Secrecy

International Money Laundering The UN defines money laundering as “any act or attempted act to disguise the source of funds derived from a criminal activity” . Money laundering is a global phenomenon. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime approximates that between 800 billion - 2 trillion US dollars are laundered each year globally, this represents approximately 2% - 5% of the global GDP . The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was formed in 1989 to combat international money laundering…

of Henry Howard’s sonnet, which embodies the aspects of courtly love such as secrecy, aristocracy, and adulterous actions, the speaker, who harbors love and does not reveal it due to the denial of his lover, declares “Sweet is the death that taketh end by love”. The speaker, who suffers through the inability to display his love, makes this observation while love resides in his heart. This observation reveals the secrecy of courtly love in the sonnet. The love precipitates the speaker’s suffering…

By showing the markings located on his chest, their religious leader is acknowledging, that he too is a sinner. Through living a life of secrecy, very few truly know what Arthur Dimmesdale have done. Thus, this community must accept its sinfulness if it wants to be a true community, and that no one is sinless and they all sin while they are not all punished. While this community claims to…

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is considered to be one of the greatest realistic dramas written, following the character Nora in her secretive and complex life. Being a well-made play, all is naturalistic and not overly dramatized. However, Ibsen makes use of features within the setting to subtly convey and emphasize the story and its messages. One such feature concerns the doors within the house. At the beginning, he describes four doors in the house: two at the back, and one on either side. In…

The Trade unions and the employees in New Zealand (NZ) have kept expressing their concerns over the secrecy of TPPA negotiations through various protests. On the 25th of March this year, thousands of people around NZ came out to protest against the government’s position over the TPPA. The secret nature of the TPPA was criticised. Moreover, the secrecy was considered as selling out NZ’s sovereignty to the globalization and profit-seeking corporations. Dr Jane Kelsey, a professor at the Auckland…

science’s unintended consequences, such measures as implementing a scientific variation of the Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors, or the development of additional ethical committees to better evaluate scientific research, and finally abolishing the secrecy that is commonly found in scientific communities surrounding recent scientific…

Corruption in policing is using valid discretion for the wrong reasons such as personal or financial gain. Breaking the law in order to uphold the law is also corruption. Several possible explanations to why corruption occurs have been identified. One of these explanations is police personality. Pursuing a career in law enforcement can be attractive to individuals with common socioeconomic backgrounds. On the job experiences can lead to a cynical authoritarian personality common among police…

Cook’s Garden” by Ira Levin is set Greenfield Center, a village in the state of Vermont where all the right people seem to die. The titular Dr. Cook is the town’s only doctor as well as a complex character, with skewed moral values, an emphasis on secrecy, and, in his eyes a great and important burden to carry. POINT 1. – Skewed views on morality Over the course of his career as a doctor, Leonard Cook kills a total of 33 people. Halfway through page 33 in the script book he tries to justify the…

Debatably, people hug nonprofit organization with higher ethical values than business and government. Nevertheless, some nonprofit workers deceitful conduct annihilates this confidence. In the case of a dreadful treasurer in my organization, I will set methods to disentangle these troubles without harming the image of my nonprofit. Arguably, the response is not at all times to push the wearisome treasurer off the organization, I rather rule for elucidating and perceiving the starting place of…

main characters Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy discover their purpose of living in the world. Ishiguro, explores in his novel the significance of medical science and genetic cloning. In relation to how the guardians kept their lives a “secret”. The theme of secrecy is prevalent throughout the novel and is embodied as a precursor, to protect the main characters from reality that their lives are pre-destined for them. Medical science of genetic cloning is a representation of how the characters’ lives…