strategies were made to reduce the crimes and make the public feel more safe in the street. The Kansas City Experiment started on October 1972 and continued to 1973 ‚ it was administered by the Kansas City Police Department and evaluated by the Police Foundation. The Kansas City Experiment tested the use of preventive patrol on crime rates and citizens fear of crime. The police foundation divided Kansas into fifteen different areas‚ and those fifteen areas were divided into three groups of five. These
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“Bleeding Kansas”: Whose side will you take? Many Kansans will certainly remember the years 1854 to 1861. It was filled with bloodshed‚ rebellious actions‚ lynching‚ and more bloodshed. The groups responsible for this viciousness were the ignorant pro-slavery and the anti-slavery clashing in their differences. Within a few months‚ Kansas was invaded by raids and riots from left and right. Stephan Douglass pushed for The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which allowed the territory of Kansas to decide
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Piper Alpha: Lessons Learnt‚ 2008 Piper Alpha was a large North Sea oil platform that started production in 1976. It produced oil from 24 wells and in its early life it had also produced gas from two wells. It was connected by an oil pipeline to Flotta and by gas pipelines to two other installations. In 1988‚ Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd ("OpCal")‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. On 6 July 1988‚ there was a massive leakage of gas
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Analyze the use of metaphor and imagery in the film‚ citing several examples. One parallel is between Ren and the Pied Piper. In legends‚ the Pied Piper is said to have removed the rats from Hamelin with music from his pipe. The villagers refused to pay him‚ and even insinuated that he caused the rat infestation just to extort them. The Piper retaliates by luring the children of the village away just as he did the rats. Ren plays a similar role to this in the film. He’s an outsider
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Plagiarizing is a Crime We all dream of being successful one day in our lives. We all have the loving support of all our friends and family to back us up on our journey to success‚ but sometimes that’s just not enough. Sometimes life gets rough and we fall under pressure. The pressure can be suffocating and we will be willing to do anything to escape the social corner we have been pushed into. Chris Spence is an example of this. He was a student at the University of Toronto that wanted nothing
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"The Pied Piper of Tucson" On March 4th‚ 1966‚ Life Magazine published an article titled "The Pied Piper of Tucson" that captured the world’s attention. The article written by Don Moser was based on a true story happened in Tucson‚ Arizona. Charles Schmid‚ the main character of the article‚ was a serial killer in Tucson who killed three teenage girls. Moser’s article not only managed to turn a local crime story into an international news‚ it also inspired Joyce Carol Oates who often based her
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didn ’t believe in religion or a personal God‚ he did believe in a cosmic God‚ as evidenced by one of my favorite quotes of his: "Human beings‚ vegetables‚ or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune‚ intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." ~Albert Einstein Given the way life is so tenacious‚ adaptive‚ and varied here on Earth -- almost as if it has a mind of its own -- I wouldn ’t be surprised that we find life is abundant throughout the universe. And that life does have a mind
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Answer these follow-up questions in 100 to 150 words each: What are the three or more best practices you learned about using the Internet for academic purposes? How do you think you might use them? People around the world are becoming more aware of the advantages of technology. Now you can earn a degree from the convenience of your home. You do not need to sit in the school library for hours to do your research homework. The internet allows you to find the information faster‚ but it is not
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the one event that completely changed the course of history was the direct result of the Kansas Nebraska act i.e. Bleeding Kansas. The Kansas Nebraska act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or a slave sate by popular sovereignty. It undid the compromise that was made in Missouri compromise‚ which designated a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. The Kansas Nebraska act re ignited the differences between pro and anti-slavery sections. Violent events
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popular press that academic dishonesty among students‚ in particular plagiarism in assessments‚ is at all time high and still on the rise in Australian universities (Marsden‚ 2003; Park‚ 2003; Walker‚ 1998). Plagiarism has received worldwide attention because the cases of plagiarism seem to increase in the field of higher education. There have been many studies inquiring into the reasons why students plagiarise and the reasons for plagiarism that these studies have discovered are many and varied. Some of
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