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- 3211: The Development Of The Prison
- ... releasing non serious offenders on parole. Prisons face other problems as well. A lack of adequate funding had made improvements difficult. In addition, tensions among prisoners and between prisoners and the prison staff often run high and lead to brutal attacks. Such conditions, worsened by overcrowding, have contributed to a number of prison riots since the late 1960s. In a push to cut costs and improve efficiency, the British government began ... maximum security prisons, (2) medium security prisons, and (3) minimum security or open prisons. Maximum security prisons generally hold prisoners serving long sentences. These prisoners have commited murder, robbery, kidnapping, treason, or over serious crimes. High stone walls or strong chain fences surround most maximum security prisons. Many of these barriers have electronic detection devices and powerful spotlights. Prisoners live in cells and eat either in their cells or in a ... long corridor crossed by short corridors that hold the cells and other facilities. Prisoners must use the central corridor when they move from place to place This design allows close supervision by the warders. The high rise design is a vertical version of the corridor design. Prisoners move from floor to floor by lift. Juvenile institutions and open prisons often consist of a group of buildings surrounded by a central ...
- 3212: The Law Enforcement Profession
- ... Police in America are no longer strangers to innovation born of scandal. Law enforcement agencies nationwide have repeatedly been shaken by controversy and forced to make undesirable concessions. Has law enforcement failed to maintain the high standards required by the profession? The cost of public trust is high. It increases each time faith must be regain. Historically, law enforcement agencies throughout the nation have experienced periods of low confidence in communities preceding episodes deemed to be a breach of trust. Early pioneers in ... ruled that he was competent to stand trial for the charge (USA Today, May 13, 1994, p. 8 A). The case of Arthur McDuffie (Dec. 17, 1979) in Miami, a black male died after a high speed police chase. The police reports indicated that McDuffie died from being thrown from his motorcycle during the chase. The results of an investigation disclosed that the McDuffie's death may have been caused ...
- 3213: William Shakespeare
- ... was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to ...
- 3214: The Go Between
- ... their clothing. Leo arrives in winter clothes because he had been ill during the previous summer and doesn t have any clothes for the summer. Leo asks whether he should wear his cricket togs from school and Marcus replies I wouldn t if I were you. Only cads wear their school clothes in the holidays. It isn't done. This shows how Leo has to change while he is around Marcus, in order to observe the customs of the upper classes. He soon learns as Marcus ... mustn't. You must leave them lying wherever they happen to fall the servants will pick them up that s what they're for. When Leo and Marcus are wearing hats Leo is wearing his school band round his hat and Marcus says, You oughtn't really to be wearing the band round your hat in a snobbish tone. Hartley uses Marcus opinions as a commentary on the rigorous and ...
- 3215: The Mexican Economy
- ... to a more democratic, privatized, and deregulated government. This has opened Mexico up to greater economical prosperity. Everything from government run factories to banks have been sold to foreign and Mexican investors, willing to pay high premiums for these assets. With the threat of rebels in the south or the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) possibly overthrowing the government, the rewards that foreign investors were about to reap from the large scale ... making it almost impossible for these countries to further finance their development, thereby almost bringing development to a standstill (Lane, 17.) Along with the stocks and debts of countries dropping, the currencies of nations with high debt began to devalue against stronger nations. The United States was one of these countries. Investors fearing that any furthe r debt defaults by Mexico would place the burden of repaying these loans on the ... Mark (Zimmerman, 58.) Besides the U.S. currency value experiencing a drop, countries with debt exceeding Gross Domestic Product (GDP), such as Italy, France, and Portugal were watching there currency falter. Warnings and threats of high infl ation all over the world were just waiting to happen. Inflation reaching over sixty percent in Mexico, combined with the devalued peso, made imported products unreachable by most of the Mexican citizens. With ...
- 3216: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... attempted to regulate what types of Internet access its students had, with results reminiscent of a 1960's protest. A research associate, Martin Rimm, at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study of pornography on the school's computer networks. He put together quite a large picture collection (917,410 images) and he also tracked how often each image had been downloaded (a total of 6.4 million). Pictures of similar content had recently been declared obscene by a local court, and the school feared they might be held responsible for the content of its network. The school administration quickly removed access to all these pictures, and to the newsgroups where most of this obscenity is suspected to come from. A total of 80 newsgroups were removed, causing a large disturbance among ...
- 3217: King James Ii
- ... foreign military service during the Commonwealth period (1649-1660). James fought many battles against the Spanish while he was a naval officer for Charles II. Within the Stuart Dynasty he served his brother as lord high admiral , administered colonies in Africa and New York and fought at sea in two battles against Holland in 1665 and 1672.(6) In 1659 James promised Anne Hyde marriage and their love was secretly consummated ... so severely by Judge Jeffery's that James popularity was impaired.(11) He attempted to master opposition by controlling local elections, expelling Protestant university officials and replacing them with Catholics, reviving the Anglican Church 's High Commission, which removed the critical Bishop of London and maintain a standing army outside London and maintaining a standing army outside London, while granting toleration to Catholics and to Protestant Dissenters.(12) He did all ... foreign military service during the Commonwealth period (1649-1660). James fought many battles against the Spanish while he was a naval officer for Charles II. Within the Stuart Dynasty he served his brother as lord high admiral , administered colonies in Africa and New York and fought at sea in two battles against Holland in 1665 and 1672.(6) In 1659 James promised Anne Hyde marriage and their love was secretly ...
- 3218: Laziness
- ... pustular psoriasis. The pustular psoriasis dried and disappeared, and the man's plaque psoriasis, present since age nineteen, also disappeared. The plaque psoriasis returned after treatment was stopped, but responded well to conventional phototherapy. A high association between Streptococcal infection and psoriasis has been known for almost fifty years, especially in the case of guttate psoriasis (a juvenile form), where up to eighty percent of sufferers have evidence of recent Streptococcal ... is occuring due to a shared antigen between keratinocytes and Streptococcus, then psoriasis would fit the definition of an autoimmune disease triggered by molecular mimicry. However, this correlation is not demonstrated in all sufferers. The high correlation between HLA-Cw6 and psoriasis also indicates an autoimmune role in the disease, as does the effectiveness of immunosuppressive treatments. A recent article speculated that psoriasis may be mediated by a genetic defect affecting ... are under the influence of cytokines released by keratinocytes. The Langerhans cells in the dermis and epidermis are able to process protein antigens with great efficiency, but are only able to present the antigens to high affinity memory T cells. Langerhans cells found in nodal regions do not have this high efficiency of protein processing, but have the ability to activate both naive and memory T cells. The intraepidermal Langerhans ...
- 3219: Juvenile Delinquency
- ... delinquency, rather than on the way individuals become delinquents. A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems. Social scientists have also studied the influence of other youngsters on those who commit delinquencies. For example, ...
- 3220: Shakespeare: Biography
- ... was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to ...
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