Afraid that a trial would be extremely embarrassing to family and friend, Brain pleaded guilty and received a seven year prison sentence rather than the treatment in a community facility his parents had desired. ... The most common correctional treatment, probation, is a legal deposition that allows the convicted offender to remain in the community, subject to conditions imposed by court order, under the supervision of a probation officer. ... Jails or housed of correction hold offenders convicted of misdemeanors and those awaiting trial or those involved in other proceeding, such as gra...

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Law enforcement officials who are accused of police brutality are required to attend a civil court hearing with a judge and a jury present. ... For a repeated offense the officer will be subjected to a court hearing in which a jury will decide his/her fate." ... Police departments should give thought to honoring "exemplary service to the community" awards once a year. ... At the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights a community group handles all police brutality cases that are subjected to court hearings in that state (Davidson 49). ...

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The FBI focused on community leaders, teachers of the language, teachers of Japanese culture, and teachers of the martial arts.1 However, this was only the beginning for the Japanese Americans. ... These communities were mostly farming communities because over half of the total amount of the immigrants came to the U.S. having been in some part of the agriculture business. Most of the Japanese immigrants and their offspring lived in small, rural farming communities in farming communities in California (93,000 of the total Japanese-American population). ... They specifically looked for owners of...

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Home schooling can simply be defined as parents educating their children in non-traditional environments, such as in the home or the surrounding community, rather than utilizing the free public education system. ... But, being that home schooling is not a new phenomenon, many home schooled children have obviously received an adequate enough education in order to graduate from college, attain a profession and be productive members in their communities. ... Aside from technological resources, the community surrounding the home can provide an outlet into the wide world of learning. Most home sc...

• Word Count: 1568
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• Grade Level: Graduate

The original purpose of the act was " To Provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the Administration on Aging" (U.S. ... Hearing loss Recognition and early diagnosis of impairments may lead to effective treatment for these individuals and can assist them to remain in the community setting (Reuben, ...

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It is a time where "the white segregationist argues that Negro families are really better off in their own communities (Guttmann 1). ... After hearing the location of their new house, Ruth was shocked and immediately said, "Mama, there ain't no colored people living in Clybourne Park (93). ... And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their ...

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Much of the Court Challenges Program has heard hearings based on language rights and education rights, both receiving an adequate amount of financial support because of the Government's prioritization of linguistic rights over other minority groups' rights. ... The second argument described the cancellation as a disadvantage; certain groups do not have any access to the necessary funding they need to proceed to litigation at all, and keeping in mind they are already minorities, their positions in the community, workplace and academia were almost fruitless because the money they neede...

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Rodriguez grew up with hearing "black-and-white conversation" for a majority of his life; Americans did not speak of other races. ... You can't help hearing it" (91). ... Border states such as California, New York, Florida and Texas have such large ethnic communities and the mixed culture will inevitably reach the whole country. ...

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Ultimately, the rock and roll community took the harshest affects of radio censorship. ... In nineteen eighty-five a congressional hearing was held before the Senate committee in an attempt to censor music. During the committee hearing Frank Zappa accused Tipper Gore- co. founder of the Parent's Music Resource Center- of being a "cultural terrorist." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While on the other side you have liberals who are fighting for the equal treatment of the gay community which is clearly supported by the 10th and 14th amendment in the United States Constitution. ... It is time for there to be a change to politics and mainstream society, governments must look now at "the people " especially the homosexual community as outsiders. ... It is said that if gay marriage is allowed then there will be turmoil in the religious community, and is unbiblical and should not be endorsed. ... The court remanded (also known as incarcerated) the case to the trial court for a...

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The establishment of fast food chains has occurred in exponential numbers, their appearance not always welcomed by the communities in which they franchise. ... The tight knit European community is one that shares many cultural as well as political similarities. ... McDonald's finally backed out of the court case due to the large amount of negative publicity the hearings were generating. ...

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The next case will present the legality of birthright citizenship, the legal decisions of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, data provided by census, Congressional hearings, previous research, and the position of the society on the subject of matter. ... This bill is being well approved by anti-immigrant groups and part of the society, unlike the immigrant community, especially from Hispanic immigrants are not quite excited for the passing of this bill. ...

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He said that they are a distinct community occupying their own territory in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the agreement of Cherokees themselves. President Jackson upon hearing of this Supreme court decision remarked that J. ...

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Wetlands are lands where water saturation is the major factor determining the nature of soil development and plant and animal communities. ... The Senate Committee on Environmental Resources held a hearing on Senate Bill 37, relating to wetlands. ...

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ICE refuses to transport detainees to their court-appointed hearings. ... The newest federally mandated ICE program, known as 'Secure Communities," relies on cooperation of local law enforcement to arrest, fingerprint, and detain the illegal immigrant till ICE transports the prisoner to a detention facility. ... ICE does not let detained parents go to welfare custody hearings. ...

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These were followed by oral hearings. ... "What USA didn't realize was that Canada and the USA both share a common concern which is over the availability of affordable housing to meet demands both in urban and rural communities."... It is an important factor in forming strong, dynamic communities." ...

• Word Count: 1944
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• Immediately contact the local office of the Department for Community Based Services. ... • Include written notification that failure to contact the Department for Community Based Services and assert a claim of parental rights wi...

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According to the Declaration of Independence, "all men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."" Unfortunately, some people aren't granted those rights because of immigration. Latino immigr...

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This ruling marked the most important victory for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite (LGBT) community in the United States' history. ... In preliminary hearings, the cases were consolidated form six cases to four, one for each state. ... First, they asked if denying the LGBT community the right to marry or the refusal to recognize an existing marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection guarantees. ...

• Word Count: 1936
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These decisions made by the judge or jury in the preliminary hearing affect the rest of the suspects" life. ... When the rare occurrence of a juvenile being tried as an adult takes place, grand juries "often focus on one or more topics of community interest", hence it is not uncommon for minors to escape conviction. ...

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Post World War I the number of women involved in military services and jobs in the community slowly increased. ... Children are taught how to use foul language by hearing acceptable playground or social language at school and inappropriate things that would have be terminiated at the onset by the mother would have more time to spend with the child, it the child's bad behavior could have been avoided. ...

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To discourage would-be criminals, society has always used punishment. Sometimes with jail time, community service or even the death penalty. The huge elephant in the room is whether or not the death penalty or capital punishment should still be in practice. In "On The Front Lines" Janet Reno says, "...

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That's an increase of roughly one third since 2000, when there were 8.5 million UIs, according to the Center for American Progress. 1 million, the estimated number of immigrants deported under the Obama administration's immigration enforcement program, Secure Communities, which checks the status of immigrants booked into county jails in participating jurisdictions. 40 million, the approximate number of today's foreign-born population of the U.S., which has tripled in the past four decades to reach roughly 13 percent of the total population. ... After hearing their opinions, now ...

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James Madison wrote in Federalist Papers #10, "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." ... Senator Sedgwick, majority whip in the Senate, after hearing of the XYZ Affair, said, "It will afford a glorious opportunity to destroy faction. ...

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After being elected into office in 1789, one of George Washington's priorities as President of the United States was to select a cabinet. Washington waited to make his selections as Congress created the departments of Treasury, War, and State. His choices were based on talent and experience, not o...

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