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    Americans express commitment to valued causes through rebellious acts and being against the rules. In the novel 1984 Winston Smith‚ the main character‚ goes against the rules and is rebellious. All the rules that Winston goes against leads to committing crimes and puts him at risk of being arrested or being killed by the people in the Party. Winston is not the only one who commits crimes in Airstrip One‚ the entire society commits crimes. This impacts societal change physically and mentally because

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    Videogames is the Cause of Violence And Crime In 1990’s‚ video games evolve into virtual reality experience for young video game players. Most video games let the player become as a “first person shooter” who have the ability to shoot and kill their opponents in the game (Porter & Starcevic‚ 2007). According to the Harvard Mental Health (2010)‚ adolescents who play video games for routinely have the potential to develop aggressive personalities. In 2008‚ Pew Research proves that 97% of young individuals

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    inhumane‚ baleful crimes. Genocide denies the right of life to a mass of humans. Genocide is an inhumane act of mass killing against a national‚ ethnic‚ racial‚ or racial group with the intention to eradicate the group (“How”;“What”). Atrocious crimes like genocides occurs under the guise of war. The Holocaust‚ Great Leap Forward‚ Rape of Nanking‚ Great Purge‚ and Armenian Massacre are just some of the genocides throughout history. As society focuses on fighting‚ those aware of the crime neglects them

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    impoverish backgrounds‚ but this was not the case for Capone. Capone came from a professional and respectable family. It is believed the Capone’s inadequate schooling and violence that he saw at school is what caused Capone to become a criminal (Organized Crime‚ 1). At the age of 14‚ Capone was expelled for hitting a female teacher‚ and he never returned to finish schooling. After this

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    Examine how factors can cause changes in economic activity Economics activity is the production‚ distributions‚ exchange and consumptions of goods and services. Businesses and consumers can cause it to increased and decreased‚ when it increases it means that the value and amount of goods and services are increasing as well‚ many factors can change how the economic activity for example interest rates‚ consumer spending and many more. Interests rates is one of the main factors that cause changes

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    poor‚ just get less money. The rich people receive the biggest part of the income and the poor people get a much smaller portion of the income. Wealth should be redistributed so it’s more equal otherwise poverty will be a problem (Magazine‚ n.d.) • Illiteracy: People don’t have enough education and that means they can’t do most jobs. People struggle to communicate effectively if they don’t have education needed. This means that people that have innovative or great ideas can’t share them or put them

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    Q. How can we remove the causes of hunger in the world today? At the end of World War II public officials and scientists from all over the world predicted that‚ with advances in modern technology‚ it would be possible by the end of the century to end poverty‚ famine‚ and endemic hunger in the world. Today these optimistic projections have been replaced by hopelessness and resignation as perhaps one-fifth of the world’s peoples live in absolute poverty with incomes of less than $700 a year. The

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    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. It is the study of crime within society. In society an activity that occurs outside the boundaries of the law‚ is considered to be a crime. “Crime” in society varies by perspective. For example‚ German criminologists

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    CRIMINOLOGYDoes drug use cause crime‚ does crime cause drug use or is the relationship entirely co-incidental?INTRODUCTIONIn this paper I will look at the amount and type of crime caused by drugs‚ the relationship between drugs and crime and the relationship between alcohol and crime. Crime is defined as:An act committed in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon convictionUnlawful activityA serious offence‚ especially in violation of moralityCauses

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    Now it’s probably clear by now that illiteracy is actually quite a big problem in the United States‚ if there clearly aren’t enough statistics to show for it‚ something is wrong. After a study done by the National Center for Education Statistics done in 2003‚ at that time‚ 44 million people over the age of sixteen could not read a children’s book‚ and also 50% of adults have never been able to read any book written over or at the eighth grade level (Adults in the US). There’s a reason why I am targeting

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