Essays on Crime Page 92

Sacrifice Sacrifice, as defined by Webster’s dictionary, (Merriam-Webster.com) is an act of offering to a deity something precious OR destruction/surrender of something for the sake of something else. I prefer the second definition. The Old Testament of the Bible spends a good amount of time referring to and governing ritual sacrifice. I feel like the…

The fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff, which was discovered in december 2008, is based upon a ponzi scheme. Madoff took money from new investors to pay earnings for existing customers. The greater the payout to reting and withdrawing customers, the more revenue or clients he would need to start an “investment relationship” with. The ponzi…

            Tim Appenzeller’s essay “The End of Cheap Oil” takes a straightforward approach to the problem of the world’s dwindling oil supplies and revises the common view of this dilemma.  The problem, he says, is not simply that the world’s oil supply is finite, but that reckless consumption may eventually make oil prohibitively expensive.            …

Charles Manson is known as one of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson’s childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like cult and ultimately to the bloody…

Introduction In recent years, the United States and several European countries have suffered from a number of school shootings. In addition to the tragic direct consequences for the victims and their families, school shootings, much like terrorist attacks, may dominate news for days, having a traumatic effect on millions of other people. Lynn A. Addington…

Mahogany used in multistory systems in the Philippines, boat and ship building and patternmaking. Logs are used for the manufacture of veneers and for paneling. It is also used as shade for coffee and cacao. Mahogany is regarded as the worlds finest timber for high-class furniture and cabinetwork. Its popularity is especially due to its…

Critical thinking can therefore be described as a process of carefully making sensible/logical decisions after carefully considering the good and bad ululates of an issue with accuracy and precision. The thinking process comprises of two main activities which one gathering or collecting data/information and drawing conclusions based on data/information collected. A good thinker can be…

Rather than asking “are prisons Obsolete” what it seems Angela Davis is asking is “are prisons really necessary? ” Davis is quotes that more than “two million people out of a world total of 9 million now inhabit U. S. Prisons, jails, youth facilities and immigrant detention centers. And also brings up the issue of…

Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt’s always wanted; convinced he’s lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he…

The laws conflict with reason; holding to Locker’s purpose to protect property when protecting people is by far more noble (Peak, 2007, 14)Agreeing with the conflict theorist, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who challenged Hobbes and Locke, debating that “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”( Peak, 2007, 15). This truism is even more pronounced…