...Who Is Responsible? “Hungry. Will work for food.” This is a sign that a handful of people see on a daily basis as they are driving down the streets, but that most ignore. In an age that questions whose problem the homeless population is, controversies arise over who should be taking care of these people. Homelessness is not a new concept in America. Having been around for over a century, the past few decades has become exceptionally worse. Homelessness is not something that is easily defined. Alex K. Rich and Geraldine Wagner tell their readers that most who study the problem of homelessness define the issue as “those who are forced to sleep in places not designated for sleeping.” Jennifer Bringle defines the homeless as people who do not have a “fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence” (4). However defined, the fact that they do not have a permanent residence is only the beginning of the problem. Although there are many controversies today surrounding the problem of homelessness and whether the government is responsible or not, the nation as a whole should take responsibility and work collectively to strive for an end to the problem. To some the way to end homelessness means leaving the change up to the homeless themselves. Critics today focus on the idea that people are homeless because of their own actions. In Ted Gottfried’s book Homeless: Whose Problem Is It, Ronald Reagan is quoted as saying, “The homeless . . . are homeless, you might say, by choice”...
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...Mark Jenkings Professor Renee Spraggins BEHS 453 February 12, 2015 Case Study 2 Who Is Responsible Ron was definitely on the right track after buying a pair of slacks from JC Penny’s because he was heading straight home. Also, he was kind of on the wrong track because instead of putting the bag in the trunk, he threw it in the back seat making it visible to the public if he was to pull over at the store or anywhere else. In this case, he did pull over at the store and someone happened to see a bag in the back seat and broke into his car. I wouldn’t give Ron 100% blame in this incident because in life things happen and he didn’t ask for anyone to break into his car. On the other hand, he should have put the bag in his trunk from the beginning and went straight home. Even if he didn’t go straight home, if the bag was in his trunk the robber possibly wouldn’t have stolen the bag. I give Ron 60% responsibility for his actions. In Bobby’s situation, he was specifically told by his parents on his day off of school to stay home and do not go anywhere. His first mistake was not listening to his parents and by going in his mother’s drawer and stealing money. Bobby is only 12 years old leaving the house not supervised he was definitely at risk. His intentions were pretty good by getting ready to treat Andy and Joey to the theatre but there’s a saying that people say and that’s “what goes around comes around”. By Bobby stealing money from his mom, the tables turned around...
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...During the play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, the main character Macbeth creates his own downfall. Macbeth’s undoing can be considered to be lead by many different reasons. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth was a faithful, devoted servant to the king of Scotland, However he is also one that is craving a taste of being sovereign. Although that Macbeth is indeed responsible for his own actions, Lady Macbeth’s persuasion and the Three Witches’ prophecy also played an important role in his ultimate downfall. First off, Macbeth is deeply influenced by the three witches who prophesize that he will be king. With Macbeth being the power-hungry man he is, he believes the prophecy with no proof at all. Macbeth contributed to his own...
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...allow innocent people into their country and instead watched them get brutalized and murdered. The other countries could have saved lives and prevented these tragedies from happening if they would have tried to help the victims that got targeted. Beside Adolf Hitler, Nazi soldiers, and the German army who persecuted and murdered innocent Jews, and other countries were most...
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...Who is Responsible for Sex Education? Writing 291 Joseph A. Marco 22 July 2010 Public schools systems have been implementing sexual education into their classrooms as a regular part of instruction for decades. Ongoing controversies exist when dealing with this issue whether sex education being taught in the public schools or whether it should be considered the responsibility of the parents. It seems most parents are either for or against it and very rarely are they standing on middle ground. Given the statistics does it matter who teaches the children of the United States the basics of sex education? Children should receive a basic unbiased and informative sex education in school, from their it should be the parents responsibility. By their 18th birthday, six in 10 teenage women and more than 5 in 10 teenage men have had sexual intercourse. Of the approximately 750,000 teen pregnancies that occur each year, 82 percent are unintended with more than one quarter ending abortion. The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world – almost twice as high as England, Canada, and Wales and eight times as high as the Netherlands and Japan. In addition to the teen pregnancy rate, the teens in the United States contract roughly nine million new sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) each year. Though teens in the United States have levels of sexual activity similar to levels among their Canadian, English, French, and Swedish...
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...Enough!!! Who is responsible for the Financial Crisis? Everyone who tries to answer this question just points fingers, and the ones who are being pointed to, react by saying: “Hey, it wasn’t me or my company, I trusted the system,” or “I relied on somebody else’s judgment.” Some people blame the consumers for spending too much; some blame the banks for their lending practices, while others blame the credit agencies for their vague ratings. But by now, we are completely sure of one thing; the housing bubble was one factor that generated this financial crisis. So, who is to be blame for creating the housing bubble? According to John Taylor’s article, “How Government Created the Financial Crisis,” lax policies implemented by the Federal Reserve (Fed) caused the financial crisis. As a response to John Taylor’s opinion, Alan Greenspan’s article, “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble”, defends the Fed’s policies and places the fault on mortgage rates, such as long-term or fixed mortgages, as the real cause that triggered the Housing bubble. Even though John Taylor’s, a professor of Economics at Stanford, and Alan Greenspan’s, a former chairman of the Federal reserve, opinions are strongly supported by facts, I’m truly fed up of hearing excuses and finger pointing about the current financial crisis. The fact is that both the Fed’s policies and the rates on mortgages initiated the housing bubble, and I can’t reject either explanation. However I believe that it is time...
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...Cali Van Moorlehem P.2 Most responsible for the witchcraft hysteria In The Crucible (1953), Arthur Miller explains to us about how the witchcraft hysteria which causes people in Salem MA. to start freaking out when they have evil spirits around them. When Abby starts to blame Tituba for taking all the girls into the woods and makes them dance. Abby is a girl is having an affair with John Proctor is the guy that knows the girls are pretending but can't confess , Abigail begins to turn on Tituba and she will confess to the slaves. Also Abby likes to call people out...
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...these products. It is irresponsible for a company to sell that much of a product – especially considering the importance of CDS’ to the top and bottom lines – without knowing what they are selling. If they did realize that these securities were not as secure as the agencies indicated and misrepresented them to customers, then AIG should shoulder most of the blame. The final component of blame should fall to the Federal Reserve. In this situation, the Fed (and White House) should have ensured that if they were going to bail out AIG and take over 80% of the company, controls should have been put into place to ensure that the taxpayers receive their money back. Profligate spending at AIG should not have been allowed and the people responsible for the company’s disaster should have been replaced without golden parachute. Ultimately, if the government is going to get the taxpayers involved in a market event, it needs to look after that taxpayers’ interests first and foremost, and that does not look like it was the case when the estimates for $12-20...
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...Napoleon, a harsh and cruel ruler, that enforced a military society unjustly. From his conceited and stuck-up rise to power. Making him seem as if he is the best around and no one, no one can compete with him. Napoleon can be seen as arrogant and stuck up from the very begin of his rule, from taking away all the forming democratic ideas and even just from the crowning ceremony. Napoleon being himself took over and furthermore, ruined the crowning ceremony by ripping and stealing the crown from the priest. He stole someone else’s potential place by grasping and stealing the crown the priest could have placed on someone else. Believe it or not but Napoleon is a fake, his untrustworthiness also shows when he steals the crown from the priest...
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...head. The official claimed that she was attempting to retrieve parts of the president’ head. In fact, she even exclaimed after she got back to her seat: “I have his (President Kennedy) brain in my hands!” In addition, Mrs. Kennedy would have stayed on top of the back of the presidential limousine if a secret service agent named Clint Hill did not guide her back. According to him, although he only got to the Presidential Limousine after the president was fatally struck in the head, he actually started running toward the presidential limousine when he heard the shot that missed. At approximately 12:45 pm, the limousine arrived at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the president was treated in Emergency Room One for surgery. One of the doctors who conducted the surgery, Dr. Charles Carrico, described the President’s condition: “blue-white or ashen in color; had slow, spasmodic agonal respiration without any coordination; made no voluntary movements; eyes open with pupils dilated without any reaction to light; evidenced no palpable pulse; and a few chest sounds which were thought to be heart beats.” He believed that although the president was still breathing, however, the president was wounded too fatally that nothing could be done to revive...
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...If you follow good advice your life will be much simpler. Even though it is your choice to follow it not doing so may lead to bad results. This occurs several times throughout the Odyssey. In the Odyssey, Homer portrays Odysseus as a stubborn man as well as a man that lets his emotions and opinions get in the way of making the right choices. The first time Odysseus is offered good advice is when he and his men are inside the Cyclops’s cave. His men urge him to leave but Odysseus chooses not to because of his curiosity. Odysseus is determined to see the Cyclops and observe his behavior even though it is a risk. When the Cyclops entered the cave he blocks the entrance trapping Odysseus and his men inside the cave. He and his men are forced to confront the cyclops resulting in the death of two of his men. The second time Odysseus was offered good advice was shortly after the men were trapped inside the cave. He and his men succeeded in escaping the cave but Odysseus was not able to contain his emotions and lashed out at the cyclops. Due to his anger at the cyclops for killing his men, Odysseus started yelling at the cyclops and taunted him. This infuriated the cyclops and since Odysseus and his men had blinded the cyclops in order to escape, the cyclops without thinking grabbed a mountain top and thew if as far as he could. This in turn created a wave that pushed their boat to shore delaying their journey to Ithaca even more. The third...
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...they get married, but the fateful, whirlwind love affair ultimately leads to the untimely deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence, Romeo’s priest, is often falsely accused of being responsible for the double suicide that ended the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet. However, all of the major events that lead to the deaths...
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...I believe that Romeo and Juliet are responsible for their own deaths because they were the ones who chose to commit suicide. They had a choice to commit suicide or not. Romeo and Juliet were responsible for their own deaths as evidence by Romeo’s and Juliet’s choices to act upon their love for each other too quickly, their decision to hide their marriage from their families and take their own lives were on them and only them. If they would have thought to tell their parents about them and showed how happy they were together, Juliet wouldn’t have to fake her own death and Romeo wouldn’t have to get poison to kill himself right by Juliet. When Juliet woke up the friar tried to get her out of the tum but she saw Romeo and wanted to die to,...
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...Who is most responsible for environmental degradation? Name: Yichang(Kathy) Chen Course: YUELI DY Instructor: Ben Collins Nowadays, environmental degradation has become the current greatest issue all over the world. Many scientists warn that if environmental degradation can not be prevented, one day the earth will suffer destructive disease such as natural diseases and the end of earth without any early warning. A great number of environmental problems now have a serious effect on our world. As globalization is booming, which causes the earth’s natural problems to change into international issues, all nations will suffer great damage and need to keep a watchful eye on environmental degradation. There are some urgent problems which are now affecting the world, and which we need to solve quickly, are acid rain, air pollution, global warming, hazardous waste, ozone depletion, smog, water pollution and so on. It is easy to see that environmental degradation is a serious issue for the whole international community. If we want to solve it, the most principle point we need to research is what causes it. As we know, human beings and nature itself need to carry on the responsibility of environmental degradation as two main parts in the world. Although environment can be changed over time by natural process, it is not ignorable that human activities have great impacts on environment. According to many scientists, compared with natural process, human...
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...If you have ever read Romeo and Juliet you know at the end they both die. Their love for each other killed them. But have you ever wondered who was really responsible for their deaths? People would usually say they killed themselves. You’re correct, but who lead them to the point that death was their answer? On the other hand people would say it was someone else’s fault. They lead them into it. Well if that’s the case then who? No one knows the true “killer”. The one/ones who lead them to kill themselves. There is so many people to choose from. But when you narrow it down, it doesn’t take long to notice. The most reasonable answer is their parents. One reason that their parents are reasonable is that both Juliet’s and Romeo’s family hate each other. So they had to hide from their families that they were in love with each other. If they didn’t hide their love for each other, someone would get punished. This is what they thought, but they didn’t want to take the chance of someone getting hurt. In the story Romeo was talking about Juliet and someone stopped him and told him that, that was the royal family and that they are enemies with her family. So their parents wouldn’t allow them to be together. They weren’t allowed to talk to each other. Their parents were so worried about...
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