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Problem Solving How Do We Combat Child Abuse
2,023 wordsImagine being a young child. Picture that someone is mistreating you, and you are completely unable to retaliate in any way. Imagine what would be running through your mind, all of the fear and hatred that you can do nothing with except hold it all inside. The United States government defines child abuse specifically as [a]ny recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation to any individual...
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Abuse Or Neglect Child Abuse
1,075 wordsMany children suffer at the hands of adults - often their own parents. They are beaten, kicked, thrown into walls, and / or burned with cigarettes. They have their heads held under the water of toilet bowls, are scalded by hot water or they are forced to stand in freezing showers until they pass out. A child could be stuffed into running washing machines or sexually molested, suffer from neglect in the forms of starvation and lack of medical attention, and still go unnoticed by outsiders. In fac...
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Strict Gun Control Violent Crime
1,252 words... noun killings per 100, 000 people compared to 4108 in the U. S. over the period of 1977 - 1983 ." They also noted that the "American murder rates for handguns are higher than the total Canadian homicide rate" (249). According to Sproule and Kennett, "Canada's favorable situation regarding murder relative to the United States is to a large measure the result of Canadian gun control, and Canadians must be vigilant against any erosion of our gun control The works cited above are based on resear...
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Freedom Of Speech Pros And Cons
1,119 wordsFrom David Boaz's essay What Rights Do We Have? it seems that the First Amendment and the Declaration of Independence is getting more and more publicity. Since the 1990 s politicians and people jumped on the train of I have the right to which blitz across the nation like a tornado. Boaz tried to draw out the significance of Americas most important document on the issue of rights the Declaration of Independence. According to Boaz, the theory of rights starts from the most fundamental right, the B...
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Cruel And Unusual Capital Punishment
1,453 wordsThe use of capital punishment in the U. S. is a growing concern for most American citizens. According to statistics seventy percent of Americans are in support of the death penalty, while only thirty percent are against it. These statistics show that few people are against capital punishment ("Fact" 1). With the use of the death penalty growing the controversy is becoming more heated. With only twelve states left not enforcing it the resistance is becoming futile ("Fact" 4). Many debates have be...
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King George Iii French And Indian War
1,061 wordsThe American Revolution was caused by the unique nature of the American Colonists and their society in contrast to their relationship with the English Government and peoples. Life in America was not a life of leisure. American colonists had worked hard to cultivate their lands and develop their towns and cities. Rural life in the American colonies consisted not only of farmers but tradesmen also prospered. (Handling. 24) By 1763, the American Colonies were spreading west. The expelling of the Fr...
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Gun Control Advocates 2 Nd Amendment
575 wordsSpecific Goals: I want to encourage gun ownership. Introduction I. What is the foundation of modern technology? It's the history of the gun. Thesis Statement: I will persuade you in that, (1) federal gun control laws are unconstitutional, and (2) I will prove the 2 nd Amendment is both a "State" and "Individual Right. " Body I. The foundation of our country is based in English Bill of Rights and the American Revolution. A. What is the difference between the Declaration of Independence, the U. S....
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Legalization Of Drugs Amounts Of Money
742 wordsOur societies are decaying due to an incessant war against drugs. Effects of this war like assault, property crime, racial and economic decriminalization, murder, corruption, and many other undesirable things are developing and burning through societies fueled by the lack of determination between whether or not drugs should be legalized. This polemic is allowing wars effects to keep growing to the point where societies harmony, peace, and stability are being lost. The time has gotten to make a d...
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The Great Prejudice Against Hackers
1,069 wordsThere is a great prejudice against hackers nowadays, mainly perpetrated by the media. This prejudice comes mainly from the misconception of who hackers really are. The media calls anyone who commits a computer crime a hacker. This is simply not the case. Hackers are the people who not only built the internet to what it is today, but also keep it going. Hackers made the Unix OS what it is today. Hackers fight computer crime, they combat computer stalkers. They write and fix software, patch up sec...
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Twenty First Century Schedule I Drug
1,120 wordsMarijuana is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I drug, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is thus classified more severely than morphine and cocaine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banned for general use but can be prescr...
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School Violence Family Values
1,272 words... g long, black trench coats, carrying big machine guns, and only shooting the people that ridiculed them. Watching this film and thinking about what those children went through at Columbine and what the survivors saw is heartbreaking and extremely horrifying. Television causes another connection between children and violence. If children are exposed to various amounts of violence on television, then it is likely that they will begin to be desensitized to violent acts and possibly become more ...
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Health And Safety Task Force
1,239 words... 'very young, female, casually employed and thoroughly stigmatized by their work' (ibid. , 12). Five years after the Act was introduced, the New South Wales Attorney General and the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning established the Brothels Task Force. Its brief was to monitor the regulation of brothels by local councils and to assess the success of occupational health and safety programmes for sex workers, their clients and the public (Brothels Task Force, 2001). The Task Force was ask...
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George W Bush Savings Accounts
405 words&# 61623; Bush George W. Bush &# 61623; Taxes: Governor Bush believes that roughly one-quarter of the surplus should be returned to the people who earned it through broad tax cuts otherwise, Washington will spend it. His plan will promote economic growth and increase access to the middle class by cutting high marginal rates. It will also double the child credit, eliminate the death tax, reduce the marriage penalty, and expand Education Savings Accounts and charitable deductions. The largest perc...
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Child Abuse Sexual Abuse
1,020 wordsChild abuse is a huge problem in our society. Abuse is what happens when an adult or another person of authority takes advantage of his or her power over the child. When this abuse takes the form of inflicting pain, it s called physical abuse, or battering. When it s in the form of insults, mind games, or undermining a person s confidence, it s called psychological or emotional abuse. When it s in the form of unwanted sexual contact its called sexual abuse. (Mufson 2) Physical, emotional, and se...
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17 Year Olds Child Labor
1,144 wordsS. L. Bachman stated, Children have worked for as long as families have needed all hands to pitch in (Political 30). Child labor has been a concern since the beginning of the Industrial Age. Child labor had declined in developing countries by the end of World War II. The concern resurfaced in the 1980 s and 1990 s. The plight of working children in the developing world today is not very different, and in some cases even less harsh, than that prevalent in such countries as the United States and E...
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Search And Seizure Probable Cause
531 wordsOne night John Doe is driving down the freeway and is pulled over for a routine traffic violation. After issuing poor Johnny a traffic ticket the officer asks him one little question that could change Johnny's insignificant life forever. May I search your car? Now imagine if you were in Johns position, how would you have responded to the question. Would you have just said yes and let the officer go through your personal belongings, or would you say no. If you were to say no could it lead to cons...
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Gun Control Laws Constitution Of The United States
668 wordsGun-control, term that refers to the management of firearms in an effort to reduce criminal use of weapons. Gun-control generally is concerned with the passage of legislation- on a local, state, or national level-that places restrictions on legal ownership of certain firearms. These restrictions often involve mandatory waiting periods for prospective gun buyers or banning the sale of some weapons altogether. In the early 1990 s there were more than 200 million privately owned guns in the United ...
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Goods And Services Karl Marx
1,421 wordsMarx's Analysis On Capitalism With A Separate View On Class As A Cause Of Poverty Throughout its history, capitalism has had certain key characteristics. First, basic production facilities-land and capital-are privately owned. Capital in this sense means the buildings, machines, and other equipment used to produce goods and services that are ultimately consumed. Second, economic activity is organized and coordinated through the interaction of buyers and sellers (or producers) in markets. Third, ...
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T L O Law Enforcement Officers
1,135 wordsName of the case and year it was decided X New Jersey v. T. L. O. (1985) The constitutional amendment V or section thereof X which the court is interpreting X 14 th amendment The specific facts of the case X On March 7, 1980, a teacher at Piscataway High School in New Jersey found two girls smoking in a restroom. Since this was a violation of school rules, the teacher took the two students to the principals office. The assistant vice principal questioned the two girls separately. One student adm...
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Arms Shall Not Be Infringed People To Keep And Bear
600 wordsA well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. These are the words of the second amendment as written by our forefathers. Many laws have since been passed on the right to bear arms. Currently laws are being drawn up to give the right to citizens to sue gun manufacturers. If this is passed who will be next, car manufacturers, toy companies? The cause of a crime needs to be addressed, not the instrum...
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