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In the late 1860s, as post-Civil War business boomed, there was a sharp increase in the number of working- and middle-class people in New York, and the wealthier people desired entertainment. Theaters became more popular, and Niblo 's Garden, which had formerly hosted opera, began to offer light comedy. “The Black Crook” was at first simply a melodrama by Charles M. Barras that retold the Faust story and borrowed liberally from other plays with similar plots and themes. William Wheatley, who was the manager of Niblo’s was concerned that the play would fail. The script was poorly written and the acting was not much better. Then something oddly magical happened. There was a theatre fire at the Academy of Music in New York. A French ballet

In “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays a married man disillusioned by the townspeople’s complicity in evil. In the tale, Brown discovers that every wholesome person he knows, including his wife, are in league with the devil. His life after the night that he discovers this truth is one of cynicism and depression, as he regards everyone to be a facade of who they truly are. Conventional wisdom would uphold this condemnation of dishonesty. However, in Judith Viorst’s “The Truth About Lying,” she presents a reality where various types of dishonesty-social, peacekeeping, protective, trust-keeping- are necessary. I believe that lying is morally right only if it facilitates harmonious social interactions between people. Lies meant

One of the main characteristics of war is its ability to take away individuals’ feelings of strength. Such individuals will become unable to feel a sense of identity unless they find some source of power, no matter its form may be. The main characters in The Book Thief and Between Shades of Gray use art and literature as a means for empowering themselves within the conflict-ridden setting around them: World War II. The “testimony [of these characters is produced] to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where [their] voices have been extinguished” (Sepetys 338). Liesel, the main character in The Book Thief, and Lina, from Between Shades of Gray, create testimony of their endurances by leaving behind writing and drawings that tell their story to future generations after being forced into silence during their own lifetime.

Have you ever wished you could have superpowers? Jennifer A. Nielsen succeeds in granting this wish with her masterpiece, Mark of the Thief. This book is a thriller for those who enjoy fantasy books. Throughout the book, the author discusses the lives of slaves through the main character, Nicolas Calva. The suggested age for readers is preteens due to the humor and violent content.

This is a story of twists and turns from the criminal underworld. It involves a closely-knit group that sells poison to unsuspecting victims as an alternative medicine. They have labeled their so-called medicine as "M.M.S", which they state represents either "Miracle Mineral Solution" or "Miracle Mineral Supplement". It is neither a supplement nor a mineral. It 's chlorine bleach. This disturbing topic has been covered here, at The Health Wyze Report, on multiple occasions, but now raids have finally begun, and as a result, more information about the operation of these criminals has become available.

Night is a very good book because it actually shows someone’s experience in the Holocaust unlike school history books. Because of this book, we know have a better understanding of what happened in the camps. We know more about the process of the evacuations and how they actually treated them. We don’t know just by remains and clues now.

In this article, Richard Leo examines false confession cases, investigating the wonder of false confessions, the effect of confessional proof, and the reasons for false confessions. Police interrogations can be intimidating to people who are in desperate situations. Some people are bullied into making false confessions and end up getting convicted, even though they are innocent. If the Court convicts someone using testimonies and confessions, the defendant didn’t get the right to a fair trial.

In his article, Edwin H. Sutherland examines “white-collar crimes.” Sutherland first starts the article off by defining what exactly is a “crime.” Sutherland goes on to describe and discuss the antitrust laws. Next, he describes the Sherman Antitrust Act, and that it states that any violation of the law is a misdemeanor. Then, he discusses the three methods that are used to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act. He then goes on to explain the laws regarding infringements of the law. He also discusses the law in regard to financial manipulations. He goes on to discuss the stigma on white-collar crimes and juvenile delinquency. He the discusses the laws for business regulations, and the consequences in violating this laws. Next, he explains the three

Mystery and Detective Genre Just imagine a horror movie playing in your head that you can control. Every novel had murder, love and isolation that the reader could relate to. Freewill by Chris Lynch describes a high school boy who lost both his parents and now is accused of murder. The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman is a treasure hunt for the Lumen Dei and this one girl has the brains and motivation to have nothing stand in her way to find it. Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf tells a story how a young girl recreates herself after being in an abusive relationship.

This study will compare and contrast the elements of the crime genre in Winter’s Bone (2010) by Debra Granik and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Winter’s Bone is a story tells the story of Ree Dolly’s (Jennifer Lawrence) struggle to find her missing father through various methods of detective work in her local community. In a similar manner, Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep defines the criminal investigation of various murders by the detective, Phillip Marlowe. These two plots define the similar use of a protagonist that acts as an investigator seeking to discover the truth of a particular

If you really want to know one of the reasons this school is so horrible and I told you a little bit about it already but it is because every other person is either a liar or a phony. I walk around all day with this kid Thomas, he’s not even really my friend I just have no one else to walk with. Anyway, when people see him they think he’s probably the coolest kid around with his wavy hair and always has to wear his football jacket. Every girl is always dying over him and giving him these crappy dreamy eyes, well truth be told he’s the biggest phony I’ve ever met. He’s secretly really gross, like the other day we were walking down the hall and the hottest girl in school looked at him and he gave her a wink and she went away with the biggest smile I’ve

“I always quarrel with my mother. She will hurt me cruelly and then say sorry. I can’t bear this torture. I have to adjust my personality to live with her.”

I am pretty sure everyone had been a phony person before. A phony person means the person who is not acting their true self, acting fake which is not real. I had been that kind of person before. When I want to get help from someone, I usually act like a sycophant, and say something that makes that person feels good by act very nice to him and say he is very cool, so I can get help from him, but when I don’t need help from that person, I don’t really talk to him, I just walk pass through him and not even say a “hi”. When someone doesn’t help me while I ask him for help, I will talk behind his back and tell other people how bad is he, which makes people think that they should not be friend with that person. This makes me like a phony person because

White Collar Crime by Edwin Sutherland, published in 1949, is a study in the theory of criminal behaviour. Sutherland states that this book is an attempt to reform the theory of criminal behaviour only, not to reform anything else. And although it may include implications for social reforms, this is not the objective of the book. Sutherland define white collar crime as ‘a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation’ (pp. 9). He adds that it excludes many crimes of the upper class, such as murder, intoxication, and adultery, because these are not usually part of their occupational procedures. He goes on to describe white collar crime as being similar to juvenile delinquency in the sense of the stigma generated from each crime. In both of these crimes the procedures of criminal law are altered so as not to attach stigma to the offenders. Finally, Sutherland writes that crimes are committed across all social classes, not just people in lower classes or living in poverty, contrary to popular belief at the time of publication.

Fraud is defined as a deliberate misrepresentation that causes a person or business to suffer damages, often in the form of monetary losses through deception or concealment. And Occupational Fraud as defined by the ACFE is the use of one’s occupation for personal enrichment through the deliberate misuse or misapplication of the employing organization’s resources or assets. Traditional fraud triangle theory by Donald Cressey explains that propensity of fraud occurring in an organization lies on three critical elements which are Pressure, Opportunity, and Rationalization.