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    When considering unintended consequences of punishment in the correctional system I choose the following four examples: 1. Becoming a better criminal. All too often a person will be sentenced to a term of incarceration in jail or prison for a variety of offences that could be considered mild or less severe. However, when the inmate is placed into the facility population they subjected to close quarters housing with others who are more experienced and mature criminals. The newer inmates that begins

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    The Unintended Consequences of the Formation of the CIA: An Analysis of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Military Motivations in the Development of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) I.Introduction: This historical analysis will define the unintended consequences of the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the military motivations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the creation of The Office of Strategic Services (OSS). President Roosevelt’s initial motives for gathering

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    The Slave Revolts: Unintended Consequences of Empire Rome’s new Mediterranean empire in the second century came with a cost. Besides political and economic strife, slave revolts in Sicily burdened Rome, first in the 130s B.C. and again from 104 to 100 B.C. Roman warfare, by generating a shortage in free labor and enriching the slave market, provided for the poor conditions and negligent provincial administration under which slaves in Sicily revolted. Because Rome, preoccupied with warfare, initially

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    Christopher Sagherian History 20W Section 67 December 1, 2014 Root Causes of the Cold War and its Unintended Consequences After the end of the Second World War, the world was left with two fundamental economical systems competing for world acceptance (or coercion, depending on whose propaganda news were provided). The United States and the Soviet Union were the champions of capitalism and communism, respectively, two opposite ways of life regulating everything from personal freedoms to ways of

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    If you were surrounded by enemies and had no home, to where would you run? The fact is that this very question became a quandary for Jews, especially Zionists, long before the genocides of the Holocaust. In the decades before World War II, Jews sought a place to idealize their faith unhindered and away from governments and societies that ran against their operations. While they tried to assimilate with the cultures around which they lived, they stumbled more often than they soared. Appropriately

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    As Albert Einstein once wisely stated “I fear that one day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” In the book The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury the whole town has fallen victim to the unintended consequences of the inappropriate use of technology. Leonard Mead , a middle aged man, is the only person in the town that ever is out of his home after 8 o’clock in the evening; he enjoys walking alone down the streets in the night. When he first started

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    Making College More Expensive The Unintended Consequences of Federal Tuition Aid by Gary Wolfram In the article Wolfram communicates that the federal government is spending tens of billions of dollars in providing federal aid to student that are in college, through many actions like grants, loans and tax programs. But there is still yet to be evidence that suggest that these so called programs or policies have helped to decrease student loan debt and provided an aid to those attending college. Wolfram

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    Kanye West fans do not have a definitive name, or way of defining themselves. There is no form for the group for some reason. However, they are still able to celebrate their icon and promote their icon in a positive way amid negative press he is prone to receiving. Although they aren’t well formed, Kanye’s fans still have a great impact on the artist’s social proof with them being the first to respond to anything Kanye related, the first to archive anything Kanye related, the main source of buzz

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    Pity from the Holocaust A common argument for the Holocaust’s causation in the creation of Israel and generous partition of Palestine is the potential for nations to pity the Jews for their suffering. In truth, Zionism wasn’t offered any gains by the Holocaust. Not only was the genocide irrelevant to the argument of Zionism to the rest of the world, but it also couldn’t be pitied, as it was not yet understood. Overall, the Palestine question – and it was just that: a question regarding Palestine

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    Inadvertent Consequences According to Krisberg and Taylor-Nicholson, state budget cuts, lowering prison over-crowding, and improving corrections are the underlying reasons for the policy shift. Although “county custody costs (county jail) may be somewhat lower than state prison costs, shifting the custody and supervision costs of selected offender groups to the county will only cut spending in state prisons,” and may fail to lower the overall costs of corrections in California (Owen & Mobley, 2012

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