...Detective Hopewell begins warning Joseph of his Miranda Rights and further admissible interrogation by explicitly acknowledging that Joseph does not “really understand” what his Miranda Warnings or rights are. However, she states that is okay, because his mother (not his biological mother, but his step-mother, Krista) was present during the interrogation. Hopewell tells Joseph to let her know if he does not understand any part of what she is telling him so that she can further explain. He acknowledges that he understands what she just said by responding “All right.” He also acknowledges that he understands that he is in the police station because of what happened to his father. At this point, Detective Hopewell begins to advise Joseph of...
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...Juveniles convicted as adults: Unconstitutional How does placing a child in an adult prison, where they risk sexual abuse that eventually leads to suicide, teach them a lesson? Juveniles, who commit serious crimes, are usually seen as convicts or criminals who should pay the price of what they committed even if that means sentenced as an adult and occasionally with no parole. Some of these juveniles who are being tried as adults suffered from psychological traumas caused at home by their parents or own family members. People need to know what can be done to prevent these crimes. Placing a juvenile in an adult trial is unconstitutional and is abusing their rights. Many of the juveniles prosecuted as adults are placed in adult jails pretrial, where they are at risk of harm, abuse and suicide. People need to understand the importance and dangers of incarcerating a child in an adult correctional facility. The administration of justice should implement meaningful juvenile justice reforms such as, rehabilitation centers, counseling, and they should correspondingly perform psychological test before being prosecuted in an adult trial so the U.S can uphold the dignity and human rights of our children and ensure that no child in our nation is considered a throwaway person. Juvenile crime rates soared in the mid- 1990s, and that is why every state initiated strict laws against juveniles and began incarcerating minors as adults. That high rates of juvenile delinquency dropped quickly...
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...commit delinquent acts, and some of these acts would constitute as crimes if committed by an adult. The trial phase of a juvenile case is called an adjudication hearing. This is when the judge hears the evidence and makes a determination whether the child is delinquent or not. The court may then take whatever action it deems necessary to be in the child's best interest. The purpose of the juvenile court is to rehabilitate, not to punish. However, the clash point in this debate is whether juveniles are mature enough to handle the consequences of their actions and as well be punished more severely in adult courts, if they commit more serious crimes. One of the basic problems and source of this debate is determining where to draw the line. A crime is still considered a crime, no matter who commits it. That is the attitude of many in this country that leads to the question of whether or not the whole juvenile system should be discarded and allow the judicial system of criminal courts to try both children and adults under the same law, with the same rules. Here are a few points that will help elaborate on why eradicating the juvenile system might be considered a bad idea. On most occasions, we'll find that the kids who have committed a crime are as young as 9 and 10. It is an understood and even proven in facts that a child at an age like this, dose not have the mental ability like that of an adult, to plan and execute any crime and moreover to understand the consequences of his/her actions...
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...and has been incorporated into and has shaped our society. Technology affects numerous components and institutions of the society including education. Thereby, adult education is neither exempt nor immune to its effects. Integration and inclusion of technology to adult education facilitates learning within the adult learners rather than hindering it (Wang, 2011). However, inclusion and integration of technology into adult education has faced several challenges from the people involved in it to the institution that comprise such a sector of education. Most of the write-ups and research have been focused on the teacher who needs to have and/or be equipped with knowledge in technology as well as the acceptance and readiness of the adult students towards technology integration as well as on the digital division that technology might do to the society (Johnson, 2011; Langille, 2004; Kok, 2006). However, all of such challenges have been answered already or continuously answered wherein most scholars agreed that technology does have more beneficial effects than bad ones. Seldom focused on the curriculum development of the adult education wherein it is one of the vital factors to which the teachers and adult students have and are basing their pedagogies and learning. Curriculum comes from a Latin word currere which means to run but more specifically, according to Smith (2000), curriculum is 'All the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in...
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...DEP2004 Professor Madden April 20, 2014 Stress on Young Adults Adolescences and Young adults go through one of the most stressful time periods in their lives, with body transformations to imbalanced emotional levels, growing up into adulthood is a difficult task. Especially when that adolescent grew up into an adult quicker then they imagined. Young adults are not prepared to handle the next level in their life, and did not take classes of how to prepare for the real world in college, instead got thrown into the real world with no experience on hand. With that said, very little time is given for the young adult to understand and comprehend everything that is occurring in their lives and this leads to serious stress and health problems that can be irreversible. A majority of American teenagers follow the same path that their parents had done before them; graduate high school, get into a major university, graduate with a degree, go straight into the workforce, and work. By the time a college student finishes and acquires their degree, they survived on how to deal with stress that finals week can give with cramming five exams in one week and meeting deadlines due to procrastination. With all of these last minute stressors it can cause rapidly increase stress level in a very short amount of time. According to the American Psychological Association, stress leads to an increase of heart rate and can even cause a sudden death if the person is dealing with a huge amount of stress...
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...sample of 1012 U.S. adults what they do with milk in the bowl after they have eaten the cereal. Of the respondents, 67% said that they drink it. Suppose that 70% of U.S. adults actually drink the cereal milk. (a) Find the mean and standard deviation of the proportion p of the sample who say they drink the cereal milk. The mean is μp=p=0.7 and the standard deviation is σp=p(1-p)n=0.7×0.31012=0.0144. (b) Explain why you can use the formula for standard deviation of p in this setting (Rule of Thumb 1) The population (all U.S. adults) is clearly at least 10 times as large as the sample (the 1012 surveyed adults). (c) Check that you can use the Normal approximation for the distribution of p (Rule of Thumb 2) The two conditions, np = 1012×0.7 = 708.4 > 10 and n(1 − p) = 1012×0.3 = 303.6 > 10, are both satisfied. (d) Find the probability of obtaining a sample of 1012 adults in which 67% or fewer say they drink the cereal milk. Do you have any doubts about the results of this poll? P(p≤0.67) = P(Z ≤ −2.08) = 0.0188. This is a fairly unusual result if 70% of the population actually drinks the cereal milk. (e) What sample size would be required to reduce the standard deviation of the sample proportion to one-half the value you found in (a)? To half the standard deviation of the sample proportion, multiply the sample size by 4; we would need to sample 1012×4 = 4048 adults. (f) If the pollsters had surveyed 1012 teenagers instead of adults, do you think the sample...
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...information from (source monitoring). Findings- It was found that the younger children were unable to source monitor as they could not identify where they learnt the information whereas the older children could. Conclusion- Poole and Lindsay concluded that the younger children are poorer eye witnesses than the older children as they are unable where they learnt the information. This means that they aren’t able to distinguish between original eyewitness memory and post event information. 2. What does this suggest about age and EWT? This suggests that age does affect EWT. 3. Explain why the story told at home could have been an extraneous variable… Interview bias (how the parents read the story) could have influenced the accuracy of the child’s response. The parents could have unintentionally prejudiced the child by how they read the story; techniques that could affect this could be their voice, their tone, or the time taken to read through the story. 4. How could this affect internal validity? This isn’t a controlled environment so this could have affected the results. 5. What ethical issues are there with Poole and Lindsay’s research? The research presents ethical issues because the children are unable to give fully informed...
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...Unit 2 Assignment 2 P4 There are many pieces of legislation that are put in place to protect and safeguard vulnerable people; like Mrs Naidoo. I am going describe five pieces of legislation and regulations, and explain how they safeguard vulnerable adults. The Care Standard Act 2002 The Care Standard Act is in place for anyone who receives care. These are the minimum standards by which every care provider must adhere to and are inspected on a regular basis. Its policies include giving patients the right to a choice of home, everyday living, activities, protection and administration of medicine. This legislation helps to direct care organisations regarding the protection of vulnerable adults. It does this by giving vulnerable individuals the right to a social life and to make sure all their needs are met, which will really help with their health and well being. For example this regulation could really help someone like Mrs Naidoo, who is not joining in social activities. She is being left out of social activities, which she has a right to and this means she is not getting any social life. Therefore, this piece of legislation really would help her. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 The Disability Discrimination Act aims to end the discrimination that faces many people with disabilities. It gives people with disabilities rights in the areas of: • employment • education • access to goods, facilities and services, including larger private clubs...
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...Whenever I go to the emoji section of my phone and see a hand emoji, I sometimes wonder what types of symbols those hand gestures might mean in sign language. Emojis may be easy or complex to understand when receiving them in a text message depending on the situation. They may lead to some misconceptions about what is being discussed through the messages, and they could also cause people to begin making stereotypes about others. Misconceptions and stereotypes are both similar in a way that they are both about a view or opinion towards something, however they both have different meanings. Misconceptions are incorrect views or opinions that are based on faulty thinking or understandings. Stereotypes are images or ideas of a specific type of person...
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...When it comes to stereotypes there are many that are stated about several different groups of people but they are not always true. Stereotypes are what people conclude about specific types of individuals with certain ways of doing things or acting a certain way but it may not accurately depict reality or the truth. There are many stereotypes out there that depict how we treat and see the older population. I have come across stereotypes that everyone deals with on a daily basis. It has led me to re-think stereotypes and the older population. The media is a large component of how society sees the older population and has many stereotypes about the elderly on a daily basis. The media such as television, movies, and commercials do not give an accurate presumption about the older population. We will look at their perspectives and how they portray the older population to determine if they are accurate or not. * Address stereotypes in the media (advertising, films and television) In the media stereotypes of the older population consist of overviews about deteriorating well-being, joy, and desirability. The elderly are often considered as “insatiable old folks” who unjustifiably exhaust our public resources by means of Medicare and Social Security. Different media outlets try to depict that the elderly age groups are not worthy of humane treatment. If older people are shown in the media they are shown in a stereotypical manner or often not included altogether. In order to guarantee...
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...First Evidence Point and Response to First Objection Page 7: Second Evidence point Page 8: Objection to Second Evidence Point Page 9: Response to Second Objection Page 10: Third Evidence Point Page 11: Objection to Third Evidence Point Page 12: Response to Third Objection Page 13: Conclusion Page 15: Works Cited Introduction Imagine walking into a restaurant and seeing a proposal, such a joyous occasion. As you applaud and cry out “Cheers!” you may think back to your own proposal and it may have happened. Joy and love overwhelms you and you may even tear up a little. A cause for celebration by anyone’s idea, then as you walk by you discover the bride is actually only a ten year old girl. Does this change your view on it? Do you still have those same feelings, or does something more like disgust register in your heart? Recently in the past few years there has come about requests from advocates and groups to change the classification of pedophilia. Currently it is listed as a mental disorder in the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Certain groups are of the opinion that it is not a disorder but a valid sexual preference, such as heterosexuality or homosexuality and that by denying the equal opportunity rights of individuals to seek solace in a relationship regardless of age the government is infringing upon the constitutional rights afforded these individuals. It is their contention that it is not harmful in any long term period...
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...A mandatory attendance policy does not really enhance students' school performance as it's usually expected. Having an optional attendance policy would enable students to get the most out of their time and their education. Attending class regularly does not mean students will have better understanding or performance. Some students sometimes miss class, but they still study well. However, they have to come to class, or their grade would be decreased due to poor attendance. How can teachers put knowledge into the heads of these students? They sit in class, but they feel very distracted. They even disturb other students who are paying attention to the lessons. Does it worsen the situation? If teachers let such students choose whether to attend class or not, maybe the class environment would be better. In the classroom students raise ideas and ask questions about what they are still unclear about after reading assigned books or doing homework. It's not the place where those who lack interest are forced to listen to what they do not like. For this reason, students should be given right to decide whether to attend class or not. A mandatory attendance policy discourages independent thinking, self-discipline, and self-study. Students are adults. Adult students can decide what is best for them. With younger students this policy is necessary for many reasons such as safety reasons. However, adult students cannot be forced to do what they don’t want to do. That will form in them a habit...
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...Problem 1 A random sample of 16 adult males is about to get into an elevator which has a weight capacity of 2900 lbs. The adult male weight follows the normal distribution with a mean of 170 lbs and a standard deviation of 15 lbs. (a) What is the probability that the total weight for this sample of 16 adult males will exceed 2900 lbs? Hint: This is the same as calculating the probability that the average weight for a random sample of 16 exceeds 2900/16. (b) Will the probability calculated above apply if 16 members from the Blue Hens football team were to get onto the same elevator? Why or why not? (c) 95% of average weights in a random sample of 16 adult males will exceed _______ ? ==================================================== Problem 2 The adult male height follows the normal distribution with a mean of 70 inches, and a standard deviation of 4 inches. (a) What is the probability that an individual male selected at random is more than 74 inches tall? (b) What is the probability that the average height for a group of 4 randomly selected males exceeds 74 inches? (c) Why are the answers to parts (a) and (b) different? How large of a random sample would we need to reduce the standard error to 0.25 inches? Problem 3 Historical data suggests that the proportion of left handed people is between 7 to 10%. We decide to take a random sample of people to confirm this. (a) How large would our sample...
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...United States who commit serious crimes are no longer being tried as juveniles but are being tried as adults and are getting life in prison. Kids as young as the age of 13 are being given life in prison with no opportunity at a second chance. The court systems are failing to recognize that these juveniles have their whole lives ahead of them.. Juveniles in the United States deserve second chances; they are not old enough or fully developed to know any better. Juveniles in the United States who are sentenced to life in prison still deserve a second chance at life, even if they commit a serious crime. Children in the United States, especially younger kids, are easily influenced by media and what type of home environment they live in because of their age. Kids tend to copy what they see, that means if they see something they should not be doing around them or on media, there is a chance that they will replicate it. The way children learn and behave is drastically different from the way adults do, which is why they should not be tried as adults and get sentenced to life. Children have the potential to change more than adults do. While kids are young they view the world differently. As Garinger mentioned adolescents are “less...
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...the person looks at it. Holden Caulfield from the book The Catcher in the Rye, takes growing up as a difficult process. He likes to make things a burden to do. Holden makes becoming an adult more difficult by being self-centered, using vulgar language, and wanting the responsibilities of a child but being able to do what anything an adult could. Holden Caulfield struggles with growing up throughout the book as kid’s today struggle with similar social problems. Holden across the span of book worries about himself and no one else. He tends to push things away and fend for his own self, because he feels people are phonies, or just to fake to be with. Salinger writes “You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were” (Salinger126). Here holden quickly jumps to conclusion that everyone in the building are phonies, when he doesn’t even know anyone. Because Holden cannot place himself into other people shoes to consider their point of view or to hear what they have to say, he struggles connecting with anyone that isn’t already in relation with him. So instead he labels them as phonies. This is one of the many social issues that keep Holden from maturing and growing up to be an adult. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a cognitive neuroscientist from University College London, UK, found in one of her studies on decision making and the teenage brain, said “she has found that the...
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