Short Write #1 1. Martin Luther King Jr.’s thesis in the Letter from a Birmingham Jail is repudiation of the clergymen’s disapproval of his direct action-nonviolent resistance campaign. 2. Martin Luther King Jr supports his thesis by starting out refuting the idea that he is an outside protestor that doesn’t belong in Birmingham. He was serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference‚ an organization operating in the southern states. The associate in Birmingham asked him to be
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| | | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Points Awarded | 34.00 | Points Missed | 6.00 | Percentage | 85.0% | 1. The level of significance associated with a significance test is the probability A) of rejecting a true null hypothesis. B) of not rejecting a true null hypothesis. C) that the null hypothesis is true. D) that the alternative hypothesis is true. Feedback: This level of significance‚ commonly set to α equal to 0.05‚ is used to set
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IT 218 Week 4 Checkpoint Jerimeh Jackson IT 218 August 24‚ 2012 UOP IT 218 Week 4 Checkpoint What are the definition and an example of a pointer? A pointer can be defined as a memory address. To further explain this definition‚ we declared a variable of (name). It will look much like this (int name). Every variable will occupy some memory. Now we will declare another variable to under (int name). This variable will be (int name-1)‚ and now this variable is declared as a pointer to
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Separation exists between society and the penal system‚ and due to this‚ there is a grave lack of knowledge of what is happening in prisons and how we can improve the situation we currently have in regards to the prison system. There are major flaws within the penal system‚ and Angela Davis highlighted a main one in secrecy. We know based off of research that our prison population commonly consists of individuals who struggle academically (Petersilia‚ 2003‚ pg 32). Because of this lack of strong schooling
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Prison Models There are three models of prisons that have been prominent in American since the early 1940’s: custodial‚ rehabilitative‚ and reintegration. Each model is designed differently based on its overriding goal‚ and this affects the physical design‚ policies‚ and programs that are implemented within each of the models. Custodial Model Archaic Purpose: Control‚ focus is on maintaining security and order. Goal: Punishment‚ this is the best way to provide deterrence against
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the person screaming his name. He took a step into the chaos‚ searching for the voice. Prison guards were trying to tackle him‚ but he dodged them with the little energy that the sun didn’t take earlier. He walked until he found the voice‚ Mikey’s voice. “Don’t do anything crazy!” Mikey screamed. Two men with shaved heads were dragging him away. “The cops will find you easier in a group‚ and no one knows the prison like me. We will discuss a plan.” They dragged him away into the chaos. Mikey was
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McCleskey V. ZantOn this appeal of the 1987 McCleskey case‚ the Court produced new standards designed to make it much more difficult for death-row inmates to file repeated appeals. Gregg V. GeorgiaThe 1976 Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty‚ stating‚ "It is an extreme sanction‚ suitable to the most extreme of crimes." The court did not‚ therefore‚ believe that the death sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Furman V. GeorgiaPut a moratorium
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These past few months have been pretty rough. I’ve been in jail for almost three months now‚ and it’s all because of my best friend. These jail cells are a lot less roomy than I expected. I hate being here‚ it’s crowded and it smells really bad. The beds are itty bitty‚ rock hard‚ and worst of all freezing. The toilets don’t even flush‚ and there is always some guard coming to check on me‚ so I don’t get any good sleep at night. Later throughout the day‚ as I was laying in my cold uncomfortable
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail In his letter to the eight clergymen‚ Martin Luther King effectively makes use of logos‚ pathos‚ and ethos throughout his letter. The purpose of the use of all three elements in the letter is evident and that is to help King prove his point of view and convince his readers who in this case are the eight clergymen. The use of logos can be noticed in the beginning of his letter where he gives a response to the clergymen’s claim that the demonstrations were unwise
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Chapter 2 Checkpoints Name: Amy Kunduru Checkpoint 2.1 1. What is an environmental system? It is a set of interacting components connected in such a way that a change in one part of the system affects the other parts. Name some examples. The Mono Lake is a small example. This ocean is another example. 2. How do systems vary in scale‚ and how does a large system include a smaller system? Large systems would be an interaction between smaller systems. A fish by itself is a system. The
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