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    "Why do people resort to violence?" "Who shot me? You punks didn’t finish; now you’re about to feel the wrath of a menace‚ I hit em’ up." A quote from late Tupac Shakur and most young men’s anthem and golden rule they live by. Each factor of a person’s life or make up can affect and be affected by another factor. Peer pressure‚ drugs and alcohol‚ lack of intelligence‚ negligence in the home‚ revenge‚ and abuse can cause psychological problems. When the accumulation of negative factors

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    In my investigation I will investigate reasons why people work and why people would be in business. I will investigate advantages and disadvantages looking at limited companies to being self employed and working within the public and private sector’s. My Investigation will be mainly constructed around my parents. My dad was a self employed builder for about fifteen years and has in the last few years become a limited company. My mum is a personal services assistant for the NHS and has been for around

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    Compare and contrast the ideas put forward by classicist and positivist criminologists to explain why people commit crime. Firstly I am going to look at classicism and assess what arguments they put forward as to why people commit crime. I will now observe the ideas put forward by positivism when it comes to explaining reasons why people crime. “However one important problem with twin studies is the lack of clarity about the sort of characteristics that are supposed to be passed on. This is important

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    Critically evaluate the claim that people commit crime as a result of socio-economic inequality.Critically evaluate the claim that people commit crime as a result of socio-economic inequality. Word Count – 2‚849 It is a global fact that crime is most rife in areas of extreme poverty and lower-working class‚ and has been for many centuries. This essay will delve into many theories to assess whether the varying rates of crime in different societies and groups of social status are a result of

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    many of the people caught up in the criminal justice system are low income‚ racial and ethnic minorities‚ often forgotten by society‚” Besides juveniles‚ what other age group is experiencing unprecedented incarceration rates? Does this surprise you? Why or why not? Another age group experiencing unprecedented incarceration rates is with very elderly people. Yes‚ it surprises me very much. I was not expecting to read that at all. I guess mainly because I figured that most elderly people would have

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    an immense amount of despair that it outweighs the hope that is left in the world. The reasons as to why that is deals with the homeless population‚ racism‚ and war. To be homeless means to have no home or permanent place of residence. It affects hundreds of thousands of people today. In the United States alone 750‚000 people experience homelessness every night. There are many reasons as to why one might become homeless in a short period of time‚ these reasons include substance abuse‚ mental illnesses

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    Why people do academic cheating Nowadays‚ academic cheating has become a prevalent phenomenon‚ and this behavior includes activities ranging from turning in the same paper in more than one class‚ to plagiarism‚ to copying from another student’s test and so on. The factors that play a major role in this phenomenon are listed as follows: the inability to reach an agreement on what constitutes academic cheating‚ the benefits to conduct academic cheating‚ and the probability to be caught in academic

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    gives us the choice to do good or evil and relates to the virtue that every person has. In Plato’s "Meno"‚ Socrates argues with Meno over what virtue really is and the true definition. At one point‚ they discuss that being virtuous is "find joy in beautiful things." The go on at length arguing what is beautiful and what is good. They also cover whether or not people actually do desire bad things or if all people desire good things. At the end they concur that people do not desire bad things

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    Why Do Guns Kill People?

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    On average over 100‚000 people are killed by guns in murders‚ assaults‚ police intervention and accidents ("Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."). Many people say that it isn’t the guns that kill people‚ it’s people‚ but this is incorrect because if people didn’t posses guns they wouldn’t be able to murder people in a simple quick way. The debate on the second amendment and gun control laws has been going on for the past couple decades in the United States. Recently deadly mass shooting have

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    Why do people choose LLC?

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    Why do people choose LLC? BUS311 Instructor: Anthony Patete Why do people choose LLC In the business world today‚ there are many competitions in the market with all the different small businesses and corporations that is hard to compete with especially when you just starting off. In the business market today there is the LLC‚ partnership and corporation options that people can choose to turn their organization in to. Most of the time‚ many

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