when there is no probably cause; racial profiling is when law enforcement targets someone due to their race‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ or their national origin. Our law enforcement and government have a tendency to use what’s known as the iron triangle. The iron triangle is a cooperative relationship between different government ranked officials but they also will benefit from a law or regulation. In a news article a woman who was minding her own business was requested off a plane‚ cuffed‚ strip searched
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy On a Saturday afternoon in March a terrible tragedy happened in a New York City factory. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was a result of neglected safety procedures and about 145 people died from this. The deaths were fundamentally avoidable due to sealed doors. It is remembered as one of the most notorious calamities in the American industrial history. This essay will describe the details of this horrific incident and how America has benefitted from it. On
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known as Devil’s Triangle The area may have been named after its Bermuda apex since Bermuda was once known as the "Isle of Devils.“ Located in Western Atlantic‚ BT includes 3 vertices: Bermuda Island at about 35° north latitude – boundary in the north; Miami‚ Florida – boundary in the south-west; San Juan‚ Puerto Rico Island – boundary in the south Some ppl assumes that the total area of BT varies from 1300000 to 3900000km2 ORIGINS Over the past 100 years‚ the Bermuda Triangle has seen what some
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In the excerpt from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes Of Wrath‚ the waitress‚ Mae‚ interacts with the other characters to reveal her complex attitude toward the man and his boys and signals an evolution in her character. The evolution of Mae’s character‚ as well as attitude‚ is described by diction and detail throughout this excerpt. First‚ Mae’s character evolves as she carries a conversation on with the man wanting to buy bread as shown by diction in the story. In the first section‚ the man
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Fraud Examination & Forensic Accounting Professor: David L. Cotton Meriann El Haddad Student Travel Agent Fraud Analysis Christopher Ryan Thomas‚ who ran a travel business‚ was sentenced for stealing students’ spring break funds. In September 2006‚ Thomas was selected as a travel agent by the senior class at Hampton University who were planning a spring break trip to the Sunset Beach Resort and Spa in Jamaica. From November 2006 through April 2007‚ Thomas collected approximately
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active resistance. We have to fight against the tendency." (11) I completely agree with this statement. We should start into taking consideration on what others what to say. This is portrayed by many individuals such Malcolm X‚ Sherman Alexie‚ and Rita Mae Brown. Malcolm X’s ‘Learning to Read’ covered about how illiterate Malcolm X was. He became frustrated at not being able to express on what he had to convey in his letters‚ especially those to Mr. Elijah Muhammad. He fought against the tendency
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"Corporate Fraud" when you hear those words the first‚ most recent incident‚ many think of is The Enron Scandal. This same scandal produced the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. This much needed act created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board under the Security Exchange Commission ’s supervision. This board sets accounting standards and investigates Certified Public Accountants and companies to ensure they are following the guidelines set forth. This
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Following are some of the most extreme examples of gross misconduct regarding fraud in our history. The Waste Management Scandal in 1998. They reported 1.7 billion in fake earnings by increasing the length of depreciation time for property‚ plant and equipment on the balance Page 2 sheets. The fraud was detected when a new CEO was brought in and the new management team went through the books. Motivation seems to be that this publicly traded company needed to keep stock prices up to keep investors
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“Motha’s Day for Big Mae” This is a story about a Big woman that goes by the name of “Big Mae”. She is the common law wife to a man named Old man Berry. He spends his days sitting in the bar owned by a man named Howard. Every morning Smitty and Cuz who were Berry’s buddies‚ along with Berry stood outside the bar waiting for Howard to arrive. Inside they sit around talking mess and Berry spends all of the money given to him by Mae. One day‚ Howard decides to give berry a piece of his mind regarding
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