Infraction

The School to Prison Pipeline is a systemic process usually put into racial and class contexts due to how it disproportionately affects poor students of color. Poor students of color are systematically marginalized and dehumanized, often finding themselves pushed towards deviancy and a criminal lifestyle within the school system. However, the policies and practices that lead to such a pipeline are not exclusive to just poor students of color, but marginalized groups in general. Shannon D. Snapp…

The beginning of the twentieth century contained many themes of racism, ignorance and devious politics in Canadian history. While many of these themes although may be routed in the British Empire, Canadian discrimination and injustice are of its own creation. Hugh Johnston’s The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar tells a tale of how Canadians closed the door to Asian immigration and manipulated a system to which foreigners were not meant to succeed. In May of…

The ideal high school is very subjective. Even so, many have made attempts at such a lofty feat, but however impossible the goal is, the path towards that goal is surprisingly straight forward. No one would call the high schools of today ideal, but with a few tweaks, the average high school can get close. The layman may believe the role of a high school is solely to educate students, but nothing is further from the truth. A high school’s job is to prepare students for being an adult. Each…

worth it and they follow the rules without question. The punishments for disobeying authority vary with the offense, context, location, etc. of the event. There is vice principal named Mr. Suppes who will yell at students for even the slightest infraction. With differing amounts of power, abuse of that power, and varying consequences, the question becomes, "What battles are worth fighting and what is the most effective way to fight them?" Henry David Thoreau attempted to answer some of the…

Since its beginning, mankind has been engaged in a desperate struggle for power. In attempts to secure this power, many leaders and groups worked toward forming empires and societies. While few ultimately accomplished this to any degree of significance, some of these endeavors resulted in the paragons of today’s most accomplished organizations. While a number of similarities likely accounted for the overall prosperity, it can be argued that successful communities have always shared a specific…

Unbroken, a biography by Laura Hillenbrand is the story of Louis Zamperini, a loving family man, Olympic runner, and later serviceman in the army, and the struggles he faced in life throughout World War II and his strength in surviving. As a young man Louie joined the Army Air Force and became a bomber for a B-24 Liberator. In 1943 when Louie’s plane and crew crashed in the Pacific Ocean while they were on a mission, he managed to keep himself alive for over a month with little to no provisions…

Stigma of Mental Services amongst Military Service Members and Veteran who are affected with the Issues of Addiction In reviewing the National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA, 2013, it is noted that U.S military personnel are much more prevalent than civilians to turn to prescription drug abuse, heavy alcohol, and tobacco use due to zero-tolerance policies and stigma pose difficulties in identifying and treating substance use problems in military personnel (NIDA, 2013). Many service members are…

Question 1 – Learning Outcome 1 (10 marks) You are an employee of a compliance consultancy and will visit DKA Ltd and BBT plc, who are both UK-based insurance brokers. DKA Ltd is a small general insurance broker who only transacts commercial business for UK-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs). BBT plc is a global insurance broker managing all classes of business with international coverage. (a) Identify, with justification, two significant regulatory issues you will investigate on your…

In the general public today, the majority is convinced that when one speaks of crime, we are referring to a violent act on one another. Despite the fact that this is not entirely inaccurate, there is a broader definition that underlines crime. A crime does not have to be committed with violent actions; it can be nonviolent. A type of crime that is overlooked but is prevailing is white collar crimes. White collar crimes are becoming of larger quantities. In our thriving and flourishing community…

“Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as Director of CIA, David H. Petraeus”. Since the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was not able to keep his personal digital content private, can anyone expect their email to be protected from law enforcement without a warrant? Why should anyone have to face such embarrassment about their personal life when it’s not affecting their career? Whether…