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Introduction             Arson is the intentional act of setting fire to a car, building, or other property for malicious or fraudulent purposes, and is considered a crime in all States. It is a violent crime that is responsible for hundreds of deaths every year. Arson is the second most leading cause of residential death in…

Is deception justified? This question is a topic that many people have different views on. In my opinion, it is necessary to lie to other people. I also think that it is important to be an honest individual, but there are certain circumstances when lying is justified. Lying can often times save a lot of…

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, Martin Luther King JR gave a speech to close to 200,000 supporters of the civil rights movement. His speech was given in an attempt to put an end to segregation and untie the United States and equality for all people. It had been one hundred…

The laws conflict with reason; holding to Locker’s purpose to protect property when protecting people is by far more noble (Peak, 2007, 14)Agreeing with the conflict theorist, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who challenged Hobbes and Locke, debating that “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”( Peak, 2007, 15). This truism is even more pronounced…

Common ground             The Marines and the Navy are both divisions of the United States Armed Forces, and in many cases they work together in an integrative fashion.  The Marines, however, are not a separate branch of the Armed Forces, but instead are a branch that is controlled by the Navy.  In other words, the…

Experiencing the Lincoln Memorial/Angel of Truth Freeing a Slave After personally experiencing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D. C. , my outlook on our nation’s past broadened and I understood the history that had happened at the monument. Only 7 p. m. and the sun had already set for the evening. Being in front of…

Ellis Island In this poem, Joseph Bruchac writes about visiting Ellis Island, which was a port of entry for so many immigrants, and feeling mixed emotions about his family history. He rejoices for the Slovak immigrants who found new opportunities in the U.S., but he mourns for the ancestors who were here before the Europeans,…

During the Great Depression, many serious political, economic, and social problems were left behind by former president Herbert Hoover that called for greater government intervention that had never been previously implemented before. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was elected president at the darkest hour of the Great Depression, and re-created the role of the president and…

The Black Sox Trial – 1921The Black Sox scandal was a baseball betting scheme involving a group of baseball players and gamblers which led to the Chicago White Sox intentionally losing in the 1919 World Series. As a result this scandal led to the banning of eight players from the 1919 Chicago White Sox team,…

From August 14 to August 20 of 1971 researchers at Stanford University in California funded an experiment that took regular untrained students and placed them in a prison type setting. Twenty four were chosen, some were designated as prisoners and others as guards. The experiment lasted only six of the planned fourteen day because a…