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Law Of Precedent

One of the major considerations on how someone is tried in a court of law depends upon the previous convictions of similar cases. This law of precedent (stare decisis) was founded hundreds of years ago as part of our common law. The literal translation of stare decisis is "that like cases ...

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Men, What Are We

Men, is described as a mammal, a vertebrates. Rabbit, cow, are also mammals but they follow a rule. They exist with the ecosystem in a unique balance, food web that is determined from producers to 1st order consumer, to 2nd . 1st orders being the herbivore like rabbit. 2nd the predators, fox. ...

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Creative Writing: The Date

Acute concern crept across Melissa's and John's faces as they watched the screen from outside the Retrovision store window. "Police are still baffled as the death toll rises now to nine about the identity of the serial killer who still stalks the streets of Brisbane always using a small knife to ...

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Jeffrey Dahmer

Why does a happen? How does a man become a serial killer, necrophiliac, cannibal and psychopath? Very few convincing answers are forthcoming, despite a spate of books that propose to understand the problem. Many of the theories would have you believe that the answers can always be found in ...

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Oedipus Rex 7

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, (as translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald), is replete with dramatic devices - one of which is known as Sophoclean Irony. Sophoclean Irony can be divided into two terms: unconscious and conscious irony. Unconscious irony occurs when a character speaks what he ...

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Assassination Of JFK

On Friday, November 22nd 1963 at 12:30 P.M. the 35th United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated while he rode in an open limousine though the streets of Dallas. This event, which abruptly and severely altered the course of history, it has created more controversy than ...

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"The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto

It was May 25th 1978, Terry Marker was on his usual patrol on campus at the University of Illinois. This earmark package, addressed to an engineering professor at Rensselaer from a material science professor at Northwestern, was found in a parking lot. What seemed like an insignificant ...

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The Silence Of The Lambs

Clarice Starling, a student preparing for a life in the FBI, hunts a serial killer by use of vague information given to her by an incarcerated psychologist. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter relays information to Clarice in exchange for information about herself. The killer, known only as "Buffalo ...

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Exxon Valdez

On March 24, 1989 at 4 minutes past midnight, the oil tanker ExxonValdez struck a reef in Alaska's breath-taking Prince William Sound. Instantaneously, the quiet waters of the sound became a sea of black. "We've fetched up - ah - hard aground north of Goose Island off Bligh Reef, and - ah - ...

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Oedipus The King

Sophocles "" is a tragic play which discusses the tragic discovery of Oedipus that he has killed his father and married his mother. The story of Oedipus was well known to the athenian’s. Oedipus is the embodiement of the perfect Athenian. He is self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed. ...

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Opinion On The Death Penalty

The death penalty, also referred to as capital punishment, has been abolished in Canada since 1976, but still exist in a few American States. The last execution in Canada took place in 1962. I disagree with the death penalty for several reasons. My first reason is that I find it extremely ...

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Euthanasia And The Robert Latimer Case

Euthanasia is undoubtedly an issue that plagues the minds of those living with children or adults who are severely disabled. Rarely is one found to have a ‘ neutral' outlook upon it; that is, a side must be chosen, for or against. It is too delicate a topic to be ‘in the middle' about. Over the ...

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Five Against The World - Perl Jam

There are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, ...

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Lord Of The Flies: The Beast Within Us

Have you ever been laughed at, made fun of, or teased by one of your friends and then thought to yourself, god, I wish he would just die. What that feeling is, is the feeling of evil. Certainly it can't be good if you wish your friend would die, even if you are just kidding. So where does this ...

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Intensity : What An Understatement

What can make a book so intense that you are nervously anxious to see what will happen next? This is what Dean Koontz does with extreme sensibility. Very rarely is a psycho-thriller like this done without moments of stupidness and predictability. Koontz’ attention to detail makes the novel a ...

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Ed Gein

You could never image how many e-mails I get from people saying "Did you know the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is true" or "A friend of a friend was in jail with the real LEATHERFACE". Who ever thought of putting that intro at the beginning of TCM with the narration of John Larroquette forever engraved ...

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Gears Of War

Berrah Shere Mrs.Hatridge English 3 Honors, period 2 May 21 2010 Gears of War: Dilemma of the Youth Video games provide activities among children who are attracted to visual effects and the ability to control players and games. Violent video games provide alternatives for children to let ...

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Death Penalty

Austin Nobles 5/20/13 PHIL-7 Prof. Glen Greenwalt Death Penalty The death penalty is a necessary evil in certain circumstances. Without the deterrent of capital punishment, violent crimes would increase and victims of such crimes would feel that the justice system has failed them. Where ...

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And Then There Were None: Immoral Justice

Annelie Reyes Blk 5 Immoral Justice The psychological nature of goodness can be seen "... [when humans conform] to the established practices and customs" (Weiss 381) of society's principles. Humans demonstrate ethicality by voluntarily following the footsteps of an "...ideal good" (Weiss ...

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Desensitization

Desensitization also refers to reduced responsiveness to actual violence caused by exposure to violence in the media . Desensitization may arise from different sources of media including TV, video games and movies. Violence can prime thoughts of hostility with the possibility of affecting the way ...

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