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    Introduction The decision maker for this case analysis is my 15 year old son‚ J.D. He possesses high intellect and his interests include reading‚ writing‚ art‚ philosophy‚ and foreign history and culture. Despite his intellect‚ he has struggled academically. This began early on when he was retained and placed on an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in the second grade and diagnosed with ADHD in the fourth grade. He was removed from the IEP in the fifth grade‚ when the IEP team determined that

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    Madison Martin CORE 101-19 10/14/14 Opposing Viewpoints Essay Everyone has their own opinion. The person sitting next to you can have an entirely different outlook on something you do. Having different opinions is what makes for interesting arguments. Especially an author and a critic… like Steven Johnson and Dana Stevens. In the article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”‚ Steven Johnson believes that TV does make you smarter‚ while in her article “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” Dana Stevens

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    there are societal restrictions and pressures that add to the wrongful convictions. The previously mentioned amicus curiae brief also argued this idea saying “wrongfully convicted women not only are punished for crimes they did not commit‚ but also are vilified in the court of public opinion for violating societal expectations based on their gender” and it argues that “society unfairly deems female suspects guilty” with an “automatic condemnation” ( ). What contributes to this are societal expectations

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    do things because of the expectations society has placed on you to do them? For instance shaving your legs just because you are a female. Societal expectations and expectations placed on the characters in the novel “The Outsiders” by themselves greatly affected their actions and reactions‚ as well as the final outcome of the novel. One example of the role societal expectations play in the novel is that all the members of the Greaser gang have only each other for true friendship because society has

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    inferiority of public affairs‚ expected to live with accepted societal norms. Typical of the misogynistic views of a patriarchal society‚ Mary Shelley shadows them in the domestic roles‚ submissive and passive natures‚ and tragic fates of the female characters in her novel‚ Frankenstein. Shelley presents a completely gendered representation of domestic women‚ set forth directly in the Frankenstein family. Caroline Beaufort‚ subjected by societal expectations‚ complies with her role as a domestic female

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    suffering some form of mental illness‚ current mental health funding is unable to cater for all mental health needs‚ forcing prisons to become the new mental health institutions.” Jacob Ellis “Statistics suggest that‚ with one in 5 adults‚ and 27 per cent of young Australians‚ suffering some form of mental illness‚ current mental health funding is unable to cater for all mental health needs‚ forcing prisons to become the new mental health institutions.” Mental Health Services in Australia’s Criminal

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    started to work with British psychiatrists to continue research on mental health. They implemented special Western therapies and measures that were considered modern and revolutionary at the time. For instance‚ they took “prophylactic measures against cholera and smallpox” and used hydrotherapy to cure almost all the cases of mental health.15 One doctor reported using Electric Convulsion Therapy (ETC) to cure new forms of mental health: “A variety of cases were subjected to this treatment including

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    Bedfordshire University Mental Health Nursing The role of the mental health nurse MHN) while always having the same basic skills set will have a different emphasis within the various service settings such as Community‚ Acute or Forensic which is the topic of this essay The forensic MHN specialises in the assessment and treatment of people who may be mentally ill and are normally in the criminal justice system with the service provided in a secure environment. They may also work with

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    PRESS RELEASE Mental Health Issues in California’s Juvenile System ______________________________________________________________________________ Berkeley‚ California Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice August 16‚ 2012 At the moment California is unable to meet the needs of juvenile’s with mental health issues in the criminal justice system. While California does have a significant amount of resources to help the youth‚ it does stop the growth in mentally ill children in the justice

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    Chapter 1 Introduction Mysterious as they are inexorabel ‚emotions seem to come and go as they please. No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living‚ or sometimes ending. Our shared belief that emotions are powerfull and uncontrollable is reflected in different legal penalties associated with “crimes of passion” It is also reflected in our everyday language‚ by phrases such as “beside oneself with grief”

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