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Introduction This article will be looking at the temperance movement. This is a movement which has made attempts in reducing the amount of alcohol consumption in a society. This movement arose in the 19th century and it was basically to bring alcohol consumption under control. Alcohol consumption was seen as a way of making people…

            Women in the year of 1890’s to include those who have lived before the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments of the Seneca Falls have experienced the tyrannous tenet of men that have kept them from being who they really are and what their purpose on earth really is. Women during that time had kept…

“After all I have done to keep clean,” she sobbed, “this is too much!  I know I am a monster in the sight of men; there is blood on my hands. I’ve looted and cursed and killed and diced and drunk, till my very heart is calloused. My only consolation, the one thing to keep…

We Need a Tougher Death Penalty Many people, in general, are trying to abolish the death penalty. Why? Why try to abolish something that is in need of our corrupt world? Like for instance, in the case of the monster named Westley Dodd. The death penalty is doing the world of crime some good. If…

Do you see where I’m headed with this? Why did have to happen? Ill. [Thesis] Today I hope persuade you that the Death penalty should be legalized. First I will persuade you by showing how it help deter one from committing severe crimes, then I’ll show how taxpayers would not have to support criminals living…

The use of parole in the criminal justice system in the United States dates back to the late 1800s, when it was first introduced at a reformatory in Elmira, New York. Parole allows convicted felons to be released from prison before completing their full sentence, but with certain conditions. Factors such as behavior, rehabilitation progress,…

A story of hope is just about the last thing you’d expect to find in a prison movie. But in The Shawshank Redemption, that’s exactly what you get. Shawshank is the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a man convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and shipped to a maximum-security prison in Shawshank,…

What is femicide? In the Caribbean and Latin America, the killing of young girls and women has intensified in the past few years. Since the early 1990s, the killing of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has drawn a lot of attention since such cases affect all countries in the region. According to the UNFPA paper,…

Herbert HooverBy:Meagan AllanSon of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian. Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer. He married…

Marijuana is rapidly growing in popularity and is currently sweeping the nation. Ten states, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, California, Alaska, Michigan, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C have already legalized, and more and more states are pushing for the legalization of this drug. Typically, younger people gravitate towards legalizing, although about 62% of all Americans…