Pierce County

or person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values. We can learn many things from studying our own cultural landscapes and the cultural landscapes of others around the world. In a paper named Axioms for Reading the Landscape written by Pierce K Lewis, he talks about what we can learn from studying cultural landscapes and breaks them down into what he calls seven axioms. The first axiom Lewis mentions is using the landscape…

The book About Prison by Michael G. Santos recounts his personal experience in the criminal justice system of the United States of America. First he explains the background of his situation. He was a normal kid growing up in a good family but he explains how he felt like he could not make a life for himself after high school by working for his father as a contractor (Santos, 2004, p.2). Seeking something more in life, Santos saw an opportunity to start selling cocaine with his high school friend…

State only as a dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Moreover, it would permit six counties in Northern Ireland to withdraw from the Free State, allow the British to maintain ports in the south, and require the Free State to pay part of the debtBritain incurred in waging the war. Consequently, not all Irishmen accepted the agreement, the provisions of which became effective in 1922. (The six northern counties seceded, as expected.) Once-united Irish fighters were now split into two…

our financial status, along with how much something will affect our financial status. Opposing arguments that say the death penalty is not an effective deterrent base what they say on opinion and not statistics. Using a panel dataset of over 3,000 counties from 1977 to 1996, Professors Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul R. Rubin, and Joanna M. Shepherd of Emory University found that each execution, on average, results in 18 fewer murders. Using state-level panel data from 1960 to 2000, Professors…

1 Charlie According to the great state of Nebraska I am a marijuana addict. Despite the fact that I was caught with a little less than an ounce of weed and in order to actually become a marijuana addict you'd need to smoke enough weed every day to kill Tommy Chong. But at least now the Government doesn't care. After the war and 30 years of regression socially, the U.S. Government managed to convince the public again that public enemy #1 was 'dangerous' drugs. Needless to say I am now a proud…

Initially operating in the SeattleRedmond area inoutside of Seattle, Washington, Northwind Traders is rapidly expanding to sell its services worldwide via the Internet. Travel service sales is the fastest growing category of business to consumer activity on the Internet, and by the year 2000, the value of this market is estimated at $4.500M billion (see Appendix 1, Internet Growth and the Sale of Travel Services). Our emphasis will be on providing a complete specialized service based on…

In parallel to establishing comparable wages and civilian career advancement program, law enforcement agencies should provide applicable trainings to civilian employees to enhance their professional support within the organization. In some law enforcement agencies, civilian employees do not acquire close to the amount of trainings than their sworn counterparts received, but could most definitely use the essential trainings to support their sworn counterpart. According to the United State…