Erikson Pepa Business writing Report: Draft March 3, 2014 Lower Drinking Age Turning 18 is a big year, probably one of the biggest in our young lives. When you turn 18 a million doors open, you can change your name, get tattooed, vote, join the military, go to jail and be trialed as an adult, basically anything you can think of, except one thing and that’s buying/drinking alcohol. That’s one thing that always got my attention: why 21? If you are considered by the law an adult at 18 then
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Campus Design a Campaign Against Student Alcohol Abuse (CAS: Campus Alcohol Study for short), focuses more heavily on binge drinking and prevention than it does on the Greek system itself. The authors, Wechsler, Nelson, and Weitzman, contend that binge drinking is a nationally recognized problem but has not been studied efficiently enough to warrant effective prevention plans. The purpose of this article is to share with the public the results of a survey representing 50,000 students in 140 colleges,
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homelessness and only about 5 percent of them have gone and identified themselves as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, that’s according to the federal centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One reason that the rate is emerging is because these youth are being pushed out of their homes do to their family’s response to their sexual orientation or gender identity. In most cases many face abandonment and rejection from families, and in other reason most
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Worldwide, about one-fourth of the approximately 180 million pregnancies known to occur each year are resolved by abortion. Abortions numbered an estimated 46 million in 1995, but given the uncertainty of the data, that number could be as low as 42 million or as high as 50 million. About 35 in every 1,000 women aged 15-44 have an abortion each year.(6) Other third world countries are unfortunately too poor to carry out safe and legal abortions. That cause the rate of unsafe and illegal procedures
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Child Sexual Abuse Kenny Orr 12/5/11 Mrs. Walters Green Child sexual abuse can happen anywhere, in any neighborhood, in every religion or group, covering all racial or ethnic groups, and it certainly doesn’t matter how rich or poor you are. You can live in a beautiful, gated-community of homes worth millions of dollars, and your child is still not protected from being molested or abused. (Child Sexual Abuse, April 3, 2008) Child sexual abuse is the use of a child for
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Case study No.1 Workplace violence Problem definition Workplace violence occurs in a work setting which is an act of aggression, physical assault, or threatening behavior that causes physical or emotional harm and endangers the health or safety of the customers, coworkers, or managers. Justification of the Problem There are many causes of Workplace violence including economic, societal, psychological, and organizations issues. The economic causes are an over-stressed population, re-organizing
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(“Prisoners in 2015”). This number includes both adults and juveniles within the prison system. As of 2015, 48,043 juveniles were in residential placement (OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book). According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), “CJRP [Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement] is administered biennially and collects information from all secure and nonsecure residential placement facilities that house juvenile offenders, defined as persons younger than 21 who
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Advocates want to shift from police intervention to prevention, after years spent toughening prison sentences for pimps and overhauling how the state treats sex trafficking victims. The new effort coincides with the attention Minneapolis will receive hosting the 2018 Super Bowl, an international event that will draw thousands of wealthy visitors and what experts say is a likely small surge in sex trafficking. But advocates say criminal sexual enterprise has taken root in the state and will remain
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present, and integrated into the religion, education, philosophy and military cultures of various societies and also condemned by many. 1 Introduction 2.1 Ancient history Homosexuality is defined as sexual orientation characterized by aesthetic attraction, romantic love, and sexual desire exclusively for members of the same sex or gender identity. The potential for homosexual behavior appears to be a basic part of human sexuality, since many people experience homosexual interest, curiosity
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Clery who attended Lehigh University in Pennsylvania was rape and strangled to death in 1986. The Clery Act requires colleges to annually publish criminal statistics that occur on or near college campuses to raise awareness of crime prevention programs, sexual assault reporting procedures, and promote safety related mechanisms. It also requires campuses to be notified in a timely manner in case of a serious crime, crime logs to be maintained, and that victims be notified of the conduct as result of
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