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San Francisco Maximum Security
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Juvenile Crime Committing Crimes
1,053 wordsRecent studies have shown that there has been a growth in juvenile delinquency since the 1970 's. It is believed that by the year 2010, juvenile crime will double. Congress is moving to implement harsher penalties for underage criminals, but more effective law enforcement and stiffer penalties cannot effectively combat crime. Not everyone agrees with the idea that law enforcement and stiffer penalties cannot effectively combat crime. Some people say that tough law enforcement policies have reduc...
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Clinical Trials Information For Patients
1,232 wordsClinical Trials Information for Patients In cancer research, a clinical trial is an organized study conducted in people with cancer to answer specific questions about a new treatment or a new way of using a known treatment. Each study tries to increase medical knowledge and to find new and better ways to help cancer patients. Besides studying new anticancer drugs, clinical trials study new combinations of drugs already used in cancer treatment, new ways of giving treatment, and how changes in li...
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Health Care Costs Teenage Smoking
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Third World Nations Women And Children
1,476 wordsFamily systems, like biological organisms, evolve with time and circumstance. It seems readily evident from an examination of the nature and role of the family in the developing world that form may indeed follow function. Many sociological studies conducted in recent years have indicated that the nuclear family is found at both the primitive and modern stages of economic evolution. The nuclear family predominated in early societies with subsistence hunting and gathering economies where food supp...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Winston And Julia
2,886 words... d the Party's guilt. To my mind Winston is a sort of hero, because he is aware of the danger that he has encountered. So for example he knew it from the very beginning that his diary would be found. And as one can see the things that are written in this book (that freedom is to say that two and two makes four) are used against him later. He also knew that his illegal love affair was an act of revolution, would be disclosed by the Thought Police. But nevertheless he is some kind of naive. He ...
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Proposition 13 And The California School System
1,311 words... ities, this meant some hospital closures. Cities and counties, as a result of decisions made during more affluent times, had to set aside large amounts of money to retire bonds, pay the increasing costs of pension programs and finance employee wage agreements that hiked public employee pay an average of 35 percent since Proposition 13. Studies show that between the fiscal years of 1979 and 1980, pension costs rose 54 percent to an all-time high of over $ 1. 2 billion. Communities were affect...
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On Religion In Public Schools
761 wordsEveryone knows that something needs to be done about safety in public schools. Whether its metal detectors at the doors, or policemen in the halls, something needs to be done. I think that we could solve all of the hate and anger problems quite easily by adding a Religion Class. This Religion Class could be and extracurricular reminder of what is right and what is wrong. Not only would it unite our schools and districts, but also it would bring more peace to the classrooms. These are just a few ...
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Form Of Social Global Economy
776 wordsI believe that information technology has mainly positive effects on society. Information technology has drastically changed the lives of people. The Information Technology Revolution is probably the most important force shaping communities today. While some of the key forces behind the IT revolution are universal, the impacts on any given community will be unique, depending on its individual make up, economic structure, attributes and responses. The IT Revolution has major impacts that effect l...
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High School Graduates Fear Of Failure
2,065 wordsRecent studies and miscellaneous talks of the new approach in the educational process possess a clear trend to the underlying fundamental analysis of the social and psychological background of the students. The very popular recently analysis of the ethnic groups and their social origin is of particular interest to the teachers and scholars studying new methods of educations and cognitive processes. The studies are often controversial but most of them show a clear sign of the impact of social sta...
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Running Head Social Dimensions Of Crime
1,507 wordsRunning head: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME Social Dimensions of Crime March 29, 2009 Social Dimensions of Crime There are few major conclusions concerning the distribution of crime by race, gender, age and class. It is believed that individuals involvement in crime decreases with age, implying that younger persons are more likely to commit crimes. Also, there is an opinion that females are less often to offend irrespective of the age, as males are more aggressive by nature. There are also few sour...
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Goods And Services Mass Production
1,513 wordsThis thesis expounds on Lean thinking processes and methods in manufacturing industries. It goes on to correlate process management with Lean thinking methods. Lean Thinking Methods - Direct Relationship to Process Management Developed from the Toyota Production System with a clear focus upon removing waste from a system, the lean operations strategy uses less of everything half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, half the engineering hour...
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Gross National Product Goods And Services
2,245 wordsEconomics Presidents, cabinet members, congressmen, senators, TV pundits, editorial writers, leaders of business and labor, and taxpayers talk about the American economy. That is natural and good. Much of our lives center on the economy. A great deal of this talk, though, proceeds in ignorance of basic facts about the American economy or, what is worse, makes assumptions about it that are not so, or at least are highly doubtful. By basic facts I mean those that refer to the condition of the coun...
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High School Dropouts Skin Color
816 wordsOne dark, muggy spring night in the heart of Texas, a black man was drug behind a pickup truck for five miles. He didnt survive the attack against him by two white, high school dropouts. Police believe the only motive was the fact that the man was black. He was different from them and the accepted norm. A black man in what they perceived as a country belonging to white men. These two men took it upon themselves to invade this mans personal space, going as far as killing him. It seems he did noth...
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Female Headed Latin America
1,676 wordsLatin American Women In The Workforce and Family Living The European conquest of the New World altered the lives of indigenous women. European women did not arrive to the New World only for years after the initial invasions. Indian women were continuously exploited in the form of labor, catering, and sexual gratification. Elite Indian women were able to gain a somewhat privileged position through their liaisons with the European men. As more and more European women began to arrive in the New Wor...
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Aggressive Behaviors Violent Crimes
1,384 wordsAt the very moment somebody turns on a television, he or she is presented with a whole new world of beliefs, means, and values. Channel to channel, viewers are presented with different images and sounds that shape our world. The contents on television exposes society to negative stereotypes that portray racist, sexist, and aggressive conventions. Since more people are tuning into television, it is important that the message it bestows to the viewers has a positive influence. Not only is their an...
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Year Old Man 20 Th Century
1,592 wordsThe day of six billion. October 12, 1999 was the day the world s population was estimated to reach six billion people. That is enough people to fill a football field 400, 000 times. If everyone was willing to stand, everyone on earth could fit comfortably into half of Rhode Island. The worlds population has doubled in the last 33 years. What does that mean to a student at North Scott high school; a 12 year old bride in New Delhi, India whose parents have just married her to a 30 year old man she...
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Traditional Japanese Late 1970
540 wordsDescribed as a century old professional entertainer the geisha is an important part of traditional Japanese social life. Usually circulating their services in the higher classes exclusively, these woman are extensively trained in many of the traditional Japanese arts. Her grace is exceptional, her charm, exquisite. These woman are professional hostesses in an exotic variation. Geisha Geisha The earliest geisha's were men, but by the 18 th century women dominated the trade. Young girls may start ...
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Mental Health Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
2,440 wordsAt first it Prozac Abstract At first it was the cure all people were looking for. Then it became the drug they were afraid to take. Somewhere between these two extremes lies the truth about the drug Fluoxetine, better known as Prozac, the most widely prescribed drug on the globe. It is mainly prescribed to patients suffering from clinical depression. It was first brought to the market in 1988 by the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly co. Even though it was originally prescribed for depression, it ha...
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Pat Buchanan Democratic Nomination
1,605 wordsAmericans are showing signs of disaffection with a presidential campaign that is just beginning. The public thinks the press and large campaign contributors are having too much influence on who gets nominated, and a 60 % majority thinks voters themselves have too little say. The latest Federal Election Commission, conducted on the heels of protracted controversy about coverage of alleged cocaine use by George W. Bush, found public reservations about news coverage of most character issues ranging...
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