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Rikers Island is consistently in the media due to reports of physical and sexual abuse against inmates and staff, death, contraband smuggling, employee sexual harassment, riots, etc. The jail complex has been plagued by a myriad of union, employee and inmate issues (cases). Despite the attention, the climate at the facility doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Prior to taking office in January 2016, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark took notice of the issues in Rikers Island. At her…

Greetings: In response to the “determination of eligibility” and document submission for missing credentials relating to my “three official transcripts on file (Syracuse U, SCSU and Univ. of New Hampshire), FIA206, Arts and Ideas II was accepted for three semester hours of credit in art. A full 12 semester hours of credit in art were not identifiable. Please submit course descriptions for the course(s) that you feel may be considered for art course work.” While is it accurate to conclude that…

In “Things Fall Apart” by Achebe, the main character Okonkwo is driven throughout his entire life by fear, which in the end becomes his undoing. This fear is grounded on becoming like his father. Now unlike most men, Okonkwo’s fear was not living up to his father’s expectations or even gaining the respect of his father. Okonkwo’s fear was that he would indeed grow into a man that resembled his father. This fear began in his childhood when Okonkwo was hungry, hungry because his father was lazy…

would be a reliable source for financial assistance as well as the other international export related services that it offers. EDC can help the company locate customers as well as provide ways to protect itself against risk. The Canadian Trade Commissioner Services in Buenos Aires, Argentina operates to support Canadian companies that have selected Canada as the target market for their products,…

Michelle King Criminal Justice 1010 TR 4-5:15 11/12/14 Chapter 11 Reflection Jails: Jails are usually local accommodations that only house criminals who are either waiting for their trial, or have committed a minor crime, and therefore have short sentences. These inmates are often entering the system for the first time and tend to me young, poor, and uneducated. Maximum Security Prisons: Prisons house criminals for more serious crimes that require a sentence of over one year. Maximum security…

Orrville and Wayne County continue to be a top performer when it comes to economic development among 18 counties in Northeast Ohio. Wayne Economic Development Council President Rod Crider and Project Manager Shawn Starlin met with the Wayne County commissioners to talk about some of the latest projects and the key success metrics released by Team NEO/JobsOhio. Wayne County was second in number of jobs created through the end of the third quarter this year with 633, trailing on Cuyahoga County’s…

CITATION Dancer v. Commissioner, 73 T.C. 1103, Code §162 (1980) FACTS: The petitioner Harold Dance was in the business of training and driving harness horses. He had several locations involved in his business. His uncle’s farm in New Egypt, New Jersey; where he trained the horses, the Freehold Raceway where he raced the horses and his home office at Freehold farm where he handles administrative duties and tended to horses that were there to recuperate. Dancer employed a secretary and someone…

They begin to utilize that power as Lysistrata fights back in a brawl with the Commissioner, boldly declaring “Onward you ladies from hell! Forward you market militia, you battle­hardened bargain hunters, old sales campaigners, grocery grenadiers, veterans never bested by an overcharge! You troops of the breadline, doughgirls—INTO THE…

Human Rights Watch The International Non-Governmental Organization I have chosen is named Human Rights Watch (HRW), which is a non-profit institution that was established in 1978 with its headquarters located in New York City. Human Rights Watch has approximately 400 staff members of “human rights professionals” (Human Rights Watch, 2015) disbursed throughout the world that include “country specialists, lawyers, journalists, advocates, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities”…

Chay Nwachukwu Smith, Period 4 EA#3 12. 6. 15 Collision In this novel Things Fall Apart, the author Chinua Achebe allows the reader to connect with the main character Okonkwo. We learn about this character and his relationship to the Igbo culture and how it affected his life, and the lives of the people around him. We also experience Okonkwo’s responded to cultural collision. The reader learns that Okonkwo had a very strong negative response to cultural collision, in which ultimately…