Gun Control Act of 1968

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    However that all seemed to quickly change in June of 1968 when he came home from golfing on a hot summer day to find a draft notice on his front porch. This posed an immense moral issue for Tim who was split between the decision to dodge the draft and go to Canada but in turn would be a victim of shame

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    Decibel Readings for various Noise sources Decibel Level      Sound Source 175     Jet Rocket Launching 150     Jet Aircraft taking off 130     Machine Gun 125     Diesel engine 120     Threshold of physical pain 117     Jet Aircraft ramp 111     Motorcycle 110     Nightclub 104     Subway train 93     Electric food blender 81     Rush hour traffic 60-70     Normal conversation 40     Average

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    carrying of illegal guns in well-known hot spots and areas with high crime rates. The crime rates decreased over time, but it caused another issue in the communities. In the 2000s, the number of those “Stopped and Frisked” increased drastically due to the law enforcement agencies and departments in New York City forced to meet their COMPSTAT numbers for the given time. COMPSTAT is a system used by the NYPD that collects data about local crimes and the measurements to take control of the issues. Weekly

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    Martin Luther King Jr The person I did my report on is Martin Luther King Jr. He was legally named Michael King, he was born in 1929 and died in 1968 by an assassination. His parents were Reverend Martin Luther King Sr and Alberta Williams King and also with his Grandparents and his two siblings Christine and Alfred Daniel Williams King. Martin was not allowed to go to school until he was six because it was a legal school entrance age. He also did not formally finish high school because he scored

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    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a suburb 15 mile NW of Chicago. She was the oldest of three children, having two younger brothers. Hillary was very young when she became active in politics. She attended young Republican groups and campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964. She attended Wellesley College, where she was active in student politics and elected senior class president. After graduating in 1969, she went

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    of them is that Lee Harvey Oswald may have plotted to assassinate Nixon. He allegedly told his wife “Richard is coming, I am going to pay him a visit”. His wife stopped him from leaving by locking him in a bathroom and forcing him to give up his gun. Did you know Nixon ran a failed orange juice business? He started the business Citra-Frost in an attempt to strike rich in California. Richard Nixon is the only president to resign from office. This happened because of the Watergate Scandal. In

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    It was the summer of ‘69, and the air of Bethel, New York, reeked of pot, history making psychedelic guitar riffs, and teenage rebellion. The three day music festival, Woodstock, was the epitome of the peace movements during the sixties and seventies, encompassing three days of undeniable harmony in which the youth of 1960 was united, embodying ideals of peace akin, demolishing the foundation of conformity within society. The newly surfacing culture brought about by the “hippies” and further popularized

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    Ku Klux Klan Book Report

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    white plantation owners and white slave owners were forced to release their slaves. Whites had to watch former slaves openly defy them by sitting in the presence of other whites, refusing to tip their hats to whites as they crossed past them, buying guns, and hunting with dogs (laws that were in place during slavery). Almost all of the southerners hated the idea of slaves being their equal, some even feared the slaves would begin to rule over their masters. To make matters worse, white southerners

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    Martin Luther King Speech

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    way the black vote was suppressed was though white primaries, which allowed African-Americans to be excluded from the ballot. These tactics were declared illegal after the passage of the 24th Amendment (prohibited poll taxes) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (made literacy test illegal). However, decades later, over thirty states have passed new voter ID laws that harms the African-American vote. The new laws make it harder to get the required ID because some people can’t

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    Search Warrant Essay

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    Some information that we found was that if the police suspects that home holds marijuana, then they must first get hold of a search warrant under the Fourth Amendment, if not then the police officers must prove exigent circumstances such as destruction of evidence, hot pursuit, or some other exception that applies. But the number one guaranteed way for this to go smoothly is to get a search warrant by a judge. With that being said the police officers could demand and require what they need from and

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