...very short chapters, written as letters to God, that explain in the shortest possible ways the trials and tribulations Celie (and, later, Nettie) experience. Alice Walker presents Celie’s thoughts in the vernacular, with poor grammar and spelling. These emphasize the point that Celie is not an educated woman. Walker’s ability to use diction, tone, apostrophe, and the appeal to pathos. Walker uses diction and tone when prompting the characters’ dialogue. She does so in one of Celie’s letter to God when discussing Squeak coming home from prison. Harpo is disgusted and enraged that Squeak was abused in prison. He says, “I ought to go back out there with guns, maybe set fire to the place, burn the crackers up.”...
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...Knowledge is the Enlightenment, Necessary for Evolution: In Plato’s, “The Allegory of the Cave,” he is explaining in dialogue with question-and- answer form with Glaucon a student questioning the nature of human beings. The analogy of the cave and the prisoners within used to explain his belief. He discusses moral and philosophical problems; the prisoner must overcome to see the light after long periods of imprisonment. The light he refers to as a fire blazing at a distance, is the light the prisoners see while a low wall is along the way. The prisoner look over the wall to find strange images that he has never seen before is compelled immediately to look toward the light. The question then is would the prisoner suffer pain from the glare brought forth by the light, Plato then explains he will require to grow accustom to the light in order to clearly see the new images. Once the prisoner becomes accustom to the sight of the upper world, he will then see the reflection of others and of himself. Plato then explains the reaction the prisoner makes and his thoughts of himself to realize the reason about his own place. The prisoner, as Plato explains, realized that this exposure of new images in the upper world are not of what he was taught to be true in his old place in the den, and the wisdom brought forth by the den along with his fellow- prisoners; merely false notions. The truth the prisoner has seen in the upper world will then become a desire to continue to seek further the...
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...Andy Dufresne is put in prison. He is accused of a crime that he has not done. The officers go through a long process of questioning. Eventually Andy gets out of prison. Andy’s friend Red is released from prison as well. The warden commit suicide when he was alone, and he got robbed. Through the process of the questioning from the DA, he seemed to react as if he was calm, but irritated on in the inside from the accusation for his wife and her loved one's death. The DA asks Andy, “Do you mean to tell this court that your wife did not recognize your brand-new Plymouth sedan behind Quentin’s car?” Andy had calm responses to majority of the many questions the DA was asking. Andy was found guilty at the end of the case on a snowy Wednesday afternoon. Andy was sentenced his life to prison. He was taken into the Shawshank...
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...9-110-045 REV: MARCH 31, 2011 EUGENE SOLTES A Letter from Prison On February 14, 2008, Stephen Richards, inmate #71320-053 at Taft Federal Correctional Institution, completed a letter to Eugene Soltes, a student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Richards was the former global head of sales at Computer Associates. Exhibit 1 provides the list of questions Soltes asked Richards. Exhibit 2 is a copy of the letter Soltes received in return. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Professor Eugene Soltes prepared this case. HBS cases are developed solely as the basis for class discussion. Cases are not intended to serve as endorsements, sources of primary data, or illustrations of effective or ineffective management. Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, call 1800-545-7685, write Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA 02163, or go to www.hbsp.harvard.edu/educators. This publication may not be digitized, photocopied, or otherwise reproduced, posted, or transmitted, without the permission of Harvard Business School. Purchased by: CHUAN LAN llaass2@163.com on August 24, 2013 110-045 A Letter from Prison Computer Associates and Stephen Richards Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) began as a four-person start-up in 1976. Its founder, Charles Wang, sought to...
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...After reading A Letter from Prison I have many takeaways and lessons learned. It is absolutely imperative that companies maintain their financial documents with as much accuracy and honesty as possible, and do their due diligence in taking whatever measures appropriate to have accurate financial data. If a company does not understand how to properly record revenue than it is their due diligence to comply with the accounting standards that are set and they must hire employee’s who understand how to properly handle the situation. The ethics within this case are very negative when it comes to revenue recognition and the backdating of software contracts. Recognizing revenue within certain time periods for future contracts that may or may not actually occur was another take-away from this case: you simply can’t do that and still comply with generally accepted accounting principles. The payments for these contracts were not reasonably assured because of the multi-year lengths, and, this was my “ah-ha” moment when reading this case. Safeguarding financial reporting is more about the reporting companies than anything else in my observation with a letter from prison. The company chose to backdate contracts and recognize revenue improperly without informing their auditors of these decisions or situations that were occurring. I do think that within other companies sometimes it is about the auditors and their role is to provide honest and professional auditing work of the financial statements...
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...Loving the Bad Man- Movie Review Louise Lomeland CRIS303-B02 Liberty University Online Abstract The movie Loving the Bad Man is about a traumatic experience; rape of a young woman and the man who raped her. Christine Thompson is a young Christian woman loved by those who know her and her family, father, mother, and brother. Christine is raped by a young angry man named Mike Connor and she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy she names Arthur. Mike is committed to prison for 10 to 20 years for his crime on the day Christine gives birth. They come together through Christine’s faith in God and His word for forgiveness. Christine’s life gets worse before it gets better, while Mike’s life, although in prison gets better before it gets worse. Everyone close to Christine and Mike are affected by the traumatic event. The Nature of the Crisis Presented Christine Thompson is a young woman who lives with her family. Her mother, Marion who is a stay at home mom is supportive and loving, and shares the Christian faith with Christine, her father, Ed who is also supportive and loving but does not see eye to eye with Christine and her belief standard of faith, and her brother, Joey who is a DJ music player at local venues. Christine works as a cashier in a store. A male co-worker Cole Parker, who is also a Christian is interested in Christine and asks her for a date however, Christine declines stating she does not date. Driving home one night after a church fellowship meeting...
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...UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COUNSELLING SERVICES IN GHANAIAN PRISONS: A STUDY OF ANKAFUL AND SEKONDI PRISONS. REV. FR. DUAH 2014 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Since ancient times till now, no clan or society has existed without crimes and offenses of some kind for which society inflicts punishments (Dobb, 1994). In pre-colonial Ghana, different traditional societies had their own various ways of meting out punishments, deterring and rehabilitating offenders and deviants. In these societies, the socialization of the people and sanctions meted out to offenders were both in accordance to the customs, values, belief systems and traditions of the people. Power and authority rested on the chiefs and traditional rulers as well as heads of clans and families to punish culprits of various offenses and offer rehabilitation services. According to The Library of Congress Country Studies (1994) there was no prison system in the traditional Ghanaian society in the colonial era and advent of western education and culture in Ghana. The Ghana Police Service was established and mandated to provide the security needs of the citizens by protecting lives and properties. The judiciary or law courts of Ghana were also given the mandate to provide fair trial and justice to offenders arranged before them and those found guilty were given various punishments ranging from fines to custodian sentences in jail to serve as a deterrent to others. In the mid-nineteenth...
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...incredible and the reason for this paper is to examine the merits of his work and to look at his life and his particular place in Christian history by closely examining his background and historical setting, and some of his more significant works. This paper will look into Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship, and Ethics, and his Prison Correspondence. These works are important in understanding the man and as a theologian and they give an accurate picture of what it was like to live back in those times as a Christian. Despite the numerous accounts of WWII that are out there are very few that give us an account from the perspective of a Christian and the hope that all Christians can share even in the darkest of times. But before we get into his works let us take a look at some of his background. Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer? With every great hero there must be a great villain, and in the case of Bonhoeffer there was no greater villain than the Nazi party or specifically Adolf Hitler himself. Not many people realize this but when Nazism first started it was considered a Christian movement coming from the Lutheran Church. The Nazi party tended to get much of their beliefs from the sayings of Martin Luther in his later life. Because in Luther’s later life he did come to write many anti-semantic statements that the Nazi party adopted and went about trying to enforce and in some cases over exaggerating Luther’s original intent. This is when Bonhoeffer's story takes place, at a time when the Nazi...
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...Grade 9/SIFE Reading/Language Arts/Writing Unit/Theme: Emotions and The House on Mango Street *Content Objective(s): *Students will describe Cisneros’ voice and style, listing some of her creative uses of language as characteristic of this author’s craft*Students will explore the physical and emotional prisons in which people live. *Students will discover and evaluate different methods of escape from these prisons. *Students will practice writing in the persuasive mode, using evidence from the text and from their own lives to construct effective arguments proposing the best way to escape the troubles of life*Students will peer edit and revise for content, for sentence structure, and for use of figurative language. *Language Objective(s): *Students will continue to build vocabulary resources for discussing emotions. *Students will identify fragmentary sentence structure, voice, and effective use of figurative language in Cisneros’ style and use knowledge of style to develop originality in their own writing style. *Student will be able to participate in and contribute to collaborative learning, such as “think, pair, share” and “expert groups.” Key Vocabulary: prison, escape, safe haven, voice, style, figurative language, persuasive mode, context, concept map, anticipatory set, peer editing, rubric, tapping prior knowledge, description, sensory detail, quotation, five senses, , sentence fragments, “unacceptable in academic writing,” punctuation, prejudice, graphic organizer...
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...below). For all questions, cite the page number(s) or URL(s) where you found your answers. | Question #01: At the end of Chapter 4, we meet Roy Eskapa who handles Kevin’s psychological counseling (as part of his rehabilitation for hacking into the phone company). Kevin will years later get into more trouble and Roy writes a letter to his judge saying Kevin is “addicted” to hacking. What is the legal significance of that claim?Question #02: Kevin is sent to jail and scheduled to be sent to Preston prison. He appeals the California Young Authority decision to send him to Preston. The hearing arbitrator agrees and sends him to Karl Holton prison instead. Kevin is very proud of winning the grievance and associates his win with the lyrics of a song. What were the lyrics and who was the singer?Question #03: Kevin realizes that when he turns 21, he will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court. He decides to hide and picks a name to use while hiding. What is the name and where did he get the name?Question #04: Kevin continues to hack Pacific Bell. His target is the Switching Control Center System (SCCS). Why did he choose that target? | | NIST 800-12 discussion of cryptography is remarkably up to date and correctly points out that cryptography depends on other controls for effective implementation.Question #05: Numerically list the 5 security controls that cryptography requires. In your own words, explain each control. | | Question #06: What is...
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...Women’s Prison By Nick Capstone Research Design May 7, 2007 Introduction This study aims to examine the outcomes of an intensive, innovative educational program for under-educated women in prison. Traditional education programs in prisons are somewhat lacking. Usually, prisons only offer lackluster GED programs. When vocational programs are offered, they are often for out-of-date professions or extremely gendered (Brewster and Sharp 2002). This program would seek to improve the educational and release outcome of women using intensive instruction and low student-teacher ratios. The need for information on the backgrounds, lives and needs of incarcerated women is evident. Though they currently only make up 7.0% of prisoners held in state and federal facilities, women’s incarceration rates are increasing more quickly than men’s. From 1995-2005 the number of women incarcerated increased 57%, compared to 34% for men (Bureau of Justice Statistics 2005). Approximately 4 out of 5 women in prison have minor dependent children, and the majority of them have sole custody (Belknap 2007). Relationships with their children are often strained by incarceration. The focus of the study will be on the changes women experience within the prison environment, rather than their post-release outcomes. Some of the changes that these women experience within the prison system may affect their likelihood of receiving parole and their behaviors once outside of prison. ...
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...was gay .written to show people who were lost in society should be recognized .exploring the methods in which AB presents IR to the audience Dramatic Monologue: advantages: .Develop close bond with IR .open up to her audience .she can only talk to you, you can only listen to her .express how she truly feels, opinions, feeling and thoughts .seek what she really think, instead of what she tells other people Disadvantages: .never know if IR is being honest, telling the truth .only her speaking, can’t listen to other peoples view points .cant question her .not a balanced view point .Over powering, mind controlling Facts on IR character scn 1: .opening paragraph, AB doesn’t reveal much .shared few facts, facts he does share are basic doesn’t give much information .mother dead, lives alone .cousin in Canada, apparently only relative .suggests lonely, learnt to be independent .likes to write frequent letters .recently attended funeral of someone she doesn’t even know correct name of .cant of known recently decease lady .’At least it’s an outing’ .suggests doesn’t have anything better to do, didn’t have close relationship with lady .neighbours just moves in, observes street occasionally .’Don’t look very promising, kiddy looks filthy’ Hints she is judgmental, immediately assumes they aren’t promising .well spoken ‘mover over’ .few facts, gather she is lonely, judgmental, self assured, bored, nothing to do with life Positive and Negative Characteristics: ...
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...The Scarlet Letter summaries. Chapter 1 This chapter somewhat introduces seventeenth-century Boston, where a group of gloomy, sad Puritans stand in front of an old prison in Boston, which seems to be a horrible and degrading place. By the descriptions given (heavy oak door, with spikes) it sounds like the prison is meant to keep and hold deadly murderers and ax murderers. The area around the prison is gray and gloomy. Decay and ugliness are in the author's descriptions, the only thing that sticks out is a lovely wild rosebush, blooming by the prison door. I believe the rosebush links us to Hester. They are both in full bloom, the rosebush in numbers of roses, and Hester in her humiliation. They both stand out. Chapter 2 The chapter opens to townspeople talking about Hester Prynne’s sin. Hester comes out of the prison and walks to the scaffold wearing an elaborately embroidered scarlet letter A on her breast, and carrying a small infant in her arms. When she did this she was to be ashamed of her sin, and the townspeople made mockery and fun of her. One of the most ugly woman in town implied that she be killed for her sin. As Hester looks out over the crowd, she realizes that her future will be lonely, being alone. Just her daughter and herself. When she realizes this, she squeezes Pearl so hard she starts to cry. The market place is described as the punishment of Hester. She was compared to Mary. Chapter 3 While standing on the platform, Hester sees and...
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...In the introduction of the novel “The Other Wes Moore”, (2010) Wes told the story of two boys has the same name and age, and they live in the same street. One of them is successful and educated, and he got scholarship and academic award. Also, another one is unsuccessful and a criminal. However, the first Wes read in the article about the police officers was following armed men, and the armed men was shot and killed the police officers. The armed men are other Wes and his older brother. In addition, Wes was sentenced to life in prison, and his older brother was sentenced to death. After he finishes scholarship, he still thinking about other Wes, and he imagines other Wes’ face the same as his face. Furthermore, Wes sent to other Wes a letter...
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...Symbols in "The Scarlet Letter" A In “The Scarlet Letter,” symbols appear everywhere. Hawthorne uses several different concrete objects to represent something of deeper meaning. Among these symbols is the scarlet letter "A" itself. It is made of red cloth and beautifully embroidered. It is a literal symbol of the sin of adultery. The letter "A" appears in several places and several forms. It is the letter that appears on Hester's heart that she is condemned to wear for the remainder of her life. At Governor Bellingham's mansion it is magnified in the breastplate. It seems as though she is hidden behind it. On the night that Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold with Hester and Pearl, a huge letter A appears in the sky. Later, while in the forest, Pearl arranges a letter a on her heart that is made of eel grass. One of the most dramatic of the A's that appear in the book is the A that appears on Dimmesdale's chest. Not only does the "A" symbolize adultery, but it also has several other meanings to the different characters as well. To the community, it is simply a mark of punishment. To Hester, it is a mark of embarrassment and humiliation. To Dimmesdale, the scarlet letter is a reminder of his own guilt. To Pearl, the mark is a mysterious curiosity. To Chillingworth, the "A" is his chance to get revenge on Dimmesdale. Later, the letter symbolizes "Able" when Hester wins some respect from the townspeople. The scarlet letter is meant to be a symbol of shame, but instead it becomes...
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