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    which destroys everything in its path. It usually moves slowly enough the people can move out of its way. These eruptions can trigger other natural hazards such as earthquakes‚ mudflows and flash floods‚ rock falls and landslides. Wild fires and tsunamis are additional hazards that might be triggered by a volcanic eruption. The mudflows and the flow of debris from these are often one of the deadliest volcano hazards. This is the flow of mud‚ rock and water that rush down valley and stream channels

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    means by which researchers can distinguish between different offenders committing the same type of offense. There are three possible manifestations of offender behavior at a crime scene - modus operandi‚ signature or personification‚ and stage. This article indicates each of these events to demonstrate the importance of analyzing a scene in terms of human behavior. The M.O has great significance. A critical step in the analysis of the crime scene is the resulting correlation connecting things because

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    Justice Statistics. The amount of prisoners continues to grow as the years come. As the numbers grow‚ the amount of mentally ill individuals instituted in prisons grows as well. As much as 50% of the US prison population is diagnosed with some sort of mental illness (Long). Though they might be difficult to handle‚ the courts must maintain a balance of keeping the mentally ill properly treated while also ensuring the public’s safety. According to the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ they are

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    seventeen were less likely to be victims of crimes at school; • Students living in families that had moved three or more times in the preceding 5 years were twice as likely to have experienced a criminal victimization; • Students in families with annual incomes of fifty thousand or more were more likely to be victimized‚ as opposed those students whose families with annual incomes of less than ten thousand; • Public high school students were more likely to be crime victims than

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    This short story by Graham Greene is a critical yet humorous one in which a group of young teenagers have formed a gang in post-blitz London and plot to tear down the only symbolic house left standing after a bombing raid leveled an area. It would be wise to look at the characters and their influence in this short story and the results they have on various subsequent view-points that the reader will see. Main Characters: Trevor or T. is the protagonist in the story as the plot revolves around

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    Graham Greene uses the motif of light to symbolize power. One young boy Trevor‚  nicknamed T‚ took power in the gang over Blackie to plan on destroying Mr. Thomas’s house.  While the gang was destroying the house‚ T. found notes that he wanted to burn. The flame of  the burning note only “illuminated his brooding face” (55). Only having T.’s face illuminate  symbolized that T. had the power‚ and he was in charge of all of the destruction that the gang  “created.” While the burning note was a form of light “illuminating” power

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    Who Is Domenikos Volcano?

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    El Greco was a painter‚ sculptor‚ and an architect. When in Spain he was the first great genius of his Spanish school. El Greco’s real name is not the one you see on all of the paintings his real name is Domenikos Theotocopoulos. El Greco was born in 1541 and died in 1614. None know of his childhood. In 1566 he became a master painter and moved or traveled to Venice. Later in 1570 he traveled to Rome to meet Giulio Clovio a miniaturist. Very few of his pieces survived the years. One of the surviving

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    bully or a victim of bullying.” (The numbers continue to rise every month). This is a very large amount of victims that are being bullied in school every day. Bullying can also traumatize and hurt a child or teenager all throughout all their life. Bullying can never be forgotten by victim because it is a horrible experience to go thru. Bullying can lead the victim to depression. Without a support from someone that can help them‚ the victim will be alone and feel afraid of speaking out. The major

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    Victim Compensation: Introduction • Initial focus was only on the aspect of punishment • Now focus started shifting when encountered with the fact that the person who is victim of crime is getting nothing out of the whole process of criminal justice system or is getting a so called satisfaction by seeing the offender punished • Therefore Jurists‚ penologists etc in all countries started giving their full attention to the cause of victim in form of compensation • Hence the whole debate started

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    activity point occurred on November 12‚ when Krakatoa started "shooting" lava-bombs out of its crater onto the north coast and some lava flowed into the sea. While we know volcanoes erupt‚ how do they erupt? After some research‚ I found that they are caused by gas pressuring the molten magma‚ forcing the magma to push upward into the weak zones in the Earth’s crust. Thus‚ this allows the magma to push its way out through the volcano’s vents to be erupted from its crater to become lava. In the

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