The Alternative

Alternatives to Detention Since incarceration has been proven to be ineffective for reducing crime and delinquency. I propose an emphasis on rehabilitation. Instead of locking up juveniles, the juvenile judge should make it his or her goal to divert youth offenders away from secure detention facilities and instead use dispositional alternatives that better match the need of the child. Studies have shown that smaller, intensive programs can work when they are run by well-trained staff who can…

With the combination of an ageing public transportation system, ever-increasing fuel costs, and growing public environmental awareness, it is time to think about the future of the current bus fleet. Updating the fleet with alternative fuel technology is a popular and cost-effective initiative. Background: The American transportation system is suffering from major problems. Thirty-six percent of The United States major highways face a serious congestion problem. With the number of vehicles on…

research, 2015). After this time, many breakthroughs were made such as insulin for diabetics, hepatitis C vaccine and medicine for epilepsy, which have saved countless number of animals’ and humans’ lives (AMP, 2015). Today, we have developed many alternatives to animal testing, thanks to new technologies, which are used to develop and test new medicine and treatments; nevertheless, it is still impossible to exclude animals from animal research yet. It is estimated that more than 115 million…

In a 2009 tradecraft primer put out by the US Government, it reveals that alternative futures analysis explores multiple ways a situation can develop when there is high uncertainty and is most useful when the situation is too complex to trust a single outcome (US GOV, 2009). This scenario falls under the imaginative thinking category…

Damarth Nayak, Logan Turner-Mannix, Helena Yang, Michael Pan Documentation for Request for Proposal Ref. 1) Insert reference Ref. 2) Insert reference Etc…. Why Alternative fuels: Alternative Fuel research journal: When gasoline vehicles burn fossil fuels, they release smog and other toxic chemicals. These products negatively affect drivers and poison the environment. Heavy industrialization has increased impervious surfaces, which causes the toxic products to eventually make their way into…

Vegetarianism: The Healthier Alternative In the year 2012, one hundred seventeen million United States citizens, around half of the country’s adult population, were diagnosed with a form of chronic disease (Chronic n.p.). Today, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the highest ranking conditions across the country continue to be obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and various types of cancer (Chronic n.p.). While there are numerous reasons as to why these illnesses are so…

The drug court is a sentence that provide different options for the offenders. Alternative incarceration is one way to prosecute offenders, but it has not been successful to help the offenders to get through the abuse of drugs and committing crimes. Treatment can be very helpful for drug abuse offenders but most of these offenders drop off the programs before treatment is finished. If the offenders enter to the treatment program they will be under supervision the whole time to remind them the…

Alternative R&B PBR -Pabst Blue Ribbon, Music is shared all around the world for everyone to listen to and enjoy. Many different genres such as Jazz, Classical, Hip Hop, Rock, R&B, etc. Every song is different in its own way, but one genre really sticks out to me and that's Alternative R&B. Alternative R&B also goes by many other names such as PBR&B, R-Neg-B, and indie R&B. Alternative R&B definitely takes R&B and gives it a twist. This genre often focuses…

Interest in alternative food options is spreading rapidly throughout America. With readily available information about the health concerns surrounding processed foods, people are returning to organic and locally grown foods as well as other means of attaining more health conscious foods. But that isn’t the only reason for the growth of interest in this area. With growing problems like climate change and deforestation, people are looking for new and better ways to reverse these issues and create…

We do not need wars to reduce our population any more. If people’s first instinct was to find diplomatic and peaceful solutions or compromises the world would be a happier place. Alternatives to war are better because they are peaceful, less harmful, more ethical, and they can unite people. War alternatives are much more peaceful because they don’t involve hurting other people. If countries were to have a chess match or play some other game instead of fighting, then all the places…