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    I did a Hooverville from back in the great depression. I built my Hooverville on a big piece of cardboard. I partly spray painted the big cardboard for a mud look. My Hooverville has five shacks and a lean to. The shacks are made out of cardboard that I also spray painted to look like mud. The shacks are held together with hot glue. On the shacks I used some material to make roofs and door coverings. I made some trees and bushes on my Hooverville too‚ using Spanish moss. I got some sticks

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    William Glasser’s Choice Theory Jennifer Kingsley HHS310: H & HS Culture: The Helping Relationship Prof. Kari Merrill November 12‚ 2012 William Glasser’s Choice Theory The foundation of this theory is the simple belief that we alone are responsible for everything we do. This includes having the control over how we feel. If we are miserable‚ we have chosen to be miserable. If we are happy‚ a conscious decision was made to be happy. Considered to be the ultimate

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    Robin Wake 10/24/12 Choice Theories Madoff was a master thief and financier. In 2008‚ he revealed that the asset management arm of his firm‚ Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities‚ was "just one big lie". In what he described as a Ponzi scheme‚ he took his investors for $65 billion over the course of two decades. The scheme wasn’t revealed until Madoff himself confessed his crimes (How Ponzi Schemes Work). I believe this is based on the rational choice theory. For example‚ a drug addict may

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    Written Assignment 1 (Due October 1st ) Rational choice theories are among the fastest growing theories in social science today. Many sociologists and political scientists defend the claim that rational choice theory can provide the basis for a unified and comprehensive theory of social behavior. What distinguishes rational choice theory from other forms of theory is that it denies the existence of any kinds of action other than the purely rational and calculative. All social action can be seen

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    Social disorganization theory has become populare as an explanation for crime trends all over the country. This theory was built as precendt by shaw and Mckay(1942) in which they reached three significant conclusions. The first of these conclusions is that bneighborhood ecological conditions shape crime rate chararcteristics more that the characteristics of individual residents and that location as supposed to race determine how they area relates with crime. What they meant by this is that certain

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    subject‚ it covers all aspects of society. It makes sense of various phenomenon that takes place within society. It is divided into many sub-categories such as psychology‚ sociology‚ anthropology and criminology. It’s study affects all aspects of society. In the following paragraphs‚ I will discuss how social science theory ‚ specifically criminology can help reduce crime. Criminology & Penology is the branch of social science that deals with occurrences of crime‚ their causes and their consequences

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    Choice Theory and Trait Theory In Relations to the Arlington Crime. Choice Theory and Trait theory is important when considering reasons leading to criminal activity. Of the two the most appropriate to consider‚ while creating strategies for controlling and/reducing crime‚ is the Choice theory. It is necessary to understand both theories and how they affect the possibility of someone taking part in criminal activity. Cornish and Clarke (1986) construe rational-choice

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    price when a large quantity is purchased Q 5)Define monopoly. 1 Marks Ans.Monopoly refers to a market situation in which there is a single seller and there is no close substitute of the commodity sold by the monopolist. Q 6)Explain how scarcity and choice go together? 3 Marks ANS- Resources refer to all the factors of production. Scarcity means that resources which produce goods and services are less in relation to their demand. Though these resources are scarce they can be used for

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    Crime is something that is within our world every day. If you were to ask people just walking down the street how they would describe a criminal‚ most would probably speak of the street criminals. Many people do not pay attention to the white collar crimes or the crimes that are not happening around the area that the live in. Crime to me is something that someone does to break a law. Crime is basically something someone would do if they had lost their job and could not take care of their family

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    Question 1 This film takes place during the time of WW2. It shows how some families didn’t even know what their husbands were doing in the war. It also shows what goes on in their homes and how the soldiers treated the Jews. Also near the end it depicts the inside of the camp. It shows that the Jews really didn’t know what was going to happen to them when they went to go get gassed. Question 2 The holocaust impacted Bruno’s life greatly. First- he had to move from his hometown because his dad is

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