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    Students under the age of seventeen have a curfew of 10 pm Sunday through Thursday and 12 am on Friday and Saturday. The curfew ensures that all students should have no business in a public place or out on the streets late at night. There are obviously some valid reasons why this is enforced and I am completely in favor of this decision. Many dangerous kinds of people come out late at night to see if they can get kids into some kind of trouble. Kids get kidnapped‚ raped and killed out in the open

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    this. The most expensive 2-year contract for the iPhone costs $3‚360.00. Imagine getting to keep all of that money. You’d have thousands of dollars over just a few years. Free public WiFi for the entire city is not impossible‚ and it has been done. Corpus Christi has free public WiFi for the whole city‚ and when I went there‚ I didn’t have to use 3G once. Have you ever been to one of your friends houses and had to nag them for the WiFi password? Imagine never having to know the WiFi password for anything

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    YOUTH CURFEWS: PROTECTION OR PUNISHMENT Student Name CultureWorks Course: OC1 Writing Instructor: Matt Devlin Date: April 21‚ 2011 Youth Curfews: Protection or Punishment Should teens have a night curfew? Over the past several years‚ in order to reduce juvenile crime and protect teenagers’ security‚ youth curfews are widely used in the United States. More than 300 towns have passed the local curfew laws which provide local police and authority the power to order young people under

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    interesting speech on the history on archeology in Mexico. Other than taking a history of Latin America‚ I have not studied much of the ancient cultures in Mexico‚ but I was very interested in the material Dr. Bueno went over. In her speech‚ she goes over only three of the ten-thousand archeological sites in Mexico. My favorite one she went over was on the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. I was fascinated how the city was organized and just how enormous it was. In the speech‚ she mention that the city of Tenochtitlan

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    Brittaney Weeams Mr. Dutro-Adkins 4TH Hour English November 27‚ 2012 Curfews?? Do they really work? “Yes” What is a Curfew?? Curfew is an order specifying a time after which certain regulation apply. In other words an order made by the government or your family to be home at a certain time. Many cities have imposed curfew over the past years and in most of those cities the curfews has reduced several crimes. Curfews are used to discipline and to keep young teens off the streets and out

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    Document: Herbert Hoover’s "New York City Speech" (1928) 1. What type of document is this? (Ex. Newspaper‚ telegram‚ map‚ letter‚ memorandum‚ congressional record) This document must have been excerpt from a record of Hoover’s Speech‚"New York City‚" in The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover‚ 1928. This speech was published in Palo Alto‚ CA: Stanford University Press‚ 1928)‚ pp. 149-76. 2. For what audience was the document written? Herbert Hoover is speaking to the general population

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    instating a youth curfew would be an effective way to take care of both these tasks. Whether believed or not‚ currently 146 out of 200 large cities such as Chicago‚ Illinois and Phoenix‚ Arizona now enforce teen curfews. Supporters of teen-curfew laws such as President Clinton‚ Congress members and many law-enforcement officials believe that they are "effective crime fighting tools". Declining crime rates in these 146 cities solidly back up supporters and are proof that teen-curfews would be a positive

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    have to be forced to be inside their houses by 7 o’clock P.M.! I think it should be up to your parents to give you a curfew or not. Having a curfew isn’t fun. Children from ages 16 and under should not have a curfew. For example‚ on November 2‚ 2007 a child who was concerned for his constitutional rights‚ has anonymously filed suit against the city of Rochester to have the curfew law over turned. This is what happens when stuff isn’t fair.

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    In my small town‚ the councils are proposing a curfew that all kids are to be home by 10pm. I’m a kid myself and I know for a fact that I want to be out of my house way later than 10. I guess there are reasons why we should have this but I’m going to disagree with them. Here is reasons why we shouldn’t have curfews. Kids my age normally are out till like midnight because that’s what we’re used to and that’s normal for us. They are also deciding this because they think it will prevent us from

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    City council notices that teens are getting into more trouble than usual lately so they decide its time to take action. However‚ the plain they’ve come up with isn’t very realistic. They’ve proposed the adoption of a 10:00pm curfew on weekdays and midnight on weekends. This may sound like a good idea to many council members as a way to cut down on juvenile crime‚ however how is just a curfew going to stop them if they clearly don’t care about rules‚ also‚ many teens now work late on weekdays and

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