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Handgun Laws in Louisiana

This essay focuses on handgun laws in Louisiana and the controversy surrounding both the anti and pro-gun lobbies. This seven pag...

Children and Guns

In seven pages this paper examines the glorification of guns by the media and the impact upon children and proposes solutions to t...

Issue of Gun Safety

This paper examines the importance of proper gun safety in successful handling of firearms. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

Amadou Diallo and the Use of Excessive Violence by the NYPD

In a paper consisting of five pages use of excessive force in gunning down Amadou Diallo, a noncriminal, is discussed within the c...

Comparing Nadine Gordimer and Joseph Conrad

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares The Moment the Gun Went Off by Nadine Gordimer and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Con...

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

People Assisted by Social Sciences

that this huge nation requires a significant amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelmin...

Gun Manufacturers and Lawsuits

the general public; however, such a charge has no bearing in this instance since the manufacturer had no control over what the ind...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun'

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

Machine Guns and Warfare

employ the use of the new technology in the battle of Petersburg in Virginia(Bellis 2003). Interestingly enough, the inventor of ...

Policing and the Useful Tool of Taser Guns

or heart attack. The use of the stun gun might add to the problem. However, studies on these guns suggest that they are not quite ...

World War One Weaponry

very interesting is the fact that the tanks in WWI were developed by the British and French in the hundreds, but the Germans remai...

Gun Crime 'Getting Tough' Laws and Their Lack of Success

checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

A Loaded Gun - Emily Dickinson’s Exploration of Oppression

Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...

1995's United States v. Lopez Case

and is one that should be evaluated in todays frightening climate of violence. The Supreme Court case United States v. Lop...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

Latin America, China, and Changes Through Revolution or Reform

while the Nationalists were forced to retreat to the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. For Chairman Mao, revolution was onl...

Second Amendment Rights to Gun Ownership

Since the mid twentieth century our understanding of what our Second Amendment rights to gun ownership have been seriously challen...

Kellerman, et al.(1993), an Article Critique

This paper offers a critique of a 1993 study by Kellerman and colleagues, which pertained to the risk for domestic homicide create...

Law Enforcement/Use of Stun Guns, Video Surveillance

stun guns and video surveillance technology has become increasingly widespread among law enforcement officers. However, this trend...

The Responsible Use of Technology in Law Enforcement

fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...

Addressing Gun Safety

practitioners to alert their clients to this possibility (Christoffel, 2007, p. 626). Impact of the problem on the client An onl...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

Exploring Inventions

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at important inventions. The gun and the bicycle are both covered. Paper uses four sou...

Police and Nonlethal Weapons

was killed by an FBI sniper (1999). Clearly, the need for non lethal weapons is significant as the twenty-first century unfolds. T...

Different Views on Airliners Carrying Guns in Cockpits

pilots, and they should have the right to protect that cockpit with a firearm" (Burns, 2002, PG). The Airline Pilots Association,...

Teenage Crime and Recommended Punishment

several hours of community service. However, this same offender is likely to appear again, usually before the same juvenile court...

Ideas on Culture, Evolution, and the Human Mind

a light philosophical manner. While their work entitled Figments of Reality is rather intricate but written in an easy to read fa...

'My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

As a gun, Dickinson speaks for "Him" (line 7) and the Mountains echo the sound of her fire. Paula Bennett comments that "Whatever ...

Israel/Lebanon Crisis

higher moral ground according to international law? Does any of them? The following examination of this crisis looks at it from th...