The political and military hierarchy continued to be inept and corrupt. ... They had the fourth largest air force in the world and a massive navy. ... Corrupt military personnel sold supplies on the black market and embezzled funds. ... The South Vietnamese air force refused to defend the ground troops. ... The Saigon failed to reform its corrupt and oppressive tactics. ...
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...
The image becomes a metaphor for the management of human desires as well as the state of affairs of a country and corrupt kingdom. ... There is, however, a common theme among the three plays to eliminate the "weeds,"" or corrupt forces that destroy or contaminate the garden. ... Hamlet's desire for his "sullied flesh- to melt also reveals his disgust for the human body as if it corrupts and contaminates the garden. ... The poison Lucianus uses to kill the Player King is made of "midnight weeds collected,"" which evokes the deadly, invasive force of weeds in Hamlet's first speec...
Each character is corrupt or has been affected by corruption. ... The major corrupt aspect was the constitution at the time. ... Another corrupt aspect of the past was discipline. Only recently has it been enforced that striking your children should be avoided and disciplining children in schools by using force like the cane has been made illegal. ... It also shows that not everyone was corrupted in a bad way. ...
They force Hester to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest as a constant reminder of her wrongdoing, and she soon becomes the model for sin throughout the town. ... Religion too, causes Governor Bellingham and Reverend Wilson to become corrupt, as they use it to try and take Hesters child away from her. ... Both men become corrupt and unforgiving due to their zealous and fanatical religious beliefs. ... It is able to corrupt and blind those who choose to follow it and it punishes those who don't. Religion was able to corrupt and hinder many of the characters in the novel, just like...
Corrupt governments and political leaders promoted imperialism and nationalism in search of overall power. ... By the early 1900's a large portion of Africa had been colonized by European nations that took control with force, using then modern weapons. ... Corrupt political and military parties are held accountable for these atrocities. ... An imperial government that chooses to take control of another inhabited region would most likely do so through force. ... It takes human force, such as government power, to animate these terms. ...
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...
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). ...
The president of Panama subsequently fired Noriega from commander of the Panamanian Defense Force. ... Noriega himself although still sustained most of the power within the Panama Defense Force. ... Noriega was a corrupt dictator heading an efficient narco-militaristic regime in Panama. ... He believed the U.S. would not result to force to capture him. ... Lengthy negotiations and moderate means may send the wrong signals to corrupt authoritarian leaders who play foreign policy games by their own rules. ...
Most recently as President George Bush was winning support from the Senate and House on authority to use force against Iraq, the news media was painting a different picture. ... The government made it look as a Communist guerrilla movement that used terror and coercion to force the South Vietnamese into submission. ... It was just 50 years ago that democracy won over fascism but not by just force. ... Through the persuasiveness of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, along with the media's assistance, the United States became the force of democracy. Despite that positive role, "the...
The more power one gains, the more corrupt they become. ... The force which drives Lady Macbeth to do anything in this play is her thirst to achieve more power than the power she already has. ... She corrupts his life, and sets him, too, on the same quest for power she is on. ... This depicts her exposed corrupted insides from her quest for power. ... The lives of the individual and those around him or her are shattered and corrupt. ...
Chaos and corrupt actions followed, which led to the XYZ Affair. ... This election was known as the "Corrupt Bargain". ... It was revenge for the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824. ... They did not agree with the American System, they felt it was unconstitutional, that it violated the rights of states and localities, and also that it would tax honest citizens in order to benefit corrupt insiders. ... Finally, the Compromise Tariff of 1833 and the Force Bill brought both issues to a quiet end during Jackson's tenure. ...
It was aimed at controlling the "interests" (liquor distillers) and their connections with venal and corrupt politicians in city, state, and national governments. ... But law-enforcement officials and mob experts say the five families, while not the force they once were, are far from sleeping with the fishes. ... Not only did Prohibition create crime organization, but it also, corrupted law enforcement, the court system, and politics. ... Prohibition corrupted an honest and rising police officer because it was so profitable. ... I believe prohibition was a harmful move toward American way of l...
Prisons being so corrupt make it hard for anyone to make it out causing overpopulation. ... Trying to get the guards off of him would be consider resisting therefore requires officers to use force. ... The last reason why prison systems are corrupt is because they fail to regulate the actives that occur inside the prison amongst the inmates. ... An inmate admits that all they need is "one corrupt officer for the whole wing to have drugs" (Godfrey). ... The criminal justice system has gone a far way and made many modifications with the prisons that he has corrupted the system. ...
It was obvious to me that things which are liable to corruption are good... for if there were no good in them, there would be nothing capable of being corrupted. ... Therefore either corruption does not harm, which cannot be the case, or all things that are corrupted suffer privation of some good (St. ... Instead of corrupted acts being evil, Augustine claims that it is a mere conflict of interest between two good beings that causes this evil, or perversion. ... Thus portraying that it was not evil itself, for that cannot exist, but a combination of two things that are good in nature to begin ...
Socrates justified himself by clarifying that one man by himself can not corrupt the youth. Socrates did not corrupt the youth. ... No, Socrates is not guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens. ... Confucian ideals stress that a ruler should rule by example and , or moral force, rather than by the use of fear or physical force. ... According to Confucius, leaders could motivate their subjects to follow the law by teaching them virtue and the unifying force of ritual propriety....
The government was being run by corrupt politicians that were in office to benefit their own needs. ... However, in a utopia, the government is not corrupt or greedy. ... The idea of a corrupted government has only a historical significance. ... One aspect of life that is improved due to an honest government is the labor force. 3 Before the utopian society was created, there were many monopolies. ... The labor force and the government were now functioning to benefit all people. ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
In the Clouds, Aristophanes depicts the thinkery as place where the youth is misled and corrupted by Socrates' form of education. ... By eliminating choice and offering a narrow structured path to follow, citizens are force to assimilate to the Athenian way. ... Aristophanes stands against the "thinkery" or school of philosophy (London Athenian Society, 3), he believes it is dangerous and corrupting morals (London Athenian Society, 4). ... I believe being selfish and ignorant corrupts people. ...
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...
When Gatsby admits he also has been part of some corrupt business dealings, Nick is not shocked because it seems he has already suspected it, but this degrades Gatsby even more in Nick's opinion: "At this point I [dislike] him so much- Nick realizes that he is being used by Gatsby and "for a moment [he is] sorry that [he had] ever set foot upon [Gatsby's] over-populated lawn.". ... The society of the time values money higher than any other force. ... The final factor which decides in Nick's mind that Gatsby is worth the "whole damn bunch put together" is that while Gatsby h...
