Street Research Papers Samples For Students

Consequences

Street racing’s stunts and speed may look exciting and full of adventure to others. However, it is such a very dangerous game to which street racers’ lives is at risk of death. The street racing likely increase the possibilities of car crash incidents causing serious injuries or even deaths (pssg.gov.bc.ca). Such activity could also cause significant damages to our public roads and private properties. After such serious accident happened, the street racers could face consequences such as having their vehicles immediately impounded by the authorities, may need to pay heavy fines and much worse, their driver’s license will ...

‘The wheels ground and the car flew forward. My neck pulled backwards and I was glued to my seat. The car had been engineered for speed. Feeling the speed, I was thrilled and then scared. I screamed, but it was not a scream I expected: it was an ugly howl of fear’ -Heli Vaaranen (Vaaranen and Wieloch 44). There you have it, a typical experience of any first time street racer, a subculture that has been slowly growing in the most parts of the world since the early 1990s pioneered mainly by the Asian Americans in the American State of California. Actually, ...

Occupy Wall Street is a continuing series of protests that were started by a Canadian lobby group called the Adbusters. The protests begun on 17th September, 2011 in Zuccotti Park which is located in the financial district of Wall Street in New York (Stelter 1). The main issues that the demonstrations highlight are corruption, economic inequality, undue influence of large organizations, and high rates of unemployment. Occupy Wall Street is a movement that intends to support a creative strategy for economic justice in the United States of America.

Background

Though the Occupy Wall Street campaign begun officially on 17th September, 2011, its origins can ...

Street gang violence refers to a group of individuals, either juvenile or adults who engage in criminal activities. People involve in delinquent activities for various reasons, for instance to acquire a sense of belonging, gain respect from others, get access to money, enjoyment, or for protection. Street gang violence has become a common challenge in the past three decades, and there is a need to prevent further involvement in such activities. Young people fall into the risk of performing poorly in school, disrespecting their elders, acquiring an aggressive attitude, and undergoing through multiple caretaker transitions. Street gang activities increase the insecurity level in ...

Analysis the Roots and future of Financial Problems in Wall Street

Introduction
Since the recent collapse on Wall Street about five year ago, the nation is still yet to recover from most of the negative effects that came with such a catastrophic event. Millions of American lost their job without prior warning (Barley,2). Most of the men who were adversely affected included those that held positions in the middle and lower income earning categories.
In the light of job loss and chaos in the nation, it was clear that some of the top managers had already acquired their golden parachutes. Investigations show that billions of dollars vanished from ...

Occupy Wall Street Movement

The upset Americans led the Occupy Wall Street movement, which set off in mid September 2011. The main objective of the movement was to fight against greed and corruption that had taken roots in America. Occupy Wall Street protestors claimed that the government had failed to support the 99% of the Americans who were not satisfied with the policies used to govern the country. These protestors accused the government of failing to address the problem of inequalities in income distribution, unemployment issues, excessive compensations for the employees of financial institutions and influence of public corporations on politics. Several parties ...

Abstract

This paper explores the history of gangs and their relationship with drugs in the United States. The existing literature shows that gangs have been around since 18th century, they have evolved over the time to carry out different atrocities in the cities. Research has shown that violence is a way of life for the gang members because it is their main system of justice. The paper also identifies the measures that state agencies should use to curb the illicit trade and save the society from the terror that is associated with this trade. The research has shown that the drug ...

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The project deals with the problem of females’ participation in street gangs, more specifically, the reasons and the roles assumed by them in these criminal groups. Structure and classifications of street bands both in the USA and abroad have been given a particular focus of attention. The research is based on the opinions of key subject field experts, such as jurisprudents, psychologists, and sociologists recorded in psychology and legal journals, as well as topic-related newspaper and journal articles.
Key words: street gangs, women, mobsters, criminal, drugs, initiation
As strange as it may sound, women involvement in organized crime ...

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement is a movement that started at New York City’s financial district which is more popularly known as “Wall Street” sometime September 2011. The protest movement was backed up by known public relations firm “Workhouse” and the Canadian anti-consumerist and pro-environment group “Adbusters”, which resulted in the protest being a spectacular display of people-power in Manhattan. The protesters centered around discussions regarding social and economic inequality, perceived corruption and greed, and the influence of the financial sector on public policy and governance. According to their website, the Occupy Wall Street is a “leaderless resistance movement with ...

Introduction

Scott Schuman is an Indian Native American born on 10 January 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA and once worked with Chess King, as a sales associate in 1980. He attended Indiana University where he graduated with a degree in apparel merchandising and he graduated with a minor degree in costume construction. He is currently an American based fashion photographer who is charged with the creation of Sartorialist. Sartorialist is a fashion blog by Scott. The life of Scott as a Photographer is interesting in that after leaving a fashion sales position to take care of his daughter in the year 2005, he started moving around ...

The paper’s focus will be on the book ‘The House on Mango Street’, particularly, the experiences of the Esperanza family. An investigation of the experiences of Esperanza and her family is critically presented. The way Esperanza and her family relate with her family, community and the existing tensions is also established. As a coming of age novel, Sandra Cisneros’s book is critically analyzed from the social angle. The life of Esperanza Codero illuminates the struggles and experiences of growing up in Chicago. As a young girl, she serves an ideal subject from where we can study the ...

Gangs are considered the sources of violence and danger being treated as the cause of instability and threat to the state. The history of American gangs have a lot of peculiarities distinguishing street gangs of the US from the rest of the world due to uncommon social, ethnical and race background. Howell (2012) being a prominent expert in youth and traditional gangs in America examines the gang phenomena in several major US regions: West, South, Northeast and Midwest. In order to understand the specificity of gangs' activity we need to focus on cultural and migration peculiarities of the gangs.
Population ...

Introduction

The Mexican Mafia or La eMe is a ruthless California prison gang. Formed in the 1950s initially to stay safe inside the prison complex especially from the violence perpetrated by other gangs. The La eMe comprised of a small band of gang leaders of other gangs. This gang at present has allegiance with over one thousand street gangs in Los Angeles alone. The La eMe imposes a code of conduct for other gang members to follow. In addition, it takes a tax for protection purposes. The prison gang operates based on a separate code. The contents include lifetime membership, ...

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In order to give a comprehensive assessment of the ratio of drug trafficking and organized crime, it is necessary to study the history of drug trafficking in the transformation of an important branch of the criminal enterprise - such as how it happened with the bootlegging era of "dry law". As soon as concern over opium derivatives such as morphine and heroin, has led to the adoption of the extremely important on the value of legislation - the Law of Harrison, our historical review will focus on this addictive substance.

Historical Background

In the United ...

The Theme of Death in the fiction of R.L. Stine
Child fiction unquestionably requires an extra surge of imagination on the author’s part and horror fiction requires an even more elevated form of that creativity. When one thinks of horror fiction writers there is a limited list of good authors. R.L.Stine undoubtedly tops that list and is widely renowned for his horror stories especially among teenagers. He shot to fame with his series ‘Goosebumps’ and the extensive use of plot devices in his stories set them apart from other works at the time. However there is an inevitability ...

Shown below is an interesting list of companies with equally interesting issues they have faced in the last 10 years from Forbes Magazine ( 2008). What is interesting to find here is the depth of corporate and personal unethical cases involving people of relatively high educational standings and social standing. The alarming frequency and magnitude of these unethical practices are staggering to say the very least, and yet there seems to be a large scandal waiting to be uncovered every day. This century marks the recognition of dealing with complex business and ethical issues as a priority of corporations around the world.
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Introduction

This research paper seeks to explore the Occupy Wall Street Movement in a bid to examine the moral and economic implications of its agenda as well as analyze them against the various business ethics theories with a view to finding which of the theories suit it best. Further, the paper shall grapple with the question as to who is responsible for the economic inequality that has necessitated the protest by the Movement and whether such inequities developed instantaneously or in a piece-meal fashion. This paper shall put forward an equitable outcome that bodes well for the capitalistic society that is the United ...

Abstract

“Bartleby the Scrivener” is a marvelous short story of the American nineteen century that has been discussed greatly from various disciplinary perspectives over the last century. Bartleby has been seen as a revolutionary figure who intentionally disrupts the capitalist system and has been traced to numerous real people, including Thoreau, Emerson, and even Melville himself. Critics have attached numerous equivalences to the protagonist; therefore, it is important to study the historical, political, and cultural context to choose the proper one. “Bartleby the Scrivener” demonstrated not only allusion to specific people and conflicts in New York but also showed class ...

Introduction

In late 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at a record low. Stock markets around the world nose-dived alongside the DJIA. Turbulence in the sub-prime segment of the US housing market, paralysis of the credit markets, excessive lay-offs in organizations, steep decline in investments etc. were all some of the indicators that the world was heading for a massive credit crunch. In the words of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, head of IMF, “Intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest U.S.-based and European financial institutions have pushed the global financial system to the brink of systemic meltdown” (BBC ...

Sustainability in Saudi Cities

Sustainability in Saudi Cities

Introduction

Both defining and describing the sustainable relationship between the historic and newer built environment of Saudi Arabia’s state capital Riyadh focuses on culture as a mitigating factor in historic preservation and sustainability representative of Saudi cities. This scholarly exploration of the existing construction looks influences on their design from an environmental perspective. The following academic investigation therefore, both compares and contrasts the specifics of the time-honored urban design with the modern.
The following investigative account provides information on the environmental and cultural aspects underpinning traditional urban design versus the adoption of 1970s Western urban ...

A brief overview

ART AND ARCHITECTURE 2
Abstract
Since time immemorial, man has always craved for expressing himself through various media like art, music, dance and literature. In a way, all the forms through which man conveys his creativity and ideas can be categorised under the huge canopy of being ‘art’. Visual arts include the paintings, sculpture, film making, printmaking, street art, photography and several other art forms which are a source of both entertainment and inspiration for people. Architecture includes making of certain objects or buildings in an artistic as well as planned manner. This essay gives a brief overview of several ...

Introduction

The prison system in the United States has followed a system where prisoners are locked away from the rest of society and their families never to be seen nor heard from ever again, it has become a common theme with prison systems. Prisoners are forbidden to see their families, watch movies, and have certain times when items need to be returned so as to eliminate a possible threat against prison staff; many prisons in many states have restricted the rights of all prisoners.
Prisoners in California prisons are a shining example of said treatment, it has gotten to the ...

In the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the titular troublemaker (Matthew Broderick) brings his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) and his friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) with him on a day of hooky in downtown Chicago, skipping their suburban school to get a taste of the big city. As much as the film is an expression of youthful exuberance, carpe diem philosophies and the need to live life by your own rules, writer/director Hughes also uses this opportunity to craft a wonderful love letter to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where he grew up. Says Hughes of the location of ...

Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams was one of the most famous gangsters in America’s history. He was one of the founders and leaders of one of the worst street gangs in America, the Crips. The gang was famous for its violent and predatory activities in the Southern part of Central Los Angeles. Williams led the Crips until December 13th 2005 when he was executed by California State, an event that attracted a lot of international and national attention. Despite the gang’s bad reputation, Williams once admitted that the Crips gang was formed to help eliminate other violent gangs in neighborhoods. ...

When photography arrived about 150 years ago, it was considered as a documentary medium because of the exact replicas of the subject. The technologically advanced cameras and development of photojournalism led to the development of realistic photos. Those photographs were considered a witnesses of reality as they expose the facts of life (Mullen 6). Gradually, manipulation in photography was looked upon to necessary to display the subject accurately. This was because the event was not self-explanatory or clear in photographs at times. Thus, the photographer was compelled at times to edit those images.
Documentary photography is seen to belong ...

The term “redevelopment” of a waterfront can be widely defined depending on the extensive process as well as the planning of the process. Most Port developers consider mainly the internal part of the port. They consider actions like organization and positioning of container terminals to other areas. On the other hand urbanization intends to focus on transforming the former ports for other economic activities that include tourism and recreational activities. On a general definition, redevelopment can be referred to as redesigning of ports although there is no specific definition to describe redevelopment.
It would be of great importance to understand ...

Abstract

The Austonian is considered a remarkable achievement in the history of architectural development in the 21st century. The towering skyscraper sets a new standard of urban luxury living which made the city of Austin proud of its existence. What made Austonian unique from its neighboring counterparts? Its commitment to energy conservation, restoration of natural resources and utilization of construction materials from sustainable resources are the major factors that sets Austonian apart from all other buildings. The Austonian’s effort to restore and incorporate the Brown-Dumas blacksmith shop represents the architecture of cultural significance that recognizes Austinite’s cultural heritage. In these ...

Homeless people, by definition do not have a fixed residence, but that is where the simplicity ends.

“A 2008 survey by the U.S conference of mayors asked 25 cities for their top three causes of homelessness. Drug abuse was the largest single cause of homelessness for single adults reported by 68% of cities.”
Homelessness & Substance Use Disorder Treatment (2010)
Drug abuse and homelessness is a sort of chicken and egg debate not only because of its age and importance but because either can result in either one i.e. someone can become homeless as a result of chronic drug use or a homeless person can become dependent on drugs as a result of homelessness and being exposed to chronic ...

Introduction

The provision of safe, clean and all user friendly roads in towns and cities requires a careful and strategic urban planning process by various involved stakeholders. A carefully implemented urban plan where the ideas obtained from various stakeholders are reviewed carefully will ensure that the needs of all the urban dwellers are put into consideration. Urban planning foresees the needs concerning safety, security and welfare of all citizens in terms of improving infrastructure, provision of abundant water, lighting and energy sources among other necessities.
The relevance of urban planning process which aims at improving and improvising roads and streets ...

One day, while reading the morning newspaper that came to me every day as I sat in my room, I saw an advertisement for a job as a scrivener at a high-powered law firm on Wall Street. I was curious about this, despite the fact that I did not feel particularly up to talking to anyone. For the most part, I tend to find myself feeling very withdrawn, almost catatonic, unwilling to engage with the outside world or expend energy in order to actually get things done. Even so, I felt a desire to try to break those habits, as some unexplainable pull ...

The first question that makes this research extremely useful or meaningful is based on the movement of people and cars in the older eastern areas and newer western areas of the Old City of Jeddah. The question revolves around the main forces behind the disappearance of traditional cities. The two regions have different following the forms of buildings in the area, as well as functions. This is because, excessive movement densities for cars and people can heighten the process of deterioration of the Old City.
The second question that the researcher seeks to address in this research is ...

Final Topic Paper – “I am Bartleby”

In light of the professor’s and group comments, I have made several changes to the paper. First, I removed all explicit mentions of schizophrenia in the work, as that would be ahistorical, and made arguments about Bartleby’s mental condition more even-handed. Most substantially, I have included more work throughout the text of the paper exploring Bartleby’s motivations for his actions throughout the story, focusing somewhat more on his frustration with the futility of capitalist society and its emphasis on hierarchical work structures. I have also completely changed the final paragraph to make it more of a comprehensive ...

Autobiography Assessment of Bernard Baruch

Introduction
Bernard Baruch who was as referred as, ‘the park bench statesman’ is one of the American icons who made his fortune on the Wall Street. Historical records indicate that, though he had many challenges, he managed to succeed in diverse fields. As an icon, he made varied strides in varied fields. As documented, among all the greatest was the time during which he provided service to his country as an adviser in the economic sector. These services were mainly offered during the world wars I and II. He further provided his services as a confidant to six United ...

In 2008, the great depression deepened, and congress passed the Troubled Assets Relief Program i.e., TARP. This program has, however, allocated billions of dollars approximately over $700 billion for aiding the emergency loans to the important financial and several others firms of the United States, which are considered as too big to fail. There were many great intentions and motives behind the creation of Troubled Assets Relief Program, but as a matter of fact this program totally failed as it started stealing from the tax-payers dollars. However, some of the noteworthy recipients of the TARP are Goldman Sachs, Citibank, JP ...

Introduction

Denim jeans could very well be the most prevalent type of clothing on the planet. Odds are you effectively own (no less than) one sets of them. The development of the denim business is noteworthy in the realm of design. Contemporary design is quite often finish group on the off chance that you simply include pants. Pants are worn with tunics and sweaters to go with the sharp looking contemporary design from work to dinner and the night life. Athletic wear and pants for outside work have most likely been supplanted by engineered substitutes the spot for denim in ...

Correlations are repeatedly found in space arrangement studies, and they are largely found between graph-based, configuration measures of street networks. In essence, they are clearly characterized as lines, and observable movement patterns. Therefore, this indicates that both the topological and symmetrical complexity is used to study movement in urban grids analytically. Accordingly, since urban modelling has always been assumed that spatial factors play a role in urban navigation, it has always resulted in numerous difficulties. In addition, the existence of various cognitive and scientific evidence of geometric and topological factors is involved in urban navigation, and the metric distance is ...

Hip-hop is a youth subculture, consisting of several interconnected components: fashion, graffiti, art, DJs, rap, and breakdance. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion and slang. Hip-hop originally appeared in the South Bronx in the 1970s (12 November 1974, to be exact), and has become a part of youth culture in many countries around the world. Since the late 1990s the underground street culture with sharp social orientation, gradually became a part of the music industry, and by the middle of the first decade of this century, a subculture of hip-hop has become «fashionable» and «mainstream». However, despite this, there are plenty of ...

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New Jersey College School of Nursing
ABSTRACT:
Gender-based discrimination against women in the workplace has been generally dictated by the driving factors found in females, defined by them being family-oriented, risking to divert attention from work and fault performance due to pregnancy, appearing to be less physically strong, which may deprive them from a job-related activity requiring good physical strength, or even being threatened to be subjected to a sexual harassment. Nonetheless, the abovementioned reasons do no undermine women’s ability to be valuable employees, fulfill their responsibilities with excellent performance and significantly contribute to their workplace’s success. Women ...

1.0 Introduction
In the 1980s, serious corporate scandals were witnessed forcing scholars, researchers and other stakeholders to wonder whether the existing regulations were adequate to maintain the stability of companies. The need to reconsider the manner in which companies are regulated was further enhanced by an increase in the number of corporate scandals between 2001 and 2002. Due to corporate scandals involving highly esteemed companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen made regulatory agencies among other stakeholders to come up with regulations that would be affective in curbing such scandals. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed in 2002, and the ...

Ethical standards are paramount to good business practices. A sound ethical framework helps establish a sense of community, pride, and accountability within a business or organization. By using ethical problem solving techniques, such as those proposed by Lonergan or Ruggerio, one can better train themselves to understand what ethical responsibility means and address possible circumstances as they arise. When a business fails to keep to good ethical standards a mirade of problems can arise, this was evident in the Adelphia scandal.
When it was reported that the Adelphia Corporation was facing imminent collapse, shock waves ran through the business world. The reveal ...

When analyzing visual art there are many different ways to interpret a painting, sculpture, or work of architecture. Often we think that art should convey factual knowledge about when a piece of art was made and the context it was created. We may also think that the role of art is to discover meaning within a visual image and explore how we respond emotionally to them. Form and content should contain a message. However, there is no true definition of art. Yet the most recognized one is, “Visual art is human expression in a visual form.” (South).
When interpreting what a visual work of ...

The complete lack of ethical leadership displayed in the Enron scandal has hardly been unique over the last decade, but rather seems to be one of many examples of massive corporate fraud, corruption and lack of social responsibility to employees, consumers, shareholders and the general public. Fraud and corruption on Wall Street and the mortgage industry resulted in the worst financial meltdown in history, and WorldCom under the leadership of Bernie Ebbers collapsed in one of the worst corporate frauds in history. Over the last decade, public confidence in corporate leadership and the economic system in general has been ...

In the United States of America, the links between journalism and public reaction easily trace back to 1788 when the Independent Journal and The New York Packet published the original essays for the Federalist Papers serially, giving free rein to public commentary on the issues that were later to become The Bill of Rights. . The technology of the day that made that possible was the moving type printing press and improved delivery systems that brought the papers out to the public on a regular basis. Radio brought the news every day into peoples’ homes. However, public reaction to news changed ...

Introduction

Hip hop culture began in the early 1970s. This occurred when a Jamaican artist, Clive Campbell also known as DJ Kool Herc moved from Kingston to the West Bronx, New York. In West Bronx, Campbell tried to incorporate his Jamaican style of Djaying into the music systems of the Americans. His style involved reciting improvised rhymes over the dub versions of his reggae records. During his initial performances in the city, he tried to adapt his style over the chanting over the percussion sections in the pop songs during that time. With the help of other Clarke Kent and Coke ...

Research Paper

Abstract
The youth is the most at-risk group in terms of gang membership nowadays. It has been found in several studies that gang involvement largely appeal to adolescents, especially those living in poor neighborhoods, estranged or alienated in schools, and in conflict with police authorities or the larger criminal justice system. Researchers reported that the youth turns to gangs to compensate for their lack of adequate and proper socialization. Large communities, or areas with sizable populations, have serious gang-related problems. This paper discusses existing empirical studies on gang formation, membership, and violence. There is a considerable dearth of studies ...

A homeless individual is a person without a regular, satisfactory, and fixed residence for spending a night. The primary residence of such a person is mostly supervised shelter for providing a temporary accommodation. These shelters include emergency shelters and transitional houses that only provide temporary housing. It is a major concern in the US despite being among the most developed countries in the World. Most of the cities in different states in the US are typically faced with the challenge of homelessness. California is among the states that have high levels of street families. Homeless persons usually experience many ...

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Bernie Madoff

Abstract
Bernie Madoff was found guilty of having administered the biggest monetary fraud in the history of the United States. He administered a Ponzi scheme for more than four decades before he got caught. The court sentenced him to prison for 150 years, and his company was dissolved. To increase his credibility for the Ponzi scheme to work, Bernie Madoff used his designation as chairperson of NASDAQ and also used Wall Street as his business point. In addition to that, he used his Jewish background to extract money from Jewish investors. The national authorities of taxation and ...

The city of Colorado Springs is located in south-central Colorado. It sits at the base of Pikes Peak. The elevation is over 6,000 feet above sea level. It is home to several military bases, including Fort Carson, Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Base, NORAD, and the United States Air Force Academy.

As of the 2010 census, the population of Colorado Springs was 416, 427. The white (non-Hispanic) population comprised 78.8 %, Hispanics, 16.1%, and blacks 6.3%. Those of two or more races made up 5.1 %.
The number of people aged twenty-five years or older who had graduated ...

CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION, FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS

5. Findings and Analysis

Lulivo Irving restaurant is located in London. From the graph above, the hotel has 6 nationalities namely Italian, Albanian, Romanian, Egypt, Spanish and Hungarians. Italians are the majority with 6 followed by Albanian, Romanian and Egypt with 2 then Spanish and Hungarians 1 each. British nationals do not work in the hotel because most do not consider it a noble job to do. In the absence of British nationals, the hotel has no option but to employ other nationals thus the diversity.

Graph 2: Piazza Restaurant

Pizza restaurant has 6 nationals namely Italian, Albanian, Romanian, Egyptian, Spanish and Bosnians. Romanians ...

Law

ASSIGNMENT ONE:Memorandum
RE: Employer-employee relationship between Mel and Alice
The issue in this case is whether there was an employer-employee relationship that existed between Mel and Alice that will meet the criteria established in Amarnare.
In this given case, Alice was hired by Ex-See-Lindt Staffing to work as a temporary legal secretary at Mel’s Law Offices, but she was being paid by Ex-See-Lindt. However, Alice got her hours, assignments, and training from Mel’s and was required by Ex-See-Lindt to report to work each day in a timely manner. She was informed that she will get paid ...

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Sociologists believe that both deviance and race are things that have been socially constructed in the society and have been embedded in people’s way of life (Innes, 2003, p.34). Deviance attributes to the actions of one defiling the social norms engrained in the society, which causes one to be marginalized in a given society. Race is also a social construct of the society based on one’s phenotype, which often results to the stereotypes of certain people in the society (Lemelle, 1995, p.56). This paper will discuss how race impacts deviance behavior and sparks a ...

Evidence abounds that online retail stores such as Amazon and eBay are causing brick-and-mortar stores to close down. Whether reducing their portfolio of stores or going out of business altogether, owners of physical stores are facing a daunting challenge when competing with online retailers that are increasingly attracting customers.
The most important reason that customer chose online shopping over going to a physical store is comfort. Next in line comes availability. Not only is the customer afforded the comfort of sitting at home or anywhere to browse through hundreds of products at the click of a button, he or she is ...

The Rise and fall of the "Occupy" Movement

Societies have evolved with time caused by the ever dynamic and changing needs of mankind due to a variety of factors-- these changes have, in turn, resulted in demands in policies and structures that have impacted on the society in either positive or negative ways. As a result, there have been sociological developments and reactions towards these changes across many parts of the world. It has either approved or disapproved such changes such as observed through actions in mass movement occupations among many other methods. Many prominent thinkers have postulated that the growing difference between the rich and the poor can ...

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Arabic Spring with Special Focus on Egypt
Arab Spring started in December 2010 and engulfed the entire Arab peninsula in very short span of time. It overthrew the long established monarchies and dictatorship through public protests and demonstrations ably helped by the social media. The main actors in the Arab spring have been the Arab youth and social media and both in coordination fought against the corruption and poverty prevailing in Arab society (Lauri 2). Among many other Arab countries, Egypt has been one country where protestors achieved their goal of overthrowing Hosni Mubarak in a record short time of ...

Abstract

This research paper was had one objective: to investigate the circumstances that saw the Kuwait Gulf Bank survive a financial crisis. Kuwait Gulf Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in Kuwait and, therefore, one of Kuwait’s major lenders. Before the financial crisis, the Bank had been very successful in its operations. It first became operational in 1961 after having been established in Fahad al-Sahem Street the previous year. Its headquarters were, however, later moved to Abdulla al-Sahem Street three years later. In the years following that, it has continued to grow and has been able to finance ...

Abstract

Social development often comes with a series of problems that generally identifies the concept of survival of the residents of a particular domain. As for the United States and its people, such series of problems could be accounted against the emergence of gangs and the conflicting values they share with the government and the society as a whole. In the discussion that follows, a distinct presentation on how gangs developed in the country and how such history redefined the face of the American society shall be given attention to.

Gangs and Drugs in the United States

Introduction
The word ‘gang’ is simply noted as a term that refers to the ...

Black Wall Street refers to Tulsa, Oklahoma – a place north east of the state of Oklahoma. In the late 2oth century, the Tulsa area, informally referred to as the Negro Wall Street back then, was home to the wealthiest African American businessmen. The community was vibrant and thriving, especially considering that infrastructure was exceptionally laid down, and that the African Americans of Tulsa had already established the social amenities that are associated with convenience. Perhaps it is difficult to believe, but a dollar could circulate between 36 and 100 times before leaving the Black Wall Street (Johnson, 2007). Today, a dollar circulates ...

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The characteristic that differentiates bootleggers and music downloaders is that the former usually acknowledge their practices as violations of the laws and regulation regarding the copyright and try hard not to be detected. Generally, these collectors of bootlegged material “recognize their own activities as breaking copyright laws or carrying social connotations of deviance” (Wiest, 2007). Thus, bootlegging is an activity that is more prevalent under the ground and is commonly done in record shops located back street (Wiest, 2007).
Bootlegging on the Internet is increasing day by day and this practice ...

Action forcing events.

The situation in Wall Street remains one of extreme fluidity both after the huge crash of 2008 as well as after the rise in flotations and privatizations which have continued dominating the financial markets of late. Government intervention remains important and this has proved to be largely successful over the past months and has saved several banks from total collapse. The action which was taken by the US government in saving banks such as Bear Sterns and Lehmann Brothers also saved the financial system from total collapse and ruin thus creating a pool for survival which continues to this day.

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Introduction

Nordstrom, Inc. is the company of interest in this discussion. Nordstrom, Inc. is an upscale retailer native to America that sells brand name and private label accessories and apparel merchandise. Initially, the founders started the company in 1901 as a shore store. Since then, the company has grown tremendously, and is now offering a variety of products and services beyond shoes including fragrances, cosmetics, and jewelry. Throughout this report, Nordstrom’s brief background, financial overview, business sector, target market analysis, business operations as compared to competitors, as well as strategies to sustain the business will be discussed.

Company Overview

Nordstrom, Inc. ( ...