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    Violent crimes are increasing rapidly, and many vicious crimes are juvenile crimes. Many people try to find the best procedure to treat the juvenile crimes. Some think that children committing the crime should be treated in a separate juvenile system. However, to judge these kids should depend on their intention. Children might have to mature faster to know and obey the law by lowering the minimum age to treat them as an adult. A psychiatrist may be necessary to give advice to children who…

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    came forth after both Lincoln and Douglass had given speeches opposing one another in two of Illinois’ congressional districts. Lincoln and Douglas agreed to the series of seven debates in the remaining congressional districts: Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy, and…

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    Parents need to become more knowledgeable of content and exert greater supervision over the games their children are playing. In a study performed by Woodard and Gridina, they stated that, “While most parents (88%) report regularly supervising their children’s use of television, only about half (48%) report regularly supervising their children’s use of video games” (Woodard & Gridina). Why are parents worried about the programs that are on television more than the content in video games? Have…

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    Common Law And Islamic Law

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    “Islam and the Modern Law of Nations.” American Journal of International Law, 50(2): 358-372. Lippman, Matthew, Sean McConville, and Mordechai Yerushalmi. 1988. Islamic Criminal Opolot, James S.E. 1980. An Analysis of World Legal Traditions. Jonesboro, TN: Pilgrimage Press. Powell, Emilia Justyna. 2006. “Conflict, Cooperation, and the Legal Systems of the World.”Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State…

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    Valentine’s Day. My Uncle Roy called and sang to her. For some reason, she didn’t answer the phone. He left it on her voice mail. A few days later, we got yet another phone call. Uncle Roy was sick. That’s all we knew. Everyone took off to the hospital in Jonesboro. Upon arrival, we found out he was having heart problems. Uncle Roy was not a small man by any means. He weighed at least three hundred and fifty pounds and was well over six feet tall. The doctors at the hospital were concerned. You…

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    High school. There are plenty of memories that come to mind when I think back on my high school years and how fun, boring, and sometimes mind boggling it was. I learned so much in these quick yet repetitive 4 years out of my life. I made friends, fell in love, laughed, cried, and did some of the most boring work of my life—But, I have plenty more to share. I felt as though my high school experience wasn’t really as dreadful and hard as I thought it would be. It was more like come to school and…

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    John Grisham's Bleachers

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    Bleachers was written by John Grisham. This novel was published in 2003. John Grisham was born on the eighth of February in 1955 in the town of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Grisham really wanted to be a professional baseball player but later in life he realized he didn't have the kind of talent to make it with that career so it decided to attend Mississippi State University where he would major in accounting and later on would graduate from law school to become a lawyer. He was not done after this…

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    Umoja claims that “Voter registration workers were harassed by police and beaten in the streets of Jonesboro by white racist civilians in broad daylight, and mobs of young whites threatened the security of blacks in the evening” (Umoja 206), which provides a reasoning behind why African-Americans need to stand up for themselves and gather together to bring…

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    the John Phillips Sousa Award which also offered a scholarship. I had my life laid out for me and lived it just as my parents wanted me to. In August of 1998, my parents packed me up and moved me into my dormitory at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro. This was the first time I had ever been away from home for a long period of time. It was scary, considering I wasn’t a very outgoing person. I always stayed to myself and talked only when I was spoken…

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    WHEN WINIFRED had at last recognized the young woman in the buckboard as Lorelei Hansmueller, she walked, ever so slowly and non-chalantly, over to where Winston sat in his wheel-chair and whispered softly in an urgent voice, “Win-ston!!” “I know my dear.” “Whatever are we to do? First there was Penelope and now here comes this one, again.” “What can we do my dear, but be gracious. She may have made friends among the young offic-ers at Fort Kearney. She was very popular, there, if I remember…

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