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Tyco International Ltd. is a diversified company that provides products and services, operating in more than 60 countries. Tyco aims to be one of the leading companies in electrical and electronic components. Tyco has maintained over 40 acquisitions from 1986. Tyco’s International former chief executive officer, L. Dennis Kozlowski, and former chief financial officer, Mark…

Polygraph, a practice often deemed pseudoscience by scientists, has faced substantial criticism. Until 1998, state and county courts were able to accept polygraph evidence as valid for conviction. Nonetheless, the reliability of these tests remains unproven, raising concerns regarding their susceptibility to both inaccuracies and manipulation. Consequently, it is advised against employing polygraphs prior to…

Central police officer Lance Maroons responded to a call for service from a high-end retailer, who reported that an unkempt woman wearing disheveled, dirty, and torn clothing left the store without paying for items she selected while shopping in the Misses Clothing Department. The store manager reported that the woman failed to respond to any…

The Duke Lacrosse case was a rape case that involved false rape charges against three Duke University lacrosse players, began with gang rape allegations by an exotic dancer at a team party in March 2006. Crystal an African American student at North Carolina Central University who worked as a stripper dancer and escort,accused three white…

Heathcliff: A Victim of VillainyIn “Wuthering Heights,” we see tragedies follow one by one, most of which are focused around Heathcliff, the antihero of the novel. After the troubled childhood Heathcliff goes through, he becomes embittered towards the world and loses interest in everything but Catherine Earnshaw -his childhood sweetheart whom he had instantly fallen…

Redlining is unethical practice in which financial institutions discriminate against certain areas when deciding who can use their services. Often it is poor neighborhoods that may be racially determined as well that are refused loans, insurance, or mortgages when redlining is taking place. When an institution is practicing redlining, they will ignore the individual’s unique…

“Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: The Debate On Corporal Punishment” IntroductionMany people have witnessed a misbehaved child in a public area and thought to themselves, “That child needs some discipline.” However, the type of discipline and the severity of its implementation is something that has been debated for many decades because it is tough…

Throughout history, societies have punished criminals by executing them, but today many countries have abolished the death penalty. In the united States however, the federal government and many of the states continue to sentence convicted criminals to death. This leads us to the question: Should the government have the power to sentence convicted criminals to…

            The case of Main Line vs Basinger was introduced in court in 1993 and deals with Basinger refusing from acting in the film “Boxing Helena” which had not been shot afterwards – Main Line claims it was precisely because Basinger rejected the leading role after a preliminary agreement. In this assignment I am going…

The chosen crime for analysis is non-violent – specifically, insider trading. The focus will be on the Martha Stewart insider trading case, while also discussing other trading cases such as the recent one involving Galleon Group, an investment firm in New York charged with insider trading. This paper aims to examine how the media, particularly…