Oct. 18‚ 2001 Thesis Private prisons can be a profitable and secure alternative to government run Statement prisons. Private prisons are able to be profitable by controlling the administrational cost of operating the facilities. At the same time‚ they must adhere to high governmental standards to maintain the right to operate. Background As a nation‚ we have many issues that we must face. One of those issues is the administration of the‚ already overcrowded‚ prison system. This issue is one of the
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Private tuition Many parents send their children for private tuition after school hours. The main reason for this is that they want their children to perform well in the examinations. They feel that the normal lessons in school are not good enough for their children to excel‚ thus the need for private tuition. One advantage of taking private tuition is that the child gets personal attention from the tutor. This may not be possible in the crowded classrooms of today’s schools. So the tutor’s
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part of the Freight Rail network‚ they are privately owned and operated‚ and are a $60-billion-dollar year industry with 140‚000 miles of track. Private security companies are hired to watch over rail car that carry hazardous waste material‚ passengers‚ and or other valuable material being transported. Railroad employees need to coordinate with private security in order to ensure the merchandise arrives safely across America which is a definite necessity. Second‚ Pipeline Network are a major concern
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The Healing Powers of Meditation In The Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman and The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing by Deepak Chopra‚ Millman and Chopra take different approaches to explain the healing powers of meditation. In his autobiographical novel‚ The Way of the Peaceful Warrior‚ Dan Millman tells his spiritual journey of healing‚ finding himself‚ and becoming a peaceful warrior. Dan learns about the healing power of meditation from his mentor
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say that private prisons are more effective because they have lower recidivism rates. However‚ this is not true. As stated by Peter Kerwin‚ “private prisons are likely to serve as many as two to three more month behind bars than those assigned to public prisons and are equally likely to commit more crimes after release‚ despite industry claims to lower recidivism rates through high-quality and innovative rehabilitation programs” (2015) this quote shows that more offenders return to private prisons
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Peaceful resistance has a positive impact on a free society. The best way to get things accomplished is to make your voice heard and to fight against topics you feel are unjust. However‚ the main component to being successful is keeping it peaceful. Too many times‚ people protesting get violent and take it too far. With the recent election of Trump‚ there have been riots with people harming others‚ burning buildings‚ and smashing windows. This has done nothing but make a common political party turn
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How far did ‘peaceful coexistence’ ease Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the USA in the years 1953 – 1961? The term ‘peaceful coexistence’ refers to a theory developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War that said capitalist states could ‘accept’ each other. This policy began just after Stalin’s death on 5th March 1953. 1961 is significant here because it marks when the Berlin wall was put up overnight on the 13th August‚ demonstrating the end‚ from a Soviet perspective‚ of the
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privatization of their prison systems‚ outsourcing the management to private enterprises. Like most privatization issues‚ this topic has many supporters from the liberal economic philosophy‚ as well as many detractors that argue against profit seeking enterprises. The discussion promotes themes such as the ethical dilemma of the private sector “administering punishment”‚ selecting the correct metrics used to evaluate the performance of private sector versus public sector‚ disputes of what are “just and fair”
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By attacking public hangings as cruel death penalty opponents were able to agitate five states to abolish public hangings but fifteen states continued to hold private hangings. In 1853‚ Wisconsin abolished the death penalty after a gruesome hanging in which the prisoner “struggled for five minutes at the end of the rope‚ and a full eighteen minutes passed before his heart finally quit.” (Reggio‚ 1997) We see here that the basis for rejecting capital punishment evolved mid-century from arguing that
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people are faced with the decision of standing up for what they believe in while breaking the laws or doing what the law says while not agreeing with what they are doing. There is a way to make a change in what American laws should be. It’s called a peaceful protest. But how do these little protests affect our society? These protests do not benefit society. The laws are created to help our society and government‚ and even though we may not see that completely‚ there is reason. Protesting is not a safe
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