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    for over 40 years and took part of the Vietnam War, He was charged for transporting marijuana in Kentucky and his defense attorney told him not to worry and plead guilty, but little that Padilla was that his attorney did not tell him the risk he might have for doing so and for that he could have been deported from the country, but thankfully he filed a pro se motion and gave it to the court saying that he was given bad advice by his…

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    you gone through things you thought were harsh to you at the moment ? When in reality you do not exactly know what harsh is unless you were a Japanese during WWII. Take a look, more of a consideration the way the U.S. made the japanese ethnicity/ancestry feel. For a while we have been reading many articles about what happened in the internments and how japanese felt and many of them have themes that they share. The texts Farewell to Manzanar, “Why Children Did Not Knock At My Door Halloween This…

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    Travis Hirschi’s Control Theory states that deviance occurs when a person has no control over their environment; they stray from norms and commit crimes. Travis Hirschi also believe that humans want to belong and that criminals are made when one’s bond to society is abated. Using Hirschi’s Control Theory, crime rate is low in Japan due to conformity being crucial, the publics’ view of prison, and the punishments in prison being harsh. Juvenile delinquency rates are also low; a factor…

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    The human race has blood on its hands. We have segregated, subjugated, and slaughtered other humans due to something as small as race, a made social concept. This made up idea contributed to the scars of our history: Slavery, the Holocaust, Japanese Internment camps. We have made many horriable mistakes, but we have attempted to right the wrongs committed by our ancestors. These attempts, called reparations, often leave the problems unsolved. They are limited by the word “reparation” itself. A…

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    on him being a prisoner of war during the second World War. The book talks in detail about the camps and all of the prisoners hardships while they’re there. It gives insight on what they went through on a daily basis, being forced to help the Japanese during the war and not being fed. When people discuss World War II they tend to mainly discuss the troubles in Germany and about the bombings in Japan, but never talk about the 140,000 prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps. One in three men…

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    organized crime is characterized by groups of criminals, often across different countries, conducting crimes for personal monetary gain. Crimes include, human and drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering, capital fraud, premeditated assassination, etc. In some cases, crime syndicates are even powerful enough to influence election results and initiate political corruption. Interpol estimates that approximately almost a million people worldwide are operating in over 6,000 organized crime…

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    should be certain restrictions on gun control. While Texas’s gun control laws are amongst the least restrictive throughout all of the U.S., many citizens in Texas ponder if the state should be any stricter on its policies to prevent any such related crimes or repeat performance of these dreadful mass shootings. According to The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary…

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    logic. It’s appeal to logic comes from hard evidence and the lack thereof within the film. One is never completely sure who committed the crime because the facts are not completely given. This makes viewers debate and wonder who committed the crime up until the very end. It also appeals to logic in that it portrays factual events such as battles during World War II in ways that are realistic. This movie plays on ethics the…

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    create prejudice. Fears of unfamiliar customs, differences in religion, and personal appearance issues created prejudices exhibited by the Japanese and the “barbarians”. The Japanese people called Americans the “foreign devils—the barbarians” (4). Fear was created in the Japanese because of their unfamiliarity with the American customs. In the book, the Japanese felt the Americans’ customs made them barbarians. They killed animals for shoes (26). Americans sat on benches rather than the floor…

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    generation Japanese-American named Ichiro Yamada. The year is 1946 and Ichiro, a former undergraduate student at the University of Washington, returns home to Seattle after spending two years at an internment camp and federal prison. He was punished for refusing to serve in the Armed Forces and to swear allegiance to the United States. At that time, he became a “no-no boy.” The reason behind his resentment was because was mad over the fact that the United States’ government placed innocent…

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