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Civil Engineer Indian Reservation
718 wordsModest one-room houses lay scattered across the desert landscape. Their rooftops a seemingly helpless shield against the intense heat generated by the mid-July sun. The steel security bars that guarded the windows and doors of every house seemed to belie the large welcome sign at the entrance to the ABC Indian Reservation. As a young civil engineer employed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, I was far removed from my cubical in downtown Los Angeles. However, I felt I was well-prepared to cond...
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Trial By Jury Juvenile Offenders
1,009 wordsGANGS AND JUVENILES Gang violence is most pervasive in large cities like Los Angeles or Chicago. But now, smaller towns have been pinpointed as having several gang-related activities such as Lee, Massachusetts. The reason for this is that gangs are forced to seek other territories where there is little pressure from authorities. (Thou). The term inner-city gang strikes fear in the minds of most middle class Americans. Gangs to them are by definition lawless and deviant, perpetrators of often bru...
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Prefrontal Cortex Sexual Predators
1,920 words... the New Jersey Medical School in Newark, claims that there is a high probability that violent impulses originate in the hypothalamus, amygdala, and periaqueductal gray area (Foreman, 2002). As this occurs, different parts of the hypothalamus are likely to be involved in different types of emotions and/ or violence (premeditated type, cold type, or impulsive actions). In addition, some new studies present more detailed conclusions. Thus, for example, according to Dr. Ronald Schouten, a psychi...
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Gang Involvement Gang Activity
418 wordsRunning head: LONG-RANGE STRATEGY FOR PREVENTING GANG ACTIVITY IN THE FUTURE Long-Range Strategy for Preventing Gang Activity In The Future December 15, 2008 Long-Range Strategy for Preventing Gang Activity In The Future Mission statement: To prevent violence and gang activity in the city through a range of carefully designed programs, opportunities provision, community mobilization, education and social intervention, organizational change and development initiatives and gang suppression. Gang P...
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Charles Manson Sharon Tate
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Animal Rights Revolution Cruelty To Part 1
1,803 wordsAnimal Rights Revolution - Cruelty to Animals (1) When we take a look at the historical framework, associated with a so-called Animal Rights Movement, it will appear that it was namely during the course of 20 th century's liberating sixties that this movement had achieved a fully legitimate intellectual status. Apparently, the metaphysical essence of animal rights revolution directly relates to the fact that from sixties onwards, the degenerative social and political ideologies began to define e...
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Pearl Jam As A Counter Cultural Band
2,406 wordsPearl Jam as a Counter-cultural Band The early ' 90 s alt-rock rebellion, which spewed from the underground like a geyser and saved rock-n-roll from hair bands, exacted a serious toll. Band break-ups, career nosedives, sell-outs and drug abuse death are as much a legacy of that dramatic period as the music. Pearl Jam is still standing - arguably the only band from the age that still matters. "I'm totally excited about still being around, " said Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. While the group ...
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Police Department Ethics Part 1
1,728 wordsPolice Department Ethics Policies Police Departments main purpose is to serve people and to protect them from harm and various kinds of offences from the side of other people. Every police department has a certain code of rules and ethics, which predispose their actions and attitudes towards the society. In this research we are going to compare and contrast two police departments ethics policies and codes of conduct. Police brutality has been a long lasting problem in the United States since at ...
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Police Department Ethics Part 2
1,741 words... questions or frisk a suspicious person or persons in the New York subway. But, to go as far as sexual harassment and beating these suspects is wrong. (Houppert, 1999 p. 40) Another case to support the statement of police abusing their power is Shawn Robbins, a 30 year old associate director for CBS Sports (Houppert, 1999). Mr. Robbins was on his way to the gym on November 20, 1997 when he noticed a man cleaning out his car by tossing trash out on the street. The smell and the sight of the tr...
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Air Pollution Future Generations
1,132 wordsAir Pollution Before dealing with air pollution, a basic definition of pollution must first be made. Pollution has its origins in the Latin word pollute, which means contamination of any feature of the environment (web). Photochemical smog, emissions, chemicals, etc. are all instances of pollutants and most all of them donate to the air pollution dilemma. Almost all air pollutants are the consequence of burning fossil fuels, this could be in the home, by industry or internal combustion engines. ...
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Theory Of Social Criminological Theories
738 wordsJose Ortiz Professors name Course title Criminology Essay The theory of social disorganization that explains higher rate of crime in low income neighborhoods of inner city, have incorporated many features of biological and social approaches in criminology, although in modern times it tries to operate exclusively in social terms. It applies notion of socially disorganized to the societies that lack social order and stability. For example, people can leave their small children in Reykjavik's (Isla...
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Kerry James Marshall Our Town Part 1
1,671 wordsKerry James Marshall "Our Town" I? ve always wanted to be a history painter on a grand scale like Giotto and Gericault... but the moment when that kind of painting was really possible seems so distant, especially after Pollock and Poker. Nevertheless, I persist, trying to construct meaningful pictures that solicit identification with, and reflection on Black existential realities... Robert Johnson? s blues are a musical equivalent. Their undeniable spiritual power is at once irreverently profane...
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Rights And Privileges Native Americans
1,574 wordsCreation of Chicano Culture The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 was, in essence, an annexation of Mexican territory to the United States and it changed the citizenship of thousands of Mexican citizens overnight to American. These citizens were not asked if they wanted to be American and they were also not accorded all the rights and privileges of American citizenship. They became, instead, a subjugated ethnic population, barely accorded status above that of the negro, an enslaved population....
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Los Angeles California Three Strikes Law
2,100 words... it will deny these people from receiving rehabilitation and instead they will be put in state prison. Crime rate will also increase if proposition 21 is passed. This Proposition was also proposed so that crime rate would reduce, but in reality it will only increase. Many teenagers will go to prison for silly things like for example shoplifting. Shoplifting is a crime but it is not serious enough for one to be put in jail for. This will increase the statistics because there will be more teena...
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O J Simpson Cloning Of Humans
3,365 wordsDNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid the material that codes for amino acids which form proteins, which in turn carry out functions of the cell. DNA is responsible for building life. Our physical characteristics, susceptibility to some diseases and disorders (e. g. breast cancer, sickle cell anemia), and a few behavior characteristics are passed from generation to generation through DNA. DNA controls everything about the way we look, from the color of the eyes to how tall you are to the width of your feet....
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