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States have enlarged the use of data based information about criminals to identify the risk factors that influence the criminals to continue committing crimes, over the last ten years. Those factors are very carefully weighted and used to predict the risk (high, low, medium) of the violators to commit a crime again. Those ranking help the judges, parole officers and correction officials to determine how long a convict should stay in jail.
In reality, every state has used the risk assessments to vary degrees in registered crimes over the last ten years. Some of the states have made them Continue reading...

Part 1: Identify and Comment

Image 1(a)
The movie is entitled ‘Chungking Express’ that is directed by Wong Kar-wai. The characters in the image are Brigitte Lin and Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is a cop. Takeshi Kaneshiro is romantically involved with Brigitte Lin whose drug smuggler. Takeshi the cop is prompted into this action by a break-up of his relationship with a woman by the name, May. The film’s general concern is to depict our common tendency to hide our real identity of behavior or denial of who we are in the society. Brigitte Lin purposefully wears a wig and sunglasses to hide Continue reading...

Introduction

General Electric (GE) is an American-based global corporation’s incorporation was on 24 April 1889 in New York, USA and has its headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut. The company has a diverse range of operation ranging from transportation, aviation, capital, Oil and gas, water, power and management of energy. The company also has interests in healthcare and disease management (General Electric Company 2007). According to a 2011 rank, General Electric was the 26th largest company in the United States in terms of gross revenue. The company ranked as the 14th most profitable company, beating major corporations in the country. Forbes Continue reading...

1. B. Define, compare and contrast formative and summative evaluations.
Formative evaluation refers to an evaluation that occurs during or before the implementation of a project. A formative evaluation is undertaken so as to improve the design and projected performance of the project. A formative evaluation serves to enable the project executors understand why a particular program will work and why another one will fail to work, and what external and internal factors will affect the working of a particular project (McDavid et al, 2006). Formative evaluation finds use in projects that are still in the pilot stage and Continue reading...

The assignment is focused on exploring the various points of views that one can view artist Manet’s painting, A Bar at Folies-Bergère, painted between the years 1881-1882. Edouard Manet was a painter known for his style of painting as a realist and transitioning to one of the first impressionist painter’s. Manet was primarily focused on painting daily activities of people and the city.
A cartoonist, named Stop, drew a picture of Manet’s painting of A Bar at Folies-Bergère and released it to newspapers in Paris to point out the error in his painting. He Continue reading...

In Turn-of-the-Century New York

In Kathy Peiss’ Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, several overarching themes can be found. First, there is the advancement of public leisure as commercialized by the working class: prior to the movement in this book, the upper class often had to arrange public leisure themselves through industry and investment. However, with the rise of working girls, the working classes could create their own market for public leisure that is borne through public spaces. Furthermore, the book explores the way working-class women were able to assert their own autonomy, influencing market forces and popular culture Continue reading...

Every educated person has heard about Slavoj Zizek. It is known than he is from Slovenia. He covers different topics in his books, essays and articles starting from theology and cultural studies and finishing with psychoanalysis, a branch of the modern psychological theory. He can be called a celebrity despite he is not an actor, director or businessman. Slavoj Zizek turned thousands of people to philosophy and culture, arose interest in culture, reading and analyzing the reality. Besides, he reconsidered Communism and Marxism theories. Zizek is well-known for his leftist views, and he promotes these issues in his books. Continue reading...

Advantages of Computers 2 - 5

Disadvantages of Computers .5 - 7
Conclusion . 7
Abstract
The present time is evidenced to reveal a wider usage of computers as an essential part of the people’s routine across the globe. As Howard-Jones (2011, p. 5) states in his latest review of the impact of digital technologies, he states that people of this generation are currently engrossed in the development of technology. Majority of the people’s means of communication is now done online or electronically. The entertainment and the leisure that people provide themselves also revolves around the use of technology through the internet or video Continue reading...

I agree with the fact that prenatal care is of profound importance to the mother and the child. It is established that mothers who do not attend prenatal care are up to three times more likely to give birth to underweight children with up to five times chances of death (Child Trends Data Bank, n.d.). Mothers do not attend prenatal care for various reasons. Kapur and Escarce (2006, para. 2) noted that the social-economic status of an individual is indicated by among other things the level of education. It is important to note the part education play in making Continue reading...

Bertolt Brecht was one of the most radical, innovative playwrights and theorists of his time, his work dramatically challenging the very idea of theater as an art form. Of particular note is his abandonment of verisimilitude – the idea that plays had to work hard to pretend to seamlessly imitate real life. In his “Short Organum on the Theater,” Brecht himself says that this particular goal is impossible in the theater, as the audience will always know that it is a play. To that end, the ideal thing to do is abandon all pretense of verisimilitude and embrace its status Continue reading...