Diversity in Prison The late twentieth century is seeing a rise in racial conflict in the United States as well as on the universal stage in a broad-spectrum (Phillips & Bowling‚ 2002). Statistics indicate that racial/ethnic minorities‚ particularly black males‚ face a disproportionately high risk of incarceration in the United States. This determination is made by assessing the negative impact that incarceration can have on individuals‚ their communities‚ and the integration of minorities into
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means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English‚ to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative‚ particularly with respect to art‚ culture‚ and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo‚ primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism‚ as distinct from postmodernism. Postmodernism posits that the age of the
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that “what a word means today is what it meant in the past?” Please explain what etymology詞源學can help with today’s meaning of a word. I don’t agree because language would change gradually as the time went by. It would cause semantic and meaning change.The study of etymologies may throw light on how a present-day meaning developed or reveal something about the working of the human mind‚ but it doesn’t help in determining what a word means today. 3. What is language? Please define what language
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WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE WELFARE STATE? The question set is so broad that I shall have to be selective. I shall conduct my answer in relation to the British Welfare State. Before we can successfully understand the function of the Welfare State we must first be clear of its definition. Although I recognise that Britain has a long history of providing forms of welfare to its citizens though relief like the poor-law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries‚ I intend to look at the post-war
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United States followed the English model and were used primarily to house those inmates that were awaiting trial. The typical punishment for a crime was a fine. Those too poor to pay were confined until they worked off their debt. These were called workhouses and the inmates were typically held at the jail. Jails continued to house pretrial inmates and by the end of the nineteenth century‚ almost every United States city had constructed and operated a jail for this purpose. The state and federal
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1/ Please read the following text reproduced from Neil Postman ’s Amusing Ourselves to Death (New York: Penguin‚ 1985. 127-128): The television commercial is the most peculiar and pervasive form of communication to issue forth from the electric plug. The move away from the use of propositions in commercial advertising began at the end of the nineteenth century. But it was not until the 1950 ’s that the television commercial made linguistic discourse obsolete as the basis for product decisions.
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A2 politics Jess Waldron ‘Federal government increasingly dominates state governments in the USA.’ Discuss The United States of America have a federal constitution‚ where the President of the United States‚ Congress‚ and the judiciary share powers‚ and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. This is the stark opposite to the unitary system in the UK where sovereignty lies in parliament and some powers are given to local assemblies. There are many types of
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Prison Issues [pic] While prisons house a number a social outcast‚ misfits and some all around dangerous people‚ they face a number of problems as well. The prison agencies are taking steps to deal with health threats from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Justice Department reported that twenty-two thousand four hundred eighty state and federal inmates were infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)‚ the virus that causes AIDS. Another issue prisons are facing is dealing
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What are the pros and cons of the Federal Reserve? Make sure you discuss this from a public choice‚ knowledge problem and macroeconomic perspective. Should the fed remain independent or should it be subject to congressional (executive authority)? Alternatively‚ should it be abolished? If so what would a fed-less world look like? a. The benefits of the Federal Reserve are that it creates a notion of stability in the financial industry. The Federal Reserve was created to lessen the frequency of bank
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