corporate excesses of the 1990s‚ prosecutors won criminal convictions against the father-and-son team of John and Timothy Rigas‚ former top executives at cable company Adelphia Communications Corp. However‚ they failed to persuade a jury that the looting involved Adelphia’s former assistant treasurer. The jury left unresolved the case against another member of the Rigas family -- Michael Rigas‚ former head of Adelphia operations -- remaining deadlocked on most of the counts against him. Because
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bandits went on to the chateau of Montferra. The chateau of Césagrès has been looted and stripped with the aid of carts; everything was taken right down to the hinges of the doors; the thieves took money and the local villagers were accomplices to the looting‚ mingling with the bandits. Troops from Lyon killed thirteen of the bandits and nineteen were taken prisoned. They will be executed for their disgraceful crimes. Letter from Estates of Dauphiné to the National Assembly‚ 31 July 1789 Source C:
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Read the following extract from reading 2.2 ‘Benin antiquities at the British Museum’ and look at Plates 3.1.14 British officers of the Benin punitive expedition with bronzes and ivories taken from the royal compound‚ Benin City‚ 1897 and 3.2.24 Display of Benin bronzes in the Sainsbury African Galleries‚ the British Museum‚ 2005 in the AA100 Illustration Book. How do the different contexts of display reflect different attitudes to the art of Benin? At the end of the 19th century‚ Africa was
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British Riots of 2011 This essay will consider the British Riots of 2011‚ relating the events specifically to the functionalist perspective of Emile Durkheim and others. It will offer definitions of key terms‚ identify key concepts and consider opposing arguments from opposing theoretical perspectives. It will apply these concepts to the 2011 Riots and argue that the killing of Mark Duggan by police was not‚ as many believed‚ the only reason behind the riots. Functionalist theory suggests society
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The Okapi Wildlife Reserve [pic] The Okapi Wildlife Reserve The Okapi Wildlife Reserve takes up about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the Northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNESCO Heritage Centre‚ 1992-2008). According to UNESCO Heritage Centre (1992-2008)‚ “ the Congo river basin‚ of which the reserve and forest are a part‚ is one of the largest drainage systems in Africa’’ (para. 1). The reserve contains endangered species of primates and birds and about 5‚000 of the estimated
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The site of Marlik is one that gives so much valuable information about a culture that lived so long ago‚ yet very few seem to know about the site and what it can tell us about a culture long gone. The site has given so much to the study of archaeology and is one of the richest excavated graveyards in Iranian history‚ and some have argued‚ the best-documented ancient cemetery in the entire Near East. (iranica) Because of its immense significance and vast documentation‚ (MET Culture) it is hard to
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They neither took up protective positions nor attempted to stop the acts of looting and destruction‚ even when asked to do so by the civilians they were there to liberate in the first place. Since the most important cultural sites stood in two small areas of the city‚ military commanders could have taken simple steps to protect these
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Module 09 - Inclusion and Alienation Social Psychology Reading - Chapters 11 and 12 Phoebe Prince Phoebe Prince was a 15-year-old girl who had recently moved from Ireland to Western Massachusetts with her family. Phoebe had been the victim of severe harassment and bullying by a number of her classmates that appeared to stem from a brief romantic relationship she had with one of her tormentors. What seems to have happened is that Phoebe dated a boy in her class for a short period of time. The
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compared to 700–800 km in the West. While NHAI and highway developers are changing the face of Indian roads‚ the ‘ground level factors’ are not changing. Congestion at toll gates‚ harassment of truck drivers by officials and local mafia‚ damaged roads‚ looting of truck drivers‚ fuel theft and the like continues on Indian highways due to continuation of inefficient mechanisms. Road traffic capacity can be increased in two ways– increasing road capacity (by increasing length or width) or reduce stay time
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rich and powerful individual that gave him an outstanding amount of time‚ to aid in the change of balance in his dystopian society. In this society time is money and money is power. The city is controlled by time keepers which keep time thieves from looting the poor and making it a way of living‚ also to protect the fortunate and unfortunate under control and in balance. The reasons for will to rebel‚ led him to seek equality and achieve balance throughout his society In the pedestrian‚ written
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