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English 12 01 October 2016 Trying Juveniles as Adults Crime has been around longer than anyone on this earth, so it is nothing new. Crime is more related to adults, but over the years the term “juvenile” is widely known as a child offender. These juveniles commit most or worst than the same crimes as adults but do not receive the same sentencing or punishment. Through series of research over the years, the theory of trying these juveniles as adults is in need to be enforced throughout the…

Should the courts treat minors the same as adults when they are accused of serious crimes? The courts shouldn’t view the accused party’s race, gender, ethics, or age but the crime and severity. Trialing minors as adults will persuade other minors’ minds about partaking in a crime, and show how the justice system is fair. They say justice is blind. However, justice do peek once in a while. According to the website Juvenile Justice “When tried as an adult they often actually serve only a…

a child way more than we think. The fun part about being a child is that we learn from our mistakes. Being a child means, getting to learn new things and going through new experiences in your life, especially as we are transitioning from child to adult. As we grow or mature, we tend to focus on what our parents or people around us are doing, we especially look up to the people that do good. Somehow, we are each “attracted”, to different types of personalities, that will make us who we are later…

for the construction of ideals contributing to adolescent egocentrism due to the new found critical eye (p. 297). Adolescence has a distinct inward focus due to the improved ability to think about one’s own thinking combined with the need to from an adult identity (p. 302, 303). Personal fable and the imaginary audience are two occurrences that often transpire due to adolescent…

For this discussion, I chose the article, “Learning-Style Characteristics of Adult Learners” by Andrea Honigsfeld and Rita Dunn. There are many different learning styles mentioned in this article that affect college students today. The one thing that stood out to me the most was the Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model. The most common learning styles include those of which affects a person’s environmental, emotional, sociological, physiologic, and the way they process material. When putting these…

What is ASD in adults? Many adults move though life without any recognition to their traits of ASD. They grow up living with ASD without any formal identification of the condition. However, very often this can happen through choice, self-help, family support the development of personal coping strategies are prevalent within adult ASD. But what is ASD? Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) do not establish ‘normal’ interactions in the majority of social settings they find themselves in.…

Adult height is a polygenetic trait, which means that it is controlled by more than one gene. It is easily measured and highly heritable (h2 ~0.75- 0.9) (Kim, et al., 2010). Final adult height is the result of growth and development processes and has limited contribution from environmental factors (Weedon, et al., 2008). As a result, loci influencing height are compared and contrasted from different races. Genome-wide association (GWA) is a method used to quickly scan markers across genomes…

The UCLA Grant Study will allow us to take a fresh look at the Harvard Grant Study of Adult Development and it is our task to apply its findings to a new cohort of individuals who will make up the graduating classes of 2017 through 2021. We will be expanding our area of interest by analyzing the experiences of traditional versus transfer students. Therefore, we will be able to fully comprehend what resources must be provided on campus to help build a sense of community which offers a lasting…

The Impacts of Adults that Lived in Poverty The impacts of adults who grew up in poverty, can affect them greatly in life. Only three developed countries have a higher poverty rate than the US. These impacts include; learned helplessness, a person's overall health, and they have a higher chance of remaining in poverty. The greatest effect on kids who grew up in poverty is learned helplessness. It is “a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness from persistent failure”.…

fundamental communication with child, can result in psychological disorders in future life of the child.” (p.220) Another source that stresses the need to care for oneself during this stage of development studied the high rates of depression in young adults. Park & Fuhrer (2013) explain this as; “Early adulthood is a particularly sensitive period for developing depression as depression onset occurs most commonly during this life stage. This is troubling given the reported associated increase in…