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    Haiti and Hungary are two developing countries with many similarities and differences. First of all‚ the countries are very different. Haiti shares an island with the Dominican Republic off the coast of Central North America‚ wile Hungary is a land-locked country in central-eastern Europe ( Google Maps ). Haiti has a very tropical climate‚ however‚ Hungary’s climate is more on the temperate side (www.geography-site.co.uk/pages/countries/climate/haiti_climate.html) (www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/climate/Hungary

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    Question #1 A juvenile being tried as an adult is a very sensitive and controversial issue over the past years. There has been a significant increase in the number of juvenile offenders being tried in adult courts for serious crimes. Juveniles should be tried as adults depending on the seriousness of the crime that they commit. There are many factors that contribute to juvenile courts and to what extent a juvenile should be tried as an adult. The juvenile justice system was intended to rehabilitate

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    Everyone has similarities to other people in some way‚ but it is the differences that make us unique and different from everybody else. Two of my classmates Lisa Gordon and Marcelo Hernandez seem like very busy and active people in their everyday life. They have their own types of hobbies‚ activities‚ desires and educational goals. Although they have a couple of similarities in those aspects‚ it is their differences that stand out the most. It seems that coming from two different states to end up

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    The juvenile system started in the17th century‚ when there were very little legal differences that existed among kids and adults. Adolescence as underdeveloped as seven were measured productive citizens and could be tried if found guilty. Kids were incarcerated with hardened criminals and some even received the death consequence for their crimes as adults. So‚ the first Juvenile court System was established in 1899‚ in Cook County Illinois in Chicago. The purpose was to separate kids who had been

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    Similarities and Differences Nowadays‚ people depend more on technologies. Almost everyone has at least one hardware and software. How do people use those technologies and how do they think? Thoughts are different. I read the article “ Hell Is Other iPods” by Caspar Melville and “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Theodora Stites. I found some similarities and differences of those two articles and I would like to share my experience which relates to those two articles. First of all‚ both “ Hell Is

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    Criminal Justice Capstone Project Proposal The juvenile justice system can be dated back to the late 18th and early 19th century. Youths were confined to jails with mentally ill and hardened criminals because there were no other alternatives for them. Many of these youths were in these institutions for non-violent offenses. During this same time‚ many American cities had to find a solution to the overwhelming rate of child neglect. Today‚ there is still much debate about the well-being of youths

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    Abstract The Juvenile systems is facing and ever growing problem in today’s society. The problem is child Abuse and Neglect; this is an issue that is filling the courts to the max. The system faces this type of phone call about every 10seconds. This is a massive problem ongoing with the ever shrinking budgets and available staff to help the children. The Juvenile Justice System has very big challenge to help all the children that are victims of some form of abuse. The statistics in this type of

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    Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Paper Tami Hiltunen CJS/245 January 26‚ 2015 LEDETRA JONES Juvenile and Adult Courts: A Comparative Analysis Paper The Juvenile Justice System is part of the criminal law system that focuses on those individuals who are between the ages of 9 and 18. This system was set up for those persons who did criminal acts‚ but who are not yet considered adults. In most states the age for criminal culpability is 18. While the age of being treated as a juvenile

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    Both Sikh and Christianity contain descriptive beliefs regarding God‚ life after death‚ the purpose of life‚ and salvation. The world’s religion varies in practices and beliefs. There are evident similarities between faiths. There is continual significance within the ordered totality of concrete human living (Jacobs-Vandegeer‚ 2014). Both Sikh and Christianity beliefs consist of a God. However‚ they differ in Sikh beliefs of God are somewhat different. The Sikh faith believes in only one God. They

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    The federal prison system has been unable to keep pace with the steady flow of inmates pouring into its facilities during the past five years‚ despite adding space for thousands of new offenders‚ according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. The report also found that the Bureau of Prisons has already surged to 39 percent above capacity and is projected to jump to more than 45 percent above its limits by 2018 (GAO‚ 2012). According to a The New York Times article written by Adam Liptak

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