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    The Problems with Prisons

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    Problems with Prisons The Michigan Department of Corrections annual budget is 2 billion dollars‚ and the average annual cost per inmate is $32‚000. 4.5 percent of the state general fund allocated in the 2009-2010 budget proposal. Michigan’s total department active personnel contains 16‚324 people. There are 50‚693 incarcerated under MDOC jurisdiction with a total of 49 facilities that have had 2 escapes. The parole system makes up 17‚435 people. Prison overcrowding is a huge problem

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    American History X

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    Defining Something by What It Is Not in American History X His racist cheeks are covered in tears as he is interviewed about his father’s recent death. Derek pours his emotions out to the bewildered interviewer for the local news channel expressing‚ “Decent hard working Americans like my dad are getting rubbed out by social parasites” and as the reporter is confused Derek responds with’ “…blacks‚ browns‚ yellow whatever”. Before his father passed away he had been shoving extremely prejudicial views

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    Breach X

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    BREACH AT X • What are the people‚ work processes and technology failure points that require attention? • What practices led to the security breach in TJX and why did such a smart andprofitable organization as TJX face such a situation? • Was TJX a victim of ingenious cyber crooks or did it create risk by cutting corners? Background a. Describe the company/department History 1. TJX was the largest apparel and home fashion retailer in United States

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    Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment Aim: To test whether a person is predisposed to certain behaviour or whether the situation can affect their actions. Method: Zimbardo adapted the basement of Stanford University into a fake‚ but realistic prison‚ to replicate the psychological experience of imprisonment and deindividuation. Recruiting 25 emotionally stable‚ healthy‚ volunteers who were randomly assigned the role of prisoner or guard‚ expected to then act out their roles in a prison setting. With

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    Think about it Malcom Gladwell defines connectors in his book “Tipping Point” as: “These people connect ideas and concepts. Their social networks are 100 people or more. They can often reach across industries and other traditional socioeconomic boundaries.” Whether we agree with Gladwell’s revolutionary concepts or not‚ we cannot deny it changed the way we think. If we want to translate Gladwell’s term “connectors” to a much simpler word‚ it would be “ the middle man.” For centuries‚ people created

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    The Cost of Prison

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    lawmakers looking for cost-saving measures would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs‚ lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals‚ which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly‚ the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international counterparts in minimizing such cost‚ yet prison privatization has yielded hopeful results‚ as private correctional facilities

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    Rapist Straight to Prison? Here in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes and one in five women will be raped in their lifetime. [1]‚ And one in ten men will be raped in their lifetime. [2] It seems to be more and more common‚ adolescent and adult rapists getting off with easy punishments for their crimes to prevent from damaging their future. No jail time and no blemishes on their near‚ “perfect” records. While victims are left scarred and traumatized with little to no closure‚ their

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    Malcolm X

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    events has each writer selected to focus on? The details of Malcolm X being shot by a man of his own color‚ seven times by a man named Thomas Hagan. The writers focus on where the event took place. Malcolm X was a leader of the Black Nationalist Movement and he had followers. Thomas ran and he got shot in the leg by Malcolm’s X bodyguard. He was 22 years old and had several guns with him. Each write also had one or two of Malcolm’s X follower put their opinion of what they saw and hope he did not die

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    The Civil rights movement has been a huge part of history throughout the United States of Americans. Overtime there has been two important individuals who have made a huge impact‚ to justify the freedom for blacks; Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. These superior gentlemen have done great things that have given black people the opportunities that they now have today. Although‚ the question is what makes these honorable men similar and different from each other? Born January 15‚ 1929 in Atlanta

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    Malcolm X

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    Betty Stokes SLS 1505-2 Week 2 Individual Work (1.) What details of the events has each writer selected to focus on? I think all the writers was focused on the shooting of Malcolm X who was shot by Thomas Hagan. Each writer focused on the victim‚ the place where the event took place‚what the victim was doing in that place and the followers present in the event. (2.) How has each writer organized the details that have been selected? Bear in mind that most news organizations present

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