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- 10101: The Right To A Free Trial
- ... and decided they had a purpose beyond the basic criteria and laws. 12 Angry Men, as well, displays a jury who originally did not comprehend their significance and was ready to send a teenager to death without even a discussion. Baseball tickets and the overwhelming heat concerned the jurors more than the actual case. Some members played games and told business stories rather than pay attention. It was not until key ...
- 10102: Arbitration Case: Discharge of Peter Seichek
- ... no notice to employees of the intent rigorously enforce this rule. Further, other employees had contended in EEOC proceedings that there had been discrimination in the enforcement of the sleeping prohibition. Question Seven - Was the penalty reasonably related to the seriousness of the offense and the employee's past record? For the charge offense of sleeping on the job - No. A trivial offense does not merit harsh discipline unless the employee ...
- 10103: Reasonable Accommodation in the Work Place Under ADA
- ... in 1991. Many experts believe that people with traditional disabilities are not exploiting the law as expected, partly because many fear losing comprehensive medical benefits from programs like Medicaid. "Most of us are scared to death to get a job and lose out on poverty-based health care," said Justin Dart, former chairperson of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. Meanwhile, the ADA has armed less severely ...
- 10104: Indian Suffrage
- ... poverty, deprive Indians of their lands, and create a class of people who remained to protect their racial integrity. For example, most reservations do not have running water nor sewage systems. The numbers of unemployment, death, and disease rate were higher than that of the general population (Lowy: Lecture, 11/6). They were left to linger in poverty in virtual concentration camp condition while food and supplies promised in treaties were ...
- 10105: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... war. After this incident he slowed down the arms race which led the Test Ban Treaty of 1963. JFK's plans for peace were cut short on November 22, 1963 when he was shot to death in his motorcade as it wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest person elected to the presidency and also the youngest to die. Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson believed in a Great Society for the ...
- 10106: Political Parties During the Civil War
- ... the abolition of slavery, but rejected the idea of imposing racial equality or attempting to reshape the South's social and economic structure. President Lincoln skillfully played off one faction against another, and after his death the battle for control of the party continued until the radicals failed to oust President Andrew Johnson from office in 1868; the party then began to nominate increasingly moderate candidates. The Republicans did try to ...
- 10107: Censorship and the First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right to Free Speech
- ... is being destroyed or has been destroyed, by any well planned conspiracy by any particular segment of our society; political, governmental, economical, educational, or what have you. I think freedom of speech is rotting to death. And it has been for a long time...A lot of people, including many who should know better, don't really even begin to understand the concept as it relates to our form of government ...
- 10108: The Red Scare
- ... A statement by J. Howard McGrath, "There are today many Communists in America. They are everywhere in factories, offices, butcher shops, on street corners, in private business-and each carries in himself the germs of death for society
they are busy at work-undermining your Government, plotting to destroy the liberties of every citizen, and feverishly trying, in whatever way they can, to aid the Soviet Union," gathered attention towards an ...
- 10109: The Use of The Second Amendment In The Home
- ... personal and public safety. One upsetting fact about guns is they increase the severity of a crime. "With guns, unlike knives or hands, rage and recklessness are likely to be translated cleanly and quickly into death" (Isaacson, 162). Another upsetting fact is that hand guns are people killers, that is their only use. "With fewer handguns, there are fewer chances to use them. It is as simple as that" (Isaacson, 162 ...
- 10110: The First Amendment
- ... considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and sedition laws. One law forbade the publication of false, scandalous or malicious writing against the government, Congress or the President. The penalty for this crime was a $2,000 fine and two years in prison. The public was enraged at these laws. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison pleaded for freedom of speech and the press. The alien ...
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