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    PROS AND CONS English Comp 1 7/17/2014 Firearms‚ are they good‚ or are they a safety hazard to everyone in this world? Are they so dangerous that no one should be allowed to own them or are they so necessary that we can’t live without them? Are we to strict on the laws involving firearms? This argument has been going on for many years. Controversial‚ of course. Beneficial lifesaver‚ definitely. Easy to control‚ no way. Guns are useful. Every day‚ they are responsible for killing

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    PLEA BARGAINS Expository Essay Mehrin Reid PLEA BARGAINS Plea-bargaining can mean many things to many people‚ in and out of the courtroom. Let us first start by defining plea bargain. Plea bargain is defined an agreement in which the defendant enters a guilty plea in exchange for a reduced sentence. This is the technical meaning‚ but as I stated before‚ the word plea bargain can mean very different things to very different people. To the accused‚ the word plea bargain means a freedom

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    Plea Bargaining Alicia Aaron CJA/224 May 26‚ 2013 Donald Gregory Plea Bargaining Most cases are resolved through plea bargains. This is resulting from negotiations between the prosecutor and defense attorney. Plea bargains can be made at any stage of the criminal justice process. Plea bargains can be either a charge bargains or sentence bargains. There are advantages and disadvantages with plea bargains. With plea bargains‚ it can reflect the due process and crime control of the criminal

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    "Not Guilty‚ By reason of Insanity!" These words have stung the ears of many courtroom observers‚ especially the families and friends of victims whose lives were snuffed out by a so-called ’insane’ assailant. While there are indeed many insane people running around the streets today‚ I feel that many persons who use the temporary insanity defense are more conniving than insane. Also‚ being an inexact science‚ the psychiatric community often offers up differing opinions as to any particular individual’s

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    1) Nuclear power generation does emit relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The emissions of green house gases and therefore the contribution of nuclear power plants to global warming is therefore relatively little. Between mining the uranium‚ refining and enriching fuel‚ and finally to building and operating the plant‚ a big 1‚250 250-megawatt nuclear facility produces an estimated 250‚000 tons of carbon dioxide during its lifetime. In contrast‚ coal-fired plants produce close to 2 billion

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    Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation Vol. 23‚ No. 3‚ pp. 280–288 Copyright c 2007 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins The Oral Care Imperative The Link Between Oral Hygiene and Aspiration Pneumonia Minn N. Yoon‚ BSc; Catriona M. Steele‚ PhD Oral health has increasingly become a priority issue for healthcare agencies in North America and worldwide. This review article attempts to (1) inform various healthcare providers of the risk factors that can arise from poor oral hygiene

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    Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization Jessica DeLong NAU Abstract Legalizing drugs has been debated for many years‚ especially legalizing marijuana which is considered a “soft” drug. There are positive and negative outcomes of legalizing the use of drugs. Over the next few pages I will discuss those outcomes. Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization Pros: By legalizing‚ the violent crime rates would drop significantly. With the drug cartels on the top of

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    Pros and Cons of Vaccination In 1796‚ Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine‚ which was for the smallpox virus. (Google timeline) Centuries later‚ we now have a very large amount of vaccines that have been created with the purpose of protecting the human race from infectious diseases. The question is‚ how effective are these vaccines? Are they more beneficial or harmful to us? Are they serving their purpose? Could a person survive in this world without ever being immunized? In this small research

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    Does the person has a right to die? The pro side feel that the person has the right to exercise their rights. The pro of euthanasia or physician –assisted suicide feel that the person have ‚”the right of a competent ‚ terminally ill person to avoid excruciating pain and embrace a timely and dignified death bears the sanction of history and is implicit in the concept of ordered liberty” (top 10 pros and cons). The story in the top 10 pros and cons‚ states in their report that‚ “terminally ill

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    essay you will be seeing the pros and cons to vaccines. There are many opinions about vaccines and there are many things that are said that are false accusations related to vaccines which lead to many misinformed and confused. I will be providing you with facts of both the pros and cons to help your understand the complicated topic of vaccines and to help your decide to be either pro or against vaccinations. First of all‚ I am going to be telling you about the pros of vaccines. If you do not get

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