Mississippi Needs Assessment Kana Crumby Liberty University Abstract This paper looks at the history of the state of Mississippi. Mississippi is a poor state with little resources. This paper details the risk factors that lead to poor mental health in the residents of the state as well as areas of weakness in the state. Using statistics from various sources, the author breaks down population data to form a needs assessment and summarize the state’s condition. Mississippi
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DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH THE CRIMINOLOGY LICENSURE EXAMINATION Introduction Passing the Board Examination in Criminology known as the Licensure Examination for Criminologists is the only means to get the license to practice the profession as a criminologist in the Philippines. This is mandated under Republic Act No. 6506 – the law creating the Board of Criminology of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). Once licensed as a criminologist, it gives the holder an open door to enter several
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have the same rights as whites. As a first membership rule of the Ku Klux Klan was, the potential member of the Ku Klux Klan could only be a native born, white protestant U.S. male. The Ku Klux Klan is classified as a hate group, causing murders, arson, rapes, and shootings against blacks and any other minority that they do not view as racially pure. The Ku Klux Klan was once one of the most feared groups in the South and is still a very well-known group across the world. Founding and Early History
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Minorities in Prison, Why So Many? Jennifer A. Spry ENG 122: English Composition II Ava Hardiek January 7, 2013 Minorities in Prison, Why So Many? Introduction Racism has been a part of history for many years and is a very real problem in the world, not just in the United States. For example, New England colonists fled to a new land, later to be known as America, for religious freedom from European dictators, early settlers of the United States enslaved African-Americans, Adolf Hitler murdered
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The thick air mixed with mother nature’s tears the cause for an intense emotional uprising, she had a scream trapped in her throat. The running girl with large eyes that could fill the sky and lips that could give the moon a goodnight kiss with a dark ruby stain on each crater. She was always running, running away from her demons during the day, but the night was different, she was in love with it. The thick light brown curls covering her head might, remind one of a porcupine’s quills. Her skin tone
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It was 2:00 a.m. and Paul Livoria sat in the corner stall of his restaurant staring out the window into the parking lot. His brother Sam was in the kitchen cleaning up after a very long day. Paul felt very restless, partially because of the seven cups of coffee he had had, but mostly because he was feeling very overwhelmed. He thought to himself, “Running these two restaurants shouldn’t be so complicated.” At age 46, maybe it was time for a change. The Birth of Livoria Sandwiches Inc. Brothers
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The Burma Road Riot "The 1942 riot in Nassau was a short-lived spontaneous outburst by a group of disgruntled labourers, and occurred against a background of narrow socio-economic and political policies." Quoted from "The 1942 riot in Nassau: A demand for Change?" by Gail Saunders. "The construction project promised a relative bonanza for the local unemployed, a chance to sell their labor for something like the rates they knew were normal on the mainland ... Unknown to them, however, the Bahamas
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The State and Federal Prison System Axia College Both state and federal prison systems have a long history in the United States as well as a significant presence in modern times as the prison populations for both state and federal prisons continue to grow. State and federal prisons each have their own types of institutions and security levels and house different types of criminals due to their differing jurisdictions over state versus federal prisoners. This paper
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Case Study 1: Understanding the Court System By: Kara Napolitan Sociology 205 Professor Needleman-Newman 7/18/15 Andrea Yates, at just 37 years old, snapped and drowned all five of her precious young kids in the bathtub in what the law is calling a mental breakdown. On July 2nd, 1964 Andrea (Kennedy) Yates was born in Houston, Texas. She graduated from high school, where she was her class valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and an officer in the National Honor Society. She then went
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before he charged at me. With the stripping away of basic civil rights for the middle class homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as a mob of people demolished buildings with axes and sledgehammers. This act of violence triggered looting, arson, mass murder, state terrorism, unreasonable arrests. Swarms of kids from Niparex, soldiers from Voxare, and people roaming the
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