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Proposition 13 Proposition 13 was placed on the California ballot in the 1970’s in reaction to the rise in California’s property values and property taxes. The values of homes in California by the mid 1970’s rose from 50 to 100 percent within one year. This rise caused a financial strain on California. Because of the strain California was ready for a change. The change was proposed by two individuals who were antitax activists: Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann. Both individuals had a history of…

published on OsideNews.com. Proposition 62 aims to repeal death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole, while proposition 66 is designed to shorten the amount of time that legal challenges to death sentences take to a maximum of five years. In her statement, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert declares her stance on death penalty in an attempt to convince the readers to veto Proposition 62 and support the Proposition 66. She argues that…

The end of World War II brought rise to the tobacco industry and essentially introduced Americans to tobacco use. More predominately, Americans’ cigarette consumption was on a rapid incline. A significant amount of Americans were smoking, yet only about 40% knew the health risks of smoking cigarettes (Graham, 2012). Americans remained ill-informed until the 1960’s when healthcare professionals began shining a negative light on the health consequences of smoking. On January 11, 1964, the Surgeon…

(James, Paul (2005). ‘Arguing Globalizations: Propositions Towards an Investigation of Global Formation’. Globalizations 2 Globalism Institute, Melbourne, Australia (2): pp. 193–209) The term as we understand it today originally came to prominence when it was coined by Theodore Levitt in 1983 who wrote…

Wittgenstein commits himself to the view that everything that can be said or thought is a truth function of elementary propositions. I will begin, with a brief explanation of Wittgenstein’s argument that there are in a certain sense no negative facts, no disjunctive facts, and no conjunctive facts. Then, I will examine Wittgenstein’s claim that the truth or falsity of a general proposition is solely determined by all the (relevant) particular facts. Later, I will provide a philosophically…

prove a lot of his proposition. He proves two lines are parallel lines in proposition 27 and uses parallel lines properties in every proposition after that. Therefore, this paper seeks to discover why Euclid introduce about parallel lines in his proposition, and how parallel lines properties help him to delve deeper in his proposition. Parallel lines make a lot of angles equal to one another. If a straight lines falls on two lines parallel…

America get to decide if the listed propositions should be passed or not. One proposition in particular is number 55. This proposition is about determining if taxes should be increased for those who make over 250,000 dollars a year. This proposition was first called proposition 30 back in 2012. The reason why they changed this proposition to number 55 is because they want to expand it and revise this proposition. The difference between the two is that in proposition 55, they do not want to…

This module will help you to analyze arguments to determine the truth value of it. Objectives: After completing this module, you should be able to: 1. Define Logic. 2. Appreciate the importance of Logic in mathematics. 3. Identify Propositions. 4. Convert Propositions to propositional variables. 5.…

On the year of 2012 many propositions were proposed, and us as citizens got to choose whether it should, or whether it should not become a law. One proposition that was on the ballot in 2012 was proposition 35- Human Trafficking Penalties Initiative Statute. Human trafficking is well defined as labor trafficking, and sex trafficking where the victim has no say in this, and is exploited. Human Trafficking happens everywhere in the world, and although they are trying to stop Human Trafficking…

rehabilitation services are exceptionally poor, and often not offered to the majority of criminals. Proposition 57 gives parole opportunities to non-violent criminals, and offers merit points for criminal rehabilitation. It extends the freedoms of those who have been unfairly sentenced by the justice system, ensures public safety, and decreases prison population. Although many oppose this proposition because it concerns the well-being of criminals, it provides several benefits for society as a…