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Williams, Harkins, and Latane, expanded their cheering experiment with an added variable: if people thought their individual effort could be measured, would they have less of a tendency to loaf (Williams, Harkins, & Latane, 1981). In order to convince participants that their individual efforts would be measured, microphones were attached to each individual. The results clearly suggest that the belief their personal efforts are measured does discourage social loafing. In the…

• Social Guardianship: Cohen, et al.,(1981); Fisher, et al., (1998); Miethe & Meier, (1990, 1994) stated that the social dimension of guardianship under RAT is measured by the availability and number of household numbers, neighbours, peers, community watch programmers, and the law enforcement policies. Clarke and Felson (1993) have emphasized the importance of "neighbours, friends, relatives, bystanders, or the owner of the property” as the best social guardians, instead of the law enforcement…

Ronald Reagan in 1982, with a crazy motive and a shocking outcome because of his obsession. Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on May 29, 1955, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. became infamous for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan (John) in 1981. His family was nearly perfect with his parents,…

The Effects of the Stresses Associated with being a Police Officer Within the criminal justice system police officers carry a significant role. The daily duties of a police officer include a variety of challenging tasks such as paper work, highway patrol, interviews, and emergency response. These officers typically work fulltime (often times days and nights) long hours, and overtime. Also, Police officers have a significant amount of responsibility to the community. They are expected to…

Able Archer was a simulated operation organized and conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which spanned a ten day period, from November 2nd to November 11th 1983. It simulated a time of conflict escalation, leading up to a coordinated nuclear attack, and involved an influx of communication, and the participation of several heads of government. The steady weakening of US-Soviet relations prior to Able Archer, as well as the realistic nature of the exercise, led several…

On March 30, 1981 at approximately 2:25 pm a mentally deranged man named John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley Jr. was born May 29, 1955. He was 25 years old when he attempted the assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley had developed an obsession for an actress Jodie Foster. When he viewed the movie Taxi Driver a 1976 movie by Martin Scorsese’s, which was about a woman who tries to convince a taxi driver to assassinate the president in…

This shows how much Fox actually cared about his run, he wanted to do it for the benefit of other people not himself. “Even if I have to crawl every last mile,” this shows how determined Fox was to complete this run. We can learn from Fox by trying the best we can and keep moving forward no matter what. He wanted to make people's lives better, even if it meant risking his own life. This is why he is considered a Canadian Hero. Fox’s goal was to raise $1 million for cancer research and grow more…

famous TV show “The French Chef,” she taught thousands of people at home how to cook French cuisine. Along with her passion for cooking, she also had a passion for wine and food, which is why she co-founded the American Institute of Wine and Food in 1981. Cooking was a major part of Mrs. Child's life, but it was not her only occupation. She was a spontaneous woman; during the war, she worked as a spy, typing government officials' names on note cards. Child was a huge inspiration and a great…

markings in the sand and how these markings depict Winston Churchill. He then goes on to mention whether or not one can consider that it is Churchill because the ant had no intention of replicating Churchill as it does not even know who he is (Putnam, 1981:1).”The argument is simple; what we said about the ant’s curve applies to any physical object. No physical object can, in itself, refer to one thing rather than to another; nevertheless, thoughts in the mind obviously do succeed in referring…

Larry Patrick Levis, as a poet of the contemporary Period, exemplified the best of the genre. Through his use of poetic devices, style and thematic, Larry Levis has given us some of the most iconic and universally appealing work. Particularly in his poem titled “___________”, we see examples of his most salient particularities and effective use of English language. Larry Patrick Levis then stands as one of the greats in the pantheon of American and World Literature. Larry Patrick Levis was…