Sometimes mandatory minimum sentences are the consequences of good intentions‚ but good intentions do not always make beneficial policy in society. One of the famous senior associate justice of the supreme court of the United have said the truth of federal mandatory sentencing‚ in which I used this quotation to relate to the topic that I’m about to discuss. “The Federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines‚ I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom
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Chairman‚ Ladies and Gentlemen Today’s motion is school students should face a mandatory drug testing session. That is‚ students have to be drug tested. I support the motion because such scheme protects both students and the whole society. I will put forward 2 strong reasons today about the advantages of this mandatory scheme. Firstly‚ it serves as a strong deterrent. Drug abuse remains a serious problem in schools. Many anti-drugs campaigns implemented by the government were ineffective
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Discrimination and Mandatory Retirement - Joyce Cook The mandatory retirement age controversy should be re-examined and redefined further. Baby boomers are very different from their predecessors; they are living longer‚ maintain lifestyles that are more active and are generally better able to continue working than in the past. The real challenge is the reality of how the insufficient number of young people will fill the vacancies left by the aging workforce. Mandatory retirement may be
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Mandatory Foreign Language Classes To communicate with others in another language is crucial‚ especially with our ever-changing society. The amount of immigration is increasing immensely nevertheless; the job market is becoming more competitive. As citizens of the United States‚ we need to be able to efficiently communicate with international clients‚ and to do so‚ another language should be required. The problem is most Americans don’t know a second language‚ consequently this negatively affects
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Mandatory arrest laws were put into place in efforts of deterring and reducing the amount of activity in regards to domestic violence. However‚ recent research has shown that domestic violence arrest rates are higher than what they were when they had first implemented such practices. Domestic violence can be seen as being a very complex and complicated issue within our society. We have issues with what can or is considered domestic violence due to the following types of relationships that are becoming
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Mandatory systems are known to reduce the frequency of cases with errors besides of working upon a State Law. Innumerable hospitals agree with the mandatory‚ nonconfidential system that is governed by the State. This type of system is recognizable by processing internal incidents and reporting to a competency. In addition‚ nonconfidential system is acknowledged for encouraging lawsuits. In counterpart‚ the mandatory‚ confidential system‚ the error committed
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The Use of Mandatory Overtime in Staffing Shortfalls: An Analysis of Policy Goals and Options Timothy J. Clark St. Joseph’s College of Maine July 25‚ 2012 Context In spite of legislative measures to attempt to correct it‚ the issue of nurses working mandatory overtime continues. The primary problem with mandatory overtime is that‚ as reported by Garret (2008)‚ it leads to increased potential for nursing errors or near misses due to fatigue‚ and to diminished quality of patient care even
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Ting-Che Cheng Professor: Class/course: Date: Making Military Services Mandatory Military service provides young people with the opportunity to develop and become stronger not only physically‚ but also mentally. Both physical and mental developments are highly beneficial to the young people. Military training provides a lot of benefits such as mental toughening‚ physical conditioning‚ and an opportunity to promote equality among the old and the young members of the society. The issue
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The Ending of Mandatory Retirement in Ontario As of December 12‚ 2006 Ontario residents can decide for themselves whether they want to continue working past the age of 65 or whether they want to terminate their employment and start to enjoy their retirement. In Ontario‚ a new law‚ Bill 211 came into effect “Ending of Mandatory Retirement Statue Law Amendment Act of 2005.” The bill was given Royal Assent on December 12‚ 2005 however in order to allow employers time to make the necessary provisions
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“saving third world countries” to how they’re “killing our world”. Mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is something that many are pushing for the government to make mandatory. However they have been proven to pose no serious risks to human health or the environment. Consequently the cost of the labels is more than the benefit that they would provide‚ so is it really necessary. The journal article On Mandatory labeling with special reference to genetically modified organisms
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