Amber Hagerman

Hour Exemplification Essay AMBER Alert Effectiveness Amber Rene Hagerman was nine years old when she was abducted while riding her bike in 1996. Without luck of finding her, her family and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found her dead five days later. In honor of Amber, the AMBER Alert child abduction prevention system was activated (Peters). There is quite a bit of debate on whether the system is effective or not. Statistics in general have proven that the AMBER Alert has saved…

“The Child Called It,” by Dave Pelzer is a novel based on a child who is mistreated by his mother. The stepmother treats the child worst than trash. He is fed teaspoons of ammonia, a harmful substance for a human body. He sleeps under the kitchen table with the cold as his blanket. It is a great example of what child goes trough when he or she is been mistreated by a relative. Priests The sexual abuse of children was rarely discussed in public before the nineteen seventy’s, and it was not…

This last were put into place to protect children. The public seen the need for these laws after the brutal murder of Adam Walsh and Amber Hagerman. The parents and the community came together to raise awareness for a policy to help protect children. Government Funding for Social Policy The funding for laws comes from a combination of areas. Funding can come in the form of local, state…

The advancement of technology has provided a world to socialize within matters of minutes by clicking a mouse and turning on a computer. With sharing your daily life on social media, have we created a society that feed on the need to know everything that goes on within each person’s life? What are the factors that impact a person’s need to become social and political butterflies in the age of technology? The use of computers has had a significant impact on a person’s daily life within society.…

Every state in the nation now is part of the Amber Alert system which broadcasts information about abducted children. Recently in Florida the Jessica Lunsford act was signed into law which heightened Florida's laws relating to sexual offenders and predators. Even with the new Jessica Lunsford legislation in Florida some citizens feel that it is not enough to keep their communities safe. Many cities are now looking at limiting the areas in which sex offenders and predators can live in hopes of…