In the mafia movie Godfather Part 3, the crime boss Michael Corleone, when confronted with the difficulties of trying to take his crime family legitimate, frustratingly states, “It took me to go legitimate to find out where the real criminals are.” Is Statesmanship still possible in today’s political context? Interestingly, one of Susan B. Anthony’s biggest hurdles in women suffrage movement existed, subsequently, because it stood linked with temperance, “ensuring its defeat by men who feared…
The feud between Apple and the FBI has received a substantial amount of media coverage lately. The legal arguments for each side appear to be equally laudable, which impelled investigate on my own. I decided to explore the question of whether or not Apple should produce a back-door to assist in the FBI’s investigation. The FBI, which initiated the debate, argued that Apple has to comply citing the All Writs Act of 1789. Apple refuses to comply stating that if the back-door was to be produced and…
author, Matthew Warshauer of Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law, Nationalism, Civil Liberties and Partisanship claims that then Major General Andrew Jackson believed it was crucial to declare “martial law and suspend the writ of habeas corpus” in order to win the battle of New Orleans. However, as Washauer claims, by doing so, Andrew Jackson became the first American general to suspend civil liberties. Through this monograph, Washauer tells the tale of Andrew Jackson’s…
The Death Penalty The death penalty how much does society really knows or understand about the process? Many people view the death penalty a justice “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth ( mathew5:38).” The victim’s family might feel that the criminal is to be punished to the highest degree for his crime. Most people feel that is justice. However, most people do not really know much about the process of executing a death row inmate, how much more the death penalty cost comparing with…
Civil Liberties, Habeas Corpus, and the War on Terror Habeas corpus is a way of determining whether those that are jailed have been jailed through the legal processes and if the reason behind the jailing is legal. This paper will discuss how the administration led by Bush kept prisoners at GITMO during the war on terror. The civil rights of the prisoners were never considered since the place where they were kept was beyond the reach of the constitution of the United States of America. It was the…
The Third Shift The third shift at the Corpus Christi plant is not making its production goals. When the Coordinator or Winslow try to help the third shift, workers claim that they are going back on their promises. The cause of this issue is that Winslow did not set a hard boundary line for the decisions that the Self Directed teams could take on as they matured. He did not expect them to set production goals for themselves or to be involved in developing and setting strategies for the entire…
Corpus Analysis In corpus linguistics, the recurrence of patterns of small fragments like phrases and words in sentences is analyzed using strategies that do not necessarily focus on the contextual meaning of the analyzed texts. In this case, the corpus consisted of written text data from thirteen files. The corpus was named Kurdish non native speakers corpus. Analysis for the use of Conjunctions The following three corpuses were used in the analysis of conjunction usage among Kurdish non native…
Section A. Shelli Rose Dewey, Petitioner, v. Carolyn Myles, et al., Respondents. On September 12th, 2004, Shelli Rose Dewey, a Nevada resident, called Elko County Police frantically stating that her husband, Steven Dewey, was stabbed by an unknown assailant. Upon police arrival, Dewey was moderately intoxicated. Witnesses stated that the couple had been at a nearby bar earlier in the day when the bartender asked the two to leave. Thirty minutes following their ejection from the bar, witnesses…
Within the city of Corpus Christi, there is evidence of economic disparity. I discovered this through my experience with the Junior Achievement (JA) program, and through data collected and observations made on my assigned school and its neighborhood, and of other JA schools in the city of Corpus Christi. All data and observations were collected to show comparisons between each JA school. The information found is valuable because it is important to know about both the physical side of a community…
v. Collins in 1993, Leonel Torres Herrera (defendant) was sentenced to death by Texas state courts for capital murder two police officers. Ten years laters, after Herrera pleads guilty to the capital murder of two officers, Herrera filed a habeas corpus petition under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Forbidding his execution with new evidence and witness shows that his dead brother, Raul Herrera is the person who is responsible for the murders. However Herrera’s state and federal habeas…