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  • Analysis of the Prison Guard

    Analysis of the Prison Guard

    The purpose of this paper is to give a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the life and role of the correctional officer. When society, as a whole, is in discussion of the career of a correctional officer, most of the images that spring to mind are that these employees of the correctional enterprise are solely in charge of keeping order in America’s prisons. While this is indeed true, there is undoubtedly more to the life of

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    Essay Length: 4,434 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Book Report: Slavery in Florida

    Book Report: Slavery in Florida

    The book entitled Slavery In Florida was written in 2000 by Larry E. Rivers. Rivers is a professor of history at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He is also the author of more than twenty articles in refereed scholarly journals, including the Florida Historical Quarterly and the Journal of Negro History. His work has earned the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Carter G. Woodson Award and the Florida Historical

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    Essay Length: 645 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Jack
  • The American Prison System

    The American Prison System

    The American Prison System The American Prison system is home to many of the nations criminals. The ever-growing population is due in part to incarceration, where an alternate punishment would suffice. The sustenance of the inmates is drawn directly of of society's pocket, in the form of taxes. I believe that we, as a nation, should focus on providing more sensible, economical ways for criminals to pay off their debt to the community. There is

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    Essay Length: 868 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: David
  • Manufacturer Brand and Private Brand

    Manufacturer Brand and Private Brand

    Manufacturer Brand and Private Brand “To survive in such a competitive market place, companies must build brands in order to create a strong differentiation in the market, attract customers with a credible value proposition and to constantly engage customers in ways that would endear them to the brand and to the company” said Martin Roll, the brand guru. These words encompass the whole ethos behind investment in branding. Manufacturers with their financial prowess invest huge

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    Essay Length: 803 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jon
  • Private Security Contractors

    Private Security Contractors

    Private security contractors (PSC’s) are being utilized around the globe for military related purposes. One such contractor is Blackwater USA. Blackwater USA is the self proclaimed, “most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world” (www.blackwaterusa.com). In short, they provide training and solutions aimed at supporting security, peace, freedom, and democracy anywhere on the planet (www.blackwater.usa.com). Recently, Blackwater has been involved in projects related to Iraq and in New

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    Essay Length: 619 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Are We or Are We Not the Prisoners?

    Are We or Are We Not the Prisoners?

    Are we or are we not the prisoner or our own conceptions? In the cave allegory, Plato describes the human condition as a type of blissful ignorance. I agree with Plato that we are prisoners of our own belief. In this essay, I describe my own opinions and issues to answer some of the questions. The first question that I would like to discuss is, Are we prisoners to our own beliefs and notions of

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    Essay Length: 774 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: regina
  • Prison Inmate Education

    Prison Inmate Education

    The article “The Impact of Career and Technical Education Programs on Adult Offenders: Learning Behind Bars” by Howard Gordon and Bracie Weldon (2003) studies of how prisoners receiving educations in prison reduces the recidivism rate. Gordon and Weldon studied the inmates who were participating in the educational programs at the Huttonsville Correctional Center in West Virginia and claimed that inmates who participated in the educational programs were less likely to recidivate once released back

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    Essay Length: 1,830 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: David
  • An Alternative for Prison

    An Alternative for Prison

    America's prisons have been called "graduate schools for crime." It stands to reason: Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell- block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to it. Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live by violence. They take the nonviolent offender and

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    Essay Length: 1,245 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Review of Saving Private Ryan

    Review of Saving Private Ryan

    Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan is a story of the terror of war and human sacrifice. Directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Sam Weisman, Robert Evans, Kenneth Branagh, and Judy Davis, starring Tom Hanks(John Miller), Matt Damon(James Ryan), and Tom Sizemore, the motion picture bursted onto the big screen on July 24, 1998 and went on to win five academy awards. I saw the movie when it came out on video with my family

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    Essay Length: 752 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Relationship Between Sugar and Slavery in the Early Modern Period.

    The Relationship Between Sugar and Slavery in the Early Modern Period.

    "No commodity on the face of the Earth has been wrested from the soil or the seas, from the skies or the bowels of the earth with such misery and human blood as sugar" ...(Anon) Sugar in its many forms is as old as the Earth itself. It is a sweet tasting thing for which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste, rather cane sugar has been

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    Essay Length: 4,711 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

    The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

    The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison Jeffrey Reiman, author of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, first published his book in 1979; it is now in its sixth edition, and he has continued to revise it as he keeps up on criminal justice statistics and other trends in the system. Reiman originally wrote his book after teaching for seven years at the School of Justice (formerly the Center for

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Are Public Companies More Unethical Than Private Companies?

    Are Public Companies More Unethical Than Private Companies?

    Public vs. Private Do publicly held companies foster an environment conducive for committing criminal acts more than privately held companies? By XXX MNGT 6000 Webster University Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine and determine whether or not publicly traded companies are more prone to foster an environment conducive for criminal acts than those of privately held companies. Due to the enormity of the research, only companies owned in the United States will

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    Essay Length: 500 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Victor
  • Slavery

    Slavery

    For purposes of this discussion, it is the intent of this author to assess the plight of African Americans at a time when they were merely slaves, captives taken forcibly by rich white American merchants to a new and strange land called America. Right from the very beginning, slavery was a controversial issue. It was fraught with the constant reminder of man's inhumanity to man. This was evidenced in the literature as well as movements

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    Essay Length: 1,406 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Modern Slavery

    Modern Slavery

    Lehman, David Lehman 1 English 2 Honors Gifted 14 May 2007 Mrs. K. Doyle Modern Slavery Our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln spoke the following words in the Emancipation Proclamation, which were meant to free all slaves in the United States from bondage in 1863. “That on the first day of January A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion

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    Essay Length: 906 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Jean Lafitte: Pirate, Gentleman, or Privateer?

    Jean Lafitte: Pirate, Gentleman, or Privateer?

    JEAN LAFITTE: PIRATE, GENTLEMAN, OR PRIVATEER? The dictionary defines a gentleman as “a man who combines gentle birth or rank with chivalrous qualities (2): a man whose conduct conforms to a high standard of propriety or correct behavior d (1): a man of independent means who does not engage in any occupation or profession for gain.”4 Nowhere in the historical references does it support a birth of nobility for the “gentleman”. The Merriams-Webster dictionary defines

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    Essay Length: 2,112 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Prison: Punishment or Vacation

    Prison: Punishment or Vacation

    Prison: Punishment or Vacation. Three hot meals a day, free education, and shelter from the elements, does this sound good to any one? I bet it does, especially to the 737,304 homeless people who according to the human rights record of the United States in 2005, have none of these thing that are given daily to murderers, rapists, and drug dealers. I think it is great that people who kill other people get sent to

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: regina
  • Moder Slavery

    Moder Slavery

    Our Modern slavery Slavery is defined as the state of being under the control of another person. Slavery was a great stain in our history and was abolished in 1865, but however it still exists to this day. Actually the slave trade today is stronger and larger than it ever was. There are over 30 million slaves all over the world today. It is an insult to humanity that slavery is still allowed to exist

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    Essay Length: 1,982 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Rmb Private Bank

    Rmb Private Bank

    1. Introduction 2 2. Problem Stated 3 3. Company Background 3 Company History 3 RMB Private Banks Philosophy 4 4. Environmental Analysis 4 4.1 Pest Analysis 4 Political environment 4 Economic 5 Global Economic Forecast 5 Emerging Market and Developing Economies 6 Recent National Economic conditions 6 Significance to private banking 6 Social 7 Legal 8 Technological 8 4.2 Porters 5 Forces 9 Competative pressures associated with the threat of new entrants into the market

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    Essay Length: 9,412 Words / 38 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: regina
  • Slavery and Freedom

    Slavery and Freedom

    For Edmund S. Morgan American slavery and American freedom go together hand in hand. Morgan argues that many historians seem to ignore writing about the early development of American freedom simply because it was shaped by the rise of slavery. It seems ironic that while one group of people is trying to break the mold and become liberated, that same group is making others confined and shattering their respectability. The aspects of liberty, race, and

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    Essay Length: 902 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Prisoner’s Rights

    Prisoner’s Rights

    I do not believe a prisoner should have rights anywhere near the same extent as a free citizen who has not committed crimes has. When a person commits a crime he gives up his rights. People have rights because they are believed to be responsible, honest, and trustworthy citizens. If they commit a crime they prove that they are not responsible, honest, trustworthy people. If these men and women have all these rights in

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    Essay Length: 824 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: July
  • The Handmaid’s Tale and Beloved: Slavery Vs.Freedom

    The Handmaid’s Tale and Beloved: Slavery Vs.Freedom

    Both The Handmaid's Tale and Beloved are stories about slavery: escape from slavery and the effect slavery has on people. In The Handmaid's Tale, the protagonist, Offred, tells the reader of her experience as a reproductive slave in a society that no longer exists. Beloved gives the reader a look at what life is like for a "free" slave, from the point of view of its main characters through a series of flashbacks. While both

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    Essay Length: 1,019 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Obesity: A Public or Private Issue?

    Obesity: A Public or Private Issue?

    Obesity: A Public or Private Issue? Imagine a world where a school aged child can step out of their school and walk into a McDonalds. A world where soda companies make millions of dollars a year by placing soda machines in schools. A world where 30.5 percent of adults are considered obese. A world where obesity is killing more people than smoking. What if I told you this world is not in your imagination but

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Edward
  • Public Vs. Private Schools

    Public Vs. Private Schools

    Private education and public education both has his similarities and differences. Most educators, parents have bought into a belief that education can be "religion-neutral". They are convinced that teachers can train the mind without shaping attitudes, behavior, or spiritual beliefs. The company goes something like this: the government schools will supply the raw data (the "neutral" facts), and parents can add the value system at home. Even in school is that try their level best

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Stenly
  • A Rewriting of Moll Flander’s Prison Scene

    A Rewriting of Moll Flander’s Prison Scene

    The Adventures of Jemy, who was born in London and lived for Fourscore Years, was 30 years a Highwayman, Married a Woman who Deceived Him and Whom he Deceived, later was Transported as a Felon to Virginia, Remarried the Same Woman, and Repentant. Taken from his Journals. I was strolling in the press-yard, contemplating the rumors I had heard of a Mrs. Flanders who was to send me to the gallows to save her own

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    Essay Length: 516 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Establishment of Slavery

    Establishment of Slavery

    .) During the periods of 1607 and 1709 the establishment of slavery was very important to the success of the colonies in Virginia areas. The land around Virginia and the Chesapeake bay was ideal location due to is rich soil and farmland as well as its closeness to the river ports making trading much more efficient and easy to conduct. For these reasons this area became a center for farmers. Virginia success was closely aligned

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    Essay Length: 443 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mikki

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