California ’s Proposition 184: Three Strikes and You ’re Out Last year in California voters approved a controversial ballot initiative. Proposition 184‚ also known as the three strikes and you ’re out law‚ was passed on November 9‚ 1994. Under this new legislation repeat offenders‚ upon committing their third felony offense‚ will be sentenced to a mandatory twenty-five years to life in prison(California 667). The initiative passed by a landslide‚ with 76% of the voters in favor of it. The
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THREE STRIKE LAW CJ322 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century January 30‚ 2011 Criminal Justice The consequences of the three strike law are causing a strain on the criminal Justice system and the correction subsystem. Boot camps may be one of the solutions to the increasingly over crowded prisons. The challenges are increasing everyday for Correctional Officers‚ especially female officers who are already at a disadvantage. The three strike law became very popular in the 1990s
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have been the main developments in strike activity in Britain over the last 35 years? Strike activity is a form of industrial action that can occur in the workplace once conflict has risen. It is a complete stoppage of work by a group of employees and its aim is to express a grievance or to enforce a demand. (Dundon‚ Rowlinson‚ 2011) Employees will usually use a strike as a last resort to deal with issues in the workplace; workers are not able to perform a strike without a stringent process being
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When Children Raised Their Voices in Protest The Newsboys Strike of 1899 and Its Consequences Child labor was a major issue in our nation’s history‚ from its founding through the early decades of the twentieth century. In 1900‚ United States census records counted at least 1.75 million children who were “gainful workers‚” (that is‚ worked for pay)‚ comprising six percent of the nation’s workforce. (Many others may not have been reported.) Most child laborers worked in agriculture‚ but many
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Scent of a Woman Lt. Colonel Frank Slade is a depressed man. In the movie‚ Sent of a Woman‚ Al Pacino plays Slade’s character who is blind and has Major Depressive Disorder (DSM IV-TR 296.2x). Besides meeting the challenge of acting blind when you are not‚ he also met the challenge of making his character meet the criteria for a Major Depressive Episode. In the movie a college student‚ Charlie Simms (Chris O’Donell)‚ is hired to aide the blind veteran Slade‚ for the duration of a holiday weekend
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large scale strikes have decline in the UK. Strikes are reported to be at an historical low level. They have gone into decline due to numerous factors. The fall in the level of strike activity can be attributed to lower trade union membership‚ stable economy‚ rise of individualism and (HRM) Human Resource Management‚ restrictive trade union legislations and sectoral shift in employment from manufacturing to service. The latter part has being the most influential on the decline of strike activity in
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Intro: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back is the movie that brought people of all ages to have a passion for Star Wars. It inspired people and even me to think beyond our universe to a universe with intergalactic travel‚ lasers and even lightsabers. The Empire Strikes Back movie brought new heart and depth into the characters of the series. It gave people something that they had never seen and experienced before‚ something that would leave them with questions that wouldn’t be answered until the
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Was the Hunger Strike Campaign of the 1980’s the most significant IRA action of that decade? The Hunger Strike campaign during the 1980’s were well known in Northern Ireland and Britain and some say this one action was the most significant of the IRA’s during that decade. In this essay I will be exploring how actually The Hunger Strikes were maybe not the most significant actions as during this decade the Brighton Bombings and The Long War were other‚ very momentous action plans the IRA put into
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10 MIXING AND AGITATION gitation is a means whereby mixing of phases can be accomplished and by which mass and heat transfer can be enhanced between phases or with external surfaces. In its most general sense‚ the process of mixing is concerned with all combinations of phases of which the most frequently occurring ones are A 7. gases with gases. 2. gases into liquids: dispersion. 3. gases with granular solids: fluidization‚ pneumatic conveying‚ drying. 4. liquids into gases: spraying and atomization
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In the film‚ The Empire Strikes Back‚ Luke unconsciously follows in his father’s footsteps by being corrupted by anger and impatience in his training with Yoda‚ his encounter with his own soul in the cave on Dagobah‚ and in his showdown with Darth Vader in the carbon freezing chamber in Cloud City. First‚ Luke subconsciously follows in his father’s footsteps when he exhibits anger and impatience in his training with Yoda. After the battle of Hoth‚ Luke travels to Dagobah with his trusty droid companion
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