Abstract This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the topic of policing and corrections, with a specific focus on bounty hunters. The writer examines whether bounty hunters have too much power. The paper describes bounty hunters as an effective element of the bail bond process and explains that studies show that bounty hunters help keep non-compliant offenders to a minimum. The paper concludes that bounty hunters indeed have powers ordinary citizens do not enjoy, yet they are a vital part of the criminal justice system.
From the Paper "Many studies indicate the importance of bounty hunters in the bail bond system. Author Reynolds notes, "Only 15 percent of felony defendants released on surety bonds initially failed to appear in court versus failure rates of 26 percent for those released on their own recognizance and 42 percent released on unsecured bonds, according to a 1992 Department of Justice study of the seventy-five largest counties" (Reynolds, 2002, p. 120). In addition, only three percent of suspects are fugitives one year of their release to a bondsman, while over 9 percent remain fugitives if they are released on their own recognizance, and 19 percent remain fugitives if they are released without a security bond (Reynolds, 2002, p. 120). Thus, the bonding process ensures more criminals come to trial, and the bounty hunters are a major reason for this success."
Abstract This paper explains that, although Procter and Gamble (P&G) has had a presence in India for nearly 15 years, it has not yet marketed its globally very successful Bounty paper towel product in this country. The author points out that, because currently in India paper towels have a very limited presence and because Indian families are often very traditional in their ways of living and culture, Bounty would have to become one of their social preferences for cleaning spillage and messes. The paper recommends that P&G 'piggyback' Bounty paper towels on existing distribution channels used for P&G's other household items and that the marketing team for this product should be made up of existing P&G India employees.
Table of Contents:
The Business Concept
Why Export?
Sources of Information
The Target Market
Size and Dynamics
Competitors
Customers
Market Objectives
Pricing Strategy
The Product
Market Entry
The Political Environment
The Business Environment
Entry Strategy
Sales and Distribution
Positioning and Messages
Possible Marketing Techniques
Implementation
From the Paper "One of the most prominent manufacturers of paper towel products in India is the Kimberly-Clark Lever (K-C) Company. K-C has annual sales of US$15.1 billion and distributes its products in more than 150 countries. K-C specializes in manufacturing paper products and has launched Kleenex and Scott brand paper towels in India. K-C has saturated 17% market share in the Indian paper products market. These products have features such as quilted embroidery that allow for quick absorption. Also, the paper towels are packaged as single sheets as opposed to rolls."
Tags: durable, substitute, social, distribution, team
Abstract This paper looks at the overall recruitment methods during the Civil War and explores whether or not the draft was needed in Connecticut and whether the draftees were given the same benefits as volunteers. It looks at the bounties, pay rates, and pensions given to soldiers. It also discusses the monetary benefits Connecticut offered to men if they volunteered for service in the Union Army and how they compared with the federal government's benefits. It focuses on the effectiveness of these recruiting methods and how they compared to the recruitment methods of other states. It explores the manner in which the families of slain or injured soldiers were provided for. It also looks at Connecticut's efforts to recruit African-Americans.
Outline
Introduction
History of Civil War Recruitment
Recruitment in Connecticut
The Draft
Bounties, Pay Rates and Pensions
Pay Rates
Pensions
Monetary Benefits for Volunteers by Connecticut and Federal Government
Families of Slain or Injured Officers
Recruitment of Black Soldiers
Overall Effectiveness of Recruiting Methods
Causes for War
The Aftermath of the War
Discussion
Conclusion
From the Paper "Volunteers in Connecticut were paid for their services. It is reported that the Westport Board of Selectmen was authorized to take $2,000 from the town's budget to pay volunteers to enlist in the Army. 10 Additionally individuals could avoid having to enlist in the military by paying other individuals $300 to take their place. This particular practice was known as substitution and was a common practice in Connecticut and other Northern states. By July of 1864 the city of Westport budgeted another $20,000 to pay substitutes for their enlistment.10 Eventually this payment system led to an informal class structure, in which poor Irish families served in the army so that their financial needs would be met."
Abstract The 1985 film The Trip to Bountiful (Masterson, 1985) offers insight into aging, changing perspectives on time during the aging process, many of the problems faced by older people, and issues of modernization, activism, and disengagement.
From the Paper "The 1985 film The Trip to Bountiful (Masterson, 1985) offers insight into aging, changing perspectives on time during the aging process, many of the problems faced by older people, and issues of modernization, activism, and disengagement. The film thus illuminates much of what is written in the literature on these subjects.
Cox (1998) notes research showing an inverse relationship "between the degree of modernization and the status accorded old persons" (Cox, 1998, 1) which means that in the more industrialized nations, the older person has a lower status than is the case in less industrialized nations. This is something we can see all around us as our own culture celebrates youth to the exclusion of the old and has been charged with throwing away older people."
Abstract This paper explains that, in "Unforgiven", Clint Eastwood plays William Munny, a former bounty hunter who reluctantly strikes out for his career's final coup de grace - the revenge killing of two men who have maimed a prostitute. The author points out that, hardened by experience, embittered by his fall from the righteous life, Munny eventually gives in to the belief that life is unfair, that men don't get what they deserve and that the world is a hard, cold place. The paper concludes that Munny, portrayed as a fallen soul, who pays for the sins of his past by repeating his past; isn't the brilliant marksman or the long arm of the law but rather a sad alcoholic who wishes he could change his past.
From the Paper "Once the partners have reconnoitered with the Kid, Munny again must face his past. The Kid is holds him in a kind of naive reverence and reminds him of his earlier escapades, which the Kid has heard from his Uncle Pete. To these stories, Munny shrugs, looks away and simply says, "I don't recollect it." Yet when the trio arrives in Big Whiskey, and Munny falls prey to a fever, he remembers his past in ample clarity. In a hallucination he sees the ghosts of men he's killed, the angel of death with "snake eyes," and his wife's head being eaten by worms. To Logan and the Kid, he confesses that he's really "scared of dying." The Kid is shattered by the demise of his hero and calls him a "broken-down pig farmer." "
Abstract This essay compares the masculinity and femininity of two female characters from the movie "9 to 5". The characters are Violet played by Lily Tomlin and Judy played by Jane Fonda. The essay starts off with in simple layout of the movie and the characters. The next part talks about the similarities and differences of the two characters. The author explains how one character is more masculine and the other is more feminine and relates what these roles mean in real life and how masculine women differ from feminine women.
From the Paper "What would it say to the women in society if a very feminine-like person was a top executive, the makers probably asked themselves? It would make all of the homemakers, the masculine and feminine, go out and think they could get a job and rise to the top. Moreover, having a feminine-like person as an executive, according to the filmmakers would be very bad. I am very glad to see that today, women are not thought of as just homemakers anymore. People are beginning to value women at home and in the workplace. The only question I want to ask is what took so long?"
Abstract This paper examines the novel, "Blade Runner," through two important questions, what is the author's message and what is the historical importance of this novel? The paper gives a background to the science-fiction plot and the central theme of the book, human identity. It further focuses on the central character, Rick Deckard, and his role central to that theme.
From the paper:
"The work centers around the question of what it means to be human. San Francisco Police bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracks down renegade androids who have escaped from colony worlds and "retires" them. The catch is that these androids are so human-like in appearance that no one can tell from looking at them whether they are "real" (i.e. human) or not and so that Deckard has to determine what they are before he can know whether or not to kill them. He has, in other words, to be able to look into their souls, into their hearts."
Abstract This paper focuses on privatization of policing and corrections, providing a history of privatization. Particular attention is given to bounty hunter abuses and the state of privatized correctional facilities, which is supported by research and an interview with a consultant to a California state senator.
From the Paper "Privatization is the opposite of going public, which is the direction that many of our criminal justice agencies are heading toward. Privatization of policing and corrections are particular areas that have been experimenting with going private. Public agencies have been relying on private policing and correctional corporations to cut costs for services that state and federal agencies feel they cannot handle. There is an economic tug of war between politicians who are out to save money and eliminate state and federal spending abuses, while state and federal employees, particularly unions, are opposed. They believe that this cannot be achieved without reducing the quality of service and the elimination of much needed state and federal jobs. While these private companies are sometimes able to save money for state and federal agencies who are not able to provide these services in a way that is economically feasible, the officers who are losing jobs are up in arms."
Tags: corrections, policing, privatization, police, violence, crime, incarcination, prison, federal
Abstract This paper examines how some level of education in prisons can aid the inmate's later adjustment to society and evaluates how this is due to the fact that many are uneducated in the first place, hence their criminal past. It looks at how higher learning in prisons is a costly, ineffective and socially unacceptable way of dealing with an improper public higher learning institution. While victims of crime are harmed, offenders are given a chance for education that they may not otherwise receive. It analyzes how education in prisons makes a life of crime profitable to juveniles in two ways, through the bounty of their crime, and second, by being caught and thereby receiving a formal education. It concludes that higher learning programs within the prison institution need to be reevaluated and that the funding for those programs could go to better serve the community to solve the lack of education that is a major cause of crime.
From the Paper "Probably the largest argument against inmate education is that of the image the programs give to the public. Many individuals involved in the criminal justice system come from low-income, urban communities. Many of these areas are also likely to have fewer resources in terms of educational programs. Because of this, an unequal number of the imprisoned are undereducated (OSI, 1997). However, the solution to this problem should not be to educate this group once they are imprisoned, but should be to improve the educational system of the urban areas. By placing the education system into the prison, the states are essentially reaffirming the public belief that the communities are not able to be educated."
Abstract A lab report on three experiments done on paper towels: testing strength when wet, amount of water absorbed in a short time span and thickness of actual paper towel. Paper towels tested included: Bounty, Viva, Sparkle, Seventh Generation (recycled) and generic.
Abstract This paper explores three of George Saunders' stories from "Civil War Land in Bad Decline" in order to demonstrate how the distortion of social norms helps the reader to understand that the norm itself is already absurd. The stories that are examined are the title story of "Civil War Land in Bad Decline", "Bounty", and "The 400- Pound CEO".
Review of Thomas R. DeGregori's book, "The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology", and the author's position about the negative effects of promoting only organic foods for consumption.
Abstract This paper takes a look at the belief expressed in "The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology" by the author, a professor of economics and food science, that supposedly positive assertions as "buy organic", in regards to changing consumer behavior, are quite questionable and have had dangerous worldwide implications. The paper cites the negative and dangerous consequences of such behavior listed in the book and explains DeGregori's reasoning and arguments for his position. Finally, the paper points out some of the weaknesses of DeGregori's book and points out that, while environmentalism as a movement has its excesses and moral sanctimony, this must be separated from the real and dangerous effects of modern commercial farming.
From the Paper "Green is good. Buy organic. Down with genetically modified "franken foods"! Such environmentalist assertions have the ring of modern truisms. Often, the impetus to recycling can have a moral drive to the way that the ideology is enforced upon every street corner, from the shrill wastebaskets that proclaim "for cans and bottles only" to the supermarket aisles that scream ?no pesticides used.? The modern distaste for technology can be hypocritical as well as hysterical in its intensity at times. After all, such technological innovations as the CD transmit far better musical sound quality than the LP. (DeGregori, 2002, 152). And, more to the point, the modern revolution in food production and shipping has enabled modern individuals to have, at their fingertip's access, enormous amounts of healthy produce, in and out of season, and to be able to eat high-protein, high-calcium foods at great convenience and relatively little cost."
Abstract This paper explains that, in his collection of essays "The Frontier in American History", Frederick Jackson Turner records and hypothesizes on the many ways in which the frontier has contributed to the building of the American nationality and culture. The author points out that this book contains twelve related essays focusing on specific aspects of the frontier's history including technological factors, such as the development of the steam engine and the railroad, and limitations, such as the threat of Indian attacks and the peril of being isolated in the wilderness. The paper concludes that, although written at the turn of the 19th century, Turner's essays have a strikingly modern feel because he describes a vision of America as a strong, proud but brutal country, shaped not so much by individual cult figures or powerful politicians as by a massive, eager movement of people who were fed up with their previous lots and who had the courage to face an isolating wilderness in exchange for an untold bounty.
From the Paper "In the remaining chapters, Turner elaborates on previous themes and continues a study of the ways in which each successive frontier-wave shaped the modern American nation. "The Problems of the West" provides an especially illuminating glimpse into the American psychology. For all his rugged, rudimentary style, the Western man was an idealist at heart. He championed the virtues of "equality, of the exaltation of the common man," and had an "unbounded confidence in his ability to make his dreams come true." It sounds romantic, but the proof of it lies in the bare fact of forward frontier movement on such a grand scale, over so long a time, by so many men and women. However, the romanticism does provoke thoughts on Turner's great shortcoming: his failure to address the sheer human cost of the expansion, not only in the number of European-American lives lost, but particularly among the Native Americans, who were so completely displaced and exterminated by the frontier."
Abstract This paper presents three different essays on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Each deals with the different aspects of humanity discovered by the protagonist, Dick Deckard, as he confronts human-like androids and confronts the meaning of human existence.
From the Paper "Rick Deckard is the protagonist of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Deckard is a bounty hunter in futuristic San Francisco. Earth is covered by a layer of radioactive dust due to World War Terminus in ..."
Tags: androids, Mars, human beings, meaning, fulfillment, emotions, feelings, empathy, love, animals, war, bounty hunter, real, artificial, life, existence
Abstract The paper examines the importance of the media in modern PSYOPS during warfare. The paper analyzes how the media can act as a supporting agent contributing to the success or failure of military PSYOPS during war, evidenced by the bountiful images and commentaries medial moguls, including CNN, thrust over television, radio and the news media during war. The paper shows how millions of people use their televisions as a primary method of information acquisition in today's society and, as such, it makes sense that during times of war military agents should reach out to their target audience using this effective and inexpensive form of media. The paper concludes that PSYOPS will prove truly beneficial to the global community of military agents, if they can determine ways to use this tool to keep peace and avoid bloodshed.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PSYOPS And War
Media, PSYOPS And War
Limitations of PSYOPS
Conclusions/Recommendations
References
From the Paper "Military units not taking advantage of PSYOPS during war are less likely to succeed than their PSYOPS using counterparts. Rather than toiling away like slaves in the battlefield [trope: simile] modern military agents can play mind games and defeat their audience from the comfort of their camp. This paper will discuss the various advantages of psychological operations in war, the tools that military personnel can use to enhance PSYOPS including use of the media, and potential limitations of PSYOP's both in war and ruing peace."
