Different classes face different penalties for the same crimes. For example‚ a teenager was drinking while driving and hit and killed four people. In court‚ his attorneys pleaded that he had “affluenza”‚ a condition rich kids experience when they have access to too much wealth‚ and the teen got a reduced sentence. However‚ if any other person were to have committed the same crime‚ they would likely face an upwards of 10 years in prison with charges
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inherited 14.5 million dollars. The case became controversial when Erik and Lyle admitted to being sexually abused by their father‚ therefore being able to use the self-defense plea. The media aided the prosecution by painting them as money hungry‚ affluenza gone wrong and liars. This case also sparked the debate if males could be sexually assaulted‚ which most people believed that it was not possible. Most of the country believed that Erik and Lyle never experienced abused and wanted to see them in
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Dorothea Lynde Dix was mainly known for taking a stand for the treatment of the mentally ill. She saw that the mentally ill were living in inhumane living conditions‚ being kept in jails because of their illnesses‚ and felt that there needed to be a change. During a time where women did not even have the right to vote for their president‚ Dorothea Dix was able to convince several states to provide proper funding to build over thirty hospitals for the mentally ill across the United States. She believed
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Environmental Problems‚ Their Causes‚ and Sustainability Chapter 1 Case Study Living in an Exponential Age • Exponential growth – concept in which a quantity increases at a constant rate per unit of time • Global economic output is a rough measure of the human use of the earth’s resources • Poverty affects environmental quality‚ from the poor depleting and degrading forests‚ grasslands‚ and wildlife • Exponential growth plays a key role in five important and interconnected environmental issues:
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Unit 1 Review Environmental Science is the study of how the natural world and how the environment affects humans (and vice versa) - Interdisciplinary (natural v. social sciences) - Experiments‚ data‚ etc. Environmentalism is a social movement that tries to protect the natural world from human changes - Promoting change in behavior - Can be radical Natural resources are substances and energy source needed for survival 1. Renewable resources can be replinished a. Sunlight‚ wind‚ timber‚
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Analytical Essay Overall wellbeing‚ an extravagant lifestyle‚ and wealth all come to mind when I ponder the good life but what does the good life actually cost? At first glance‚ this seems like a loaded question that requires multiple dissertations in order to answer. I even contemplated whether or not the good life had a cost at all. Breaking the good life into separate topics relieves much of the stress when it comes to giving an answer. In terms of consumerism‚ the good life is damaging to the
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Rich v.s Poor “Where justice is denied‚ where poverty is enforced‚ where ignorance prevails‚ and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them‚ neither persons nor property will be safe”(Douglas). The American judicial system which has undergone many changes since its colonial times has evolved with the changing times to reflect a modern society‚ however even with the changes that the judicial system has undergone it still faces a key
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Biased Justice I remember this quote‚ “Equal justice under law is not just a caption on the façade of the supreme court building. It is fundamental that justice should be the same‚ in substance and availability‚ without regard to economic status‚ by Justice Lewis Powell Jr‚” when I read the cases of Edel Gonzalez and Ethan couch. On the light of above quote and the two cases (incidents that would be further discuss more) I would like to discuss the effects of rich power on the justice and how bad
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Miller Chapter 1 Reading Questions 1. Three ways that human activities are affecting the environment include our exponential increase in population and our resource consumption‚ which have degraded the air‚ water‚ soil‚ and species in the natural systems that support our lives and economies. A third way is limiting the access that other species have to resources. 2. The goals of environmental science are to learn how nature works‚ how the environment affects us‚ how we affect the environment
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Chapter 23 Multiple Choice Questions Name: ____________________________________________________________ 1) The term sustainability refers to ________. A) maintaining resource use at current or higher levels B) keeping the natural environment and human society in a happy‚ healthy and functional state C) holding or increasing the current quality of human life D) always focusing on fulfilling short‑term needs E) opposing change from current
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