1. do you agree that some of the most damaging acts in society are not punished as crimes? if so, what are they?

2. should the concept of mens rea or the “guilty mind” be eliminated from the criminal law and replaced with a strict liability standard? (if you do the crime, you do the time, regardless of what you were thinking at the time.)

3. if you could change the criminal law, what behaviors would you legalize? what would you criminalize? would you want to legalize drug use? what might be the consequences of your actions? in other words, are there any hidden drawbacks or benefits?

the causes of the dust bowls were severe droughts,   lands became dry and hard, temperature was higher than usual, hot and dry conditions killed crops, high winds. because of those factors, the winds kicked up dry soil and created clouds of dust.

in 1859, brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in harper's ferry. their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon. abolitionist and insurrectionist

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a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

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