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    After reading the articles and watching the news and hearing others talk about this tragic topic on whether or not the schools‚ the parents‚ or media is the issue with school the conclusion is the individual is the one to blame. These individuals had many different resources and options to decide from in order to receive help yet the individuals made the choice to take the lives of innocent people. These children are aware of their consequences and have it set in their mind that there is no other

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    have been tried as adults and sentenced to die in prison‚ typically without any consideration of their age or circumstances of the offense. As kadish mentioned in his article‚ there are three excuses that can and should be considered when punishing a defendant. In the case of juveniles‚ these three excuses should help determined the punishment of a juvenile. Kadish believes that a person is responsible for a crime and deserves to be punished when the defendant knew what he/she was doing‚ it was

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    there is no argument for lazy‚ incompetent‚ uncaring persons that are doing a job just for a paycheck when individuals are depending on you for services; it is the Human Service Workers responsibility to provide the needed resources to clients‚ not excuses. The Human Service Worker has the responsibility to protect the individual and civil rights of the client that he or she serves. Included in those duties are ensuring that clients are directed to appropriate human resource agencies‚ assisting clients

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    responsibility will create time to get this work done. Someone who has not accepted personal responsibility will not get this assignment done at the date it is due. “Excuses are self-serving explanations‚ or accounts” (Schlenker‚ Pontari‚ & Christopher 2001) and students who have not accepted personal responsibility will create excuses. With personal responsibility you can be someone that accepts that things are not working one way and will change them to gain success. Whereas some people will

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    brief look at two different cases that have implored two different types of criminal defenses. I will look at the nature and types of defenses used in the cases and what evidence was used to demonstrate defense. I will describe how justification and excuse played a role in the cases and I will also be describing the outcome of each case. The first case that I will be examining will be in the case of the sleepwalking defense. On May 3‚ 1987‚ 23 year-old‚ Kenneth Parks‚ drove 14 miles to his wife’s

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    How Napoleon Stays in Charge Joseph Stalin was the most ruthless dictator throughout history. The book‚ Animal Farm written by George Orwell‚ was an allegory of how Stalin harshly ruled over the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. Animal farm follows a group of animals who wanted a utopia and while striving for this goal‚ made a dystopia. When the animals took over the farm‚ the leaders became the pigs since they were the most intelligent. Overtime a pig named Napoleon took complete control of Animal

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    Judging and personality traits There are people who might not appear to be the best‚ but their struggle to gain the trust and love from others is far greater than those who may appear to be the best. All mankind came from a drop of semen‚ and we will leave as a piece of dust. You do not know when we were first brought to this world and you do not know when it will be your last day. Therefore‚ you should not go walking around like you know everything. As showed by a respected person like

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    Movies Stephen King did and today were going to talk about why. Maybe he had a need to express a personal belief. Then again he could have tried to expose a part of everyone’s psyche that is often hidden from one another. Or maybe he is offering a semi-logical excuse for him to publish such horrendous stories. I will end this paragraph with how he started his “ we are all mentally ill: those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better- and maybe not all that much better‚ after all.” Are we not all

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    was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time of the shooting. He also claims that he did not intentionally aim the gun at Mrs. Ruby‚ but aimed it in the general direction due to being startled by Mrs. Ruby’s’ arrival. No matter the excuses given‚ David Lewis still took a person’s life. On April 7 of 1987‚ David Lee Lewis was found guilty and sentenced to death row for the shooting death of Mrs. Myrtle Ruby. In 1993‚ his murder conviction was reversed due to “notes from the trial being

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    always get the job done no matter what it would take. Me and Deantre basically grew up together‚ he was like a big brother to me. Tre used the football field to take out his anger from his chaotic childhood. Tre’s background influenced me to not make excuses

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