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            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.            …

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…

Born on July 4, 2010 in Philadelphia, Meyer R. Scholnick, also known as Robert King Merton, came from a Jewish family from Russia who immigrated to the United States. During his time in High School, Merton took advantage of the nearby cultural and educational venues, which greatly influenced his theory of social structure. In the…

SOLDIERS WITH PTSD THAT COMMIT CRIMES The ongoing war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan will always be a heavily debated topic from its beginning on October 7, 2001 with the attack on America soil on 9/11. But an ongoing war that is often ignored is the servicemen and women of those who…

The theory of Ecology is the leading explanation for crime causes. Ecological criminology, the pioneering social criminology, originated in the 1920s at the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. It centers on the connections between organisms and their environment and proposes that crime is impacted by neighborhood disorganization rather than only individual traits….

Introduction: The divorce rates are on the rise worldwide, particularly in developed countries. Although divorce is widely accepted in most societies, there remains a yearning for lifelong marriages rooted in religious beliefs. Yet, the rates of divorce persistently increase. Statistics indicate that 50% of marriages end in divorce in the United States, while the figure…

Even though , there are those kinds of minors who really cannot be be helped. Society needs an option for truly this sick youth . Minors should not be tried as an adult because their brains are not fully developed, they can benefit from rehabilitation ; and because trying minors as adult is cruel and…

Whether the establishment of district and chiefdom councils and the entire decentralization process have positively impacted the lives of the people of Sierra Leone are issues which experts in governance and development studies should look into” The Act of 2004 In 2004 a new Local Government Act facilitated the resuscitation of elected local authorities by…

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…

Though it could be argued that Ted Bundy’s characteristics could fall into that of other psychopath classification systems, this well-known serial killer exhibited many of the traits that Robert Hare outlined in his Psychopathy checklist. This paper will provide an overview of Bundy’s characteristics applicable to Robert Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R). Taking the two…