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While it is true that American prisons and jails are overcrowded the answer is not to let out the violent offenders. These offenders need to receive nationally standardized sentencing and the sentences need to be longer than they currently are.
Thi Continue Reading...
The rain, averaging only 2-4 inches annually, comes in seasonal bursts that sometimes result in flash floods. Temperatures throughout the Gobi Desert are equally extreme, with lows records at -40 degree Fahrenheit and highs of 113 degrees Fahrenheit Continue Reading...
Five thousand flyers will be distributed to local synagogues and churches. Another major distribution channel is through the public education system, Brooklyn College is located within the Midwood community, it has now become a strong community meet Continue Reading...
(Singer, 2003, p. 36) Education should be a constructive process. Palinscar states that the teacher must assume an active and directive role by establishing the pace, content, and goals of the lesson. (Palincsar, 1998) Byra also described such a pro Continue Reading...
1903). The management goal for HCH is to improve the effectiveness of health care delivery to the homeless and indigent of Milwaukee in close partnership with the community. In this regard, the management of the HCH community health center requires Continue Reading...
Of the top 150 medications that are sold by prescription in the U.S. 118 of these are medications that are either "derived from or modeled on naturally occurring substances." (SEAM Global, 2005) Some of the medications that count on habitat presentl Continue Reading...
" In other words, that art springs from within, rather than must be supported from without.
The author places the blame for female artists to be culturally central squarely upon culture itself, specifically Western culture's failure to create system Continue Reading...
(Davis, 2001) That number is sure to have risen dramatically since Davis did her research.
The debates surrounding both the efficacy and the morality of racial profiling have created a lot of disagreement from many communities of color. Kabzuag Vaj Continue Reading...
" The problem with these primitive models is that they are still mainly oriented on data retrieval rather than optimal voice transmission.
However, research is well on the way and it seems that it will be less than a year before we can talk about Vo Continue Reading...
Japanese Women
Gender Inequality in Japan
Social change is often slow. This is especially true concerning the shift of traditional gender roles in any society. Historically, however, once these roles do begin to change, women in specific seem to be Continue Reading...
political representation of African-Americans in the southern United States. The author explores many different theories as well as the ideas of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King to explore the under presentation of Blacks politically. There were eig Continue Reading...
Biracial Children
Proposal for Study: Is society causing biracial children to struggle with their identity?
When forming their identity, children seek to look, act, feel, and mimic significant people in their social environment. "In his book Youth Continue Reading...
China: Female Infanticide
As soon as the baby girl was born, my mother-in-law kicked it with her toe and said, 'Who wants this?' She wrapped it in a wet towel and left it on the floor. My husband's sister, weak after the delivery, just wept. It died Continue Reading...
Street Gangs and Loitering Laws
Los Angeles politicians have recently come together behind a proposed city ordinance that would allow police to arrest loitering street gang members. Mayor James K. Hahn, voiced his support for this new weapon in the Continue Reading...
Adolescent Substance Use Screening Instruments: 10-Year Critical Review of the Research Literature
Over ten million teenagers in the United States admit in a national survey that they drink alcohol, although it is illegal under the age of 21 in all Continue Reading...
IAD on today's society, and attempt to outline how an individual with IAD can help overcome the limitations of the disorder.
First, IAD is defined, and its impact on society, as a whole, is discussed. The warning signs and symptoms of IAD are then Continue Reading...
Case Study Analysis
Introduction
Parents and their children have the legal right to be free from danger in the school place environment, including school provided transportation (buses). In this case, Alice was sexually assaulted by Chris, a student Continue Reading...
Family Violence Prevention Services Act
Social policy analysis must start with defining the problem that the policy is designed to address. For instance, Family Violence Prevention Services Act addresses the subject of family violence, domestic viol Continue Reading...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "From Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Reading 2: Robert M. Sapolsky, "From Why Zebras don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping"
In the opening of the chapter, Csikszentmiha Continue Reading...
Western Africa Ebola epidemic (2014) is the "largest in history," and has killed many hundreds of people (p. 1). Formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease was first identified near the Ebola River, for which the disease is named Continue Reading...
Fire-Based providers as the sole form of EMS
EU member states do not follow a uniform EMS model. This often leads to difficulties at the times of crisis as the preliminary response to the situation varies from state to state. Each region is characte Continue Reading...
Big Businesses in Australia Use Highly Paid Lobbyists or Circumvent Regulations
In its relations with government, big business in Australia usually gets its own way either through the influence of highly paid lobbyists or through the capacity to cir Continue Reading...
Hypothetical Qualitative Study: Communication Studies
Phenomenon under investigation 'Relational aggression' is often defined as a distinct phenomenon from overt aggression. It is "a form of covert bullying…a psychological and emotional form o Continue Reading...
History Of Egypt
Civilization Emerges in the Nile Valley 2-3
The Age of the Pharaohs (3200 BCE - 30 BCE) 3-4
British Colonial Rule (1914-1954) 4-5
Modern Egypt (1954 -- Present Day) 5-6
Conclusion & Suggestions
Egypt has always remained one Continue Reading...
Global Warming Argument
FACT OR FALLACY
Critical Thinking
World Health Organization (2013) reports that, in the last century, the earth's warmth increased by approximately 0.75 degrees C. And further at more than 0.18 degrees every decade in the l Continue Reading...
History Of Pollution in New York City
New York City has unique benefits in that there are tremendous amounts of people who live within close proximity to each other. This has resulted in higher uses of mass transit systems (such as: subways and buse Continue Reading...
Groups, Networks, And Organizations
In daily situations and quite spontaneously, people formulate reference scales to which they attach sources and concepts or hierarchical preferences of individuals. Latitude of acceptance and latitude of rejection Continue Reading...
Community Health Nursing
The contribution that a community healthcare unit can make towards enhancing population health and minimizing inequalities is strengthened by international law. Primary healthcare has demonstrated to have an independent impa Continue Reading...
Child Sex Tourism
Consent in human trafficking
Child prostitution
Bias in the application of police discretion
Failure to identify the victim in human trafficking
Push and Pull Factors
What theories explain trafficking in India
Measures to con Continue Reading...
Leadership and Human Resource Management in the Public Sector
The public sector consists of the section of the government, which attends to matters of production, ownership, sales, provision and delivery and allocation of services and goods to the g Continue Reading...
Criminal Behavior
Approaches to Understand Criminal Behavior
Psychological Approaches
Sociological Approaches
Biological Approaches
Psychosurgery
Chemical Methods of Control
Imagine yourself having a walk in the premises of your house and a st Continue Reading...
Communicable Disease/Community Nursing
2003 SARS Outbreak
In November 2002, the first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was reported in the Guangdong Province in China (Lau and Peiris, 2005). Over the next few months, SARS cases were Continue Reading...
Extra-Credit Questions
Questions on Readings
There are different kinds of peril that a person can find himself (in this case) in, and Macready and Macon Detornay find themselves embedded in several of them, in large measure because of their own act Continue Reading...
risks are associated with implementing a BYOD policy, and how can these risks be addressed? Consider how BYOD risks differ from those in a corporate-owned mobile strategy.
The first risk associate with a BYOD policy is the added costs associated wi Continue Reading...
Benson and Newell - Critique
Which of Benson's arguments was most convincing? Why? Benson's 4th argument ("Interdisciplinary courses are shallow") has some merit albeit he cheapens it by dipping too deeply into his love of exaggeration. Probably the Continue Reading...
advances in technology. The Internet has brought the idea of instantaneous global communication to a reality; smaller and smarter chips are now included in inexpensive Smart Phones, and our ability to understand and manipulate data has vastly increa Continue Reading...
financial condition of a hypothetical town; Swobodaville. The paper analyzes the town's revenue structure, and expenditure profile among others. In addition, paper outlines how public organizations within this town use data from audits and assessmen Continue Reading...