Davao City bans use of plastics‚ styrofoams Philippine Daily Inquirer 3:28 pm | Thursday‚ May 10th‚ 2012 DAVAO CITY – After banning smoking and spitting in public‚ the city government announced that starting June 28‚ it would be a crime here to use environmentally-destructive plastic bags and styrofoams in packaging‚ including for food products. Joseph Dominic Felizarta‚ chief of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro)‚ said the city government will strictly implement the
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persons of color are sentenced to mandatory jail terms more than any other race. Carrillo‚ Silvio. Should Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws be Repealed? 13 December 2000. 21 October 2010 http://speakout.com/activism/issue_briefs/1127b-1.html The author discusses the acts of 1986‚ which changed the law pertaining to the Anti-Drug Abuse act and the sentencing of violators. This article also examines the overcrowding of prisons related to mandatory sentencing. Caulkins‚ Jonathan
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Are Uniforms Mandatory? Are uniforms good or bad for school? Every day pusillanimous students are trying to get through school without getting noticed on what they wear because people make fun of them. There are many benefits on why school should add school uniforms. Researchers have observed that uniforms set a professional tone and helps students’ self-esteem. Since people get picked on because of what they wear‚ schools should add uniforms. Supporters of uniforms believe that uniforms
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the freedom so that they have time to fulfill important plans in their life as well as generating more scope for young employees. In conclusion‚ the retirement age can vary from countries to countries but the importance of the establishment of mandatory retirement age could not be denied. The government should have appropriate policies to reward employees when they reach the age to
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It is not a secret and it is fair to say that the Army is fast to pass down mandatory requirements to their Soldiers regardless whether they can actually comply with those requirements in a timely manner. I never expect to challenge that statement with a First Sergeant during my first training meeting as a new First Sergeant a few years ago. In 2010‚ the total number of training requirements was around 35. At the end of each quarter‚ the First Sergeants from three different companies met with the
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Topic: Voting should not be mandatory Using the internet‚ find at least two articles on your topic. You can pay to print in the library‚ e-mail the articles to yourself‚ or write down the websites and look them up again at home. Every group member must find two articles‚ so that a group of 3 will have 6 total and a group of 4 will have 8 total. Pick articles that are from credible sources (PHS databases such as Gale‚ Ebsco‚ etc.; credible news organizations like The New York Times‚ CNN‚ etc;
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Mandatory volunteering rule has been the reason for slow community development in the country. This policy applied on the high school students to spend a given amount of their time in offering free services to the community‚ has been received with mixed reactions from the students with most of them developing negative attitudes towards work. The evaluation of the issue can lead to the statement that paper mandatory volunteering is a practice that has resulted to more losses than gains. The cost
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Case study Halina Paerhati Despite the public’s belief that Robert Latimer’s mandatory minimum 10 years sentence to be “cruel and unusual punishment”‚ I personally am satisfied with this sentence. In spite of the fact that the love Robert Latimer had for his disabled daughter is what inspired him to put her out of her misery‚ the judge and jury offered him the constitutional exemption” found him guilty of second degree murder as opposed to first degree. That was enough mercy for this man. It
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In this academic article from the University of Chicago Legal Forum‚ authors Craig B. Futterman‚ Chaclyn Hunt‚ and Jamie Kalven offer a unique perspective to the issue of mass incarceration and highlight how police brutality have motivated more youth to join movements like Black Lives Matter. The article focuses on how injustices black people in the United States relating to criminal justice have influenced “young people who insist on remaining visible‚ on being heard‚ and on placing issues of police
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is imposed by law as mandatory as such is against the principle of our constitution. The sentence is manifestly harsh and excessive.” An additional ground was subsequently added as follows: “The minimum penalty of five years penal servitude provided by Section 301 A of the Criminal Code for a person convicted of committing the offence of larceny with aggravating circumstances under section 305 of the Code‚ while being masked is unconstitutional in so far that the mandatory minimum penalty is disproportionate
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