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    According to the UNTOC (UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime) transnational crimes do not have a precise definition, but in the criminological perspective transnational crime is identified as criminal activities which is against national jurisdiction. In 1995 the United Nations identified eighteen categories which were considered to be transnational crimes. Those crimes were; money laundering, terrorist activities, theft of art and cultural objects, theft of intellectual property…

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    Chunking Express is unlike any other conventional film, a drama based movie. The storyline is set up in Hong Kong and represents the Hong Kong citizen and says the usual story of a city life in an unusual manner. The life includes crowds, cops, drugs, smuggling, love, passion, frustration, money, sex where every character as we see has a common phenomenon of loneliness and isolation in their life. The film starts with a voice over talks about the relations we build up every day with different…

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    The Theme of Morality in Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe’s novel, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a story about the life of a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison. Moll was determined to rise from the lower class she was born into, therefore she used marriage several times in order to obtain financial security. In the story, she was willing to sacrifice moral principles in order to gain prosperity. Her fear of poverty led her to commit many crimes, including…

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    Nawal El Saadawi is a feminist in a part of the world that some might argue truly needs feminism to achieve equality: the middle east. One of her main focuses is on prostitution in the region, and how it affects women who are abused in that line of work. This focus led to her writing the book Woman at Point Zero, which follows the life of a woman named Firdaus who was raised in 1970s Egypt. Firdaus does not lead a charmed life. From a very young age, she is neglected by her parents and sexually…

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    I then introduce the idea of how statelessness leads to human insecurity. This is because one of the most difficult situations is living in a state where one does not have the right of freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom from violence—as most stateless persons do not. In addition, I present the theory of “minority membership” as applied to stateless persons and how being part of the minority as a stateless person marginalizes them. Furthermore, this leads to how the stateless…

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    In Ross Douthat’s Article “Is Pornography Adultery,” he discusses different cases in which pornography has been seen as “cheating” in different relationships. Now when you look up adultery the definition that comes up is, “voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse.” Although by definition pornography (also known as porn) is not adultery it’s understandable why it has been seen as a problem. Douthat’s argument in this article is that, “If…

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    I firmly believe that prostitution is a very vulgar and unethical profession. It is unsafe and very immoral. There are many reasons why this should not be allowed to come to pass in our nation. This profession shows just how greedy people are, they are willing to sell themselves into a lifestyle of this sort just for a pay. And some not even for that! I have no doubt that if this was passed; there would be a great increase in STD’s, in the human trafficking, and in the delinquent teen state,…

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    You go about your daily life not knowing what is going on in the black market some may not even know what this is ,it is the most common “trade”,where people are stealing organs and it has become a global issue,one that I am here to help solve.It is a secret illegal type of trade.Black Market Organs is when illegal organ trade which is a form of widespread organized crime where inner organs are illegally obtained and traded for transplantation. Types of Organ Trade trafficking for organs is a…

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    married women. Educating women will be the most helpful way to prevent human sex trafficking because it will limit who they target. Protesting against prostitution and sex trafficking has already been tried to prevent it. xxxxxx says “Sweden has also focused on preventing the demand for prostitution by initiating a national campaign against prostitution and…

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    Prostitution, alcohol, violence; all elements of Maggie Johnson’s life in Maggie: a girl of the streets by Stephen Crane. Living in the Bowery of New York City, Maggie grows up surrounded by violence and abuse from her mother and father. The lack of opportunity presented to her in the tenements forces Maggie to resort to another way out of this living hell: Pete. Using Maggie only for her body, he causes her to start seeing value only in her appearance. After Pete abandons Maggie for Nellie, she…

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