Kaplan University CJ340: Applied CJ Ethics Unit 4 Assignment August 26‚ 2013 Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines “slippery slope” as a course of action that seems to lead inevitably to from one action or result to another unintended consequence (Merriem-Webster‚ 2013). The “slippery slope” can refer to almost every walk of live but here it is being applied to law enforcement and accepting gratuities. Here it is referring to police officers accepting what may seem to be harmless
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INTRODUCTION For as long as policing has existed in America‚ there has been misconduct and corruption associated with any given policing agency. Police officer malfeasance can range from minor cases of misconduct to the downright criminal acts that are considered to be corruption. It is important to state here that not all police officers are guilty of misconduct and/or corruption‚ but like everything in our media-based society‚ the ?bad? cops are of much more interest and therefore are what this
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It is the most toxic selenium compound] with an exposure limit of 0.05 ppm over an 8-hour period. Even at extremely low concentrations‚ this compound has a very irritating smell resembling that of decayed horseradish or ’leaking gas‚’ but smells of rotten eggs at higher concentrations. Hydrogen selenide is also dangerous to the environment. Hydrogen selenide is hazardous‚ being the most toxic selenium compound and far more toxic than its congener hydrogen sulfide.. The gas acts as an irritant at concentrations
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? This essay will investigate two poems‚ ’Harlem’ by Langston Hughes and ‘Altar’ by Marilyn Chin and analyzes the topics‚ the themes and figurative languages‚ especially in the use of figurative language. The aim of this paper is to compare
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In Descartes’ First Meditation‚ Descartes reasons through the idea of whether he is dreaming or not‚ based off his Criterion of Doubt. Descartes claims that you know something only if you have no reason to doubt it. Descartes beliefs are grounded in a priori truths‚ and he will not take knowledge from experience into consideration when defining knowledge. Descartes considers that the only thing he can know for sure‚ is that he exists. Even though he exists as some form of thinking thing‚ he would
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for their experiment. As people slept in the laboratory‚ the researchers delivered pleasant scent‚ such as shampoo. As this nice smell crept into the sleepers’ noses‚ the researchers played a particular tone. Later‚ a disgusting smell‚ such as rotten fish or carrion‚ was paired with a different tone. Neither the smell nor the sound woke people up. After just four exposures to the smell-tone pair during a single
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In the short story of The Crucible a character Abigail blames others for what she has done. She purposely caused innocent women to be hung. She had pleaded innocent. When she was found guilty she fled town. She had never paid the price for what she had done. In my opinion she is at fault for everything she had done. She knew the price the others would have to pay when she mentioned them in the witch trials. She did not want to get caught for all the bad she did. She found that she could get out
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but I am done being here. I am done. Your secrets are done being secrets as well. Anse is as rotten as Addie. She hated him‚ she did. Anse‚ if they do tell you this‚ that I wrote this …that I took my life… I hope that they tell you that she cheated on you with a man of the church. Addie was rotten to the core even before her body was actually rotting. You two were perfect for each other with your rotten souls and just filled with too much hate to see it‚ so now I hope you die a painful death because
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Punk music has gone through an evolution ever since the punk explosion in the late seventies. Although today’s punk music retains most of the ideology and sound that defines the punk genre‚ there are some distinct differences between Nineties and Seventies punk. Most of the punk bands to emerge and gain popularity in the nineties mostly hailed from California (Green Day‚ the Offspring‚ etc.). Punk vanguards from the seventies hailed from the East Coast and from Great Britain (the Ramones‚ the Clash
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Case No.2013-41-SP BKJ On April 1‚ 2013 Special Agent (SA) Benjamin Jenkins and SA Ike Fairlane‚ Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)‚ 10433 Ponderosa Drive‚ Durango‚ CO xxxxx‚ telephone number (xxx) xxx-xxxx‚ received a telephone call from Agent Jay Silverheels‚ Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)‚ 111 Ute Way‚ Southern Ute Indian Reservation (SUIR)‚ CO xxxxx‚ telephone number (xxx) xxx-xxxx. Agent Silverheels provided the following information: At approximately 9:30am on April 1‚ 2013‚ Richard
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