In 2010, there were 36,341 emergency room visits and 25,024 hospitalisations for gun injuries. This totalled to an estimated $6.3 million. According to the World Health Organisation, the cost of gun violence includes legal services, medical costs, policing, foster care, life insurance and psychological costs such as pain and suffering. Listed above has been just a snippet of all of the money-wasting costs of gun violence, all fuelled by a simple weapon with preventable access: a
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the utmost importance in the growth and development of artistic expression. “The struggle for freedom of expression is as ancient as the history of censorship” (Newth). Everywhere free expression has been achieved, censorship follows, never too far behind. One of the more famous acts of censorship occurred when Socrates, a most influential philosopher of history was sentenced to drink poison for “corrupting” the youth with his ideals that varied from the current political and moral codes of his time
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BADM 581 5 October 2011 Business and Negotiation; the US and China as Antitheses? Developing a productive rapport with China and Chinese business is tantamount to modern economic success. For both parties it is a new experience; China emerges from a 24-year Communist hiatus and the US deals with individuals and social norms that are entirely different to those of the western world (Baldinger, 6). As both countries fight naturally xenophobic and insular ideological tendencies, it is interesting
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4. “The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now species.” Explain what Foucault means by this remark with reference to the nineteenth century process he calls “the medicalisation of the sexually peculiar”. At the heart of the statement and references contained in the title are illustrations of how power is expressed through normative discourse in Western capitalist society. The process of how an act once termed ‘sodomy’ became transformed into the term ‘homosexual’
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A Short History and Summary of the Current Conditions in Morocco and Its Geographical Situation Student Name HUMN 305 Section Professor Date Title: A Short History and Summary of the Current Conditions in Morocco and Its Geographical Situation No Abstract Needed for Global Issues Research Papers Geography and Background Our nation, the Kingdom of Morocco, is situated in a historically strategic location along the Strait of Gibraltar in North Africa, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean
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What Effects Do Parental Incarceration Have on Children? Parental incarceration can disrupt a child’s life by removing a key social support from their day-to-day routine, forcing the child to move to different households and schools with new expectations they must follow, and removing financial support once provided by the parent. In some cases, these disruptions can lead to insecure attachments to parents and caregivers, the child exhibiting antisocial behaviors and/or mental health issues
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some argue it is likely to be underproduced without regulation Others suggest supply would exist without regulation • There are competing theories regarding the need for and intention of regulation Defining Regulation “[R]egulation is the policing, according to a rule, of a subject‟s choice of activity, by an entity not directly party to or involved in the activity.” • Elements of regulation Intention to intervene Restriction on choice to achieve certain goals Exercise of control by a
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prostitution. This was done as a sign to show tribute to the god of hospitality. This was indeed very important to a nomadic people. Most of earliest references that most of us are familiar with come from the bible. This contains the earlier recorded history of the Jewish people. In contrast to the Ancient Sumerians the Jewish people did not like prostitution and looked down on them. Here is a quote from the bible. "For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;
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ordinarily held notion that women are the social pillar, but with so many of women shifting their positions then the effect on the society is bound to be significant. Therefore, women are increasingly being incarcerated in the United States because of a history of domestic violence that is driving them to engage in more dangerous activities. This paper starts by highlighting a series of statistics relating to women's incarceration in the United States, especially the growing trends of incarceration and the
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The University of Chicago Red Ink in the Rearview Mirror: Local Fiscal Conditions and the Issuance of Traffic Tickets Author(s): Thomas A. Garrett and Gary A. Wagner Source: Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 52, No. 1 (February 2009), pp. 71-90 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/589702 . Accessed: 12/03/2011 22:11 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www
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