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    incidents regarding students becoming victims of sexual battery. For instance, on May 1, 2015 approximately 2:00am a young lady became a victim of sexual battery. She was walking between Sweeny Hall and Macquarrie Hall, when three male suspects on a bicycles passed the victim and one slapped her on the buttocks. The suspect was described as a white male adult with curly hair and a tye-dye shirt. The investigation is still open and no suspect have been arrested (SJSUalert). This could have been…

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    Prison Deterrent Effect

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    I do believe the prison had a deterrent effect. Various elements could influence the efficiency of the deterrent effect of prison, such as the quality of prison life, the enhancement laws, the juvenile crime and the ability of criminals was examined to substitute between different crimes. The text stated “Sentence enhancement laws abruptly alter prison sentences for specific types of crime” (Winter, 2008). For example, the person who committed robbery was given a 5 year prison sentence. Then the…

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    The well known words “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" were once said by the beloved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These words have sent chills down the spines of many generations. As the years passed, Dr. King’s dream had become a reality but there were still ways to go. The fact that decades after Dr. King’s times, one’s skin color or ethnicity is still an issue…

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    The Private Prison System

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    The private prison system is a system that allows for private prisons to contract work from corporations by using the prisoners as workers. These workers work for just a few dimes and nickels a day. A former writer for the El Diario La Prensa, in New York, Vicky Pelaez tells the prisoners’ stories for them. In her article titled, “The Prison in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” she points out the negative impact of private prisons on the sentencing of African-Americans…

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    Public Market Case Study

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    • ACCESSIBILTY- One of the biggest problem for now is the traffic, even in the province. In building a Public market, we must analyze the way before arriving to the public market. It must be walking distance or it can be accessible by bicycle. • EXISTING BULIDINGS- The majority of the public market facilities involve some type of adaptive re-use of an existing building. • LAND VALUES- The economics of potential public market facility are such that, in the absence of substantial subsidy…

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    Kids For Cash Discussion Questions Assignment 1. Which moments in the film jumped out at you? Did you have strong reactions to any particular stories? Which ones and why? • The film Kids for Cash shocked me from beginning to end. As a judge, Civaraella was supposed to be a role model for the Luzerene County. He stated he wanted to kids to view him as the “biggest SOB”, if it means that they will learn how to behave in school. Everyone makes mistakes, especially as a child. It's a shame that out…

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    Alert Child Soldiers

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    YELLOW= BEFORE ORANGE= AFTER PINK=CITED QUOTE All around the world there are desperate children being abducted and brainwashed into child soldiers. Children as young as 5 are taken, given a gun and told to kill others or die. If these kids do get rescued by peacekeepers they go into rehabilitation. Child soldiers deserve amnesty because they were just desperate children who were abducted and brainwashed into killing. Around the world innocent children 5-18 are being terribly captured.…

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    speech. He would sometimes show up to work wearing pajama tops under his coat and a string wrapped around his waist to hold up his pants. He was known to chain his tea mug to the radiator with a combination lock to prevent co-workers from using it. During hay fever season he would ride his bicycle to work wearing a government-issued gas mask. “He was a hippie before his time,” remarked Oxford University mathematician Andrew Hodges, who wrote a biography of Turing in 1983. “He was very casual…

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    other (even though the size of the teeth must match), a mechanical advantage is produced, with the rotational speeds and the torques of the two gears differing in an inverse relationship. In transmissions which offer multiple gear ratios, such as bicycles, motorcycles, and cars, the term gear, as in first gear, refers to a gear ratio rather than an actual physical gear. The term is used to describe similar devices even when the gear ratio is continuous rather than discrete, or when the device…

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    In the book Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik delves into the intricacies of the materials that allow the modern world to exist and thrive. In chapter 8, Unbreakable, Miodownik discusses the significance and characteristics of various forms of carbon in a historical lens. Although derived from the same element, graphite, diamond, and graphene all have unique properties unlike any other materials. Miodownik begins by offering a relatable anecdote to his childhood art class in order to truly show the…

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