...this case make it very hard to determine whether this is an example of judicial activism or judicial restraint. The state of North Carolina deemed to have displayed judicial activism in regards to the actions taken by the officer during the traffic stop and also during the trial. Supporting facts in regards to this would be the fact that Officer Darisse did not have enough grounds to initiate the traffic stop, the fact that the evidence of cocaine was obtained on personal assumptions of the suspects appearing nervous as the officer indicated, instead of having reasonable doubt, and lastly the fact that the evidence seized during the traffic stop was obtained as a result in violation of the fourth amendment. PART B In the following assignment I have been asked to discuss two interest groups of my choice, one whose agenda I agree with and one whose agenda I disagree with. For the interest group whose agenda I agree with, I am going to pick the National Right to Life...protecting life in America since 1968. The mission statement of the National Right to Life is to protect and defend the most fundamental right of any human, the right to life of every innocent human being from the beginning of their life to the end which would be natural death. This particular group strives to achieve its mission through education, legislation and political action. Activities include providing research, education materials, information and leadership training for the effective right to life...
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...them out -- immediately. I think that to take the life of an unborn just because the couple involved were too lazy to use contraceptives, is immature and quite horrid. In this informative paper, you as a reader will come to understand the facts on abortion and then understand where I stand. Let us begin. According to US Abortion data provided in 1995 by Planned Parenthood, there were 1.8 million first trimester abortions, 180 thousand second trimester abortions, and about four thousand required Hysterotomies. Now according to these figures we, as the United States, killed/aborted 1,984,000 fetus'. Sure we could keep down the increase in our population at this rate, but where would we be emotionally? Speaking from a "my" point of view, I wouldn't get to far. I enjoy children profusely and thinking that there are 1.9 million children less in the world every year sends shivers down my spine. But I guess you may say that it is not my place to speak. There are fewer deaths per million abortions than per million births according to the Planned Parenthood survey of 1995. There are nine deaths per million abortion procedures and sixty-three deaths per million births. Both complications and the death rate rise with the age of the fetus. I can understand that these facts portray a much better picture for abortion than carrying to term, but what about the pain that the fetus will feel? According to pro-choice...
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...HIS 301 Week 4 Quiz www.StudentWhiz.com 1. Based on Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania v. Casey, which of the following governmental conditions imposes an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose an abortion? • spousal consent • informed consent • parental consent for underage persons with a judicial bypass procedure • waiting period of 24 hours between consent and the procedure Click here to download HIS 301 Week 4 Quiz 2. If a broadcast journalist reports false information about a non-public figure, thereby resulting in damages to a victim, what would this illustrate? • libel • slander • reporter’s privilege • shield law 3. Between 1963 and 1990, which standard of review was used by the Court to evaluate free exercise claims? • neutrality test • Lemon test • rational basis test • strict scrutiny Want to check out the complete Assignment..?? Visit HIS 301 Week 3 Quiz 4. Which case (majority opinion) adopted the “bad tendency” test as a means for resolving disputes involving the freedom of speech? • Virginia v. Hicks • Schenck v. United States • Brandenburg v. Ohio • Gitlow v. New York 5. If a professor at a public school imposes a policy barring students from wearing all types of hats in the classroom, this would most appropriately be labeled as a _________? • ban on protected speech • neutral law that may impact students’ expression • content-based limitation on political speech • regulation of protected speech Want...
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...that to take the life of an unborn just because the couple involved were too lazy to use contraceptives, is immature and quite horrid. In this informative paper, you as a reader will come to understand the facts on abortion and then understand where I stand. Let us begin. According to US Abortion data provided in 1995 by Planned Parenthood, there were 1.8 million first trimester abortions, 180 thousand second trimester abortions, and about four thousand required Hysterotomies. Now according to these figures we, as the United States, killed/aborted 1,984,000 fetus'. Sure we could keep down the increase in our population at this rate, but where would we be emotionally? Speaking from a "my" point of view, I wouldn't get to far. I enjoy children profusely and thinking that there are 1.9 million children less in the world every year sends shivers down my spine. But I guess you may say that it is not my place to speak. There are fewer deaths per million abortions than per million births according to the Planned Parenthood survey of 1995. There are nine deaths per million abortion procedures and sixty-three deaths per million births. Both complications and the death rate rise with the age of the fetus. I can understand that these facts portray a much better picture for abortion than carrying to term, but what about the pain that the fetus will feel? According...
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... I think that to take the life of an unborn just because the couple involved were too lazy to use contraceptives, is immature and quite horrid. In this informative paper, you as a reader will come to understand the facts on abortion and then understand where I stand. Let us begin. According to US Abortion data provided in 1995 by Planned Parenthood, there were 1.8 million first trimester abortions, 180 thousand second trimester abortions, and about four thousand required Hysterotomies. Now according to these figures we, as the United States, killed/aborted 1,984,000 fetus'. Sure we could keep down the increase in our population at this rate, but where would we be emotionally? Speaking from a "my" point of view, I wouldn't get to far. I enjoy children profusely and thinking that there are 1.9 million children less in the world every year sends shivers down my spine. But I guess you may say that it is not my place to speak. There are fewer deaths per million abortions than per million births according to the Planned Parenthood survey of 1995. There are nine deaths per million abortion procedures and sixty-three deaths per million births. Both complications and the death rate rise with the age of the fetus. I can understand that these facts portray a much better picture for abortion than carrying to term, but what about the pain that the fetus will feel?...
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...For this assignment, I evaluated an article by Beverly Ballaro and Geraldine Wagner entitled Abortion and Minors: An Overview. This article discusses the issue of medical abortions performed on minors and the medical risks involved. It also discusses the rights of the young mothers and whether or not it should be lawful to mandate that their parents must be notified in advance of an abortion. Since girls under the age of eighteen are legally minors, and an abortion is a serious procedure, it is necessary to explore whether or not notifying the parents of these girls should be considered lawful. In the article Abortion and Minors: An Overview, the authors discuss various points on parental permission for abortions performed on minors. Providing statistics and background information, the authors go on to discuss the practices of different laws across the United States. The best interests of the minors in question and whether or not those minors are physically and psychologically advanced enough to handle to short and long-term physical and emotional affects of abortion. The article closes with advancements and changes in the laws regarding teen abortion today and where the future of the issue might be headed. The authors provide many facts and statistics regarding underage abortion. They state that teen abortions actually only make up a small percentage of the abortions in the United States. They also state that there are currently thirty-six states with laws regarding abortion...
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...Worldview Application Assignment Abortion The movie October Baby is a movie about how a girl survived an abortion and lived a normal life. Imagine knowing that you were supposed to be aborted or killed. Christians should stick up for what the Bible preaches and save the innocent babies; also, the need to stand up and help the babies survive. Christians are very outspoken about this social issue and want it resolved. Abortion is a major social issue today. Many people believe, though, that a woman should have the right to get rid of her baby if she is unable to provide for it. Also, they do not believe that once pregnant, that it is just cells and not an actual baby. These pro-choice people think that life does not begin until the baby is born and in the world. This issue is running rampant in America and all over the world. First, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, abortion is “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus” (merriam-webster.com).Termination is a key word in the definition as well as the word death. Termination essentially means to get rid of. Death cannot happen if there is no life as pro-choice advocates believe. Additionally, Abortion can be done through many ways. In one way, the fetus is actually sucked up through a vacuum type machine. Another way is through a saline that causes contractions in which it comes out through the uterus. So pretty much like giving...
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...lived. Their ethics guide them through the decisions they make in a lifetime. In this assignment I will attempt to recommend an ethical decision that is presented to a recent top graduate from Liberty University named Benji. From our reading we learn that Benji is invited to attend an event at the New Gen Health Services headquarters. We are told that Benji accepts this all inclusive invitation and decides the opportunity is worth the trip. While awaiting his flight to Seattle Benji takes the opportunity to learn a little about the company that is attempting to recruit him. Once he begins his search Benji learns of some of the good things that the company does. He finds that New Gen sends researchers around the world in an attempt to find new beneficial health services. This action seems to be reinforced with another article that interviews the CEO who professes his mission of creating a healthier America and touting the companies leading ethics code. Having found these articles as well as many supporting the financial wellness of company Benji seems to have found a great company to work for. As it is with many situations things that appear too good to be true usually are. With continued researched Benji begins to find articles that paint a different picture of the company he is being courted by. He finds that New Gen has been supporting organizations such as ACLU and Planned Parenthood. In conjunction with this support Benji also finds the company may have been using business...
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...------------------------------------------------- Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide * Functional Health Pattern (FHP) Template Directions: This FHP template is to be used for organizing community assessment data in preparation for completion of your collaborative learning community (CLC) assignment. Address every bulleted statement in each section with data or rationale for deferral. You may also add additional bullet points if applicable to your community. Value/Belief Pattern Predominant ethnic and cultural groups along with beliefs related to health. * Caucasian 69.9% * Hispanic 17% * Black 5.8% Predominant spiritual beliefs in the community that may influence health. * Christian (several mega churches in the community) * Catholic * New Age, Wiccan ( Predominantly in the Old Colorado City and Manitou areas) Availability of spiritual resources within or near the community (churches/chapels, synagogues, chaplains, Bible studies, sacraments, self-help groups, support groups, etc.). * New Life Church (Mega Church) * Focus on the Family ( church and Christian Publishing company) * St. Mary’s (Parish and school) * Corpus Christi (Catholic church and school) * Colorado Christian School and Church * Temple Shalom (Jewish Synagogue and Community Center) * MADD * Al-Anon * AA * Penrose- St. Francis Health System offers health clinics, support group for cancer pt’s and family, breastfeeding...
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...awaiting his flight to Seattle, Benji decided to do some online research about New Gen. Most of the articles touted the great financials the company was producing. One article talked about how New Gen sent researchers around the world in search of new beneficial health resources. Another article contained an interview with New Gen’s founder and CEO talking about his “mission” to create a healthier America and about his company’s industry-leading ethics code. Another article, however, mentioned how the founder and CEO had a pattern of starting new businesses, building them up and then, selling them at a huge profit before moving on to something else. There was also another article that talked about how New Gen was a big contributor to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and various “progressive” causes. Benji also came across a “gripe site” that accused New Gen of various questionable business practices such as: forced purchase; tie-in agreements with their distributors that required distributors to purchase set amounts of product with payment in advance, regardless of the distributors’ actual sales; and required them to purchase set amounts of less popular products if they wanted to purchase the more...
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...purpose of the course is to practice and improve the writing skills you’ve acquired in your academic career to date. You will find, I believe, that having strong writing skills will be an invaluable asset to your future academic and professional careers. In the coming weeks you will complete various writing assignments, taking each of them through the stages of drafting, revising, and editing before handing them in for a grade. I will give you all assignments in writing posted to Blackboard; also I will post all reading material on Blackboard or we’ll retrieve materials through online sources; thus there are no texts to buy for this course. Requirements You will complete approximately four graded assignments over the course of this semester – comprised of the following: 1. Politics, government policy, and/or social and cultural issues. Some of you may be interested and engaged in these matters already – such matters as economic theory and policy, immigration, gun rights vs. sensible gun regulation, health care policy, veteran affairs and funding, equal pay for women, women’s access to abortion and contraception, the right wing’s current attempt to defund Planned Parenthood; the Tea Party vs. . . . ALL government at large; race issues (the Black Lives Matter movement and all that it entails, especially policing in minority communities and minority profiling); voter rights vs. draconian voter ID laws and eliminating early voting; drug policies; foreign policy (involvement/intervention...
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...Stephanie Thompson Weller, Worth GE 217 Sunday, February 26, 2012 Week 10/ Assignment 1 Gender Issues: Who has Faced Greater Challenges; Men or Women? Males and females both face great trials and hardships throughout their lifetimes. Although the two both endure their share of adversities, it is always harder for one gender than the other. In this country it has always been the male figures that receive special treatment and circumstance. Since the founding of our great country, The United States of America, it has been women that have faced the greater and more daunting challenges. Our ancestors founded the first American colony in 1585. Ever since that day it has been a long and tedious journey for woman as a whole. Women were expected to hold the future of our country in their hands while, at the same time, they were looked at as lesser beings (Goldberg). Women were not given the same luxuries as men, but they were made to endure much greater responsibilities as well as workloads (Buchanan). Women were expected to bare children, take care of the home, wash the clothes, farm, and cook. They were responsible for making linens and clothing, taking care of their men, and many more tasks (Goldberg). As time went on America, as a people, expanded and progressed. As a country we began to better ourselves and pave the way for future generations. One thing that remained the same throughout the years, decades, and even eras was the social status of American women (Goldberg)...
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...PSYC 2020 Student Number: 782793 Submission date: 05/05/2015 Assignment Topic: In South Africa, teenage pregnancy is on rise as a result of how these teenagers make sense of their sexuality. In South African adolescent marks the transition from childhood to adulthood, which in some instances is filled with a period of opportunities, challenges, changes, skills, pressures and physical, cognitive and psychosocial development. Teenagers are faced with an immense amount of peer pressure, physiological and emotional changes, sexual experimentation that increases the risk of pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. While many teenagers may engage in pre-marital sex some never become pregnant. Teenage pregnancy has become all too common in this day and age. Some teenagers think it will not happen to them and do not use necessary precautions to protect themselves against pregnancy. There are several causes for teen pregnancy and the effects can be life changing. Research done has indicated that there is not one single cause to teenage pregnancy, but there are whole host of causes to this pandemic. Factors that can contribute to the number of teenagers who fall pregnant are for example, gender power imbalances (associated with significantly older partners in particular), early sexual debut, barriers to contraceptive use (seldom used at sexual initiation), and misinformation on sexual health matters. Pregnancy at a very young age may result in pregnancy complications that...
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...Gender Identity Every sexual thought, attraction,preference, development, feeling, memory, fantasy, and choice stem from complex brain activity. A complex genetic code determines body type; but that type does not always dictate sexual identity. Sexual identity is an even more complex development that encompasses hormone levels, social learning, individual perception, and attraction. Humans are born genetically male or female; but that does not necessarily control which sexual identity the individual will discover. Planned Parenthood (2012) defines gender identity as how a person feels about and expresses his or her gender; despite genetic or natural gender assignment. Some humans are genetically male or female and identify with the traditional gender roles; but others may find that the traditional cultural norms do not match their feelings or thoughts. Sexual identity is the sexual part of human expression that does not include ideas like sexual orientation, sexual preference, physical gender, or body type. If an individual considers his or her gender as female and is at ease with referring to his or her individual sexual characteristics in feminine terms, his or her gender identity is female. Gender identity has nothing to do with the physical characteristics of gender; but focuses on how the individual thinks (either masculine or feminine) and how he or she expresses those feelings. Ghosh (2012) explains gender identity as “self-identified, as a result of a combination...
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...Intro to Sociology (SOCI 100) Information Literacy Assignment Part II The Main Purpose of this article is addressing how top selling rap artist view fatherhood, motherhood, and parenthood. This happens to be a hot button issue of black men and how they are as fathers. According to research it shows that from 2004 to 2009 rap music was able to reach the masses like no other time. Thus the researchers wanted to analyze what the music that was being circulated was saying about black families and how these artists depicted themselves. So in the past has shown black men not as involved with their kids or involved all together due to many issues like poverty, education, and not taking personal responsibility. Because of this research that has presented in the past this article is addressing what black men say, especially black rappers on how they feel about their fathers, on them being fathers, on their mothers, and the mothers of their children. The key question the author is addressing happens to be “The Black Family”. Specifically how rappers represent or show through their music how it is. This author breaks it down into smaller parts but throughout all the research this is the common thread. For example he references many artists like Nas, Kanye West, Rick Ross and many more, lyrics they have used in songs. The researcher defined these lyrics and explained what these artists were saying through their music about baby mamas, their fathers, their kids, and so on. The...
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