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    “There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is no good in war except its ending.” This quote is from Abraham Lincoln stating that there is no happiness in war, there is no joy in killing innocent people, there nothing good in war except its ending. (elaborate the quote). According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word war means a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations; a period of such armed conflict. Living in this world is a…

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    Three Legal/Ethical Issues 1. Surrogate Decision Making 2. Informed Consent 3. Patent Capacity to care for self Discussion of Three Legal/Ethical Issues Legal/Ethical issue 1: Surrogate Decision Making This is necessary in the event patients are incapable of making necessary healthcare decision for themselves. A person appointed as a surrogate decision maker will act in place of the patient in the event any situation arise, example of this can be decision regarding surgery or any other…

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    philosophy. This philosophy advocated that a criminal should be punished in the form of jail time or sometimes even death. The purpose of this philosophy is not to rehabilitate or to separate the criminal from society as with the Rehabilitation and Incapacitation philosophies. The purpose is to punish the criminal for their actions because they broke the…

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    needed to be ready for war. They attacked Pearl Harbor because many U.S. ships were harbored there, giving them the opportunity to destroy or at least damage a large portion of America’s navy (Why). In the end, the surprise attack lead to the incapacitation of several ships and hundreds of planes. Nearly two and a half thousand lives were lost, and there were about a thousand more people injured (Pearl). Unfortunately for the Japanese Empire, however, the attack wasn’t highly advantageous…

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    Genesis 9:6 - Whoso sheddeth man 's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. In this scripture I feel like it basically states that if you kill a man by human hands then the man that kill, should also be killed by human hands. God created us in his image, so if we kill a human it’s like taking apart of God because we were all created in his image. It is morally wrong, because God created man and if someone kills we are taking that away from God. “A man who…

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    Social Isolation Essay

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    4.1 Introduction This chapter presents the key findings from interviews conducted for this dissertation. These findings seek to answer the research question which is, “To what extent can technology reduce elderly people’s experience of social isolation?” The findings are thus presented in relation to the objectives of the study. Three people, a man and two women, were interviewed for this dissertation. All of these participants fall into the category of the ‘elderly’ as used in this study.…

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    My Prison

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    Every prison has four major purposes retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation. I think that my prison embodies all of these better than most. When creating my prison I heavily focused on the rehabilitation flaws that most prisons have. The U.S. has close to a 75% reincarceration rate. I designed a prison that I think will lower this and change the way we think of prisons. What makes my prison different is the setup and goal. My prison is a combination of a minimum and…

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    Sociology Of Crime

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    There are large numbers of hypothesis and explanations to why violent crime in Australia, the United States and Great Britain generally decreased for a period in the late 1990s. Levitt (2004) states that the two most convincing reasons for the drop in crime are improved security and rising prison populations. Farrell et al. (2011) argues that higher levels in security was an important factor of the crime drop, because it reduced crime opportunities, this affected different types of crime such as…

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    factor to the increase in incarceration, for between 1980 and 2012 it’s resulted effect increased the incarceration rate by 222%. Also, these polices and among others have made incarceration rate increase to the result of having both deterrence and incapacitation effects on society particularly drug…

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    Victorian Era Life in the Victorian Era was an intriguing time to be alive. Crime was a major obstacle. There were interesting trial cases going on. The fashion of the time was drastically different and way more expensive than our modern “fashion.” The expectations that women were required to uphold were drastically different than those imposed on men. There were many threats to daily life during the Victorian Era. According to “Hooligans, Harlots and Hangmen, Crime and Punishment in…

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