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Beginning in the 1970s, Angela Davis has been a prominent advocate of prison reform. In fact, Davis takes a radical approach, believing reform isn’t enough and prisons should be abolished almost completely. Davis believes that the “tough on crime” laws of the ‘80s didn’t decrease crime or create safer neighborhoods, but instead inflated prison populations…

Just like normal people, the lawyers also face some hard times for which they get compensation for. Compensation is the reward which can be money or non-money based, mostly due to injury. Workers’ compensation provides compensation benefits to employees for disabilities due to personal injury or disease sustained while in the performance of their duty….

Living in El Paso gives a first hand look at the current issues concerning the border. Just recently a large caravan consisting of thousands of people, from all over South and Central America, came to our borders seeking safety. However, with our current administration it is proving difficult for thousands forcing them to camp out…

Throughout the beginning of the 17th century, the “system in which people are treated as property and can be bought and sold with no chance of being free from their owner,” also known as slavery, spread throughout America. Specifically, it spread through the British colonies significantly (Newman, Jason). African Americans were brought to the Americas…

“It’s not what we do because it’s not who we are.” This is the cultural change the U.S. Army is striving to achieve. In response to an increasing concern regarding sexual harassment and assault in the military, the Department of Defense (DoD) has implemented several measures to enhance the prevention, surveillance and reporting of sexual…

Peoples ideals have a certain innocence about them, just as people themselves do. The ideals held by the respective characters in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Passing, all vary in degrees of innocence. The ideals of most men are innocent at the core, but have become jaded and hidden behind the cynicism and realization…

The French Revolution impacted many events on San Domingue. For example, the National Convention gave some mixed people more rights and abilities within society. All of the upheaval within France and the radical ideas would spread to Haiti. With sugar and coffee becoming luxuries in high demand, the slaves were overworked and the powersource of…

All over the world, battles and wars are constantly being fought. With war and fighting comes casualties which is a given. Due to shortages of soldiers, sometimes children are taken and turned into soldiers. It is common to think a lot of things when you hear the word child soldier. Maybe you don’t think anything…

Introduction As the new century began, most people were filled with hope that it was a dawn to a new beginning. But little did they know that the future would not only give them good, but also bloodshed. On September 11, 2001, it was a normal work day at the World Trade Center, filled with…

World War II, which spanned from 1939 to 1945, was not the longest lasting war in our history but it was the deadliest. Between fifty to eighty million military and civilian died people in just six years. While World War II brought about massive fatality it also ended the Great Depression, the greatest economic crisis…