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    In The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy portrays the character of Marko Ramius as one of the story’s two protagonists, with the other protagonist being the main character of Clancy’s series, Jack Ryan. This is not the last time Clancy ends up using this concept in his books. Later on in Red Rabbit (in terms of the storyline, Red Rabbit comes before The Hunt for Red October, but the latter was in fact written before Red Rabbit), he had Oleg Ivanovich Zaitzev fill the role of the second protagonist; hence, Ramius, Zaitzev, and their stories have many things in common. The characters themselves show remarkable similarities for men of such different backgrounds. Obviously, one must take into consideration their decision to defect; both stories’ plots revolve around this fateful judgement. In Red Rabbit, Zaitzev learns of a planned KGB operation to assassinate the Pope, and after the resulting attack of conscience, he chooses to defect. His latter-day counterpart, Ramius, becomes very dissatisfied with the Soviet government, politics, and policy, for he has seen its inefficiency; his own beloved wife died as a result of the incompetence and insobriety of a supposedly top-notch government provided doctor. Ultimately death, whether it was one that had already occurred or one that was imminent, pushed these men over the edge. Whatever the cause, these men are certainly two people whose defections are something the Soviets would not take a liking to. For example, Oleg Zaitzev was a…

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    It was on an early morning during the fall, a Monday. We were all getting ready for a “long” trip. The four of us, each carrying a thick, heavy duffle bag. Cramming in our oversized bags, only two could fit in the trunk of our small white sedan. The sedan was about as small as a smart car. We decided to put the remaining bags at our feet. “Shotgun,” I yelled. In the back of my mind, I knew calling for the front passenger seat was a bad idea when I saw one of the duffle bag taking up the whole…

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    The Glass Box Monologue

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    CHARACTER realize that they cannot make contact with anyone in the memories. As THE CHARACTER is freed from the memory, after a particularly cruel beating from NOVEMBER, THE CHARACTER takes a moment to think about what actually just happened. The DANCERS (which were previously hinted to the audience as THE CHARACTER 's emotions), begin to grow hectic and THE CHARACTER 's very own mind is thrown into another chapter. This is the story of a man named ALEC who is slowly throwing away his values.…

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    Today, DNA profiling is well used all over the world. DNA profiling was developed by the geneticist of the Leicester University in 1985. DNA profiling is the process where a specific DNA pattern, called a profile, is obtained from a person or sample of bodily tissue (“DNA profiling Biotech Learning Hub”). By learning DNA profiling, it enable us to identify individuals. It is really common to use DNA profiling now and a lot of people starts to use the technology. While supporters of using DNA…

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    DNA testing which can also be label as DNA fingerprinting, DNA profiling and even DNA typing is considered a forensic technique that can be used to identify a person by their characteristics of their DNA. (What is DNA Testing?, 2016). DNA testing was developed in 1985, to identify a suspect and placed that initial suspect at the incident location during the time of the crime. DNA testing have evolve in the past decade that is can be used to study the animal populations. DNA testing can collected…

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    Law Reform: A Case Study

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    Law reform is the process by which the law is modified and shaped over time to better reflect the social values that society feels are important. Whilst the legal system deals effectively with many technological issues and enforcing rights, there are several areas that require improvement. The rapid change of technology in the 21st century makes it difficult for the law to keep up with the changes to these technological developments, thus creating the need for law reform. The increasing rate of…

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    In trying to identify the victim who was murdered, there are methods that are used to identify a victim, for example, if only the teeth and bones were left it are important to find out who the person was by using the methods of anthropology, ontology and DNA (Fisher, 2012 p.128) Anthropology is a way for scientist that work in forensics. It is a way to see what happened to a body including injuries or disease. In addition, will determine the sex and age of the deceased person by using various…

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    Evaluation of the Methods Used The three main forensic methods used in this case are forensic hair analysis, forensic fibre analysis and forensic DNA analysis. The forensic hair analysis in this case was not accurate or adequate to convict Guy. Guy was convicted because supposedly the hairs that were found on Christine matched his. However, this was not accurate as hair evidence cannot be used for identification purposes. It can only be used as corroboration to strengthen a case. The…

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    My Argumentative Essay 2% of people in the US prison system are equal to 46,000 people, that’s been convicted of a crime they have not done but are in jail. According to the article “DNA Technology and Crime” “In 1992 lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld created the Innocence Project, a legal organization aimed at overturning wrongful conviction through DNA profiling. Since then, more than two hundred criminal convictions have been overturned in the United States alone.” The Innocence…

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    first application in the paternity case to the current standard methods. Historically, forensic DNA began with an analysis of the ABO blood group (Saad, 2005). At this time, blood was considered to be the most important biological material at a crime scene. However, advancements in the field led to the identification of other markers such as red blood cell enzymes and serum proteins (Jobling and Gill, 2004). This broadened the amount of information that can be attained from blood at crime…

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