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Similar to the study demonstrated by Wilcox and Stephen, Murat Korkmaz, Nurhayat Celebi, and Ali Serdar Yucel experimented on how social networking effects today’s youth ranging from high school to college students. There were 894 individuals observed in total within an eight month period. Specific groups were instructed to complete a survey consisting of eighty questions. The survey had two separate sections. The first section included questions towards the use of social networks on a scale…

Drunk Driving under the influence of alcohol is something people under the age 21, do while intoxicated with alcohol. Drunk driving can be very deadly. Yet many people drive while intoxicated everyday. Drivers who are drunk are blamed for the loss of as many as twenty-five thousand lives in highway crashes each year and hundreds of thousands of severe injuries. Everyday many lives are lost because of drunk driving or drunk drivers. “On June 1, 2000 in Miami, Florida, 16-year-old Helen Marie…

Police simply cannot walk on to a crime scene and know exactly where the shooter is or what is going on. Officers also cannot get there faster than a weapon can be unloaded. Whereas, having a trained permit holder in the classroom who is experiencing the shots first hand could slow or stop the attack (Students for Concealed Carry on Campus 173). One objection to not waiting for a police officer is that students who carry guns are not properly trained. While a background check is required in…

I. INTRODUCTION A. Importance of Healthy Lifestyle A healthy lifestyle begins in training during childhood years, supervised by parents or guardian. As a child grows and travels through adolescence, health habits are either retained or changed by external factors such as hobbies, peers, and personality. During college years, students become more sedentary and as their physical activity levels decrease, health consequences increase. There are many reasons for degradation of health. One is because…

Gropius and the Bauhaus “The Bauhaus was not an institution with a clear program- it was an idea… The fact that it was an idea, I think, is the cause of this enormous influence the Bauhaus had on every progressive school around the globe. You cannot do that with organization, you cannot do that with propaganda. Only an idea spreads so far." This powerful quote from Mies van der Rohe perfectly describes the importance of the Bauhaus movement and the work of Walter Gropius. In a time where…

The controversy that surrounds an open-carry law that allows those who are licensed to carry concealed weapons on college premises have been going on for quite some time. The way people will have to interact amongst their peers and their sense of safety on campus will be altered with the new law. Guns on campuses will have it drawbacks such as limit of speech, crime rates increase, or a simply misunderstanding turning deadly. The process on which those wish to obtain a permit or license of will…

Did you know that according to CBS news, more than “40 percent of ex-cons commit crimes within three years of their release and wind up back behind bars”? What really is being accomplished through convicts being imprisoned when they are ultimately returning right back to prison? These convicts may be getting punished enough to learn their lesson, but once they have done their time, convicts are being thrown out into the real world, which is the real challenge. Most convicts are turning back to…

security, maximum security and supermax security. Minimum-security facilities are reserved for committers of non-violent crimes. Prisoners are often incarcerated for "white-collar" crimes, such as fraud. Security is minimal and accommodation is often dormitory style. Prisoners is these prisons are not treated as harsh as a prisoner that is in a maximum-security prison since the severity of the crime. If a person charged with burglary was placed in the same level facility as a person charged with…

Everybody knows that a family dinner is a pleasant occasion. This is the case every few months when all members of the Williams and Garland family are home at the same time. Both children and adults put aside their overwhelming superiority complexes in order to love and support each other. One Friday evening the topic of this gathering was brought up in the Williams household by Mrs. Williams to her two kids, Mark and Sarah. Olivia Williams was highly educated and once retired, and raised her…

The Incident: During an August morning in Texas, a man by the name of Charles Whitman, dressed as a janitor and with a footlocker in his hand, introduces the nation to public mass murder. Charles reached the University Tower at UT Austin by means of killing the secretary and 2 other individuals that attempted entering the building. He then reached the tower and began to fire at people, managing to target his victims hearts. During the 90 minute rampage, Charles killed 14 individuals and…