...Plea Bargains Written By: Ryan McKinniss The plea bargain is one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice systems. There are two types of plea negotiation, but there are three main categories of plea bargains. They all include sentence reduction, and that’s were some of the controversy starts. Plea bargains also have some positives and negatives about them. Many people can argue for the use of plea bargains, but many can also argue against the use of plea bargains. I personally think they are helpful, but may be offered to easily. Plea bargaining is the process by which a person accused of a crime may bargain with the prosecutor to receive a lesser punishment. Typically, the accused person will plead guilty, sometimes to a lesser charge than the original one (to manslaughter rather than murder, for example). As stated by the Boston College Law Review, the U.S. Supreme Court estimates that at least ninety percent of criminal convictions are based on guilty pleas. Typically, defense counsel and the prosecutor negotiate the charges to be brought. If the bargain pertains to the sentence to be meted out, a judge may also participate unless barred from doing so. The main purpose for plea bargains is this process saves the government the time and cost of a jury trial in exchange for a reduced sentence. Defendants who plead guilty as part of a plea bargain give up three constitutional rights: the right of trial by jury, the right to confront and question one's...
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...The Plant Location Puzzle 1. Should EDC proceed with the Asian market opportunity? I believe that EDC should proceed with the Asian market opportunity because the saturation point has been almost been reached in the U.S. which means that there is not much room for EDC to expand and grow as a company if they only stay within the U.S. If they move to Asia, there is a growing middle class able to purchase the bikes because they have a more disposable income. 2. If they are going to proceed with the Asian opportunity, where should they locate and why? I think that they should relocate to Taiwan if they proceed with the Asian opportunity, because of Taiwan’s many different resources and better infrastructure. This would ensure that power outages would not be as common as in China. The roads and waterways would be less contaminated if at all, which would allow a potential facility to run more efficiently and at a more eco-friendly level. Taiwan also has a decent-sized population, resulting in a large available workforce. 3. Which part of their business (marketing, production, design/engineering) should be located at their new location? I believe that the new location should focus on production. With all of the resources available at a moment’s notice because of a larger market, production is not slowed when waiting for materials. Also, if the production is done there, money can be saved by not having to ship the materials back and forth between facilities. Each bike can be...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Part 1 - The Wedding Day I know I'm not the only one who wishes her wedding to be her best day ever. Since I was a kid I always dream that my wedding will be as beautiful like Cinderella's or Airel's. Imagining that I will have my own prince charming, my happily ever after But I woke up one day realizing that life isn't a fairytale. It doesn't goes to your plans, you can't have your prince charming and some-times it's not a happily ever after. I realized it when my parents business start dropping, when we start moving out of our own castle. I used to have my prince charming, I used to imagine my dream wedding day with him and my happily ever after with him But I was wrong, as I said life isn't a fairytale, I can't marry my prince charming. And my wedding day, isn't as beautiful like Cinderella's Because today's supposed to be my best day ever. Today it supposed to be the start of my happily ever after. But again I was wrong, I don't have the fancy dress, I don't have my prince charming by my side, I'm not inside a church but in front of a judge. God was supposed to be our witness, he was supposed to be the one that will tie us. But it doesn't goes to my way again, today there's only a judge and a piece of paper in front of me. I'm not in a church but in a room, don't have my dream...
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...always excelled in english and writing papers was a breeze for me. I would always get an easy A without much effort, but this course provided me with a real challenge. I found that the grading was much more critical and the content expected was at a much higher level than ever before. However, all of the challenges I faced in this class proved to beneficial to me as I did end up getting a better grade with each paper. This class brought me many great experiences and taught me countless lessons, some that will last a lifetime. One of most valuable lessons this class taught me was how to manage my time more effectively. I suffer from a bad case of procrastination, but the amount of time allotted for each of these essays didn’t give me time to do much procrastinating. I became much better at just writing instead of sitting and thinking what I should say. Then after I wrote my essay I went back and edited the content of my paper to bring it up to college level writing. I also found paper rater to be a big help with this because it helped to transform my high school level writing into something much more mature through the vocab tool it provides. All of these factors helped me to overcome my second nature of putting things off and I even have started...
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...of engaging students. In classrooms all across America, students are busy completing a wide variety of assignments their teachers have set out for them. These types of activities can include traditional methods such as answering mathematical problems from textbooks with pencil and paper, to answering standard review questions written in a student’s social studies book. This type of teaching method and assignments generally require less stress upon the teacher to create strategies and assessments for their students. One could ask, is this method a bad thing? If this same question were asked to many teachers in our educational system, the answer would be emphatically, yes! In the world of ever evolving technology, students need to have activities that mandate them to use higher order thinking skills, which ultimately begins with student engagement. Dr. Adela Solis (2008) states “To create schools that work for all children, we need teachers to teach for engagement. Two things are clear from the education literature about this matter: student engagement is a prerequisite of student learning, and for learning to be truly meaningful students have to be cognitively engaged.” This paper will seek to contrast traditional methods of instruction with that of more current strategies that seek to engage...
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...Ashley Eller December 12, 2011 UCWR110-022 Final Reflective Essay On Writing My favorite author and literary genius, Stephen King, in his memoir On Writing wrote, “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” This is possibly the best piece of advice I could ever think to give to a struggling student with a paper to write. Your first draft is always for yourself and your own personal reflection. In your second draft, “open up the doors” and write for everyone else who will be reading it. Without this solid piece of advice, I don’t think I could have ever expanded on my writing at all. Over the years, my writing career has hit its peak in junior year, and I have plateaued from there. Since being a UCWR student, I have had the chance to expand my range in my writing skills. From this course, I have learned to expand my writing ability to subjects I would never have broached before, allowing myself to heighten my awareness of the world around me as well as hinder my procrastination. In the beginning of the year, I was very disappointed I would have to take this course. From my previous experience with accelerated English and rhetoric courses, I felt I would be bored and disappointed with the classroom experience. Over the course of the semester, I have learned I was wrong. While in the beginning my engagement level was poor, I was still interested by the current events brought up in class. Some of the biggest topics we discussed (Occupy Wallstreet, Penn State...
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...¨It is all worth it, if it allows one child to be able to change the world¨ (243). This quote is just one of many that Travis Mills says in his book that really gets me in the heart. After reading this quote, it makes me want to work harder and do the best job that I can to be the best person that I can be and to allow me to become successful and happy in my life. After writing my I-Search and exploring my American Dream, I now understand what I takes to be in the military and the time and effort that goes into it. The moment I started the I-Search, I realized that this project will better help me understand what I want to achieve in life and how I want to do it. I also learned a lot about the skills I will need to gain. Hard work, dedication and never giving up, are some of the main lessons that I learned....
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...The age of technology has opened many gateways into what education can and should be as our society progress so should the way we educate our children, they should get the best possible education we can provide and the best way for that is to implement more technology passed learning from a younger age. Technology has some immense potential too change our education system for the better but as we reach into the unknown we must be prepared to look at the positive and negative aspects of making technology a staple for our education. Too see if this will eventually turn out well we must look at how it will impact the students focus, creativity, and most importantly how it’ll affect social interaction with the other people around them as it is...
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...I interviewed Sydney Johnson during thanksgiving at my church in Richardson, TX. she is twenty- one year. I explained this paper is for my Human development class and every information she tells me about her life will be used for my class alone. Also, I will use a different name for my paper and she did not have answer any of my questions if he feels uncomfortable answering them. She can leave or end the interview whenever she wants. Sydney is from Maryland but moved to Texas when she was eleven years and she been living in Plano, TX since then. She went to Plano middle school and Plano high. She currently goes to University of North Texas (UNT). She is majoring in biology she wants to be a doctor when she grows up. Sydney is dating her best...
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...main factors that directly reflect any countries growth and index of development has scope for challengeable and innovative future. The very beauty of this field which inclined me towards it is the fact that this field is never confined and ever emerging by bounding and integrating with different fields towards extracting the best we can do! Ever since my childhood I was always fascinated by the way a business works. I always showed interest towards the working of a business and from my schooling I used to accompany my father in his business. I used to help him with maintaining accounts and learnt various business tactics. Today when choosing a specialization it is a great relief that what I want to pursue is not only a fast developing and long lasting field but also a subject of immense interest to me. Combined by my full commitment and wholehearted interest towards the subject and after judging the applicability of my decision towards my career’s progress I can say with full satisfaction that this is the best that I can do from personal and productive point of views. Apart from the academic interest, I expanded my thirst for knowledge by presenting different technical papers at national and state levels. A few of my papers are Export Documentation, Import...
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...I have learned a lot of things during this week’s course that I did not know before and that I found interesting in this class. My current method of completing a first draft is a simple one and that is to get as many ideas down on paper as quickly as I can. After reading this week’s chapters and previous weeks chapters, I have found that the best way to start is to ask who or what is going to be my intended audience. The goal of a first draft is to capture my ideas on paper and produce a rough version of the final essay. (Connelly, M. 2007). There are several strategies that I have learned for writing a first draft. Such as: review my plan, focus on my goal, write to my reader, visualize the completed document, support my thesis. Amend my plan if needed, and start to write. I also found proofreading and editing interesting in this week’s course. Proofreading is about searching your writing for errors, both grammatical and typos, before submitting my paper for an audience. Editing and proofreading are writing processes different from revising. Editing can involve extensive rewriting of sentences, but it usually focuses on sentences or even smaller elements of the text. Proofreading is the very last step writers go through to be sure that the text is presentable. there are many proofreading strategies such as: start with the problem areas, read from the end to the beginning, look for typos. Editing strategies may...
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...my life, writing has always been a skill necessary for me to excel in many of my classes. Whether it was for research papers, or short journal assignments, writing was always a key component in order to achieve the best grade possible for my classes. Ever since I stepped foot into Elementary school, my skills as a writer have been average or slightly above average at best. My writing style is basic and I usually follow somewhat of a similar formula for most of my papers. My weak points as a writer would be my creativity and vocabulary. I also wish to improve my ability to draw the reader in during my introduction paragraphs. I always seem to take ages to write my introduction paragraph for my papers, and this causes me to spend a lot of time on my essays. My strong points as a writer would be my structure and my ability to get my message across to the reader. I am confident in my writing in the sense that I can get the job done, but know that my writing could be heavily improved. There are three instances in my life that made me realize my skills as a writer. The first would be my English tutor, who guided me at the beginning of middle school. She laid down the formula and gave me the skills in order to ace all of my basic middle school papers. The second would be the realization that my writing was not good as I thought it was after my first couple of papers in High School, and finally the last instance, which was my college essay. My mother arranged an English tutor to meet...
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...What kinds of family tree are you interested in doing. Many people want a very detailed record with dates and facts and names. Others enjoy the stories that go along with each generation. Some may have been exaggerated over the years but are still fun to hear about. Families tend to gossip, that is nothing new. Your job as family historian is to try to separate fact from fiction but still keep it interesting. You will have to acquire quite a few skills in your new position. Just the complying of all the paper work and filing it, then filling out your charts and templates to keep all your information organized. That is where sometimes is worth investing in a genealogy software program that can help you with all your research. What ever kind you end up with is entirely up to you. You should decide from the beginning of how deep you want to dig and how far back you intend to go. When it is completed, what form you want it to be in is another question. You can have it on book form, which is nice because you can leave it out for everyone to see. Of course, in the electronic age we live in, you can make it on a DVD and send out to your relatives. You can add voice and music and make a mini...
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...1700s. This country has progressed massively over the past 150 years. We have developed the best country in the world. Imagine how good we are right now, we have the best Military, health care, technology, Athletes, and we have a huge, strong economy. Now take these facts and reverse then to what we would be if we were still under British rule. My my all we have is the 13 colonies and the United Kingdom. ⅙ of the Military we have now. Not as good health care, technology, or economy. We broke away, and I guarantee, that if we didn't have George Washington we want would still be under British rule. George Washington is the most important person in American History. One of the reasons that George Washington was the most influential American in History was his...
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