An estimated 250,000 youth are tried, sentenced, or incarcerated every year across the United States (campaign for youth justice). There is large controversy regarding whether or not children and young adults should be required to be sentenced as adults, regardless of their age and circumstance. This is believed to be the most logical way of approaching this matter because every case should undergo the same consequences despite the criminal’s circumstances. An opposing view would argue that it is necessary to take into consideration the situation of each criminal case before deciding on the punishment. They would also claim that children specifically, should be given another chance due to their lack of maturity.…
Thomas Capano was an American lawyer from Wilmington, Delaware. Capano was part of a prominent family of Delaware land developers. Capano was a wealthy man, state prosecutor, and political consultant, he was known to everyone in Delaware’s political community. Thomas Capano was later convicted for the murder of Anne Marie Fahey on August 19, 1999. Fahey was last seen alive on June 27, 1996 when she was having dinner with Capano in Philadelphia.…
On February 27, 2017 officer Samuel Rosario and his partner responded to a domestic disturbance. A mother of two had called the police on her young daughter who had broken her glass table and assaulting her. As Rosario arrives to the scene, he walks to the front of the porch to confront the mother to get a statement of what had happened, next to her was a 19-year-old teen cleaning the shattered glass whom was the girl’s brother. Rosario questions the mother and tells her that her daughter will possibly face criminal damages. In the article it noted that the teen replied, “Criminal Damage?…
My husband Juan is a man who is proud to serve his country in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aircrewman. He became a rescue swimmer in 2006 and has accomplished five rescues. While currently being stationed in Key West, his last rescue was a few months ago that involved eight people on a green refugee boat who had been out in the ocean for weeks. The woman on the boat needed serious medical assistance. The Coast Guard called the Naval Air Station Key West, Search and Rescue aircrew because none of the coast guards on duty were able to speak Spanish.…
It is with immense delight and enormous pleasure for me to highly recommend Sabrina Melendez for the USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720) Scholarship. Sabrina came to Sacred Heart University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program (class of 2018) after graduating with departmental honors from Skidmore College in Health and Exercise Science. Of note, she is certified as an exercise physiologist by the American College of Sports Medicine. In a study of factors that predicts success in physical therapy training, students who major in exercise science has an advantage over their peers as they typically do well in Doctor of Physical Therapy program. Unsurprisingly, Sabrina fits this evidence-based profile precisely.…
For laws pertaining to legal requirements at the scene of an emergency, one should be familiar with a state’s Good Samaritan statutes. In the state of Nebraska, “No person who renders emergency care at the scene of an accident or other emergency gratuitously, shall be held liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission by such person in rendering the emergency care or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for medical treatment or care for the injured person” (N.R.S. §25-21,186). The bystanders, in their mocking of the drowning person, had failed to contact emergency services in a timely manner. However, they are protected from any civil damages resulting from their failure to arrange for emergency care,…
But when it comes to things such as war, politics, and the Holocaust; things need two sides. Levi points out how this is not possible in the chapter, The Grey Zone. How was the villain and who were the innocent becomes blurred. Living in a totalitarian state means that people will do whatever they have to do survive and will ask questions later. If they even ask questions at all.…
No matter what, every human is bound to die. It is a scary thing to think about, but there is no escape. Not many think about how their life will end, but it always remains in the back of the heads of human beings. In one moment, everything could change, and your life could be taken. This happens all over the world, thousands of times in one day.…
Throughout Primo Levi’s, The Drowned And The Saved, Levi reflects on his experiences during the Holocaust in an attempt to convey the tragedies suffered. In doing this, he touches upon his findings of what defines human beings. From these, he shows how the Lagers were intended to systematically strip these traits from their prisoners. Overall, he notes two central characteristics of humans: a need for distinction and the desire for power. First, on the idea of a need for distinction, Levi immediately notes a need throughout all history for separation of good and bad, a “we” and “they” mentality (Levi pg 36).…
While it is safe to assume that most relationships begin happy, certain actions, or lackthereof, of both parties can foreshadow its inevitable deterioration and eventual failure. In Octavio Paz’s short story “My Life with the Wave,” he presents the tale of a man’s passionate turned abusive encounter with an ocean wave. An experience that the narrator claims changed his life quickly transforms into what he describes as a relationship of fear and hate; however, various elements of the narrative suggest the relationship was headed in this direction from the start. By highlighting the detrimental interactions between the narrator and the wave, Paz suggests the overall meaning of his work is to illustrate the essence of an unhealthy relationship.…
concluded that McCandless confessed to people he is a weak swimmer and is frightened of water. Therefore when he…
“…I went over the timing of the events in memory it always seemed to me that I could have made it.” The way the main character feels in this statement is a very good example of survivor guilt. Survivors of disaster often feel responsible for the deaths of those involved in the same disaster. To move on with his life the seventh man must forgive himself because having the guilt weigh him down isn’t good on him and it won’t help him accelerate forward with his life. The seventh man should forgive himself because K. getting swept away was not his fault.…
Fish was originally born as Hamilton Fish to a 75 year old father and a 32 year old mother. After being nicknamed “Ham and Eggs” at an orphanage, in which he spent much of his early life, he desired to be called Albert, which was a name of a deceased sibling. It is said that many of his ancestors had mental illnesses. His mother placed him in an orphanage, around the age of 5, after his father died of a heart attack. Fish was often beaten and whipped in this orphanage, which actually pleased and aroused him.…
The first exercise is Acquisition; the second exercise is Extinction; the third exercise is Spontaneous Recovery; and the fourth exercise is Varying Strength of the Conditioned Stimulus. In the first exercise we analyzed Acquisition. Sniffy is exposed to the CS, which is the medium tone. Being that he shows no reaction to this tone, we can conclude that it is a neutral stimulus. Also, we can note that when the CS is weak, the conditioning occurs slower, so the fear response will happen slower.…
Pavlov vs. Ebbinghaus Hermann Ebbinghaus helped determine part of the rules of association, by determine if the mechanisms of association had validity. Associations are relations between two events, where the manifestation of one event activates the image of the second event. He created nonsense symbols, which was his way of experimenting with how associations are formed. Nonsense symbols are three letter words that have no definition, meaning, or importance, thus allowing people to have no connection with them. Examples of nonsense symbols include maf, pid, and nez.…