...Just Deserts Paper Kaschelle Nichol ADJ/215 August 1, 2012 Jeffery Hollan Just Deserts Paper The concept of just deserts in the criminal justice system has been seen in society since biblical times. It is described in the bible as, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” The primary basis for this line of thinking is that when a crime is committed or a wrong is done to someone, that the scales of justice are out of balance and that in order for things to be set straight, that wrong must be righted, or the crime must be paid for under some type of punishment. There are many arguments out there that are in favor of using the just deserts model in our justice system, but there are just as many against using it. Either way, both sides present interesting thoughts and credible reasons as to why just deserts are acceptable or unacceptable. Many people are in agreement that the just deserts model is the best way to approach punishments of offenders because it is supposed to mean that the punishment fits the crime. It is supposed to ensure that the crime that was committed is being addressed in a manner that will satisfy all parties that the convicted offender is receiving a fair amount of punishment in exchange for committing the crime that they chose to complete or attempt. The opinions on how this topic should be carried out and to what severity vary greatly. Some people think that any crime committed should be addressed with a firm set of limitations...
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...Just Dessert Name: ADJ/215 Date: Instructor: Just Dessert It is a normal feeling for people in our society to want someone to be punished for the crime they commit. Without any type of punishment it feels like justice was not served especially when there is a victim involved. This in many people’s eyes is a way to justify punishment and it is based on the just dessert theory. With this theory it is the belief that a person should be punished based on the harm they caused and the crime they committed. In other words the punishment should fit the crime. People who are for just dessert believe that retribution justifies punishment because it is deserving based on the crime. Where the opposing side believes that justification of punishment lies in the ability to prevent or minimize future harm. Arguments in Favor of Just Dessert When researching just dessert I found three particular arguments in favor of the just dessert theory. The first argument is that the punishment should be the same for all offenders based on the crime they committed. This is considered to be fair and justified punishment because it is deserving of the crime committed. The second argument supports that just dessert encompasses fair treatment both to the vulnerable in society and victims rather than just the offenders. This allows the victims of crimes to know what type of justice they can expect. And finally the third argument believes that the just desert theory is the best...
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...Just Desert Sina Tuttle ADJ/215 August 12, 2012 Jamie Price Just Desert Just Desert is defined as a person who commits a crime deserves the punishment which is proportionate to the moral of wrong doing. One justification which competes with just desert is known as deterrence rational which means the punishment of an offender reduces the time and likelihood the criminal will take part in future offenses. In many situations, a person may have the urge to punish another individual when someone has been unjustifiably harmed by an assault or a robbery. These people will most likely experience a strong desire to punish the offender and/or offenders in one way or another. In situations like this one would have to strongly believe in Just Desert. If the individual and/or individuals who have committed such crimes have done so in an unjustifiable or inhumane way, then the punishment would be well deserved and should be handed down in a manner that the criminal will suffer the consequences. Deterrence theory may also be taken into consideration when punishing a criminal and/or criminals for the offenses that were committed. The jury may feel the crime is not severe enough to warrant a harsh punishment as with just desert the punishment would fit the crime. In situations which the individual and/or individuals have committed a crime or offense such as assault or robbery. Just Desert can also be viewed as a way to punish a criminal and/or criminals unjustly. For example, if a...
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...Sand... I could almost tell you exactly how many grains lay in this desert. The days are long and hot, and the nights are longer and cold. It’s not a mistake that I am here, I chose to live this way. My name is Gabriel, I am twenty-eight years old. The Wahiba Sands became my home five weeks ago.... I used to be wealthy, with a family, I even owned the largest law firm in the united states. I used to be happy, and filled to the breaking points with love, and life. Until my company that I spent every penny, and every ounce of me on, fell under. My deep black hair began to turn a grey color. We started losing cases, and with a rising rate of failure came the rising debt. The company was going to crash, and I knew. A few months later, the bank came around to take the firm out of my hands. I made a horrible decision, I went to the bank that all of the pension money was stored. I emptied all of the accounts, and carried the money out of the bank in bags. As I was leaving I called my wife, and told her and my son Adrian to pack their things and get ready to leave the country, and that I would explain when I got home. I pull into the driveway, and see my wife standing outside the house. Frantically I told her what just happened. “Gabriel what on earth are you trying to do?!” she exclaimed. “Please just get in the car, I don’t have time. I need to leave, if you wait any longer I’ll have to leave without you and Adrian.” I proposed. She stood, unmoved, and with an unchanged mind...
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...and elucidates the fact that most people in this world want to be told that all their dreams and desires are to come true sooner or later, but Coelho states that in order for them to actually come true we have to struggle and strive to make our fantasies a reality. This compelling story is about Santiago, a normal shepherd boy, who is indeed, a dreamer. He dreams of finding great treasures and becoming rich, but he just doesn’t know where to start achieving his “personal legend.” Then, just when he was about to give up, Santiago met a very wise man that told him to listen to the omens, and he realized that these omens, good or bad, were all around him. He now knew that on your pursuit of your dreams, the universe and everything that surrounds it would do everything to help you accomplish your “personal legend.” We all believe that the universe is against us in our quest to make our dreams come true, but this novel tells us that if we just strive hard towards our goals, everything will work out in the very end. As Santiago started heading towards the desert, where he was destined to be, he faced eminent challenges and obstacles that he was yet to overcome. That is another thing that Coelho was trying to explicate, as we strive towards our dreams, we will surely face tough challenges and temptations to try and stray us away off course. These temptations and desires are there to test us if we are really determined and ordained to fulfill our “personal legends.” That is why...
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...Today was another average day. I heard that it was hot and dry today, but that didn’t effect me, because I was in the soil, where it was damp and cool. I’m never really affected by the weather and climate, so I am fine with being in many biomes. Of course, I wouldn’t last long in a desert, but to this Mediterranean climate, I can surely survive. A few days ago, I’ve hooked onto Bob’s roots. We have become such good friends! Our relationship is mutualistic, because I receive the nutrients that Bob makes, and I help give him mineral nutrients from the soil such as phosphorus! I was told by Bob that 95% of the plants need people like me to survive! That sounded so cool. Thanks to me, Bob is growing very fast, and that makes me very happy. My neighbouring Mycorrhiza friend Joe told me that plants were getting attacked by aphids! Hence, I quickly started producing chemicals that repelled aphids and attracted aphid-eating wasps! This is a great friend to have, because being able to communicate like that will protect our plants. When I help Bob, he gives me 20 percent of the glucose and sucrose produced by him! I can use these sugars to extend my hyphae deeper into the ground. There’s another use for it. I produce fruiting bodies with it! Some are mushrooms, which go above the ground, and some are truffles, which are below the ground. Rain isn’t the...
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...Hi, my name is Mya Chamberlain, and I have been a member of the Desert Sandblasters 4-H for about four years. I was first introduced to 4-H from the equestrian leader whom informed my mother about the group. When my mom told me that I should join the local 4-H club, I had no idea what 4-H was about. She told me that it would teach me about leadership and community service. Of course, that didn’t sound very amusing to a kid, but I said I would give it a try because I knew it would involve being around horses. When I first joined 4-H, I was only in the Equestrian project. I only knew two people, and had no idea that any other projects like cooking, sewing, or even photography existed. By my third year, I was in five projects instead of just one. I also, knew almost everyone in the club. One of the projects that I’m in, is Equestrian Drill. Equestrian Drill, is a project that I created. I didn’t feel like the other equestrian project was the right group for me, and I knew other kids that had felt the same way. Instead of just quitting 4-H, I decided to make my own equestrian group and invited other kids to join the group. Besides from the Equestrian Drill, I am in clothing/textiles, foods/nutrition, photography, leadership development, and outdoor adventure. With each one of these projects, I have learned great skills and have really enjoyed growing as a leader within the projects. In addition, I enjoy helping the younger member’s with their projects, and most of all encouraging...
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...semi arid desert is an interesting biome that has a lot of traits that make it unique. It looks like a bare and lifeless place but that's not the case at all. The semi arid desert is hot and dry with little rain during the winter. During the summer it gets extremely hot days. “The heat peak to extremes during the daytime because there are little clouds to shield the desert from the sun's rays.”(“Desert Biomes.” World Biomes-Desert, Cutequote.com , Feb. 2017, www.worldbiomes.com/biomes_desert.htm) The summer temperatures are between 70° and 80°F. That Savana deserts. Semi arid deserts generally occur at low latitudes but there are multiple places that they are located. “Semi arid deserts found in North America, Asia, Europe, Greenland, and Northern Russia.”(“Desert Biomes.” World Biomes-Desert, Cutequote.com , Feb. 2017, www.worldbiomes.com/biomes_desert.htm)...
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...What is a place where it can be over 100° during the day, but at night can be below freezing cold? That is the Sahara desert, the biggest desert in the world! The desert is full of fun abiotic factors. Like animals and plants and weather oh my! Do you want to relax with no sound, this is the place to be. Plants Plants can be rare in some parts of the Sahara Desert, but there are a lot of plants. Like the cactus it can contain water and has shallow roots thats why it can survive in the arid deserts. Also The Aloe contains juice used as medicine. The medicine is for health problems, and the juice tastes good. The last plant is the tallest plant in the Sahara desert, the dragon tree. It has pointy leaves so animals can't eat it or hurt it. But it...
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...Nathan gonzalez Desert Biome A desert is very hot and barely gets any rain.In the summer the tempature reaches up to 50 and 70F.Every year there is less than 250mm of water from the clouds.In the winter desert it could still be very hot but not like the summer.Deserts filled with sand. Locations,Deserts are almost all over the world.The world is getting hotter and hotter as the sun grows soon there will be l even more deserts.North America has a desert it’s called the sahara desert.A desert in Mexico and in U.S.A. is called the sonoran desert.In India and Pakiston The desert is called the Thar desert.And last is a coastal desert the other four are hot deserts.And it’s in Peru and Chili it’s called the Atacama desert. Plants, in deserts there isn't like beautiful flowers or any butterfly's NO.We have wild flowers there like flowers but different.Cacti.Cacti does not need water just a little bit.Many cacti contain very toxic stuff.Than i have a saguaro cactus.These are not like just cacti these are as big as TREES no lie.They could reach up to 70 feet very tall.Last mexican poppies there just more flowers.But yellow i guess....
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...If deserts _have_ a fault (which their present biographer is far from admitting), that fault may doubtless be found in the fact that their scenery as a rule tends to be just a trifle monotonous. Though fine in themselves, they lack variety. To be sure, very few of the deserts of real life possess that absolute flatness, sandiness and sameness, which characterises the familiar desert of the poet and of the annual exhibitions--a desert all level yellow expanse, most bilious in its colouring, and relieved by but four allowable academy properties, a palm-tree, a camel, a sphinx, and a pyramid. For foreground, throw in a sheikh in appropriate drapery; for background, a sky-line and a bleaching skeleton; stir and mix, and your picture is finished. Most practical deserts one comes across in travelling, however, are a great deal less simple and theatrical than that; rock preponderates over sand in their composition, and inequalities of surface are often the rule rather than the exception. There is reason to believe, indeed, that the artistic conception of the common or Burlington House desert has been unduly influenced for evil by the accessibility and the poetic adjuncts of the Egyptian sand-waste, which, being situated in a great alluvial river valley is really flat, and, being the most familiar, has therefore distorted to its own shape the mental picture of all its kind elsewhere. But most deserts of actual nature are not all flat, nor all sandy; they present a considerable diversity...
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...Exercise 9 Plant Adaptations Lamberton conservatory Introduction Plants have many different types of adaptations which allow them to survive in many different ecosystems including ones which get less than 25 cm of rain a year and ones which get over 4.5 m of rain a year! Plants must be adapted to be able to gather the materials needed for photosynthesis- CO2, water and sunlight. There are many different ways that plants have solved these problems. The Lamberton Conservatory, located in the Highland Park area of Rochester, houses a variety of seasonal plants, and plants adapted for special environments. Epiphytes, orchids, ferns, and exotic plants grow in the SW room of the actual greenhouse. The tropical forest room and the desert environment room display plants which have specialized for these climatic areas. We won’t see every habitat of the world, but we will see a variety of plants that are from a variety of ecosystems. We will be given a 30 - 45 min. tour of the conservatory then you will be allowed to spend 30 - 45 minutes browsing through the rooms in order to answer the questions on this worksheet. You may have to research the answers to some of the questions. Purpose 1. To introduce students to the beauty and fascination of plants in their "natural" environment. 2. To help develop more highly refined observation skills 3. To experience the joy of learning about the most abundant biological organisms in the environment. 4. To emphasize plant...
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...journey across the Sahara Desert. It took the group twenty five days to reach Taghaza. Like most groups, the group had a guide who was very knowledgeable of the way around the desert. However, the guide for this group was blind in one eye and has a disease in the other. He was still able to navigate through the desert “better than anyone”. After more days of travel, the group finally reached Tasarahla. There, they were able to regroup for three days. They were able to rest there and stock up on supplies. After that point in the journey, the group sent their takshif ahead to Walata with letters. The letters asked people from Walata to join them on their journey and bring water. However, sometimes takshifs...
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...A biome is a group of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms. In Miller and Levine Biology, 10 biomes are discussed. They are the Tropical Rain Forest, Tropical Dry Forest, Tropical Grassland, the Desert, Temperate Grassland, Temperate Woodland, Temperate Forest, Northwestern Coniferous Forest, Boreal Forest, and the Tundra. They all have a vast amount of differences between all of the biomes, and they will be discussed. Although not discussed in the book, the taiga is the biggest biome. The average temperature of the taiga is 32 degrees fahrenheit with about 12 to 33 inches of precipitation per year. There is little diversity in plant life. A few broad leaf tree species live in the taiga but mostly evergreen trees are the only ones that have adapted to really thrive in this environment. There are some animals that have adapted to live in the cold and snowy environment. A predator called the ermine has a thick coat of dark fur that turns white in the winter. The snowshoe rabbit also has a fur that turns white in the winter. The wolverine is able to mate during ideal conditions by delayed implantation in which they suspend dormant fertilized eggs until the conditions are ideal for bearing their young. Rainforests are the most diverse having more than 15 million species living in the biome. The rainforest biome is sometimes separated into two different biomes. They are referred to as tropical and temperate. The tropical rainforests are located between the Tropic...
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...1943. The first French edition did not appear until 1946. publisher · Reynal & Hitchcock, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (U.S. edition, both French and English); Gallimard (French edition) narrator · A pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert, where he meets the little prince. The narrator tells his story of the encounter six years after it happened. point of view · The narrator gives a first-person account, although he spends large portions of the story recounting the little prince’s own story of his travels. tone · When describing his surreal, poignant encounter with the little prince, the narrator’s tone is bittersweet. When describing the adult world, the narrator’s tone is matter-of-fact and often regretful. tense · Past settings (time) · “Six years ago,” although the current date is never specified settings (place) · The Sahara Desert and outer space protagonists · The little prince, the pilot major conflict · The childlike perspectives of the prince and, to some extent, those of the narrator are in conflict with the stifling beliefs of the adult world. rising action · After he believes he has been spurned by his rose, the prince travels to neighboring planets and eventually lands on Earth. He wanders through the desert in search of humans, and he is eventually found by the fox. climax · The fox teaches the little prince his secret, and the little prince realizes the value of his rose. falling action · The prince meets the narrator, to whom he passes...
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