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    Juvenile Drug Courts

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    Drug Courts came about as a result of a backlogged court system and a steady‚ rapidly increasing prison population. Drug courts are a form of diversion that helps the offender through rehabilitation and the community through an increased sense of protection‚ which serves the best interest of everyone. Drug Courts are community based intermediate sanctions that incorporate treatment principles into the Criminal Justice System and divert drug offenders from traditional punishments of probation and

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    Bias In Oedipus The King

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    Oedipus is a king‚ running a country‚ but instead of trying to make things right by finding the person who killed former king‚ Laius‚ he sends his brother-in-law‚ Creon‚ to find out for him. When Creon comes back‚ Oedipus hope it be nothing but good news. The gods told Creon that the one responsible for King Laius murder must be exiled. Jocasta was Laius wife when Laius was murdered. Jocasta and Oedipus got married. Oedipus suspects that the gods told Creon who killed Laius‚ but he denies it. Oedipus

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    Rachel Hawkins AP Lang Tiffany Post 29 October 2013 Media Bias And Its Effect On Us: Should We Be Concerned? The existence of media and its prevalence in our every day lives has become increasingly common and‚ as a result‚ is something about which Americans should be concerned. Countless studies have been conducted in order to determine the effects of media bias on the formations of one’s opinions and values on a variety of topics. Most of these studies have displayed a correlation between

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    The implicit bias survey represents an individual’s unconscious bias. I believe these results to be unreliable because there were many factors which could alter the results. Factors that could have altered my results were being right handed or left handed and the way the questions were worded. I found some of the question difficult to understand. Before I took this quiz‚ I expected questions on the type of people I surrounded myself with‚ family backgrounds and questions pertain to race and disabilities

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    Liberal Social Media Bias

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    Although there are most definitely media biases‚ the persistent idea that the media is inherently liberal is a myth. The mainstream media does not have a liberal bias because the media outlets simply accommodate their consumers‚ conservative media bias is very evident‚ and Republicans are the main demographic that believe in liberal media bias. First off‚ media outlets cater to their consumers’ opinions and political leanings in order to maximize profit. It is

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    Gender

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    a major theme in contemporary identity informed through the help of feminism and other major groups. The term is related to but distinct from “sex” (used to refer both to the physical distinction between men and women and sexual intercourse) and “gender” (the social and cultural distinctions between men and women). Sexuality is used to refer to “erotic desires‚ practices and identities” or “aspects of personal and social life which have erotic significance” (Weeks‚ 1985). Debates on sexuality in

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    An Appellate court and lower courts are two completely different things. However‚ they do have their similarities. They both are court trails and ways to go about proving a person right or wrong. In a Appellate court‚ normally the victim has done something very wrong and they normally do not get the chance to even begin to share their side of the story of what they think happened vs. what really may have happened. Court judges believe that the outcome of the trial should have been different‚ but

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    Media Bias Research Paper

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    Media Bias We face Today Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalist and news producers within the media in the media in selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. Media Bias has been going on for quite a while and people are unaware on who’s to blame. I disagree I blame the journalist and producers for spreading the bias across the world for entertainment and money‚ it is not right and should be stopped. There are many types of media bias‚ there

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    an unbiased report. Media bias is one of the most dangerous and controversial issues in our society today. Although watchdog groups focus on preventing any type of bias in

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    Exploring Gender and Sexual Norms Being born as a male or a female is something out of individual’s hand; still gender identity will have a significant effect on that person’s life. Today’s society will strictly determine one’s abilities and limits of dreams passed on gender identity. Gender identity can be seen as one of the earliest social categories that children learn to apply to both themselves and other people. This is suggested in Schaffer’s (1996) definition where gender identity is

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