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    Delinquency Deterrence Punishment for violating the laws can be lenient or they can be harsh‚ and they can be used to prevent others from committing crimes as well as deterring people from becoming repeat offenders. People assume that juveniles are not rational beings; meaning that they do not know the difference between right and wrong and that they do not understand the consequences following their actions‚ however that assumption is wrong because juveniles can be deterred from committing

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    Shapley | Civil Law v. Criminal Law | Introduction to Criminal Law | Joanna Solis 3/2/2012 | Only a few people actually know “the law”. Others think that the criminal justice system is a body that only has one set of rules and laws and all act the same. Not to mention that because of television they think that every case is tried at criminal court with a judge and a panel of jurors. However that is not the case because there’s two specifically types of lawcivil and criminal law. Though both

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    The extent to which the Second Amendment applies and the particular laws that go hand in hand with it have long been contested by Americans. One of the more recent debates regarding it involves the Stand Your Ground laws. These laws outline that citizens have “No duty to retreat from the situation before resorting to deadly force; not limited to your property (home‚ office‚ etc.)” (“States That Have” Par. 3). These laws have been fiercely contested primarily due to the incident involving George

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    Civil disobedience is essential to people power movements. Demonstrations and strikes give power to citizens in their dealings with governments. But suck tactics may lead to violence and chaos. Under what conditions‚ if any‚ is civil disobedience justified? Is it justified in a democracy like Canada? Was it justified at Tiananmen Square? Explain your answer. When it comes to civil disobedience‚ I believe it is justified when the leader ignores the needs of the people‚ and only thinks of them selves

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    1. What do you consider to be "inedible"? According to the textbook‚ the word inedible is poisonous or are not eaten because of strong belief or taboos. Food or things that I consider to be inedible would be poisonous animals‚ fungus‚ or an animal that died from a disease. 2. What do you consider to be "edible by animals‚ but not by me"? Animals love to eat any living things as long as they are below their food chain. Natural selection plays a very big part because every animal craves the excitement

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    (Thoreau 386). This line has the most meaning to be me because one person cannot change the world alone‚ they would need help. What one person can do though is turn a minority into a majority. I could also take this to mean that while being surrounded by all those who have fallen victim of the government and its “mind control” we could have very little to no say in the goings on of the government‚ the majority being everyone in favor of what the government has decided to do next and the minority obviously

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    What do you consider to be your greatest achievement thus far? Please share this with us in about 500 words. My greatest achievement would probably be my good academic results during my three years of polytechnic studies. How and Why those three years of studies end up as my greatest achievement thus far are probably due to my academic results between the time in secondary school and the time in polytechnic. I also believe that those three years in polytechnic change my mentality towards studying

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    Cyberspace World War – CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT 2012 Twitter‚ Facebook‚ Multiply‚ Tumblr‚ Wattpad‚ Youtube‚ Myspace‚ and other social-networking sites and blogs have been protesting last month all because of one law. It was just all because of one republic act that they did not even tried to read completely‚ the CYBERCRIME LAW. As written in the order of the congress‚ the Republic Act No. 10175‚ also known as the “Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012” recognizes the importance of providing an

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    Q) Whyhistoricallyhas the soft drink history been so profitable? The soft drink industry is profitable as these drinks can be easily produced and that to with very less cost‚ so they followed a low cost strategy and by doing so they were able to earn huge profit margins and more quantity means more profit. They were also huge dealers for food chains like KFC‚ MCD etc and several other gas stations. Q) Compare the economics of the concentrate business to that of the bottling business: Why is

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    Why Do We Need Laws

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    Why do we need laws? The law controls social relations and behavior To satisfy our basic needs and to exploit the full potential of human existence‚ people have always sought to live in company or society with others‚ the basis of this existence‚ by its very nature‚ must involve social interaction. To ensure the society functions effectively and survives it is necessary to establish norms of acceptable behavior. The state may impose sanctions or punishments on those who fail to comply with

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