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    Beasley Jail’s and Prison’s Response Prisons range from minimum to maximum security. They are designed to house criminals who have committed similar types of offenses. The penal institutions of developed countries usually offer better living conditions and greater inmate safety than those found in undeveloped or authoritarian nations. Although most correctional facilities are intended to incarcerate adult‚ civilian criminals‚ prison types‚ exist for military personnel‚ juveniles‚ violent

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    Social Issues in and around the world Essay The difference of male and female rights‚ Involving gender discrimination among women in Afghanistan. Introduction to Sociology SOC-Section 011 Fall 2011   The difference of male and female rights‚ Involving gender discrimination among women in Afghanistan Throughout the world in our modern society‚ we can distinguishably recognize several countries that violate our social norms of highly protested and extremely cruel

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    America‚ social reform movements sought to change the social and political views of marginalized groups of people‚ those who were thought of as insignificant in the eyes of society (“Definition of Social Reform”). Social reform movements involve these insignificant groups‚ and the activists that dedicate time and effort to change political policy‚ an approach adopted by the nation’s government‚ while bringing public awareness to the issue through forms of public protests‚ and media. Reform movements‚

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    Poverty Issues Poverty. Poverty is a major issue in most Latin American countries. Poverty is when a country is generally extremely poor. Poverty however‚ can be fixed. It can also become an extremely big issue if a country does not care about it. The best country for a demonstration‚ is Nicaragua. Nicaragua is the poorest country in Latin America. This is mainly because it can’t keep up with how much it is spending. This is what happens in most countries in L.A. They can’t keep up with all

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    |Name |Justice Gray | |MLA Citation |Obama‚ Barack. "American Rhetoric: Barack Obama -- Speech to the Nation on Passage of New Health Care Reform Bill ." American Rhetoric: | | |The Power of Oratory in the United States. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. | | |.

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    USA Patriot Act (2001) University of phoenix Legal issues in justice and security AJS 522 Kim Tandy July 15‚ 2013 USA Patriot Act (2001) On September 11‚ 2001 19 Al-Queda members attacked New York and Washington D.C. by hijacking four passenger airliners. Two of the airplanes American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines 175 were crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Centers in New York City. American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon which collapsed the

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    Healthcare reform The issue of mandating healthcare has been a hot topic for many years in the US government. Even though there is no mention of the right to healthcare in the United States Constitution. Some speculate that it is implied under the 14th Amendment‚ which states in the first section that no state shall deprive any citizen of life‚ liberty‚ or property without due process of law. Some argue that the government is violating the 14th Amendment by not making healthcare available to people

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    racial inequality against African Americans in the United States prison system is one of the largest issues to take place for many years. In the nineteen-thirties‚ blacks were three times more likely to be imprisoned than whites. In the nineteen-nineties the ratio increased to more than seven times that of whites. Til this day‚ this country has about three hundred million people‚ with two million people behind bars. But within those two million people‚ African Americans - black men‚ in particular‚ are

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    seaboard‚ disease played a large roll in the South – disease was apt to grow rampant in the warmer climes. As far as development‚ growing the economy through the means available (namely tobacco) meant that more labor would be needed. The Native Americans did not prove to be reliable labor because they mostly died when having come in contact with diseases their immunities were unprepared to conquer. Indentured servitude became commonplace‚ since slaves were then too expensive and England had a surplus

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