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    White-Collar crimes are usually non-violent crimes which occur in corporate structured organizations. In the words of Edwin Sutherland, a crime committed by a person in a high status position and respectability in the course of their profession or occupation (Brody and Kent 2010). Financial fraud, embezzlement, insider trading, identity theft, and forgery are a few examples of crimes of a corporate nature. A white-collar crime described as “the largest Ponzi-type scheme in Canadian history”…

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    In the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, the author Mike Rose highlights his view that working class Americans are constantly overlooked and underappreciated in society. He describes the vast amount of intelligence and difficulty of blue collar workers through observing his mother as a waitress and uncle as a factory worker. The focal point of his message revolves around the working class. Throughout the article, the author effectively persuades and connects blue collar individuals through his…

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    statements to get white collar criminals. White collar crimes are among the toughest crimes in America to solve. White collar crimes vary from Fraud to embezzlement to scams. Corporate fraud, healthcare fraud, identity theft and public corruption are among the major threats to the security of the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) list many more crimes and has a database than goes in depth about each and every crime. This bibliography will also focus on how white collar criminals use…

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    verifiable information. White collar criminals build a sense of false integrity around them in order to gain…

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    The term white collar came about from Edwin Sutherland and has risen in notoriety recently. White collar crime has been more spotlighted in the last decade due to the magnitude of money that was stolen from countless innocent people. When the general public thinks about white collar crimes like Ponzi schemes, most of them bring up Bernie Madoff. Madoff was able to steal $50 billion from a myriad of individuals. Madoff is not the only criminal who preys on people and their trust. Allen…

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    illegal goods and services, including prostitution, gambling, loan-sharking, narcotics, and labor racketeering” (Schmallenger, 2015, p. 319). This differs from white-collar crime in that organized crime involves the criminal activity and participation of a group of people, which is not necessarily the case in white-collar crime. White-collar crime involves typically legal business activity that is influenced or interrupted somehow by the criminal activity of an individual or group. Organized…

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    Mike Rose was and American teacher and writer. He has wrote eleven books in his life time; most of them focused on literacy and language, and he received several awards. In his passage, Blue-Collar Brilliance, Rose delivers his message excellently about the intelligence and skills of blue collar workers through stories, research, and his presentation on the topic. The first way Rose backs up his claim is through personally stories about his relatives. His first story describes his mother…

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    non-academic learning can be more valuable in the society, we found many facts that tell us how society can respect you if you are an educated individual. “Blue-collar Brilliance”, Professor Mike Rose address that society’s blind views on the intellectual ability of the people operating jobs related to serving or manual workers. Rose indicated that blue collar workers miss focusing on the intelligence needed in their businesses. Besides, he stated that the relationship between certain never…

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    understand the difference between college life and blue collar life. He wanted to let them know from his own experience in the blue-collar life, although financially rewarding it was also a very hard life. His intentions, I feel was to prove to readers that a collage education can mean a huge difference in how hard one might have to work. The first point he wanted to make was, I think would be the moment they describe the hard life of a blue-collar worker and, how they look forward to the easy…

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    Mike Rose’s article provides the reader with an excellent representation and description of the true value of a blue-collar worker. Stereotypically, this group of people is not seen as being very bright, since intelligence is often measured by the number of years of education that a person has. However, the article explains many examples of how blue-collar people must constantly use their brains while on the job. Throughout this class, we have read many books that explain just how important this…

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