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- 1181: Into The Abyss Marquis De Sade
- ... the virtuous paradise that D'Holbarch and Helvitius envisioned it would be. The orgies and infamous behavior that Sade would be known for were commonplace in his time. Many critics argue that Sade's only crime was in revealing a side of human nature that no one wanted to acknowledge was there. Sade opened up a Pandora's box, so to speak, of the darker side of humanity. Sade believed that ... laws than those imprinted on minerals, on rocks, on animals
" Consequentially, we are obliged to follow our instinctual desires, and to curb them would be to work against nature. Thus aspects of culture such as crime, and the gratitude of children to their parents are foolish. Sade takes his argument further and extends it to crime. In making creatures both weak and strong, "crimes" such as theft and murder are natural and to punish them is to betray nature. Sade elaborates on the concept of weak and strong. According to ...
- 1182: Roman Blood
- Roman Blood By Steven Saylor Setting Roman Blood is set in Rome, 80 B.C. It is a warm spring morning when Gordianus starts his investigation on a crime. He lives in a large house, a little run down over the years since being passed down to him from his father. Himself, along with his one slave, Bethesda, an Egyptian woman usually sits in his big garden. The streets of Rome are where most of the detective work takes place. Like many others, the street where the crime took place is small and unattended. Gordianus' work takes him to a small town called Ameria about 45 miles from Roam for a few days then back again. Towards the end of the book, Gordianus ... Finder" is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate and orator who is preparing for his first important case. His client is a rural landowner, Sextus Roscius, who is accused of the unforgivable crime: the murder of his own father. Gordianus accepts the commission to investigate the crime, partially knowing the betrayal and conspiracy hidden beneath. The answers he needs, sends him through the narrow streets of Roam ...
- 1183: Rise Of The Tech Stock
- ... tech stock came about, but it seems like it came all at once. The phrase "tech stock" simply refers to all stocks that deal with any form of technology related, directly or indirectly, to the computer or computer chips. A good portion of the popular tech stocks today deal with the Internet (Brian 4). One reason for this is the easy access by millions of people worldwide. Small companies are able to reach ... such as Microsoft, Apple and Dell are companies that handle computers directly, and have been around for a long time (NASDAQ 5) TI creates many semiconductors that are found in most all products that have computer chips in them. Amazon and Yahoo are both directly related to the Internet. These companies are popular due to their originality and business management. However, popularity hardly gains profit, so why is it that ...
- 1184: Analysis of Police Corruption
- ... in police departments. The danger of corruption for police, and this is that it may invert the formal goals of the organization and may lead to "the use of organizational power to encourage and create crime rather than to deter it" (Sherman 1978: p 31) General police deviance can include brutality, discrimination, sexual harassment, intimidation, and illicit use of weapons. However it is not particularly obvious where brutality, discrimination, and misconduct ... April 3, 1993: p. 5) The Mollen Commission has not uncovered a citywide system of payoffs among the 30,000-member force. In fact, last week's testimony focused on three precincts, all in heavy crime areas. But the tales, nevertheless, were troubling. Dowd described how virtually the entire precinct patrol force would rendezvous at times at an inlet on Jamaica Bay, where they would drink, shoot off guns in the ... money more aggressively than they were pursuing drugs,'' says Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Bauer. (Washington Post, Jan 18, 1993: p. 11) When cities enlarge their police forces quickly in response to public fears about crime, it can also mean an influx of younger and less well-suited officers. That was a major reason for the enormous corruption scandal that hit Miami in the mid-1980s, when about 10% of ...
- 1185: Transcendentalism
- ... lack of bonding with nature, and the fast paced speed at which everything has advanced to. With simplicity being the main transcendentalist idea, Thoreau would greatly criticize such advanced things as, the television or the computer. A transcendentalist would believe in the preservance of earth and to take life slow also. Since the 19th century, society has changed; it has seen many technological advances, is currently moving at a much faster pace then the 1800's, and has overgone various environmental issues. The technological advancements since the 19th century has enabled us to complete common tasks much easier then it was before. The computer for example, has word-processing capabilities that enable us to produce a one page report much faster than it is to write it out. But when the computer breaks, it creates havoc and we get very frustrated and angry at the hunk of metal if front of us. Repair can be frustrating, costly, and time consuming. Typing also prevents us from adding ...
- 1186: Things Fall Apart
- ... to the missionaries which had come to Africa to try to convert people to Christianity. Okonkwo could not accept these changes, and in a rage of anger he killed a clansman. This was the worst crime a man could commit. After Okonkwo did this he realized that there was no hope for redeeming himself and no way that he could become an elder. So he hung himself because he could not live with the fact that he would never regain his standing in the tribe. He would have most likely been killed for committing this crime anyway. Basically Okonkwo's life fell apart on him, hence I feel that the title Things Fall Apart is very fitting for this book. I thought that Achebe did a good job at writing this ... it seems that many people have been somewhat desensitized to murder. It happens so often that people don't think much about it unless it directly affects them. In African societies this it the worst crime that a person could commit and will always end up in death for the person who committed the crime. So some of the customs and beliefs in an African society I have a hard ...
- 1187: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... Allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. This is the gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism. This paper will show how George Orwell wrote 1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism. 1984 is about life in ... His dissatisfaction increases to a point where he rebels against the government in small ways. Winston's first act of rebellion is buying and writing in a diary. This act is known as a thought crime and is punishable by death. A thought crime is any bad thought against the government of Oceania. Winston commits many thought crimes and becomes paranoid about being caught, which he knows is inevitable (Greenblast 113). He becomes paranoid because he is followed ...
- 1188: Punishment And Behavior
- Punishment and Behavior The amount of crime in America has been constantly increasing over the years. At the same time, in order to deter this crime punishment enforced by the government has also increased. This is what compels me to argue against the notion that if a society wishes to change its citizens' behavior, a system based on punishments will be ... also showed that both men and women who had more physical punishment as a child were more likely to assault their spouse during that year (Straus 142). This study also found a rise in street crime with increasing amounts of physical punishment. A 1972 study of 385 college students which were punished as children were more likely to be involved in violent and property crime (Straus 145). A final interesting ...
- 1189: Illegal Drugs
- ... than anybody because they are supporting violent crimes in the drug world. Just by using drugs they become part of that drug world. They are already commiting acrime. But the relationship between drug use and crime often means that drug users go on to commit crimes like robbery,burglary,assult, and murder. Drug addiction means that the brain is saying I need drugs now it must have drugs. This offten means ... involve someone on drugs. *75% Of prison inmates have a drug use history. *24% of addicts start dealing drugs to support their habit. Studies also show that drugs play a big part in youth and crime: *more than 83% of youth in prison have used drugs. *40% of youth in prison for serious crimes were on drugs at the time of the crime. *More than 40% of youth in prison used drugs befor the age of 12. Armed patrols Search and destroy missions and helicopter surveillance. Sounds like americans at war, well this goes on every day ...
- 1190: Importance Of Fractal Geometry
- ... surface of moving water, the jagged edges of mountains, ferns, tree trunks, and canyons. They can be used to model the growth of cities, detail medical procedures and parts of the human body, create amazing computer graphics, and compress digital images. Fractals are about us, and our existence, and they are present in every mathematical law that governs the universe. Thus, fractal geometry can be applied to a diverse palette of ... it's fractal dimension. Some of the best applications of fractals in modern technology are digital image compression and virtual reality rendering. First of all, the beauty of fractals makes them a key element in computer graphics, adding flare to simple text, andtexture to plain backgrounds. In 1987 a mathematician named Michael F. Barnsley created a computer program called the Fractal Transform, which detected fractal codes in real-world images, such as pictures which have been scanned and converted into a digital format. This spawned fractal image compression, which is used ...
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