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    He slowly walks over to the windows further opening the curtains. Seeing that the midnight sky soon will take over he goes to the lamp and turns it on, all three men groaned at the sudden bright light flashing their eyes. As Ollie opens the book that had been laying on his lap again

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    grow the countries economy and have a crack cocaine epidemic. Although their factors could have implemented to reduction, there still possibility could have been a one or two key factors, which formed the main effect. An example, of a theory used is ‘Broken Windows’, in New York, which helped decline the criminal rate in an area where there was lots of crime. This strategy prevented the small crimes, giving them more severe punishments that helped decline the serious crimes, as they were worried

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    me. I must escape. Immediately my eyes are drawn to the window as I can hardly breathe. I’ll jump through the window and warn the neighbors that they could be the next victims. I must act quickly, time is not on my side. As the door creaks, I manage to pry the window open and jump out. Everything is happening in slow motion as I run for my life while trying to remember to breathe. I’m sure he will shoot me. The wood fence is weak and broken in many places. I don’t know if I can make it over without

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    CA, New York, and Texas. In 1980 there have been states that a more durable outlook on crime that successively resulted in many new policies that were adopted. CA adopted, and implemented the three-strike policy, and the big apple enforced the broken window policy. in step with Eusebius Hieronymus Mullins,” the 3 strike law has considerably increased the overcrowding of prisons” (Mullins, 2005). This policy will increase the jail sentence for those already serving time though it additionally prevents

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    least ten times over. A fight broke out when a lesbian in handcuffs was forced to the police car and this was the final straw for the already tense crowd. Garbage cans, bottles, rocks, bricks, and other debris were hurled at the Inn, breaking the windows and damaging the building. The Tactical Police Force of the New York City Police Department finally arrived to calm and disperse the rioters and with the larger police force they then detained anyone they

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    Brianna Winn Mr. Smith English 111 18 May 2016 Fact or Fiction The United States government was formed to create a democracy fit for the idea that they would be considered “land of the free.” Unfortunately, throughout the history of several world wide events, the intentions of the “forefathers” have strayed to manipulate events and people. The government has been accused for many past years of lying when main events strike the nation causing many tragedies as well as causing emotional anguish on

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    system drew power from them. Havel highlights this through his example of the greengrocer who places a “Workers of the World, Unite” slogan in his window . The greengrocer does not place this sign in his shop window because of his own interest in the unity of workers, but rather because this has been done for years. The greengrocer places the slogan in his window because he knows that refusal to do so would result in accusations of disloyalty or reproach. Because of these consequences, the sign can be

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    claiming that the matter is significantly more complex. Gladwell 's theory, “Power of Context,” basically identifies small details within an environment and how they can heavily influence said environment. The “Power of Context” is extremely enlightening; because it sheds light on the observed behavior within Johnson 's self-organizing Manchester and Faludi 's archaic Citadel. Gladwell builds his theory off of the concept of “Broken Windows,” wherein “relatively minor problems like graffiti... [are] invitations

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    harder, or wrong. They are sending the message “ if you are smart come to Wall Street or you are wasting your potential”. This physiological warfare is not the only way institutions like wall street manipulate the individual. Like the how the Broken Glass theory works Wall Street and other institutions manipulate individuals through sheer numbers. For example, “at the 2006 Princeton Career Fair, 60 of the 104 firms represented were in financial services or consulting”(Ho 171). Having that much abundance

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    cases of 9/11, fire has never caused large steel-frame buildings to collapse. This reverse truth is that every previous total collapse has been caused by the procedure known as controlled demolition.” Proving that the laws of the Physics cannot be broken or at least not in the 9-11 attack. Another very important and rare fact is building 7. Tower Number 7 was a 47 story skyscraper and was part of the World Trade Center complex. This tower was built in 1984 and it collapsed at 5:20 pm on September

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