...Research project on social issue Crime (robbery) Abstract Crime has increased rapidly over the years in Antigua. A major increase in robberies and many other crimes have impacted the economy and its citizens. The goals and objectives of this paper are to ascertain the causes and the effects of the high robbery rate in Antigua. The reasons behind these robberies and how it affects the economy, the level of education attained by these criminals, the impact these criminal activities have on the tourism industry and finally the effects it has on victims. In researching this topic, methods such as interviews which were conducted along with the distribution of questionnaires to citizens affected by this act, to get further information on how this crime has impacted their lives and the effect it has on businesses or operators who are victims to such a criminal activities. Newspaper articles, surveys, ministry of tourism statistical reports showing the number of tourists by sea and air has declined, Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda statistical reports on the number of robberies carried out over the past 5yrs. Introduction Crime is prevalent in most societies it is an act that violates one’s mind. The crime I will be focusing on is robbery. This is a crime of taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear. The citizens of Antigua and Barbuda are concerned, and are deeply distressed by the recent brazen...
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...it infringe on people’s rights to own guns? The current laws that are in place are they truly enforceable? Should the governments’ stricter gun laws prohibit gun sales at gun shows without background checks? Would more guns, not less, prevent shooting massacres or gun crimes like the Sandy Hook Shooting? Also, will banning assault rifles and high capacity magazines lessen gun-violence like so many would like to believe here in the United States of America? Should gun-control even be a debate; should one individuals fear infringe upon the rights of another that were ratified December 15, 1791? There seems to never be an ending to this debate and just as one question gets answered another seems to pop up in its place. The unfortunate events that are referred to when pushing for gun control laws are in all honesty...
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...Kazzy Zeh-Arndt Mr. Patrick Walker English 4 Honors 19 November 2014 Senior Paper The United State’s mishandling of serious events has caused American satisfaction with the government to decline ever since the end of World War 2. Shortly after World War 2, the American people were in full support of the government. Franklin Roosevelt had pulled the country out of the biggest economic depression it had ever seen and has seen since, as well as winning World War 2. World War 2 was a clear cut war in terms of who was in the wrong and who was the in the right, the holocaust and the German aggression in Europe were obviously amoral acts that needed to be stopped. Winning WW2 was almost as instrumental as getting out of the depression for the government...
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...strong and felt they were threating the empire therefore they were persecuted and the mass killings of the Armenian people being. The purpose of this paper is to dive into the times of the Armenian genocides before during and after the April 24th 1915 genocide attacks on the Armenian people. The various sources and references used in this paper will explain the various situations the Armenian people faced and how this has correlated to other world events at the time and how this has affected Armenian people for generations to come. The first part which we will look at is determining if the mass killings of the Armenian people is considered genocide or not as the people of Turkey time and time again failed to recognize that it was genocide. The genocide convention in 1948 defined the word “genocide” as an incident which involves a significant number of dead, as similar to the number of dead during the 1915-1916 era. “On 12 March 2010, the Swedish Riksdag recognized the 1915 Genocide in Ottoman Turkey” (Avedian). As the Swedish have stated that genocide did take place it further explains why the Republic of Turkey has yet to take responsibility of the actions. The article talks about how the government of Turkey doesn’t want to take responsibility because of two reasons 1. ) “by dwelling on the issue of recognition of the events as genocide, it prevents the evolution of the issue in order for one better to understand its dynamics...
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...A Horrific 19th Century Slavery: The Afro-Americans’ Unrevealed Truth (The Long Song and The Known World) A Term Paper Submitted to: Marie Anne Balanni English Teacher Submitted by: Nikka Ocampo Student INTRODUCTION Why most people in the ancient times are slave victims? Why do slavery happens in the past? This is what I wanted to discover in my research. When we talk of slavery, it refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live and at what they work. Slavery had previously existed throughout history, in many times and most places. The ancient Greeks, the Romans, Incas and Aztecs all had slaves. To be a slave is to be owned by another person. A slave is a human being classed as property and who is forced to work for nothing. Andrea Levys’ novel entitled “The Lost Song” and Edward T. Jones’ “The Known World” revealed to us the plight of being a slave rooted from their ancestral family and own personal experience as a slave. The two books have the same plot that unraveled the world of human existence happened in 19th century where forced labor centered in the sugar cane plantation. The main characters have a slight difference because the first one is directly the slave victim and the latter is born slave but became a slaver, owning a slave he bought. The Lost Song is set in the time of slavery and it is a story about a person’s life and the times they lived through. July a black house slave, is the main character that tells her...
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...* Select two examples of trauma-causing events to use for this assignment: * one man-made or natural disaster 9/11/01 * one more personal trauma-causing crisis Rape * Explain the potential effects these events may have on the survivors and the first responders. * Explain how the counselor’s role may differ in treating a survivor of each of the traumas you selected and how they may differ in treating a first responder to each of the traumas. * Explain how a mental health counselor could develop VT or STS in each of these traumatic events. * the belief in personal invulnerability that allows one to use public transportation at night, or the belief that the world is an orderly place, are challenged by the stories and experiences relayed to persons who practice counseling or psychotherapy with survivors of trauma. * first identified the problem of vicarious traumatization (VT), which they defined as the cumulative transformative effects upon therapists resulting from empathic engagement with traumatized clients. As part of their work, these clinicians must listen to graphically detailed de-scriptions of horrific events and bear witness to the psychological (and sometimes physical) aftermath of acts of intense cruelty and/or violence.The cumulative experience of this kind of empathic engagement can have deleterious effects upon clinicians, who may experience physical, emotional, and cognitive symptoms similar to those of their traumatized...
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...First we should make it illegal to post your guns for sale and to sell your guns without registered papers and that any posts about trying to sell weapons on any website will be taken down and persons prosecuted. I talked to Jenae Meyer and she said that “gun control needs to be more strict but banning won't help because of the black market. There shouldn't be any semi automatic weapons, you should only need a hunting rifle and pistol max and every home with kids needs to be written into law they have a safe”. I completely agree. The black market is a place of trade in illegal activity. Drugs are illegal but people still get them and that's the same as weapons. We need to be able to track down weapons and locking them up/away if need be. (Whaltch) says on PBS Frontline that “most criminals get weapons by straw purchase”(whaltch) Which is having some one buy/get it for you. Straw purchase is something that needs to be closely watched and have more laws revolving around it. like if the criminal gets caught with the weapon. The owner of the weapon will have to pay fine and also deal with partial punishment. But wait, what if the weapon was stolen? You will still pay for the fine because it was your fault for losing the weapon and not keeping a close eye on it. It's your responsibility as a gun owner and the punishment will depend on your relationship with the criminal. More research about the how the weapon got in the criminals hands will be done and dealt with...
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...Constitutional Law Research Paper Warm Up Activity: Check any of the following statements that strike you as something you strongly agree with or disagree with. It may lead you to a research topic! * There are nasty criminals out there who commit horrific crimes; such people who are convicted in a court of law should be executed. Or… The death penalty should finally be put to death by the Supreme Court. * Though I’m patriotic and love the pledge, it’s simply unconstitutional and needs to be removed from schools. * Abortion is wrong; it shouldn’t be legal. Or… The right of a woman to control her own body is a private matter. * Too many guns out there… we have to start doing something about it! Or…The 2nd Amendment is pretty darn clear… * The government needs DNA records of all people born in the US, or entering into the US; hospitals should simply take a DNA swab of all infants born… * Digital Privacy doesn’t exist, nor should it. The government needs to be able to search anyone’s computer or device any time, no questions asked! * People ought to be able to marry whomever they want to marry… * Bring Back Corporal Punishment in Schools! Teachers ought to be able to whack kids who deserve it! (Corporal punishment IS indeed legal… no kidding.) * Animals have rights, too, you know! And so does Mother Nature! * I should be able to get all the music I want on line for free; who cares about private property when it comes to music-...
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...Racism and Power A Formal Research Paper on Racism HSP-3UI-03 Jenna Yates 06/16/2014 -1- Introduction Over the generations, there have been horrific examples of racism around the globe. The holocaust, the slave trade and Apartheid in South Africa are all examples of appalling events throughout history that display racism. In addition to these extreme examples, racism exists on a smaller scale in peoples day to day lives. For example, there are people who face certain disadvantages, like being denied employment, denied an apartment or denied a friendship all because of their race. While there is definitely a movement to eradicate racist actions and beliefs, they still exist. Despite education and a history of horrible experiences with racism, it is still a huge issue in our culture and in our environment. This is so, because there is always a group who benefits from racism and it is hard to let this power and privileges go. Racism has been an effective tool for those in a position of power and privilege to maintain their status, income, recourses, the ability to make decisions, etc. Racism empowers some and disempowers others. Even though we have seen the down side of racism, it is something we continue to repeat from country to country and decade to decade because we know it works to maintain power. Despite all the advances society has seen in research, knowledge and technology, mankind has not been able to abolish racism. Therefore, in spite of our understanding...
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...Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. At the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, a sniper from about “50-100 yards away,” shot and struck Dr. King’s neck, while instantaneously killing him (“Martin Luther King Slain” 139). From the crime scene, F.B.I. investigators traced a “white Mustang automobile,” and an “‘unusually large’ amount of physical evidence” (Waldron 1). With fingerprints, the actual rifle, and eyewitnesses as definite pieces of evidence, F.B.I. agents concluded that a Caucasian man executed the assassination and that he would be very easily caught (Waldron 1). Eyewitness testimony even stated that the “saw a white man [ran] from the house immediately after the shooting” (“Martin Luther King Slain” 140). As a shocking and horrific event, the assassination of Dr. King proved to test the nation’s character. Shortly after the news of Martin Luther King’s assassination spread, “sporadic violence erupted in Harlem and Brooklyn’s . . . section . . . in two predominantly Negro communities” (Johnson 1). With a total of twelve men arrested and violence breaking out all around the section, “police reinforcements, including elements of the riot-trained Tactical Patrol Force, were rushed into both...
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...Matthew Longbrake Mrs. Poe Eng 100-3018 3 Nov 2014 Research Paper on Arming Airline Pilots After the horrific events of September 11, almost every American imagined “what if I was on that hijacked plane, what would I have done, and who would I have called?” It is a hopeless feeling, a desperate one; panic starts to creep into my mind, what can I do to stop this? My heart is pounding, my skin is dripping with sweat, and all I am thinking in the back of my head is, please, someone save me. Well, what if the pilot had a gun? We already think of the pilots as our protectors; we trust them with our lives. Is it that much of a stretch to think of them as our last line of defense against crazed lunatics and terrorists? However, do we really want our pilots to be carrying guns like some 21st century sky cowboys? There are various competing opinions on arming commercial airline pilots, such as, the opinions of Bernk, Scott, Sowell, and West Woody. The events of 9/11 left Americans with a powerful nationwide discussion about whether or not we should arm our commercial airline pilots to protect us from terrorists. A lot of airline pilots, and crew members show support for arming airline pilots. “Air Line Pilots Assn. (ALPA) by the Wilson Center for Public Research Inc. in early February, found that 73% of airline crewmembers were in favor of having firearms on the flight deck. Of the 24% who were opposed, some are no longer flying regularly, according to other union officials” (Scott...
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...trilogy featuring the infamous character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and psychopathic serial killer. However, Lecter is not a main character in this novel. Rather, the antagonist and killer is Francis Dolarhyde, whom the police jokingly refer to as the Tooth Fairy because of the bite marks he leaves on female victims. Harris does a masterful job of creating background on the killer that delves into the makings of a serial killer. Thomas Harris gives the reader an understanding of Dolarhyde’s mindset when committing his horrific crimes by detailing the abuses the killer suffered as a child (Sexton). Harris takes the reader from the infant born with a cleft palate so disfiguring he was left to die through the cruelty of a childhood that included abandonment, a mean and mentally unstable grandmother, and taunts from his stepsiblings. In doing so, the author provides significance to some of the killer’s actions (Cowley). This research paper will examine the underlying psychopathology of serial killers that often stems from abuse in childhood, turning the human into the monster. Red Dragon begins with the FBI and the police on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whom police have nicknamed the Tooth Fairy because of bite marks left on victims. The public is duly alarmed as the target of the killer is entire families. Members of the FBI know that they must quickly apprehend the criminal not only due to the public outcry and fear but also because time is against them. The...
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...Matthew Longbrake Mrs. Poe Eng 100-3018 3 Nov 2014 Research Paper on Arming Airline Pilots After the horrific events of September 11, almost every American imagined “what if I was on that hijacked plane, what would I have done, and who would I have called?” It is a hopeless feeling, a desperate one; panic starts to creep into my mind, what can I do to stop this? My heart is pounding, my skin is dripping with sweat, and all I am thinking in the back of my head is, please, someone save me. Well, what if the pilot had a gun? We already think of the pilots as our protectors; we trust them with our lives. Is it that much of a stretch to think of them as our last line of defense against crazed lunatics and terrorists? However, do we really want our pilots to be carrying guns like some 21st century sky cowboys? There are various competing opinions on arming commercial airline pilots, such as, the opinions of Bernk, Scott, Sowell, and West Woody. The events of 9/11 left Americans with a powerful nationwide discussion about whether or not we should arm our commercial airline pilots to protect us from terrorists. A lot of airline pilots, and crew members show support for arming airline pilots. “Air Line Pilots Assn. (ALPA) by the Wilson Center for Public Research Inc. in early February, found that 73% of airline crewmembers were in favor of having firearms on the flight deck. Of the 24% who were opposed, some are no longer flying regularly, according to other union officials” (Scott...
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...Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the behavior of individuals and their mental processes (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2010). When you take psychology in college, it is to teach you how to understand how people are different and allow you to be non-judgmental. Being in the Navy, I feel that I developed the ability to be open-minded very early on in my career. This is because the military recruits people from all over the country, from the ghetto to the country club. I deal with all walks of life (race, religion, gender) on a daily basis. What I do not get to see in the Navy is people with mental disabilities and disorders. This course has taught me that approximately half of the populations of the United States have experienced or are experiencing some type of psychiatric disorder (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2010). The average person looks down on someone with any type of disability. They usually label them as deviant when their disorder allows them to commit a crime. What people don’t understand is that some of these people cannot control what they are doing. The only way for them to satisfy an urge is to do what they are thinking about. An example of this would be a serial killer. Serial killers usually have an internal motive for killing repeatedly, whereas a murderer usually commits one crime for a very specific reason. Serial killers need to satisfy some urge, and they do that through killing. However, not all people that have unquenchable urges resort...
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...Tragic Times In Salem Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials was a horrific event that occurred in colonial Massachusetts between the years 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 ended up being executed. Some researchers believe that there may have been other current events that were affecting the trials during the same time period. Throughout this research paper I will explain the Salem Witch Trials and show the research I have done in terms of the events that may have a connection to the event, along with other factors that may have influenced the Salem Witch Trials. In the late 16 hundreds in colonial North America, the supernatural was highly considered to be a part of everyday life. Many people were strong believers that Satan was present and active on Earth. These beliefs were first formed in Europe during the fifteenth century and later spread throughout North America. Peasants were known for often using a particular kind of witchcraft to help enhance their crops, and to benefit farming and agriculture. Over time, the idea of witchcraft transformed into a very evil act. It started to became associated with demons and evil spirits. From 1560 to 1670, witchcraft persecutions became common as superstitions became associated with the devil. Through out the colonies, the most common cause for a witch hunt was caused by young girls having a mysterious screaming fit; they would often be diagnosed as having been bewitched...
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