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- 2341: The Jungle
- ... and then hands him a handful of change. Jurgis becomes enraged, and pounces on the man. Jurgis gets arrested again for battery and lands in jail. With the assistance of Jack Duane he drifts into crime and the corrupt world of politics. Jurgis make himself available now as an assistant to a robber or to a political boss rigging elections. Ironically, under these evil conditions, he discovers a new confidence and ... responsibility for, the well-being of the masses. Big Business ultimately, deviously, controls government and the courts for its own benefit. In order to foster its corruption of politics, Big Business needs and thrives on crime and ultimately works in alliance with the criminal world. Capitalist democracy is therefore a fraud, a contradiction in terms. There can be no true democracy in a society controlled by one class with hereditary economic ...
- 2342: The Great Gatsby 5
- ... infidelity, and ultimately death. Gatsby is the rich, majestic, protagonist of the novel. While it isn't clear how he made all his money it is obvious that it was through illegal dealings in organized crime. There was a reference to the 1919 World Series, (That's the one where the players on the Chicago White Sox helped out organized crime by not trying their hardest when it counted). It is also clear that the driving motivation for getting all this cash is so that it will appeal to Daisy. Daisy was the rich girl that ...
- 2343: The Changing Office
- ... todays office worker. Two buzzwords which are currently being used in the office are desktop publishing and electronic mail. Electronic Desktop Publishing Desktop publishing is the process of integrating text and graphics by utilizing computer software to produce professional-looking documents without using professional services. According to Wilson (1987, 29): Desktop publishing has a bright future. Desktop publishing enables people and businesses to develop their own brochures, newsletters, and other ... the sending, storing, and delivering of written messages electronically. Reiss and Dolan (1989, 529) identify two categories of electronic mail services: 1. In- house electronic mail. (E-mail which is run on a firms computer system.) 2. Commercial electronic mail. (E-mail which is supplied by organizations such as General Electric Information Services and MCI Communication.) Summary Desktop publishing and electronic Mail are but two of the changes which are ...
- 2344: Ecommerce
- ... of services backed by research, such as discount stock trading, including e.Schwab and a Web-only company called E*Trade. Travel services have been very promising because the transactions can be supported by extensive computer databases of useful information. The Web is particularly effective at selling services backed by research. The reasoning behind the financial services taking up the Web is the fact that they are backed up by extensive ... more businesses putting up Web pages, the more the Web is overrun by commercial use. The beginning purpose of the Web was to create a place for people to share ideas and information over their computer. Since businesses find a way to squeeze into every part of our life, the concept of business to 15 million people could cause an "overload" of information, drowning out what it was meant for, the ...
- 2345: The Scarlet Letter 2
- ... most would conclude, the scarlet letter A stands for adultery. Through prominence and repetition, both the letter and Pearl come to symbolize her sin of adultery. As the book illustrates, Hester is imprisoned for her crime of adultery, forced to stand in front of the town and take their ridicule, and required to wear a scarlet letter A upon her chest. The entire book revolves around her and Dimmesdale s sin ... townsfolk even believed that execution would be the right solution, but the judge looked upon her good behavior previous to the incident and lightened the sentence. This all goes to show how serious of a crime this was looked at in the beginning of America. The change in beliefs of crimes such as adultery from Early America to the present is astounding. In the twentieth century, adultery may be frowned upon ...
- 2346: Gangs in America
- ... obviously appealing to the youth and the potential inductees to the gangs. However, with every good thing there also comes a bad side. The bad side is everything we dont see. The life of crime, violence, and prison. Nobody really can understand that until they live it, and once they had lived it, it can sometimes be to late. Now of course there are situations where kids join gangs because ... for a lot of them and they are just looking for a better way out. It is not until they are in for life that they find out about the lifestyle filled with violence and crime. As you may know a gang is a group of people who are some how associated with each other. These things are often the colors that they wear, the language that they speak, and the ...
- 2347: Attitude Changes in Macbeth
- ... he begins giving himself reasons not to murder Duncan, this is because as lady Macbeth said "he is to full of the milk of human kindness" and his elaborate imagination causes him to see the crime in all its horror before the deed is actually done. Lady Macbeth uses her cunning rhetoric and persuasive techniques to convince Macbeth that this is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the right thing to ... murder however, Macbeth senses suspicion on Banquo's part. He realizes that Banquo's "wisdom that doth guide his valour / To act in safety" will cause Banquo to want to turn Macbeth in for his crime. Macbeth also feels he must get rid of Banquo because he is jealous and thinks that his children should have the throne, since according to the prophecy, the throne will pass to Banquo's sons ...
- 2348: Social Research
- ... laws of cause and effect can be applied in social science. That is that one social phenomenon is linked to another. For instance, a positivist might agree that young men are more likely to commit crime than young women because the boys were given greater freedom by their parents, whilst dismissing other notions such as crime proves masculinity In this example one observable phenomenon is linked to another. In essence, social facts influence human behaviour or as Babbie (1979, p.423) summed it up, some things are caused by other things ...
- 2349: Education vs. Corrections
- ... which. Then put education vs. corrections. Which would you decide to get more tax dollars? Education must receive the higher percentage of tax dollars because then you are giving a solution to the problem of crime before it starts. There are many reasons why I think this is true. One of the reasons is that by educating the minds of youngsters they will understand the difference between right and wrong and ... upgrades and repairs are very important for the future and improvement of schools. Education must receive the higher percentage of tax dollars over corrections because then you are giving a solution to the problem of crime before it starts. Keeping the children involved with there goals and their future may just be enough to deter to them from getting involved in illegal activities.
- 2350: Macbeth: Macbeth's Conduct and Personality
- ... solicitings cannot be evil, cannot be good." Still, he is provided with so much natural good that he is able to control the apprehensions of his inordinate imagination and decides to take no step involving crime. His autonomous decision not to commit murder, however, is not in any sense based upon moral grounds. No doubt he normally shrinks from the unnaturalness of regicide; but he so far ignores ultimate ends that ... his roof-we may even say that the consequences which he fears are not at all inward and spiritual, It is to be doubted whether he has ever so far considered the possible effects of crime and evil upon the human soul-his later discovery of horrible ravages produced by evil in his own spirit constitutes part of the tragedy. Hi is mainly concerned, as we might expect, with consequences involving ...
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