ...

Blacks and Capital Punishment In the United States, about 13,000 people have been legally executed since the colonial times. The 1930's executed up to 150 people yearly. Due to the lack of support of the death penalty from the public the rate went to nearly zero by 1967. The United States S...

DEBATE #6 SHOULD INCARCERTION OF PREGNANT WOMEN BE AVOIDED? The subject of incarceration of pregnant women has been a very controversial issue for years. In this debate, Ken Ayers argues YES. He is well qualified to take this stand because he has presented and published a n...