exercise room. Finally‚ he is forced to sleep naked and when inspection comes in the morning‚ he is naked throughout that too; only when it is over is he permitted to have his clothes back. The controversy is whether this is treatment for cruel and unusual punishment; also known as the eighth amendment. I think this treatment of Private Manny may very well lead to a court case over the eighth amendment. In my opinion‚ there was most definitely a violation of the eighth amendment‚ I do not condone torture
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lose a lot of their citizen’s rights when they are convicted‚ they still have certain rights that make sure that they are treated fairly. Some of those rights include freedom of speech and religion‚ freedom from arbitrary punishment and cruel and unusual punishment‚ and the right to have access to the courts through Habeas Corpus. These rights are guaranteed so that prisoners are not treated unfairly‚ or even in an inhumane fashion. If these rights were not guaranteed to prisoners‚ abuse and neglect
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1) Describe two main differences between classical and empirical probabilities. a. Classical probabilities are based on assumptions; Empirical probabilities are based on observations. b. Classical probabilities do not require an action to take place; Empirical probabilities have to have been “performed”. 2) Gather 16 to 30 coins. Shake and empty bag of coins 10 times and tally up how many head and tails are showing. Number of coins: 20 * Consider the first toss‚ what is the
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Factor of safety and probability of failure Introduction How does one assess the acceptability of an engineering design? Relying on judgement alone can lead to one of the two extremes illustrated in Figure 1. The first case is economically unacceptable while the example illustrated in the drawing on the right violates all normal safety standards. Sensitivity studies The classical approach used in designing engineering structures is to consider the relationship between the capacity C (strength
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The contingency tables and relative frequency probabilities in this exercise are based on the Springdale Shopping Survey database. Information like that gained from the two parts of this exercise could provide helpful insights into the nature of the respondents‚ their perceptions‚ and their spending behaviors. In particular‚ part 2 examines how conditional probabilities related to spending behavior might vary‚ depending on the gender of the respondent. Based on the relative frequencies for responses
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STAT ACTIVITY 1. A multiple-choice quiz has 15 questions‚ each with 4 possible answers of which only 1 is the correct answer. What is the probability that sheer guesswork yields exactly 10 correct answers at least 1 correct answer at most 1 correct answers 8 to 10 correct answers Mean and variance of the r.v.X=no.of correct answers 2. Suppose that airplane engines operate independently in flight and fail with probability 1/5. Assuming that a plane makes a safe flight if at
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Markeith Turner MW:12:00-1:20 1.An undercover drug informant learned from a mutual friend that Philip Friedman “knew where to get marijuana.” The informant asked Friedman three times to get him some marijuana‚ and Friedman agreed after the third request. Shortly thereafter‚ Friedman sold the informant a small amount of the drug. The informant later offered to sell Friedman three pounds of marijuana. They negotiated the price and then made the sale. Friedman was tried for trafficking in
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If you want to know what it’s like to live like a hamster‚ than look no further than La Villa Hamster. Tucked away down an unremarkable side-street near the centre of the western French city‚ La Villa Hamster offers guests the "unique" opportunity to live the life of a rodent.The hotel has all basic amenities essential for a rodent such as containers of organic grain‚ a metal water spigot activating by pushing a giant lever with your foot‚ and a double bed accessible only by a step ladder and
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t Unusual headache. History Patient is 63-year-old right-handed white female who presents with her husband for evaluation of an unusual headache followed by hallucinations. She does have a history of migraine headaches with aura. These started over 20 years ago. At that time‚ she had a negative workup‚ including a negative CAT scan. Her headaches usually start with biperipheral scintillating scotoma‚ which in itself can be debilitating because it significantly disrupts her vision and makes it
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The podcast Cruel and Unusual covers the issue of the death penalty and whether or not it should be allowed in the U.S. It discusses the controversy within this issue‚ especially the lethal injection and the constitutionality of capital punishment in regards to the ban of cruel and unusual punishment in the 8th amendment. Some of the cases mentioned were Wilkerson v Utah where the Supreme Court initially ruled to allow a firing squad to be used in the death penalty and Baze v Rees (2008) in which
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