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    government officials. A common Amendment that most Americans don’t realize we have is the Fourth amendment. The Fourth Amendment gives us protection against arbitrary searches and seizures without a proper warrant. It was first used to prevent the use of writs of assistance which is blanket search warrants with which the british custom officials had invaded homes to search for smuggled goods. As the fourth amendment has changed and evolved in its meaning over time‚ many Supreme Court cases have presented

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    35 (1988) Oliver v. United States‚ 466 U.S Terry v. Ohio‚ 392 U.S. 1 (1968) Chimel v. California‚ 395 U.S McWhirter‚ D. (1994). Search‚ seizure‚ and privacy. Phoenix‚ AZ: Oryx Press. Hubbart‚ P. (2005). Making sense of search and seizure law : a Fourth Amendment handbook.

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    Kovic’s "Born On The Fourth Of July" This was an extremely powerful book. Ron Kovic is very able to get his point across to the reader. He brings you throughout his life showing you‚ no. . . showing cannot describe the feeling adequately enough. He puts you into his life‚ when he goes through the trenches‚ you go with him. When he hits a home run for little league you can experience‚ not the joy it brought him at the time‚ but the pain in remembering that joy now that he can no longer do

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    the Fourth of July an adaptation of the memoir by Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise ‚ in a role that was a brave departure for him in 1989‚ plays Kovic in his adult years. Kovic grows up as a child of the American dream in 1950s Long Island. He’s a God-fearing‚ baseball-hitting‚ patriotic man who lives in an environment full of parades and malt shops. As a high school senior‚ young Ron doesn’t think twice about signing up for the Marines‚ believing that he’s doing the right thing for his country

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    Abstract The understanding of the Fourth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and its relevance for searches and seizures is critical for any investigator‚ and it strikes a balance between individual liberties and the rights of society. Most importantly‚ the limitation on any search is that the scope must be narrow‚ if a search is not conducted legally‚ the evidence obtained is worthless. As a matter of fact‚ the exclusionary rule established that courts may not accept evidence obtained by unreasonable

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    In his Fourth Meditation‚ Descartes approaches the problem of human mistakes and ultimately reconciles this with the existence of a non-deceiving God. He takes issue with the notion of God‚ being perfect‚ creating in him an imperfection – that is‚ the capacity to make mistakes. Mistakes‚ according to Descartes‚ arise when we are mistaken or deceived about a truth. But God is not a deceiver; and given that God has given humans the ability to judge‚ it doesn’t follow that he should give us the ability

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    Every year for Fourth of July‚ my mom’s side of the family gets together and celebrate. Each year my family come from all over the country to celebrate as a family. Some of them come from Columbia‚ Georgia‚ New York‚ Bermuda and even Baltimore. We all get together the day before Fourth of July to go stay on Myrtle Beach‚ SC. Before going down to Myrtle Beach‚ my family would have majority of the food prepared. Our menu for Fourth of July‚ consisted of many different types of food. Some of food we

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    “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” – Rhetorical Analysis In 1852‚ Frederick Douglass was invited by the Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society to speak at their Fourth of July celebration. As a very outspoken orator during the rise of the anti-slavery movement‚ he was well-known for his rousing speeches castigating the practice of slavery and had been doing so for over a decade. Douglass uses this opportunity to reveal to his audience the hypocrisy of not only their invitation

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    It is fair to say that every piece of composition has a hidden significance behind it as well as a certain impact on the listeners. Alexander Nevsky’s fourth movement Arise‚ Ye Russian People‚ composed by the famous Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev‚ was a cantata (vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment) designed to fit the film directed by Sergei Eisenstein on the thirteenth-century Russian hero Alexander Nevsky. Although this movement is relatively short‚ but the music as a whole

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    2013 Am Hist I (12pm) Mazurek Homework #1 A) “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492...” This popular poem has become engraved in the minds of many children for years. From a young age‚ certain facts about the discovery of America are taught. What is not being realized is that many specifics are being omitted from lessons. This being said‚ it is important to note that it is no longer as simple to just explain that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Even in many history textbooks throughout

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