"Old enough to do the crime‚ old enough to do the time." This popular refrain reduces a complex reality to simplistic rhetoric. It’s also wrong. While young people must be held accountable for serious crimes‚ the juvenile justice system exists for precisely that purpose. Funneling more youth into the adult system does no good and much harm. Juveniles are not adults‚ and saying so doesn’t make it so. Besides‚ we don’t really mean it: When we try them in criminal court‚ we don’t deem them adults
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father died. Laura lived until Bessie was only nine years old. The remaining children had to learn to take care of themselves. Her sister Viola then raised her. But it was her oldest brother‚ Clarence‚ who had the most impact on her. Clarence always encouraged Bessie to learn to sing and dance. After Clarence had joined the Moses Stokes Minstrel Show‚ Bessie got auditions. Bessie ’s career began when she was ’discovered ’ by none other than Ma Rainey when Ma ’s revue‚ the Rabbit Foot Minstrels‚ was
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Remember or Forgot Yourself: King Richard‚ Prospero‚ and Acting I. Thesis: At the end of the passage “Everything and Nothing” by Borge there is a story about Shakespeare meeting God. Shakespeare says‚ “I‚ who have been so many men in vain‚ want to be one man: myself.” A person who spends most of their life deceiving or manipulating people may become a fantastic actor‚ able to play any role that they can think of and able to make people do whatever they desire and always believe them. However‚ in
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funeral. He knew it would be the right thing to do‚ even if he was an Aboriginal or not. He walked all the way to his funeral and has to cross the Point to get there. As he crossed the Point he happened to see Clarence. He told her about how he is going to be attending Dumby’s funeral and Clarence showed him the way to the
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Drugs are a common problem here in Hawaii for many years now. The National Drug Intelligence center calls ice methamphetamine the greatest drug threat to Hawaii followed by marijuana‚ cocaine‚ heroin and the abuse of prescription drugs. The estimated range of ice meth users is anywhere from 8‚000 to 120‚000 out of the 1.2 million people. About 37.4 percent of men jailed in Honolulu are tested positive for methamphetamine in their system. The state authorities arrest an average of 1‚500 people per
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making the difference on everybody to notice life gave you a reason to live which makes a life story history changing .This was because Clarence showed george the importance of living‚When george helped his boss when he was going torward’s doing committing suicide ‚and When he noticed everyone was living a bad life since he wasn’t there. Clarence showed the importance of life to george which sooner made him realize to retake his unwisely wish . George was upset and unsure when he made the
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How far was Edward responsible for his own desposition in 1470? When Edward VI became King in 1461‚ he had to deal with some unfavourable circumstances. Edward had not executed his enemies; Henry VI‚ Prince Edward‚ or Margaret of Anjou‚ so they escaped to Scotland. This provided an alternative King for Edward’s opponents to support. He was also a usurper to the throne‚ therefore the majority of the nobility that were still loyal to Henry VI could use this to their favour. Additionally‚ Edward
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also questioned Victoria Price and Ruby Bates‚ two white women who also were hitching a ride on the train looking for work. In the hope of avoiding vagrancy and morality charges‚ the women falsely accused the nine young black men—Olen Montgomery‚ Clarence Norris‚ Haywood Patterson‚ Ozzie Powell‚ Willie Roberson‚ Charlie Weems‚ Eugene Williams‚ and brothers Andy and Roy Wright—of rape. The accused were arrested and transported to Scottsboro‚ the Jackson County seat‚ to await trial. Over the next
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decisions‚ obviously‚ this cannot be proved‚ however surely each human have the right to be responsible for any actions. This question comes down to; do we have free will or is it determinism? A key case which questioned this question would be the Darrow trial. Successfully‚ the Lawyer was able to reduce the death penalty to life imprisonment‚ blaming that it was other factors such as power that made them do this action. He therefore believed that we are all not responsible for our action other factors
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George Herbert Walker Bush was elected as the 41st president of the United States in 1989 and served one term which was completed in 1993. (stafoff 209) However he had served as vice president of the United States twice in a row under Ronald Reagan. (George Bush.) His vice presidency started in 1981 and ended in 1989. (George Bush.) He ran and was elected as president directly after his terms as vice president. (George Bush.) Many people think bush wasn’t the greatest president we have had to date
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