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Current Art Event: Augmented Reality Art Platform
Art 140 Paper 2 Current Art Event: Augmented Reality Art Platform Snapchat, a social media platform, which has become trendy in recent years made another bold move earlier this week. To incorporate art into its technology, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel announced a collaboration with famous pop artist Jeff Koons, who
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Current Events-Who Cares?
Now, let me guess... you're here on this website because your 500 year old history teacher was appalled at the number or shall I say lack of students that raised their hand today during class when asked if they watch the news. From there, your teacher (who you frequently mistook
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Cutting Down the Brazilian Rainforest Is Wrong
Cutting down the Brazilian rainforest is not a morally just thing to do. Not only does leave the soil sterile and cut the land used for crops' life in half, but it also eliminates the opportunity for new medicines to be found, new plants to use for treatment in the
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Dance Difficulties
As an extremely challenging and physically demanding pastime, it makes sense that a career in dance has lots of pressures that go along with it. This should come as no surprise seeing that every professional sport requires hard work and at least some sacrifice. It is questionable, however, if there
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Dangerous offenders Legislation
The new Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act (2003) In Queensland permits prisoners to be kept in prison beyond their release date where a court finds that there is a 'high degree of probability' that they represent a 'serious danger to the community'. Other jurisdictions have enacted similar legislation to restrict
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Dangers of Teenage Pregnancy
Although the rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States has declined greatly within the past few years, it is still an enormous problem that needs to be addressed. These rates are still higher in the 1990's than they were only a decade ago. The United State's teenage birthrate exceeds
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Since the early studies of sociology, crime has been considered normal. It was though to be impossible for any society free of it to exist. In his essay title "Defining Deviancy Down", Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan states that "By defining what is deviant, we are enabled to know what is
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Darfur Conflict
The conflict in Sudan is an ongoing conflict. It began on February 26, 2003. The conflict began in Darfur in western Sudan. Many people would call the conflict in Sudan genocide, while the UN has failed to recognize it as genocide. The perpetrators of the genocide in Sudan are the
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Dataquality in Real Estate
Introduction With the advent of technology it has become clear that data is an important corporate asset. Performance metrics can help us in observing patterns and trends and drawing insights which, in other case, escape our attention and eye for detail. Analysis of Key Performance Indicators and Metrics can help
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Date Rape
While it is popularly associated that rape involves a kidnapping of some type by a criminal that the victim has never come in contact with before, this belief has been disproved over the years by the number of cases of acquainted rape, also known as date rape. Date rape
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Date Rape
Traumatized people suffer damage to the basic structures of the self. They lose trust in themselves, in other people, in God...The identity they have formed prior to the trauma is irrevocably destroyed. (Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992) 2 What type of crime can have that type of effect
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Date Rape Drugs
"Date Rape Drugs" Alcohol has been the "date rape drug" of choice for years. Now there are some "new" drugs on the market, which are being used for date rape. These drugs are Rohypnol, and GHB, or gamma hydroxybutyrate. They're used to "spike" unsuspecting victim's drinks. This can be
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David Brooks
David Brooks observes that the division between middle-class ambition, which is a characteristic of the young-upwardly-mobile professionals ("Yuppies") of the 1980s, and the ideology of the youth-oriented counterculture of the 1960s no longer exists, but has merged into the orientation of a new elite, the bourgeois bohemians. An example
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Day Labor Centers
Executive Summary Each morning, at hundreds of street corners throughout the city, there are workers and employers meeting to arrange employment for the day. These are the day labor markets that have been dramatically increasing in presence forming near home improvement stores, at busy intersections, and in parks and other
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Day with Probation officer
I followed employees of the Madison County Juvenile Probation Department for a day. I spent most of the day with the Victims Information Coordinator (VIC), although I did get to speak with many probation officers as well as the drug counselor in the department. I learned many things while
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Daycare and the Effects on Children
Daycare and the Effects on Children With the triumphs of welfare reform and the high turnout of women college graduates, mothers are increasingly, entering the workforce. As affirmed by the Wilson Quarterly (Autumn 98, Vol. 22 Issue 4), "Ben Wildavsky, a staff correspondent for the National Journal (Jan. 24,
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Dead Man Walking: The Death Penalty
Dead Man Walking: The Death Penalty Dead Man Walking was an extraordinary movie that got me to re-examine and question some of my fundamental beliefs of the death penalty. I believe that this movie impacted my life greatly as it was very emotional and moving. Dead Man Walking was an
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Dealing with Outsiders & Insiders
Dealing with Outsiders 1. A Company does not actually exist – it is a legal fiction. 2. A Company deals with outsiders through its employees, directors or agents. 3. The Articles of Association of a Company authorizes its Board of Directors to exercise certain rights and powers, or sub delegate
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Death
The Death Penalty vs. Alternative Punishments In the United States Constitution, the 8th Amendment prohibits the use and practices of cruel and unusual punishment. What exactly is considered to be cruel and unusual punishment? This question is a hot topic among America's many different current controversies. Many people are saying
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Death Andying
Death Death has been sterilized, institutionalized and dehumanized in attempt to increase individualism due to our idea that hospitals provide a good death (Somerville). Death has disappeared from community life and relocated as an individual experience occurring within the power of medical experts. Death has also changed from an everyday
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Death from Child Abuse
Death From Child Abuse Reaction Paper Never in my life have I encountered a more emotionally draining, motivating through awareness book. Ursula Sunshine Assaid , a five year old little girl, was killed by child abuse. She was mutilated, hit, kicked, starved, fed soap... the list goes on and
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Death Penalty
"DEATH PENALTY" ROUGH DRAFT TWO-SIDES In the United States, the use of the death penalty continues to be a controversial issue. Every election year, politicians, wishing to appeal to the moral sentiments of voters, routinely compete with each other as to who will be toughest in extending the death
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Death Penalty
When New York State's governor George Pataki took office in 1995, crime dropped in total of 45%, and the murder rate dropped by 1/3. As of September 1st 1995, the death penalty was reinstated in the state of New York, assuring safer communities and fewer victims, and an over all
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Death Penalty
Death Penalty Introduction Informed arguments against the death penalty are more persuasive than arguments in favor of it, as the negative affects of the death penalty have become widely publicized and illustrate the ineffectiveness of this cruel punishment. The death penalty is an inefficient form of punishment as innocent offenders
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Death Penalty
Death Penalty The death penalty is a controversial topic in the United States today and has been for a number of years. The death penalty was overturned and then reinstated in the United States during the 1970's due to questions concerning its fairness. The death penalty began to be reinstated
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Death Penalty
Death Penalty The idea of a person being put to death, no matter what the reason is, is not a light topic, nor a pleasant thing to think about. But the fact is, more than half of the world's countries and 38 U.S. states have a death penalty, so this
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Death Penalty
There have been many debates in the United States over all different things, but the death penalty has been one of the most debated issues in decades. Capital punishment is by definition the execution of a person convicted of committing a crime so extreme that no other punishment fits the
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Death Penalty
Capital Punishment is the ordered execution of a convicted prisoner by jury. Since 1976, there have been over 1,000 executions conducted in the United States. Not only is the Death Penalty morally wrong and should be abolished, but it is useless. Many will argue its use, but every pro-death penalty
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Death Penalty
The death penalty debate in the U.S. is dominated by the fraudulent voice of the anti-death penalty movement. The culture of lies and deceit so dominates that movement that many of the falsehoods are now wrongly accepted as fact, by both advocates and opponents of capital punishment. The following report
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Death Penalty
In the United States of America, a world superpower, a democratic nation, there is one criminal punishment that divides and separates many opinions of our criminal justice system. The United States practices the use of capital punishment on its most extreme criminals. The United States is one of only three
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