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Bhoomi Patel BUSA 3110 According to legal survival guide of The Florida Bar discusses the environment that affect adults’ everyday life. The details provided on “Just Adulting” explains the rules of legal protection. It includes many topics such as sexual cyber harassment, texting and driving, environmental responsibilities and employment. The most viral issue of today is the sexual cyber harassment. The sexual cyber harassment is when a person post his/ her photos on social media, another person uses that image as a sexually implicit image without the consent of that person. For this type case, a person can go to the jail for 1 year and $1000 fine for the punishment by law. The second type of crime is texting and
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