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when delinquency or youth crime is addressed there is an understanding that it is generally focused on male behavior. Going as far back as Albert Cohen, who in his influential book on gang delinquency in 1955 wrote “The delinquent is a rogue male”, crime is a male centered occurrence (Cohen, 1955). Still over ten years later, in one of the most referenced books on delinquency, Travis Hirschi reduced female involvement in delinquency to a footnote, which said that “in the analysis that follows,…

Sir Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and had a second term spanning from 1951 to 1955. He was also an officer of the British Army and writer, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953 (Mishra). Churchill was born into the family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill was a politician, his mother an American socialite. As a young army officer, he served in British…

use life tables to calculate age-specific life expectancies. Life expectancy is the average number of years that an individual of a given age is expected to live into the future. A life table is defined as an age-specific account of mortality (Smith, 1955). To put it simply, it represents a population’s survivorship. One standard method is to collect data on a cohort which is a group of individuals born in the same time period. This method of construction is known as the cohort life table.…

print Print document PDF list Cite link Link Although many people read The Hobbit only as a precursor to Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings (1968 as omnibus; original volumes The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954; The Two Towers, 1955; and The Return of the King, 1955), the earlier book deserves discussion for its own considerable merits. The third edition, revised from the original, is considered the standard. Tolkien is one of the preeminent fantasy writers of the twentieth century. For…

Triumph of the Will is considered to be propagandistic and fascist because of the fact that it presents Hitler to be “a god, descending from heaven through the clouds and bringing revelation to Nuremberg, Germany and the World” (Wood, 1989, p.46). The music that plays in the background reminds the viewer of a journey to success, almost triumphal type music. The editing of Triumph of the Will is remarkable because it is very clean and produces “formal levels of the notion of intricate mechanisms”…

Modern day management theories are greatly influenced by two schools of thought. The first being ‘Scientific Management’, or sometimes known as Taylorism, whose main theme stems from the separation of conception from execution (Evangelopoulos, 2011; Blake & Moseley, 2011). This approach was first implemented by Frederick W. Taylor who stressed on the importance of a scientific approach towards management (Miller & Form, 1964). Although effective in certain aspects of industries, it raised a wave…

Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. He became the American civil-rights activist and vanguard for change to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi between 1952 and 1963. In his youth, he volunteered in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II where served with a segregated battalion, in Great Britain and France. He fought in the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. But a racial segregation in the military only assisted to his awareness that Jim Crow laws…

“Since the first slaves arrived from Africa in 1619, there was a tremendous need for the protection and enforcement of a person’s civil rights” ("Civil Rights Movement Facts."). The early concerns about rights to freedom and equality both socially and politically led to the civil rights movement. It is also recognized as a social movement of African Americans in the United States during 1954- 1966. From the brown v. board decision to the black power the goals of the civil rights movement were to…

draft in 1955. .ECOSOC by its resolution No. 520(XVII) dated May 6, 1954 established and ad hoc committee of eight member states to study the matter raised by the International Chamber of Commerce in the light of all the relevant considerations and to report its conclusions to the former submitting such proposals as latter deemed appropriate, including a draft convention. The Committee held 13 public meeting from March 1 to 15, 1955 at New York and on the last day, viz., March 15, 1955 adopted…

Genocides are greatly underestimated in today’s society, when people think of genocide their minds go toward more well known and influential genocides, such as the Holocaust. Backing up a bit, a genocide is a deliberate killing of a large group of people, generally based on ethnic and/or religious affiliations. This can be anywhere from how someone looks, or how they lead their own lives, or even just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some people might think genocides are a thing of…