minimum sentences (MMS); which are sentences that are determined by the weight of the drugs or the presence of a firearm during a felony offense. They are called mandatory because judges are forced to impose these sentences based solely on the amount of drug present without any leniency. The mandatory minimum prison sentences are a controversial way to fight the “War on Drugs” that have a conflicted history and have drastically increased prison populations and costs. Mandatory minimum sentences have
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percent of continental United States’ indigenous forest has been removed since 1600. For many years people have debated whether zoos are bad or good. There is the debate about animal cruelty to some extent because the animals are locked up in a cage where they have no freedom. And the other one is how animals in captivity is a good cause due to the dangers that are present in the wild now in days. These two points are an endless debate in which both sides are equivalent to each other.
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populations. This issue is linked to Parenti’s discussion on drugs and the “War of Drugs”. Many of prisons in the United States are over crowded because of the petty offenders and the first time offenders that have minimum mandatory sentences‚ which are outrageous sentences for these offenders. Parenti notes that “a Federal Judge sentenced a man twenty two years for beating and elderly woman to death. A few hours later the same judge sentenced a 25 year old first time drug offender‚ father of two young
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Participles A participle is a verb form used as an adjective to modify nouns and pronouns. PARTICIPLES can function as ADJECTIVES in sentences. The examples and exercises in this activity focus on present participles‚ which suggest action and come from active verbs. As adjectives‚ participles modify nouns or pronouns. They can have the following sentence positions: Adjective + Noun: I was awakened by the screaming child. (The participle modifies child.) Subject + Linking Verb + Adjective
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Case 8 500 English Sentences Scott sat looking out the window‚ watching a group of boys playing baseball in the school yard. Poor kids‚ he thought‚ they are the real losers in all of this. He looked down at a copy of 500 English Sentences and the endorsement letter on his desk. He glanced at the clock and realized that he had to have an answer for Mr. Honda within the hour. He was feeling very frustrated and stressed from the events of the past 10 days. He decided that he would go to the karate
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5 Sentences on the Big Picture • I think that the author wants you to remember or provides you‚ the foundation of a theory that allows treatment of corporations as members of the moral community‚ of equal standing with the traditionally acknowledged residents: biological human beings‚ and hence treats Wicker-type responsibility ascriptions as unexceptionable instances of a perfectly proper sort without having to paraphrase them. • In my view the author’s thesis is that corporations can be full-fledged
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Samuel Okorie 27 October 2010 Philosophy 110 bell hooks’ notion and definition of feminism In this paper‚ I will examine and expand on the meaning of feminism as put forth by bell hooks in her book “Feminism is for everybody: Passionate Politics” and her argument that the definition of feminism and the primary goal of the feminist movement is one and the same: that feminism is a movement to “end sexism‚ sexist exploitation and oppression” of all women. This is not a critical analysis of the entire
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come. It is important that a young man have real friends. b) In exclamatory sentences beginning with ‘How…’‚ ‘What…’: How strange that she be here! Suppositional mood a) In sentences beginning with: It is necessary that… It is important that a young man should have real friends. (syn. It’s likely + may/might + infinitive It was probable that I might get an excellent mark.) b) In exclamatory sentences‚ beginning with: How wonderful…! How strange…! What a shame…! How wonderful
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Critical Analysis of Bell Hooks Teaching to Transgress Education as the Practice of Freedom When the word equity comes to mind most people think of property real-estate‚ material wealth‚ or monetary gain as equity for most but seldom is it used within education. Yes‚ equity exist within education for all people but a select few may disagree‚ minority students of color don’t see education as an interest that can add value to their lives. Much good and bad can be said about
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DP 209 Degree Project F-14 Tomcat Tail Hook Safety Analysis Under Impact Load Instructor: Submitted By: Wycliffe Falconer Table of Contents Abstract ……………………………………………………………... 4 Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 5 About the Material …………………………………………………… 6 Calculations ……………………...…………………………………. 7 Analysis on Catia ……………………………………………………
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