The Sentence

found is the “Run on Sentence.” This is often referred to as the grandfather of all mistakes (Miller & Whitehead, 2015).” Most people believe that it is impossible to write long sentences and be grammatically create. Truth to be told, it is possible. A primary example is legal papers, where the sentences are continuously long for paragraphs and sometimes pages. Other examples includes military manuals, which are succinct and explicit. Unfortunately, many of the times run on sentences are written when a persons is “working under pressure, trying to get a report out in a hurry (Miller & Whitehead, 2015).” Typically, this is when I make mistakes writing essays after I have waited to the last minute to write them.…

Mandatory Minimum Sentences are over exaggerated and harsh sentences criminals have to follow while they are in jail. This all started to prevent and stop crime for possession of any and all drug possession. Many victims are the cause of Mandatory Minimum Sentences sadly, which causes many problems dealing with family abandonment, budget expenses, or prison overcrowding. The amount of individuals that go to jail are more than any other prison because half of them are filled with people who…

Crime and Attractiveness on Sentence Length Some people are simply blessed with good genes and are born attractive. There are times when this tends to be beneficial, and when it comes to prison sentencing after a crime, that fact may remain true. In this experiment we look at exactly this kind of situation. This becomes important for judges and other high up officials to understand that their thoughts might be swayed by attractiveness when making sentencing decisions. Sigall and Ostrove’s…

A sentence is a gathering of words which begins with a capital letter and closures with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). A sentence comprises or involves a verb phrase and a subject. Sentences comprise statements. Simple sentences have one statement. Compound sentences and complex sentences have two or more than two statements. Sentences can comprise subjects and objects. The subject in a sentence is for the most part the individual or thing completing an…

Belonging to the development of the world, the number of offenders is increasing rapidly, and it leads to the short of slots in prison. As a result, “The Smarter Sentence Act” passed in 2015 reduces the mandatory minium sentence for those convicted of federal drug offenses in order to address the problems associated with mass incarceration and keeping nonviolent offenders out of prison. In my point of view, I totally disagree with this statement for two reasons. First, it is dangerous for…

Question 1 Which sentence uses proper punctuation and capitalization? Winston suggests that the Egyptians ' math was far more advanced than previously thought. Locations happened to include; in a steel drum, buried under a stadium and abandoned in a gravel pit. Joyce discusses the great investigative work done by Calvin Goddard, a New York Doctor. The authors research lends credence to the notion that environmental factors cause autism. Question 2 Which of the following passages is…

criminals, deter crime, and possibly rehabilitation of the offender. Moreover, during the sentencing portion adjudication should strive for proportionality, equality in sentencing, understanding offender’s public responsibility, and impartiality (Schmalleger, & Smykla, 2015). Consequently, the United States focus was the rehabilitation of offenders, but due to the belief that offender’s sentences were excessively lax, the system transitioned. The following transition was from the ideology of…

If the first sentence were taken alone, I would not expect what is to follow. However, the first three sentence correlate with each other. I think taking all three should be taken in together. The third sentence, in particular, is the actual topic sentence. The interesting thing about the first two sentences is that they unite Chief Joseph and General Howard, as they both feel the same thing. This is an interesting choice, as it is each other (I assume) that they have fought. Grammatically, it…

No Child Should Have a Life Sentence in Prison 14-year-old Kenneth Young received four life sentences in prison. He was convinced and forced to participate in assisting a 24-year-old male rob a convenience store. Kenneth was not a primary participant in this doing; he was only the second man and wasn’t in contact with victims or even within the general area of where the money was. He was the one to take care of getting the tape out of the recorder. Kenneth was only 14-years-old, meaning he was…

For one to be deterred from committing a felony such as a form of robbery, then they must be deterred by a form of specific and general deterrence. Any kind of deterrence has 3 main properties; severity, certainty and celerity (Sacco and Kennedy, 2010). Severity refers to the seriousness of the penalty, certainty is the reference to the likelihood of being punished for act and celerity is the swiftness in which the offender is apprehended and punished (Clark, 1988) (Sacco and Kennedy, 2010).…