...Guns Are Not the Problem, People Are Violence in school environments have become a major issue, and there are many precautions we can take to prevent this violence. Precautions such as better background checks before purchasing a gun will greatly decrease deaths due to gun violence. In America, the average number of school shootings is approximately 1.37 per week (Davies). There are too many lives lost throughout the year to gun violence. It is time for America to step it up when addressing the flaws in the laws and regulations in the systems. Seeing that gun violence in school environments have recently become such an issue, the United States must address these issues head on by enforcing more and existing laws and change the laws that contain imperfections. Gun violence has not only spread throughout the United States but also in many other countries as well. On an average day in America, there are at least ninety-six deaths resulting from gun violence (Guns). Every day, seven teens and children from ages zero to nineteen die due to gun violence. This means that four out of...
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...------------------------------------------------- School bus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about vehicles specifically designed and manufactured for carrying students to and from school. For information about school transportation in general, see student transport. | This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please considersplitting content into sub-articles or condensing it. (February 2013) | School bus | Front 3/4 view of a typical North American school bus (IC Bus CE-Series) | Interior view of an empty school bus (Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2) | Overview | Manufacturer | List of school bus manufacturers | Body and chassis | Doors | Front entry/exit door; rear/side emergency exit door(s) | Chassis | Cutaway van Cowled chassis Stripped chassis | Powertrain | Engine | Various fuel types (see article) | Capacity | 10-90 passengers, depending on floor plan | Transmission | * Automatic * Manual | Dimensions | Length | Up to 45 feet (13.7 m) | Width | Up to 102 inches (2,591 mm) | Curb weight | ≤10,000–36,000 pounds (4,536–16,329 kg) (GVWR) | Chronology | Predecessor | Kid hacks | A school bus (also called schoolbus) in North America is a type of busspecifically designed and manufactured for student transport: carrying students to and from school and school events. School buses provide an estimated 10 billion student trips every year; over half of the USA's student population is transported by school bus. Each school day in 2013...
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...Grand Blanc, MI United States Nuclear Medicine Technologist, Dec 2003 – Oct 2013 • Use radiation safety measures and protection devices to comply with government regulations and to ensure safety of patients and staff. • Explain procedures and observe patients to ensure safety and comfort during scan. • Operate or oversee operation of radiologic imaging equipment to produce images of the body for diagnostic purposes. • Position and immobilize patient on examining table. • Take thorough and accurate patient medical histories. • Set up examination rooms, ensuring that all necessary equipment is ready. • Monitor patients' conditions and reactions, reporting abnormal signs to physician. • Coordinate work with clerical personnel or other technologists. • Demonstrate new equipment, procedures, or techniques to staff and provide technical assistance. • Assign duties to radiologic staff to maintain patient flows and achieve production goals. • Administer radiopharmaceuticals or radiation intravenously to detect or treat diseases, using radioisotope equipment, under direction of a physician. • Calculate, measure, and record radiation dosage or radiopharmaceuticals received, used, and disposed, using computer and following physician's prescription. • Perform quality control checks on dose calibrator, uptake probe and gamma cameras. • Maintain and calibrate equipment. • Dispose of radioactive materials and store radiopharmaceuticals, following radiation safety procedures. •...
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...athletes alike. Precautionary safety measures have been lackluster, and research on the issue, all but forgotten. With the advancements in technologies it is up to the authorities and more importantly the people to implement more effective means of safety, education, unyielding policies and severe punishments in order to protect the youth and professional athletes. A concussion is defined as a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function with a short period of altered or loss of consciousness, when a concussion occurs the brain is shaken in such a forceful way inside the skull that it causes injury. Concussion rates have doubled in this decade and account for 1 out of 10 of all contact sport injuries (Barton, 2008), the Center for Disease Control (C.D.C) has concluded that concussions in the United States have reached an “epidemic level” and there are between 1.6 and 3.8 million sport related concussions every year (Halstead, 2010) (Lincoln, 2011). Symptoms include but are not limited to confusion, headache, amnesia, nausea, sensitivity to light, double vision, sleep disturbances, loss of consciousness and were reported to be linked to more serious conditions such as, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Participation in high school athletics in the United States has regularly increased over the past 2 decades; there were approximately 7.5 million high school student-athletes in the 2008-2009 school year. As the number of...
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...Among the earliest to arrive in the United States were thousands of Italians fleeing an 1887 cholera epidemic, Russian and Polish Jews sought refuge from anti-Semitic pogroms in the 1880s. The majority of people left their homelands after industrial pressures left them few job opportunities. So many immigrants arrived that by 1890 nearly 15% of the American population was foreign born (Barnes, L. & Bowles, M. (2014). Today people are still seeking refuge for specific reasons. Haitians seek refuge for security reason, and other countries seek refuge for economic and health reasons. When I was growing up, my...
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...Aviation Regulators Aviation safety is a term encompassing the theory, investigation, and categorization of flight failures, and the prevention of such failures through regulation, education, and training. It can also be applied in the context of campaigns that inform the public as to the safety of air travel. The Federal Aviation Regulations, or FARs, are rules prescribed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) governing all aviation activities in the United States. The FARs are part of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). A wide variety of activities are regulated, such as aircraft design and maintenance, typical airline flights, pilot training activities, hot-air ballooning, lighter-than-air aircraft, man-made structure heights, obstruction lighting and marking, and even model rocket launches, model aircraft operation, and kite flying. The rules are designed to promote safe aviation, protecting pilots, flight attendants, passengers and the general public from unnecessary risk. Since 1958, these rules have typically been referred to as "FARs", short for Federal Aviation Regulations. However, another set of regulations (Title 48) is titled "Federal Acquisitions Regulations", and this has led to confusion with the use of the acronym "FAR". Therefore, the FAA began to refer to specific regulations by the term "14 CFR part XX". The FARs are organized into sections, called parts due to their organization within the CFR. Each part deals with a specific type of...
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...2nd Amendment or the right to bear arms. Having the freedom to carry a gun is a very controversial issue in society today. There are many people who feel that guns has been a problem and part of the reason there is so much crime. In 1994 a crime bill was passed by President Bill Clinton that would prohibit just anyone from owning a gun (Washington Times vol0). As long as guns are made readily available for Americans to own them, tragedies such as the 1999 columbine school killing that 13 people were killed and wounding countless of others (Cullens2000,p 439) will continue to happen. Gun control policies should be stricter for people who wants to own a gun and for the store owners who sale them. The Hoffman Gun Center and Indoor Range require that gun owners have pistol permits that want to buy assault rifles. According to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Safety the law requires that a person who wants to buy a gun be at least 21 years of age, no convicted felonies, background check, and take a safety and storage course (Hoffman, 2001, newspaper). In America at least 400 children will die because of unintentional gun injuries. This happens when children find guns indoors improperly stored and they play with them with their friends or family (Farah, Simon, Kellerman, 1999, p12). There is a need for stricter laws and policies for gun control in today’s society. The second Amendment always has been such a controversial issue on the right to bear arms. In 1791...
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...How would you feel if someone you love so dearly went to school one day, a place you thought was safe, and never came back? Well, this happened to many. One day the parents of children sent their children to school and never got to say, “goodbye” or “I love you”. Most likely regretting everything they had done or said to their loved one the day before, or what they did not tell them. Although the Columbine High School Shooting was a tragic event in history, society has benefitted by bringing about school security, practicing evacuation procedures during school, and brought awareness to the issue of gun control. The Columbine High School Shooting was a tragic event within United States history that occurred on April 20, 1999. The traumatizing...
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...that has been addressed in many schools around the country. Should students be required to wear certain clothes or types of clothing to school? Administrators say that it increases safety and school performance. On the other hand, most students and even some parents do not like the idea of required dress because it may decrease students’ self-confidence. Students should wear uniforms or conform to a dress code to ensure safety and increase simplicity. Schools are designed to help students prepare for their futures. One of the ways that schools are trying to accomplish this is by implementing dress codes or requiring students to wear uniforms. National School Safety and Security Services (1996-2007) reminds that adhering to a certain type of dress is something that students will have to face when they enter the workplace. It may never be too early to start. Also, “many educators believe that a dress code also promotes a positive educational environment” (Wilder, 2007, para. 6). Parents believe that students adhering to dress codes have a direct link to academic improvement. Wearing uniforms or conforming to a dress code can increase the simplicity of students’ lives. Just by wearing uniforms, students can reduce “conflict stemming from socio-economic status, i.e., conflicts stemming from comments and personal attacks about who has better clothing and so on” (National School Safety and Security Services, 1996-2007, para. 2). These advocates of school dress codes argue that since...
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...Instructor: XXXXXXXX Law Opinion Paper: The relationship between the common law and the legislature. The American common law system had originally been mirrored from medieval England, when criminals and civil laws were decided by judges based according to biblical prophecies as well as where they presided from. Now laws are created, enforced and micromanaged by three legislative branches of government. The reasoning for each branch having specific responsibilities is so that no one branch is able to corrupt the “checks and balances” system that was based according to the principals written in The United States Constitution and other important legal documents. The Legal System The United States government is overseen and governed by laws that were created by public officials. There are three branches of government: * The Legislative Branch of government (state or federal) enacts a group laws that are enacted by public officials. * Once the laws are enacted then they are enforced by The Executive Branch which controls the law enforcement agencies. * The Judicial Branch makes sure that those enacted laws serves a balanced purpose and are legally as well as ethically fair to all in serving their purpose. The American legal system today was conceived based from two major concepts that originally came from the medieval England’s common laws: Precedent and Codification. The first concept, Precedent or stare decisis, means that a judge must decide a case...
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...Education in the United States Carrie A. Butner SOC 320 Public Policy and Social Services Instructor: Vahik Ovanessian May 25 2015 Education begins at home. It is said and I believe it is true that you learn everything you need to know about yourself by the time you are five years old. Coincidentally this is when we send our babies off to school. This is a building where our children will spend 13 or 14 years and sometimes longer getting an education that is to prepare them for life as an adult. However, what are our children actually being taught and are we really preparing them for life or are we wasting our time. We go to school to learn to read, write and do arithmetic however, our school system has failed. What our children are really learning is how to manipulate the system, disrespect their elders and inappropriately deal with conflict. I say education begins at home because by the time our children get to school they already know how to treat people because they see it done at home. If a child sees violence in the home he learns violence, if a child sees positive conflict resolution then he or she learns to deal with conflict positively. Safety is a huge issue in schools today as well as learning conflict resolution. We must begin at the beginning, in the home. Millions of children deal with issues such as bullying, drugs, peer pressure, home issues, domestic violence, alcoholism and still they come to school. Where the pressure to succeed might...
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...external stock holders that quality and safety standards are demonstrated. A secondary and more recent goal in some applications, notably health care, is to provide a basis for quality improvement initiatives. Accreditation is an element in a network of activities that seeks to regulate conduct in the health sector. Health organizations, and individual professionals, are networked together, and their behavior is assessed by independent bodies through accreditation programs, standards,...
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...regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”. These are the words expressed in the US constitution from 1787. There is no doubt that we all should have the right to protect and defend ourselves and our loved ones, but where is the limit of how and with what we protect and defend ourselves? In this essay I will account for the positive, negative sides of the increasing use of firearms and the consequences of the increasing use of weapons in private? How much does it really mean for society and the common security that children are now at are now introduced to firearms in an earlier age? In Denmark, we think that USA has an extreme form of defence in private homes and that is probably because we do not see the same kind of extreme violent crime at home. In 1999, figures showed how big the problem already was at that time. Many had either been injured, killed or committed suicide by a firearm. Because of the recent history of terrorism and the rise of crime and newer adopted laws in some states, we can now state that it has become even easier for an American to acquire a weapon. This is to a certain point worrying. A good initiative came from the organization Youth For Safety as they are trying to get people to wake up and see how bad it actually stands with all these weapons and they simultaneously try to prevent more school shootings. But when one of the major mistakes is completely...
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...Executive Summary In today’s age and society, information technology is a growing necessity in the functioning of retrieving information from the internet. Thus access to the internet is available to everyone no matter the age. In order to protect all ages of internet users, the United States Congress has passed several Acts to protect users. With the advances in information technology the ethical issues of privacy and appropriate content in regards to children have lead to the United States Congress passing the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). Each Act has its own ethical issues as to it’s creation with the importance of children’s safety as the main concern. Introduction With the advancement of information technology in which all ages of users are being accommodated, everyone in today’s society has access to utilize all forms of information technology. The usage of information technology can include but is not limited to listening to music, watching movies/videos, playing games, communicating via email, social networks, or chat rooms, and getting help with school assignments. The researching of information via information technology has no limits to what the user will find, see, or read. Therefore, in order to protect the children utilizing information technology via the internet, there have been Information TechnologyActs passed by Congress...
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...WRD 104 Professor Staley Suspected Terrorists Post 9/11: Constitution Abandoned The Founding Fathers of the United States created a basic set of laws that all people and officials abide by. Every individual has the right to a fair and speedy trial and the accessibility to a lawyer according to the Sixth Constitutional Amendment. The Eighth Constitutional Amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment while the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. The words ‘people’ and ‘individual’ occur frequently in the Constitution and do not specify a certain group of people or whether a person must be a United States citizen for these amendments to take effect. Michael E. Cannon, member of the military service for over twenty-two years, noted that these amendments are not followed through when it comes to investigations outside of the United States, notoriously in the Middle East where countless infamous prisons torture prisoners daily, such as Abu Ghraib (Cannon). Many arguments are made as to whether torture should or should not be used during investigations. Torture, in some circumstances, has been shown to aid investigations or in some way break the prisoner. Americans feel secure knowing that they are controlling people from the same nationality or religion as those who hurt the nation tremendously a few years ago. Although the safety of United States’ citizens is a vital necessity and a right when living in the nation, it should not take precedent over the torture-free...
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