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removed much of that discretionary power after they began to pass law after law imposing mandatory minimum sentences. Congresses “tough on crime” stance, made it so the courts had no choice but to hand down long, arbitrary lengths of imprisonment. Vanita Gupta (Center for Justice) composed a piece in 2011 titled “Criminal Justice Reform 2011- The Good, the Bad, and the Work Ahead.” In this piece, she goes on to talk about the “Safe and Fair” campaign. This campaign was implemented by the…

Living with Art is important for many reasons including historical documentation, aesthetics, and promoting a positive self-image, which helps us to see ourselves differently, and those around us differently. Similarly, art provides us with culture, creativity, and personal fulfillment – if we open up our hearts and minds to the possibilities, the arts can offer. When you have an open mind, you are more apt to look and respond to ideas or people with an appreciation along with the…

crime (Blau and Blau 1986; Hsieh and Pugh, 1993).” There are studies that agree and disagree the poverty is contributed to violent crime behavior. The research study by Bruce P. Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Deborah Prothrow-stith, Kimberly Lochner, and Vanita Gupta, are rating homicide rate and poverty relationship using the Robin Hood index. Robin Hood index measure the income of inequality, by predicting state level variations in homicide rates. The study was use to predict two hypothesis: state…

Visual Arts in the Modern World Assignment Number: U08A01 HUM1000 – Dr. Perry Capella University Introduction Throughout history the Visual Arts have been vital to the communication between and survival of the human species. We have evolved over thousands of years from the time of the cavemen our first art being that depicting that of the hunt to the modern surrealism depicted by Salvador Dalí. The vast expanse of emotion behind visual art is truly beyond the peripheral of the mind’s…

1. This short extract is part of the Isa Upanishad, a short Sanskrit scripture with only eighteen verses (Mascaró, 1974, Juthani, 2001, p. 125). Isa Upanishad is a significant part of The Upanishads - this collection of ancient texts was written in the 7th century BCE and hold a significant position in the philosophical tenets of Hinduism (Cohen, 2008, p. 4). The Upanishads arose out of Vedic literature, and have a strong connection to Vedic religion, one of the oldest religious traditions in…

clarification the District notes that the United States Department of Education, Office of General Counsel’s Amicus-Brief dated November 19, 2014 regarding G.L., Mr. G.L. and Mrs. E.L. v. Ligonier Valley School District Authority, No. 14-1387 addressed to Vanita Gupta, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division states: The United States Department of Education ("Department") submits this letter in response to the Court's orders dated October 1…

John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and the anonymous The Revenger’s Tragedy are both typically cynical Jacobean revenge tragedies. They share in common imagery of flesh and anatomy, carrying with it connotations of the human body as a fragile, corporeal shell, and the assertion that human existence is either fundamentally corrupt or corrupted. In The Revenger’s Tragedy, the human forms of the degraded ducal family are likened to hollow vessels of sin by the aptly named revenger Vindice, this…

To attract and keep the attention of the audience in a genre as stale and traditional as still life painting can be a difficult task, but many painters have risen to the challenge in the hundreds of years since its invention. These methods are numerous and involve the exploration of tensions such as those that exist between abstraction and representation, or moralizing versus hedonistic. Considered one of the lowest types of art by the French Academy, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Shoes, and…

The article “TAKEN: Under civil forfeiture, Americans who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing can be stripped of their cash, cars, and even homes. Is that all we’re losing?” written by Sarah Stillman, she teaches at yale, a writer for the New York Times, and has been awarded multiple awards for her writing. Under the civil forfeiture or civil seizure the police are allowed to seize assets from drug deals or other criminal activities and use that money to supplement their department 's budget.…

The books that children read growing up can have a strong impact on their attitudes towards certain topics later on in life, whether they be positive or negative. Many people think that children’s literature does not have to be monitored closely for stereotypes, however this is not the case because even very young children are able to pick up on and understand the stereotypes that are taking place in their favorite bedtime stories. It was found that “when children are read stories that portray…