Like many states‚ California allows youth offenders as young as 14 to be transferred from the juvenile system to adult courts. In 1996 based on the Frontline Texas study found that juveniles sentenced in adult court did receive longer terms than they would have received in juvenile court. Some people don’t know what they are doing until something bad happens‚ they think parents will always be there to solve the problem. A lot of people go through things that they can’t help and it makes them
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California Credit Life Insurance Case Study The California Credit Life Insurance was incorporated in Los Angeles in 1971. This insurance company’s product line includes various types of insurance such as health‚ professional‚ automobile‚ liability‚ pension‚ and retirement programs‚ commercial packages‚ and other related financial services. Within this company‚ there are 15 regional offices and 230 sales representatives. The salesforce contains about 1/3 female. The company seems to be facing serious
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The 19th century guano/nitrates trade illustrates the emergence of a global metabolic rift‚ as guano and nitrates were relocated from Peru and Chile to enrich the soils of Britain and other imperial countries. This global metabolic rift created the decline of soil fertility in Britain and importation of Chinese “Cooley” labor to Peru‚ (Foster 359-361)‚ through a law that was coercing‚ deceiving and even kidnapping Chinese for the slave trade. They were in such inhumane labor conditions that most
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(Blockbuster Corporate‚ 2008). The economic‚ social‚ and political trends of business keep changing. ECONOMIC TRENDS Until 2007‚ Blockbuster had posted losses for nine of the previous 10 years and had closed numerous stores. Then James Keyes took over the responsibility of the company as the chief executive officer (CEO) in July 2007. He brought along his experience and success as former CEO of 7-Eleven‚ which was in bankruptcy in 1990. His initial strategies including tailoring the rental and game
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California Proposition 215 For many years in the past‚ marijuana has been made to look like a dangerous drug‚ linked to crime and addiction. In the early 1920s and ‘30s most people still did not know what marijuana was or had even heard of it yet. Those who had heard of it were largely uninformed. The drug rarely appeared in the media‚ but when it did it was linked to crime and even thought to be murder-inducing. A 1929 article in the Denver Post reported a Mexican-American man who murdered his
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Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century‚ between 1838 and 1859. It takes its name from the People’s Charter of 1838. Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labor movement in the world. Chartists were largely unsuccessful at convincing Parliament to reform the voting system of the mid-19th century; however‚ this movement caught the interest of the working class. The working class interest in politics from that point on aided
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The Golden Rush was the digging struggled with success and failure. The gold of California was the attraction to the eyes of the world; the perfect land with all the possibilities to get richness in a short time. Argonauts undertook a dangerous journey to arrive after several days in California‚ some of them did not make it to their destiny for hunger or diseases. Others took advantage of the situation and made business such selling jerked beef‚ blankets‚ medicines‚ axes‚ and many items necessaries
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to come and live somewhere else permanently (Levine 1). Immigration dates all the way back to the Colonial Era of the 19th century (1880-1920)‚ and has did nothing but increase since then because of all the “waves” of people that America has had since then. It all started when the immigrants of Great Britain‚ the Pilgrims‚ came to what is now called America or the United States. Many immigrants either come to colonize or to escape the problems that they may be having in their original country. “My
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products using a) Will’s old costing method; b) The new costing method. 1 1a) Based on Will’s old costing method (Volume Based Costing): • California Creamery has a budgeted manufacturing overhead of $600‚000 and a budgeted direct labour cost of $300‚000 • Overhead rate per direct labour cost => $600‚000/$300‚000 = $2 From Exhibit 2 CALIFORNIA CREAMERY‚ INC. Two Product Examples (2004 Data) Polynesian Fantasy • Direct labour $1.20/gallon Overhead assigned to: Vanilla $1.20/gallon
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During the late 19th century‚ the United States began to expand globally and ushered us into the age of American Imperialism. By the turn of the century‚ the United States had become a minor imperial power after fighting a war with Spain for Cuba and the Philippines along with the annexation of Hawaii and some other territories. Throughout the 19th century‚ the U.S. concentrated on expanding its reach into foreign markets and the colonization of foreign territories‚ but it had tried to avoid involvement
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