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    Violence in Public First evidence is the fear of drunkenness due to possible disturbance or violence. If individuals are allowed to drink in public places such as parks and beaches, there is a possibility that drunkenness will become a problem such as causing mayhem in the community. A survey that was conducted prior to the first street drinking ban in 1988 at Coventry, United Kingdom demonstrate that individuals are afraid of public drinkers due to the possible crime they might commit. This association between perceiving public drinkers as a common problem and being fearful of crime is illustrated in Table 7, which shows that as many as 69 per cent of those interviewees who were ‘more worried’ about becoming a victim of crime perceived public drinkers as a common problem (Ramsey, 1989). In addition, it was also stated that those individual who participated the survey were more likely to avoid “drunks”, “winos” and “tramps” as a form of crime prevention. Drunks, winos and tramps were the most commonly avoided group, cited by 61 per cent. This is an even higher level than the combined figures for young men and ‘the young’, when put together. Avoidance of drunks, winos and tramps was widespread among all three age groups and both men and women (Ramsey, 1989). Also, a survey of Australian adults states that they avoid drunken people or places where drinkers can be found hanging out. According to Laslett (as cited in Pennay & Room, 2012), 41.6% reported that in the previous…

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    Discussion Board #4 Case Study: The Gathering Place Betty, with the blessing of her husband, has decided to pursue opening a coffee shop in her hometown of Belmont, North Carolina. Betty is a Christian and wants her coffee shop to be a place where like-minded can meet. Her desired name for the coffee shop is The Gathering Place. Betty has multiple decisions she must make during the process of establishing the business. She has to decide what type of business to establish, such as a sole…

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    The Gathering Curiosity, it is seen in everyone, it is part of the human brain. The thing about a story that is full of curiosity is that it is hard to get bored and easy to get lost. Maya is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a small town, Salmon Creek. Salmon Creek is a medical research town as well as very small containing approximately only 200 people, which always makes new people interesting to the town. We see Maya and Daniel who is her best friend thinking a lot about the mysterious death…

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    impression of how dangerous the neighborhood I only knew as normal was corrupt and dysfunctional. That being said, this is my story… It was a beautiful sunny Saturday as our family gathered at my Uncle Bills home for a party. Almost every weekend included some family event or celebration. My cousins were in a band and often played at these gatherings. We had a large family; therefore, these get-together’s usually included thirty to forty people. As the band set…

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    “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town on a clear sunny day on the 27th day of June. The children of the town arrive first and begin collecting stones and piling them together until their parents call them to order. Mr. Summers calls each head of the household to come forward to a black old wooden box, where each select a slip of paper. Once the men of the house have chosen a paper slip, Mr. Summers allows everyone to open the paper and…

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    generation’s dependency on socializing digital to sell their product by using characters, cinematography, editing and binaries thoughtfully and subtly. The iPhone is portrayed in the advert as a safe haven. Social media is used repeatedly to appeal to the younger audience’s interest which alludes to the fact that everything social is found on the phone -- creating a disconnection with human interaction, but a dependency on the phone. With the use of of mise-en-scene, the advert shows the phone…

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    as quickly as time permits and ought to be landed inside 60-90 days. Accordingly, Bende requested boots for $95,000 from Kiff and Kiff realized that Bende was going to re offer the boots. Shockingly, the train transporting the boots wrecked. Bende thought the Kiff rupture of agreement. Kiff asserted that the agreement had impracticable reason. This offer, as per the respondent, was never acknowledged by the offended party. Power majeure provisions, an occasion outside the ability to control of…

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    looking at all of the electronic devices which people use each day and the mas amount of data which is gathered about the person through the use of the electronic device one might conclude that privacy is dead. However, this is not the case. You must consider when using these information technology devices in both hardware and software form they are required to agree to certain terms and agreement. These terms in agreement in almost all cases will have a statement that allows the company to…

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    A characteristic that is also important to consider when gathering information during an assessment is the interaction within the family. This is important because observing how the whole family interacts aids in noticing some signs that are not displayed during an individual assessment. This might include, poor communication between the parents and children or noticing how supportive the parents are with their children which might not be shown during their individual assessment. An important…

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    too inconsistent at providing results. I did not particularly want to do this topic, but time restraints and other issues made it the most suitable choice. The majority of my research was based around literature review, more specifically, analysing various reviews and articles about games. A survey was also conducted along with the analysis of several videos, however these played less of a role in the final outcome. The plan was to write the outcome as a script, which would later be used in a…

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