1978

Facts and holding Warren McCleskey and three other furnished men ransacked the Dixie Furniture Store in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 13, 1978. Amid the burglary, Officer Frank Schlatt entered the front of the store and was lethally shot in the face. Nobody really saw the slaughtering. After McCleskey's capture regarding another outfitted theft, he admitted to the Atlanta hold-up, yet denied shooting Officer Schlatt. In any case, immediate and incidental confirmation indicated McCleskey as the…

Both Sumner (1959), and Durkheim (1915/1968) share similar view. Sumner states, that because of the difference in purposes between spirituality and business, they have never been successfully associated. Durkheim (1968) stated, “the sacred and the profane cannot co-exist in the same place” (pp. 344-349). A more graphic representation was by Metcalfe (2008), referring to the relationship as a fearful prospect if spirituality sets up tent with businesses; which he terms as irrational, manipulative…

connecting crime and social class (1978). Out of the 363 studies they analyzed, they found that there was no “historical trend” of crime regarding class and that self-report studies for the past few decades supported their findings (Tittle et al., 1978, p. 651). Tittle et al. also concluded that due to the validity of the self-report, the only explanation for report trends showing a connection to class and delinquency is “biases in the criminal justice system” (1978, p. 654). The use of…

a large amount of youth based alternative sports cultures that wanted to provide alternatives to traditional, highly regulated achievement based sports forms. In 1978 Bourdieu described “Californian sports” as being creative, athlete- centered, noncompetitive unregulated and an expression of youthful alternative physicality (Bourdieu 1978). These eras helped advance the creative, individual contemporary sporting subculture. In today’s society, there are norms that are expressed and followed by…

Jose Rosales. After the birth of her first child, my mother developed hypertension. Her hypertension was cause of severe headaches. In addition to her hypertension, headaches, she developed severe allergies with anxiety. In 1978 she had a girl, she was born on January 12, 1978 and her name is Leticia Rosales and finally they had me, I was born on January 18, 1979. My mother raised us to be catholic and we even attended a catholic school. She raised the boy to work with my parent in making money…

competition prevails (Brown, 1986)." Sophie Fielding (Quote from Gross) One attempt to alter the classroom experience in order to realise equal-status contact and mutual co-operation was done using the jigsaw classroom technique by Aronson et al (1978). In this technique children were put in small, mixed race learning groups, each member of each group were given material, which represented one piece of the lesson to be learned. Each individual child had to learn its part and then…

“Education has the strongest impact on participation, as it provides people with background knowledge of how the political system works.” (Am. Govt. 8.3) According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics for Congressional Elections during the period between 1978 and 2014 individuals with a Bachelor’s degree were twenty percentage points more likely to vote than individuals whose highest level of education was a High School degree, and the voting rate for those who have attained an advanced degree…

Between conservative governments backed by the U.S. Marines (1912-1925) and the Somoza family dictatorship (1936-1979), Nicaragua had a tumultuous political landscape for most of the twentieth century. Even the eleven years between the conservative governments and the authoritarian dynasty brought little respite. In fact, it was during the Liberal Constitutionalist Revolution (1926-1927) that Chinandega combusted, both figuratively and literally (307). In January 1937, Anastasio Somoza Garcia…

Deng’s previous ruler, Mao Zedong nullified China’s successful by starting the cultural revolution. The cultural revolution was made to overturn old customs and to persecute educated people. Despite all the consequence Deng stepped up as a leader during 1978 to rebuild China. He was a successful leader because of his previous positions such as a leader of Jiangxi’s Province Rujin County in the early 1930s which influenced his reform. Deng Xiaoping’s reform arose during December…

managers in Dhiraagu treat their staff equally and the needs are provided in the best interest of the staff (Dhiraagu, 2016). Transactional leadership focuses on the exchanges that occur between leaders and followers (Bass 1985; 1990; 2000; 2008; Burns, 1978). This means that the leaders motivate their staff using reward and punishment systems. As explained earlier staff…