Robert K. Merton

Why are crimes committed? Most people would say out of greed jealousy and anger. But we all get jealous greedy and angry so why don’t we all kill. The answer to that remains not in the heart, as most people to be, but in the mind. In 2006 the Bureau Justice Center did a survey and what they found shed much light on the mind (or lack thereof) a criminal. They concluded that estimated that 705,600 mentally ill adults were incarcerated in State prisons, 78,800 in Federal prisons and 479,900 in…

Fair Inequality or Entitled Right? Distributive justice is the economic framework within a society which determines the distribution of goods amongst its members. How goods should be distributed and to whom have been interpreted by John Rawls and Robert Nozick, two contemporary philosophers that share the belief that there is no practical form of equal distribution of goods within society, but disagree on what constitutes a true distributive justice when taking that into consideration. The…

In 1980, Robert Redford released his dramatic coming of age film that was nominated for 6 Academy Awards won four, including best picture and best director. Ordinary People is about a family dealing with the death of their son/brother. The film offers many perspectives on metal illnesses and how people deal with them and at the same time explores how our culture views mental illness. The film revolves around Conrad, who is the son of Beth and Calvin. Conrad’s brother died in a boating accident.…

Seven Characteristic Traits of a High Impact Hire 1. GRIT Start-up organisations are not only nebulous, but at the same time are fast-paced too. In such a new place of work, it is not uncommon for new joinees/hires to be the first ones to hold recently created job roles exclusive of comprehensible mandates. These new hires should be able to figure out how to carry out his roles and responsibilities in an efficient manner, keeping in mind the organisation’s goals while going at a fast pace.…

Profiling has captured the imaginations of Hollywood filmmakers and their audiences for well over a decade. Viewers are easily captivated by Sherlockian detectives who profile perpetrators with brilliant precision, making for bewitching plotlines and intriguing character developments. Yet experts are far more critical of this lasso-like investigative tool. Research suggests that investigators cannot simply walk into a crime scene, construct a profile based on whatever information is left behind,…

Robert Frost is a well-known highly acclaimed poet world-wide. During his lifetime, he obtained more than seventeen honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and England, and receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for his works. When Frost passed he was the most popular and famous American poet of the century, a cultural icon, and an esteemed literary figure of great influence (Bloom, Bloom 's Major Poets: Robert Frost 14). Frost’s life illustrates the reasoning…

off my bed for a snack. I grabbed a box of Nilla wafers and my infamous jar of Nutella and in attempts to walk back to my room, I couldn 't help but overhear the controversy in my living room. Watching “E News” my superficial sister was praising Kim K; I observed the absolutely plastic figure in my screen in annoyance. Dressed in a simple tan tank top, with her nipples pointing out at us, low rise jeans hardly embracing the top of her absolutely injected bosom, and tied back hair, Kim was taken…

the bar. In my opinion “crossing the bar” death is consider natural; the words “crossing” and “bar” advocates the cross of Jesus. Lastly, if we want to reach the afterlife we have to cross that bar by having an accepting attitude toward death. Robert Browning “The Lost Leader” (about Wordsworth) The poem reflects on Mr. Browning’s dislike toward Mr. Wordsworth’s desertion of the liberal cause. The first stanzas specifying the nature of his disloyalty and the second stanzas specifies a…

Your heart pounds in your chest as you run through the dark woods, trying your best to make it to your car or just to safety. You can feel him gaining on you, the sound of crunching leaves signaling his every move, but your legs just aren’t fast enough. You stumble over a conveniently placed log and fall to the hard ground. The tension builds, the unseen orchestra using more strings. Someone in the theater’s audience screams for you to get up and run. Out of breath, you try to scramble away only…

of deciding where to put these criminals. In some cases, they put them in mental institutions instead of prisons in order to keep them detained longer. Even the ones that go to prison have the chance of entering a mental institution afterwards. Dr. Robert Hare is the leading authority…