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- 16371: Asian Organized Crime
- ... Crime Introduction The Yakuza is a form of organized crime which is older than the Sicilian Mafia. With over 300 years of history, this Japanese form of “the mob” is perhaps the oldest in the world . However, When one thinks of “organized crime,” certain images come to mind. First and foremost we think of America’s Mafia as well as Italy’s La Cosa Nostra. Both the Irish and Jews run ...
- 16372: Prohibition
- ... beverages were addictive. In the 1820’s and 1830’s, the first temperance crusade reduced the average annual intake of pure alcohol per person to about 3 gallons.() Support for prohibition declined after the Civil War began in 1861. To revive support, people who favored prohibition, often called drys or prohibitionist, formed a number of organizations to promote liquor reform. In 1869, for example, drys founded the Prohibition Party, which presented ...
- 16373: Regulating Big Companies
- ... a criminal enterprise that involved a pattern of illegal acts like involuntary servitude, and show that they received substantial benefits from them. I feel that this kind of activity can't take place in the world. I don't feel that it is right to take advantage of the less fortunate. There have been other cases like this over the past several years, but nothing seems to be working in stopping ...
- 16374: “To legalize or Not to Legalize”
- ... there are things that they have and that USA does not. Do we want our counrty looked down upon like those or do we want to set a good example to the rest of the world by showing ways of controlling these substances that people abuse? Another question that comes to mind if drugs were legal would be who and what would sell them? Would the local convient store down the ...
- 16375: R.I.C.O
- ... Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) was passed as part of the Organized Crime Control Act. The purpose of the act was to curb the apparently increasing entry of organized crime into the legitimate business world. (Miller and Jentz 1998). G.R. Blakley (1980) who helped draft RICO, takes the position that while broad usage may or may not have been Congress’ intent (he believes it was), certainly it was his ...
- 16376: The Death Penalty
- ... logical alternative to the death penalty is not life without parole, but life without parole in solitary confinement and no visits from friends, loved ones and relatives. There should be no contact with the outside world at all for convicted murderers. This way if the convicted is found innocent as time passes by he can be released. The government will not have made the mistake of killing an innocent man. Another ...
- 16377: Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
- ... that city's Contemporary Arts Center and its director not guilty of obscenity for exhibiting Mapplethorpe's photographs. His works are included in Lady: Lisa Lyon (1983) and Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People (1985). The art world is driven by a quest for novelty. Novelty enjoys cultural tensions and controversy, and, in recent years, must descend to violence, obscenity, and vulgarity, to find it. Even the definition of avant garde, always the ...
- 16378: The College Scandal
- ... of money for just one person. However, what they do not realize is that if playing sports at the college level was easy, then everyone would do it. In an article written for US News &World Report, Josh Chetwynd states “The stakes are high: Teenagers who impress can win scholarships worth more than $40,000” (83). When an athlete can impress a coach to win them a scholarship they must be ...
- 16379: Child Abuse
- ... the cases of abuse could have been prevented but nobody would say anything. Just by keeping the abuse of a child to yourself the child could die. A child who never yet experienced that the world isn’t just about being abused. Children at this young age can’t speak for themselves that's why they count on people like us to do the talking for them to get away from ...
- 16380: Alvin Ailey
- ... commitment to education has been the Company's long-standing involvement in arts-in-education programs, including free performances, mini-performances, lecture/demonstrations, workshops and master classes in communities in the US and throughout the world. Ailey died on December 1, 1989 - and with his death, American dance lost one of its most luminous stars. Judith Jamison is now the Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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