Fiscal Cost of the Collateral Consequences of Incarceration: • 68 Million Americans have a criminal record. • These criminal records affect the ability of individuals to receive meaningful employment after being released in our current societal structure‚ costing the U.S. economy up to $65 billion in lost output per year and decreasing the overall employment rate by as much as 0.8 to 0.9 percentage points. Success of Reentry Initiatives/Programs for Adults: • Gaining meaningful employment post-incarceration
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What are some future consequences of borrowing too much debt? The weight of debt is forcing many to put off saving for retirement‚ getting married‚ buying homes and putting aside money for their own children’s educations. Heavy student debts may also keep young adults from starting businesses. Some graduates will refuse to risk what little money they have on entrepreneurial ventures. And securing loans will now be harder. How do you plan on repaying your student loans? I have Stafford loans
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Deforestation and its Consequences On page 270 in our book it talks about deforestation. This topic really hit home with me as I have helped on a tree farm for 15 years. Our book talks about how we have lost 1% of our forests in North America between 1990 and 2010‚ even though this seems like a small amount (5 million hectares‚ or about 12.3 million acres) it is a big impact on the diversity in North America. In an article I found online about deforestation in North America‚ Deforestation refers
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The Consequence of Pride In the short story “Popular Mechanics” written by Raymond Carver‚ there is a theme of a down falling battle of pride shown a between two characters. First the mood of the story is set within the setting. The snow from winter has begun to melt and turn to dirty water signifying the changing tone of the story and it has fallen dark. There has also been a turning point internally with the characters. In the beginning there is a man packing and a women crying and hysterically
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Mack Micera Micera.mack@gmail.com Com 212 November 17‚ 2014 Picture and its Consequences Draft In life I believe that people must try and adapt to situations and make the best of them. I will show this in action through a young orphan who just received new shoes The main conflict is between the orphan and his parents who recently put him up for adoption The point of view character will be the orphan I want my audience to realize that although things may change for the worse you
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Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown – A Review ‘Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown’ is a Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodovar ‚ starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Bendaras . This film was filmed in 1988 and was close to winning an Oscar for best foreign language film. Its actual title is “un ataque de nervios" which can be literally translated into the English title as given above. The film is about Pepa Marcos‚ a TV actress‚ who is depressed because her boyfriend Ivan has recently
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worship‚ freedom to live a full and abundant life are denied to Africans through the activities of Imperialists.” (Document 3) The effect of the white men’s abuse in Africa was so excessive to the point that even today‚ Africans are still facing the consequences with and extremely large impact‚ seen in their economies‚ governments and overall functioning of such
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Walberg ‚John Lianas English 201 September 18‚ 2012 Morality and its Consequences’ Middle-English poems written during various points throughout the twelfth‚ fourteenth‚ and fifteenth centuries often involve King Arthur. The works are called Arthurian accounts and Arthurian romance; they place emphasis on the Arthurian Court or Chivalry. Two Poems‚ Marie de Franc’s “Lanval” and The Perl Poet’s “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight”‚ written between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries tell different
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Furthermore‚ bisphenol A is a controversial substance that can be found in most of our daily plastic products‚ from liquid bottles to food containers. Many scientific debate papers are being written over this chemical substance concerning its effects and consequences of consuming it‚ as being exposed to BPA is inevitable nowadays because this chemical is available almost everywhere. Not to be confused with bisphenol F and bisphenol S‚this term paper is going to broadly discuss bisphenol A as it is an important
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Unknown Consequences Throughout Kindergarten until roughly 9th grade‚ my parents were always complimented by my teachers on how well I could distract other students. Each teacher had a different “discipline” method. Interestingly enough‚ they all had one trait in common‚ writing. Writing “I will not ______” hundreds of times. Writing all the “A” words in the dictionary and their definitions until my hour detention was up. My all-time favorite was when I would have to copy random papers my teacher
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