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is a bank that provides its services over the internet so it is always open because it is online. It was created in 1999 and now has over $6 billion in assets. Most of their business comes from loans on expensive mortgages. The article is about a former internal auditor, Matt Erhart, who thought that there might have been some shady things happening behind the scenes at Bank of Internet. Bank of Internet provides loans and mortgages to well-off persons who do not have

Prison Theory The resurrection of former prisons across the world has equally captured the awareness of tourists and scholars alike. While prison museums, as a result of their bleak and in some cases disturbing subject matter, invert the “Disney” experience, they proceed to exploit a phenomenon known as dark tourism,” . . . in which people gravitate to sites associated with war, genocide, and other tragic events for purposes of remembrance education, or even entertainment,” (Welch, 1). Generated

Frederick Douglas was an American orator, writer, abolitionist, and a former slave. Born sometime around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Mr. Douglass was born into slavery and spent the first twenty years of his life enslaved before escaping in 1938. (Escape From Slavery) As a slave Frederick Douglass had many experiences both atypical and typical of a Southern slave. The typical experiences of a slave that he went through were firstly having a typical slave childhood. Secondly his fate was

Chernobyl was one of the largest and most powerful nuclear reactors in the former Soviet Union. It was used to power the part of the U.S.S.R now known as Ukraine. Also it was thought of as one of the safest nuclear reactors in the world. But on April 26, 1986 something went terribly wrong and it is now thought of as the worst nuclear disaster in history. It killed over 100,000 people with its radiation and is still expected to contribute to the deaths of over 300,000 people. This disaster was caused

Corruption in Former Soviet Countries Administrative corruption and state capture generally occur as the result of inadequate institutional structures and policies that do not support competition and free trade. Predictably, these inefficiencies have been especially prevalent in the transition process from a socialist to a market economy. Consequently, combating corruption has become a major factor in the debate over optimal reform strategies. Numerous theorists have suggested shock therapy

On August 1, 1966 a student and former Marine by the name of Charles Whitman opened fire on the University of Texas college campus killing 16 people and injuring 30 more. He did this after shooting and killing his wife and mother the night before. Charlie Whitman was the son of C.A. and Margaret Whitman. According to Crimelibrary.com, C.A. Whitman admitted after the incident that "I did on many occasions beat my wife," he would later say, "but I loved her...I did and do have an awful temper, but

The ethical conduct that the COO of my former organization had was above reproach. He was never the type of leader that made an employee feel as though he would back out of a promise or do something that was the least bit unethical. This was a particular strength that he had that allowed for employees to feel motivated and empowered to improve. The main reason behind this was because if he said something to an employee, the employee knew that they would be able to rely on what he told them verbally

and checks the time tables for the fourth time and debates if he should inquire why the train is late. He walks to the window and watches the congregation gathering outside the Lakeview Methodist Episcopal Church, which ironically is housed in the former Flint Brewery building and has been since 1915, when

For this assignment, I interviewed a former babysitter of mine, DL. DL is 25 years old and is deaf. She has a hearing aid and a cochlear implant. I reached out to her on Facebook and asked her if I could interview her for the assignment; I sent her the list of questions and she sent the answers back to me. She does not remember noticing that she couldn’t hear; her guess is that her hearing loss was from birth and very gradual, so she never noticed and thought it was normal as a kid. Her parents

Identity communicates a strong characteristic that cannot naturally be expressed in terms of a social category. Social and personal identity enable the formation of an individual, reflecting the idea that social categories are assured with the bases of an individual’s self esteem. “Race and racial identity are identifiable as a social constriction culture” (Little and McGivern, 328). However, issuing social categories based on race or ethnicity links to biased regulations and practices. Johnson’s