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Sex Education In The Public School System
1,192 wordsSex Education in the Public School System. The topic of sex education in public schools has been a hot one for some time. Those in favor of it argue that education is the answer to the rising rate of teen pregnancies and STD's. They are afraid that the youth of today are not receiving the proper information at home to protect themselves. Supporters feel that if kids are provided with accurate information in school they will be equipped with the tools to make wise, healthy decisions. There are ma...
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Death Penalty Deter Crime
627 wordsShould the death penalty be nationwide? Thirty-eight states have the death penalty. There are 7 - 10 types of homicides that are punishable by death... No one under 18 can be given the death penalty. Lethal injection is the most common form of execution. It is used in 32 states. Other forms of execution include electrocution, firing squad, gas chamber, and hanging. Three-thousand-five-hundred people are currently on death row awaiting execution. The death penalty should be eliminated completely....
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Violent Acts Cause Violence
607 wordsSpecific Purpose: To persuade my audience that violence is on the increase. Central Idea: Violence should be viewed as a social problem for everyone in our society. I. Violence has increased in our schools. Within the last four years, thirty or more teachers and students have been killed. II. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17) killed one teacher and twelve students and wounded twenty- three other individuals. Thomas Solomon (15) wounded six students in his high school. On...
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Violent Crimes Death Penalty
891 wordsPeople in Tolna county has been recently shocked by a crime committee by three teenagers. They beat their companion to death. They planned the murder, lured the victim to a desolate place where there was no mercy. They kicked, battered the poor boy with a stick, then with a shovel, afterwards they dragged him into a cellar and began to strangle him with a string. They tortured him for more than a half an hour before he died. The victim often had boasted of his parents' wealthy situation, consequ...
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Municipal Solid Waste Pollution Prevention
1,019 wordsThe Presidential Green Chemistry Awards-Dr. Mark Holtzapple In 1996, Mark Holtzapple of Texas A&M University received the Academic Award for the Green Chemistry challenge. This award was given to him for the development of a family of technologies that converts waste biomass into animal feed and industrial chemicals and fuels by adding lime to a fermentation process. This waste biomass includes municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, manure, and agricultural residues. As we all know all of these w...
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The Young Offenders Act Debate
744 wordsUnder fire from the date of its creation, the debate over the validity of the Young Offenders Act continues. Should the YOA remain in its current form as a part of the Canadian legal system? An examination of the reasons it is seen as being ineffective, the need for change, and the suggested amendments and substitutes will provide an accurate picture of the situation from which a conclusion can be drawn. The young offenders act in its current form is nearly optimal. However, there enough reasons...
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Boot Camps Violent Crimes
1,156 wordsThe Boot Camp Debate In any of today's society no matter where you look there will be some evidence of crime present. This statement derives from a sociologist theory that says no society can exists without crime. The government is constantly looking for new ways to deal with these reoccurring problems. The focus has been placed upon the government to look into young offenders and the style used to punish them. Weapons possession is quite common among the youth, at least in urban Canada, between...
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Bubonic Plague Lymph Nodes
1,415 wordsProfessor Piciche The Black Death: From a Dark Past to a New Light It is impossible to discuss Europe's history without mentioning the Plague of 1348, also known as the Black Death. The Black Death reached Italian shores in the spring of 1348. The presence of such a plague was enormously devastating making its mark in unprecedented numbers in recorded history. According to records, it is estimated to have killed a third of Europe's population. The Black Death was caused by bacteria named Yersini...
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Educational System Amp 8211
849 wordsThe great turmoil that the Yom Kippur War brought about, the extended State of Emergency that had followed, the hostile terrorist and the uncertainty that had accompanied the steps of peace, brought the educational system onto confronting new challenges. Emotional pressures that related to the state of security, were no more the sole domain of the friction-zone residents. What I mean is the inevitable pressures our children were exposed to via the media's description of the events, public mobili...
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Criminal Behavior Violent Behavior
615 wordsIn addition, the third type of strain is the presentation of negative stimuli. This type includes child abuse, family and peer conflict, neighborhood conflict and other stressful life events. In a study by Hoffmann and Miller (1998: 106), it was found that negative life events that include such things as parental unemployment, deaths in the family, and illness impose a strong impact by increasing delinquent behavior in adolescents. Strain causes number of negative feelings. Anger is one of them ...
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Sentenced To Death Death Penalty
1,034 wordsEvery time a death penalty case arises, and the time comes for the convict, thousands of people across the nation support the punishment as well as protest the punishment. This issue does not have any proponents of a particular group. People are much split on this subject, regardless of race, background, age, gender, and other variables that distinguish individuals. The death penalty is a controversial social issue across our nation. Throughout the extent of time, feelings have changed from one ...
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Stanford Prevention Research Stanford Prevention Research Center Diet
371 wordsThe Atkins Diet Many of us are interested in good nutrition and a healthy diet. The data reported answers the questions concerning the effectiveness of the Atkins diet compared with other popular diet plans. The report presents a summary account of the diet study conducted at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Yet, the study is not a much more thorough analysis on the ground as far as the quantity of participants was limited. The report provided a snapshot over a twelve-month period and us...
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Abuse Their Children Order To Prevent
1,403 wordsAn eight-year-old male, named B. J. , had a six-year-old sister and a four-year-old brother. He is currently hospitalized due to anxiety and hyper vigilant protective activity with his younger siblings. He was also regularly masturbating in public, and suffered from developmental delays, speech and learning difficulties, suicidal threats and poor interpersonal skills. He has suffered moving from state to state, been kidnapped by his non-custodial parent, and been in two foster homes all during a...
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Low Self Esteem Abuse Or Neglect
875 wordsChild abuse, although gruesome and unnecessary, happens ever four seconds, and a childs life is lost every seven seconds. As a society these statistics should be of great concern to us. We have to be aware of what is happening to the children in our society, because the only way to improve the situation is to be aware of it, and get involved. There are many different forms of child abuse, including sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse and many forms of neglect. We can help these childre...
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Live Her Life Life To The Fullest
809 words" Livvie" , A Celebration of life Eudora Welty? s " Livvie" , is a great story on how life should be celebrated. The story is about a young woman, who marries and old man, that in a since imprisons her. The young girl gets a second chance at life when a younger man (someone her own age) enters her life and the older man is about to die. The theme Welty is trying to get across is live life to the fullest. Welty shows the theme through the character, setting, and symbols. Chara...
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Fruits And Vegetables Infected Person
480 wordsCholera the Forgotten Disease It seems every time we hear of a major flood or earthquake in a developing country, we hear once again about cholera. Cholera has been very rare in industrial nations, such as the USA, for the last 100 years, however, what we do not realize is that cholera is endemic in many small countries which have limited drinking water and sewage treatment facilities. Caused by an infection of bacterium Vibrio Cholerae in the intestine, a cholera infection is often mild or with...
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Aids Epidemic Hiv Infection
836 wordsSince the first Hiv HIV Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, through mid- 1994 more than 402, 000 AIDS cases and more than 241, 000 deaths have been reported in the United States alone. This is only the tip of the iceberg of HIV infection, however. It is estimated that nearly 1 million Americans had been infected with the virus through the mid- 1990 s but had not yet developed clinical symptoms. In addition, although the vast majority of documented cases have occurred in the United ...
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Terminally Ill Music Therapy
1,216 wordsMusic therapy is the prescribed use of music and musical interventions in order to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health and well-being (Lindberg). So one finds the selections under the New Age/Relaxation section of the record store about as relaxing as water torture? Just because ones taste runs more to Sousa than to soothing doesnt mean one cant reap all these relaxation benefits music is supposed to have. Music therapy works primarily by chang...
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Signs And Symptoms Infectious Diseases
1,203 wordsIntroduction to viruses: For centuries submicroscopic organisms, also known as viruses, that grow and multiply at different rates inside of a cell, have been circulating our planet. 1 The cell produces the various, essential components of the virus. These components are: 1) DNA or RNA nucleic acids, which are the genes of the virus. Viral particles posses either DNA strands or RNA strands, but never both in contrast bacterial infections contain both. The amount of DNA/RNA in a virus changes depe...
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Bill Also Authorizes Five Years Juvenile
405 wordsBills Waiting to be Passed Bill summaries and statuses in congress. Some are still floating around in congress waiting to get passed. One bill is the Juvenile Crime Control Act of 1997. This bill states that if a juvenile is alleged of committing an offense to the United States Juvenile Delinquency Act be surrendered to the state authority and be tried as an adult. This bill also authorizes a juvenile to be proceeded against as a juvenile in Federal court if the alleged offense or act is committ...
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