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    Benefits Of Misdemeanors

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    I had the pleasure of interviewing District Attorney of San Bernardino Marbi Burnette. In the personal interview we talked about whether we see any benefits from Prop 47 and Prop 57 and if there are any negative side effects. What benefits, if any, have you seen from proposition 47? “Most of the benefits have been to the offender. Instead of being charged with felonies, they get a misdemeanor. For the offender, a misdemeanor is less damaging than a felony conviction, increasing the person's chances

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    in Long Beach, California at the Century Villages of Cabrillo. Larry has had a difficult life growing up, experiencing many hardships and obstacles. In order to better comprehend Larry’s life story, his experiences will be categorized using Erickson’s Stages of Development. This will clarify the developmental challenges faced by Larry throughout his life. The first stage is infancy. Infancy Larry grew up in the city of Victorville located by the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County. He lived in a

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    make it so that the criminal serves almost their whole sentence they were originally given. With these laws in most states the prisoner has to serve 85% of their sentence ("Truth in Sentencing”). In her article Sheila Polk, an attorney for Yavapai County, Arizona, writes about how she thinks truth in sentencing laws or as she calls them “TIS” (Polk), has bought the crime rate down in Arizona, “since 1994 our crime rate has steadily dropped--an astonishing 42% between 1995 and 2008--as our incarceration

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    Route 66 Thesis

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    The narrative of the decline of the most famous paved highway in American history reads like a tragic love affair. “Fabled”, “notorious”, and “inspiring” are words that can easily be woven into the dialogue. Adam Payne and Douglas Hurt point out insightfully, “Route 66 is a symbol of American identity, a pilgrimage site for personal voyages of self-discovery” (283). It was established in 1926. Stretching nearly 2500 miles, Route 66 “captured America’s sense of freedom, adventure and opportunity”

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    death penalty system in California is the ineffective and expensive process between sentencing and executing. The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a national non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment, published the total numbers of death row inmates by states on July 1, 2016. From the data, California has the largest death rows in America. There are 741 inmates on death row in California. The next is 396 in Florida

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    Michael Kelly Business Law Professor Chowdry Erin Brockovich is the story of a woman who helped 650 people in Hinkley California get justice for the actions of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E.) The case was titled Anderson v. PG&E and was actually settled outside of court. It was settled in the Superior Court for the County of San Bernardino, Barstow Division. The parties agreed on a settlement of $333 million to be distributed to the named plaintiffs. It is difficult to find the

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    The world hospital comes from Latin word hopes, which means a visitor or host who receives a visitor. That is why in the early century, the primary goal of the hospital was to serve the poor. Torrens (1993) states, “In the early 20 the century, with the establishment of consistent medical education, hospitals became more accepted across socioeconomic classes and became the symbol of medicine.” Since hospitals now requires more training and specialization for workers, furthermore, need sophisticated

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    they have become established in over fifteen countries as invasive species (Save The Frogs! et al. 2013). Many sources say that the initial spread of this invasive species began at the end of the 1800's when bullfrogs were shipped to California to fill hungry loggers appetite for frog legs. The frogs competed with the other native species with the supply of natural resources while also consuming and exploiting the native amphibian species as well. Worldwide Rana catesbeiana has driven

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    Public health nursing contributes tremendously to the safety and well being of our society. Public health nurses work hard to assure our communities are healthy and are able to attain needed support to be self-sufficient. The second part of this clinical since the last written journal has been amazing because I was able to experience activities that are close to my heart and discuss topics that I am passionate about and very interested. For the purpose of this journal I would like to discuss the

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    private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also, in 1850 the Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a

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