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    Between Disasters and the American Criminal Justice System Robert J. Louden‚ Ph.D. Professor and Program Director‚ Criminal Justice Department of Sociology‚ Anthropology and Criminal Justice Georgian Court University 900 Lakewood Avenue‚ Lakewood‚ New Jersey 08701 (732) 987-2711 loudenr@georgian.edu www.georgian.edu Abstract: Since the beginning of time the world has experienced a wide range of disasters. Responsibility for organizing and directing responses to disasters has varied

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    States of America. It established the system of government with which the nation has lived for more than two hundred years. The Framers drafted the Constitution to “establish Justice‚ insure domestic tranquility‚ provide for the common defense‚ promote the general Welfare‚ and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity . . . .” Created to protect the American people and our freedoms‚ the crown jewel of our government‚ the Constitution is what sets the United States apart from many

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    Nations Bank

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    Nations Bank Purpose: The purpose of this case is to calculate a stock’s price using its past dividends as an indicator of future dividend growth rates. The student must determine the stock’s required rate of return (CAPM) and future expected dividend growth rate and use the Gordon Growth Model to calculate a current price. 1. The equation for CAPM is kj = Rf + [bj x (Rm - Rf)] where‚ kj = required return on asset j‚ Rf = risk-free rate of return‚ bj = beta coefficient for asset

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    Barings Bank Disaster

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    Nick Leeson’s activities caused the fall of Barings Bank. Failures such as risk management were identified throughout the events so that final recommendations like regular monitoring could be made to prevent these disasters from happening again. With this methodical retracing of events our considerations can make a vulnerable company identify the risks and help to plug the holes before a catastrophic outlying event exposes them. 2. About the Bank Barings Bank had a humble origin compared to the

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    Recipe Fr Disaster

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    Recipe for disaster Rather than get into temporal issues or amaze people with youtube videos‚ I thought I’d share a bit of practice. Today is tea making day and I’m brewing up gallons of it. Rather than making six kinds of weak tea for specific uses I do the chinese thing and lump them together in a decoction (strong). As all the ingredients are natural herbs I don’t have to worry about overdosing people...their are however a few common sense caviats. Women who are pregnant or nursing‚ people

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    presented his Fourteen Points to achieve world peace. Among these points was the suggestion of forming the League of Nations. This organization was to help member countries discuss with one another about pressing issues. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919‚ the League of Nations was created. The organization is made up of the secretariat‚ council‚ and the assembly (League of Nations). The Disarmament Commission was by far the most important commission for peace. The League had a few successes

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    League of Nations and the United Nations aimed to maintain peace The League succeeded in settling dispute between Bulgaria and Greece‚ Greece and Italy over Corfu Island. These conflicts were only between small nations. However‚ the League failed to check the aggression of the Axis powers. This led to the outbreak of the Second World War. In 20-year time‚ another great war broke out in 1939. Comparatively‚ the United Nations could help maintain peace more effectively. The United Nations succeeded

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    The five main Allied Nations: Great Britain‚ China‚ France‚ the United States‚ and the USSR created a committee that permanently was tasked with maintaining peace on a global scale and would be one of the highest assemblies in the United Nations structure‚ the Security Council (UN Security Council). There are five permanent members and another ten elected members from different countries‚ each with two-year term limit (UN Security Council). The organization may have started small‚ but grew rapidly

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    The School System: a Joyless Experience? In his essay “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid‚” Jonathan Kozol brings our attention to the apparent growing trend of racial segregation within America’s urban and inner-city schools (309-310). Kozol provides several supporting factors to his claim stemming from his research and observations of different school environments‚ its teachers and students‚ and personal conversations with those teachers and students. As we first

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    Still Hungry in America Marian Edelman Wright wrote the famous literacy narrative “Still Hungry in America”. Marian Wright has been a proponent for disadvantaged Americans her entire life. Edelman’s career began after graduating from Spellman College and Yale Law School. After graduation‚ she became the founding president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). In result of Edelman’s phenomenal leadership‚ CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for less-fortunate families and children. The

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