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    1.1 Why Do People Communicate? People communicate in many different ways and also for many different reasons. There are a wide variety of ways in which people communicate however there are specific reasons as to why each individual does. For example: to give information to another individual to receive information from another individual to give instructions to another individual to retrieve information from another individual to discuss certain situations among individual(s) to make individuals

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    Flowers are in bloom all the year around. It may be the peaceful atmosphere there that attracts me the most even though I left the school several years ago. The memories about Huu Nghi school suddenly come into my mind as a raging torrent that I can hardly remember and depict a single event clearly. Everytime I catch myself missing it‚ all I can remember is the pleasant feeling the place offers me. It never fades in my memory how peaceful I felt when sitting on the school benches‚ watching the

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    Peaceful resistance is exhibited in many world leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. ‚Mahatma Gandhi‚ and Nelson Mandela and many others. Peaceful resistance positively impacts a free society because it allows violent resistors to see another way to protest‚ it saves lives‚ and finally it keeps an unjust government in check. Peaceful resistance allows for violent protestors to mend their ways and protest peacefully. Protesting violently accomplishes nothing and only leads to death.Peacefully protesting

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    in the United States that involves guns every year. People are using them for hunting‚ target shooting‚ self-defense‚ and they use it for murder. The number of times a murder happens each year by somebody using a gun is pretty big. Many people are wanting to have guns banned or have them only for self-defense. It is a big problem for people‚ because they are just out on the street or in a store and the next thing they would get shot and killed. I think that if guns were to be banned‚ they should just

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    Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice http://ccj.sagepub.com/ Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males : An Examination of Social Embeddedness Deanna L. Wilkinson‚ Marquette S. McBryde‚ Brice Williams‚ Shelly Bloom and Kerryn Bell Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 2009 25: 20 DOI: 10.1177/1043986208328449 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/25/1/20 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and

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    Criminalizing peaceful protests to become illegal is a major issue that has not become fully acknowledge by people. Ten states that have proposed this law are: Colorado‚ Indiana‚ Iowa‚ Michigan‚ Minnesota‚ Missouri‚ North Carolina‚ North Dakota‚ Virginia‚ and Washington. Although Washington is not the only democratic state of these ten states‚ it is drawn more attention to it as to why it is considering proposing a law. With a new Republican president in office and majority of both‚ the House of

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    to have the answer at this point. Some gun control supporters believe that completely banning handguns is the best way to protect citizens. However‚ banning handguns fails to protect people because the laws are ineffective‚ banning handguns prevents people from an effective means of self-defense‚ and the laws do not solve the real problem‚ which is the gun owner. Simply banning handguns all together is ineffective‚ and that is the first reason why banning handguns is not an effective way

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    States of America has different gun laws. In a lot of the smaller southern states gun laws are not as strict as the more populated states. For example‚ in accordance with the laws in the state of Alabama it is possible to receive a permit to carry a concealed loaded pistol on your person or in your vehicle if it appears that the applicant has good reason to fear injury to his or her person or property or has any other proper reason for carrying a pistol‚ and that he or she is a suitable person to be

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    Why Kids Should Shoot Guns “When I shoot I think it’s so much more fun than playing with anything else that’s in my room.” Said 7 year old Vanessa Aguilar. People claim that kids shouldn’t shoot guns‚ and that learning young isn’t helping at all. But actually kids who learn younger are actually more responsible and respectful with and towards guns. I believe kids who learn younger actually keep their learnings with them‚ if I’m honest I probably shot my first gun when I was 5‚ I had my father

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    In the United State guns and crimes seem to go hand in hand with one another. Gun control and crimes are one of many topics an argument debated in the US. There have been several shooting events in school campuses‚ communities and horrify terrorism shootings that affect the whole of the US. For instance‚ on April in San Bernardino‚ California a gunman entered North Park elementary school opened fire and fatally shot two individuals. The gunman shot and killed his estranged wife‚ who was a teacher

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