INTRODUCTION According to Wikipedia, custom is defined by an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, transports, personal effects and hazardous items in and out of a country. Other definition of custom is practice or rule of conduct established in a particular community, locality, or trade, by long usage and obligatory on those within its scope. A valid custom must be certain, reasonable
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Term Paper: Predictive Policing Sherrell Hall Dr. Kaali Dass CIS-500: Information System Decision Making April 21, 2014 When one thinks of predictive policing, what does he or she think about? Some may think it’s a way for police officers to know of a crime that’s going to take place. Others may think a group of policeman will gather together and come up with predictions on what crime is going to take place next and where. While both statements are somewhat true, let’s take a look at what
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Durkheim and Marx have argued that religion is a conservative force in the sense that it maintains the status quo, disagreeing with sociologists such as Weber and Gramsci who say it is a more radical force and prompts change, and even some fundamentalist groups have gotten involved to argue that religion is conservative in the sense that it keeps tradition and the old ways. Even feminists such as De Beauvoir have had a say in this matter. Functionalists and Marxists have the general consensus that religion
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background of most members of this group? I think that the whites or Caucasian decent still leads the majority of race here in the United States of America. If you go further south you will find that there tend to be a lot more mexicans because its closer to mexico. There are other countrys like Hawaii, where you will see a variety of races, but the japanese pretty much are the majority of the race. When you think sbout it and try and break it down into a variety of groups you will find the the most common
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bullying the victims physically, bullies make their targets injured.For example, by punching, slapping, strangling, drowning, etc. Jocks pick on the nerds who are physically small and / or have disability. By doing these harms to their victims, bullies think that they are strong and it will make them popular. On the other side, the victims can do nothing against them because they realize that they are smaller or because of their disability. The mean girls, on the other side, bully their victims emotionally
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years has gotten raises and promotions so some jobs think it is easier to fire them and hire younger people to save money. They think it is cheaper to replace them. • What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)? How does the ADEA address issues for the aging population? The Age Discrimination in Employment Act prevents jobs to discriminate against older people that are 40 and older. The ADEA was enacted in 1968. It prevents jobs from firing elderly people and hiring younger
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child safety. By doing this we can keep those athletes stay safe and try and keep them from getting injured. To keep those athletes safe we need to educate people, also follow rules, and motivate the athletes and the coaches. The first way to prevent sports injuries is to educate people about it. We need to also educate kids on the subject also. “ To help keep kids in the game for life, STOP Sports Injuries targets the sports that have the highest rates of overuse and trauma injuries.” (Sports
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Community Assessment and Action Plan Mississippi is a beautiful state with so much history. Such as any state there are negatives and there are also certain health concerns that are specific to the area compared to other areas. Throughout this paper, I will review the demographics of the state as well as discuss one of the health concerns that prevail in the state of Mississippi. State Demographics For a little more than one hundred years, cotton was the undisputed king of Mississippi's economy
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UNIT 3: Health, Safety and Security in Health and Social Care. Bilqis Ishaq-Bakare Age group: 3 to 6 Introduction In this assignment I will be identifying Hazards in a health and social care setting, the likelihood of this hazard harming a service and the severity the injury from the hazard will course and also say the risk rating of the hazard by multiplying the likelihood and the severity together. I will also find solution to this hazards and what kind of actions need to be taken
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Quiz on the Bread Group Choose the best answer. 1. Breads, cereals, rice, and pasta are high in... a. calcium b. carbohydrates c. fat 2. Whole-grain foods like brown rice and whole wheat bread are better choices than white rice and white bread because whole-grains... a. contain more fiber b. contain more vitamin C c. cost less 3. A doughnut has... a. more sugar than bread b. more fat than bread c. less fiber than bread all of the above Q: 1. Which of the following nutrients is needed
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