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    A problem that is overlooked in society to where the need to help these youth is neglected. If youth with disabilities were help more‚ than this particular group would not have a huge increase in correction facilities. In Kvarfordt‚ Purcell‚ and Shannon’s article of "Youth with Learning Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: A Training Needs Assessment of Detention and Court Services Personnel" (2005)‚ talks about the roles of corrections personnel in their pursuit to helping

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    Male and female have the same basic human need to be understood by others to communicate. We might not agree with every theory of the differences between male and female communication‚ but we do notice some differences from their speech styles to the real goal of their speech as well as their physical aligment when it’s time to talk. Deborah Tannen‚ linguistics professor and author of You Just Don’t Understand‚ believes that men and women differ in the focus‚ or driving force‚ behind their

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    In business world‚ people tend to choose male more than female as their boss. I personally agree with them because of some reasons. First of all‚ the effectiveness of work. If we compare between male and female‚ the result will show that male is more effective on doing business than female because male directly goes to the main point. When males go to a mall and have a plan to buy sport shoes for example. They will directly go to the sport station and buy them without having to choose for a

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    “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently”-Deborah Tannen “Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology”-Judith Lorber Equality by definition means: The state of being equal‚ especially in status‚ rights‚ and opportunities. (Oxford Dictionary) Both Deborah Tannen author of “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently” and Judith Lorber‚ author of “Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology” discuss equality issues between male and female gender in their pieces‚ and both agree

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    Modern Times blurred the modernized social norms and expectations pertaining to gender roles and rules that were associated with the first half of the twentieth century. The two primary characters of the film‚ the male tramp and the female gamin‚ were each characterized with gender specific qualities and characteristics that purposefully contradicted each character’s sex. Essentially there was a gendered role-reversal between the man and the woman throughout most of the film. At first it would

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    CJS/220 Cayla Flowers April 27‚ 2014 Juvenile crime rates in the United States fell to a new 32-year low in 2013. In 2012 there were around 60‚000 violent crime arrests involving youths under the age of 18. From 2011 to 2012 there was a 10% decline in the number of youth arrests for all four offenses‚ which contributed to an overall drop of 36 percent since 2003. In 1994‚ police reported 500 violent youth crime arrests for every 100‚000 10-17-olds in the population. In 2008‚ the arrest rate

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    Juvenile detention centers were officially established in the United States in 1898 in Chicago‚ Illinois. Before this‚ minors were tried as adults in the criminal justice system. This change was founded on the two basic principles that minors should not be expected to receive the same punishments as an adult would‚ because they have not fully developed‚ and that the court system should focus on rehabilitation for the young children. The juvenile detention system established‚ was supposed to be quite

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    Male Vs. Female Friendships How different is a friendship with a woman from the one with a man? What do you prefer? Are they the same kind of friendship or does it depend on the person? I have my own opinions to compare and contrast about these two kinds of friendships‚ such as confidence‚ places to go out and the way of thinking. Confidence is very important to establish in a friendship. Confessing something is difficult but when you have someone important who can listen to you and give you

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    Period 2 18 February 2015 The Controversies in Juvenile Justice Each year‚ thousands of adolescents in the United States have been tried and sentenced to life in prison without parole‚ a punishment that has many of its own controversies. Debates are held on whether or not these kids should be tried and sentenced in the same way that adults are tried and sentenced. Many justices say that since children are emotionally‚ physically and mentally different than adults‚ they should never be tried in the same

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    Background One theory developed by psychologists working within the biological approach is the idea that males have better spatial ability than females. Spatial ability is the ability to mentally manipulate 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures. One way in which spatial ability can be operationalised is in the form of mental rotation test. A mental rotation test requires participants to identify rotated versions of a target stimulus. Mental rotation usually takes place in the right cerebral hemisphere

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