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    Psychologically, people act in different ways depending on who they are with and who they have been with. People’s actions can also change as the environment around them changes. Characters from The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga portray these characteristics as they move from city to city. Balram responds to his environment with changing levels rebellion and obedience because of his changing perspectives and goals. As authority in Balram’s life increases, Balram is introduced to a new perspective…

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    Quote - “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” –Machiavelli Absolute power corrupts absolutely this means more than the person with the power is corrupted everyone and thing is corrupted the people who gain power and those who lose power are corrupted but in different ways. When people gain power everyone is corrupted the people with the power, the people who lose power and the ones who are affected by the fallout. The nurse from cuckoo’s nest and the guards from the stanford experiment are…

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    T Would you believe it if you were told everything you saw in the media wasn’t the truth? Or that the big media corporations were just in it for the money? Well in Edward R. Murrow’s speech Wires and Lights in a Box he has a very strong opinion about these instruments. Throughout the speech he refers to television and the radio as instruments. Technology such as radios and televisions was just starting to boom in the 50’s. Murrow first gave this speech back on October 15, 1958. Murrow felt a…

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    Prohibition had began to cause corruption and problems within the government. One of the problems was “. Prohibition overburdened the court system, and it cost massive amounts of money to enforce. “ (McNeill). One of the reasons this failed was because of how much it cost it enforce the new law. The government had already lost a huge amount of money just due to not having the tax income from the alcohol and now they were losing even more money trying to enforce the new law. But the government…

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    Ignorance Enables Corruption Who is at greater fault? If a tyrant is given the power, albeit to abuse, is it his fault to utilize the power given, or the fault of those who bestow the power on them? Failure cannot be pinned on just one person, but the people involved as a whole. Therefore, by indirectly causing the collapse of one's own community, it is the community's fault for acting as catalyst to the events to come. Although unintentional, it is the passiveness and ignorance of the farm…

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    Groenendijk (1997) in his Journal Article of Crime, Law and Social Change that principal-agent theory is a sub set of political corruption. The principal-agent theory of corruption is categories into two; the principal (one which is corrupting) and an agent (one who is corrupted). The principal-agent model is used to political corruption in representatives democracies yet not limited to bureaucratic corruption. According to Handbook of Dispute Resolution by Michael and Robert (2005), who…

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    The Gilded Age, an era of mixed progression, occurred from the 1870s to the early 1900s. The United States had just come out of its Reconstruction period prior to the Gilded Age; a newly established United States was ready to be molded, or rather, “gilded.”Mark Twain, a famous author, named the era between the 1870s and early 1900s the Gilded Age. Twain gave this era such a name because this time period displayed American civilization to be cheap and flawed at its core. Although the economy was…

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    Abraham Lincoln defined democracy as, “government for the people, of the people, by the people.” In essence, people participation is the core of the democratic system of government. One way to participate politically is by joining interest groups, which seek to pursue and protect its’ members and in some cases, public interests. They seek to influence policies of government along these interests. One way interest groups contribute to the democratic process is through campaign funding for a…

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    The article is written by James Wilson, expounding on the cause of bureaucracy in the US government. To begin with, Wilson analyses the case of the Central Park’s ice skating rink in New York. This difference in efficiency was summarized through numbers: the failed City of New York with 6 years and $13 million, successful Trump with 5 months and $3 million. The projects had to meet several problems. The sector was accountable for rebuilding the rink which could operate with low energy costs. The…

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    Fair and effective governance are crucial components to preventing civil strife within any modern society. Unfortunately, in most instances where gross negligence and misappropriation of government resources occurs, the sovereign state will typically lose its ability to effectively conduct policy at nearly every level of infrastructure. In the end, the Hoi Polloi are often the ones who bear the largest brunt of the instability generated by those who mismanaged a nation’s available resources. The…

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