police officers have broad discretionary powers. This applies equally to delinquencies as well as juvenile crimes. The action a police officer will take depends on various factors such as the behavior of a juvenile and/or the officers observations of suspicious activities and so on. Law enforcement officers are encountering a number of delinquent behaviors among children. Offenses can range from small status offenses to serious crimes. Officers’ discretionary power is allowing them to either reprimand
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Using concrete examples‚ compare and contrast power and authority.... Power and authority are some of the basic concepts used in the study of Politics. This essay will focus on defining these concepts‚ and will also discuss the similarities and differences between the two. It will commence with a general discussion of these fundamentals‚ after which it will elaborate on these definitions by using examples to compare and contrast them. Power is the specific ability to get things done;
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POWER CALCULATION Power is the quantity work has to do with a force causing a displacement. It is the rate at which work is done. (http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/energy/u5l1e.cfm) We can calculate power with using the following equation. In this experiment I calculated my power with Power (watt)=mass (kg) *gravitational acceleration (m/s2)*height(m)/time (s) I made the experiment with my controller for getting more reliable datas.I calculated my power with cliambing upstairs and
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The Power of Travel My name is Melanie Vandebrake I was born in Idaho although my mother grew up in Utrecht a city in northern Holland. My mother has always been the one to show me my heritage and teach me the Dutch language. I believe in the power of travel. As a child I remember playing with all the children in my grandparent’s neighborhood. We would put all of our toys‚ blankets and pillows into a red wagon and decide we were going on a trip. Although the farthest we ever ventured was to the
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Writing Ms. martin Super Powers We have all dreamt about having super powers and how awesome that would be. When reading books or movies with characters with super powers its almost impossible not to wish you had the same ability! When we were all little kids we all thought‚ “If I jump high enough I can fly!” We now know that isn’t true but all kind of wish it was. There are so many different powers from flying to walking on water there’s basically a power for everything! But‚ if I had to
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you about the power of prayer. While the reality of the topic has overwhelmed me this week‚ I have also been faced with the reality that‚ for the great majority of believers‚ the power of prayer is just something to talk about. The power of prayer is something we claim to believe but have never experienced. We nod our heads in agreement to its claims‚ but seldom take hold of it‚ except in times of extreme distress. We preach about praying‚ pray about praying‚ talk about praying‚ teach about praying
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unusual practices seen especially at the organizational level. Most researchers and scholars have taken Hofstede studies on culture as a basis for their research‚ as I did in my PhD study‚ but not taking it for granted where I concentrated upon the power distance aspect‚ and had gone through the critiques of Hofstede. The reason I (with all respect to the findings of Hofstede studies)‚ do not see such studies are feasible is based upon the fact that Hofstede studies are only addressing the hard-wiring
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Knowledge is More Powerful than Power There are many ways to be a leader‚ someway leads to a good future; someway is a dead ending. "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open‚ and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives." (Theodore Roosevelt). Like what Roosevelt said‚ leader and boss are different. Leader means use knowledge and skill let people follow and boss means use power let people follow. Creon and Prospero are the leaders in
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What is the extent of presidential power?” This is a question that has been debated in the United States since the days of founding the nation. It could be because throughout history‚ the president has a deep understanding of the government and what it entails. Stepping back to when Americans were just colonists‚ they dealt with specific situations that made them question their lives as they knew it. Awake from a revolution‚ the founders of America were concerned with an executive official‚ one that
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Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances • Analyze how the U.S. Constitution implements separation of powers and checks and balances. Briefly explain why the constitutional framers based the new government on these ideas. Evaluate how separation of powers and checks and balances are working out in practice‚ today‚ justifying your assessments with persuasive reasoning and examples. “The ancient political philosophers‚ particularly Aristotle‚ believed that a successful republic could best be
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