It was cut under a law that was made to provide more gender equity in education and sports. ... This law has led to the addition of millions of women's athletes into the college community. ... The law covers many different aspects on how a school operates its extracurricular activities. ... The duties of the coordinator include investigating complaints received against the schools involving noncompliance of the law (3). The coordinator must be up to date with the law as it changes on a regular basis. ...

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It is defined as any law or policy designed to limit or abolish the sale, possession, and use of firearms. Gun control proponents argue that firearms cause tragedies and massacres (such as the Newtown and Columbine school shootings) while gun rights supporters claim that they are needed for sport, protection from tyranny, and self-defense. ... Ordinary law abiding citizens may have no interest in or need for this information, but criminals surely will. ... Isn't it ironic how laws like gun registration, made to reduce firearm violence, can instead arm criminals with the very guns the gove...

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Ever since then we have found it very useful to use dogs in law enforcement. There are many different types of law enforcement dogs. ... Drug sniffing dogs are also used to help reduce student drug use and cut the availability of substances on public school campuses. ... Dogs have been successful in all areas of law enforcement. ... Not all dogs are used as search-and-rescue dogs or law enforcement dogs. ...

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Schools & Authorities VII. ... School Teacher VIII. ... When family members are in business together, there is always a time when the boss is more lenient with his brother-in-law who is also his store manager because he is the boss's wife's baby brother. ... Additionally, the brother-in-law may conveniently remind the boss that his wife (the brother-in-law's big sister) would not be happy to hear that her baby brother is being treated unfairly on the job. ... We find that this absence of compassion is existent in our American schools and certainly in our prison system. ...

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Everyone is equal under the law in my state. ... Fourth, in terms of foreign relations, the Legalism school encouraged the building of a strong army. ... "Fa 法" (Law) In Legalism, law is used as a standard for judgment on whether a certain behavior is appropriate, inappropriate, right or wrong. ... Lastly, the creation of strict laws with emphasis on collective responsibility will help prevent people from violating the laws. ... Second, the Confucianism school does not encourage the usage of material incentives and opposed the usage of severe punishments to rule. ...

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This was stated by Jennie Luitenn who was forced to witness a school shooting (Cloud 8). ... Kinkel murdered both his parents then went to school and opened fire on the high school cafeteria. ... I myself was in high school when these shootings started. ... On April 20, 1999 I went to school like it was any other day. ... On February 29, 2000 a 6 year old boy went to school in the small commu...

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Charles Huston, who later helped shape and mold Thurgood's knowledge of the United States Constitution, ran the law school. ... Thurgood wanted to continue his education, by enrolling at Howard University Law School located in Washington D.C. Howard Law School was the country's first black law school. Thurgood knew the law school was close to his parents home, and he could commute back and forth on the train. The man that was in charge of the all black law school was Charles Huston. ...

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The idea behind juvenile court was that children in trouble with the law should be helped rather than punished. ... A delinquent child is one who has committed an act that is a crime for adults under federal, state, or local law. ... Status offenses include running away from home, skipping school, refusing to obey parents, or engaging in certain behaviors such as drinking alcohol while under the age of majority. ... The idea behind juvenile court was that children in trouble with the law should be helped rather than punished. ... The idea behind juvenile court was that children in trouble wit...

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Norma was schooled and in training to become a teacher. William dropped out of school after elementary school, but could read and write very well. ... Separate, but, supposable, equal, was the law of the land. ... He was suspended from school more times he could count. ... He then focused on Law. ...

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Shias argue that Prophet Muhammad explicitly chose Ali, his cousin and son-in-law, to lead after him. ... On the other hand, some Sunnis believe that the Prophet explicitly chose Abu Bakr, his closest friend, advisor, and father-in-law, to lead the community, while others believe that he did not get a chance to choose any leader before his death. ...

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A handgun carried concealed is a great way to offer that protection What gun control advocates can't perceive is that gun control laws are aimed at the legal buying and selling of guns. ... All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. Law abiding citizens who are armed will prevent crime. ... Those favoring gun control laws claim that such laws would keep more guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals in an increasingly violent world. ... "Gun control laws might be accurately called victim disarmament laws...

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School spirit is expressed during basketball games and the fans of the game get into the rivalries at hand. ... When the fans feel betrayed it has a negative affect on school spirit and the college program. The more fans that attend, the stronger the team and the stronger the school spirit becomes. ... Do law firms accept law students after merely completing one year of law school? ... A law firm does ...

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From the horrible incident that occurred at Columbine High School in Colorado, to the everyday incidents of youth violence, it is apparent that the problem of teen violence is definitely growing and not shrinking at all. ... (Time Magazine) The media bombardment that teens are faced with in society distorts the laws of reality, and as one sociologist puts it: "adolescents show little if any concern for the physical injury or harm inflicted for their victims." ... You see them on their way to school with books in one hand and an ice cream cone in another, and you would never know it" (Ohio poli...

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During the 1950's, racial separation in public schools, especially southern schools, was not looked at as a problem for many people. ... Although all the schools in a "separate but equal" community were supposed to be the same, most schools that only allowed African Americans were far inferior to their white counterparts. When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter into a white elementary school because the distance to a colored school was too far, she was denied acceptance. ... Milam, his brother-in-law, took Emmett at gunpoint. ... This followed the laws that were enforced to seg...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. Such laws stated that blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and trains. These laws grew out of a racist...

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In 1952 the Supreme Court was approached by four states, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, challenging the segregation in public schools. ... Black fifth grader Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas was not allowed to attend a white elementary school. ... "This event was the turning point in the desegregation of public schools, and the beginning to equality among all races." ... Topeka's Board of Education, that all segregated schools are "inherently unequal," 9 African American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. ....

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Rangel, the United States Representative for New York's 13th District, stated, "No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. ... Let's enforce existing gun laws (Rangel).... With all the gun laws in The United States, the number comes out to around 20,000 different laws (Gottfried). ... Another deadly shooting which occurred was the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. ... Does going to school mean exposure to handguns and death? ...

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Countries all over the world maintain minimum wage laws. ... It has been a labor law topic since the early 1930s. ... In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law. ... There some jobs are exempt from having to follow the minimum wage laws. ... Most minimum wage earners have never attended college or any higher education past high school. ...

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Although laws pertaining to civil rights were enacted that ended segregation, hatred and racism still continued; and it appears to be even stronger now than it ever has been. ... In a larger school the problems are understandably magnified. At Rutgers University in February, the school was racked with controversy. ... The all black schools even resemble the schools of old. ... In 1994, a principal from an Alabama high school opposed interracial couples' attending his school's prom. ...

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Terry Nichols was found guilty of federal crimes of conspiracy and manslaughter, the state of Oklahoma tried to charge him with state murder charges but was hindered by the double jeopardy laws. ... "From this perspective law, law enforcement agencies, and government itself are instruments of the ruling class to maintain advantageous positions in society and to control those who pose a threat to that position." ... This was proven at 10:00pm on September 6th, 1998 when federal agents in thirty-one American cities working in conjunction with law enforcement agencies from eleven different countr...

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Gaining momentum, Congress also passed the Fourteenth Amendment, making everyone born in the United States (or brought up in the United States) to be a citizen, and declaring "no state could abridge their rights without due process of law or deny them equal protection under the law (Boyer, et al. 505)." ... Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... - Published literature against certain Jim Crow laws was illegal and punishable by six months imprisonment (83)... Ironically, the last t...

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All over the world, women were unequal to men; Cultural differences are the variations in the way of life, beliefs, traditions and laws between different countries, religions, societies and people. ... She strongly believed in women going to school along with men. ... In this program, "teachers" would prepare boys with basic skills that are needed to attend a "next level" school called town schools. For girls, after dame schools they were taught how to sew and knit. ... But in 1740, South Carolina passed a law, which prohibited anyone from teaching a slave to read or write...

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Therefore it is important to have a universal law that defines right from wrong. ... Clearly - A law still needs to be passed. ... I will break it down into examples of corporal punishment considered as Child abuse (in the home and in schools), the dangers and results of harsh corporal punishment, and alternatives to corporal punishments. In some third world countries like Afghanistan and Africa, school officials use corporal punishment to gain classroom discipline and to punish children for poor performance, tardiness etc.. ... Sometimes what can be even worse, normally in third world count...

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Bush January 2001 Policy Description On Jan. 8, 2002, President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind act of 2001. ... These tests will make the schools accountable for the performance of every student and the improvement of the school as a whole. ... By means of a school-by-school basis report, the public will be informed about the safety statistics according to each school. Also in this policy, any student that is a victim of a violent crime at that school may transfer to a safer school. ... In the lower income school districts or the urban schools, funding is a hard th...

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A short time after Davy returned home, he was to go to school. At school there was a bully named Angus McGruffy. ... The other school children gathered around to watch them fight. ... So he decided not to go to school the next day. ... But Davy still refused to go to school, so John Crockett chased him to school with a stick, but Davy ran into the woods before he got to the schoolhouse and hid in a tree. ...

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