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    ing Natacha Petit-frere Professor Donigan December 1‚ 2011 Being Organized Many of us are incompatible of being organized. Organization is a skill that must be learned and practice by an individual. It’s a rare person among us who doesn’t feel the need to get more organized. I consider myself fairly organized I show my organization skills by coordinating my clothes by style‚ color coding sections for my college courses‚ having a sheet of paper‚ a calendar and a white board. A lot of us

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    INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY‚ GIVES RISE TO MORE CYBER CRIMES SUBMITTED BY: Mehal Dhongade -61 Aditi Mukne -71 Reema Mangtani -63 Divya Shriyan-73 Richard D’Souza -65 Vinaya Saraf -75 Ritu Sharma -67 Hashmit Virdi-77 Reema D’Souza -69 Karan Patel -79 Mumbai Educational Trust Bandra (West)‚ Mumbai. PGDM e-Business 2014-16 INDEX 1 Introduction 2 The Information Technology Act 2000 3 The IT Amendments Act 2008 4 Key Terms 5 Role of IT in the Banking Sector 6 NASSCOM 7 Cyber Crimes 8 Statistics 9 Prevention

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    Corey Tripp Mr. Thomas English 102 14 February 2013 The Great Gatsby: Prohibition The Great Gatsby is set in 1920’s which is the heart of the gangster era in America. Along with gangsters comes organized crime specifically bootlegging alcohol during prohibition. Prohibition was brought about in 1920 by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution‚ and it ended in 1933‚ it was ratified by the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution. Bootlegging in the 1920’s is the way many people got rich

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    In “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” Charles Tilly argues that there is an analogy to be drawn between state‚ or war making and organized crime. He argues that the powers in control of both state and war making are “self-seeking entrepreneurs”. Tilly believes that the people who hold the control of both war and state creation are just as guilty of creating violence for their own personal advantages and gains as those “self- seeking entrepreneurs” he compares them to. Tilly argues

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    Why Prohibition Failed Prohibition: Help or Harm? Prohibition damaged America Imagine this"¦ It’s 12:30 am in a dark New York City street during the 1920s. Everything is silent. Then a man walks around to the back of an old saloon‚ closed due to Prohibition. He knocks three times on the back door then mutters the words " Joe sent me". The door opens to the sound of ragtime music and people singing. The door shuts and it is silent again"¦ That was an example of just on of the 100‚000 "speak-easies"

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    Prohibition During the 1920’s to early 30’s the Eighteenth Amendment was established to end the production of alcohol in the United States. This was a fourteen year long reform that caused a rise of crime and violence in America. Many passed this Amendment thinking that many would benefit from the absence of alcohol. For example The Anti-Saloon League of America. This was an organization that originated in Oberlin‚ Ohio in 1893 and believed in temperance. Their goal in the 1900s was to rid America

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    The Detrimental Effects of Prohibition Banning alcohol dug Americans into a really deep hole that was hard to escape. Prohibition‚ also known as the eighteenth amendment‚ was the act of banning alcohol in America. Alcohol created many problems‚ so people who were supporters of the banning of it‚ “Prohibitionists” thought that just getting rid of it completely would solve every problem. This idea that getting rid of something entirely just because it causes problems was not well thought through.

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    prohibition good or bad? "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now‚ women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent." words spoken by Billy Sunday‚ beginning of the prohibition law. I believe‚ prohibition was a very poor choice that the government made for the country; One because people who owned breweries‚ distilleries‚ and saloons lost

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    the laws and regulations that were brought into play at this time. One of the most prominent examples of this was prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution‚ also known as the Volsted Act‚ which got its name from its sponsor‚ Representative Andrew Volsted of Minnesota‚ was created to eliminate the use of alcohol in the United States. In doing this‚ the proponents of prohibition hoped to end the social problems associated with alcohol‚ such as domestic abuse. "It was an attempt to promote Protestant

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    The Decline of Organized Religion in Today’s Society -Organized Religion in the West/ Iraq In recent years organized religion in the western civilizations have begun a rather interesting trend‚ one of decline. This occurrence is not only isolated to a certain region/country but branched out‚ and setting this trend is the “Millennials” or Generation Y. Many factors come into play towards the decline of organized religion in modern day society. A country such as Canada with its huge immigration

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