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The World Trade Organization and Appeals Criteria

What can be appealed? How does one distinguish between issues of law and issues of fact? Can factual...

Wealth Distribution and the Impact of Networking

means is that networks now exist at all levels of society, from financial networks to social networks that drive interpersonal com...

Louisiana Verses the Federal Government Prosecuting Obstruction of Justice in Offshore Incidents

Crimes can occur in any setting under any situation. While we tend to think of crime as activity involving...

Law and the Impact of Evidence

investigation. Evidence can assume many forms including testimony from witnesses, forensic evidence such as DNA data, or document-...

The Case Against Global Warming

influences. The urban heat island effect is an effect that will skew results, it is known that cities are often hotter that the...

Issues in Criminal Evidence

event in question (Beitman, 2005). Secondly, physical evidence can be authenticated if a chain of custody can be established. Th...

Evidence of Law and Forensics

law remains stable, the emotions surrounding particular crimes and defenses sometimes rage almost out of hand. Consider, for exam...

Forensic Chemistry & Trace Evidence

forensic scientists compare "body fluids and hair for typing factor" (Keenan). Forensic scientists also use chemistry to analyze "...

Facts and Findings in the Alice ‘Lindy’ Chamberlain Case

* Adjacent to and on a coin on the floor well under the front passenger seat; * A flow of blood on the hinge of the right...

Presentation Guideline for Global Warming

ice caps, however, which have begun falling apart in the manner of Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. We cant put those back tog...

Child Language and Knowledge of Syntax

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

Rules of Evidence: Questions and Answers

the suspect." What happens is that the investigator will either intentionally or unintentionally lead the witness. He may say som...

DNA Evidence and the Daubert Test

such evidence, "crime lab scientists from the Illinois State Police testified that lip prints are as unique to an individual as ar...

The Scott Peterson Case

on Courttv.com reveals the way the attitudes of the people involved change as time goes on. Irregularities come to light and thing...

Juvenile Deliquency as Revealed in Rebel Without A Cause

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

Issues of Field Collection in Criminal Forensics

evidence such as the possession of property which can be connected to a crime, to the possession of a gun which can be demonstrate...

Costly Mistakes in Forensic Evidence Collection

This paper addresses the necessity of proper field collection procedure in forensic evidence collection. The author cites the O.J...

Environmental Scientist and Earth Science

In thirteen pages environmental sciences and the importance of earth science are considered in a discussion of several relevant ex...

Contemporary Society and Lesbian Scientists

In twelve pages prejudice is one of the issues confronting modern day lesbian scientists in this consideration that also examines ...

Scientific Community and Fascism's Rise

In six pages this essay discusses fascism's rise and science's role. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Evaluated Scientifically

new sciences: cloning and DNA sequencing. These sciences are any older than the chaos theory he uses to refute their viability. ...

Political Science Careers and College Departmental Programs

In eleven pages a state college in the Northeast is examined in terms of various programs within its department of Political Scien...

Is Society to Blame for Jack the Ripper?

In ten pages social scientific theory is applied to the argument that Whitechapel is the bearer of blame for the Jack the Ripper m...

Critical Comparison of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these two German theorists in a discussion of their views on society's functions, s...

Stories of the Great Deluge and Noah's Ark

In seven pages this paper examines these stories in a consideration of theory and scientific evidence that this flood actually too...

Analyzing the Theory of Rational Choice

In five pages this research paper applies the rational choice theory to the social sciences and discusses basic points along with ...

Social Science and the Philosophy of Science

In five pages this paper discusses the disciplines of science and social science in a consideration of philosophy and its problems...

Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science and Karl Popper's A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems

that seem to drive us to distrust change and the inevitable occurrences that are associated with such. "We seem fixated on structu...

Edward Lee Thorndike and Charles Darwin on Behavioral Science

In nine pages Thorndike's and Darwin's theories of behavioral science are discussed and contrasted and compared with contemporary ...

Harman's Views on Scientific and Moral Reasoning

This paper examines the theories of Gilbert Harman pertinent to scientific and moral reasoning. The author addresses how morality...