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    Prison Systems and The Law Jody BUS 311 Business Law 1 Final Assignment Week 5 Instructor Samantha Hodapp January 8‚ 2013 Prison Systems and the Law Prison’s have been around for two centuries; beginning in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. The prisons system’s back then were much different then they are today. In the 1700’s it was common custom for the jailer or sheriff to provide a bar‚ charging inflated prices to the prisoners for spirits

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    How Does The Constitution Work and How Does it Affect You? The president is the chief executive and is charged with enforcing the laws. The heads of all the government departments report to him. He is responsible for managing the government and spending the money that congress appropriates. He is the commander in chief of the armed forces but is a civilian. He can‚ with the advice and consent of the Senate‚ negotiate treaties and appoint justices of the Supreme Court and judges of lower courts

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    addicted so fast. Heroin unlike so many drugs have all sorts of ways it can be used‚ some are faster acting than others. Heroin can be injected‚ snorted‚ smoked‚ or even used as a suppository‚ all of which allow the users body to feel the drugs affect much faster. With being such a fast acting drug it makes any user want it more and more which makes them become addicted that much faster. (Addiction‚ 2014) As for who can become addicted to Heroin. Anyone from all walks of life. Even some

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    Commissary system work The historical significance of commissary system work‚ by money being sent by families‚ often include of visits. In 1930‚ they authorized and established a commissary at each federal institution. It impact today‚ by while incarcerated‚ prisoners are provided meals‚ basic clothing‚ and a few very basic personal care items. Prisoners can act like normal citizens‚ with trust fund money to purchase additional supplies from the prison commissary. Commissary system work shows it

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    Ju‚ Tae Rough Draft Let’s Make a Deal “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses” The theme throughout Bessie Head’s “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses” has to do with conflict and a resolve between characters. The conflict concerns two characters‚ one prisoner who goes by the name Brille‚ and the new warder‚ Jacobus Stephanus Hannetjie. Brille is a political prisoner incarcerated in a particular work span with other prisoners; the work span is called Span One. This story is filled with a few situations

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    allegory of oral tradition. Hard Rock is‚ after all‚ a legend to all the prison inmates‚ and his exploits can only travel by word of mouth. That is perhaps why ‘WORD’ is given so much importance in the third stanza. It brings attention to the fact that all legend/folktales/myths were originally passed down orally. The use of slang: "nigger"‚ "indian"‚ "son of a bitch" gives the piece its edge; the gritty‚ harsh reality of prison life. This poem is very psychological‚ for it examines the emotional

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    The Prohibition Era is known as the time alcohol consumption and production was banned in the United States‚ it lasted from 1920 to 1933 but it still affects society today. The prohibition mostly put Chicago and its citizens in a worse situation‚ although there was great support. Instead of limiting abuse in homes and increasing the productivity at workplaces‚ prohibition was the start of the bootlegging business‚ the illegal production and selling of alcohol. Crime and corruption exploded in the

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    When Justices are appointed‚ they take the oath to make decisions that are fair and according to the Constitution. The decisions justices take every day affect the lives of Americans in many ways. The Justices are given the heavy responsibility to interpret the law and Constitution. However‚ many times Justices get confused about the original intent of the law‚ and therefore interpret it different from what the legislators wrote back then. Since the legislators of the Constitution are not alive today

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    Lesson Never Learned It is often said “prisons work” but does it actually teach the inmates a lesson? Or does it just give criminals a holding place until their sentence is up? These questions come up often because of the security issues inside the prisons‚ the percentage rates of the inmates that end up back in prison‚ and taxes that affect the citizens of the community surrounded. In prison movies‚ the actors in the movies usually are thugs in prison for murder or drugs. But in reality there

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    DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 1 Dementia: How and Whom Does it Affect? Liberty University COUNS 502 B-23LUO Instructor: Dr. Richard Pace Shelly M. Becker March 5‚ 2013 DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 2 Abstract Although dementia is often viewed as an “old person’s disorder‚ its effects ripple down in many directions such as family‚ caregivers‚ finances‚ and the healthcare system‚ leaving behind

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