Related Essays
New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow, is a professor at Union Theological Seminary, a New York Times columnist, and civil rights lawyer and advocate. I believe that the motive she had in writing her book was to explain how Jim Crow still exists in America even though people sometimes choose not to see it. It exists today in hidden and not-so-hidden ways, as it is part of the power structure that still dominates America. The prison industrial complex is just one example of how Jim Crow still exists, as Alexander shows. Her aim is to draw attention to the mass incarceration system that is… Continue Reading...
A) Write a summary of an article on the environment that was published in The New York Times between 1/22 and 1/28. This assignment is for 150 words.
ANCHORAGE — The people of Alaska, spurred by the threat of a massive underwater earthquake which could result in a tsunami, evacuated the safety of their homes at midnight. Authorities had transformed schools into temporary evacuation units and citizens flocked there, parking their automobiles at Walmart and Safeway parking lots. Several rushed to the safe higher ground provided by Pillar Mountain. However, fortunately, the tsunami didn’t occur and in 4 hours’ time, the tsunami warning issued between… Continue Reading...
Years on Record. And That Was Without El Nino” in The New York Times focuses on how the earth’s temperature increased in 2017. What is surprising about this is that scientists at NASA ranked 2017 as the second hottest year since record-keeping began over a century ago. (The hottest year came in 2016, suggesting that a trend is shaping). More surprising still is the fact that there was no El Nino to contribute to the warm weather. In other words, the environment appears to be warming even without this considerable factor in past years. With that in mind, it is difficult… Continue Reading...
Criminal Investigation: Article Reviews
Eligon, J. (2011). Police sergeant to get jail term for perjury and illegal searches. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/nyregion/nyc-police- sergeant-admits-illegal-searches-and-perjury.html
This article highlights the problem of officers conducting illegal searches when they strongly suspect a suspect is guilty, even though they have no legally valid form of probable cause or a warrant to conduct such a search. These types of egregious actions are a source of mistrust and friction between members of the police force and the public. The officer’s lawyer, in an appeal for clemency, stated that the offending officer never arrested anyone who had not committed a crime after he had… Continue Reading...
he acted out of love for the then American president. According to the New York Times he stated that he was in love with Forster like Romeo and Juliet. He was later tried. He was acquitted because he was found to be insane. He was sent to a psychiatry facility for help (Biography.com Editors, 2017).
The McNaughton Rule was adopted in the US and UK and was applied to judge the standard of right and wrong for many years. In fact, the rule is used as a standard of insanity test in nearly half of the states in the USA. The Durham Rule… Continue Reading...
New York Times, August 4, 2003.] [7: Greenhouse, "Overweight, but Ready to Fight; Obese People Are Taking Their Bias Claims to Court," 1.] [8: Greenhouse, "Overweight, but Ready to Fight; Obese People Are Taking Their Bias Claims to Court," 1.]
However, the court needs to change the ruling against overweight people to assist them gaining full employment in the United States. In 2002, the Supreme Court in New Jersey reached a different conclusion by pointing out that obese people of 5-foot-9 with 400 pounds were disabled in the New Jersey… Continue Reading...
of medical assistance for a significant figure of 450 times (Rose, 2014). In addition, according to a report from the New York Times (2015), the similar culture of violence has infested and spread in the state prison system, where guards beat inmates for sport with the knowledge and understanding that they will be protected by their union and therefore have job safety at the end of the day.
There are recommendations made for institutional culture changes that can be implemented in the State of New York. One of the key aspects encompasses the integration of the vision, mission and values of the institution into every day operations. Since the values… Continue Reading...
officer Valerie Plame and former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon penned an op-ed for The New York Times entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa" -- a piece that described how neither he nor Ambassador Owens-Kirkpatrick had uncovered any evidence of Niger uranium sales to Iraq.[footnoteRef:1] Both Owens-Kirkpatrick and Wilson, moreover, had submitted briefings to the CIA to this point. Nonetheless, the CIA along with British intelligence stood by as the narrative that Iraq had purchased uranium took hold in the Oval Office. Both British and American intelligence were wrong about Iraq's WMD program in 2003. This paper will explain why, where, when and how… Continue Reading...
Child Development
What follows in this brief report is a review and reaction to a New York Times article about child development. While great strides have been made when it comes to knowing about child development and how to positively move it along, there are still new theories and ideas every day on how to react to setbacks and how to make the child development process even more advanced and positive for the child as they grow and learn for the first time. The article was indeed very intriguing and for a number of reasons that will all be described in this essay. While it… Continue Reading...
a review of relevant academic work and combined it into their own opinion on rifle restriction connected cases. As stated in New York Times, the jurists concluded that the grassroots' findings is not conclusive to back certain types of gun restrictions, particularly resulting to ban on carrying guns in public (Weigel, 2013). The differing arguments which have substantial social and legal point of mind encourage all to think deeper on the matter. This too has been assessed in the paper.
Significance
The most serious crime problem in America has continued to be gun violence. In the last ten years, the state government has set a number of initiatives to curb gun… Continue Reading...
New York Times, something that subverts the unspoken commitment to silence that exists within Sao Paolo; it takes an outsider to see the situation honestly from all sides.
Police, whether the "beat" cops who are Military and relatively low social status, but know the ins and outs of the streets, or the Detectives, the political police, are bound by social codes that prevent speaking out, making any public or political statements, partly because both sides are dangerous.
It is dangerous for the police to speak out, at the very least… Continue Reading...
primary sources include the Los Angeles Star newspaper from 1856, the Delaware Herald from 1919, the Minneapolis Evening Tribune from the same year, the New York Times from the same year, the El Paso Times from 1881, the New York… Continue Reading...
brief report looks at a take and summary from the New York Times. The verdict, in short, is that “time will tell” as to whether or not the tax cut will achieve the desired result. The article first points to a few claims that President Trump made during his recent State of the Union address. One of those claims, of course, related to the tax cut package that was passed and how it was the “biggest” in the history of the country. The article’s authors, James Stewart, admits straight away that the current form and function of the economy is… Continue Reading...
C. (2014). Kerik, out of prison and more subdued, seeks to rebuild his reputation. The New York Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/nyregion/kerik-out-of-prison-and-more-subdued-seeks-to-rebuild-his-reputation.html?module=WelcomeBackModal&contentC&_r=0
Reading Two
The story of Thomas Mickens is an inspiring example of how some people, despite spending a lengthy amount of time in prison, are still capable of turning their lives around. When Mickens was a young man he was a successful drug dealer. He also showed a considerable entrepreneurial spirit, opening up a number of businesses which he used for the purposes of money laundering and, he said, to better the community where they were located. During his twenty years in prison, he… Continue Reading...
of the articles on that topic published in the mainstream media, namely The Washington Post, USA Today and The New York Times. This was done over a period of three months: June, July and August. Of the total 176 counted, less than 10 of the articles clearly defined affirmative action. It seems the authors were reporting on a topic they didn’t have a good depth of knowledge about (Crosby & Cordova, 1996).
The need for affirmative action
Considering costs, affirmative action is on the higher side compared to equal opportunity. Affirmative action has been known to breed criticism like no other policy. This has a negative effect on those… Continue Reading...
Schwartz, N. D. (2016). Wages Rise as U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls Below 5%. The New York Times.
Key Points from Article
According to the article by Schwartz (2016), the United States unemployment rate crossed the 5% mark. In particular, owing to a steady decrease in employment and having healthy employment, the rate of wages substantially increase, which is an indication that the job market might be tightening substantially to compensate more to attract and retain workers. Secondly, the unemployment rate declined to its lowest of 4.9% in the past eight years (Schwartz, 2016). The past half-year have been the paramount protracted period for employee… Continue Reading...
criminal proceedings are conducted by the states[footnoteRef:4]. [4: Gaylord, Scott. "State Politics vs. the Federal Government." The New York Times. July 17, 2013.]
Nevertheless, the country still has within in its ranks some state attorneys general who seem to pursue goals that are unpopular, though powerful. Often time, such individuals are citizens or officials whose conduct was clearly made up of what would be regarded as crime, bribery, murder, theft or extortion. The “Crusading Prosecutor” is a true rendition for TV shows, novels and movies. The storyline is extracted significantly from true life happenings. It is based on bravery, commitments to legal ideals and dedication. However, sometimes,… Continue Reading...
Young reporter for The New York Times, Jayson Blair, fibbed, forged and deceived the newspaper and readers with innumerable stories for several years before getting caught and forced to quit his job. His sources were fake, content plagiarized from the published works of others, and he lied about visiting places and events he actually never did. The consequences after the issue was thoroughly probed and publicized by the newspaper company “brought down not only the reporter but also The Times’s executive editor and managing editor. For a while, it even made The Times a… Continue Reading...
New York Times Book Review's Robert Frank, economists have, for long, realized the pull of flexi-work to a few employee groups. However, To serve God and Walmart's author goes further to provide newer observations regarding Walmart's lure. For instance, she expounds that Walmart reminded the masses of fundamentalist Christian philosophies adopted by numerous members of the company's workforce for cultivating a work climate that prompted them to be content with trivial benefits and meager wages. The author asserts that Sam Walton's management team was quick to realize the economic benefits… Continue Reading...
