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    Bribery and corruption is an issue that is very happening in most of the countries. What is bribery and corruption? Bribery is a practice of offering something to gain certain advantage, for example: money, assets, gift and so on and so forth, and corruption is when an individual itself abuse its power to gain an undue advantage. Bribery is an unethical behavior and it is also very unfair practice, for example: the employer pay people for their normal job is called wage, and when the employee…

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    about the effect of corruption on FDI one is the grabbling hand where corruption impedes on FDI with followers like Wei ( 2000) who found that corruption reduces FDI more than others factors or also that is like a taxes for investors. In contrast, several studies either found no evidence to support the grabbling hand theories or found results that support the helping hand theories where corruption facilitates FDI in a weak regulation environment. There many aspects where corruption is seen to…

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    “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power” (Goodreads). John Steinbeck’s quote asserts that people do not get corrupted because of power, they get corrupted because of the fear of the power. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack does not use his dominance to control the other boys; he instills authority into the boys making them fear him. By doing so, Jack controls the actions of the boys and changes their morals. The boys turn into savages who are…

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies, the progress of power is the cause for corruption the character Jack goes to the extreme to have the power and the more power he has the more corrupt it becomes. Throughout the novel, Jack obsession is as if has a little power, a little more and a lot, which causes him to act out in violent ways, towards animals and humans. The taste of power is Jack's addiction because it is his drug that he can get enough of. In the beginning of the novel Jack is already power…

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    Judicial corruption in the eyes of its innocent victims, is wrongdoing by someone in power that can be life changing. People can be fined unfair fees or watch someone who stole from them go free. However, for the judges getting the extra cash or making a decision because of personal bias, a case in which corruption occurs can be part of a normal day, and no one would ever know. Corruption is much more oblivious in other countries around the world. For example, in Azerbaijan, a prisoner can be…

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    likened to hollow vessels of sin by the aptly named revenger Vindice, this imagery continuing throughout the play to expose the layers of disguise humans ply onto their fleshy shells. In The Duchess of Malfi, the human form is inexorably linked to corruption, sickness, and suffering. The play’s final assertion is one of ailing,…

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    Corruption in the public sector which is generally defined as “the ill-usage of public office for private benefits” is a complex behaviour. At every stage of development, corruption appears to exist and exacerbate the conditions of economic progress and poverty (Chetwynd and Spector, 2003). The costs of corruption can be more significant particularly in countries with pre-existing negative pressure on economic growth as well as the recent political transition to democracy. In a corruption regime…

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    Fisman and Svensson found some evidence that corruption influences growth at the micro level. They have used the dataset which contains information on the estimated bribe payments of the firms in Uganda. Their dataset contains information from the Ugandan Industrial Enterprise Survey about 243 firms in 5 locations and 14 industries. As it was discussed before, corruption has a very secretive and uncertain nature, and therefore there have been implemented different methods in order to increase…

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    important scandals of corruption that affected two powerful American institutions: the government and the Catholic church. However, both films instead of focusing on the scandals themselves, they narrate it from the perspective of the journalists who investigate both cases. As Renée Loth says in one of her articles “both films are talky, true-life procedurals about the grinding, essential work of investigative journalism”. They are about the process of news gathering to expose the corruption of…

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    Greedy Individuals: Hermann and Ivan Ilyich One of the evils of society is greed. Greed becomes a famous theme in many works due to the fact that it gives readers a glimpse of reality, rather than fairytales and romances. However, authors such as Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy used the theme of greed to expose humans in their materialistic nature. According to Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature by Jillian Elizabeth Porter “traditionally conceived as a sharply negative…

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