Tallahassee, Florida

With public support for tough laws, these sentencing minimums were enacted across the country due to increasing crime rates. However, in certain states, lawmakers and taxpayers are beginning to see that these laws cost more than they help. In Tallahassee, Florida, a twenty-five-year drug sentence for selling thirty-five pills for $300 will cost taxpayers an average of $18,064 per year, or $451,600 by the time the offender is released (Klas, 2017). Others will argue that mandatory minimums…

children are in a stable environment and are loved. To foster this passion, I volunteer at a local elementary school and mentor as well as tutor a young child. Along with working with children I have a passion for singing which is why I am on the Florida State University Gospel choir, as well as, an active choir member at my church. Giving back to the community is very important to me which is why I am involved in community based organizations such as SISTUHS Inc., and Caribbean Student…

attentions after being stopped during a routine traffic stop in Salt Lake City. The authorities found suspicious items in the vehicle. He was later arrested for murder, but while awaiting his trial in Colorado, he escaped. He made his was down to Tallahassee, Florida, where he went on a killing spree. After six weeks of being on the run, Ted Bundy was taken into police custody and sentenced to death by the electric…

affiliation. Even so, I have always admired the devotion some people put into their religion. Upon researching local religious congregations, the one that came to my attention was St. Thomas Moore. St. Thomas is a local catholic church in Tallahassee, Florida. I went into this mass open minded not knowing what to expect. Walking into St. Thomas, I think what grabbed my attention first was how spacious and welcoming the inside was. The church was built in somewhat of an “L” shape where it…

Group Observation and Reaction Paper: Kids Incorporated In-Service Meeting In this essay I will give my reactions to a group meeting that I attended using the Group Work Theory. I will focus on the small sub group that was formed that I observed. For that I will review the strengths of the leader of the meeting, skills that were used in the group setting, and what stage I felt the group was in. I will also cover cultural and ethical issues that occurred in the meeting. Finally, I will review the…

Question 1: “Hands up, Don’t Shoot!” is the well known slogan chanted by protestors after the death of a black teen, who was gunned down in the middle of the street by a white Ferguson police officer in 2014. This event highlighted the rising trend of police brutality across the nation, mainly in the black community. Government officials are now taking action towards decreasing police related deaths among teens by implementing technology such as body cameras worn by officers while on duty.…

Have you ever wondered how our elder’s stayed married for thirty-eight years? Dr. Dana Dennard, assistant professor of psychology at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, stated that “marriage is an ongoing process, a growing process…. You must embrace change rather than resist it.” These are very key factors in having a long-lasting marriage, but they are not the only factors. One must be completely committed to the relationship, trust their significant other in any situation, and love their…

You may be asking yourself, why should we care about self-esteem levels? Well if you have ever put off a task to the last minute, you may have experienced a dip in your self-esteem levels; or perhaps you put it off because your self-esteem level was already low. In this paper I discuss the link between self-handicapping in individuals with low self-esteem and procrastination. Although people with high self-esteem also self-handicap and procrastinate, the impact on persons with low self-esteem…

1892 (Wallace, 1954). The critical turning point for contemporary IC researchers occurred at the end of the 1960s with the creation of two IC doctoral programs--one at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN (1967) and the other at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL (1970). After two years passed, in 1972, the Instructional and Developmental Division was created by the International Communication Association. From this point on it became clear that communication was a necessity to go on…

Families across America are pressed to find childcare that they can afford, trust and rely on. This researcher intends to identify, correlate and summarize various articles, publications, case studies and academic literature to assist him in this study of childcare conflicts and working parents. Identification. Growth in the number of day care centers and other forms of non-parental care for children has accompanied this increase in working mothers. But for many families, finding…