Jeffrey Kluger

The Westing Game is a mystery written by Ellen Raskin and has won the Newberry Award in 1979. The first few pages of the book reveals that there will be many twist and turns and it will not be until the end until the answer is revealed. Very specific tenants were chosen for the Sunset Towers and this is evident in each showing of an apartment by Barney Northrup. Very specific choices were made for the tenants of Sunset Towers, but why? Up on the hill sits the Westing house, just days after…

Fingerprint evidence is highly accurate in the identification of suspects, because the likelihood of two different people possessing the same set of fingerprints is estimated to be one in 64 billion (Hall, 2015). Therefore, state and federal courts universally accept fingerprint evidence during a criminal trial due to the validated science behind the analysis of fingerprint characteristics (Hall, 2015). Next, as with everything else in law enforcement, computers have advanced fingerprint…

Benefits of Legal Representation You might assume you don’t need an attorney to represent you in your bicycle accident claim. After all, you are smart and capable of asserting what you want to recover. While representing yourself may seem like an easier route, there are numerous benefits to hiring Los Angeles Bicycle Law to represent you in your claim. Some of the benefits of hiring Los Angeles Bicycle Law include: Knowledge & Skill The lawyers at Los Angeles Bicycle Law have vast experience in…

During the 10 through 24 weeks of gestation , ridges form on your epidermis, which is the outermost layer of skin on your fingertips. This pattern on your epidermis is known as your fingerprint. Fingerprint patterns are static and don’t change with age so an individual will have the same pattern from infancy to adulthood. Your fingerprint never changes over time, they will get bigger over time , but will not change. Fingerprints can be very helpful in identifying people. The FBI and many…

9 Mergers That Epically Failed The article describes the nine famous corporations that failed to merge. Fairchild (2013) states that “the owner of Arby's bought Wendy's for $2.34 billion” (para. 2). Nevertheless, only after three years, Wendy's sold Arby's. The fail occurred between Bank of America and Countrywide, when the deal cost the bank approximately $40 billion. Kmart and Sears are also among the epic fails due to the considerably dropped revenue of the first one. eBay bought Skype for $2…

Enron was firstly a natural gas pipeline company that combine as the combination of Nebraska and Omaha’s natural gas company, Houston Natural gas and InterNorth. It took 15 years from 1985 to 2000 to climb up into the one of the largest gas company in North America. Behind the successful of the company, it was a story of betrayal and greed of the executives of the largest natural gas company in North America. For example, the plant was moved to Mexico in order to avoid the minimum wages. Also,…

The book, “The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron” was written by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind and was published in 2003. It was all about the company of Enron and the downfall of it all and the scandals associated with it. Enron was an American energy, commodities, and services company which was located in Houston, Texas. At one point in time, it was the 7th largest company worth almost about $70 billion. There were many scandals involved in all of this,…

The film ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room painted a picture of corporate greed and all the practices one might see in the creation of fraud. It dove into personalities of the top executives surrounding the scandal and the lies created to establish a successful persona. The governmental investigation revealed that the intricate entanglements of deceptive communications were fed from near the top of the chain to traders, analyst, and investors. Traders proactively drove the mechanisms that…

Instantly, the bullet ricocheted off the decaying wall. He stands there watching as the life leaves their eyes, blood spilled onto the street from his own hands. He turns away, walking off into the night, never looking back to the dying man. What could have been his motive? Why did he choose to kill? When was his point of no return? How can he live with himself knowing he had blood on his hands quite literally? These are the questions that captivates my mind for hours on end after researching…

Jeffrey invited Steven Hicks, a 19-year-old boy to his father’s house. They began to drank alcohol and then later had sex. When Steven was getting ready to leave, Jeffrey hit Steven’s head with a barbell and killed him. After Dahmer killed him, he dismembered the body and put different parts of Steven in garbage bags and buried the bags in his backyard of his father’s home. Many years later, he dug up the bags, crushed the bones, and threw them around the woods (Baumann,1991). One thing is…