One can find it difficult to explain to another person that it is a necessity or cruel and unusual punishment to deprive criminals of a sex change. The public can take into consideration that if jails or prisons were withholding medication from those who were transgender prior to incarceration could be argued as a violation of the eighth amendment. However‚ seeking the public to pay for the initial process of becoming a different sex and using the law against
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In Ann Petry’s‚ The Street‚ Lutie Johnson struggles to live the American Dream with her son Bub. Lutie see the American Dream as owning her own home‚ having a good job and keeping her son Bub out of trouble. It is not easy for Lutie to achieve this dream during the 1940’s because she is single African American mother. When moving to 116th Street Lutie noticed how the people who live on this street are trapped and they do not have a choice weather to leave or not because they are being controlled
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After reading the Monkey Wrench Gang‚ by Edward Abbey‚ I find myself questioning the moral and philosophical aspects of eco-sabotage. Is it right? Is it helping? I find myself unclear on where I stand on the issue. If it were me‚ would I be out there on the front lines? Or would I fall back‚ and stand by the safety of everyday life? I find myself thinking that I would be out there‚ but I wouldn’t follow the example of those in the book. To me‚ they didn’t have their reasoning‚ or their strategies
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A Prisoners Worksheet Complete the worksheet by writing short responses to the questions in each row. |How would you differentiate male and female |Men will join a gang and become a unit where women tend to be on there own or in a | |prisoner backgrounds? Is there a better |small group not so much like a gang. Women are also more suicidal than men and like | |solution to prisoner background |to cut themselves to relive stress.
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their interest. Many students’ street smarts greatly surpass their book smarts. I believe that instructors can strengthen students’ book smarts by encouraging them to write‚ read‚ think‚ and learn about personal areas of interest. They can accomplish this by taking students on field trips so they actively experience what their learning in the class room‚ and use these “street smarts” to build a stronger foundation of what their trying to teach. So what exactly are street and book smarts? There are
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Gangs. This is what is portrayed in SE Hinton ’s novel‚ The Outsiders. Two different gangs from opposite ends of the social ladder clash in this epic novel of social tension between two rival groups‚ the Socs and the Greasers. The main character‚ 14-year-old Ponyboy‚ is a Greaser who lives under the cycle of poverty and endless pressure from the Socs. They are the upper class Westside crowd who are accepted in society. The Greasers‚ in contrast‚ struggle to put food on the table and are social outcasts
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Umair Zia Houghton English June 30th‚ 2013 Book Smart vs. Street Smart In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff discusses the topic of book smart versus street smart. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work‚ while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. He persuades his views
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Memo Date: March 27‚ 2013 To: Federal Bureau of Prisons From: Karrington C Norris Subject: Overcrowding of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Introduction Within the juvenile correctional facilities community‚ there are public and private institutions that both experience and suffer from similar problems. The problems that face these facilities are overcrowding. Through close comparison of the major issues with juvenile correctional facilities‚ the institutions are revealed to be ineffective
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IS STREET CRIME MORE HARMFUL THAN WHITE COLLAR CRIME? Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? By general definition‚ a crime is a wronging‚ proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a culture‚ our concept of crime is usually
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Rehabilitation vs. Prison: The Pregnant Addict Imagine a woman pregnant and in prison. She is in prison because she is an avid drug abuser. She has no family‚ no emotional or psychological support and most importantly she has no hope. This woman has spent most of her life in and out of prison‚ and unfortunately she delivered eight drug-addicted children in prison. The mother is still in prison; the children are now a part of the system. This is a true story. Everyday thousands of babies are
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