The discovery of a murder in Philadelphia in October 1894 opened the door to a case that few could believe. Marion Hedgepeth, a one-time cellmate of a man who went by the name H.M. Howard, informed police about a recent scam. It involved insuring a man named Benjamin Pitezel for $10,000 with the Fidelity Mutual Life Association in 1893 in Chicago, and then faking his death in a laboratory explosion by substituting a cadaver. All participants were then to split the insurance payment, but Howard had reneged and run off with the money. Hedgepeth was informing on him as payback, and his detailed letter about the scheme was passed along to the company. In short order, they…
Antar, S. (2011). The Crazy Eddie fraud confessions of a white-collar criminal. White Collar Fraud. Retrieved from http://business.pages.tcnj.edu/files/2013/02/2011-09-07-The-Crazy-Eddie-Fraud-by-Sam-E.-Antar.pdf…
Frank Jr. was a young man when he committed his first scam. He was new to a different school after his parents lost their home in the suburbs, and moved into an apartment. Frank Jr. wasn’t treated nicely, a student had bumped him and said he looked like a substitute teacher. Frank then walked into class, after seeing the student that bumped into him, Jr. then became the substitute teacher for two whole weeks. He announced his self to the students…
A thief grew up in the small town of Torrance, California. Running from trouble at a young age assisted his success as a famous runner later in life. An eighth place finisher in the 1936 Berlin Olympics showed his changing lifestyle and cast him into the spotlight. Upon the arrival of WWII he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. While on a rescue mission, his plane plunged into the serene waters of the Pacific. After forty-seven days at sea, he was thrown into the depths of a POW camp. Over the next two years,…
“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.” (J. Edgar Hoover). These famous words from the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were a symbol of the start of America’s war on crime. This quote stood as a direct reference to armed and unarmed bank robberies in the United States. At the front of this ongoing crime war is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or the FBI for short.…
Bob Tyler, a 40-year-old male, is brought to the emergency department by the police after being violent with his father. Bob has multiple past hospitalizations and treatment for schizophrenia. Bob believes that the healthcare providers are FBI agents and his apartment is a site for slave trading. He believes that the FBI has cameras in his apartment to monitor his moves and broadcast them on TV.…
Catch Me if You Can by Frank W. Abagnale is the true story of Frank Abagnale himself, as a real fake. Throughout the book, Abagnale uses several different rhetorical devices, such as foreshadowing, irony, point of view, and importance of title; and raises certain social issues.…
After watching the movie, I now understand the buzz that followed it. It was a classic story of a man who comes across a treasure and believes that it just must have been his lucky day. However, the conflict arises because he is not the only one in search of the treasure. This starts off a violent and bloody trail of a suspenseful cat and mouse chase between the treasure finder, the Mexican mob, and a psychotic self-employed assassin. Llewelyn Moss, played by Josh Brolin, is the treasure finder. Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem, is the assassin, and Ed Tom Bell, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is the sheriff who is on the case.…
What is the major theme in the novels and how to the characters influence this…
1. Suppose you’re in a conversation and the person you are with claims to know that God exists (or that God does not exist—it’s up to you). What does such a knowledge claim amount to? In other words, what sorts of conditions have to be satisfied for such a knowledge claim to be legitimate? Do you think such a person could meet those conditions? Why? Be sure to discuss not only the classical model of knowledge, but also the challenges posed to it by basic beliefs and Gettier counterexamples. (Be sure to give a Gettier-type example and explain its relevance to the knowledge issue.)…
The article “Red Flags Before Santa Monica Shooting, But Pointing Fingers is Hard”, by Gloria Goodale states the need to raise awareness in schools, workplaces, and families and teach people to identify red-flag behaviors. Such signs can include a change in behavior, an interest in violent weapons, strange writing, feeling hopeless and the desire to hurt someone. People can be trained recognized behavior before incidents happen, but there are challenges, because it could discriminate against people with mental health problems. The article “Colleges Are Watching Troubled Students”, by Jeffrey McMurray, mentions how many colleges and universities began monitoring and sharing information about troubled students after the Virginia Tech shootings, to prevent crime and violence on school campuses. School officials created a “watch list” of troubled students and decided whether they needed professional help or if they should just kick them out of school. Both articles are similar because if “red flag” behaviors were spotted early on it could prevent those students from harming themselves and others.…
“You’re the ones who’s fighting. You and your mother. Fighting with how things are” pg 159…
Facts: On February 21, 1968, a man named Willie Shard reported to the Chicago police that the previous day two men had robbed him on a Chicago street of a wallet containing, among other things, traveler's checks and a Social Security card. On February 22, two police officers stopped the petitioner and a companion, Ralph Bean, on West Madison Street in Chicago. When asked for identification, the petitioner produced a wallet that contained three traveler's checks and a Social Security card, all bearing the name of Willie Shard. Papers with Shard's name on them were also found in Bean's possession. When asked to explain his possession of Shard's property, the petitioner first said that the traveler's checks were "play money," and then told the officers that he had won them in a crap game. The officers then arrested the petitioner and Bean and took them to a police station.…
Time, said to be eternal, possess neither a beginning nor an end. Yet however there is a fixation on being able to measure it in years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. Trying to save time with new technology, manage time with multi-tasking activities. All in the hopes of giving meanings to the past, present and future. The past is able to been seen but not changed, today is in the present yet still unpredictable, and tomorrow is not guaranteed. If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden is a villanelle much like others using rhyme, repetition, and meter, that revolve around the main idea of the continuity time and its unforeseeable nature.…
The film is talking about Jordan Belfort (Leonard DiCaprio starred) ran a stock brokerage firm called Stratton Oakmont that defrauded investors in 90s, this is one of the most famous business fraud scandals in wall street and he is known as “Wolf of Wall Street”. The company running the business by buying penny stocks with some secrets accounts, they hired salesmen to do the cold calls and persuaded them to buy their stocks that could make many profit to them. After many clients bought the penny stocks so that the price of stock rose, they would dump the stocks they had bought. They earned a lot of money from this while their clients lost their investments from stocks crashed. By running this defrauded business, the firm became bigger and bigger and hired more and more salesmen. After few years, Belfort and his partners had to do money laundering in order to solve the problem of their huge dirty money from fraud. They saved their money in Swiss bank accounts and found people to laundry their money. Finally, the unethical business was discovered by FBI and the firm was shut down by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Belfort was arrested by FBI for money laundering and securities fraud.…