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foster care and multiple homes (residential mobility), and horrendous family disruption (evidenced by his entire life), led to poor supervision; subsequently, he became a criminal (Burfeind and Bartusch, 2016). This is almost verbatim the Sampson and Groves model of disorganization shown by Burfeind and Bartusch(2016, pg. 339). He came from a vagrant, low rent community with very little social cohesion and a lot of…

In “The Pardoner’s Tale,” a story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, a Pardoner tells the tale of how three men who are drunk go out to find death. On this journey to find death, they run into an old man who they accuse of death’s spy, and he tells them that they will find death under a tree. Finding this tree, they stumble upon finding lots of money, and in the end, they had killed each other over it. There are literary elements/devices used to make the story more interesting.…

reasons why parents feel uncomfortable vaccinating their children. Instead many of the attacks are directed at Jenny McCarthy and her personal ideologies and she has since been described as “The nation’s most prominent purveyor of anti-vaxxer ideology” (Grove,…

natural setting, emphasizing the play of light on objects and the utilization of painting techniques that suggested movement and the transitory nature of the scene (Grove). One of the artists who was a strong proponent of these changes and was at the forefront of the emergence of the Impressionism movement was Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Grove). Shortly after Renoir was born in Limoges, France, on February 25, 1841, his family…

Grove, Gray, and Burns define best research evidence as, “a summary of the highest quality, current, empirical knowledge in a specific area of health care that has been developed from a synthesis of quality studies in that area” ( 2014). In order to make…

The 12 Stages of the Archetypal Hero’s Journey, How They Relate to the Stories of Jason and Perseus Jason’s Story 1. Ordinary World – In the beginning, Jason is introduced to us as a man “shod with only a single sandal”, when he returns to his rightful kingdom. 2. Call to Adventure – When Jason pursues Pelias to release the “sovereign sceptre and the throne” to him, Pelias replies that if Jason first goes on a quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece, the kingdom will be his. 3. Refusal of the…

John Reginald Halliday Christie was born in Northowram, England in the district of Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire on April 8th 1899. He was the 6th of 7 children in his family and the 1st son born to his parents, Mary Hannah Halliday and Ernest John Christie. His father was a carpet designer. He was an extremely strict man, punishing his children for the most trivial of acts, as well as uncommunicative. He displayed very little emotion towards his children, which sometimes made Christie…

I recently visited Love Park for the first time. Even though, I am a resident of Philadelphia I’ve only been to the city very few times in my life. Those visits were mostly to stores but never have I took the time to observe and spend time in Love Park and the surrounding landmarks. It was my first time visiting the park and it was more beautiful than I thought it would be. This area is that of a cosmopolitan canopy because it provides an opportunity for diverse people to come together (Anderson…

On August 6, 1945 at 8:15am, an American B-29 bomber plane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The devastation was unlike anything seen before. The city was flattened immediately. 8,000 people were killed as a result of the bomb and another 35,000 were injured. Japan still didn’t surrender. Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped by the Americans on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Afterwards, on August 15, 1945, Japan finally surrendered. World War Two was over.…

delinquency: An appraisal of analytic models. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Sampson, Robert J., and W. Byron Groves. 1989. Community structure and crime: Testing social-disorganization theory. American Journal of Sociology 94, no. 4: 774-802. Reprinted in Frances Cullen and Velmer Burton, eds., Contemporary Criminological Theory. Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1994. Sampson, Robert J., and W. Byron Groves. 1989. Community structure and crime: Testing social disorganization theory. American Journal…