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    Life in prison

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    Jonathan Hackshaw 9/18/2012 1st Period In the United States Supreme Court‚ life in prison for a juvenile should not be mandatory. Juvenile killers should have their case considered and have the court and jury have the last say on that individual’s case. Children and adults under the age of twenty-five do not have a fully developed brain. Therefore they cannot think of the future consequences and results. Children are impulsive and usually act before they evaluate a situation. These impulsive acts

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    Ageing populations

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    Geography Essay- Ageing populations Question: Examine the implications of either an ageing or youthful population By definition‚ an ageing population is a population where the median age is rising; there is a decline in the amount of children (or minors-under 18)‚ and an increase in the number of elderly people. In other terms‚ it is a population where the number of elderly is increasing relative to the number of youth. Increased life expectancy combined with declining birth rates have caused many

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    Zoo or Prison

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    Zoo or Prison People always say that animals are our friends; that is why we’d like to go to zoos to see those animals. But are the animals happy about being locked in cages and being seen by people everyday? Or do they want to live in the environments that they are supposed to live? Of course we are never able to know what an animal thinks‚ but I know one thing for sure‚ I don’t want to live in a cage and to be showed to people everyday. Keeping animals in the zoos stops them from being who

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    Population sociology

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    Population & Migration Key Words & Definitions Population a group of people within an area Distribution the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume Densely an area with lots of people living in it Sparsley an area that has a few people living in it Birth rate number of births in a year per 1‚000 population Death rate number of deaths in a year per 1‚000 population Infant mortality the number of babies out of every thousand that dies before the age of one Demographics the

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    Population Density

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    Population Density Debra Smith OMM 612 Managing Social Change Prof. Martin Cain September 24‚ 2012 Population Density According to Social Indicators Research (2002) population density is “the number of people living per square kilometer in the district of the city where the respondent lived” (Social Indicators‚ proquest database). The American population is very dense. According the United States Census Bureau the current United States population is 314‚440‚872 people. In some areas of

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    Ageing Population

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    ever before. Concerning with this problem‚ a telegraph on 1st October‚ 2012 entitled “World faces ageing population time bomb says UN” was posted in order to provide the facts and forecasts about ageing population in the world and to recommend some ideas to deal with this problem. In spite the fact that living longer is a great achievement of human beings‚ a rapidly ageing population also leads to difficulties for many countries in all over the world. A recent report estimated that the

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    Alcatraz Prison

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    Alcatraz Island and Prison Alcatraz Island‚ also infamously known as “The Rock”‚ is located in the San Francisco Bay 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco‚ Ca. It stands 121 feet above sea level and spans approximately 22 acres. The Spanish Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala named Alcatraz Island for sea birds; he was reported to be the first known European to sail through the Golden Gate in 1775. It was named “La Isla de los Alcatraces” meaning the Island of the Pelicans. It later became home

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    Homeless Population

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    The Homeless as a Vulnerable Population Sara Williams Nur/440 9-5-2011 University of Phoenix The Homeless as a vulnerable population This article discusses a framework for understanding the nature of the homeless population. It discusses four pathways‚ increased heat waves‚ and increased air pollution‚ increases severity of floods and storms‚ and it also talks about the distribution of the West Nile Virus. The article discusses why the homeless are amongst the most vulnerable groups to

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    Population in India

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    POPULATION RISE IN INDIA: A MOJOR CONCERN India has experienced extraordinary population growth: between 2001 and 2011 India added 181 million people to the world‚ slightly less than the entire population of Brazil. But 76 per cent of India’s population lives on less than US$2 per day (at purchasing power parity rates). India ranks at the bottom of the pyramid in per capita-level consumption indicators not only in energy or electricity but in almost all other relevant per capita-level consumption

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    aging population

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    investigates the effect of aging population of the U.S population on future demand and supply for health care. In recent decades‚ there is a debate on health policy which U.S aging population is a dominant contributor of raising the claim of national health spending yearly. For instance‚ average health spending for Americans per elderly was exceeded triple of Americans (ages 34 – 44) in 1999. However‚ this can not be use as a model to a country that it is all population ages continuously through time

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