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It is an inherent element in the world of organized crime. When you owe money to a legitimate company and you don’t pay, they send you notices and reminders with due dates and eventually it could go to collections. Organized crime sees violence as a way to avoid all of this. If you owe them money and you don’t pay, when they catch you they will beat you up or worse, make an example out of you and kill you. Basically violence is used as a means to an end for these people. The main problem of…

The Consumer Market Consumer buying behaviors are an essential topic for marketers to understand in order to succeed in their endeavors. A marketer must understand “how individuals, groups, and organizations select, buy, use, and dispose of goods, services, ideas, or experience to satisfy their needs and wants.” (Kotler & Keller, 2016, p. 179). Many factors influence consumer behavior in the consumer market including cultural, social, and personal factors. Cultural Factors Today’s American…

Present Day GoPro experienced a remarkable turnover rise from 500,000$ in 2005 to 1.6 billion$ in 2015 (table1). The reason for this outstanding performance is GoPro’s revolutionary and unique way to capture video footage. In 2013 GoPro was the best-selling camera in the world with a worldwide brand awareness. The successful IPO in 2014 with a peak price per share reaching 98$ established its brand equity. Nevertheless, the company in 2016 experience a 40% fall in sales in comparison to 2015…

Elham Shoghi Professor Sean Wilkinson English 100 3 September 2017 What’s So Funny? Imagine you had a very hard day. You are so exhausted and frustrated from all the work and everything else that went wrong at the same time. Sometimes you feel like the universe is playing a game with you and put you under a lot of responsibilities simultaneously. To escape, for even just a few minutes, you turn on your device and read or watch something funny. After some time, you have to go back to your real…

Down Syndrome Video Case Analysis "Graduating Peter" Demographic Information Setting For my observation, I watched the video titled “Graduating Peter (2001)” on YouTube. Originally an HBO film, this documentary follows a young boy named Peter who is diagnosed with Down’s syndrome. The film follows him as he starts inclusion classes in the third grade and follows him until he graduates from high school. Students Observed In this video, Peter is being observed while he is starting the third grade…

You might remember her as pretty party-girl Meadow Soprano, from the hit HBO series, the Sopranos. The character was played by the beautiful and successful actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler. However, in real-life, she suffers from a devastating condition. At the age of 20, the young actress was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Sigler was terrified by her shocking diagnosis. At the time, Jamie-Lynn faced her terrifying diagnosis alone, hiding it from co-stars and friends for a long time. When she…

(1) Deterrence theory takes root in the concepts of classical criminology. The theory asserts that people making rational decisions to commit crime as a means of pursuing their own personal interests by increasing their pleasure and reducing their pain. Offenders commit crime because its advantageous. To deter crime, swift, certain, and appropriately severe punishments must be imposed. Individuals will reject the option to offend because they are fearful of the certainty, swiftness and…

Ryan Coogler was also concerned with creating a multidimensional character when he crafted Fruitvale Station. The film tells the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a young unarmed black man who was murdered by police on New Years in 2009 at a BART station in Oakland, California. The event struck Coogler hard. He was still in college when it happened, and the shooting took place in the community he grew up in. Much like the rest of the directors, Coogler’s personal relations to the material is…

One of the biggest issues going on in this country today has to do with Gun rights. One side of the argument says that we need less guns while another side argues that we need a lot more guns. The reason this debate has gotten so much attention is because last year alone the number of mass shootings in the United States where people were injured and/or killed was 330. In 2015 people feared for their lives 330 times because some psychopath decided to start firing off rounds at people who they…

plays by establishing the Pandemonium Theatre Company (Weller). Ray Bradbury has written 5 episodes (1956-1962) for the TV show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Also, he was one of the screenwriter for the 1956 film, Moby Dick. In 1986, he made his own HBO TV series to make adaption of his short stories that stopped airing in 1992. For the The Ray Bradbury Television Theater on USA Cable, Ray Bradbury had adapted forty-two of his short stories since 1985. In 1964, for the New York World's Fair, he…