Sir Robert Peel’s nine principles are still relevant in today’s law enforcement community. The wording may have changed for some of the principles but the contexts still remains the same. The first principle of the police is to prevent crime and disorder (Dempsey & Frost‚ 2016). The ultimate goal of the police agency is to make the citizens of their community feel safe. Officers are trained to protect and provide a service to the community where they work. Preventing crime means that officers must
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The poem‚ Bereft’ by Robert Frost‚ describes a night in the life of a lonely man. The line "Summer was past and day was passed." (6) designates that it is the end of the day and that summer has gone‚ giving way to autumn. However‚ this line also encourages the reader to think that the speaker is of a certain age‚ as the end of day can be interpreted as the end of a person’s life. The title‚ "Bereft" indicates that he has lost someone‚ leaving him " alone" (15) in his life. There is no evidence
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Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson‚ abbreviated RLS‚ was an author during the Victorian literature period. He is credited with many novels‚ short stories‚ manuscripts‚ and musical compositions. He is well-known for works such as “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”‚ “Treasure Island”‚ and “The Bottle Imp”. Similar to Victorian writing‚ Stevenson’s work was very dark in nature and often includes many characteristics and ideologies presented in Victorian literature. Born in Edinburgh
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Robert E. Lee was a General for the Confederate army. Lee had always been committed to his obligations in the military. “In 1846‚ Lee got the chance he’d been waiting his whole military career for when the United States when to war with Mexico. Serving under General Winfield Scott‚ Lee distinguished himself as a brave battle commander and brilliant tactician.” (Biogrpahy.com). General Scott thought highly of Lee. But‚ Lee’s life away from battle was difficult for him to handle. He just didn’t know
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I read a critical article on Robert Browning’s "My Last Duchess". I confess it was harder to find something in the NCLC’s than I would’ve thought. There was a considerable accumulation of critiques on Browning’s work‚ but very little on "My Last Duchess". The article I found concentrated mostly on the Duke in the poem‚ and our reactions to him‚ stating that "[t]he utter outrageousness of the Duke’s behavior makes condemnation the least interesting response " The title of the article was "Sympathy
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us the chance to learn something‚ without actually doing it‚ so that we can learn the message from a journey‚ without actually going on it. Two excellent examples of literature doing this are in the texts stopping by woods on a snowing evening by Robert Frost and City of beasts by Isabel Allende. The texts have elements of physical journeys (getting from point a-b) and inner journeys which is a journey within us. City of beasts is a text about a young boy named Alex who is forced into an adventure
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Major Robert Anderson surrendered to the confederates. “He was born in a slaveholding state‚ Kentucky. He was born in June 14‚ 1805. He Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1832 he served as a colonel of Illinois volunteers and had the distinction of mustering a young Abraham Lincoln in and out of military service” from History.net. “During the Second Seminole War in 1837‚ he was an assistant adjutant general on the staff of Winfield Scott and by 1839 he had published the manual Instruction
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death becomes a poem exploring the fragility of life‚its apparent cheapness and the constant presence of death in our lives which can happen at any moment‚making this poem have a universal effect rather than a personal elegy for the dead body. Robert Frost often uses the backdrop of new England landscape to expose the darker aspects of human
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Robert E. Lee was a Confederate General in the American Civil War. He was born January 19‚ 1807 in Stratford‚ Westmoreland County‚ Virginia. He was the youngest son of the Revolutionary War hero general Henry Lee‚ who was also known as “Light-Horse Harry Lee”. He married Mary; daughter of G. W. P. Custis‚ the adopted son of Washington. My Thesis is that Robert E. Lee was a great general in the Civil War. He proved he was great even though his resources usually were not. In 1825 he entered West
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they have made and the hardships they have endured have been alone. This implies a strength and individuality from either narrator. "Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I -- / I took the one less traveled by‚ / And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" is a lyrical poem about the decisions that one must make in life. When a man approaches a fork in the road on which he is traveling‚ he must choose which path to take. The choice that he makes‚ as with any choices made
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