Whistleblower

Short Essay Assignment After reading the Larkin text, I agree that the military government of Burma has been a sort of ‘reflection’ of the British colonial government that preceded it. According to Emma Larkin, forty years of dictatorship has been similar to the British colonial government. One percent of the 50 million Burmese population are in the army. Along with these, there are 18 million members if the Union Solidarity and Development Association which are promised better educational and…

These are dark days for international jihadists. In Syria, Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda militants are being chased out of their long-held strongholds either by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad or the Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by Russian and American airpower respectively. Pro-government militias in cooperation with national armies also have them on the run in Libya, Yemen and Iraq. As IS’s grand facade of a “caliphate” crumbles and it devolves into an improvised…

In Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire, the myth of the grand judge Hercules is ‘encapsulated by the metaphor of an ideal judge, Hercules is immensely wise and with full knowledge of legal sources. Acting on the premise that the law is a seamless web, Hercules is required to construct the theory that best fits and justifies the law as a whole in order to decide any particular case. Hercules, Dworkin argues, would always come to the one right answer.’(Dworkin) In contrary to the Greek demigod, the…

Managing ethical behavior is a difficult problem that all organizations face. Practicing ethical behavior should be a workplace standard that is expected of the organization and each team member. Ethics involves the moral principles that an organization uses during the decision-making process and it should be evaluated to ensure that the proper culture is being established. Those organizations that fail to create an ethical atmosphere produce a negative work environment that is destined for…

This book can be analyzed using a number of sociological techniques. The material the authors discuss is about the social interaction of humans in cyberspace. Therefore this material can be discussed using a variety of sociological concepts. Some concepts that can be used are Conflict Theory, Functionalist Theory, power and authority, social norms, social movements, culture, ethnocentrism, social deviance and symbols. Max Weber’s idea of legitimatized power can be used to analyze this text.…

Hacktivism is the act of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motivated purposes.The phrase “Hacktivism” originated in 1996 by a hacktivist grouped named “Cult of the Dead Cow” (Denning, 2015, para. 5). Over the last few years, computer hacking has transitioned from being a small collective of computer enthusiast, into huge political platform.The first politically motivated hacking attack has been dated as far as 1987 (Dreyfus, 1997, p.2). This platform has…

INTRODUCTION Bernard Madoff was a former chairman of NASDAQ stock exchange. He started his investment advisory firm on his own. He has be guilty for the defrauding of the investors of amount $50 billion which he was running the biggest Ponzi scheme for around two decades. In 2008 December when there were economic disturbances and meltdown in the United States Madoff couldn't carry his functions and satisfy his Investors requests of cash. He decided to come clean and accept the fraud he has…

the NSA unprecedented power to snoop on your calls without needing to suspect of any unlawful activity. Shortly thereafter, data collection of mobile phone records broadened to include 107 million AT&T users and 55 million Sprint users. After “whistleblower” and former contractor for the CIA, Edward Snowden, leaked documents, it was discovered that the NSA tapped directly into the servers of nine internet firms as well, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to track online…

estate scandal that came as a result led to the former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to be ousted from power in October 2009. When a new government was formed, there was little money left in the government’s coffers so they had to come clean about the true state of things. The revelations coupled with the new higher interest rates which the country was forced to pay caused panic among investors. Mr Lewis uncanny ability to weave stories into a sharp-edged narrative gives people a full…

brought to light for years. The film’s implications seems to hint at collusion from some major publications such as the Wall Street Journal. The film also examines the catastrophe that Madoff brought to his victims lives, as well as the fear the whistleblowers dealt with as they pursued exposing Madoff but also the inner workings of the scheme, the malfeasance of both the SEC and the participation of the various fund managers and investment businesses, or “feeder funds” (Chasing Madoff) that…