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Touch With Reality Develop Schizophrenia
1,138 words... ome doctors told her parents its best if she was at home, yet others told them not to take her home. She was prescribed numerous drugs, alone and in combination. They make her muscles stiff and her hands tremble. They do nothing to help her. Sometimes, she would escape the hospitals and disappears for months. Sometimes, she was discharged and her parents were not told. One night, she was picked up for hitchhiking. Another time, she was arrested for shoplifting. She stayed in halfway houses o...
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Juvenile Justice System Boot Camps
1,029 words... rapidly since 1985 to present. One of the first programs that started in Georgia obtained only 50 beds. Early growth in the use of this alternative was slow, by January 1987 only four boot camp programs existed. However, boot camps began to multiply later the same year. A recent survey done in 1993 counted 52 programs in 32 states, with more then 1, 000 beds in Georgia and New York. While three more states were seriously considering implementation (Bourque National, 8). On of the major drivi...
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Record Player Elizabeth Back
806 wordsThe sound made Elizabeth jump. Yet again it had come from the shop next door. She frowned at the old, battered doors of the ancient antique store. It was as though the owner was renovating. The problem was, the shop did not have one. The owner had won the lottery and moved to Las Vegas a few months ago. Leaving his battered old shop and all the merchandise behind. Elizabeth had called the police three times but nobody was found. The police werent very pleased after the third time. Anyway, even i...
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Running Water Looked Back
1,333 wordsWiping the sweat from my brow I called a halt to the crew. Phil and I dumped our packs and found a comfy boulder to rest on. I looked back to where the last guys were coming from back down the trail. They had stopped talking a while back and marched slowly along the dirt trail. Phil produced an energy-bar hed saved from breakfast and began to munch on it as I drained another water bottle. After the refreshing drink I laid back against the rock and stared up at the pine trees. But a moment later,...
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Main Road Good Friends
1,096 wordsI was sitting laughing. This was my graduation, but I was not giggling for any reason like the friends I would miss or the remembrance of good times past, I was just laughing my ass off. People had been telling their children about this occasion for years, they described it as a huge thing, the turning of a page, they said or the birth of your adult life. Bullshit, I thought. Those people had forgotten that for their class and every class since theirs it was just another reason to get drunk. I w...
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The Broken Chain By Mfk Child Abuse
499 wordsThere has always been a fine line between discipline and child abuse. What a parent thinks is right may not always be what is healthy for a child. The Broken Chain, by M. F. K. fisher is an essay about a young girls history of child abuse. Though many people feel that disciplining a child physically is acceptable, abuse is abuse! In The Broken Chain, M. F. K. Fisher feels she wasnt abused as a child. She saw being smacked was a good punishment for mistakes she would make. Is that always a good r...
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Client Centered Differential Association
979 wordsCriminal Rehabilitation Prison inmates, are some of the most? maladjusted? people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are? at war with themselves as well as with society? (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are crimi...
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Downward Spiral Binge Drinking
2,376 wordsThere is a time in every persons life when they must shed the restricting skin of life under their parents roof, and become responsible adults capable of living on their own. We all have been in this place, with varying degrees of success. Unfortunately, my very first apartment was a fiasco that has left permanent scars seared to the very depths of my soul. I still cannot recall two and a half months of this eight- month cataclysmic event. This is most likely due to some sort of post- traumatic ...
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Prison Inmates Differential Association
1,499 wordsPrison inmates, are some of the most? maladjusted? people in society. Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are? at war with themselves as well as with society? (Szumski 20). Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are criminals or believe it when ...
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Pilot Came On The Intercom Seventeen Suitcases Plane
849 wordsPeople. Halfway There Halfway There People. Droves of them, hustling off to their appointed gates with seventeen suitcases strapped to themselves like pack mules. All scowling, furrowing their brows. Hoping to get to where they want to go, and with all seventeen suitcases they came with. Me? I only had two bags, but one of them was large enough to be a body bag. Beside me was my cousin, a tall 16 -year old, the jock type, with broad shoulders and pimple covered cheeks. He, of course, got stuck c...
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Didn T Night
1,389 wordsWiping the sweat from my brow I called a halt to the crew. Phil and I dumped our packs and found a comfy boulder to rest on. I looked back to where the last guys were coming from back down the trail. They had stopped talking a while back and marched slowly along the dirt trail. Phil produced an energy-bar he? d saved from breakfast and began to munch on it as I drained another water bottle. After the refreshing drink I laid back against the rock and stared up at the pine trees. But a moment late...
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Client Centered Differential Association
927 wordsPrison inmates are some of the most maladjusted people in society. Most of these inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and / or have little or no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are at war with themselves as well as with society. (Szumski 20) Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals, they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are criminals or bel...
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