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    Barbara Reuter Fraud

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    and then turned the case over to the Washington State Patrol. The Edmonds police department helped in apprehending the woman. She was then booked into Snohomish County Jail. The charges against her were 30 counts of fraud, 9 counts of theft, six of forgery, one for first degree identity theft, and warrants of drug…

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    Torvald Vs Krogstad

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    hope and possibility in a future with Nils, but Nora has no hope in a dishonest future with Torvald. 2. List three moments or scenes in the play that would be relevant to developing your topic. a) In Act I (1743-1744), Krogstad informs Nora that her forgery of her father’s name is a fraud against Krogstad and threatens to expose her to Torvald. b)…

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    Krogstad believed that his job was in danger and he tried to threaten Nora by holding the fact that she borrowed money from him over her head. Not only does that shadows over Nora’s head like a black cloud, Krogstad also threatens to expose Nora of forgery. Nora had forged her father’s signature to get the loan. All of this will be let…

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    The Piltdown Hoax

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    a human's. British paleontologist gad the idea that a creature that had a human cranium and an ape's jaw existed. In 1953 a Piltdown man was exposed as a forgery, the skull had in fact been modern and the teeth had been filed down. Charles Dawson was the archaeologist who brought in the first cranial fragments from Piltdown. The Piltdown forgery had so many scientist fooled, in this century anthropologists believed in cultural prejudice which considered man's big brain, the evolution theory.…

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    Some including Simon believed that as females entered the workforce, they would have access to criminal opportunities for crime including fraud, embezzlement, larceny, and forgery. It would seem logical that as any group of individuals were given greater access to something that the chance of something such as crime occurring could also increase. As females were given broader opportunities for employment, they may have also…

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    is determined, like Nora Helmer, to do what he must keep some moments in his past hidden. Both Nora and Nils have committed the same crime of forgery, and both of them know the response of Torvald Helmer is important to their future. Krogstad knows that his job is now controlled and threatened by Torvald, and he is threatening to expose the secret forgery that Nora committed in the past; he is the one who holds the loan papers. Krostad tells Nora, in Act II, “it’s your husband himself who’s…

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    The Mongolian people once ruled the second largest empire in the history of humanity. The Mongol empire was famous for pioneering military tactics such as horse mounted archers, conquering much of the Eurasian supercontinent and ruling an empire whose size would not be matched until the British took to colonialism centuries later. But as with so many other great empires, people often forget the massive economy necessary to sustain such as vast empire. Millions of people living across an entire…

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    X-Rays In Medical Imaging

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    become increasingly popular methods to analyze art. The increasing popularity is due to the fact that these methods have been proven to be non-destructive. Both diffraction and florescence are types of x-rays used to help in the detection of art forgery. With the use of XRF it is able to identify certain pigments, inorganic materials, using the x-ray…

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    The Wacker case, known as one of the most infamous frauds in art history, occurred when the German art dealer Otto Wacker attempted to sell 33 forgeries as authentic Vincent van Gogh paintings in 1927. This case shed a light on the ability of forgers to deceive the general public and art experts alike. However, this case also allowed for the development of new scientific techniques, many based on chemistry, to examine and analyze paintings at the molecular level to determine whether the…

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    The Piltdown Hoax

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    paleoanthropology, would like to forget the incident entirely, the Piltdown man—otherwise taxonomically referred to as Eoanthropus dawsoni—is perhaps the greatest hoax in anthropological history. Since the exposure of the Piltdown discovery as a forgery in the mid-twentieth century, many accusations have been made against various individuals; however, the mystery still remains unsolved. Despite much of the research that seems to incriminate prime suspect Charles Dawson, among others, the…

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