...Fake ID Just like many college students, Dana and her friends decided to go to a bar one Saturday night. The problem: Not everyone in their group was old enough to enter. The solution: Use fake ID obtained through a friend. So Dana and her friends used fake IDs to enter the bar without a problem, or so they thought. Later that night, police raided the bar. Dana's ID was confiscated and she was later arrested. It seems like everyone wants to be a different age. Many teenagers want to be either 18 or 21 so they can buy cigarettes or alcohol. And I’m sure everyone has heard their parents say they wish they were 18 again. For the most part people can’t change how old they are, but by using fake identification, someone could pretend to be an age older than what they are. More and more people are using fake ID’s. There have been many new advances in technology in recent years. Because of these advances, such as computers and internet, fake ID’s are becoming easier to get, and their quality is improving. Not too long after states find ways of making ID’s harder to duplicate, the counterfeiters are finding a way to make them. Fake ID’s no longer consist of scratching an 8 into a 3. These advances make it hard to tell apart fake ID’s from the real thing. Some websites sell fake ID’s from $50-5,000. Selling fake ID’s over the internet has increased greatly over the past few years. The internet makes fake ID’s readily available, but according to the article “Forged...
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...The topic I have selected for research is counterfeiting. Many of us know that counterfeiting is a growing problem throughout the world. Most countries have some trade in counterfeit goods, but some have become notorious for producing and exporting large quantities of fake goods. One of the largest is China. China is the world’s largest producer of counterfeit goods, and has the largest market for counterfeit goods. Counterfeiters employ between 3 million and 5 million people in China alone. Does this mean it is acceptable in behavior in Chinese culture for counterfeiting? What are the impact and cost to the China and the rest of the world? And what are the Chinese government and other countries doing to fight back against counterfeiting. These are all question I’m going to address throughout my research paper. Why is counterfeiting so wide spread throughout China? Counterfeiting is a problem with various causes. One reason is China’s traditional culture that has deep roots in the Chinese mind. With a relatively short history of intellectual property laws and an unbalanced enforcement system, has allowed the growing spread of counterfeiting. China has a population of more than 1.3 billion people, which is that largest in the world; it has 56 different nationalities with a highly diversified culture; and a history that dates back to 2100 BC with four different eras. Chinese culture does not allow for a monopoly. The culture that has dominated China...
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...Taobao launch in SG http://e27.co/taobao-officially-launches-in-singapore-heats-up-e-commerce-land-grab/ Weird “products” selling in Taobao http://www.asianewsnet.net/The-weird-world-of-Taobao-66515.html Taobao in SG, gov website https://www.edb.gov.sg/content/edb/en/news-and-events/news/singapore-business- news/Industry/Taobao-marketplace-arrives-in-Singapore.html Taobao fake problem http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1694077/state-commerce-regulator-releases-damming- account-tabaocom-day-alibaba http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/taobao-the-king-fakes- china-e-commerce-20150202 Taobao cooperate with sgshop n mbb http://www.aspirantsg.com/maybank-sgshop-brings-china-taobao-bargains-to-singapore/ Wiki Taobao http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taobao https://www.techinasia.com/tag/taobao/ Taobao team up with signpost https://sg.news.yahoo.com/taobao-teams-singpost-pore-shoppers-030023580.html http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/tag/taobao/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/taobao http://www.bomodagroup.com/differences-tmall-taobao/ CNBC news http://www.cnbc.com/id/102007039#. http://english.cntv.cn/2015/01/29/VIDE1422462360357940.shtml taobao lawsuit http://english.cntv.cn/2015/01/29/VIDE1422462360528952.shtml https://www.google.com.sg/search? biw=1249&bih=675&noj=1&tbs=qdr%3Ay&q=taobao+business+disadvantage&oq=taobao+busines s+disadvantage&gs_l=serp.3...31549.65805.0.66050.33.23.1.0.0.1.580.2011.0j4j2j0j1j1.8.0.msedr.. .0...1c.1.61...
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...The topic I have selected for research is counterfeiting. Many of us know that counterfeiting is a growing problem throughout the world. Most countries have some trade in counterfeit goods, but some have become notorious for producing and exporting large quantities of fake goods. One of the largest is China. China is the world’s largest producer of counterfeit goods, and has the largest market for counterfeit goods. Counterfeiters employ between 3 million and 5 million people in China alone. Does this mean it is acceptable in behavior in Chinese culture for counterfeiting? What are the impact and cost to the China and the rest of the world? And what are the Chinese government and other countries doing to fight back against counterfeiting. These are all question I’m going to address throughout my research paper. Why is counterfeiting so wide spread throughout China? Counterfeiting is a problem with various causes. One reason is China’s traditional culture that has deep roots in the Chinese mind. With a relatively short history of intellectual property laws and an unbalanced enforcement system, has allowed the growing spread of counterfeiting. China has a population of more than 1.3 billion people, which is that largest in the world; it has 56 different nationalities with a highly diversified culture; and a history that dates back to 2100 BC with four different eras. Chinese culture does not allow for a monopoly. The culture that has dominated China for thousands...
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...up nearly 17% from 2006. These figures reflect the fact that seizures involving smaller quantities of counterfeit and pirated goods have increased. Comparing to 2006 we see an increase in almost all product sectors. Besides medicines, which have gone up by 51% compared to 2006, the 264% increase of intercepted articles for personal care is also a very worrying factor considering that creams, toothpaste and razor blades are amongst them. Another worrying sector is the one of electrical equipment in which we find fuse boxes, switches and other safety equipment under the seized goods. The increasing use of the internet to sell fakes (mainly medicines) and the fact that the high quality of fakes often makes identification impossible without technical expertise, increases the challenge customs face. One of the reasons for this explosion in trade in fakes is that criminals can now produce them on an industrial scale. This provides increased profits and a lot of international criminal organisations are now involved in counterfeiting. It is also believed that terrorist groups are involved in counterfeit and piracy as a means of financing their...
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...Why do people buy counterfeit products? 1 Running head: Why do people buy counterfeit products? Why people by counterfeit products? Monica Rodriguez American Intercontinental University Dr. Yamil Guevara Why do people buy counterfeit products? 2 ABSTRACT The elaboration and commercialization of counterfeit products is an issue that has been growing prominently within the last 20 years. There is no place in the world free with this type of products. The modernization and the globalization make the counterfeiting process more difficult to control, affecting not only the countries economy, but also its safety and the citizens’ general integrity. Knowing the importance of this problem, different organizations around the world are making a big effort trying to create a variety of countermeasures in order to stop the development of this sector and of course the negative consequences. In order to create effective measures, it is necessary to completely understand the counterfeiting process and the specific reasons why people acquire counterfeit products. The objective of this study is to describe what are the different variables, and their direct influence on the purchaser’s behavior at the moment of buying counterfeit merchandise. The data collection method is based on focus groups, interviews and questionnaires. The results obtained from this study can help to understand the complete counterfeit process...
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...and was used to make her afraid as well as to get a reaction out of the secretary is not considered a crime yet. The squirt gun could be a failure to warn due to looking so life like and not having a warning on it like an orange tip. However, they would need more information to prove this one. As of right now there are zero laws that a person can be charged with using a toy gun to mimic a real one but in the article by Brad Devereaux, “Using toy guns made to look like real weapons would carry increased penalties under proposed bills” there are laws that are trying to be made to prevent people from doing using a fake one. Another crime that needs reference would be the negligence that was involved within two parties. First, even though Steven Steel was not after the secretary he did cause damage to her. By rushing in smacking the phone from her hand and pulling out a fake gun she lost a weeks’ worth of wages and who knows how much time and money she will have to spend to get her mental stability back. Second I think that the president of the college can be held responsible. By sleeping during working hours he could have maybe prevented the damage that the secretary received. Not having a plan in place for these kinds of issues would also be negligence. It is the responsibility of the leaders of the school to...
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...consequences. One example to showcase this is the famous study of “McKesson & Robbins”. Founder Philip Musica adopted a fake name and started the pharmaceutical company. He faked his company’s value by misreporting his trade receivables. He did it by employing his younger brother, George Vernard and put him in charge of W.W. Smith & Co- a fictitious company. George would then order from the pharmaceutical company. Another Musica brother who was working in the shipping department of McKesson & Robbins would then forge shipping documents, giving off the illusion that the goods were sent to the respective customers. The fourth Musica brother who was appointed as the assistant-treasurer of the pharmaceutical company would then create fake cash flow by transferring money between several accounts. This scheme worked as McKesson & Robbins paid commission to W.W. Smith & Co. for every sale. The fraud was unveiled when company treasurer noticed the large transactions between the two companies. The objectives of internal controls are: 1) Whether transactions are real 2) Whether transactions are recorded 3) Correct amounts assigned to transactions 4) Whether transactions are allocated to the correct account 5) Whether the figures are totalled correctly. In the case of McKesson & Robbins, there were fake transactions occurring and no one knew. Whether this case fulfilled the rest of the objectives is unconfirmed due to the lack...
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...Replicas and Forgeries Chris Rohr Western Governors University Replicas and Forgeries Fakes, forgeries and replicas have been created for centuries. Determining the difference between them has been an issue of growing importance. Hundreds of books have been written on the subject and there are professions and organizations built around determining the true nature of an object. For the purposes of this paper and object may be a work of art, a document or an artifact. A replica is a copy of an original object that is not presented as the original. The replica is not considered the original even if it is made of the same materials and constructed in the same fashion as the original object. A forgery or a fake is a copy of an object that is represented as the original object. The forgery or a fake is not considered the original even if it is made of the same materials and constructed in the same fashion as the original object. According to some experts determining the authenticity and originality of an object is becoming more and difficult “...we have become so immersed in the world of mediated representations that we can no longer tell the difference between authentic and the artificial” (Knight & Long, 2004, p. 2). The differences which separate replicas from forgeries or fakes are deception in representing the object, altering the value of the object and the intent in the creation of the object. The intent to deceive the true representative nature of an object is...
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...innovation organization, added to a framework to add infinitesimal spaces to the surface of an item. Little sticks are set to diverse statures, every encoding a letter or digit. The pins can either be inserted in the mold an item is produced using or stamped on a short time later. The subsequent code is verging on imperceptible, and excessively modest, making it impossible to feel. Be that as it may, a speedy laser sweep could demonstrate an item’s inception, which the specialists say could track and check items to battle fakes. The yearly worldwide estimation of fake merchandise has been anticipated to be more than $1.5 trillion by the International Chamber of Commerce. Fake hardware are an issue, and fake prescription can be absolute risky, containing the wrong dosage or no dynamic fixing by any means. This is particularly an issue in the creating scene. The World Health Organization evaluates more than 25 percent of the drug expended in poorer nations is fake or substandard. Existing apparatuses to battle this incorporate a check framework wherein a patient can filter the bundling of their solution and content an exceptional code to guarantee their pharmaceutical is real. The FDA has additionally composed a gadget that uses UV light to output pills and their bundling. Be that as it may, bundling can be replicated or exchanged. The new 3D standardized identification really turns out to be an item’s piece. “Interestingly,” said Sofmat chief Phil Harrison in a press discharge...
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...It’s the 21st of November and you are at the home stadium of Real Madrid for the el clasico. Fans cheer and sing the club anthem in this sense of pride and commitment to their respective teams. You begin to feel this surge of patriotism and worth of your very existence at this moment; what could possibly go wrong? A rampage of opposing fans? Projected Molotov cocktails? A potential black-eye? As crazy as it may sound, those were the potential outcomes of what was usually expected during the 1950s at a casual game of football, not by the fans, but by the infamous football hooligans, who are by far and large known as, ‘overzealous supporters’ (Wikipedia). The reasons for such shocking trial of events were mainly due to racism, sense of Identity with the team and, as petty as this may sound; issues with ticketing. Racism, being the ugly mark of human society, is still prevalent in this modern age. It doesn’t necessarily have to involve an occasional Rosa being forced to the back of the bus; but more of verbal slurs which lead to public display of violence. On the 12th of October, 2015, The Notorious fans of Israel’s Beitar Jerusalem football club are well known for shouting anti-arab slogans and throwing stones at Palastanian fans. Although there have been laws implemented to protect Palestanian fans and Arab players, atleast 25 Palestenian had been killed by the Israeli forces. As mentioned earlier, verbal offence towards a specific ethnicity especially when clubs are involved...
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...Melissa is a nearly 30 year old, Caucasian woman who recently experienced divorce five months ago with her husband of three and a half years of marriage. She lives with her daughter, and is supporting their new lifestyle through waitressing, which she has done for approximately give years. Melissa informs Dr. Wachtel that she is encountering some obstacles in making changes to her current career path. She wants to quit her waitressing job, and pursue an experience more related to her school counseling degrees. She voices that her main concern that brought her to seek help in therapy is making the correct and informed choice about her career change because she worries about financial stability given that she is a single mother raising her daughter on her own. Though Melissa is quite explicit about her concerns about her career choices and the issues she hopes to resolve in therapy, it seems as if there are other underlying issues that are in her unconscious. As the session progressed, it seemed as if Melissa also wanted to address how her family dynamics with her immediate family is affecting her decisions. There are moments where it felt like she is looking for justification and support for the events that took place in her life and her decisions that may have led to those events. This is not just about her career change (or lack thereof), but other sudden changes like her divorce that resulted in a new lifestyle that Melissa does not necessarily want to shift for the time being...
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...story through a psychoanalytic lens, a person uses the work of Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychology to interpret the text they are reading. Through the psychoanalytic lens, the reader is able to compare the characters of Harrison Bergeron to parts of a person’s personality, for example, Harrison Bergeron can be compared to the Id, George can be compared to the ego, and the Handicapper general can be compared to the Superego. The Id runs on the pleasure principle whose goal is to increase pleasure and decrease pain, like the Id, Harrison’s goal is to break free of the handicaps that he is forced to wear in order to increase the quality of his life. The Id is the basic storehouse for human’s basic needs and drives. Harrison contains such an incredibly strong drive that it causes him to make irrational decisions. One can say that Harrison even suffers from cathexis because of his obsession with rebellion. Similar to the Id, Harrison does not learn from its mistakes. When Harrison...
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...Essay on hooliganism In this essay I will discuss why hooliganism exist, what makes a person become a hooligan and what characterizes a hooligan and hooliganism as a whole? They hunt in packs like wolves, fueled by drugs, hooked on violence. Some are as young as 15. They make a plan to arrange showdowns against other rival ''firms'' at agreed locations. This is a quotation from the French documentary ''Fucking Hooligans''. But why does hooliganism exist in general, there are a lot of reason to it, but the main ones are mentioned. In the text ''Among the Thugs'' and the film ''Fucking hooligans'' it expresses the lifestyle of a group of lads who have a lot of things in common. They drink a lot, smoke a lot and foremost they love to fight, the typical formula for a hooligan. They're the most dangerous. They're the ones who start most of the fights.(p.4-l.12-13). The hooligan culture is not just a culture for some people but a bond between brothers, or in other words it is another family for them. There are plenty of reasons why ''someone'' becomes a hooligan. People normally become involved through two ways, either through friends and family or their choice of a new lifestyle. The main reason why people decide to become a hooligan is that it is just fun when it kick's off. It's an adrenaline thing, you cannot get that kind of buzz through anything else. But half the time it's not even about fighting, it is about being around your mates, having a laugh on a match day and...
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...Powerful moments of stillness can lead us to a true understanding of self, but to understand who we are we must look at what makes us unique as an individual human being. In Gwen Harwood’s “Alter Ego” she is at peace with the world and lives and breathes music. Her views are often overlooked in modern day society, but she remains true to the fact that she believes that we never really have a full understanding of our identity. Opposing this in Tim Winton’s “Land’s Edge” his true self resides in the ocean, a place where he feels most at home, his Australian coastal background, his main influence of his sense of identity. Both composers examine the moments of stillness in our lives and how it is only then that we truly get a glimpse or a sense of who we are. In “Alter ego” Harwood describes the alter ego as a part of herself that has intimate and complete knowledge of her yet acknowledges that her conscious mind does not have a complete and full understanding of this ‘other self’. Harwood uses the rhyming of the first, third and fourth line in the first stanza to add a flowing effect or enjambment, this flowing effect also reflects Harwood’s love of music and piano playing as she is an accomplished pianist. Music is an integral part of Harwood’s ‘other self’ and is used as a motif in Alter ego. Throughout the poem she portrays her two selves as the spiritual and the physical parts of herself, she also uses first person language to create a voice for the physical persona of herself...
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