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    Why do young adults decide to go to college? The answer is to receive a degree in order to obtain a worthy job. The young men and women who decide to go to Marywood University so they can achieve one of Marywood University’s Core values: excellence. They want to receive good grades‚ graduate with a degree‚ and go through life doing the job they worked hard for. Part of the Marywood’s education system is the liberal arts core. For example‚ students who are a Pre-Physician Assistant major would

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    How should juvenile offenders be treated in the American criminal justice system? This is one of the most pressing questions in the field of criminal justice today. Juvenile offenders are treated quite differently than the adults in the American criminal justice system‚ and nowhere can that difference be clearer than in the corrections system. Historically‚ juveniles were treated as less responsible for their actions than adults‚ and subjected to different methods of correction than adults‚ even

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    states. The 20% of gun owners possess 60% of all guns in the USA. Gun violence and gun control have been in the news a lot lately. This is because of the recent shooting in Newtown‚ Connecticut where 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot twenty children‚ six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School and his mother at their home. Later on he committed suicide. Since the mass shooting‚ there’s been an explosive discussion about whether the US has to tougher their laws or even ban civilians from having

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    What are your overall reactions to the article? Choose one part that resonated with you with most and discuss it. Why are teens gradually destroying their generation? Based on from the article by Jean Twenge‚ she shows an tremendous change from Generation X and Generation Z. I really thought her idea of calling my generation iGen was very innovative because it really describes the generation in one word and it is very precise. I am amazed by the changes from Generation X to Generation Z like

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    Tyler Wyrick Ms. Russo English 165.25W 11 May 2010 E1 Why Marijuana should be Illegal In society today‚ many people are looking for a feeling of freedom. Some go on vacation and spend money while others look to drugs. The sense of high that results from using marijuana acts as an escape from the stresses of everyday life. As a result‚ a tremendous number of Americans participate in the illicit use of marijuana. Our American society is facing a tremendous drug

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    Why is the definition and measurement of crime problematic? The term crime is not by any means easy to define. It does not have any simple or universally accepted definition in modern day society. Crime is the result of a complex social process‚ therefore not every criminal act is considered to be a crime. It has been said that a crime has only been committed when a court decides that one has occurred. For example a reported offence may not make it to trial due to a lack of evidence‚ so no further

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    Why drugs should not be legalize We ask ourselves what are these great risks on us consuming illegalized drugs. We are constantly exposed to all sorts of illegal drugs especially young adults at school‚ parties and even on the local beaches. Were surrounded by it all through out of lives‚ being pressured to consume them and take risk on becoming addicted. Not only this‚ but we are presented with all other types or drugs‚ such as over the counter for a simple cold‚ pain relievers

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    If one is old enough to do the crime‚ are they truly old enough to do the time? If so‚ does that time include being placed within a facility originally designated for those at a different age and mental capacity? There are countless disputes and problems regarding the justice system and its decisions. Among those decisions is the decision to sentence a juvenile as an adult and place them within a adult prison‚ rather than in a juvenile detention center. Just as in most things in life‚ the justice

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    Teenagers are more likely to run away from home than an adolescent child. Many people think about running away just to leave there problems behind in turn they create new and more complicated problems. As a teen I ran away for a day it was not a long period of time before I ended up back at home. But since my parents were divorced I ended up moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to live with my mother. From there my life seemed to go downhill because my mother did not care what I did. To this

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    Rights of Accused Assignment 1 Submitted to: Dr. Mehdi Nazer U.S. Government POL110 Prepared By: Nyleeche Perry July 26‚ 2012 Rights of Accused Assignment 1 Define due process and its origins. Due process is a fundamental‚ constitutional guarantee that all legal proceeding will be fair and that one will be given notice of all the proceeding and an opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away ones life‚ liberty

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