Throughout Chapter 6, author Matt Taibbi conveys to the reader how wealthy businessmen attempted to destroy Fairfax Financial Holdings, a Canadian-based bank firm. He discusses how Fairfax employees and executives were blackmailed and harassed. Spyro Contogouris, the ringleader of this blackmailing scheme, would call employees and hang up, send letters describing the future prosecution of Prem Watsa, CEO of Fairfax, and distribute rumors of Watsa leaving the country in fear of being investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Moreover, Contogouris pretended to be a FBI agent to get information about Fairfax from Trevor Ambridge, an employee based in London. Little did Contogouris know, Ambridge was working as security personnel for
In chapter 5 of The other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, both protagonist are encountered with being taken out of their environment. In the 5th chapter the author Wes was sent to military school and the other Wes is arrested after shooting a “jump off's cousin”(105-106). For Wes being taken out of his loose Bronx environment and being put into a strict military environment drove him crazy. The insanity Wes faced can be attributed to the apparent structure the military school had, unlike the Bronx. Like the title of chapter 5 both Wes and the other Wes are lost beyond belief, although they are both lost they both have an opportunity to grow from an change in environment.
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”(199), these were the last words of Chris McCandless in a picture with him smiling and waving good-bye. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is an extension of an article first published in Outside magazine. In the book, Krakauer further explains the journey of Chris McCandless, while providing his own insight to provide the reader a better understanding of the McCandless reasoning. McCandless lived a nomadic life after he graduated from college, traveling from South Dakota to Mexico. However, his two year journey proved fatal when he took a trip to Alaska, his greatest undertaking. Among his remains several books were discovered, including a copy of Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
In the rough and tropical island of Papua New Guinea, lived an exceptional aggregation of individuals called, The Gebusi. In the 1980's, The Gebusi tribe was anything besides up to date and acculturated. The Gebusi had their own particular singular and special customs and conventions that they rehearsed and accompanied. The Gebusi tribe took part in custom homosexuality, divination or witchcraft was exceedingly respected and polished, and they partook in particular sister-trade relational unions. By 1998-99, The Gebusi tribe had made another lifestyle. The Gebusi had gotten accustomed with new social convictions, modernization due to “western ways” that had changed their lives until the end of time especially changing their ways and view on gender roles and sexuality.
During the mid 2000’s until late 2012, media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company, News Corp, conceived one the biggest scandals in media history to date. Speculation of phone hacking occurred in November of 2005 when the Royal’s officials reported possible voice mail phone hacking to the police because News of the World released a story about Prince William hurting his knee. The victims of the phone hacking scandal not only included the Royal family but also politicians, celebrities, people who were murdered, and family members of soldiers who died during combat totaling the victim list to 3,870. The entire duration of the investigation revealed not only disturbing information about the conducts committed by journalist, but the conspiring with private investigators and the London police enforcement, also known as the Scotland Yard, to cover up corruptions on all ends (CNN, 2012).
In the “Class Of America” article, the author Gregory Mantsios displays his point of view on what society says class individuals are in and how that affects their lives further than people in America think. Mantsios believes that citizens in the United States prefer not be put in different social categories like higher, middle, or lower class just because of the income value. Mantsios elaborates on his beliefs about class categories in America and disproves them by using statistics for evidence. In example, he claims that the class you are placed in will affect your lifestyle. Mantsios also debates that whatever class you fall under reflects on how well you will prosper in life, just like schools connecting test scores and the level of schooling the student receives. Whatever class a person is categorized in defining their future in life, even, if they choose to not see it that way that’s how it is.
Genovese’s The Watergate Crisis is exceptionally well written and provides tremendous insight to readers, not only of the scandal itself but about the orchestrator of the orchestra known as Watergate. Being a book of history, which is often a difficult field to write in if one intends to both get the point across and keep the audience interested, Genovese does an impeccable job on both avenues. As only a part of a series it is hard to imagine what more there is to be explored after reading The Watergate Crisis seeing as the author makes a great use out of its each and every one of its 224 pages.
New Historicism is used to analyze the effects of an author’s culture and political climate, and how society influences the author, and the author’s effect on society. Charles Bukowksi was somewhat of an enigma for the literary world of poetry: a hard-drinking, tough-talking, cynical womanizer, his poems typically revolved around easy women, sex, alcohol, cigarettes, and misfortunes of his fellow man.
Book One uncovered how the government attempted to restrict any kind of expression to gain absolute control, but there are still strains of people who were unwilling to be subordinate to it’s power, such as Winston. Im the first few chapters, Winston, an seemingly ordinary worker in the Records Department took his first step of rebellion by writing in a diary. Just this simple act of writing your thoughts into a book could be dangerous, because it would generate individual thoughts. It was very true too as seen in this quote “ His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals- DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER ” Unknowingly, he had written this down, and this was a thoughtcrime of high caliber. Even if he had tried to stop himself, his inner thoughts couldn’t help but want to defy the government. The party had destroyed all records of the past and altered...
The novel Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is about one teens’ journey to show and tell the truths about the harsh things the Department of Homeland Security, commonly referred to as the DHS, is doing and bring justice. Marcus, the main character, and his three friends, Jolu, Darryl and Van, are out playing their favorite video game, “Harajuku Fun Madness”, but when a bridge is bombed, the DHS finds the three teens on the middle of the road where they take them in for questioning and harsh punishment. The interrogator, Carrie Johnstone, believes Marcus is the terrorist in charge of bombing the bridge. Marcus tells her “We play a game together, it’s called Harajuku Fun Madness. I’m the team captain. We’re not terrorist we’re high school students”. (Cory Doctorow 61). Johnstone does not believe Marcus, creating a war between tech savvy teens and the DHS. Little Brother has many ties to the once in a lifetime and developing story of Edward Snowden. “I do not want to live in a society that does these sort of things.” (Edward Snowden, Whistle Blower). Edward Snowden used to work for the National Security Agency, or the NSA, for the United States of America for the past four years. Snowden leaked classified information to the newspaper company, The Guardian, which is arguably the most significant leak in American history. Despite releasing serious information and allegations against the United States of America, Snowden has no intentions of hiding, nor does he seem worried about the consequences that may follow. When Snowden brought the information to The Guardian, he let the newspaper use his name. When Snowden was asked why he would release his name, knowing the punishment and scrutiny that wou...
Jordan Belfort is the notorious 1990’s stockbroker who saw himself earning fifty million dollars a year operating a penny stock boiler room from his Stratton Oakmont, Inc. brokerage firm. Corrupted by drugs, money, and sex he went from being an innocent twenty – two year old on the fringe of a new life to manipulating the system in his infamous “pump and dump” scheme. As a stock swindler, he would motivate his young brokers through insane presentations to rile them up as they defrauded investors with duplicitous stock sales. Toward the end of this debauchery tale he was convicted for securities fraud and money laundering for which he was sentenced to twenty – two months in prison as well as recompensing two – hundred million in restitution to any swindled stock buyers of his brokerage firm (A&E Networks Television). Though his lavish spending and berserk party lifestyle was consumed by excessive greed, he displayed both positive and negative aspects of business communications.
Mackay, Tim. "The Ethics Of The Wolf Of Wall Street." Charter 85.2 (2014): 67.Web. 23 Mar. 2014.
Thomas Szaz argues in favor that people should be allowed to take any drug they want without any restrictions. He thinks the fear that the government has that; people will neglect their responsibility and engage in smoking opium or heroine all day is just a fallacy.
Without Boeskey’s help, catching other insider-trading criminals would have been almost impossible. Ivan Boesky even wrote a book about his involvement in the world of insider trading; he called it Merger Mania. This case illustrates that there are real consequences to white collar crime. In addition to paying the fifty million dollar fine, he relinquished another fifty million dollars of his illegal trading profits. He still had millions remaining, however, from his illegal gains.
Jordan Belfort is the notorious 1990’s stockbroker who saw himself earning fifty million dollars a year operating a penny stock boiler room from his Stratton Oakmont, Inc. brokerage firm. Corrupted by drugs, money, and sex, he went from being an innocent twenty – two year old on the fringe of a new life to manipulating the system in his infamous “pump and dump” scheme. As a stock swindler, he would motivate his young brokers through insane presentations to rile them up as they defrauded investors with duplicitous stock sales. Toward the end of this debauchery tale he was convicted for securities fraud and money laundering for which he was sentenced to twenty – two months in prison as well as recompensing two – hundred million in restitution to any swindled stock buyers of his brokerage firm. Though his lavish spending and berserk party lifestyle was consumed by excessive greed, he displayed both positive and negative aspects of business communications.
Along with the huge amounts of power that come with big corporations, comes the temptation of money and the corrupt nature of wanting to attain more at any and all costs. During the early 1900’s, a sect of journalists and writers became frustrated with the corruption found inside corporations and took actions to correct this behavior. In what is now known as the work of the “muckrakers”, large corporations were exposed for “a variety of illegal, unethical, harmful, and otherwise abominable and scandalous practices” including “corruption in municipalities, unhealthful, inhumane conditions in food-processing plants, dangerous conditions in coal mines, illegal and deceptive advertising, the abuse of mental patients by staff, the exploitation of factory workers, the running of ‘sweat shops’ (Goode, White Collar Crime)” and the list continues. However, while the new information characterized this type of behavior as “deviant” it was not in fact “criminal” since no laws were in place against such practices (Goode, White Collar Crime). In 1906, legislation was passed regulating the food processing industry and later, in 1916, the first child labor laws were passed (Goode, White Collar Crime). The term “white collar crime”, however, did not surface until 1939 (Goode, White Collar Crime). During a talk, given by Edwin Sutherland, before the American Sociological Society meeting, Sutherland used the term “white collar crime” to describe “crimes committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation” (Legal Information Institute). The types of crimes that are typically associated with this phrase today include, but are not limited to; bank fraud, blackmail, bribery, counterfeiting, embezzlement, extortion, forgery, insider trading, investment schemes, larceny, money laundering and tax evasion. Today, the white collar criminal,