Illegal drug trade

risk-taking, and without pirates, England hypothetically would lack the wealth and force to become a world power. Another famous contributor to England’s success is “John Hawkins (1532-95) [who] was the first English privateer to realise that the slave trade was very profitable. In 1562 he made the first of three voyages as a slaver, sailing from England to West Africa to load up 3,000 slaves and took them to the Caribbean to be sold on the island of Hispaniola.” ("Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of…

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is a memoir of two men’s lives who held many similarities with each other; not only did they have the same name, but they were both born in the same area of Baltimore in the 1970s, were raised most of their lives without fathers, and were faced with similar situations and experiences while growing up. The author, after facing numerous challenges along his path, ends up with a highly successful future, while the other Wes Moore, ends up with a lifetime sentence in…

Social learning theory is known to consist of behavioral learning from the environment that you surround yourself with. For example, if an individual surrounds themself with a crowd that commits crime on the daily by shop lifting every store they see in sight, that individual will eventually be dragged into that criminal activity or criminal involvement. On the other hand, as for if an individual surrounds themself with a crowd who have a good head on their shoulders, have set ambitious life…

Behind the Gun Guns are very prevalent in the film, Miller’s Crossing, and the novel, Legs, by William Kennedy. Both of these works revolve around the prohibition era and the formulation of gangs and gangsters. It is obvious that these weapons symbolize the underworld, but there is more behind the gun itself. Guns can symbolize multiple ideas like power, dominance over someone, tough decisions, etc. They are also seen to be phallic symbols. Guns can be quite deadly when in the wrong hands, but…

The unauthorized disclosure of personal data became a particularly widespread problem in Ecuador. Criminal gangs were sold personal information, including credit card information. No one notices these frequent crimes because of the relatively small monetary, until the local news shocked the public. There are electronic communication technologies, consist of five dimensions, social presence, media richness, asynchronicity, permanence, and spreadability. For the Launch Cable case, there are…

even life-threatening. Ambition destroys common sense and human decency. The coach of the Patriots, “[Bill] Belichick had opponent’s defensive signals videotaped, contrary to explicit National Football League roles; [Marion] Jones admitted taking illegal drugs around the 2,000 Olympics; and [William] Lerach pleaded guilty to illegally hiring plaintiffs as fronts for filing suits against companies.” (Samuelson The Downside of Ambition). All of these acts were a direct result of being overly…

currently addicted to and abusing drugs. Drug abuse seems to be almost impossible to stop. Drug abuse is a global issue, and it seems that no state can figure out what the best option for lowering it is. Drug abuse leads to higher costs for the state to pay, it causes more crimes, and it is the leading cause of injury death in Ohio. So, what steps can Ohio take to stop these drugs from becoming a larger problem? First, one of the main issues in Ohio, is the drug abuse epidemic. There are many…

The novel ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E. Hinton is an enthralling story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by two socially different rival gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The novel’s title advocates the main storyline, the Greasers, a gang of social outcasts and misfits. A theme of “The Outsiders” is people - despite their social and financial differences - striving for the same things, enjoying the same things, sharing many similarities and not having to be enemies. Hinton expresses the…

community based on the documentary is that they are the protectors of the neighborhood, they sell drugs and they get in a confrontation with rival gangs when they are disrespecting their territory and take justice in their own hands when one of their members are killed . The relationship between the community and the police is difficult, because the people in the community are afraid of denouncing any illegal activities because the gang would kill them afterwards. The theory associated with the…

In the book, Winner-Take-All Politics, the authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson take a look at how over the last half a century the economy of the United States has become skewed to benefit the richest of the rich in the country. They treat the problem as if they were solving a crime, referring to the information and data they collect as DNA evidence or clues, and run through a list of prime suspects (13). They describe how others have interpreted the facts, and come up with different…