... act" which must all happen simultaneously: 1) misuse of authority, 2) misuse of official capacity, and 3) misuse of personal attainment. (Dantzker,1995: p157) The funny thing about police corruption is that it can destroy the ideal goals of policing and lead to "the use of organizational power to encourage and create crime rather than to deter it" (Sherman 1978: p31) General police ... action. They have entered into personal associations with narcotics criminals and in some cases have used narcotics. They have given false testimony in court in order to obtain dismissal of the charges ag...

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... skies, trying to find hope and vision in the otherwise illusive dream she had lived and pursued. Jay Gatsby and the American Dream For Jay Gatsby the protagonist of The Great Gatsby, the pursuit of his American dream took the path of amassing of great personal wealth and social success that will capture the heart of a beautiful lady called Daisy Buchanan. Born in rural North Dakota and growing up with ... closer and closer to Tom. Noticeable also with Daisy's decision to remain with Tom, was the sun going out immediately after that. The sun is a symbol for hope and vitality and growth. ...

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... massive, win showed membership growth in the Mattachine Society by the thousands in preceding weeks. Unfortunately, the group weakened by the mid 50's, but is credited with the formation of roughly fifty other homophile groups in coming decades. (Mattachine Society) Another important organization that popped up, in part thanks to the Mattachine Society, was the Metropolitan Community Church, founded in 1968 by Baptist Reverend Troy Perry. This was the only mainstream church that allowed ... Michael Bowers entered Michael Hardwick's home to speak with Hardwick's roommate in regards to a ...

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... the growing unions and the wage demands coming from the newly enlightened employees, United Fruit approached the U.S. State Department for assistance. Union activity had grown during the Arevalo years, those years of growth directly affected the Guzman term. The federation of unions, Confederacion Gerneral de Trabajadores de Guatemala (CGTG), claimed to have close to 100,000 members and had begun to form chapters in the countryside, with no objections from the ... copies of a brochure entitled "Communism in Guatemala--22 Facts. Bernays " remained a key source of information for the pres...

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... , and a San Francisco paper announced the "annexation of the United States," (Cooke 218). "The country might take to the railroad as a novelty and a tourist fashion, but the companies saw it as a chain of missing links between the Great Plains and the people who would want, or could be urged, to settle it," (Cooke 229). The years 1870-1900 were a period of enormous growth in the United States. During these years, 430 ... 473) All this propaganda led to even more settlement. A prime example of the effect of the incredible rush of settlement in the Prairie is the growth of the state of Neb...

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... him home with a wild ticker-tape parade, the youth created a dance for him - The Lindy. The sole mechanism that reformed not only transport, but also the entire way of American life was the popularisation of the automobile. Although automobiles had existed before 1920's, they were expensive, unreliable, and seen as toys for the rich. The sudden growth in car interest was due to Henry Ford's Model ... the majority of the population invested in the stock market with borrowed money. This is the reason why Americans left this prosperous age with next to nothing. The nightmare that was the Wal...

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... of the Bronx was changed drastically. As described "This pastoral setting would more than triple its population between 1900 and 1920. " (Sullivan 36), shows how quickly these changes were taking place. As the population was booming there was also the other boom that was taking place, the growing middle class in New York City. This boom could be considered to be even more vital to the growth in ... popularity of the game than the population. As simple economics dictates it does not matter how many people there are ... in an area, if they have no money to spend, they are considered usel...

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... resembled pre-imperialistic Spain. England flourished, literature evolved; led by Shakespeare. Nationalism and imperialistic spirit grew in England. 5. 1604-England and Spain sign peace treaty. C. England on the Eve of Empire 1. England's population exploded in growth between 16th and 17th centuries. Enclosure Movement forced many peasants off farms. Economic depression hit textile industry in late 1500s, many became beggars. 2. Laws of primogeniture stated that only ... England did not like the growth of the Dutch colony. Three English colonies wanted to conquer the New Netherlands but...

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... 5 million workers directly and millions more indirectly in support industries. The steel, oil, rubber, glass, leather and machine tool industries were only some of those who benefited from the boom in car sales. After the war, the landscape of the USA was transformed. Economic growth led to more offices and factories being built. This, in turn, led to the building of new houses, schools, hospitals and ... public buildings of all kind. New materials enabled the construction of new types of building. The skylines of the great cities, for example, ... 5 million workers directly and milli...

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... William Howard Taft. By presenting his program personally before the democratically controlled Congress, employing personal persuasion as well as patronage, and appealing to the American public with his stirring rhetoric, Wilson won passage of an impressive array of progressive measures. The Underwood Tariff Act (1913), the first reduction in duties since the Civil War, also established a modest income tax. The Federal Reserve Act (1913) provided for currency and ... . Where with Roosevelt, his stature and reputation was always more important to him, Wilson turned out o be a selfless pol...

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... at Atlanta University." During this period an ideological controversy grew between DuBois and Booker T. Washington, which later grew into a bitter personal battle. Washington from 1895, when he made his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech, to 1910 was the most powerful black man in the America. Any grant, job placement or any endeavor concerning Blacks that influential whites received was sent to Washington for endorsement or ... would mean "inferior accommodations and a distinctly inferior position in national and communal life." DuBois responded with a personal attack on the very light...

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... William Howard Taft. By presenting his program personally before the democratically controlled Congress, employing personal persuasion as well as patronage, and appealing to the American public with his stirring rhetoric, Wilson won passage of an impressive array of progressive measures. The Underwood Tariff Act (1913), the first reduction in duties since the Civil War, also established a modest income tax. The Federal Reserve Act (1913) provided for currency and ... . Where with Roosevelt, his stature and reputation was always more important to him, Wilson turned out o be a selfless pol...

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... , based on the ideology and the structure of the institution. This is not censoring in a classical sense, but rather an "auto-control mechanism" that functions for the survival of the system and the controlling of the public. Therefore, whatever is presented in the news would rather be a part of the popular culture, (created by the entertainment industry) since the popular culture itself is created for the growth of the capitalist economy and the homogenisation of the society, which ... are essential elements for a stable system. In 1961, President Eisenhower talked about an acquisition ...

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... he followed this sojourn with the publication of "The Confidence Man" (1857), the final novel that Melville would publish during his lifetime. Melville then devoted himself to lecture tours and a global voyage that he abandoned in San Francisco. He published some poetry in his remaining years, but these works were of little note. Melville's final years were marked by personal tragedy. His son Malcolm shot ... . His Uncle Thomas Melville had moved to Galena, Illinois. With a friend, Eli Fly, Melville left Albany, following the Erie Canal to Buffalo, where he took a steamer. In the end he...

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... paper back, to later learn that the department was holding it in question to see whether or not it should be classified, he learns he got the only A in the entire Physics Department. Dr. Wigner, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, requests a personal meeting, which, as described by the secretary he once insulted, and "Praise from Allah."" Over the summer, John spends time with the hand picked team of Dr. Gerard ... K. O'Neill, a professor at Princeton. He is participating in a NASA Space Colonies Summer Study at the NASA Research Center in California. His first assignment ... ...

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... -appointed lawyers. They have little, if any, protection for police and prosecutors, who may engage in misconduct in the pursuit of convictions and political or personal aggrandizement. They have no protection from the racial discrimination that occurs at every step of the process." (Bright 18) Capital punishment is counter-productive in that in interferes with the process of law. Its imposition is often arbitrary and deprives an individual of ... the opportunity to benefit from new evidence or new laws that might warrant the reversal of a conviction or the ... ...

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... with. In the spring of 1960, President Eisenhower approved a plan to send small groups of American trained, Cuban exiles, to work in the underground as guerrillas to overthrow Castro. By the fall, the plan was changed to a full invasion with air support by exile Cubans in American supplied planes. The original group was to be trained in Panama, but with the growth of the operation and the quickening pace ... of events in Cuba, it was decided to move things to a base in Guatemala. The plan was becoming rushed ... and this would start to show, the man in charge of the operation, CIA Deput...

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... because it encapsulates the whole adventure in a few words. The main character of the novel, which is telling his thoughts and actions, is Sal Paradise. His main personal characteristics are these: he is sincere, adventurous, somewhat smart, sociable and a partygoer. He also has a fascination for the crazy people like he tells us: "The only ones for me are the mad ones that go out in the night like a ... Roman Candle" (Kerouac 16), and is always in search of them, traveling to Denver to meet ... similar to my own personal conclusions. For example when he says: "I suddenly began to real...

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... -appointed lawyers. They have little, if any, protection for police and prosecutors, who may engage in misconduct in the pursuit of convictions and political or personal aggrandizement. They have no protection from the racial discrimination that occurs at every step of the process." (Bright 18) Capital punishment is counter-productive in that in interferes with the process of law. Its imposition is often arbitrary and deprives an individual of ... the opportunity to benefit from new evidence or new laws that might warrant the reversal of a conviction or the ... ...

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... the causes that may be fueling the lack of generational diversity in theatre attendance. I will then proceed to an examination of the challenges faced by American theatre in effectively disseminating its work to a broad generational demographic. Finally, I will examine the strategies and solutions being employed by the theatre community in an effort to expand theatre's visibility to, and engagement with, a new generation of potential audience members. CHAPTER ONE A Personal ... Perspective on Generational Homogeneity The first production I ever directed was arguably my ... ...

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... Lab Assistant. Terrance states "I first got involved in computers through the W.A.Y. Program and was amazed at how fascinating and exciting they were to me. Now that I have graduated from high school I will be starting college in January to further my education in Computers". Ever since the development of personal computers in the 1970's, there has been growing concerns about inequities in access between technological haves and have-nots. Some ... groups have worked to close the gap by acquiring computers for inner-city schools. Others have opened community-access centers ... ...

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... County's "Queen Elizabeth and the Harlots of 42nd Street." On many nights painted glitter dolls thronged the bar, decked in drag and finery. The lounge, called Obie Alley, was the scene of more than one severe case of contemporary culture-shock as the older, more mainstream conservative theater crowd intermingled at intermission. Accounts of personal experiences are documented in journalistic records of the history of the New York underground. "We ... remember, in particular, one middle-aged lady from Westchester ... ...

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... (mainly) and other crops. They only came down from the mountains to sell their crop. Albemarle was the largest settlement in the northern region. - In the southern area, the area was hilly along the coastal plain, and the people mainly grew rice and indigo. There was a mixture of various cultures in the southern area. Charleston was the largest settlement of the region. - In 1729, the king divided it into two royal colonies: North and South ... , eastern landowners that occurred in Virginia in 1676. Western farmers did not get along with the officials who ran the colony because they were...

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... we seeing stories involving murder or assaults. Ever since Columbine there is an increase in coverage of school shootings, making it seem commonplace in our communities. As the media continues to over represent these crimes, the crimes still stick out in the community's collective mind. To the average American, it would seem as if violent crimes are increasing at an alarming ... ; news, to reporting what will net the most profit through papers sold. There is also a lot of negative language and pervasive negative undertones given to youth in the media (Faucher 2009). As reports of the inf...

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... well known for its quality of life crimes and its social disorganization. The mayor's decisions to take action on these petty crimes had a great impact in New York City over the years. Predicaments faced in Times Square in the 70's and 80's, were the noticeable pornography, drugs. People were in fear of leaving their homes and had fear of taking public transportation because ... drugs. Drug addicts were doing drugs out in the open add prostitution into the mix and you get a very unpleasant environment to be in. In the, "Times Square of the 1980's", a short documentary on the YouTube webs...

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