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Positive implications of School Resource Officers School Resource Officers (SRO) can provide supplemental leadership and improve relationships between law enforcement and youth. A SRO can deter criminal tendencies that may arise in the mind of adolescents by providing guidance through mentorship (fatherless youth with is prevalent in African American communities). Therefore, students can be kept in school after misbehaving rather than being suspended or expelled. Negative implications of School…

The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, from this ancient code we get the popular phrase “"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." People have often used this phrase in order to justify their actions against a person who has wronged them or their loved ones. However, have you stopped to consider that an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind? Today I will be discussing the death penalty and why I believe it is time to get rid of it in the…

dress codes that limits students on what they want to wear. Why schools put in a school dress code? The dress code violates freedom of expression, promotes sexism and poses little to no effect on safety. Is this the school’s way of controlling the students? The students reacted to the dress code. School dress code violates the students freedom of expression. School officials quickly enacted a no armband policy when the students protested the dress code. “The court indicated that the dress code…

Why do you think we shouldn’t have a dress code? The students of Conroe High agree that we shouldn’t have a dress code because some students would want to wear something to express them self but they can't because of the dress code. Therefore a rule that should have a thought about being changed is the dress code for the reason that a student should be aloud to wear what they want unless it is too revealing. Picture this, a student named Emily English comes into school and says ”Hey” to…

Hammurabi’s laws Hammurabi was a amorite king who ruled the Babylonian empire from 1792-1750 B.C. the way he gathered his laws was by sending out riders (on horses) to go to multiple towns/villages to collect rules and laws from other cities. Then they would return to Hammurabi and tell him about the rules they had collected. The ones he liked would be put on a giant brick outside of the ziggurat. The rules may not be so natural as the common rules today but they were extreme. So, if you had a…

The Elephant in the Room Navajo code talkers were considered America’s “secret weapon” in World War II. US Marines used the Native American language as a code in order to relay secret messages during wartime. This code was vital to our victory in World War II because the Japanese easily cracked top secret military codes. Just as American soldiers relayed messages in code during wartime, women wrote in “code” in order to portray society's limitations during their time. They addressed these…

Many schools around the world have extra funds to spend on stuff. They normally spend it on school supplies, technology, or raising teachers budgets. If your school announced that they had extra money to spend and were giving students the option to vote on what you wanted, what would you pick. This is my opinion for my school. First of all buying new uniforms is a big one. Many uniforms at our school are not returned. Some uniforms are ripped or to dirty to clean. We are starting to get new…

Law codes have been fundamental to the governance of societies and for the preservation of order and structure throughout the ages. One such agency, which is thought to be categorically influential to the legal expansion of Western culture is known as Justinian’s Code (Berkeley Law, n.d., para. 9). Justinian understood the great need for laws, and wanted to utilize those that had already been established, which included the Twelve Tables. However, because they were in a disheveled state, he set…

Hammurabi was ruling a small city state in Mesopotamia called Babylonia (“Hammurabi’s). Hammurabi made a set of laws known as Hammurabi’s Code of Laws. Hammurabi's code was supposed to “encourage people to live as peaceful, responsible citizens.” (Laws). and to lower crime rates. Sounds like a good idea, right? Well that idea turned disastrous for most. Hammurabi’s code should be remembered as a negative event being…

Hammurabi Code comes from the ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia, which is considered to be one of the most valuable discoveries in human existence. The record and the substance were used to assemble the hammurabi code, it can tell a lot about how life in the empire was. In most cases, punishment was left to the gods to determine. The code was interpreted from the beginning to the ending addressed from the gods. There is a lot about the Babylonian society that can be learned through reading the…