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On a daily basis we are inundated with news headlines regarding the War on Terror. The government denies that they are using torture as a means to gain a foothold against these perpetrators whilst also denying that waterboarding is not torture. Both of these non-admissions have opened the doors for people in politics, law and abroad to speak their minds. The following three perspectives are a taste of the philosophical side of the argument. Should it be done or shouldn’t it? I will be comparing…

Jacob barrett Mr. Ricci November 4, 2014 Ap English Is Torture Necessary For the United States In the debate on torture in the United states, it is the widely believed that torture is a reasonable way to obtain information. The United Nations Convention for discussing Torture passed in 1994, torture to be defined as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person” in order to collect information or to punish the person…

From a long time, effective aids of interrogation are sought after. Studies have shown that uncooperative accused or subjects do no give up information about cases vey easily. The most common and impatient way is torture, which in todays times is not at all preferred. In various cases police investigations direct methods of interrogation have produced better results than physical coercion which has proved to be painstaking and time consuming. When manipulative and hardened offenders are…

Learning vs. Grading System When schools first started, the motive was to provide vast knowledge to students. Along with starting schools, a certain standard was set centuries ago by scholars who thought that they need a way to evaluate the learning procedure of students based solely on letters or numbers given on the tests taken by students. Education system was based on judging the students instead of their creativity and uniqueness by various colleges, universities, graduate schools and…

HOW TO ASSESS AND CARE FOR TRAUMA PATIENTS Introduction: Trauma nursing can be very scary, if you don’t know what you are doing, with this set of instructions I will allow you to gain confidence in your emergency nursing practice which enable you to be better prepared in a trauma situation. For documentation of these steps please follow your facilities guide lines, but there is an example of a trauma documentation flow sheet on the final page of these instructions. This is basic information and…

With American students falling behind in the world standings of academics, it is time that we review other options of grading and teaching in our educations system if we are going to reestablish ourselves in the world market of education. There is a new concept regarding the grading system known as , Grades out and Badges in, and I believe it would be a sufficient change to assist the level of learning for our students and our rankings in the world education. Grades out and Badges in is the…

evolution is not occurring, simply because the system is in the critical state. This intermittent stage is dominated by the Red Queen Effect, where it takes all of the evolutionary capabilities of a species just to stay in the same place on a larger scale, since all other organisms are evolving as well. However, large evolutionary events, such as the Cambrian explosion or the Permian extinction are a direct result of the shifting critical state though huge avalanches in the self-organized…

Geologic time scales often last thousands of years, and it is easy to tell when they begin and end. The current geologic time scale has present day humans living in the Holocene period which began almost 12,000 years ago. Recent debate has begun, however, that proposes a new period. Since humans have had such a large effect on the Earth, especially in the last few hundred years, various scientists want to see this period of human effects as its own section on the geologic time scale. This…

The earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 5kms and was measured at 6.1 on the Richter scale, this disaster affected the majority of the southern island and the base of the northern island of New Zealand, showing the dramatic proportion of the damage that occurred. The city of Christchurch however was the hardest hit and the surrounding area…

Introduction Humans have an enormous impact on our global environment. For centuries human activity has always been known to disturb the earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere. As we 've growth we made our footprint in our world environment. We alter more than 50% of the world land (Stromberg, 2013 ). One of the most arguable questions is when did human influence on the earth global environment began? There have been multiple studies suggesting different way discover this answer, but the most…