White-collar crime

paper will argue that white-collar crime is indeed crime and it is more damaging in the grand scheme of things than common crime, and should be treated as such. Furthermore, this paper argues that the rich get richer and the poor…

White-Collar crimes are usually non-violent crimes which occur in corporate structured organizations. In the words of Edwin Sutherland, a crime committed by a person in a high status position and respectability in the course of their profession or occupation (Brody and Kent 2010). Financial fraud, embezzlement, insider trading, identity theft, and forgery are a few examples of crimes of a corporate nature. A white-collar crime described as “the largest Ponzi-type scheme in Canadian history”…

Some Invisibilia listeners wore a white "doctors" coat and some did not while naming off the color of the text in which color names were printed. Professor Galinsky's experiment found that when wearing the "doctor's" white coat, half as many errors happened. However, another group went through the same task wearing the same coat but were told it was a "painter's" coat. The results…

The play, “For The Loyal” was chosen to be read for our semester final. “For The Loyal,” was written by Lee Blessing. The play has not been out for very long, it was first performed on April 24, 2015 at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “For The Loyal” takes place at a College University where the young married couple of the play, Mia and Toby reside. Mia is a graduate student whom is with child, while her husband Toby is an assistant football coach for the University football…

dmittedly, the last three things make my blood boil, because they are an eyesore! Pocket square, hence the word SQUARE! Your pocket square should be neat, fold the fabric into a SQUARE! It shouldn’t look like a clown napkin, like you pushed it down into the pocket and slowly pulled it out so it could collapse on your chest. Generally speaking, your tie should JUST reach the waistband of your trousers, or slightly shorter, if you can’t take your jacket off because your tie looks like your…

Mike rose speaks about his mother “Rosie” as a waitress at a local restaurant, Mike began to study the working habits of “blue collar workers” his mother in particular. He realized that his mother 's type of work required “demands on both the body and the brain”. Although this wasn 't your typical career it was none the less a career that required extensive knowledge and on the…

Little Miss Sunshine starts off with the Ms. America beauty pageant. A young child name Olive Hoover, is watching the pageant on the television, fascinated with the events taking place. This film starts to address the idea of if there is only winners and losers, and how to be a winner. The point gets strongly put across as the father believes that you have to think you will win, and that is how you become a winner. The film becomes an eye opener for the viewers because it shows the amount of…

dream until one day the truth finally came out and Rothstein was nothing more than a con artist. First, and foremost when we think of Ponzi schemes we think of White-collar crime. Crime committed by people with higher authority, the elite as some may view it. The reason Ponzi schemes do not get the same attention and air time as do street crime, is…

Many people believe that you are a product of your environment, and that you don’t have any choices in what you believe or the paths that you take in life. I believe that you make your own choices in life, and can really be successful in any situation if you set your mind to it. You are your own person, and can make your own decisions. Throughout the readings you can see this over and over again. In “Don’t Blame the Eater” you see a young man make positive choices in his life after being dealt a…

The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich, Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff, and Nuclear Waste by Richard A. Muller are all pieces of literature in the book They Say, I say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. These pieces give readers an example of different types of college level writing samples with the purpose providing them with a source of influence to assist in further developing their own skills. Just by looking at the titles you can can tell these writings…