The Nature of Police Work The myth of police as crime-fighters has been conveyed to the American people through television dramas‚ comic strips‚ and newspaper articles. It conjures up in one’s mind an image of a police officer doing a dangerous job that requires him or her to outshoot‚ outpunch‚ and outwit dangerous criminals. For most American police‚ there is little correspondence between this image and reality. In a major metropolitan area (where crime rates are the highest)‚ half of the officers
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Difference between rural and urban rural areas are settled places outside towns and cities. they can have an agricultural character‚though many rural areas are based on natural gas‚ petroleum‚ etc... rural areas are less modern and open than urban areas. people there are probably more attached to there traditions and beliefs.we dont usually see the society moving‚ and i mean by that‚ seeing the populationg chaging habits‚ accepting other cultures and adopting some‚ etc. however we do found in
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Anthropology Pakistani Rural and Urban Community: Comparing Family and Kinship Systems. People in Pakistan are greatly trilingual and most people living here are Muslims. They respect their customs and traditions and closely follow family values. Most people are living as joint family systems along with their kinsmen‚ with exceptions choosing the nuclear way of life. Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin‚ through biological‚ cultural‚ or historical
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How Urban Legends Work In this essay the author Tom Harris tells us how urban legends effects us on how we live‚ the stories that are told can either give us a lesson to be learned or it gives us a warning‚ some stories can be horrific as in the story about the traveling sales man who met a women in Las Vegas and had a few too many drinks and had be drugged and had his kidney removed by a body organ harvesting gang and woke up in a bathroom tube covered in ice and a note to call for help before
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The New Urban Crisis This precis is a summary and critique of the book The New Urban Crisis‚ by Richard Florida. SUMMARY The book is centered around Florida’s argument “The decline of the middle class‚ and the emergence of the creative class‚ are the reason for the widening gap of inequality throughout the world.” He defines the creative class as‚ the top third of American earners‚ and the working class as those who are physical labors‚ and the service class‚ who are waiters and retail
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Society is composed of matters being racism‚ inequality‚ poverty‚ inadequate health care‚ urban conflict and substance abuse. The issues operate for various purposes in society. We all have particular emotional attachments to them. It’s through our eyes were able to see the aspects for what they are. I was brought up with the idea of everyone being created equal‚ and the only power above man is God. Therefore‚ when racial issues arise in society‚ I cope by drawing into feelings of disappointment
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Checkpoint: Police Stress External Stress-This stress is produced by real threats or dangers‚ for example: gun runs and auto pursuits. I believe this type of stress would affect an officer’s job by carrying the fear of being injured or killed in the line of duty. This type of stress would possibly affect an officer’s social life and personal life because of the fear the family has to carry with them of their loved one being in danger on a daily basis. In order to manage or reduce these fears an
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Urban and Regional Planning: For Better or For Worse? In my opinion‚ urban and regional planning are solutions to what our society is facing right now. It is not unusual to hear from specialist that both planning promotes the best quality of life for the people. What I get from the purpose they have stated is that urban planning and regional planning are just like technologies. Technologies made the lives of people easy but they can also do harm. Both urban and regional planning could turn a city
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academic performance of urban schools. Students in urban schools are not achieving as much as their suburban counterparts and educators have very few ways to motivate students to do better. While there are many issues beyond educator’s control‚ social and economic backgrounds are the most prevalent and keep students from reaching their true potential. When students are faced with adversity they are less motivated and less likely to move forward in their education. In urban schools this leads to
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Name: Sherif Nader A. GOUBRAN ID: 900092358 Date: 13-5-2010 Class & Section: English 201-02 Dr. Loubna Youssef Subtitle: Research Paper (final Draft) A Solution: Urban Chaos in Cairo What is known today as the Greater Cairo Region is in fact a combination of a number of neighbouring cities and governorates (including Cairo‚ Giza‚ Helwan‚ Qalyubia and 6th of October. Since the first establishment in the region‚ Al- Fustat in 641 AD‚ Cairo was in continuous growth. The numerous and different
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