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    But he also thought that things had changed since he was a district attorney. The professional criminal of the Prohibition and Depression era knew what he was doing and took his chances. The average criminal of the 1950s and 1960s, though, might have turned to crime because of disadvantages or because of degradation (Warren, 1977). The criminal procedure cases coming before the Warren Court involved, from Warren’s point of view, principles of fairness and equality that were all part of the…

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    Hooters Inc. began April fool’s day in 1983 because six businessmen in Clearwater, Florida wanted a place to go to that would be more appealing to them with good finger food, drinks, sports, and pretty girls to look at (Hooter, 1983). That’s how they came up with the concept of Hooters, which mocked their favorite hangout spot, yet made it big as an international company (Hooters, 1983). The name “Hooters” came from a comedy sketch by comedian Steve Martin (Hooters, 1983). The image of the first…

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    Analysis of “Little Red Corvette” Title: Little Red Corvette Artists: Prince Album and Track Number: 1999 (Track Number 2) Length: 5:03 Label: Warner Bros. First Appearance on Billboard’s Hot 100: February 26th, 1983 Height of Popularity: Number 6 on Billboard’s Hot 100 (May 21st – 28th 1983) Other Appearances: Before beginning the analysis of Prince’s “Little Red Corvette”, I would like to share something that maybe people wouldn’t know. In Ronnin Ro’s book Prince: Inside the Music and…

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    “The elements necessary to establish a § 1983 . . . violation will vary with the constitutional provision at issue. But common to all §1983 . . . claims is the requirement that liability be predicated on a violation traceable to a defendant-official’s own individual actions” (Pahls v. Thomas, 2013). In regards to this particular case, Brown testified that the Board of Regents had no knowledge of his claims until he served them with a lawsuit. Additionally, the Kansas Board of Regents took no…

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    Michael Dowd committed many different police misconducts while he was a police officer working for the New York City Police Department. Michael admitted to committing hundreds of crimes while wearing a badge and violating his sworn oath as an officer. According to the documentary (Seven Five | SHOWTIME, n.d.) Michael stated that while he was going through the police academy he didn’t take the academy seriously. Michal admit that he had no remorse about what he was doing, he knew that as a police…

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    In his book titled Essays, "Self-Reliance" takes after "History" so that an adjusted and self-contained unit can be made out of these two. Teeming with short adages, the essay starts with a concern to have faith in the genuine self, which is considered generally indistinguishable with the Widespread Soul: “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string” (Emerson, p. 260). Emerson at that point holds earliest stages, which is positively appeared differently in relation to adulthood, as a…

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    Duchamp, Sunflower Seeds represents the face of the French-American painter Marcel Duchamp. This photo was taken in 1983 as a re-imagining of Duchamp's Self Portrait In Profile that was completed in 1958, by utilizing a coat hanger. The photograph's present location is the Moriss and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, and is one of the series of Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs, 1983-1993. The artist personally picked 227 black-and-white photographs for the exhibition, out of 10,000 negatives…

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    The most important aspect of olive baboons mating systems is their involvement in consortships. Male baboons will follow female baboons around, guarding them from other males and participating in frequent grooming and sexual mountings (Bercovitch 1983). Due to the fact that other male olive baboons often harass couples in consortship, often there is a large male turnover during a single female fertility period—thus their polyandrous behavior. Female baboons often consort with an average of…

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    The concept of this mind/body problem has prompted many philosophers to create solutions, or drawn them to determine the problem does not exist. To this day, as artificial intelligence become increasingly common, and the question of how the mind relates to the body or if it even exists becomes pertinent in relation to technology, no consensus exists. Science fiction, such as the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Measure of a Man”, often attempts to tackle this problem through their…

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    though they recognise that it may be so in other political systems” (1983, p. 16). This Week takes this standpoint in their documentary, questioning the actions taken by the government. The government in turn is portrayed through an official perspective. In Televising Terrorism official perspective is described as “the set of views, arguments, explanations and policy suggestions advanced by those who speak for the state” (1983, p. 2). Although the state did not participate in the making of the…

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