Determinate sentences involve sentences that have a fixed or flat time (Jirard, 2009). Determinate sentences play a large part in the increasing number of individuals in prison, which, as you can imagine, puts more strain on prisons financially. In the past two decades, we have become increasingly “tough on crime” which has helped to decrease crime to a certain extent. According to an article in the New York Times (2008), the US has fewer than five percent of the entire world’s population, but almost twenty five percent of the world’s prisoners (Liptak & , 2008). The author of the article goes on to say that people in the US are sentenced to do time for crimes that would not produce such a sentence in other countries.
Assignment 204 Task Ai: Physical Abuse: Physical abuse is involving contact intended to cause intimidation, injury or physical suffering. Sexual Abuse: The forcing of unwanted sexual activity by an individual on another, by using threats or coercion to obtain an outcome detrimental to the victim. Emotional/psychological abuse: Emotional or psychological abuse involves assault to the victim by either acts, threats of acts or coercive tactics, to obtain an outcome detrimental to the victim while using emotional blackmail or threats of blackmail. Financial abuse: Financial abuse is defined when a person usually dominating the victim in some way, uses the victims’ finances or financial assets for uses other than their intended use, i.e. to pay bills etc.
At the turn of the century, the Department of Health and Human Services stated almost fifty percent of the American population received the aid needed (Pimpare). Many people were kicked to the streets in cities large and small reaching overwhelming poverty rates all over the country. Welfare reform even today still has much more reforming and monitoring to be done if we ever hope to recover and improve our country’s debt in the years to
Douglass defines slavery as robbery in several parts of his Narrative. One way in which Frederick Douglass defines slavery as robbery in his Narrative is illustrated when he writes: “By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell his birthday” (Douglas, 13). In doing so he shows that slaves are being robbed of the right of even knowing their dates of births and their ages thus connecting slavery with robbery. Another way by which Douglass illustrates that slavery can be defined as robbery was by how the slaves were treated with regards to the value of their lives, their dignity and their sense of justice.
A large number (33 percent) of the poor live in inner cities, the suburbs, small towns, and rural communities. In 2008, one third of the nation's poor lived in suburbs. Myth #4: Most of the poor are single mothers. Of all families living in poverty,51 percent are single mothers and their children, but 40 percent of married-couple families and 9 percent of father-headed households are poor. Myth #5: Most of the poor are older Americans.
Part A: When we refer back to the 1970s, most people generally think of punk rock, lava lamps, and the hippie movement. However for the economy, it was a devastating economic decade of stagflation, a three day week and the return of unemployment. During this time period according to Dollar and Sense, “From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, the U.S. economy grew at an average annual rate of nearly 4%. The annual unemployment rate only exceeded 6% twice in the 25 years between 1949 and 1973. The annual inflation rate, too, only topped 6% twice, and was actually under 2% for 14 of the 25 years in this period.
I think the plot or lesson that the stories are trying to get across is that slavery was an extremely horrible thing. We are very lucky that slavery isn't around as much as it used to because all people are created equally, and everyone has their own rights. The part of the book that I found interesting was a story about a man after the Emancipation Proclamation was passed. Just for your information, the Emancipation Proclamation was a document that stated that
If a person is in slavery they will usually die from slavery, because they are tourtured and have suffered for many years. Slavery is associated with human trafficking, which is bigger now than drugs, because it is said that humans can be used over, and over again, in addition drugs can only be used once. Women and children are the highest rate of human trafficking, and are being abused mentally, physically, etc…while men are to trafficked, but are mainly used for hard labor such as construction and agriculture. I absolutely agree with Goodman on these topics, they are too wrong. Cultures that practice polygamy use their wives as their symbol, they are responsible to do hard manual labor, please their men intimately, and bear children.
Perspectives on Slavery Historical diaries can be and are very important. We can learn so much more from a primary source then we can a secondary source. Some things might come uncovered in a diary entry, something nobody ever knew before. For instance, just how bad a slaves life was from a day to day basis. Slaves were both active and passive about slavery.
That means the other 88 percent of beneficiaries “include a wide cross section of families with children, couples, and others” (Furman, 2012, p. 1). The value of the minimum wage adjusted to inflation is also about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan first became president in 1981 (Furman, 2012). Currently, 19 million people are working for less than $10.10 an hour, while nearly 50 million are living below the poverty line (Furman, 2012). The minimum wage isn’t properly adjusted to inflation, therefore putting much more of a financial burden on minimum-wage working citizens. With rent averaging roughly $1,230 a month, you wonder how people could possibly live working for the current federal minimum wage (Glink,