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the strength of the female Between 2003 and 2011 approximately 4,424 americans were killed in the Iraqi war but this is nothing compared to the 7,356 americans who died Chicago between the years of 2001-2015 as a result of this violent history and crime rates the residents of Chicago have given the city the epithet Chi-Ra. Spike Lee’s 2015 musical Chi-Raq tells the story of one woman’s struggle to end a rivalry between the violent gangs that live in her city and the strength and power women…

has been created and produced by Danny Gold a reporter for Vice for two years. His past works are Gangs of El Salvador, Origins of Ebola and Rockets and Revenge. In this documentary he talks with locals and officials about the drug trafficking and crime rate issue in Trinidad, which is projected to be not getting better anytime soon. Many blame the government in the documentary for not paying attention to its slums. Although Danny Gold is a Vice news reporter, Vice doesn’t really describe him as…

Hannibal Lecter is a fictional serial killer who has appeared in multiple books and later films, creating an entire Hannibal franchise. Hannibal Lecter has been the main character in Red Dragon by, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising, all written by Thomas Harris and later turned into films. Silence of the Lambs is about a FBI agent tasked with saving a woman from a killer. The FBI decides to enlist the help of a different killer…

Smuggling Across all crimes committed the main reason behind them is due to the fact that the offender wants to benefit from the crime he/she is about to commit. In rational choice theory it states just that. It states that the offenders are rational people who think about their crime before committing them, they think of the benefits it will bring such as money along with the costs, such as the possibility of getting arrested (Robb, 2017). Through this theory one can apply it to the crime of…

Street," gives another Hollywood story of drug addict, sex-crazed noblemen on Wall Street. When the film the wolf of Wall Street hit cinemas recently, it was a box office heat. The Hollywood juggernaut was based on the real life story of Jordan Belford who spent twenty two months in prison for money laundering and fraud after ripping off investors to almost one hundred million dollars. In the film "The wolf of Wall Street”, we can see the late capitalism in his glory. There are also scenes that…

Assault, stronger inmates usually prey upon the smaller, weaker inmates. In the film Bad Boys, the directors portray this theme using the characters of Tweety and Viking. The directors cast these two characters as the “Alpha Males” of the juvenile correction facility. Tweety and Viking assign jobs to other inmates, benefit from cigarette sales, and strike fear into all of the other inmates. At one point, viewers of the film witness Tweety walk into the cell of a younger, smaller boy. At this…

silence of the lambs is the novel in order to reveal the significance of the salvation of humanity in our real lives. This topic intends to interpret this film from the view of psychoanalysis. The film is the typical sample to analysis by Freud’s theories. This paper is concerns four Chapters. Chapter one gives the brief introduction of the film and Freud’s theories. Providing the basis for analyzing the themes. From chapter two to four give the analysis of the main characters in the novel. Ⅰ.…

or behave as they do. Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory proposes that people learn from one another, by observation, imitation, and modeling (Boeree, 2006). The Social Learning Theory implies that people learn the procedures and mindset of crime from intimate contact with criminal peers (Siegel, 2010). The perspective of the social learning theory that best explains why people commit domestic violence is that people learn to be aggressive by watching others act aggressively…

1. Why do you think that countries like China and other poor or developing nations are havens for intellectual property theft and film/video pirating? In China and other poor nations IP laws are either non-existent or not enforced. For instance, Chinese government has no interest in enforcing these laws, since Chinese businesses hold few copyrights (and those are rigorously protected). They see protection of intellectual property as a responsibility of the countries who want to conduct business…

The focus of the death penalty tends to be the execution of an individual who committed horrible crimes and must pay for their actions; however, what tends to be looked over and quite frankly ignored is the percentage of lives who were lost by execution but was completely innocent. This week’s readings and videos, shed light on this aspect while giving it the attention needs. For this discussion, I will examine the primary objectives within the text and movies. Then, I will conclude with my…