Beauvais, Clémentine. 2015. "The ‘Mozart Effect’: A Sociological Reappraisal." Cultural Sociology 9 (2): 185-202. doi:10.1177/1749975514557096. http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/17499755/v09i0002/185_teasr. Beauvais argues that the ‘Mozart Effect’ was a successful sociocultural phenomenon because of its many varying components and factors. Beauvais discusses the many ways in which the “effect” took the world by storm, and along with it, the falseness of the “effect.” Beauvais…
The Alcatraz complex included an industrial building, a power station, a laundry, a recreation yard, a recreation hall, a lighthouse, a warden house, an officer’s club, officer apartments, an electric shop, residential family cottages, building 64, and a boat dock. The prison had a maximum capacity of 450 prisoners. The main cell house held 600 cells. Most prisoners occupied the 336 cells in blocks B and C. Each prisoner had his own cell, the cell was five feet by nine…
The ancient stoics believed that all the bad in our life were die to the passions. They therefore believed that they were evil and should be overcome or destroyed. To live a good life we have to deny our passions. This reminds me of the 2002 film Equilibrium starring Christian Bale. It is set after world war III and much of the world is in ruins. The survivors decide that all of the evil in the world like Hitler, Stalin and man's inhumanity to man is due to his emotions and his ability to feel.…
El Chapo. Drug lord. Mafioso. Sinaloa cartel. Worldwide drug-trafficking operation. El Chapo is the head of arguably the most notorious drug-trafficking operation. Joaquin Guzman Loera, dubbed as El Chapo for his shortness, was born in Mexico to Emilio Guzman Bustillos and Maria Consuelo Loera Pérez. He is known for founding and operating Sinaloa cartel. Eventually, he had built it into a huge global drug-trafficking operation. The exact date of Joaquin's birth is unknown, but it is speculated…
not testimonial in nature (Hammon v. Indiana, n.d.). In conclusion, in the case of Davis v. Washington, McCottry’s 911 call was not considered testimony. Since she was simply calling 911 to resolve an emergency, her statement was evidence of the crime and therefore did not violate Davis’ Sixth Amendment right to cross examine a witness. Furthermore, this 911 call was not even considered a witness statement due to it being classified as evidence. Rather than telling a story of the past,…
The substantial question, “does media have a negative or positive effect on media?” is a controversial question throughout the entire country, including biases and a variety of perspectives. The media has many different perspectives about it, whether they are positive or negative views. Many of the negative views included are those of elderly people who did not have the media as they were growing up. For the reason being that they used completely different sources to receive information about…
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, born on December 1,1949 to a lower middle-class family was a powerful Colombian drug lord and leader of one of the powerful criminal organization. At his zenith in the 80s', he ran and controlled a vast empire of drugs that covered the globe. He is responsible for hundred's of murder and presided over an empire of luxury mansions, planes, his own private zoo and a personal army comprising of soldiers and hardened criminals. Here are 15 facts about Pablo Escobar, a…
Quite apart from the fact that there is a general agreement that torture is morally wrong, the prohibition of torture is also enshrined in fundamental conventions like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. From a moral point of view, we agree that torture is ‘evil in itself’ (mala in se) : the act is inherently wrong by nature, independent of the law. This means that it is not required to base it on a legal rule to prove that…
Inhumane acts, constituting a crime against humanity in violation of article 7(1)(k) of the Rome Statute The pre-trial chamber found substantial grounds to believe Muthaura and Kenyatta were criminally responsible for the alleged crimes as indirect co-perpetrators. The charges against Ali were rejected. On January 23, 2012, Pre-Trial Chamber II found that the prosecutor’s evidence failed to satisfy the evidentiary threshold required under the Rome Statute to bring Kosgei and Ali to trial.…
contribute to the likelihood of juvenile offending, and society with its institutions has the obligation to address those risk factors and to decrease the probability of deviant behavior as an attempt to combat the social illness of crime and to concurrently reduce the burden crime places the victims and society as a whole. Combating delinquency, however, proves to be a great challenge, and various approaches have been developed in an attempt to effectively respond to criminal behavior. As part…