...as the department of counterterrorism works to uncover and document different ways for stopping these illegal activities. The top three organized crime and terrorist operations begin with counterfeiting cigarettes, money laundering, and gun smuggling undermines every country’s economic system. The huge profits gained from illegal cigarette sales with low penalties for getting caught makes these imitation products rival drugs in illegal sales. History shows money laundering and gun smuggling as a way organized crime families and terrorist organization work to hide the large sums of money made through illegal alcohol, cigarettes, and other black market items. Counterfeiting Cigarettes The United States and other countries raise taxes on cigarettes, and alcohol to offset the budget deficits widening the difference between the wholesale, and retail prices (Billingslea, 2004). The difference creates opportunities for the shadowy world of black marketers bringing in the terrorist organization looking for new ways to move money. The huge profits gained from illegal cigarette sales with low penalties for getting caught makes these imitation products rival drugs in illegal sales. The method of choice for filling terrorist organization’s bank accounts or providing money for local schemes. The top choice for trafficking illegal cigarette is buying in a low-tax state, and selling on the street in a higher-tax causing monetary tax loss in both states. The advances in electronic devices...
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...created to give people who were born here citizenship, but not people agreed with these now law. The Trail of James Byrd was about a white man dragged a black man to his death attached to the car. The white man thought that the laws were going to be as the 18s about slavery and were not going to search him for the death crime that he committed. The man got arrested, the judge found him guilty and the KKK member was sent to death penalty. Beside that some racial issue we experience today is that police officers...
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...between international gold leasing rate and the interest on gold bond. Today, gold lease rate moves around 1-1.5% per annum in the international market. If the government offers an interest of 4-5% per annum on gold bonds, bullion importers may import large quantities from international suppliers on lease basis and convert the same into gold bonds. If the government notifies that the designated agency will accept only gold jewellery and not gold bars, people are smart enough to convert imported gold bars into jewellery overnight. It is believed that a common reason for poor response to gold deposit scheme or gold bond scheme in India is that a significant portion of gold held by households represents undisclosed wealth earned out of black money or...
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...creating the trail called Goodnight-Loving trail. This man was Charles Goodnight, a Texas hero. In his youth Charles loved the outdoors, when he was 11 his mother had another baby and left her husband. As he got older him and his brother worked to support the family, they moved to Port Sullivan in 1848. He and his brother caught a mustang which led Charles to race horse at the age of 15. He went into cattle business with his step-brother and began raising cattle while Charles went and delivered cotton and other goods. They moved their cattle and family members to Palo Pinto County and created Black Springs Ranch. Charles went to fight in the Civil War and returned to find most of his cattle stolen. He started his first cattle drive in 1866 planning to move them northwest because most people in the south had gone bankrupt from the war. For 3 days he drove his cattle and around 300 of them died from the lack of water. He didn’t let his cattle drink from the poisonous water holes near the Pecos River....
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...This tedious journey was called the Trail of Tears because of its calamitous results of hunger, fatigue, and disease. The Indian Removal Act was passed through Congress on May 28th, 1830. The act forced the Cherokee to migrate towards current day Oklahoma. Out of the 16,000 Cherokees that were forced on the trail (the Trail of Tears), 4,000 died. One fourth of the tribe perished and it was all for the selfishness of the Europeans and others that “needed” the land. President Andrew Jackson was fine with all of this, in fact, he used the removal act to his advantage. He kept pushing them westward more and more for the benefit of other settlers. The selfishness was literally deadly. There is an anonymous quote that reads: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” This quote is proven through the fallen ones on the trail and the bodies that lost their hope and souls along the way. As the quote in the first sentence says, these lives will not be...
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...During the time when Lazaro was alive he and his family had trouble getting money in order to survive. His mother who is a widower gives up Lazaro to a blind man to keep safe and to be fed because Lazaro mother cannot do so. During that time money was hard to get because of the booming economy that Spain was experiencing due to getting new resources of spices and herbs among with expensive metals such as gold and silver from the new world. With the economy booming prices on food, land, and ways to live have risen thus causing an inflammation on goods. This had effected Lazaro because his own mother had to give him up to a stranger in order for him and herself to survive, this key part sets many misfortunes upon Lazaro throughout his life....
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...lively picture of a quiet Southern town in Alabama rocked by a young girl’s accusation of criminal assault. The main character of the novel is Atticus Fintch, an experienced smart lawyer. He was asked to defend Tom Robinson, a Negro, who was charged with raping a white girl. Her name is Mayella Ewell and she is old Bob Ewell’s daughter. Atticus has got two children. Their names are Jem, who is thirteen and Jean Louise, nicknamed Scout, aged seven. The extract under consideration contains the scene in the court. Both children were present at the trail and it is Jean Louise who describes it. So, it’s the first point narration. Jean’s observations make the story vivid, convincing and emotional because she “saw something only lawyer’s child could be expected to see, could be expected to watch for”. Also her observations after her father help the reader to understand how Atticus was excited and nervous in the court. The atmosphere at the trail is strained. The tension is growing. Atticus begins with the evidence. His voice is calm; he speaks with the kind of detachment. “He walked slowly up and down in front of the jury, and the jury seemed to be attentive…”- here the author uses anadiplosis and the reader can visualize how attentively the jury look at his route. And then Atticus does something unusual for him. It is his...
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...The individual must say the word green instead of yellow. In order for the individual to be successful at such task, one must maintain the focus of the task at hand. Balota et al. believed that the errors on these incongruent trails were the best discriminator between those who were healthy older adults and individuals who were suffering from dementia, more specifically individuals suffering from dementia would have more errors than a healthy older adult would have (e.g., Craik & Lockhart, 1972; Hasher & Zacks, 1988; Jacoby, 1991). In the current study, Tse and his researchers used this task by using four color names, red, blue, green, and yellow, as well as for neutral words that consisted of, bad, poor, deep, and legal. There were a total of 36 congruent trials in which four color names appeared nine times in its corresponding color. There were 36 incongruent trials in which each of the four color names appeared three times in each of the three nonmatching colors. There was also a group of natural trials that consisted of only 32. During these trials each of the four neutral works appeared twice in each of the four colors. Before the actual trials, participants were given 16 practice trials. When the real trials began a blank black screen would be before the participant and...
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...are a few Indians who have made money from natural resources found on their lands, but there are still thousands who live at close starvation levels. Many live in almost complete isolation from Americans who are not Indian, but there are some who are educated and living among the white society. Hundreds of Indians work in cities close to their reservations; thousands of other Indians hold onto the security of their reservations in hope of gaining education and being able to develop the resources of their lands and provide for their own needs without help from others. Today, there are about 300 federal reservations in the United States largely found west of the Mississippi. There are many environmental issues that have created many tragedies among the American Indians, which have left most of them facing poor living conditions. There is a long history of tragedies among the American Indians starting back in the 1830s. The Trail of Tears, also known as the “death march,” was the first initial tragedy that caught the attention of many historians to this day. The Trail of Tears is known as the enforced relocation and movement of American Indian tribes from southeastern territories of the United States with the Indian Removal Act of 1830 following. This removal included the members of Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw homelands to Indian Territory in eastern parts of the present-day state of Oklahoma. It is said that the term “Trail of Tears” came from the tears...
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...May Your Trails be Crooked Edward Abbey wrote a poem in which he spoke about a crooked and wild road leading to amazing and wondrous places. My take on what he was conveying is simply telling the reader that he hopes they will follow the unbroken path instead of the one that has been tread on a million times before. Travel the trails that have risks, for those are the paths that lead to the most beautiful sights. They can lead to wild, unexplored territory or ruins from long ago. These roads lead to the wonders humanity is forgetting. They lead to the childlike wonder that even children have now forgotten. This piece, to me, means that there is an entire world out there to explore, but most are unwilling and unwanting to explore...
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...Community Development Vol. 41, No. 3, July–September 2010, 298–322 Incorporating social justice in tourism planning: racial reconciliation and sustainable community development in the Deep South Alan W. Bartona* and Sarah J. Leonardb a b Downloaded By: [University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY)] At: 06:29 3 November 2010 Social Sciences, Delta State University, DSU Box 3264, Cleveland MS 38733, USA; The College Board, Chicago, USA Tourism can serve as a vehicle for sustainable community development by contributing to equity and social justice. This happens as tourists learn about marginal groups through educational tourism, engage in development projects with host-area residents, undertake pilgrimages that bring greater meaning and cohesiveness to an ethnic identity, or encounter stories that transform their view of social injustice and spur further action to reduce inequities. Tourism planning can produce a sense of reconciliation when it brings historically divided groups together. An example is found in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, where a group of white and African American residents are collaborating to develop tourism projects designed around a narrative of reconciliation, while they use the process of tourism planning to work towards racial reconciliation within their community. This case illustrates strategies tourism planners employ and challenges they face when they envision tourism as more than merely a means of economic growth...
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...Movement The civil rights movement was the time in America in which Blacks and other minorities started getting more independence and more equal rights. This movement required several courageous leaders and many life changing events occurred in order for America to become the integrated nation that it is today. A lot of protests and boycotts took place but they were usually non-violent, which the minorities discovered worked the best. Throughout this period in time schools, public places and other everyday places slowly but surely became integrated. One of the first major events that happened was the Brown v. Board of Education case. Oliver Brown, who was an African American, had a daughter. The school at which she attended was far from her house and in order to get there she had to pass by a unruly neighborhood which she was uncomfortable walking through. There was a school right across the street from her house but since the rule was “separate but equal is constitutional” she could not attend it because it was a white only school. Her father complained and the case was taken to the Supreme Court. The ruling of Plessey v. Ferguson was overturned and the new ruling was that “separate but equal isn’t equal.” After this event most school became integrated. The first time a jury became integrated was after the Hernandez v. Texas case. A Mexican, Pete Hernandez was wrongly accused of murder. At his trail, which consisted only of white jurors, he was inaccurately proclaimed...
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...readers a clear understanding off the story and what action are taking place. The main character, Jefferson a young black man was in a situation at the wrong place at the wrong time. Now he has to face consequences that no one should ever have to accept. In Chapter One and Two, I’m going to explain the chapter’s using Identification and Consubstantiality by Kenneth Burke. Identification and Consubstantiality by Kenneth Burke suggests that whenever someone attempts to persuade someone else, identification occurs, because for persuasion to occur, one party must identify with another. I believe this is a great explanation explaining Chapter One. For example, Jefferson a young black man went to the store with his no good friends Brother and Bear. The store owner Old Grope knew Jefferson because of this godmother. They all was intoxicated with alcohol, so Bear wanted to purchase a bottle of Apple White but didn’t have enough money to get it. Then fire opened up in the store and Bear, Brother, and Old Grope was down but Grope wasn’t died. But, Grope told another story when the police came and poor Jefferson was faced between a rock and a hard stone. In Chapter Two, Jefferson is faced when a trial. He may or may not face charges on the indication that went on in the store that day. During trail, it is always two sides to a story. Just because Jefferson was a young black man the prosecutor didn’t believe his story at all. But, who are they to judge anyone if they weren’t there to witness...
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...1. Jim Crowe laws were never really well-known in the northern parts of the U.S, like Detroit, Michigan or Chicago, Illinois in the early 1920s. These laws were to stop segregation in the southern states of the U.S. Even though segregation is not enforced in these northern residential areas, there was always a division between the whites and the blacks. During WWI, the blacks started coming to the neighborhoods of Paradise Valley in Detroit, just passed 8 mile; regardless of the segregation laws or not. Doctor Ossian Sweet was an African American man who was motivated to change the ways in Detroit. He studied at a college in Ohio and then attended Howard University where he received a medical degree specializing in gynecology. He then moved to Detroit because of the different job opportunities. Dr. Sweet did not realize what he was getting himself into while purchasing a home in a white American neighborhood. White Americans did not want African Americans living in the same residential areas. If so, the whites would leave or start violence in the area. Dr. Sweet and his family moved into a house on September 8th, 1925. He knew there would be some sort of violence as soon as they arrived at their little house on the corner of Charlevoix and Garland and knew that little protection from the police of Detroit was all that they would receive. By the 2nd night...
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...Native American Relocation Native American culture and its role in American history have always been a fascinating subject. There have been reading assignments on Native American’s removal and resistance, Black Hawk and his rebellion, and Emerson’s letter to President Van Buren. These pieces gave us a brief overview of America’s goals at the time, the action they took to achieve these goals, the Native Americans’ reaction, and the opinions held by the American people. These readings only scratched the surface of Native Americans and the role they have played in American History. The main cause of the interaction between Americans and the Native Americans was an increase in demand for land by Americans. As they pushed west and south, the frequency of interactions with Native Americans increased and so did hostility. I am aware that land demand issues were normally approached at first with peaceful negations. The American government would meet with the tribes and develop a treaty that resulted in less land for the Native Americans and more land for Americans. This would satisfy the Americans for a period of time but demand for land would just continue to increase. At this point Indians would either get restless and rebellions would ensue or Americans would violate the treaties and make moves on the Native’s land. In either situation the superior force of the American troops would result in them defeating the Indians. The Indians would then be forced to comply with American demands...
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