If there was anything you as a community leader could possibly do to prevent sickness or death among your residents would you do it? In Louisiana there are six parishes surrounding Orleans parish which is New Orleans that have problems or worries about amoeba’s being present in their water supply. It seems in order that I explain what an amoeba is so you know what all the fuss is about. Also‚ I am going to discuss my opinion about what and why the parishes take certain precautions. To keep all residents
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Cradle to Cradle In this book the authors and environmentalists William McDonough and Michael Braungart discuss how very un-eco friendly are the people that design our world‚ from our buildings to the products we use and consume. They talk about how our solutions for our environmental problems‚ such as recycling‚ are basically just a band-aid fix for broken bone. They discuss the negative effects that our daily lives have on our environment and offer some solutions of their own to help counteract
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The school-to-prison pipeline targets inner city kids and makes it nearly impossible for them to finish school and have success. Overbearing police presence and zero-tolerance policies give the affected children a disadvantage and forces them to work twice as hard to get half as far. Through less criminalization of children of color and less use of the police force the school-to-prison pipeline can be decreased and ultimately stopped. A zero-tolerance policy was vastly adopted following the 1999
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the school to prison pipeline. School to Prison Pipeline The school to prison pipeline‚ is a term used to describe the alarmingly increasing number of students having contact with the juvenile criminal court systems‚ because of the implemented zero tolerance policies
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It is obvious that being expelled or suspended from school in early age will effect the students negatively later in life‚ but what is it the reasons behind the students getting expelled? In Christopher Mallet’s essay; “The school to prison pipeline”‚ he states “Many students have been increasingly suspended and expelled due to criminalizing both typical adolescent developmental behaviors as well as low-level type misdemeanors: acting out in class‚ truancy‚ fighting‚ and other similar offenses” (15)
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os t 9-607-003 REV: FEBRUARY 7‚ 2008 DEISHIN LEE rP LIONEL BONY Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental Sustainability yo We put Herman Miller’s corporate environmental goal quite simply: to become a sustainable business— manufacturing products without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations.” — Herman Miller website No tC op Drew Schramm‚ senior VP of Supply Chain Management‚ reflected on the irony
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School-to-Prison Pipeline The school-to-prison pipeline plagues schools and youth across the country‚ specifically targeting minority and disabled students in urban areas. Due to policies employed in schools across the United States‚ students are channeled directly from the school system into the criminal justice system. Many of these schools have metal detectors‚ law enforcement officers in the buildings and intense zero-tolerance policies that treat minor and major infractions with extreme severity
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The school-to-prison pipeline theory “suggests that early involvement in school discipline is a clear predictor of future problems” (p. 7) with the justice system (Office of the State Superintendent of Education‚ 2013). The most common practice associated with this theory is zero-tolerance policies that are implemented nationwide in schools. A zero-tolerance policy in a school is the rigorous enforcement of rules and bans against unwanted behaviors and possession of items (Office of the State Superintendent
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Pipeline Argumentative Enbridge‚ the world leader in crude oil pipelines‚ proposed a pipeline running from a tar sand oil plant in Bruderheim‚ Alberta to Kitimat‚ British Columbia. If passed‚ this pipeline will ship hundreds of barrels of oil a day to a port in Kitimat‚ where the majority will be shipped to Asia. Enbridge claims that there will be large economic benefits (jobs)‚ especially local. However‚ there a many risks‚ economical‚ environmentally‚ and negative health effects such as weakness
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Justin Peters Period 1 Satire 2/19/13 Cat’s Cradle In Cat’s Cradle the narrator John winds his way through the events that eventually lead to the destruction of the human race. Life to John is a quest; a quest that is defined finally by his new found religion Bokononism. He feels that everyone in his life revolves around him as they all search for something of meaning in their lives; this group is called a karass. Life is a gift that is never solicited and often unappreciated after given
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