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An Investigation into the Death of Sigrid Stevenson
Criminal Justice System
On September 4, 1977, Steven Kokotajlo, a campus police officer from Trenton State College (now the College of New Jersey), discovered an abandoned bicycle chained near Kendall Hall, a building commonly utilized for music and stage performances. It seemed that no one had been inside the building since the theater group departed around noon and…
Why Capital Punishment Is Unfair?
Capital Punishment
Punishment
Capital punishment is the practice of executing someone as punishment for a specific crime after a proper legal trial. It can only be used by a state, so when non-state organisations speak of having executed’ a person they have actually committed a murder. It is usually only used as a punishment for particularly serious types…
Nurse Practice Act
Act
Nursing
Introduction There are 2 important purposes for the nurse practice act. The first practice is to protect the Health and safety of the citizens in the jurisdiction, and the second purpose is to protect the title of the RN (Cherry & Jacob 2011). The Florida Nurse Practice Act was implemented to ensure that every nurse…
Consumer Appeal in Media Advertising
Appeal
Consumer Appeal Advertisers of today have strategically combined commercials andtelevision shows in order to sell products. Gloria Steinem discusses a similaridea in her article, “Sex, Lies, and Advertising.” She repeatedly demonstrateshow advertisements, particularly in magazines, are complementary to the articlesaround them. In the same manner, so are commercials to television programs. They are both aimed…
Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Examination
Folsteins Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) was first described by Marshall F. Folstein, Suzan Folstein, & Paul R. McHugh (as cited in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2009). Marshall Folstein, a neuropsychiatrist, created the MMSE overnight because he was not happy with a patients’ cognitive report written by wife Suzan Folstein, a psychiatrist. He presented…
Local Government Act of Sierra Leone
Act
Government
Whether the establishment of district and chiefdom councils and the entire decentralization process have positively impacted the lives of the people of Sierra Leone are issues which experts in governance and development studies should look into” The Act of 2004 In 2004 a new Local Government Act facilitated the resuscitation of elected local authorities by…
AirBorn By: Kenneth Oppel Short Summary
Piracy
Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt’s always wanted; convinced he’s lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he…
Deception experiment
Deception
AbstractWe often give nonverbal cues as to whether or not we are trying to deceive someone. These nonverbal actions are involuntary. Subjects were asked three questions provided with no reason to lie. They were then asked three questions they were asked to lie about. Nonverbal cues were measured both, during the truthful answers, and again…
Letters from the Inside by John Marsden Analysis
Prison
Letters from the Inside is a fiction novel written by Australian author John Marsden published in 1991. The novel follows letters exchanged by two fifteen-year-old girls Mandy and Tracey who begin writing after Tracey places an add in a magazine. Mandy soon discovers that Tracey has been lying to her whilst writing about her ‘perfect…
Limitation of Landownership in Zambia
Ownership
This is a paper discussing the limitations imposed by law (common and statutory) on land in Zambia. Land in Zambia is governed using the Land Act Chapter 184. According to section 3(1) of the Land Act, all land in Zambia is vested in the President who is to hold it forever on behalf of the…