...Confessions of a College Student My name is __________and my college major is accounting. I chose accounting because I have a unique ability to calculate most equations in my head, which has always advanced my love of numbers and my ability to problem solve relatively quickly. My favorite school subject is actually history. I know it may seem unusual considering my major; however it does fit my personality. I’m a medieval educator through reenactment and have always been fascinated with European history. The way they talked was very eloquent direct, the clothing is something to marvel over because of the exquisite attention to detail, and their ability to remain graceful and chivalrous even while dueling with you. There’s no other time in history that can compare. Although my dream job is to eventually have my own accounting business, I’m very lucky to have been offered a job working with Jackson Hewitt, for the next tax season. This opportunity will give me valuable hands on training while I continue my education. I must say that my favorite books would have to be my fantasy collection from Ravenloft Realm. These are published by TSR Inc. and are part of the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. I own the whole collection, which consists of eighteen books and all have different base lines with different characters that intertwine with the head vampire Lord Strahd von Zarovich. The best part of this specific collect is that the authors wrote them so well that you...
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...Hassel & Kassin Confessions and Eyewitness Identification Hassel and Kassin set out to find out if a confession could affect other evidence in a crime investigation. In law the presumption is that different pieces of evidence are independent from each other, this study challenged this presumption. It was known that false confessions led to 25% of wrongful convictions. This could come about in three ways: police could target the wrong person from interrogation, the innocence would waive their Miranda rights and confess given false evidence, and false confessions can sway judges and juries. Hasel and Kassin wanted to know if this could be reproduced in a study and proven. Their study used a staged theft and had their subjects identify the thief from a lineup which did not include the thief. Participants were told that a certain person had made a confession or denied guilt. It turned out that those who had chosen someone but were told someone else made a confession 61% changed their mind about who committed the crime, while those who had not yet made a identification 50% selected the confessor when they knew who they were....
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... | | |College of Humanities | | |US/101 Version 5 | | |Introduction to University Studies | Copyright © 2011, 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description The essential information, skills, tools, and techniques necessary for academic success and personal effectiveness at University of Phoenix are introduced in this course. The course develops and applies practical knowledge and skills immediately relevant to first-year university students. Course topics include goal setting and working with personal motivation, understanding and using university resources, developing efficient study habits, making the most of personal learning styles, and how best to manage time and reduce personal stress levels. Policies Students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University...
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...forensics, false confessions (coerced/intimidated), witness perjury, prosecutorial misconduct, insufficient lawyering, racism and implicit bias. Since the first DNA exoneration conviction in the United States case that...
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...No Justification for Torturing Terrorist The word torture makes teeth cringe with images of a person tied down to a chair with ruptured lips, bruised face, in a room full of people taking turns in “beating the truth” out of them. Torturers have an illusion of finding the “truth” through creative forms of inflicting agonizing pain on a terrorist. During times of crisis this technique can be tempting to practice. The ticking time bomb scenario is always a form in an attempt to justify torture (Smith). These methods can cause a negative impact in communities in our nation. Torture should not be an option. Torture is defined as: the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty (Dictionary.com). In human nature every being is wired to survive. The primal instinct takes over a person when they are being tortured and know that they are in a life or death situation. Regardless if they know anything about what the interrogators want to know, they will say anything to keep themselves from being tortured. Excruciating pain is not the only way of obtaining information because torture has two forms that could be either physical or psychological (law.harvard.edu). There have been data-based attempts to probe the definition of torture. In a sophisticated empirical study of 432 torture survivors, Metin Basoglu (2009) analyzed the psychological meaning of 46 torture techniques. Statistical...
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... Prof. Mahzarin R. Banaji, who led a study about ‘subconscious tribal beliefs’, argues that people act accordingly once divided into groups, even if they know that the divisions are arbitrary and futile (‘It Takes A Tribe’ 10). Many of the surveys and examples presented in Berreby’s article are based on the college life of students. Berreby demonstrates that a college campus breeds competitive spirit and therefore tribalism (9). Berreby also writes that, “A sense of ‘us’ brings with it a sense of ‘them’”. “We may come to believe, that an essential trait separates us from the rest of humanity (them)”, he adds. A person relating to a particular tribe usually begins to dissociate with another tribe (9). Prof. Robert M. Saplosky’s e-mail interview declares, in detail, how the faculty and students of Stanford University are affiliated with layers of social groups, persisting from the university notch right till their chosen majors. They are familiar with their rival groups at each level (‘It takes A tribe’ 9). The embarrassment or discomfort faced to enter a group is directly proportional to the value a member has for that group (Berreby 11). Berreby finally cites a confession of Prof. Banaji, who says that it is difficult to break off a certain community that has played a part in your present identity (12). Berreby, David. "Rituals and Traditions; It Takes a Tribe." The New York Times. The New York Times, 01 Aug. 2004. Web. 31 Aug....
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...sense. Naturally, it is difficult to understand why anyone would confess to a crime they didn’t commit. However, false confessions are one the leading causes of wrongful convictions.1 As the Supreme Court of Canada noted in R v. Oickle, innocent people are induced to make false confessions more frequently than those unacquainted with the phenomenon might expect.2 In North America, we can trace the existence of false confessions back to the Salem Witch Trials, where a number of women were persecuted for witchcraft on the basis of confessions that were obtained through torture and threats.3 More recent false confessions have been obtained under psychological duress and not with torture or threats of physical harm.4 Nevertheless, with the developments in law and policies in place to control interrogation methods, false confessions continue to persist.5 This begs the question, are interrogation methods solely responsible for false confessions, or does some of the responsibility fall on the confessor? Scholars and social scientists agree, that it is not solely harsh interrogation tactics that lead to false confessions but it is the combination of these tactics with psychological factors such as, intelligence and personality, which contribute to the likelihood of a suspect providing a false confession.6 While there are currently solutions for avoiding false confessions, they do not adequately address the needs of the most vulnerable individuals who are often induced into falsely confessing...
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...College: Society Demands It AP Seminar 2018 Word Count: 1,305 INTRODUCTION “Where do you want to go to college?” This question has become increasingly more frequent in modern American society. “Why?” one might ask. The answer is complicatedly simple: society has deemed that without a secondary education, success is unattainable. As a result of this, the teenage community feels obligated to attend a university, regardless of the future implications or their own desires. That being said, college opens a lot of doors, some that would otherwise be left closed. In the minds of many teenagers across America, their decision to attend college will be the determining factor on the level of success they can reach. There are obvious benefits...
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...There are now over 70 schools under investigation by the Department of Education. All U.S. colleges are legally required to collect and annually submit statistics of campus rape occurrences. Once the statistics are published they can be accessed by the public. The Hunting Ground, served as a major tool to raise awareness about the unreliable reports submitted by colleges. Administrators fear campus rapes will have a negative impact on the colleges reputation, resulting in decreased enrollment. The Hunting Ground, reports one in five women is sexually assaulted during college, yet in 2014, ninety-one percent of colleges reported zero incidents of rape. This statistic indicates that young women and men are not only abused by their attackers but also but their...
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...Americans are familiar with the nation s major addictions: narcotics, alcohol, and tobacco. Society has spent countless millions of dollars warning about these substances, however another addiction that receives far less attention is sweeping across America. This addiction is having a major impact on the college campuses across our nation. The executive director of the N.C.A.A., Cedric W. Demsey, in his 1997 State of the Association address called gambling the most serious threat facing intercollegiate athletics(Naughton A52). At the heart of the gambling problem on college campuses is college sports gambling. Gambling on college sports has two major impacts. First, gambling on sports just like casino gambling is addictive. Secondly, gambling on college sports has hurt the integrity of college athletics. Because gambling on college sports is causing negative consequences for college students, athletes, and athletic games, the U.S. government should ban all gambling on college sports, and steps should be taken to decrease the prevalence of illegal and Internet gambling on college campuses. On March 19, 1931, the Nevada state government voted to legalize gambling. At this time no one had ever heard of the term, sports book . It would be some forty years later before the first sports book would open up in Las Vegas. The Union Plaza Hotel in downtown Las Vegas opened the first casino sports book in 1975. A sports book is a place where a bet can be made on a sporting event. Nevada...
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...Brenton Butler’s false confession during the interrogation process was the main cause of his wrongful prosecution. In a study conducted by Redlich and Goodman, researchers tried to investigate some of the potential factors that can influence the admission of a crime not committed. In the research, they included age and suggestibility as the characteristics of the false confessor and the presentation of false evidence as the characteristics of the interrogation process. Three age groups were included in the study to analyze whether adolescents are more likely than young adults to falsely confess. The incorporated groups were 12 and 13-year-olds, 15 and 16-year-olds, and college students within the range of 18-26 years. Participants were 48 females...
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...College for Financial Planning ETH 550—Business Ethics Master Course Syllabus I. Course Description Course Description This course is designed to achieve the following objectives: Explore the ethical dimension in the current global environment. Study and apply major normative ethical theories to business situations. Understand the relevance of stakeholders to business decisions. Improve ethical and moral decision-making processes. Analyze case studies that present ethical business dilemmas. Understand moral, amoral, and immoral decisions in business situations. Encourage ethical behavior and professionalism in all activities. Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for this course. II. Overview Overview The goal of this course is to teach students how to ethically interact in today's global business environment. III. Required and Recommended Text Required Text Modern Language Association of America. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. ISBN 0-87325-699-6. Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Plume, 2005. ISBN 978-0452287082 (paperback). Weiss, Joseph W. Business Ethics: A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach. 5th ed. South-Western, 2009. ISBN 978-0-324-58973-3 (paperback). How to Order Texts You may order textbooks online at www.cfpbookstore.com, by fax at 800-274-9105, or by telephone at 800-274-9104. Students interested in selling their textbooks...
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...successful organizations in the nation. The NCAA is in charge of overlooking every college athletic competition in the United States. Every year millions of fans watch NCAA organized games and follow the top prospects of every sport. However, all schools and players involved with the NCAA are obligated to follow a strict set of rules to be eligible to compete at the college level. The NCAA holds college athletes specifically to a very strict set of rules. Under the NCAA all athletes are considered amateurs. The term amateur is used to describe a person or group of people who participate in any form of activity for their own pleasure or entertainment, often distant from those who participate in the same activity for a financial benefit. They NCAA uses the term amateurs to distinguish college athletes from professional athletes. The official NCAA website states that “Maintaining amateurism is crucial to preserving an academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority”(“Amateurism”). They believe that by labeling them as amateurs they set them apart as student-athletes and everything that the students do for their own respective sport is part of extracurricular activities they are taking a part of. Their website emphasizes this point and declare, “In the collegiate model of sports, the young men and women competing on the field or court are students first, athletes second.” As student-athletes, they are expected to obey NCAA rules at all times and players can...
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...were invited to share their stories and inspire accountant-wannabes. EMCEE Thank you for that wonderful speech Mr. Er Louie Bauyot, CPA, Top 10 in October 2013 CPA Licensure Examination. Now, let’s welcome one of the finest “rags to richest” examples of this institution, Mr. Juan Luis Alvarez, CPA. JUAN LUIS TAKES THE PODIUM. JUAN LUIS According to my mentor, Pastor Philip Anthony Abellanosa, “Believe that you deserve it and the universe will serve it.” Good evening everyone! You know what guys, sauna isa lang pud ko ka C.P.A.- Certified Public Aspirant pariha ninyo. But thru competence, integrity, and objectivity I am now a successful C.P.A. Kadtong undergrad pa ko... SCENE 3: CLASSROOM INTERIOR: CLASSROOM NORMAL CLASSROOM SETTING. STUDENTS ARE SITTING IN A LONG RECTANGULAR BROWN TABLE WHILE THE TEACHER ANNOUNCES THE RESULT OF THEIR RECENT QUIZ. TEACHER Good morning. I have here the results of our last quiz. The highest is again Juan Luis Alvarez. Congratulations! JUAN LUIS STANDS UP, GETS HIS PAPER WHILE HIS CLASSMATES ARE CLAPPING. CHARLOTTE VALDEZ COMES IN LATE. AS CHARLOTTE ENTERS THE ROOM, JUAN LUIS TRACES EVERY MOVEMENT OF HER. HIS CLASSMATE SHAKES HIM BACK TO REALITY. CLASSMATE 1 Grabe Loloy bai. Kagud! JUAN LUIS LISTENS TO HIS TEACHER, TALKS TO HIS CLASSMATE, SOLVES PROBLEMS, WRITES NOTES, GLANCES AT CHARLOTTE AND SMILES. JUAN LUIS (V.O.) I was really determined to finish my studies....
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...| Death at Midnight: Confessions of an Executioner | Book Project | | | | | The book Death at Midnight the Confession of an Executioner is an autobiography by Donald A. Cabana. The story is about the life of a college graduate who rose to the position of warden at Parchman. At the beginning of his career in criminal justice, Cabana quickly learned the harsh reality of his occupation. Cabana experienced confrontations with both workers and convicts. Cabana's honest and forward-thinking approach to law enforcement caused him to be temporarily fired from his job at Parchman. Cabana returned years later as warden and was finally able to make the necessary adjustments. Unfortunately, the death penalty had once again gained legality a short time before Cabana's rise to power. As warden, Cabana was forced to execute two men. Cabana, uncomfortable with the idea of sentencing young men to death, began to question his beliefs on the criminal justice system. After the execution of Cabana's friend Connie Ray Evans, Donald Cabana retired from the position of warden. Donald Cabana now spends his time teaching at the University of Southern Mississippi. In the book, Cabana mentions frequently the corruption of politics. A prime example of such corruption in the penal system is when Warden John Collier leaves Parchment. The next warden, a good one, had to quit because he refused to do what the politicians wanted him to do. Another example is when Cabana explains the history...
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