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    August 2014 Over thousands of years‚ every society created by man struggled with the problem of crime. The one provocative question from Jack the Ripper to O.J. Simpson is why do people commit crime? In most of our modern societies‚ laws have been developed over time‚ to maintain order. I personally think the law forms a social contract between individuals and society. I know that there are many competing theories on why people commit crime. I personally believe that they all can be summed up and placed

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    Juvenile Corrections & Treatment Your name CJS 240 October 24‚ 2010 The Juvenile corrections system has various methods to support the underlying goal of rehabilitation and reform. This system affects the entire community in its successes and failures; members of the society should take time to understand what efforts are being made to reform these young offenders and what obstacles must be eliminated to make it more effective. The following paper will attempt to summarize community

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    gives us the choice to do good or evil and relates to the virtue that every person has. In Plato’s "Meno"‚ Socrates argues with Meno over what virtue really is and the true definition. At one point‚ they discuss that being virtuous is "find joy in beautiful things." The go on at length arguing what is beautiful and what is good. They also cover whether or not people actually do desire bad things or if all people desire good things. At the end they concur that people do not desire bad things

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    Nowadays‚ more and more teenagers are interested in body piercing while their parents don’t agree with them. On the other hand‚ using steroids is common among athletes and young people who want to increase their muscle size or reduce their body fat. Although getting body piercing and using steroids have become popular activities in modern society‚ they can both be very dangerous. There are different reasons why young people take steroids or pierce their bodies. Recently‚ piercings of the lip‚ tongue

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    M1 ASSIGNMENT WHY PEOPLE BECOME HOMELESS AND WHY IT DOESN’T STOP LAVERNA MOORER ARGOSY UNIVERSITY Abstract This paper is going to present to you why people become homeless and why it does not stop Homelessness is a problem that have getting out of hands because of not addressing the situation on time. The focus is not so much the why but‚ if it will ever stop. Homelessness is a phenomenon that has so much to address research has been done; it was discover that for our government to concentrate

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    Transgender people are those whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from their birth sex. This includes transsexuals‚ cross-dressing people‚ and others defined as gender-variant. Transgender people may or may not choose to undergo gender reassignment hormonally and/or surgically (Hunt‚ 2012). Gender reassignment is usually a complex process that takes place over a long period of time and has four typical stages: psychiatric assessment‚ hormonal treatment‚ and a period of living as

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    Insurance v. Grant [1879 UK CA] 15 Herthorn v. Fraser [1891 HL] (Post-box rule) 15 Rule of Reception: CLL & CML 15 Entores v. Miles Far East Corp [1955 UK CA] 16 Offer and Acceptance as a Flawed Paradigm 16 Pharmaceutical Society of GB v. Boots

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    Why Do People Fall In Love Many researchers actually consider falling in love to be a biologic event. And there are some researchers that can show brain changes using MRI tests to show that there are actual changes in our brain that we think of psychologically but biologically it really is a physiologic change. But when we want to understand what falling in love is -- the best concept to understand is the concept called limerance. Limerance is that period in a relationship of great passion

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    Question 1 Why do people use alcohol? I believe people used alcohol for many reasons. I examine what reasons are and why do they drink . The reasons come in many. My two main reasons are for stress and it’s culturally normalized‚ and mainly out of curiosity. To me This list is very

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    Why do people fall in love? A question many of us find us asking ourselves in today’s society. Many of us have been hurt by love and therefore have refused to neither use nor believe that there is such a word or feeling that exists in the universe. People fall in love for many reasons; some don’t even know why they end up in love. I believe people fall in love for three life-based reasons‚ to expand the self and to increase our abilities and our effectiveness in other words self-expansion‚ lack

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