Amaan Goundar JS10 Dexheimer November 19, 2014 Three Strikes Law in California Research Paper The three-strikes laws (TSL), also referred to as habitual offender laws, are statutes mandated by state governments in the United States which direct state courts to deliver harsher sentences on repeat offenders who are convicted of three or more serious criminal offenses. The name “three-strikes” law is derived from baseball, in which the batter has two strikes before they are out on the third. These laws
the modern era, one that I believe to be of particular import is the continued usage of peremptory strikes to remove minorities, particularly African Americans, from juries. Although the 1875 Civil Rights Act extended the right to be on a jury to African Americans, there have been many strategies employed to prevent African Americans, and other minorities, from serving on juries. The peremptory strike is just the most prominent method in recent history. For many, Foster v. Chatman presents a familiar
discuss whether keytouch can have a noticeable influence on the piano’s timbre. The study finally reveals that the keytouch is a salient factor in the change of piano’s timbre. This paper is divided into three different parts. In the first part, namely the introduction, some of the famous arguments on this issue and results from previous studies are presented. Some relevant background information is also
cars attached to them. The boycott of these cars led to a blockage of national mail delivery ("Pullman Strike"). Members of the American Railway Union (ARU), appealed for support at its convention in Chicago, Illinois soon afterwards ("Pullman Strike"). The ARU’s Board Director, Martin J. Elliot, pushed the strike into St. Louis, and this doubled the amount of protestors. As a result, the strike soon became a nationwide issue. The resulting stoppage of the American rail network was called the "Debs
Both articles are specifically mentioning about how the Popular Front was established in the 1930’s and the arguments on how the Communist proposed Popular Front as a strategy to fight fascism. Fascism was basically a government that was founded by Benito Mussolini, in which he had three principles for the philosophy. For one a dictator would rule the state. Two is that the state had to imply the goal of the government and its policy only. The third principle was very strict; there was no questioning
White people have the option to use what they know about racial inequality and fight against it or ignore the situation as a whole. People of color do not have this option. For example, black people do not see themselves as inferior, white people see themselves as superior. This is in connection with this argument because white people do not have to listen nor understand what black people are saying, so they view themselves as superior to minorities
or organization in modern society. It is the only place where a group of employees manage a group of captives who live by the rules of their keepers and with restricted movement. Managers of prisons do not get to select their clients who are there against their will. When governing a prison one must understand and accept an inmate balance theory which is essentially the inmates run the institutions. A publication of Fisherman’s sex in prison (1934) marked the beginning of the scientific study of inmate
purpose to students. Parents, students, and credible sources continue to debate the importance and necessity of standardized testing. Norman Augustine’s “High Marks for Standardized Tests”, focuses on the positives of standardized testing by refuting arguments made by opponents of standardized testing. In contrast, James Popham’s “Why Standardized Tests Don’t Measure Educational Quality” points out why standardized testing is not ideal through the use of statistical and actual evidence from standardized
which addressed the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike in 1968 ("Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968)"). During this period, African American employees experienced a long pattern of neglect and abuse. On 1 February 1968, two Memphis garbage collectors, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck (Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968)). On February 12, 1968, sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, began a labor strike to protest unfair wages, unsafe working
The Iliad demonstrates how a free individual caught within the machinery and power of war may be transformed into merely his shadow. In the interval of time between when a soldier realizes his imminent death and the sword strikes, his persona is already petrified, reduced to a state incapable of thought or hope. Even those supplicants spared by the enemy, such as Priam at the feet of Achilles, spend their lives not in celebration, but at anguish in recalling the force of death that once hung over