Hirschi’s Social Bond Theory Describes D’Angelo Barksdale in The Wire Travis Hirschi’s dissertation‚ which eventually became a well-respected and commonly used book in criminology‚ had within it one of the most influential theories of crime that was tested with data and supported with results. The dissertation became known as Causes of Delinquency and was published in 1969 (Kozey‚ 2012). The general theory states that delinquency takes place when a person’s bonds to society are weakened or broken
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Founding-Family Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from the S&P 500 The main argument of this paper by Anderson and Reeb is the question whether family ownership is beneficial or detrimental to the future of the company. The arguments against family ownership stress on the points of forgoing profit‚ limited human resource pool‚ usage of company resources for personal reasons and general low company performance. Other researchers attribute benefits to family ownership like greater monitoring
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Sylvia Plath was an American poet‚ novelist‚ and short story writer. She was born in Boston Massachusetts on October 27th 1932. She struggled deeply with depression much of her adult life‚ stemming from the death of her father at age eight. Aside from her depression‚ Sylvia excelled academically at Smith College‚ and because of that went on to receive a Fulbright scholarship to the highly competitive Newham College in Cambridge. She continued actively writing poetry and publishing her work in the
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Allan D’Arcangelo Do you know many artist? Ever meet any famous ones? Well‚ I haven’t‚ but let me inform you about an Artist named Allan D’ Arcangelo. He was a pop artist‚ born from Buffalo‚ New York. His parents were both Italian immigrants. Born on June 16‚ of 1930. Unfortunately‚ today he isn’t here with us anymore. Mr. Arcangelo was only 68 years old when he passed away; the day he passed away was December 17‚ 1998‚ in New York City‚ New York. The information gathered from his family‚ is that
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Accelerated English 11 May 17‚ 2013 Sylvia Plath “I talk to God but the sky is empty.” Sylvia Plath was one of America’s greatest poets. She was best known for her dramatic‚ emotional poems inspired by deep continuous depression and multiple suicide attempts. Unfortunately‚ she succeeded in the early months of 1963. Sylvia Plath was born October 27‚ 1932 in Boston‚ Massachusetts; she had only one younger brother named Warren. From the very beginning Sylvia’s parents knew she was going to be
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Sylvia Plath wrote plenty of short stories and poems in her short lived career. Most of the poems in The Colossuss are the work of an obviously talented writer who is having trouble finding a subject. In Point Shirley‚ we see Plath’s exquisite sentences hard at work describing what’s actually going on. The strange psyche at the core of these poems is made powerful by its seemingly limitless ability to endure self hatred. But before the destruction‚ we get to watch Plath begin to become a great poet
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In the beginning of Blue Balliet’s Chasing Vermeer‚ Petra Andalee is a weird pear-shaped oddball‚ and Calder Pillay is also a peculiar person. Calder and Petra were both in Ms. Isabel Hussey’s homeroom 6th grade class. Ms. Hussey was a young‚ very joyful teacher who loved to study art. When the story first began‚ a mysterious thief had stolen the famous‚ and in my opinion beautiful painting “A Lady Writing.” Before the theft‚ Calder and Petra had many encounters and mysterious coincidences with
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bell hooks’ examination of black female spectatorship is‚ as she discusses in the essay ‘The oppositional gaze’‚ is a comparatively unexplored territory by scholars. She focuses on cinema in its early form as a unique site for a gaze to emerge that opposed the assumed maleness and whiteness of the viewer. Hooks’ main argument stems from the idea that the black women are doubly excluded from the practices of looking as a hierarchical structure continuing to use this in terms of cinema. She argues
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Introduction The 19th century developments of firstly the telegraph‚ and later the telephone‚ opened a gateway to a new‚ closer‚ more interdependent world. For a country as large as the United States‚ with a population now scattered from east to west‚ the implications were tremendous. The infamous tyranny of time and distance had been conquered. Widespread acceptance and appreciation‚ however‚ were not immediate. Both inventions met with initial scepticism‚ ridicule‚ and even elements of fear.
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The Widow and the Parrot Virginia Woolf Author’s Background (1882-1941) British writer. Virginia Woolf became one of the most prominent literary figures of the early 20th century‚ with novels like Mrs. Dalloway (1925)‚ Jacob’s Room (1922)‚ To the Lighthouse (1927)‚ and The Waves (1931). Woolf learned early on that it was her fate to be "the daughter of educated men." In a journal entry shortly after her father’s death in 1904‚ she wrote: "His life would have ended mine... No writing‚ no books:
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