Queensland Mandatory Sentencing Good Morning Class‚ today I will be speaking on a issue that‚ due to recent changes in legislation has sparked both support and outrage within the greater Queensland community. The issue of course‚ being the notion of mandatory sentencing. In recent years‚ Queensland and other States‚ including New South Wales and Victoria‚ have introduced mandatory sentencing laws for certain types of offences. The Queensland Government is now proposing to adopt further mandatory sentencing
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Constitution. Strong proponents of states rights like Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were not present at this meeting. Many felt that the new constitution ignored the rights of states to continue to act independently. They felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts.
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There are lots of different reasons why children and young people could be taken away from their family and put into care; Family related reasons Bereavement; At some point in our lives we all go through bereavement but an adults ability to cope with loss is much better than that of a child if it was someone close to them. This can lead to the child not being able to concentrate properly in school which would have a negative effect on their schoolwork causing them to fall behind the other children
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Mandatory Conscription In The U.S. Should the United States have mandatory military conscription‚ and if so‚ who shall be required to serve? Military conscription will make it mandatory for citizens to serve in the military‚ usually men and women among the ages of eighteen through twenty-five. They will be required to serve at least two years. Only the able-bodied will be forced to serve. It can help to solve the economic problems are country is facing. Plus‚ it will put us on equal ground with
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Influenza Vaccine The flu shot produces the best way to reduce everyone ’s chances of getting the influenza virus‚ but previous research has shown that it does in fact cause all sorts of different side effects. The flu shot does not always prevent the virus. Sometimes it can even cause harmful side effects. Each year the flu shot affects ten to twenty percent of the US population‚ and over one hundred thousand people are hospitalized including twenty thousand deaths (Marshall). People should not receive
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Mandatory Retirement Has to Go Traditionally‚ people retire from their jobs when they reach the age of sixty-five. In some jobs‚ this is not an option but a requirement. I object to mandatory retirement for capable workers because it violates personal choice‚ discriminates against senior citizens‚ and wastes valuable skills as well as money. First of all‚ I believe that mandatory retirement violates an individual’s personal choice of continuing to work or retiring. The older working person should
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De Lorenzo 1 James De Lorenzo Mr. Misurelli U.S History II B 3 March 2013 The Reasons why the US Entered WWI The First World War erupted on the 28th of July‚ 1914 with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke. This horrific war finally ended on November 11th‚ 1918. The United States didn’t officially enter the war until April 6th‚ 1917. The US entered during the middle of the war and endured the bloody conflict to the very end. Woodrow Wilson‚ the president of the US during
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The mandatory schooling system is a topic that sparks a lot of debate. Some say that there isn’t a problem with it and others think that there is. In John Taylor Gatto’s essay “How Public Education Cripples Our Kids‚ and Why” he talks about the problems that he sees in the mandatory schooling system by using narratives and history within a different type of structure. The problem with mandatory schooling is that it allows kids to grow up and become childish and immature adults. The structure that
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our society. Mandatory Minimum Sentencing in the American Justice System has long been argued by both Lawmakers and the public. We will go over some of the history of mandatory minimum sentences as well as the many pros and cons to these types of sentences. Some examples of pros and cons are the overall effect on public safety‚ the effect on the offenders‚ the cost to taxpayers‚ the lack of discretion for Judge’s‚ and whether the law should be repealed. The history of Mandatory Minimum sentencing
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“On your desk you should only have your chromebook‚ a piece of scrap paper and a pencil. You will have 90 minutes to complete this test. You may begin.” This is an example of what students all over the country hear before they take mandatory standardized test. Standardized testing has been in the United States for about 150 years‚ but the tests have grown in use in the 21st century. Students of grades 3-12 take standardized tests each year to compare the students to each other‚ and to evaluate teaching
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