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    patients aggrieved by deficiencies in medical services rendered for payment can claim damages Should doctors be tried in consumer courts? This issue requires much debate‚ a lot of questioning‚ also a lot of introspection. But before we do that‚ let me ask‚ why do we limit ourselves to consumer courts?? Why are we afraid to move to criminal courts if the quantum of crime is culpable enough to be tried only in criminal courts?? When I say this‚ I wish to emphasize on the point that doctors are after

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    increase in youth crime rate in 90’s‚ many states started to put juveniles to the adult court believing that this could bring down the crime rate. Some studies showed that starting to put youth in adult prisons helped the crime rate go down‚ but had no effect on violent crime rate. Many voices came up for easing the law for juveniles to not to be sentenced as adults due to decrease in youth crime rate from 2000. On the other hand‚ some people say that sentencing juvenile criminals as adults can make citizens

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    Children should not be prosecuted as adults. They haven’t been exposed to full consequences for their actions.They are not fully developed. Their behavior is influenced by the media. Children are not treated with an iron fist. They never truly experience a heavy punishment . For example‚ if a child were to miss multiple assignments they are not fired from school. If they don’t do their work they fail the course and are required to take it again. They are given second chances time and time again

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    Commit Suicide is one of the serious social issues in the world. Nowadays‚ suicide rate in Malaysia is become higher and higher. According to The STAR online‚ Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the ratio of suicides was 1.3 for every 100‚000 people from 2007 to 2010‚ but it added that it could be higher. Cases of commit suicide are increasing every year. The majority people who commit suicide were aged between from 24 to 44‚ which is productive age group. From the research‚ we could

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    Crime has been an issue in the United States for a very long time. In order to deal with these crimes the Department of Justice was officially created on July 1st‚ 1870. Large waves of immigration occurred bringing in many children and these children got involved in criminal activity. To deal with this the juvenile justice system was created to give minors a second chance and not put them with hardened adult criminals. This system was created a little more than a century ago and the severity of juvenile

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    Should Video Games be Banned? An ongoing argument where people think that video games should be banned. Should video games be banned? All of the arguments are repetitive and based on false belief‚ with very little real evidence. Some people think‚ ‘Violent video games should be banned because they influence the young minds of our generation and that they will bring cruelty and death among thee by doing indescribable acts of scandalous crime‚ thieving from innocent people and slaughtering their

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    Running head: SHOULD JUVENILE OFFENDERS BE TRIED AND PUNISHED 1 Should juvenile offenders be tried and punished with the death penalty as adults? Juan Borrego Grantham University EN 102 English Composition II Dr. Cynthia Williams August 2010 SHOULD JUVENILE OFFENDERS BE TRIED AND PUNISHED 2 Abstract This paper will focus on past cases of juvenile offenders that were given the death penalty based on reports found online (Internet). I will use that information

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    Kadesha Williams Comp 2 Sherry Covington 09 April 9‚ 2013 Homosexuality: Is It A Crime? “God created Adam and Eve‚ not Adam and Steve.” This is the response many give when asked a question regarding homosexuality. I do not understand what the big deal is about someone being “Homosexual.” There are many other things that people do that should be considered more seriously as crimes than homosexuality‚ such as racism and abortion. ‘Queers’‚ ‘Gays’‚ ‘Faggots’‚ and ‘Dikes‚’ these are terms

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    How are the young people in DNA affected by the crimes they commit? How does Kelly show the ways they are affected? [30 marks] DNA is a contemporary play dealing with the modern issues faced by youths. The group in the play is portrayed as alienated and cut off from society other than their immediate surroundings. Though there is no definite place or time it is clearly contemporary through the speech and references made by other characters. In the play DNA Dennis Kelly shows the different ways

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    decisions is whether or not try certain juveniles as adults or not. On one hand‚ being tried as a minor is considered unconstitutional‚ while on the other side it seems necessary in order to protect society. Some of the factors the court considers when convicting a minor is “age‚ physical and mental maturity‚ past attempts and future potential for rehabilitation‚ harm suffered by the victim‚ use of a firearm‚ and public safety” (“) Many minors who have been convicted came from unstable homes‚ lived

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