...Rick does not really follow the description of a knight in shining armor, he still makes the right decision in the end and is willing to serve his time in order to see justice done. 2. Explain the hero’s tragic flaw. The hero’s tragic flaw is that is Santoro has been bullying people and accepting payoffs for years. He is a greedy person who for most of his life only cares about himself and what he wants. Basically all he can see is money and his desires. But once he becomes part of something bigger, he is able to look past what he wants and finally do the right thing, even if that means he will have to pay for his past crimes. 3. Describe when the hero’s reversal of fortune occurs. When Rick tries to do the right thing by the publicity resulting of the missile project, he causes others to become suspicious of his behavior which results in his being charged with crimes. He tries to finally do the right thing by exposing the people who killed a man and are trying to get away with a conspiracy that would hurt the Government and potentially others, he leads himself to be in the spot light and causes his past deeds to become know. 4. When and how does the audience experience pity in connection with the hero (according to Aristotle’s rules)? Rick gets beaten up by his friend and other army people. They are trying to find where the girl is, but he will not tell them. They really beat the crap out of him, and even have the pro boxer help. They then trick him into leading...
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...construct it properly, and the house falls in and kills its owner, than that builder shall be put to death. If it kills the son of the owner, the son of that builder shall be put to death.” Most say it is unfair, is it really the builder’s fault? They shouldn’t kill the innocent son! But truth is, it is probably quite hard to mess up building a house so much that it falls and kills someone, especially if you build houses for a living. The only probable way that a house would fall down and kill someone is that the builder did it on purpose, and that is murder. And what are the chances that there is a big accidental flaw in the building of a house, and the person it just happens to fall on is the owner’s son, are pretty slim. But you might say, “Mud and clay houses are pretty unstable, so they might fall down anyway.” It says that “... If it is not constructed properly…” So that means that it takes a fault for a house to fall, and if constructed properly, it would not. As for the murder part, that is completely...
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...Power is so useful that it needs to be distributed to everybody. While power is usually given to a general. If it would be given to the public and shared more likely the society would be relaxed. This choice and accessibility, makes this society way more superior. This power if abused would lead upon punishment. Pretty much every dictator with high power has been corrupted, and messed up everybody. According to history Julius Caesar and other Roman leaders have received this kind of high power and was still corrupt. This shows how it is risky to give one person with the great power a country can muster. Also Mussolini tried to copy these Roman leaders and instead of a dream it created a nightmare. This proves even dreams of leaders won’t work, and shows that...
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... Human Trafficking: The Five “W”s 1 Human Trafficking 2 The Five “W”s of Human Trafficking Executive Summary What is Human Trafficking? Page 5 Where does it happen? Page 6 Who are the victims? Page 9 Why does it happen? Page 12 What are we doing to stop it? Page 13 Conclusion Page 16 Works Cited Page 3 Page 18 Human Trafficking 3 Executive Summary: This paper was written to help educate people on the horrors of this extremely profitable organized crime. Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transporting, or harboring of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor, or sexual exploitation. There are two different types of human trafficking: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is the sale of women and children for prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation. Sex trafficking is a lot more common than labor trafficking; labor trafficking is recruiting, ...
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...understanding of their goals. How is this done? Well the officer in charge of this specific task must know the history of the terrorist groups, pre-mission surveillance skills. Also they must know the areas where crime is high because these areas are more likely to work as camouflage for terrorist activity, they also communicate with other agencies to ensure that they do not confuse or compromise one another. Normally when people hear the term surveillance they automatically think of government officials, military, Police Offices etc. however this is not always the case. Surveillance can be conducted by terrorist in order to gather as much information possible to reach their main goal which is to strike the attack. The ordinary criminal like rapist, murders, stalkers, drug dealers, most of the time conduct surveillance to study their target and be more confident while committing the crime. The foreign surveillance intelligence job is to detect any threat against our nation and national security, while Homeland security agencies main focus is to catch anyone that is that may led to a terrorist act, that can be a criminal and of course terrorist. There are six methods of surveillance: the first is the overt surveillance this means that the person might look as if he or she has a purpose in the specific location, the textbook example is that the person is posing as a news team (Nance, 2008). The second one is the discreet surveillance, this one is pretty self- explanditory, and the person...
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...“America Skips School” Nowadays we hear a lot about education, about how there is not enough emphasis put on education and too much put on other things like sports and T.V. The essay “America Skips School” by Benjamin R. Barber talks about that exactly. Barber begins the essay with a bunch of statistics concerning dropout rate, crime in schools, percent of criminals who have dropped out, literacy skills of Americans and things of that nature. After quoting all of the supposed statistics he jumps right into saying that teachers get paid too little, letting the reader draw the conclusion that this is the sole cause of the above statistics. Then he moves on to say that our whole education system is crumbling as well as our society. Americans say that they care, yet sit back and watch the walls of the educational system fall. He then raves on about how kids today learn all they know from the T.V. and society and all the older generation blames the younger ones for ruining society. This in fact is the fault of the older generation for “showing” them that this is what they need to do to survive. Society tells us it is much better to be a basketball star, or take over a company and sell the assets than to be a mere kindergarten teacher (p455). All of these horrible events are a result of not paying teacher enough. We should now start paying the teachers as much as some of the “best young professionals” (p460). That is the only way to fix this downward spiraling problem. ...
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...Social Process Theories: Theories Explained Transcript Major Principles Frank Williams Professor, University of Houston – Downtown My approach to social process theories is pretty simple. It is – it’s mostly a suyggestion that process means how people come to be deviant, delinquent, or whatever act you ma be talking about. So social process suggests that we’re going to focus on the social aspects of that – the coming deviant, delinquent, whatever we might do in criminology in particular. So we would be talking about things that affect individuals rather than things that affect large groups of people or society in general. They’re not interested in pieces of social structure and how they influence people. So it’s going to be, in one sense, pretty simple things, simple things like attachments one has to another person, so social relationships. And in fact that’s where, if we want to go to social processes in its beginning, that’s where we really start. So relationships with people, relationships with family, which of course if a form of people, too, even relationships you may have in school, those kinds of things. Mostly though it’s – in terms of social we’re going to be talking about language, what gets communicated, um, how people see people and reactions to that and so forth. Intro to Chicago School Frank Williams Professor, University of Houston – Downtown One of the things maybe to begin with would be the work of what we call the old Chicago school. And...
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...Abolishing the Death Penalty George L Turner III PHI 103 Mr. Russ Tompkins August 31, 2009 Abolishing the Death Penalty The Death Penalty in America today is a highly debated issue and has been for many years. Could you imagine not having a life threatening consequence at all, such as the death penalty when it comes to criminals that commit very severe crimes? There are many people in the United States today with many different opinions on why the Death Penalty should or shouldn’t be abolished in our Country. I’m one who feels that we should not abolish the Death Penalty; however our Capital Punishment system can be much improved. One advantage to keeping the Death Penalty is that it’s suppose to act as a deterrent against those people who might think about committing a serious crime. I believe that it does help as a deterrent for some people, but not to the extent that it should. If we started sentencing more murderers and serious offenders to death, then I believe that more people will fear the consequences in which they may face. Now, if we start convicting the serious criminals to death, then that doesn’t mean continue to let them appeal their sentence and take years before they’re actually put to death. One other thing that I believe that keeps the Death Penalty from being as effective as it should be is T.V. I know it’s only T.V. but that’s what people see and a lot of people believe that is the way it is. Whether or not T.V. is how...
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...Department of Criminal Justice. Although, the data was inconclusive in many of these areas, many implications for instruction are presented. Much of the data linked to their history of becoming repeat offenders. Findings of data that reflected their efforts to stay out of prison was affected by their of living conditions and some of the luxury amenities are primarily felt by those who at the time of interview had not previously served time in prison are making crime a career. Also, researching and comparing when jail standards were not as important as they are now. Reflecting that the conditions that have improved for them did quit enlighten the nation’s legal system. Proving that the overcrowding was due to repeat offenders who choose come back believing life was better inside rather than the real world. Overall, more finding the difference from the dungeon era to where they now have limited internet access. Which in this case explains the onset and continuation of criminal career? Introduction When someone commits a crime you should do the time, at least that is how many people see it. We are all...
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...sipped his espresso. It was a light brown in color, almost resembling the wet earth of the night outside. The rain showered unremittingly upon the roof of the coffee shop. Despite the frequent noise of thunder that furiously sliced through the tranquil night, David sat oblivious to his surroundings. He held a small black notebook that appeared bizarrely tiny for his vast hands. He stood tall, of moderate build, and wore a thick, highly numbered, pair of glasses. His strange baby-face contrasted with his receding hairline, making it impossible to guess his age. He was well dressed in a black suit and tie, trousers, and a fine pair of polished black shoes. He was never someone who would stand out in a crowd. Even from far, one could notice that he was comfortable in his isolation, as he repetitively kept scribbling some notes into his tiny little book. He seemed to be always alone, but he was never lonely. A pretty young waitress came by, offering a refill for his coffee. Her nametag read Andrea. He nodded unsmilingly at her and got back to his book. The shop had large windows facing towards the East. The kitchen and the serving counter of the shop lined up against the opposite wall. As the tiny droplets of rain silently fell upon the thin glass of the large windows, the white lights of the café powerfully illuminated the entire room, large yet contrarily quaint. The kitchen had closed some time back and only one waitress remained to take care of the shop. David’s beady eyes glanced...
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...varies throughout the big huge snowcapped peaks up by Mt. Stormy down to the dry mountains of the Butte. The change in landscape I find fascinating; if it were possible I would explore every inch of the Valley. For example as I was growing up my friends and I use to wonder what town would look like from the top of the Butte, so like many others before us we trekked to the top and saw for ourselves. Since then we have taken that hike countless hours spent looking over town; feeling as free as a bird and on a small scale experiencing the town from a birds eye point of view. Personally I feel like the joyous atmosphere of our town is directly correlated to the beautiful valley nature blessed upon us. I feel for those people that take our Pretty little Valley for granted and shrug it off as...
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...Lysine Scandal Levi Cushing Bus 670 Legal Environment Dr. Jason Lum January 19th, 2015 Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) was started in 1902 as a small linseed crushing business. As time moved forward ADM began acquiring other small agricultural companies. As more and more time move forward ADM began to branch into other parts of the agricultural business and added more and more products that they deal with. In 2015 ADM has grown to have several joint ventures and owning several other smaller agricultural, nutrition, and food related companies. ADM has also expanded globally and has more than two hundred and sixty five locations worldwide. As ADM has grown over the years different types of management has came and gone at ADM, but for a long time the owning families were the main people running the company full time. Over time ADM was caught doing small price fixing deals around the world. In the early 1990’s a large scale price fixing operation was unveiled by Mark Whitacre, who at the time was President of the bio-products division. Whitacre was an FBI informant for most of the early 1990’s, helping the FBI build a case against ADM’s top management at the time. The overall purpose of this paper is to identify the ethical and legality issues with price fixing related to ADM. ADM in relation to me is my main place of work and the price fixing issues still haunt the business today. ADM has started working on implementing stringent rules every year to help the company avoid...
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...Euripedes and Lysistrata by Aristophanes are two different Greek plays in which the main characters are both strong females with goals to accomplish. Medea is a tragedy written about a woman driven by revenge. Lysistrata is a comedy about a woman who wants to take a stand. Greek tragedies and comedies usually did not have too much in common, besides the general moral background instilled in the people of that time period. Although tragedies always ended in death and comedies often ended in marriage or love, the two characters from opposite genres of theater share many of the same qualities. Both main characters, Medea and Lysistrata, are very strong, smart, determined women whose main goals are to be happy. When first reading Medea you might not think that her goal is to find happiness because it is masked by her want and need for revenge as well. Medea is a very sad story because many characters dead by the end of the play, as is typical in a tragedy. Medea murders Glauce and Creon and then her own two children so that her husband, Jason, must suffer their losses. She did so to get revenge on him for leaving her for the Princess. Medea was so determined to make Jason pay for what he had done to her that she had no restrictions on her actions. She murdered her children only to seek revenge on her ex-husband and to cause him suffering as he did to her. Medea would not be happy until Jason was seeing a consequence for is actions so she did the worst thing she could possibly do and killed...
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...Me Talk Pretty One Day Written by Asim Aydin Uysal It can be very difficult to learn a language like French, especially when you have only taken a month long class, before heading to the country of the language you have been studying for past month and going back to the school bench. This is the case in the essay ‘’Me Talk Pretty One Day’’ by David Sedaris, published in 2005. We do not know the name of the protagonist, all we know about him is that he is at the age of forty-one, and has now moved from New York to Paris with hopes of learning the language. Our protagonist is forty-one years old and has moved from New York to Paris to learn the French language. He loves leafing through medical textbooks, and has a love for IBM typewriters, things he detest is blood sausage, intestinal pâtes and brain pudding. He is a sensitive person and seems that he is very young at heart, because of many of his statements throughout the essay, one of them would be: ‘’ Turn ons: Mom’s famous fire-alarm chili! Turnoffs: insecurity and guys who come too strong!!!!’’(Lines 43-44, p.7) On his first day in school he is feeling a bit uncomfortable, or ‘’nerve-racking’’ as he says himself. He did feel indisposed as all the other students were all young, attractive and well dressed, which makes him feel like Pa Kettle, who is a comic character, so we should presume that he is a comic fanatic, since he compares himself to a comic character. The first time he meet his teacher, he could only...
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...of Their Children: Parental Responsibility of Juvenile Delinquency The rise in crimes committed by minors has many asking the question should parents be held responsible for their children’s actions. Parents are a direct influence on their children and it is their job to teach the child right from wrong. Also, when a parent teaches a child something that is what the child is going to do when they are put into the outside world. Children learn from seeing and hearing things that their parents do and say and parents should teach their children to stop making excuses and start taking the blame for their actions. Parents are their children’s role models, “leaders”; therefore that makes them morally and legally responsible for what they do. Families, especially, parents have a direct influence on a child’s life, and play a fundamental role in forming the values of children. “The first social relationship a child encounters is with their family. This is where children have their first experiences of being treated as persons. The care and attention children receive during their early years of life affect the way they grow up and how they handle the different issues that they may come upon. This could help or discourage the way that children establish ties with people outside the family. When a child grows up in a family environment that enables their needs to be met, children usually turn out well socially and psychologically” (Elkins and Handle 1978). Throughout the childhood...
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