Essays on Runaway

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For the purposes of this research paper, the homeless population living in Camden and Atlantic City in New Jersey have been studied. The specific age group of homeless people that has been selected are those individuals with ages between 18 and 21 years. The paper will explore the various health problems that homeless people of this age group are most likely to suffer from. A review of the available literature has been conducted in order to determine which prevention initiatives have so far proven to be most effective in addressing and resolving the identified ...

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The World Health Organization (n.d) defines substance abuse as the harmful or hazardous uptake of psychoactive chemicals, including illicit drugs and alcohol. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2014), substance abuse refers to the use of legal or illegal drugs inappropriately. This term includes the repeated use of drugs for pleasure, stress alleviation or reality alteration as well as the use of prescription medicines in other ways than prescribed (NIDA, 2014). Substance abuse and addiction can lead to potentially fatal diseases such as lung disease, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and hepatitis (Marsiglia et al., 2014). People who ...

In its support of the slavery system, the government of the United States utilized the law. In other words, the federal government either passed legislations to thwart any threats made against the institution of slavery or persecuted individuals for failing to adhere to the same. A perfect illustration of the given claims revolves around the actions of political leaders and the States’ harsh responses to calls for liberation during the Antebellum Era. In Howard Zinn’s words, the government allowed whites to use “the laws, courts, [and] armed forces” to restrict persons of African descent to the lowest class ...

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Introduction Youth homelessness is a general term that refers to vagrancy that affects a homogenous youth population. This population includes “unaccompanied youth, runaways, throwaways, street youth, and systems youth” (Moore 2). Homelessness is an age-old social problem that has plagued most modern societies. In the United States, the problem regarding youth homelessness can be traced as far back as the earliest history of the country; back when the first Europeans settled in the New World. According to Moore, an expert affiliated with the National Center for Homeless Education, youth homelessness has been existent while the country was ...

Sharing economy is also called a peer economy, as it is based on the peer-to-peer principle which grants a common access to the online offered goods and services. Sharing business allows anyone from any place in the world to order absolutely any product or service, starting from borrowing a pen to renting a house. Besides that, this new type of economy permits any person to become a retailer, and later an entrepreneur. Mostly, sharing economy is popular for the products which are expensive to be purchased, but are highly demanded, like accommodation or vehicles (“The rise of the sharing ...

Mark Twain was a great writer and clearly observed the social problems around him. The essay discusses “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” written by Mark Twain and focuses on the racial problem of the society and slavery. He deals with the some of these serious social problems in his writing and his writings work as a mirror for the society. There are many underlying themes and issues embedded in the story, but perhaps the most obvious statements that the author is trying to make concerns racism and slavery during that period. The setting of the story is during the ...

Fugitive Slave Act was a couple of federal legislations that allowed for the incarceration and return of runaway fugitives within the territory of the US. Initially, the Congress enacted the Fugitive Slave Act in 1793 that empowered the local governments to capture and return the slaves who have escaped from their owners and impose penalties to people who aided the escape of the slaves. The extensive resistance to the 1973 legislation later spurred the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.The new law further complicated issues by imposing harsher punishments for the people who were interfering with the ...

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Over the years, Turkey and Germany have continued to put in place comprehensive measures and policies to curb insecurity. These measures and concepts on security are always developed with an aim to promote cohesive coexistence between states, building confidence in relations among states, enhancing possibilities of diplomacy and agreeing on the use of arms and its limitations, disarmaments and promoting political goodwill and economic security among between the countries. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a policy brief covering Turkey and Germany by comparing the two countries focusing on the different security and other threats. The need ...

The film Runaway Jury presented ethical dilemmas among the main characters Dustin Hoffman (Wendall Rohr), Gene Hackman (Rankin Fitch) and John Cusack (Nick Easter). In the movie Celeste Wood sought the help of Wendall Rohr, a lawyer to represent her and file a case against Vicksburg Firearms, a gun manufacturing company, for the death of her husband Jacob Wood, who was one of the victims in the massacre that took place in a brokerage office. Gun manufacturer and owner Garland Jankle, played by Stanley Anderson hired the services of a brilliant jury consultant Rankin Fitch to help him win ...

Motif of the Quest of Adventures of Huckleberry

A motif represents the dominant idea in any artistic material. The novel Adventures of Huckleberry brings out the motif of slavery. This is demonstrated by the novel’s setting at a time when slavery was legal before, just the Civil War. The motif is also shown through varied characters as most of the novel characters are either white slaveholders like the Phelps family, Miss Watson and the Granger ford family or are characters who indirectly profit from slavery, like the king and duke who turn in Jim - the runaway slave- to Phelpses for a reward of money. Meanwhile, ...

Peter Singer is an Australian Philosopher and is perhaps one of the world’s most controversial literally ethicist. Many people who read his book “Animal Liberation” were in great numbers moved to accept or actually embrace his vegetarianism theory while others were repugnant about Peter Singer’s “most retrogressive” attempt to place the human population and the animal population in the same even moral plane. Similarly, Peter Singer argued that severely disabled little children should in some occasions, receive euthanasia. His idea has attracted both praise as one of the most courageous idealism and denunciation as a pro-abortion idea ...

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The real name of Harriet Tubman at birth was Araminta Ross. She was one of the eleven children of Benjamin and Harriet. She was “hired out” as a nurse of a small child by one of the masters. She used to stay awake throughout the night to ensure that the small baby did not cry and wake the mother. When Ross fell asleep, the master would whip her. The brutal suffering she went through since young made her determined to gain freedom. She is remembered as one of the conductors who freed many slaves through the "Underground Railroad." In ...

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Introduction Slavery is an age-old practice that has existed in many forms among different human societies. In fact, as early as 3,000 to 2,000 B.C., in the primeval civilization of Mesopotamia, slavery, in its various forms has already been observed (Perbi 1). For many years, the institution of slavery has existed in many places around the globe, but it made the biggest impression in the continent of Africa where slavery took its greatest toll. Intertwined with the African slave trade is the huge demand for slave labor in the European colonies, specifically the large plantations ...

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Proctor speaks of things that act as determinants of an individual's position in the society, and he goes ahead to challenge what is normally considered as the justifiers of an individual's position in the society. The study of Paul as a character, has often challenged African Americas who do the biblical interpretation. Since the positive nature is not clear, in most cases, African American biblical scholars have always tried to understand the teaching in other ways apart from the interpretation of other groups of people such as preachers and politicians (Lewis 232-236). The letter to Philemon is an example ...

David L. Smith states that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of slavery and freedom, death and rebirth (to escape from his father, Huck cleverly faked his own death) has not only specific, but also a symbolic meaning. This novel is not only about the legalized slavery of black Americans, but also about the lack of freedom of the white man, enslaved by social conventions and prejudices of the environment, not only about the "revival" of the hero after his supposed death, but also about the actual birth of his personality, which gained emotional breadth. Huck’s and ...

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Criminal activity among adolescents is on the rise in our nation. There are more incidents of violent behavior by youngsters in recent years when compared to the 1970s or the 1980s. The correctional facilities for these young children are overcrowded and unhygienic. There are increasing reports of violence and cruelty towards juvenile inmates across the country. The juvenile detention centers are seldom successful in rehabilitating its inmates. Recidivism in juvenile crime is at an all-time high. The purpose of Juvenile detention centers is to provide young children with opportunities to reform their ways. The expectation from these centers is ...

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Georges (2012) carried out a research to establish relationship between varieties of religious experiences and manifest hate. In his article which was published in journal of religion and society data was collected in different states of USA. The data on level of religiosity was collected and grouped into three categories i.e. high religiosity, moderate religiosity and low religiosity. In determining whether one belongs to any of the group the researcher considered person’s belief on existence of supernatural being. Then manifest of hate index in each state was calculated. A regression analysis which was carried out showed: moderate strong ...

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Before the American Civil War of 1861-1865, tensions were high between the Northern and Southern states. Said tension found basis on the issue of slavery with the Southerners being pro-slavery and Northerners anti-slavery. Consequently, an abolitionist movement rose from the North and led to the development of the “Underground Railroad”. Despite its name, the “Underground Railroad” encompassed hidden houses, paths, and code words that the anti-slavery forces utilized in helping blacks escape to Free states and Canada where there was no slavery. Expectedly, such actions led to the retaliation of the ...

Theoretical Explanations of Two Prominent Pre-Industrial Civilizations: The Mayan Civilization and the Roman Empire from the Lens of Joseph Tainter and Arnold Toynbee

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Civilizations have characterized much of human history and have laid the groundwork for several innovations on human organization. As humans have learned to congregate in societies, they have developed their respective ways of living based on their understanding on the natural and social environment enveloping them within a given geographical area. Human organization inevitably comes into play, in which positions of authority are recognized and tasked to maintain and improve the political, economic and religious affairs of ...

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Homelessness in the world is significant humanity problem, which while many will acknowledge needs to be resolution, they also seemed to be unmoved with making a change. The stigmatization associated with homeless people is spread through the misinterpretations of the reasoning of how the individual arrives at their situation. This is largely a problem for the ever increasing population of homeless youth which has risen in the last several years due to the economic situation and familial factors in which self-determination and perseverance take priority. The problems that many homeless individuals face as well as youth is the lack of healthcare. ...

Frances Harper is one of the famous African-American authors from the nineteenth century. She has written various literary works such as poems, stories and, essays revolving around themes of racial pride, female self-esteem and, equal rights . In general, Frances has used her talent of writing, hence her literature, as her way of protesting against evils of society. Likewise, The Slave Mother, by Frances Harper portrays the horrors and brutalizing nature of slavery. Unlike other literary works chosen for the assignment, this poem in particular describes the psychological and emotional pain resulting from slavery and separation. The poem is ...

Henry Clay was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1777 at a time when the American colonies were still engaged in a Revolutionary War for independence with Great Britain. The young Virginian would develop a deep love and respect for the concept of a United States that would lead him to become the greatest compromiser and one of the most pivotal figures of 19th century American history. Clay’s notable accomplishments include his status as one of the founding members of the Whig Party and his conception of the American System of economics (Bordewich, 2009). Above all of his ideologies though, Clay firmly ...

In American history, the middle passage refers to a voyage that took place in period between 1600 and 1800 when slave trade dominated the economic activities along the Pacific Ocean. It was termed as the middle passage because it was the second leg of a voyage which took place in three phases that begun and ended in Europe. The first passage entailed a voyage carrying cargo such as iron, fire arms, brandy and gunpowder which was taken to the African slave coasts. The cargo was traded for Africans. Departure from the African slave coasts marked the beginning of the middle passage from ...

[Institution Title] According to the National Conference of State Legislature's website, one in every seven children between ages 10 to 18 years will run away from home (Finzel, 2013). This was supported by the data provided by the National Runaway Switchboard through the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness in 2008. According to the report, there were approximately 1.3 million youth were living-off the streets of the US territory (Molino, 2010). This statistics is alarming considering the potential risks that await the youth while they remain unsupervised in the streets. Not to mention the implication that a high incidence ...

The 1800’s were a time for high growth and success for the United States. Yet, throughout the 1840’s and the 1850’s, a rift between the Southern and the Northern United States started to develop. During this period, the North and the South developed different social, economical, as well as political values. These social, economy and political differences set forth the stage for Civil War. This paper aims to explore some the economic, social and political differences between the North and the South that eventually led to the Civil war. The South had for long relied on cotton ...

Interactions with hazardous materials

Chemical reactions or interactions are key to the production of various useful chemical products including polymers, fuels, paints, adhesives etc. When the reactants, catalysts, mechanism of reaction, reactor operation, temperature, pressure and other parameters are known, as well as kept under control, the products or outcome are as expected. On the other hand when chemical interactions are unexpected and lead to unknown products, consequences could be disastrous leading to severe loss. Such hazardous material interactions are more common in chemical manufacture, processing, refining and storage facilities. Reactive hazards are a serious concern since the magnitude of loss could be ...

The problem the writer talks about it basically related to the homeless people living in South Florida. It is a big deal that a place like Florida, which is in town set and where people from all corners come to live for having a better life actually does not have much facility to prove the homeless people and has ranked 3rd among the states with most homeless population! The livesof the homeless people are becoming tougher day by day. The writer has put up the reasons why homelessness really takes place. The essay starts by defining homelessness as a stage where a person does ...

Introduction

This paper will discuss the sales plan for Apple iPhone 5s. We will go through topics like the Sales geography, staffing requirements, territory breakdown, sales outlets, distribution method and sales strategies in the first sections of the paper. In the second section, we will go through the reasons behind choosing the selected market, management of sales force challenges, marketing plan, sales force training and success metrics.

Sales Geography

As per Apple’s regulatory files, Apple’s business is managed on basis of Geography. The geographic segments to be targeted for launch of Apple iPhone 5s will be Americas, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific ...

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A. Airplane accidents 5 II. Turbulence Detection 7

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C. Benefits 7 III. High cost 8 IV. Air Traffic Control 9 D. Define 9

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F. Consequence 10 V. Air navigation system 11

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Aeronautical ground light and radio facilities 11 Advanced control systems 12 Air Traffic Management (ATM) system 12 H. Benefits 13 I. Consequence 13 VI. Conclusion 13

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- Introduction Aviation industry provides the only transportation networks across the globe and is thus the only dependable business for global business development and tourism. Air transportation is one of the ...

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Climate change appears to be one of the most challenging tasks humanity is about to face and this problem puts an enormous amount of pressure and stress on our planet, as well as on our society, and will put even a greater one in future. Such a scenario is one of the worst ever imaginable, putting an asteroid hit, a super volcano eruption, or a super earthquake aside; major climate change will result in destructive floods, and shifted climate zones, with food production being threatened. Climate change is a serious issue of our present life, and if not altered, it will lead to a complete ...

Aviation industry provides the only transportation networks across the globe and is thus the only dependable business for global business development and tourism. Air transportation is one of the crucial services that offer commendable social and economic benefits to a country. It provides jobs and increase tax revenue. Air transportation is evidently the fastest mechanism for movement of peopled and cargo shipments across the world. In terms of social factors, air transport broadens people’s leisure and cultural experiences. It provides a cheaper and efficient platform for talking holiday vacations and visiting distant friends and family. Automobiles all over the ...

The growth of the American urban centers dates back to the colonial period. Urban cultures have emerged since the early nineteenth Century to the modern cities. Boston was among the first cities to develop, from its trading advantage over other cities such as New York and Philadelphia. The three distinct periods in the history of the development of American cities are the provincial, commercial, and industrial periods. ‘The first was a provincial period, which lasted from the foundation of Manhattan down to the opening up of ocean commerce after the War of 1812, This was followed by a commercial period, which ...

Status offense laws define a status offense as a noncriminal/non-delinquent offense. These laws specify offenses that are considered illegal for an underage individual even though they are not illegal if they are committed by an adult. This law was designed to protect the youth from acts that may eventually lead to criminal offenses. These laws define acts of incorrigibility, runaway behavior, curfew violations and truancy. However, in the United States, these laws also have a negative facet to them. In this paper, I will seek to highlight the pros and cons of Status Offense Laws with respect to age requirements for purchasing ...

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Climate change stands to be one of the major challenges of our modern time and puts a considerable amount of pressure and stress on our planet as well as on our society. Such a problem, if faced by humanity is one of the worst case scenarios imaginable, aside the asteroid hit or a super volcano eruption; major climate change can result in risen worldwide sea level leading to destructive floods, shifted climate zones with food production being threatened. Such climate change impacts are global in scale and might eventually lead to a total human extinction. Every time the causes of climate change ...

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The Seminole tribe is the product of an ethno-cultural blending of the Creek peoples from the lower-central Southeast with indigenous Floridian tribes such as the Choctaw, Timuquan and Apalachicolas, some of whom were part of the Muschogean culture. The meaning of the word “Seminole” has been interpreted, loosely, as “runaway” or “broken off” (McReynolds 1957, 12). This refers to the separation of the Lower Creek peoples from the larger tribe, as described by an 18th-century observer. “Runaway,” reported historian Wiley Thompson, was “applicable to all the Indians in the Territory of Florida as all of them ran awayfrom the ...

Homeless people, by definition do not have a fixed residence, but that is where the simplicity ends.

“A 2008 survey by the U.S conference of mayors asked 25 cities for their top three causes of homelessness. Drug abuse was the largest single cause of homelessness for single adults reported by 68% of cities.” Homelessness & Substance Use Disorder Treatment (2010) Drug abuse and homelessness is a sort of chicken and egg debate not only because of its age and importance but because either can result in either one i.e. someone can become homeless as a result of chronic drug use or a homeless person can become dependent on drugs as a result of homelessness and being exposed to chronic ...

Every planet in the solar system has its special features, which make them unique in comparison to other planets. For example, Mars is famous for iron compounds; Saturn is famous for its rings etc. Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is the sixth largest planet in the solar system. The orbit of the planet is the most circular among others (Nineplanets.org). This means that the orbit of the planet resembles a circle and not an ellipsis like Earth’s one. Many scientists call Venus the Earth’s sister planet because both of them have many similar ...

The Compassionate Morality of a Perfect Sap-head

First published in 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was seen as a wildly adventurous novel for children until the pioneering critical work of the American scholar, Lionel Trilling, who saw it for what it is: a bildungsroman that charted the moral and emotional growth to maturity of a young boy exposed to an evil and corrupt society. Throughout the novel Huck’s innocence and especially his naïve, innocent voice constantly subvert the values he observes in the society he comes into contact with on his and Jim’s epic voyage down the Mississippi. The novel’s use of offensive racist ...

Huckleberry Finn is the archetypical American novel written by the enigmatic Mark Twain and which sheds considerable light on American society as a whole. It tells the story of the son of a town’s vagrant who leaves his son in rags and tatters and who is very much at the mercy of the elements throughout. The boy is a lovable young kid who does not have much going for him but who is essentially good and although he is shunned by society, he still is quite positive and outgoing in his life. Eventually he meets a runaway slave called Tom who becomes ...

Define and discuss the author’s comic critique of unrealized American ideals and inequitable American realities as regards class and race in Huckleberry Finn

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Huckleberry Finn is the archetypical American novel written by the enigmatic Mark Twain and which sheds considerable light on American society as a whole. It tells the story of the son of a town’s vagrant who leaves his son in rags and tatters and who is very much at the mercy of the elements throughout. The boy is a lovable young kid who does not have much going for him but who is essentially good and although ...

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Hammurabi’s Code placed great value upon the slave as property, not as a human being. The slave’s value appeared to be measured by the degree to which he or she could perform work for the slave-owner. Grave punishments were inflicted upon a man who deprived another of his slave. While assaults upon freemen resulting in injury or death were punished in draconian fashion, monetary damages were the measure of reparation for the injury or wrongful death of a slave and were payable not to the slave or his family, but to the slave-owner. Liability for professional malpractice or negligence resulting ...

Very similar attitudes were used to justify the trade in African slaves. They were not Christian and were “uncivilized” from a European point of view because if their lack of what Europeans could recognize as a culture and a social system. Slavery and even barbaric transportation were justified because at least the slaves would be converted to Christianity and saved from hell in the afterlife. The same attitude informed white American attitudes to the Native Americans, as Carroll and Noble put it: the English settlers “required the ‘barbarous heathen’ to reject their traditional cultures, live in ‘praying villages’ and adopt an English ...

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The following essay analyzes this particular poem from the perspective of history and the tumultuous times of the middle 19th century America. In this time of great unrest and fight for civil rights, as well as for the basic rights of every human being, Walt Whitman chose to address this highly relevant issue in the development of America and its treatment of its citizens by writing a long poem in free verse in which he expressed his, what were considered radical democratic viewpoints. His belief was simple: treat others like you would like to be treated. He believed in egalitarianism, ...

Taylor vs. Carter

In the matter concerning Taylor versus Cater, Taylor ought to prevail since he sustained injuries due to the misconduct of Carter. When Cater left her car in the parking lot and failed setting up the parking brakes properly, he put the life of individuals in that surrounding at danger. As a result of his misconduct Taylor become the victim of circumstances and was injured by the unoccupied automobile. From a legal doctrine perspective he committed a tortious act which is tantamount to a civil wrong.

Taylors claim is further supported legally by the fact that, cater as a driver is mandated by law to ...