The Signal-Man

Broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm setting and being able to indicate urban disorder. Broken windows theory is also the belief that ignoring public order violations and disruptive behavior leads to community neglect, which fosters further disorder and crime. If you were to go to an unfamiliar neighborhood and see broken windows, spray painted walls, and abandon cars, your first instinct would tell you that the neighborhood must be unsafe. This theory is based off of…

In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a young boy named Arnold realizes that he needs to leave the reservation to fully succeed. When he gets to the small town of Reardan, it’s difficult at first, but he ends up in a more supportive and friendly environment. Throughout the book, Arnold faces many hardships, but he manages to get through them. Although Arnold faces racism at Reardan, and poverty and depression on the rez, he uses his sense of humor, romanticism, and…

“Superman and Me”, by Sherman Alexie, is a brilliant autobiography. The essay is about how Alexie learned to read from a Superman comic book at the young age of three. He was a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state. The essay consists of the hardship that Indian people went through and how they lived. Not only how all the Indians in his area lived but especially his own family. His family was poor, but his parents always seemed to have a…

Don’t be a sis, BE A MAN. Nowadays, the topic of masculinity is a very controversial one, especially when dealing with sports. In Kate Fagan’s article, “So, What Defines a Real Man in Sports”, she argues that the language of sports ends up reinforcing the essence of masculinity. This issue, only intensified after Richie Incognito’s bullying of Martin, reveals the true nature of ‘manliness’ in sports. With this in mind, Fagan is right; the language of sports imposes what masculinity is and isn’t…

Introduction I chose to conduct my internship with the city of Syracuse police department. During my internship I have studied and applied three main theories that relate to the city of Syracuse and the work involved with the police officers. The theories supporting the research and experiences gained are broken down from criminology and psychology perspectives. The four theories explained in this paper are, broken windows theory, social learning theory, conflict theory and rational choice…

In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the protagonist, Arnold Spirit, Junior is a fourteen years old guy who had to leave behind his Indian Reservation to a different atmosphere; where he thinks there are “more chances” of hope than his Indian life. The protagonist faces many obstacles in his life such as: poverty, racism, the alcoholism of his father, insecurity, doubts, bullying, among others. During the novel, Arnold shows through his moves and words, how poor people…

Teens join gangs for a variety reasons from families, schools, friends, to what city they live in. Gangs are everywhere, even some of the nicest cities. Peer pressure, family, protection, and boredom are the main reasons I noticed that teens join gangs. In reflecting upon my own adolescence and witnessing teens joining gangs, I believe that all these reasons are closely associated. It seems as though gangs have no boundaries it affects the poor and the rich, small towns, suburbia, and some of…

In every state and city there is always those type of neighborhoods that we consider or label as bad and dangerous. But what makes these cities so dangerous? Is it the people that settle in the neighborhood that makes them dangerous or the way media portrays them with the violence and segregations of organizations such as gangs and the crime rates? We see this occurring all around the world marking gangs as the number one problem to the situation. As a result we see many laws emerging across the…

differentiation of chondrocytes in bones; moreover, the negative feedback of chondrocyte production provided by FGFR3 regulates bone growth (7). Once the fibroblast growth factor is bound, an MAPK signal pathway is initiated by FGFR3. Furthermore, the MAPK pathway can now relay the extracellular signal to trigger an intracellular response. The intracellular response provided by MAPK,…

as a ratio of the direct path component to the received signal. The design of the inverse filters exploited the harmonicity characteristics of the speech signal and estimated the filter coefficients in two distinct methods - one method estimated the average filter that transformed reverberant signals into harmonic signals, while the other method used a minimum mean squared error criterion that evaluated the quasi-periodicity of target signals. HERB algorithms take relatively longer time to…