Forensic Accounting 1/29/2013 Benford’s Law Benford’s law‚ aka first-digit law‚ states that in lists of numbers of naturally occurring data‚ the leading digit is distributed in a specific‚ non-uniform way. In number sequences‚ most people assume that in a string of numbers sampled randomly all nine numbers would be equally probable for the leading digit. Benford’s Law states otherwise. He found that the number 1 will appear first about 30% of the time and the number 9 will only appear first
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Does notoriety affect the outcome of a criminal court proceeding? A trial’s outcome should not be based on the notoriety of it‚ yet it is. Due to media coverage‚ the length of the trial‚ and the notoriety of the people who committed the crime‚ the outcome of the trial is affected. The Manson trials and the trial of Leopold and Loeb are two prime example of how notoriety can affect a criminal court proceeding. An analysis of two criminal court proceedings‚ the Manson trial and the trial of Leopold
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Determinism is the idea that the future is already determined‚ every that happens was supposed to happen because of the things that went on before it happened making it so it couldn’t happen any other way. Free will is one being able to make free choices between the options that we see are open to one. Freedom is compatible with determinism because freedom is not being constrained when one chooses to act. The way one chooses to act can be based off of ones physiological and psychological makeup
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Arthur Shawcross: Portrait of a Killer and Pathological Liar Mark O ’Brien Serial Killers Professor Jim Reynolds Florida Institute of Technology June 16‚ 2012 Abstract Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross‚ also called the Rochester Strangler or the Genesee River Killer‚ was prolific in the short time that he was an active killer. From March 1988 to December 1989‚ Shawcross is believed to have killed 12 women‚ mostly prostitutes in the Rochester‚ New York‚ area
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Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695–721 www.elsevier.com/locate/pragma On newspaper headlines as relevance optimizers Daniel Dor* Department of Communications‚ Tel Aviv University‚ Tel Aviv‚ Israel Abstract This paper suggests an explanatory functional characterization of newspaper headlines. Couched within Sperber and Wilson’s (1986) relevance theory‚ the paper makes the claim that headlines are designed to optimize the relevance of their stories for their readers: Headlines provide the
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Tuesdays with Morrie: Eulogy By: Rajat Pandey Good evening friends and family my name is Mitch Albom. Today‚ we have all gathered to remember our dear friend and mentor Morrie Schwartz. We all knew this day was going to come and so did Morrie. However we still cant believe that our dear friend Morrie has left us. What a sad day. Morrie Schwartz was a remarkable person‚ a wonderful husband‚ a loving father and professor. His loving personality has touched and changed the lives of many people around
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Bias‚ Rhetorical Devices‚ and Argumentation Word count: 354 Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session” This speech was geared toward the girls and woman around the world. It was presented at a U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing. Hilary Clinton spoke about the rights women should receive under human rights. In her speech she used a political approach and expressed a political bias and a gender bias. I recognized a couple rhetorical devices
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Andy Warhol: Pop Politics Andy Warhol -- one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century -- captured the likeness of some of the most visionary and powerful political leaders of the 20th century. Images of John F. Kennedy‚ Jimmy Carter‚ Ronald Reagan‚ Queen Elizabeth II‚ and Mao Zedong‚ among others will hang side-by-side when the Currier Museum of Art presents Andy Warhol: Pop Politics from September 27‚ 2008 through January 4‚ 2009. Pop Politics displays together for
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Augustine writes about many subjects. He speaks of his child life‚ his life as a young man‚ and goes on to his conversion and his life afterwards. All of these are written very well‚ but one might ask what is the key concept within Saint Augustine’s confessions. There are many in his book‚ but one of the main ones is conversion. Augustine starts out his confessions by speaking about his infancy and his childhood. During his infancy‚ there is a type of conversion from infant to child. In chapter
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Lurking under your bed and in the shadows lies the one thing that you fear most. You have not yet seen it‚ but you know it’s there‚ watching you sleep and studying every bit of movement. The only thing that you can think of is a scary figure that was in a horror movie that you previously saw‚ such as a murderous doll named “chucky” from The Seed Of Chucky. This is what truly terrifies someone. The unknown. Whenever someone thinks of the word monster‚ the first thing that comes to mind is something
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