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Tricia Rose’s “The Hip Hop Wars” commences and entitles the first chapter as “Hip Hop Causes Violence.” Before furthering on with the chapter, one may intuitively develop a bias supposition that what is titled is based on an actual fact without having any valid evidence to prove why it is the way it is. Tricia Rose, whom is an author, a scholar, and a public speaker presented an argument stating “a key aspect of much of the criticism that has been leveled at hip hop is the claim that it…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, through his emotion-filled life. Throughout the novel, we witness Amir’s experiences with extreme guilt, unworthiness, selfishness, and selflessness. Majority of his relationships have one of these embedded into them. Including his relationships with Hassan, his family’s servant, and his dad, Baba. Hassan and his father, Ali, both serve Baba and Amir. Hassan is around Amir’s age, and because of that, they often…

of how plagiarism is a horrible thing to do is Adam Wheeler who is discussed in the book Conning Harvard. He is in prison and has to pay back the $45,000 in scholarships he falsely claimed from his immoral act. He was charged of identity fraud, larceny and other things. He plagiarized his SAT scores and transcripts to get into Harvard. Before that, he plagiarized to get into Bowdoin College. In reality, he was an average student from a normal school. He stretched his plagiarizing and lying…

Herbert Blumer was a student of Meade’s, but formulated his own critical theory on the nature of human interactions, which he coined as symbolic interactionism. Blumer has numerous foundational elements to his examination of human interactions included in the book Symbolic Interactionism: (a) society exists in action and must be observed in terms of action; (b) individuals obviously interact with one another; (c) worlds are comprised of objects which can be material or abstract. Abstract…

include the victim's information. It only reports eight index crimes; four violent crimes, and four property crimes. The violent crimes include criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The property crimes include burglary, larceny theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The downside of the UCR is that it only reports cleared cases and the most serious crimes. In the other side, the NCVS does provide the victim's information, which I think it is fundamental for a reported…

Risk-need responsivity Juveniles today are becoming an increased concern in the field of criminal justice; it is imperative that appropriate measures must be taken to determine the precise causation behind the criminal activities of juvenile’s entering into the juvenile justice system. Juveniles who have been subjected to domestic violence, sexual/physical abuse, come from broken homes (single parent homes), obtain mental health issues (ADD, ADHD, conduct disorder), are deemed to be at a…

within the country created a need for strict rules and punishments for breaking the law. As a result of fear of the throne being overthrown torture was inflicted on anyone who dared to commit treason. Treason as well as matricide, murder, robbery, larceny, rape, conflicting religious views, and arson were all considered to be capital offenses and were given the highest form of punishment-- torture leading to death. All accused of these crimes were given a trial; however, the trail was often…

Understanding the basics and the foundation behind Sharia law is not such a difficult task. Accepting it as a reasonable alternative to democracy is a bit more of a stretch for those who have only experienced democratic systems of crime and punishment. Crimes against a religious book are nothing new to Christians and those of any faith. The laws in a modern society of a nation that observes Sharia law seems archaic. Even more difficult to accept are the punishments handed out in accordance with…

There has been a wide variety of issues between professional football players and obeying the law over the years in the league and it is no secret. Between drug use, weapon charges, and tax evasion there is no shortage of controversy to discuss and the news can’t get enough of it. However in recent years, and months specifically, there has been a large amount of controversy pertaining to the players and domestic violence. Even though domestic violence is not limited to the National Football…

Knowledge is endless and I 'm lucky to be able to say I only know such a small percent but continue to find out more each day. This class has really been intriguing to me, because I am able to learn outside of class and there are so many resources available. I love reading the assigned articles, watching the videos, and exploring the websites. I 'm going to do this essay a little different than the last and write in categories and what I learned in each. I 'm going to start with the articles,…