I’m so lucky to live in Portage! First of all, the city events are a blast! Especially the holiday parades. Everyone loves listening to cheerful music, and watching all the exciting floats drift by. On the Fourth of July, the citizens of Portage gather together to watch fireworks, enjoy snacks, and have fun with friends. The ooh’s and aah’s fill the night sky while a display of colorful lights explode across the sky. Yet another amazing city event is the portage library events! The library does
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Case Report #1 Names: James J. Parrott, Daniel Dadi, Kevin Kleier Case: 2.4 – (Jake Baker) Course: CIS150-01 Date: October 2nd, 2011 1) Identify in a couple of sentences the “ethical dilemma” (or ethical question) inherent in the Case selected. Pose an open-ended question that generates many possible answers, not just a question that can be simply answered with a “yes” or “no” response. The ethical dilemma in the Jake Baker case concerns our nation’s most fought for and prided amendment
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Cindy Arters, an American citizen, was devastated on the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. She was angered and questionable about why would someone do this. “Anyone who was involved and participated in this event would do this mostly because of hate.” It all began on an early Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001. Cindy was recently working on the computer and doing her job like everyone else does on a regular basis. She goes to work everyday, accomplishes what she needs to get done, and goes
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serve and protect a national average of 1,000 citizens per officer (Barnard, 2008). In big cities or in high crime areas, the job is more daunting. With a large ratio of police to citizen, crime prevention can be a challenge. Police departments looked to the community for help in reporting and preventing crime. Programs like the Neighborhood Watch, D.A.R.E., and Police Explorers was created to keep the community involved. The idea was to engage the citizens and build a trust. The programs were educational
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government watching us, and Americans want to have privacy. I choose for us to have privacy because, the government is people to. What if American citizens decided to find a way to watch the government? Wouldn’t they be mad too? For example the government trying to kill Barack Obama, but the government is keeping it for a secret for a while. But citizens tap in the (NSA) and see what they doing, they would be mad, that we tap in there system. Since Obama, and Osama Bin Laden in 2001 surveillance
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monitoring the community on behaviors, moral, and civil obligations rather than criminal issues. Citizens performed these policing duties and were referred to as a civic duty, no training or pay was offered for these services. The wealthy citizens that did not want to serve their watch began to pay others to do their duty for them. Philadelphia began to offer monetary compensation for the citizens in 1658 for their service and jail wardens began to employ watchmen and increased their responsibilities
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the United States of America finds itself is not only unhealthy but also will cause the eventual demise of our once great nation. This problem is gun violence. Which works much like an earthquake, as it can’t be predicted and hits the un-expecting citizens hard. But how might we as a nation prepare for these treacherous attacks by lunatics that in the end have clear motive? I believe I have the answer, in Japan where there are many earthquakes throughout the year; the children wear helmets to and
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willingness and ability to pay. The market is segmented into three markets: students, working adults and senior citizens. Due to their budget constraints and abundance of leisure time, students and senior citizens tend to be more price-sensitive. Therefore, GV offers special discounts to encourage them to attend off-peak movie shows. Example: Ticket of Interest With Student Card With Senior Citizen Card Regular 2D Annabelle Standard Cinema Wednesday, 2pm $7.00 $4.50 $8.50 Although such a discount
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Being an American citizen comes with many rights, one of those being the right to bear arms. Richard Henry Lee, one of our founding fathers, put it best when he said, “ To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, how to use them.” Since the very beginning of our country, guns have been an important part of our lives. Our founding fathers understood the importance of the second amendment and like them, I firmly believe that the second
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utilized in a malicious or incorrect fashion leading to involuntary deaths. (Schuklenk, et al, 2011, 147) Despite this claim, if euthanasia is not legalized, it will go against the fundamental rights we have as Canadian citizens or even citizens of the world. In particular, Canadian citizens have the right to their own decisions described in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These include bodily integrity, accepting medical treatment and most importantly, individual autonomy. (Canadian Charter of Rights
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