Not only had some of their cops become robbers, but also the crimes had to be uncovered by a suburban police force, which proved to be very embracing to the City of New York. ... The Mollen Commission has not uncovered a citywide organization of payoffs among the 30,000-member force as the Knapp Commission did 21 years earlier. ... Dowd described how nearly the entire precinct patrol force would meet at times at an isolated location, where they would drink, shoot off guns in the air and plan their illegal drug raids. ... The powers given by the state to the police to use force have always caus...

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How is it possible for corrupt individuals to maintain stability and govern? ... Hannah Arendt would look at it from another perspective; individualism being the main force. ... According to Machiavelli, "Where the individual are not corrupt, conflicts and other crises do no harm; where they are corrupt, the best-planned laws are useless, unless the laws are imposed by someone who uses ruthless methods to make people obey him, until the individuals themselves become good.... This is exactly the cause of corruption when a leader needs to use force to implement laws until the people themse...

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In a single page, Hitler had already condemned Jews as not only being physically corrupt and unclean, but morally corrupt as well. ... Not only is the Jew useless and corrupt, but the very nature of the Jew actually forces him to be corrupt. ... Kerchaw recognizes that Hitler used fear and hatred Jews as a bonding force, as a way to force all patriotic Germans to be behind him without leaving any dissenting voices; "All splits were to be avoided in the struggle against the most terrible enemy of the German peopleJewry and Marxism" (Kerchaw 265). ...

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Again this sounds a great deal like the means in which America was founded, by brut force. ... In addition to exploiting Native Americans, Astor succeeded in forcing his employees in the western wilderness to buy from company owned stores at exorbitant prices (Meyers 1936; Rugoff 1989). ... On the basis of testimony presented by Joseph Valachi to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in 1963, the commission's Task Force on Organized Crime was able to construct an organization chart of the typical Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, family. ... The Sicilian immigrant...

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While a collectivist society demands people to work in groups to acquire intelligence, wisdom, and skills from the social dynamics of their workplace, human feelings prevail the fact that happiness is the ultimate force which one desire the most beyond anything to deliver the ultimate value in life. ... He indirectly poses the question, "How can people make the ultimate choice between right and wrong in a corrupted world?... Although Rand is being skeptical by saying that happiness is the state of consciousness which comes from the achievement of one's values, he is hopeful that thro...

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Sydney is beautiful yet corrupt, as is the case with the two protagonists in the novel. ... She does not live up to the typical feminine nor masculine stereotypes, forcing the reader to comply with the idea that nothing is as it first seems. Harry Lavender is the other main character, Valentines intellectual equal yet with motives that completly oppose her own, his intentions cruel and corrupt. ... Lavender establishes himself to the reader and Claudia alike, as the powerful and enigmatic force over the city, even Claudia is under his capture- and by personifying the city, Lavender can have ho...

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This forced relocation of able-bodied workers took generations of Africans from their home countries, leaving West Africa with a small labor force to perform the jobs created by the demand of ship making and manufacturing. The combination of a small labor force and the exploitation of the resources left West Africa to be susceptible to government turmoil and corrupt leaders. ... Peeples also mentions the three West African countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, had corrupt government leaders who probably stripped from health services, environmental protection and public education. ...

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Although Athens was a great state as well, its government quickly became corrupted therefore becoming vulnerable for conquest by other republics or principalities. ... However, with time the kings of Rome became corrupt since other forms of government were not incorporated into it. ... This also became corrupt when the originators of the new regime were replaced with new inexperienced rulers. ... Skinner goes onto say: "They all perceived that the three "pure" constitutional forms- monarchy, aristocracy, democracy- are inherently unstable, and tend to generate a cycle of corruption and dec...

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It was the beginning of the sixteenth century when the Catholic Church had become extremely powerful, especially across Europe, but "internally corrupt". ... These Reformers opposed to the way the Catholic Church was running, therefore conflict against the church arose amongst scholars, and the Roman Catholic Church started to divide - Protestants were determined to break away from their corrupt religion and form their own. ... The practice of indulgences led to a corrupt way of living a pure Christian life. ... The Reformation and the Counter/Catholic Reformation was the intellectual coun...

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Similarly, despite the vitality of Gatsby's vision of her, Daisy remains a curiously beautiful fraud of a hopelessly corrupt world, which is ambiguous to Gatsby and his ignorance as a dreamer. ... Gatsby ultimately knows in his heart that his lifestyle with be his eventual downfall and that her fervor for only the finest aspects have life, have corrupted his destiny of reclaiming his aristocratic roots. ... In comparing this backward-driving force to the current of a river, Fitzgerald presents it as both inexorable and, in a sense, an inevitable aspect of humanity. ... The Great Gatsby i...

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Jackson, after the "corrupt bargain" between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, believed that the electoral process needed to change (Remini, p.17). ... Madison stated that "No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgement, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity" (Federalist 10, p.48). ... The court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was a "distinct community" with self-government "in which the laws of Georgia can have no force." ... Madison warns us of a time such as this when a man attempts to be a judge in his own affairs, "No man is a...

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It stated that American Companies have been bounded since 1977 under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. ... The example on Disney's plants which were accused of conducting the business unethically in a way that they ill-treated their employees by forcing them to work up to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week without overtime. ... It stated that if bribery, corrupt practices and favouritism in business dealings become the norm rather than the exception in the society, it will lead to a decline in the economy as well as social values. ...

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Ironically, due to their sheer numerical superiority, workers and peasants should be the main force of any potential mass movement. ... The workers also emphasized that their grievances were in line with the parties laws and policies, and drew a clear wedge between national leaders and corrupted local officials. ... Their revolt was simply based on economic grievances they had to pay unbearable amount of taxes to the corrupted local officials, and when they could no longer afford they would be treated brutally by shock teams. ... Yet the government did not force the people to stop their furiou...

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Unlike Australia, Singapore functions independently from the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector, in fact only 0.1% of its labour force is agriculturally based. ... As of 2013, the labour force participation rate rose to a new high in Singapore. Females and older residents joined the labour force, raising labour force participation rate for the second consecutive year to a new high of 66.7% as shown in Figure 5 below. The rate of females' participation in the labour force rose significantly over the decade from 50.9% in 2003 to 58.1% in 2013 while the labour force participation rate ...

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Under the new reforms, which called for "A factory for every village," millions of peasant workers left their farms and went into the labor force. ... Rural corruptive cadres were no longer in control of the agricultural scene, and therefore, "skilled, better educated, more technologically inclined, younger, and with the necessary "connections" to make things happen," took their place. ... If a politician were able to force reform upon the political parties while slowly introducing the idea of democracy, perhaps the day will come when the world will acknowledge the democratic nation of Chi...

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We see it again with more force in Gorboduc when the King cannot restore his kingdom from his sons. ... King Lear's reign ends because of his foolishness and his corrupt daughters deceit. ... He developed the idea that a corrupt society needs to find a strong leader(who is not necessarily moral) to govern so that the people can learn to be capable of self-government. ...

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Romantics believed that man, while certainly capable of evil, was inherently good natured, but that civilization as a whole was flawed and corrupt. ... Like Romanticism, one of its core teachings was that individuals were capable of both good and evil, yet institutions such as organized religions and political parties, could turn individuals corrupt. ... Individuals would perform acts of good or evil throughout their lives and tip the balance of light and dark, but there was no true force of evil taking part. ...

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These novels illustrate the corruptive influences colonialism had on social dynamic between family members, quality of life and gender inequality. ... The social changes bought by colonialism also had a corruptive influence on women's sense of purpose and self-identity. ... This diminishing of optimism becomes evident when Njoroge listened to one of his peers, Karanja, excitedly delineate the deception of the white police force by Dedan Kimathi, leader of the African Freedom Army. ...

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Divorce In 1995, Statistics Canada data shows that 30% of marriages split (McGovern). Since the 1960"'s, marriage and divorce have been undergoing profound changes which have altered the meaning of marriage, the chances of its ending in divorce and the circumstances attached to marriage. These chang...

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Human Trafficking - A Definition The United Nations defines human trafficking as "the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation." ... Given the high stakes involved, the process of human trafficking is a highly complicated one that includes corrupt offic...

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In accordance to Gandhi's beliefs, Colonial Imperialism is a movement in which brute force is used to force religion and gain control over natural resources. Furthermore, this is the poison that has corrupted Ancient Civilization, and in accordance to Hind Swaraj is viewed as unjust and immoral. ... The conservatives wanted repression by force, but the Indian government did not want to risk policies that would strip mutiny-like behavior. ...

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There are often political factors involved in why some countries remain poor, and one of those is a corrupt government. ... There are 250 million adolescent girls in poverty today, the nike foundation believe 'they are the most powerful force for change on the planet'. ... According to the nike foundation that if we consider these possibilities in these two countries and multiply that by the 250 million individuals and you get the most powerful force for positive change on the planet. ... Girls will learn about their sexual health, their rights and receive an education relevant to t...

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In this way, the form of the novel reflects its function, creating a world in which Cervantes entertains and tutors us, manipulating our notion to force us to examine them more closely. Don Quixote tries to be a living example of a knight-errant in an attempt to force his social group to face their own failure to maintain the old system of morality, the chivalric rule. ... Several even propose that their government should practice restriction to prevent the wicked misjudgments of certain books from corrupting innocent minds such as Don Quixote's. ... Despite these pure mistakes produced ...

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Obama Care will force all Americans to pay for the execution of our unborn brothers and sisters. ... The founder and chairman of Liberty counsel and dean of LUSL, Mat Stayer said this, "Congress exceeded its' power by forcing every employer to provide federally mandated insurance. ... Requiring religious employers to purchase a product that violates their religious convictions is immoral and corrupt. The Affordable Care Act is forcing Christians to purchase an insurance policy that provides their employees with free access to contraceptive and abortion drugs that they would not have ...

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The majority of people in developed countries will look toward state violence and deem it as either in the name of national security or they will speak out against it in the name of brutality or an excessive use of force. A state will only use excessive force when it knows it has lost all other power over the people it chooses to oppress; this has been evident in many revolutions or uprisings both violent and non-violent. ... Non-violence succeeds through the use of positive media coverage society will be more sympathetic towards peaceful protestors, though the actions of the oppressing poli...

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