Essays on Betraying

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Conscription means compulsory enrolment in the armed forces and has a history of centuries in several parts of the world. Mass conscription has played a major role in helping major powers display their strength on the armed front and overcome their enemies. Historically, conscription has been used a means to ensure the country has enough numbers to counter threats and defeat their borders. Even though conscription has been part of the national policy for several kingdoms of the past, the United States did draft before the start of the Civil War. As the South seceded, the Confederate states called ...

On December 2, 2015, the usually peaceful city of San Bernardino in California went through turmoil as 14 of its residents were killed and 22 others seriously injured in what seemed to be an unprovoked terrorist attack. Although the suspect and his foreign-born wife were eventually subdued in a gunfight that ended in their deaths, another battle took place in court as the tech giant Apple and the FBI locked horns over the issue of prying into the contents of the gunman’s iPhone. What the investigation agency wanted was for Apple to write a code that would allow ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

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Written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, The Third Man has been rated as "one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition, and beautifully produced" (AMC Filmsite).Voted as the number one British Film of the 20th Century by the respected British Film Institute, this film set in post-World War II Vienna begins with the protagonist Holly Martins, played by Joseph Cotten, arriving in Vienna from USA to meet and work with his childhood pal Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles. It is the friendship between Harry Lime and ...

According to Cooperation Commons (Para 1), prisoner’s dilemma is a situation in which the parties might fail to agree even when it is in the best interests of the two to agree. The term was coined by Melvin Dresher and Merrill Flood who were working at RAND back in 1950. The term prisoner’s dilemma came about because the scenario was formulated from the prison perspective where two prisoners are convicted with no proof of the crime. If they do not cooperate, they both risk having a lesser sentence. However, if any betrays the other, the one who betrays is ...

Arthur Miller’s iconic play Death of a Salesman is rife with symbolism, rich characters that welcome in-depth study and debate, relationships between different characters that warrant close examination and themes and motives that range from statements about the American Dream and socioeconomics to the importance of place, feminism, gender roles and familial relationships. One of the most prominent themes in Death of a Salesman is that of betrayal. Arthur Miller thoroughly and effectively examines betrayal and the different forms it can take. Betrayal and abandonment, a form of a betrayal, characterize nearly all of the significant relationships in the play, particularly the ...

The dictionary definition of moral integrity is “steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code” (American Heritage Dictionary, 2009). To my mind, that speaks primarily to a sense of ethics; people have to decide upon what they believe is right and wrong, and style their life after that definition. For the most part, that dictionary definition is correct, as there is no one universal sense of morality – one simply has to act on what they believe is right. To that end, I would revise the dictionary definition of moral integrity, appending its existing definition with the phrase “without conscious betrayal ...

Isaac Beshavis Singer’s short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” tells the tale of a young woman in 19th-century Poland who, in her desire to study the Torah, dresses up as a man and calls herself Anshel when she moves to a yeshiva. While there, Yentl wrestles both with her feelings for a fellow student, Avigdor, and the morally gray nature of what she is doing. Singer’s tale shows the complexities of gender politics in the typically-conservative Hasidic Jewish society, the nature of religion, and interesting questions of identity through Yentl’s journey. The evolution of Yentl as a character is very fascinating, ...