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- 171: ATF
- ... To curb the illegal use of firearms and enforce the Federal firearms laws, ATF issues firearms licenses and conducts firearms licensee qualification and compliance inspections. In addition to aiding the enforcement of Federal requirements for gun purchases, compliance inspections of existing licensees focus on assisting law enforcement to identify and apprehend criminals who illegally purchase firearms. The inspections also help improve the likelihood that crime gun traces will be successful, since inspectors educate licensees in proper record keeping and business practices. Compliance inspections target licensees likely to divert firearms from legitimate trade to criminal use and dealers with a history of ... by 5 December 1933, catching Congress in recess. As an interim measure to manage a burgeoning legitimate alcohol industry, by executive order under the National Industrial Recovery Act, President Franklin Roosevelt established the Federal Alcohol Control Administration (FACA). The FACA, in cooperation with the Departments of Agriculture and Treasury, endeavored to guide wineries and distilleries under a system based on brewers' voluntary codes of fair competition. The FACA was relieved ...
- 172: Crime Prevention
- ... Crime prevention refers to strategies or tactics that, while they might involve the police (or other criminal justice functionaries), are rooted in the physical and social character of the local community". Can community crime prevention control criminal activity and reduce the fear of crime? What must the community do to control crime? Does the community have to understand where and why criminal activity occurs? Is the community prepared to participate in crime prevention? Is the view of the entire community or just a select few? If ... whole community by people watching for and paying attention to criminal activity. The only thing that citizens have to do is phone in the crime that they witnessed. The police are still the official crime control agency but the community is like the "eyes and ears" of the police by reporting suspicious behavior. Do these particular strategies prevent crime from happening or does it just control the fear of the ...
- 173: Bring Back Foolishness, Corpor
- ... the image will fuel the readers’ probable fear of human rights violations. Another statement within the fourth paragraph, which I see as an attempt to fool people, is when he says, “ Crime is out of control, despite the deluded happy talk by some politicians.” This sentence come out sounding as if it were a fact, when in actuality it is his opinion based on feelings rather than data. I also see ... our youth that have occurred in the last 100 years. Near the end of his column, Jacoby begins to grow desperate for support. This is illustrated in paragraph eight. He brings up the topic of gun control and speaks more or less against “ gun control fanatics” in this paragraph. I feel that this was an attempt to sway gun owners to his argument, and conversely, this issue has no place within ...
- 174: Charles Manson
- ... same time, body bags from Vietnam were building up from a war that was tearing our nation apart. Riots and antiwar protesters marched across America. Many people worried that the US was getting out of control. "The Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969..." wrote Didon in The White Album. On August 8,1969, director Roman Polaski's housekeeper found five bodies, slashed and bloody. Manson was the metaphor of evil ... The LAPD had also taken William Garretson, the caretaker on the Tate estate who claimed that he slept through the entire bloody ordeal. (Manson) On September 1, 1969, ten-year old Steven Weiss found a gun in his back yard, in Sherman Oaks. He took the .22 caliber Hi Standard Longhorn revolver to his father, who immediatly took it to the LAPD. The gun was dirty, rusty, and had a broken gun grip. A couple of weeks earlier, the LAPD forensic experts determined that the .22 caliber revolver with the broken gun grip was the exact gun they ...
- 175: Communism East Europe
- ... economy. No private enterprise was allowed. There was a collectivisation of agriculture. The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. It was a totalitarian state with complete Communist control over all facets of life. In the early years, and up until GorbachevÆs ônew regimeö, the use of force and terror as a means of maintaining control was widespread. The first factor which contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was the fact that the Communist partyÆs domination was illegitimate from the beginning. Lenin came to power after a bloody ... StalinÆs agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved by undemocratic methods, that is, rigged elections, terror, totalitarian state, harassment and threats. In 1932 a two-hundred page document by a fellow member of ...
- 176: Gun and Children: Ways to keep them Safe in the House
- Gun and Children: Ways to keep them Safe in the House Bang! There is a shot and you rush to see what the hell just happened, but it is to late your child is no the ... just eat me up inside knowing that all this could had been prevented if I only did one thing more to protect my child. If you truly want to keep your children safe, dismantle the gun into a couple pieces and keep them out of the reach of the children. Buying the bullets when you need to ,or keeping them in the safe that know one but you and your spouse ... the same thing, but I also want to keep the children from harming them selves or others in anyway thinkable. I feel the same about that ,but if I was a parent or had a gun in a home with small children I would want to keep them safe any way possible. Wouldn’t you want that too? You have to keep the children safe from themselves. Still people say “ ...
- 177: The Study of Deviance
- ... be: (1) empirically verifiable, (2) provide an explanation, and (3) apply to a general class of phenomena (p.65). Some theories or perspectives that fall under the study of deviance are the learning theory, interactionism, control theory, conflict theory, and two smaller categories are Marxism and feminism. Each perspective views deviance according to their beliefs of how society works. Even though they are similar in the sense that they all study ... with Goode's view on this theory which is that growing up with deviance can influence your own actions, but overall deviant acts are committed because of the way individual minds process and evaluate situations. Control theory studies why people do not commit deviant acts. The theory "assumes that engaging in deviance is not problematic, that if left to our own devices, all of us would deviate from the rules" (p.90). Control theorists believe that deviant behavior is caused by a lack of social control, and that people are more likely to be deviant if they have less to lose in life if punished for committing ...
- 178: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: An Analysis
- ... Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, is about patients and doctors in a mental institution. The author talks a lot about what goes on in this institute. The main points in this book deal with control, be it the character of McMurphy who is unable to handle control, or Nurse Ratched the head nurse on the ward whose job requires her to be in control. The world of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is dark; it is a place where control leads to destruction, but the novel shows through the character of The Chief that there is ...
- 179: Communism East Europe
- ... economy. No private enterprise was allowed. There was a collectivisation of agriculture. The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. It was a totalitarian state with complete Communist control over all facets of life. In the early years, and up until GorbachevÆs ônew regimeö, the use of force and terror as a means of maintaining control was widespread. The first factor which contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was the fact that the Communist partyÆs domination was illegitimate from the beginning. Lenin came to power after a bloody ... StalinÆs agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved by undemocratic methods, that is, rigged elections, terror, totalitarian state, harassment and threats. In 1932 a two-hundred page document by a fellow member of ...
- 180: Power Of The Few Over The Many
- The Eleventh Commandment portrayed the state church as being the supreme dictator. It is through the eleventh commandment that the church held it's power and control over the masses. Without the church and it's leaders to guide the masses, their society would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave New World, the whole society is conditioned to "work for everyone else ... resistance, to obey and follow their leaders through various methods of enforcement. The Brave New World is controlled by a select few who call themselves Resident Controllers and Directors. These elite few are able to control the production and selection process of societies masses. Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller for Western Europe, and the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, oversee the conditioning of embryos. Their powers and control over these particular jurisdictions gave them great power, and with that the ability to manipulate others. "'You ass'... said the Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an ...
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