parents these days are coming to the point where they need to decide whether to vaccinate their sons and daughters against HPV or not. The human papilloma virus a very common virus. It is the most common sexually transmitted infection that affects about 80% of sexually active people. Doctors‚ scientists and physicians have worked for a long time trying to generate a vaccination against HPV. They eventually developed two called Gardasil and Cervarix. These vaccinations were developed to prevent contracting
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full and equal benefit of all laws. Nonetheless‚ the Fourteenth Amendment has gone beyond the provisions of the Civil Rights Act (Snavely‚ 1968). Nonetheless‚ in the case of In re Gault‚ he was not afforded due process. The justice system failed to give him and his parents notice of the charges against him‚ failed to advise him that he could be represented by counsel‚ confront his accuser and witnesses or was protected against self-incrimination
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Everyday police officers risk their lives protecting our communities and the citizens that live within them. When these officer respond to each and every call‚ they never know when it may be their last. Recently‚ the job has been under a lot more scrutiny than ever before‚ a large part of this is due to the public losing trust in the criminal justice system. With the black lives matter movement gaining more support and power‚ many police involved shootings have been protested and even have led to
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teacher completely different than what it used to be. Children’s intelligence should not be determined by a test‚ nor should it determine a teacher’s skill. This problem has gotten much bigger over time and needs to be brought to more people’s attention‚ as well as other methods to move forward without so much testing. There has always been people who disagree with standardized testing but once the No Child Left Behind act was put in place things went south. The No child
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Standardized Tests Schools across the United States are forced to give their students standardized tests. Standardized tests are multiple choice tests based on a list of state standards that a teacher is required to teach. The state makes schools give these tests to measure student achievement. In most schools‚ these tests go toward a big percentage of a student’s grade and in some cases determine whether the student will pass or fail a class. One can argue that standardized tests are useful; however
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using animals for their research and testings‚ and I disagree with the use of animals. It is unfair to animals because in the end it kills them‚ it may not actually work on humans‚ and the cost of it. I am against the use of animals for product testing for a lot of reasons. I am against using animals because I think it is cruel to animals because if it a test went wrong then then it could cause a harmless animal to die or seriously disable them. Also in animal testing‚ countless animals are
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The Homestead Act was signed on May 20‚ 1862 by Abraham Lincoln. The Homestead Act was proposed by northern republicans. Southern representatives in congress kept voting against the Homestead Act because they saw it as an opportunity for the development of Free states that would tip the scale in the free vs. slave states. It was originally passed by congress in 1860 but then vetoed by President James Buchanan. After southern representatives left congress was when the act was then passed. The act
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Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s‚ southerners struggled with the inevitable confrontation of segregation. Living in the Jim Crow era‚ blacks grappled to gain the rights denied to them through Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)‚ “which gave legal sanction to “separate but equal”.” On the other hand‚ white southerners wrestled to maintain the white supremacy that the Plessy case allowed them to exercise. One of the largest areas of tension for the maintenance of segregation existed in education.
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victim’s wishes‚ and there are no legal consequences for ignoring the victim in a plea bargaining decision. This is one major issue that I have with plea bargaining. They should always be able to have a voice because of the crime that was committed against them or their
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yet continue even today in the most recent of times. Since the wake of September 11‚ racial profiling in airports has been heavily enforced in order to ensure the safety of Americans. In several instances‚ the stopping of virtually all Arab or "suspicious" peoples has proved to be advantageous in that those incriminated intended on causing harm to others. Furthermore‚ airport security has done a superb job in pinpointing the true terrorist‚ any person of a different race. This twisted view of justice
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