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    Why are our prisons overcrowded due to different changes on drug reforms? i. Over the years‚ “Reforms” have been created‚ limiting the discretion of judges and members of parole boards. For example‚ sentencing‚ guidelines‚ length and determinate sentencing. (Gottschalk‚

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    In the first half of the twentieth century‚ the United States has intervened militarily in the Caribbean. This intervention lasted from 1898 to the mid 1930’s. During those thirty three years‚ the United States intervened militarily in Cuba‚ Mexico‚ Haiti‚ Santo Domingo (which is now Dominican Republic)‚ Panama and Nicaragua. This paper will focus on the effects that this intervention had on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Though the United States intervention in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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    Marquise Green United States Department of State v. Ray Part I Every year millions of young adults graduate from their respective high schools‚ pack up their belongings‚ leave their parental guided homes behind‚ and set off for college. The first thing that comes to mind when leaving the parents behind is their first true sense of freedom. The freedom to do what they please with no curfew‚ no guidelines‚ and no pre-disposed consequences for their actions is the freedom they’ve been working

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    Immigration to the United States Immigration has been a very large topic for United States government officials in recent years. Many people talk about the increase in immigrants from other nations‚ primarily from Mexico‚ and opinions vary between each person. It is suggested by some that immigrants cost native born Americans jobs and abuse resources like welfare that American taxes pay for. Others suggest that America’s economy is stimulated by growing immigrant populations and that workers

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    Not only that but killing and wounding thousands of American soldiers on American soil. This in turn enraged the American population and led the United States’ entry into World War 2. Many Americans‚ already being somewhat xenophobic‚ began to further distrust and become weary of their ethnically Japanese next door neighbors. Many United States citizens become paranoid about the loyalties of Japanese Americans‚ fearing the assistance that might be given to the Japanese empire. Many felt that

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    Civil disobedience is a vital and necessary part of life in a democratic system of government. It serves to keep the government from overstepping its bounds. There are times in the history of countries where the governing body has become complacent and has begun to violate the rights of their citizens. Civil disobedience is an effective way of discouraging and preventing such transgressions. Without the threat of dissidence from the public‚ there is nothing to keep governments honest except for the

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    and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas. During infancy‚ it is an interaction between their experiences and their reflexes or behavior-patterns. Piaget called these systems of knowledge schemata. Constructivism is not a specific pedagogy‚ although it is often confused with constructionism‚ an educational theory developed by Seymour Papert‚ inspired by constructivist and experiential learning ideas of Jean Piaget. Piaget’s theory of constructivist learning has had

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    Social Inequality and Minorities in the United States In this course I have learned about many different kinds of social problems in societies around the world and in the United States‚ such as poverty‚ social inequality‚ race and cultural discrimination‚ gender stratification‚ environmental damage‚ population growth‚ and urbanization. I chose my final essay to be on Social Inequality and Minorities in the United States. For me this subject raises many points of our daily life and brings us to

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    The topic of segregation in the United States has been a matter of great discussion since the Plessy Supreme court case in 1896. However‚ there is a much lesser talked about instance of segregation that occurred in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. That instance was called the Apartheid. Apartheid literally translates to “the status of being apart.” It was put into motion by the National Party as a way of upholding white supremacy after World War II. The inhabitants of South Africa were separated

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    Abstract Strong economies compete on the basis of high value‚ not solely low cost. Yet in the United States‚ growing economic disparity hinders the nation’s ability to provide the high-value-added products and services necessary to compete in a global marketplace. The economic problems associated with unequal growth – stagnant wage growth and depressed market demand – in turn exacerbate social problems‚ such as crime‚ drug abuse‚ gangs‚ reliance on transfer payments‚ and family break-ups. The most

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