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Legalizing prostitution in California: economic and public health benefits

This research attempts to examine three hypotheses related to the decriminalization or legalization of prostitution in the state of California: it is wasteful to attempt to fight prostitution as a crime; legalization would reduce the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases, violence, and drug use;…

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Affirmative action in employment hiring: legal history, benefits, and burdens

The human resources department of an organization/agency can be one of the most challenging to run in the organization. Decisions will constantly be made this department that will affect the character and composition of the company.

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Protocols and procedures in American tort litigation

This paper discusses the techniques and strategy involved in a typical tort litigation. The basic stages of a lawsuit addressed are: Pleadings, motion practice, discovery and trial.

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Christine Boyer's concept of cybercities and digital life

Subsuming the heterogeneity of the Internet to a homogenous whole is a reductive move. Furthermore, it risks making the unsupportable conflation of the Internet user with their textual output." (Bassett, et al., 2002, p. 234)

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Police crisis training for mental illness assessment: officers' experiences and program evaluation

The methodologies selected for this study were the meta-synthesis approach developed by Noblit and Hare (1988) and a content analysis technique described by Neuman (2003) and others. The meta-synthesis approach allows researchers to draw broad substantive interpretations from various sources.

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Legalization of prostitution in contemporary society

Man has evolved, from times immemorial, because of certain instinctual traits. Each of these is to ensure the survival and spread of the species. The need to eat and find shelter is instinctual. That is necessary for survival. The need to procreate is also equally important.

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Rhetoric and self-interest in Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth

Former Vice President Al Gore, who, in his documentary film on global warming, by director Davis Guggenheim, an Inconvenient Truth (2006), introduces himself, "I am Al Gore, I used to be the next president of the United States," won an Academy Award for the documentary.

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Community policing implementation challenges and best practices in American municipalities

From a law enforcement and community relations perspective, it would just seem to make good sense to place as many police officers "on the beat" in any given community and this, in fact, has proven to be the case in cities across the country.

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Standardized testing bias and the shift toward holistic college admissions

standardized tests truly reflective of all students, even those with cultural diversity, limited English, and disabilities?

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Thomas Paine's political philosophy and democratic theory

Thomas Paine's political, religious, and social philosophy burst upon the late eighteenth century scene to great acclaim.

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