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    In todays time most schools have a dress code. Most schools believe that dress codes help kids stay modest. Most students would beg the differ. Dress codes are not needed because they are a violation of student rights‚ distraction from the learning environment‚ and dress codes are sexist towards woman. Dress codes are offensive in a lot of different ways. Telling children how to dress is a violation of students rights. Students should be able to freely express themselves without

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    Secret of the Wild Child What were the various roles (personal and professional) played by the adults working with Genie? How did these differing roles conflict? What effect did the conflicts have on Genie? Some of the first people to have a substantial impact on Genie when she was rescued were Susan Curtiss‚ a linguistics student intent on helping her learn to communicate‚ and James Kent‚ Genie’s psychologist and caretaker. There was a lot of controversy over whether or not Genie was mentally

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    felt as if I had a family. A real family. For the longest time we were on our own. No Mom‚ no Dad. Just each other. We had no one to tuck us in at night‚ no one to tell us bedtime stories‚ none of that. As soon as Bianca died I left camp. I couldn’t face Percy. I haven’t been back to Camp since. I spent most of my time at Camp Jupiter with my half-sister Hazel‚ but today is the day. The day I’ve been dreading for months. The day that I have to go back to Camp Half Blood.

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    Racial Tension in Crash

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    racial anxiety in society. Throughout the film‚ different races collide with each other‚ creating conflicts that are a constant part of today’s culture. Although it gives examples of many different races conflicting‚ it appears that the main focus is between blacks and whites. Crash reinforces the idea of racial tension between blacks and whites‚ which influences the viewer to believe that conflict between races is continuously occurring. However‚ it then breaks down the barriers of these stereotypical

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    During the 17th century‚ the combined New England colonies formed a virtual puritan commonwealth. The entire social and political system they established was built on the puritan religion. It was a mans world within this so called puritan commonwealth. Women did not participate in town meetings or had no authority to make decisions within the church. Puritan women were to be seen‚ but not heard. Rather than demanding their rights and rebelling against authority‚ women had their ways of being heard

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    Colonists Before 1763

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    Before 1763‚ the colonists of America were doing completely fine underneath the rule of the British Empire. Throughout the years many events took place that started an ideological struggle over the concept of government within North American colonies. The Writs of Assistance‚ Proclamation Line of 1763‚ and the British Army were the events that set in motion the resistance. However‚ the events the actually carried out their independence were‚ the Stamp Act‚ the Townshend Crisis‚ the Tea Act‚ Lexington

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    The portrayal of the Puritan society is negative. The Puritans had different beliefs of society‚ religion‚ and the family structure. They believed men were the head of the house and made all the important decisions. They felt the women were just there to take care of the housework and kids. The family structure they had kept everyone on the right path with God and any lechery or any kind of sexual sin was punished severely. Some women found guilty for any kind of crime‚ in extreme cases were put

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    Running head: INTELLIGENCE-LED POLICING INTELLIGENCE-LED POLICING AND CIVIL LIBERTIES Capella University June 18‚ 2010 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The Early Years of Intelligence-Led Policing Intelligence units within law enforcement organizations of the early 1920s‚ adopted the dossier or [database system] that was developed and perfected by the military (Carter‚ 2005). Intelligence files are simply dossiers; they are files based on the collection and/or gathering of raw data received─in

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    Christmas that means a lot to her. This will help escalate the tension and define the stakes for Penny. Right now the stakes are mild – no Christmas‚ but the audience needs something more than this. Put the focus more on Penny versus her father. As structured‚ it feels more like his goal vs. Penny’s goal. He’s the one who wants to be reunited with his sister. The stakes feel higher for him. He’s the one with the greater inner conflict about his past versus Penny. So maybe the hook is a kid who hates

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    Puritans Role Model

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    Plymouth Colony‚ the Puritans settled from the native England to the US‚ immigrated to begin with the new world – civilization. In the new world‚ I believe the role of the leader was the role model of keeping and maintaining simple life and separation from the world for Puritan societies. What it means to be a Puritan‚ and how its Puritans lived. The article was written between 1632 and 1682 about the laws about Puritans and a way of life from childbearing to local communities. Some of the laws were

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