Peek Over Our Shoulders What Rioters are Reading on September 28, 2017

Peek Over Our Shoulders What Rioters are Reading on September 28, 2017 In this feature at Book Riot, we give you a glimpse of what we are reading this very moment. Here is what the Rioters are reading today (as in literally today). This is what’s on their bedside table (or the floor, work bag, desk, whatevskis). Gird your loinsâ€"this list combined will make your TBR list EXPLODE. We’ve shown you ours, now show us yours; let us know what you’re reading (right this very moment) in the comment section below! Liberty Hardy Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com, January 16, 2018): The final book in the freaking fantastic Binti trilogy. One word: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (e-galley) Anthony Karcz Apex (Hunter) by Mercedes Lackey: The final entry in Lackeys Hunger Games meets DD Monster Manual series. Ive been hooked since the first book, with its no-nonsense protagonist and gonzo monsters on practically every page. Im excited to see where Joy ends up, but sad to leave this world behind. (E-book) Kate Scott The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher L. Heuertz: I’m always game for a new book on the Enneagram! (Paperback) Ilana Masad Prospero’s Daughter by Elizabeth Nunez: I’m taking a fascinating class right now in which we read this book, and our professor kept bringing us back to this one extremely salient pointâ€"this retelling of The Tempest by William Shakespeare is told from within an already-colonized space, and doesn’t give its Caliban character a history of pre-colonization. The book is spectacularly discomfiting (which is good), sometimes a little heavy handed, but ultimately a needed exploration of the continued effects of European colonization of the Caribbean. (Hardcover) Claire Handscombe Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo: I’ve wanted to read this ever since it was mentioned at the Buzz panel at BookExpo, and I’ve convinced my book club to read it with me. Win! (galley) Celine Low The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh: I’m trying this new thing whereby I organise my reading based on metaphor (now doing glass) and this is the next highly rated one on my list. Any recommendations welcome! S.W. Sondheimer IQ by Joe Ide: This is one of the books Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recommended in the interview we posted last week and it is phenomenal. Started it this afternoon and already on pg 229. Think Sherlock Holmes as a young black man growing up in LA, his clients insanely wealthy rappers as well as young Latinx women kidnapped off the street by a pedophile. I’m going to have to fight myself hard not to stay up and finish this one tonight. Sarah Nicolas They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera: I’m going to be finished with this book by the time this post goes live because I’m just tearing through it. It’s so good! It’s about two teenage boys who are initially strangers spending their last day on earth together. (audiobook) Nicole Froio We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehesi Coates: Coates is one of my favorite writers and I can’t wait to read this collection of essays about the Obama years. (arc) Jaime Herndon The Glass Eye by Jeannie Vanasco: I just started this memoir about family, the stories we tell ourselves, and mental health. And its captivating. (Galley) Teresa Preston The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein:  The magazine I used to work for published several articles by Rothstein on segregation, so I was excited to see he’d written a whole book on the topic. The book is also on the longlist for the National Book Award. (Hardcover) Steph Auteri Clean Room Vol. 3: Waiting for the Stars to Fall by Gail Simone, Walter Geovani, Sanya Anwar, and Quinton Winter:  There was a conversation among fellow Book Rioters about spooky comics, and Clean Room came up. I like spooky. I read the first two volumes in one quick gulp through Hoopla, and now I’m on the third. (Ebook) Laura Sackton Independent People by Halldor Laxness: I’ve been obsessed with Iceland ever since I had the chance to travel there last fall. So I’ve decided to work my way through Icelandic literature, starting with Halldor Laxness, the only Icelander ever to win a Nobel prize and beloved in his country. So far, Independent People is a gritty and rather gloomy look at sheep farming in the Icelandic countryside. In other words: awesome. (Audiobook) Elizabeth Allen Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley: I read this for my local indie’s bookgroup. With the exception of The Art of Racing in the Rain, I’ve been kind of over emotional stories about beloved family pets dying. But, like Garth Stein’s book, Rowley finds a completely new and unique way to discuss the painful yet beautiful journey of saying goodbye to a member of your family. He combines stark reality and fabulism to really express what it feels like to live in that stagnant time between knowing your pet will be leaving you soon and actually having to make that final, difficult decision. (Paperback) Priya Sridhar Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Silvia is a wonderful editor, and a storyteller. She takes us to Mexico City, where Atl, a woman with Aztec origins and a need to drink blood, has to go on the lam when a gang targets her. She takes an unwitting donor with her, and starts getting attached to the young Domingo. Meanwhile her pursuers, who also have supernatural roots, contend with a reckless member and the stricter laws that don’t allow for ample feeding. I love this world so much, and the rich language within the prose. (eBook) Jan Rosenberg The Idiot by Elif Batuman: I have heard everyone talking about this book. I listened to a podcast that mentioned a few of the subtle, funny moments that make this book so poignant. Like how Selin can’t decide to answer a classmate when he stops to ask how she is, so she stares at him until he just gives up and walks away. I was on the fence for a while, but I’m halfway through and I love it so much. I want to linger with this book so that it takes longer to finish. Selin is the daughter of Turkish immigrants and has just arrived at Harvard from New Jersey. Harvard is supposed to be a haven for intellectuals, but the students and professors are hilariously lost, and no more confident in themselves than Selin is. Selin is such a fresh, honest, and brave young woman. And I’m pretty sure this book makes an argument for wordplay as foreplay. I may have to check out Batuman’s other novel when I’m finished. (Hardcover) Katie McLain The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino: I found a copy of this at a nearby used book sale, and I keep hearing so many good things about Higashino’s mysteries that I decided to grab it. I’m not far into it, but I can tell already it’s a compelling story. (Paperback) Derek Attig Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw: I was desperately in need of something fun and sparkly and delightful, and so I pounced on this werebear-with-a-vampire-roommate story. I don’t regret it. Not a bit. (ebook) Jess Plummer The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President by Noah Feldman: I was inspired by Matt Grant’s presidential biography challenge to try working my way through biographies of every US president so far over the next four years. Three and half down, a daunting number to go! (Digital ARC) Jen Sherman I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: This is one of my books for the Read Harder challenge, which I’m desperately trying to finish in the next six weeks! The book is harder to read than I thought it would be, but as I said to my husband last night, it’s narrated by an African American child living in the American south in the 1930s. It was never going to be a light and fluffy read. (Library paperback) Rebecca Hussey Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova: First, this is nonfiction published by Graywolf Press, and that makes it automatically worth checking out. But it’s also a mix of memoir, travel writing, and social/political observations and analysis, a combination of genres I can’t resist. Fifty pages into this exploration of the border areas in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece, I’m finding it fascinating. (Paperback ARC) Adiba Jaigirdar The Mermaid and Mrs  Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar: I’m basically on board for any book that is about mermaids. And this one had mermaids in the title! So far, it’s not exactly what I expected the book to be, but the prose is beautiful and I’m certainly intrigued. (Digital ARC) Jenn Northington Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman: I picked this up on a whim at BEA, expecting it to be a very silly but fun millennial grimoireâ€"a novelty book, something I might flip through once and then pass along. Readers, I read it cover to cover, and I’m keeping my copy forever. Saxena and Zimmerman do an excellent job of talking about intention setting as ritual, laying out the history of witchesâ€"particularly in the USâ€"and their relationship with feminism, AND of making me laugh out loud with occasional silliness. This book is a gemâ€"get it for you, for your girl gang, and any woman who might be occasionally tempted to hex a catcaller. Jessica Yang The Disappearance of Ember Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina: I read The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf a while back and loved it, so of course the sequel is on my to-read list! (hardcover) Tasha Brandstatter A Kiss in Lavender by Laura Florand: The latest release by one of my favorite authors. (ebook) Emily Martin All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood: This was my pick for the book club I’m in, and I’m absolutely loving everything about this book. I know that Book of the Month chose it for their book of the year in 2016, and I can see why. This is a very unique book that leaves me feeling conflicted about each and every character. Honestly, I’m nearly finished with the book and I have no idea how it should end or how I should even be rooting for it to end. Whatever happens, I can’t put it down. (hardcover) Susie Rodarme Hunger by Roxane Gay: I have finally started this book. I have been circling it since it came out, trying to be brave enough to read it, or maybe waiting for when I really needed it, which seems to be right now. (hardcover) Simone Jung Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. I’ve been on a YA kick lately and getting through my TBR. I picked up this book recently because I’ve heard so many good things in the past, and the number of awards tacked onto this book cover made me wonder how good it is. Since I’m the type of person who has to find things out for myself, I had to read it for myself. I can’t believe how amazing this story is following two boys on their way to discovering their lives as well as themselves. (paperback) Alison Doherty The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti: Ooof this book is putting me in a dark mood, but I also can’t stop talking about what I’m learning to everyone I meet. From abstinence only “education” programs to abortion laws and the treatment of assault victims, I’m captivated at how society from courtroom to classrooms systematically devalues women to little more than their sexuality through an emphasis on sexual purity. The things that are hard about reading this book are the same things that make it so important. Deya Bhattacharya HomeFire by Kamila Shamsie: This was longlisted for the Man Booker this year and I know this book has been doing the rounds on Instagram so naturally, I was curious.  Picked it up on my birthday rather abruptly; as traditional goes, I buy at least one book on my birthday, and it was almost 9 pm with the neighbourhood indie closing, so I just grabbed it. Now I’m awake all night telling myselfâ€"“Deya, just one more chapter!” What a read this is! (Hardcover) Jamie Canaves The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation #1) by Vaseem Khan: On the day of his retirement (due to health issues) Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits a baby elephant and comes across a case of a dead boy he can’t let go of. I picked this up in hopes that I will learn the secret to someone gifting me a baby elephant but also I am always here for a mystery set in Mumbai, India. (ebook) Karina Glaser A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold: A lovely chapter book about a boy on the autism spectrum who falls in love with a rescued baby skunk, and how he tries to convince his mother to let him keep it as a pet. A sweet story with realistically drawn characters and honest emotions. (Library Hardcover) Margaret Kingsbury We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Um, I’m reading this because it’s short. Okay, so I have more reasons than that, but I’m running behind on my yearly reading goal. At 52 pages, I should be able to finish this tonight in a single sitting. But of course I’m also reading it because I’m a feminist and I want to read it… (Paperback) Trisha Brown Completely by Ruthie Knox: Ruthie Knox is one of the first romance authors whose work I read, and she’s definitely the first whose backlist I immediately sought out and devoured. After stepping away from writing for a couple of yearsâ€"an eternity in romance timeâ€"Knox returned this year with a couple of new releases, including new release Completely, and I am delighted to have her back. (e-galley) jessica pryde Acting on Impulse by Mia Sosa: I one-clicked this the day it came out (if you know me, star/not-star romances are my total tropetonite) but Ive also got a library stack a mile high so this one wasnt started until all I had was my phone and a long wait for someone and Im so glad I did. Those library books can wait. (ebook) *** What are you reading? Save

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Going Against Nature with T.C. Boyle Free Essays

string(32) " well as his time with Ontario\." Jessica Arroyo English 116 11 April 2012 Life is hard. There are two things we need to succeed in life. We need to understand that nature is a key player in life, and that it has a greater power over us than we do it. We will write a custom essay sample on Going Against Nature with T.C. Boyle or any similar topic only for you Order Now We cannot control nature, nor can we impact what it has in store for us. If nature, such as the weather, decides there’s going to be a storm this weekend, well the best we can do is prepare for it. If nature creates us in one mode, who are we to go against it and try to change our species? If nature decides it’s going to slam a commit into the earth, we are helpless in the matter. Going against nature, or even questioning its methods, has its consequences and the characters of the short stories written by T. C. Boyle seem to know this all too well. Nature is a greater power who demands great respect. It is not a choice in matter, but rather a forced way of life that we have no means to alter, which Boyle convincingly conveys through his stories. In the story â€Å"The Swift Passage of Animals†, T. C. Boyle takes us on a â€Å"big adventure† (91) in which a new relationship is intended to flourish by a romantic weekend getaway. The nature of the male, Zach, is to impress the young recently divorced woman, Ontario. Though they are already dating, he is still courting her in hopes to further impress her by taking her to â€Å"hike the trails and cross-country ski†¦ and then sit at the bar at the lodge till it was time to go to bed†(84), by sharing the experiences with the greatest thing they have in common, their love for nature. Of course, there is more in it for Zach than just enjoying the beauty nature has, he intends on fulfilling the â€Å"unspoken promise percolating beneath the simple monosyllable of her assent—going to bed† (84). 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Boyle’s diction throughout the beginning of the story foreshadows this â€Å"unspoken† (84) intention of Zach by placing details such as â€Å"the soft sexy scratch of [her voice] shot from his eardrums right to his crotch† (80), and the reference of her sweater with the â€Å"reindeer prancing across her breasts† (81), he foreshadows the consequences of these provoking thoughts by directly following them with the dangers of the â€Å"sleet† â€Å"dark† (80) road they were on. In showing his dominance and risk taking skills, Zach chooses not to prepare in case they get caught in a storm on the way to the Lodge. He also presses nature even further by choosing to take the back road even though â€Å"there was a winter storm watch out of the Southern Sierras†¦and he knew that [it] would be closed as soon as the first snow hit† (74). All he could think about was getting there as fast as he could. â€Å"He was always in a hurry. Especially tonight. Especially with her† (74). Zach experiences his â€Å"first prick of worry† (81) when he spots a sign that said â€Å"Cars required with Chains† (81). Perversely† (95) nature enhances his worries by letting the snow paint the road with such intensity it was â€Å"as if some cosmic hand had swept on ahead with a two-lane paintbrush† (81). Despite the skidding of the tires and the snow â€Å"coming down as if it wasn’t going to stop till May† (88), Ontario maintains full confidence in Zach. â€Å"She wasn’t staring out the windshield into the white fury of the headlights, but watching h im as if they were cruising down the Coast Highway under a ripe delicate sun† (83). But even with the confidence of his potential mate, his risk taking skills, and attitude nature still manages to turn things around on him when the car skids into a boulder and lands itself in â€Å"a glistening white ditch that undulated gracefully away from the hidden surface of the road† (85). Zach is now completely alone in the nature with Ontario, â€Å"which was where he really and truly wanted to be† (85). However, it is now that all of his unpreparedness becomes apparent. â€Å"He didn’t have a shovel in the truck—no shovel, and no chains† (86). No â€Å"knife† or â€Å"hatchet†, or â€Å"anything to cut with† (87). Nothing of any use to assist them in getting the tires up and out of the ditch. All of their feeble attempts merely gave â€Å"the rear wheels a moment’s purchase† which just resulted in â€Å"[shoving] the front end in deeper† (88). Nature successfully pulls this egotistical, risk taking, prideful, dominant male down â€Å"to feel less a risk taker and more a fool, callow, rash, without foresight of calculation, the sort of blighted ndividual whose genetic infirmities get swallowed up in the food chain before he can reproduce and pass them on to vitiate the species† (86). As nature pulls Zach further and further down, deepening his misery by torrential snow and all the worries that come with leaving your car out in the middle of the wilderness (such as if â€Å"the yahoos come out and strip it† (92) ) in an attempt to hike to the Big Timber Lodge which was still a long â€Å"thirteen miles† (93) away, Ontario is â€Å"inordinately cheerful† (91). But â€Å"given how miserable [Zach] was† (91) because of the crash, he was able to pull the optimistic outlook of Ontario down to his pessimistic level. By the end of their hike, Zach finds himself grouped into â€Å"the unlucky and unprepared† (95) people which nature tackles with full force. His trip was ruined, as well as his time with Ontario. You read "Going Against Nature with T.C. Boyle" in category "Papers" When they finally reach the lodge, after being rescued from the cold by â€Å"the man in the goggles†(96) on a â€Å"snowmobile† (96), Ontario corrects Zachs request of a room to â€Å"two rooms† (98). In â€Å"Dogology† T. C. Boyle introduces us to Cynthia, or â€Å"C. f. , Captial C, lowercase f† (44) as she prefers to be called. She is a young woman who has finished grad school and attempting to â€Å"challenge† (35) the misconceptions people have about dogs. The world views dogs as â€Å"beneath them†¦ common, pedestrian, no more exotic than the housefly or the Norway rat† (35). C. f. was obsessed with changing the worlds view of dogs despite the fact that â€Å"the graduate committee rejected her thesis† (35). Humans have domesticated dogs. This results in two types of dogs: the wild and the domesticated. Cynthia challenges the methods of nature, by trying to change herself into a member of the pack. She committed herself to doing things as the pack would, â€Å"made a point of wearing the same things continuously for weeks on end†¦ in the expectation that her scent would invest them, and the scent of the pack too† (40). She â€Å"[hoped] to gain their confidence† (40) by smelling like them, running with them â€Å"reminding herself to always keep her head down and go quadrupedal whenever possible† (35) this was how she was going to â€Å"hear, smell and see as the dogs did† (35). Nature did not intend for Cynthia to take on the life of the dog. She was born human, and yet â€Å"what she was doing, or attempting to do, was nothing short of reordering her senses so that she could think like a dog and interpret the whole world—not just the human world—as dogs did† (35). Cynthia is exposed to the consequences of challenging nature by converting yourself to a different species of the world. Though married, Cynthia commits her days to accomplishing â€Å"the rhythm of dogdom† (40), ignoring the needs and the wants of her husband. She throws her â€Å"neighborhood into an uproar† (41) to the point where â€Å"they’re going to have her committed† (51). Her husband â€Å"locked her out† (50) of the house, leaving her to be with the dogs after a confrontation in which â€Å"he’d kicked her† (49) out of the frustration of her â€Å"research†(49) which he plainly saw as â€Å"bullshit† (49). â€Å"He wanted her back home, back in the den, and that was his right† (49), however Cynthia had other ambitions. Truly, she was accomplished being â€Å"left alone†(49) to enjoy â€Å"the unalloyed sweetness in life† where â€Å"the sun blessed† her body as she lay â€Å"streched out† among the pack. However, to the average citizen it may seem all a bit too costly to sacrifice the lives we live and relationships we have all for an understanding of something so â€Å"common† (35). In â€Å"Chicxulub† we are faced with the worst scenario a parent can imagine; a late night phone call, when we least expect it, stating â€Å"there has been an accident† (135) involving our own daughter, or in this story their daughter, â€Å"Madeline Biehn of 1337 Laurel Drive† (135). We are rushed through a flury of emotions while paralleling the catastrophic events of â€Å"Tunguska† (133) and â€Å"Chicxulub† (136), a â€Å"meteor† (133) and â€Å"asteroid† (136) that had impact with the Earth with such force that they were able to flatten â€Å"seven hundred square miles of Siberian forest† (133) and make â€Å"at least seventy-five percent of all known species extinguished† (136). The most recent of the two, â€Å"Tunguska† (133) was â€Å"nearly a hundred years ago† (133). No one was expecting it, as no one expects a phone call in the middle of the night saying your child has been in a car accident. It seems nature has an awful need to demonstrate its authority every now and again, reminding us â€Å"that we, and all our works and worries and attachments, are so utterly inconsequential† (139). The chances of these catastrophic events are rare; they are about as likely as â€Å"dying in an auto accident in the next ten months†, however they are not unheard of. There is nothing we can do if one of these events were to take place in our lifetime. It doesn’t matter if you spend your life preparing for such a catastrophic event, such as the most recent dooms day preparers, or you buy your daughter â€Å"a Honda Civic, the safest thing on four wheels† (134). If nature has a plan it will enact and follow through with its intentions. In fact the narrator clearly states his â€Å"point. You’d better get down on your knees and pray to your gods because each year this big spinning globe we ride intersects the orbits of some twenty million asteroids† (134). Sometimes, nature â€Å"perversely† (95) likes to hand out wake up calls. We find out after â€Å"the slow striptease of death† (142) as â€Å"the sheet draws back† (142) from the gurney where the supposed dead Madeline is to be, that their â€Å"daughter is not in the hospital† (143). Their daughter is exactly where she is supposed to be â€Å"asleep in her room† (143). It was a mistaken identity because Madeline â€Å"[loaned] her ID to her second-best friend, Kristi Cherwin† (143). The narrator of the story, â€Å"rushing still with the euphoria† realizes that this is not his daughter, and in fact not the â€Å"Chicxulub† of his lifetime. However he is left with a renewed perspective that â€Å"the rock is coming, the new Chicxulub, hurtling through the dark and the cold to remake our fate† (144). So it is through the stories that we have a renewed sense that nature is much more than a companion in life. Much more than just the flowers, and trees we pass by as we are â€Å"cruising down the Coast Highway under a ripe delicate sun† (83), much more powerful than our tactics of prevention such as our â€Å"Honda Civic† (134), or our will to undue to the simplification of our domesticated house pets. Nature has created the ways that we live in today. We are merely the players on its game board, â€Å"inconsequential† (139), insignificant. Nature does not bend to our will, but rather, we will bend to its will. Otherwise, we will be subjected to the wrath and fury of mother-nature itself. Works Cited Boyle, T. C. Tooth and Claw. New York: Viking, 2006. Blio. com. Blio. 2006. Web. 11 April. 2012. How to cite Going Against Nature with T.C. Boyle, Papers

Police Ethics and Deviance free essay sample

Ethics and the police is a subject that most people are interested in. When people use the words ethics and police in the same sentence, people usually think of police deviance, police corruption, misconducts such as drug and alcohol abuse, sexual violence, domestic disputes, and violence within families. Most common subjects people most associate with police ethics is police brutality, police deception, and abuse of their authority. Police officers in the United States are given tremendous authority and wide latitude in using that authority. In addition, to the average citizen, the police are the most visible symbol of not only the United States criminal justice system but also the United States government. (Wadsworth, 2005) Ethics is defined as the practical, normative study of the rightness and wrongness of human conduct. According to â€Å"Ethics in Crime and Justice: Dilemmas and Decisions†, by Joycelyn Pollock, some ethical standards of police are: organizational value systems or codes of ethics designed to educate and guide the behavior of those that work within the organization, an oath of office which can be considered a shorthand version of the value system or code of ethics, and The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics as publicized by the International Association Chief of Police. We will write a custom essay sample on Police Ethics and Deviance or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page Wadsworth, 2005) Ethical standards in policing are the following: to serve and protect the public, keep a clear mind and not allow their personal beliefs to keep them from helping someone, to not judge by race, religion, or sexual preferences. 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These payments are not just money payments but also come as personal favors, gratuities, and bribes. Police corruption may also include framing a suspect to maybe divert attention from another suspect they are helping. There are two different types of corruption, internal and external. Internal corruption is the illegal acts and agreements within a police department by more than one officer. External corruption is the illegal acts and agreements with the public by one or more officers in a department. There are three distinct elements of police corruption that have to occur simultaneously for a corrupt act to occur: 1) misuse of authority, 2) misuse of official capacity, and 3) misuse of personal attainment. The external corruption generally consists of one or more of the following activities: 1) payoffs to police by essentially non-criminal elements which fail to comply with stringent statutes or city ordinances, 2) payoffs to police by individuals who continually violate the law as a method of making money and, 3) clean graft where money is paid to police for services, or where courtesy discounts are given as a matter, of course to the, police. General police deviance can include discrimination, sexual harassment, intimidation, brutality, and illicit use of weapons. However, it is not particularly obvious where brutality, discrimination, and misconduct end and corruption begins. (2002, December) Police misconduct happens as a result of police corruption. Types of misconduct include: false confessions, false arrest, falsified evidence, false imprisonment, intimidation, police brutality, police corruption, political repression, racial profiling, sexual abuse, and surveillance abuse. Police misconduct also includes accepting bribes, improper search and seizures, harassment and racism in law enforcement. Police misconduct violates the oath of peace officers and their responsibilities as public servants. Victims of police misconduct can be wrongfully accused and convicted of crimes they did not even commit. Police misconduct also creates distrust between police and the public that they are meant to serve and protect. Police misconduct often goes uncorrected because people are not aware or understand their rights as citizens. Informed citizens can prevent police misconduct and avert violence, wrongful convictions, and abuse of authority. Police misconduct is the exception that most police officers are law abiding citizens, but when misconduct occurs, police departments seem to be oblivious and fail to address the problem appropriately. 2002, November) Police brutality is the excessive, unreasonable use of force against citizens, suspects, and offenders. A study showed that most citizens complained against police officers because of the use of profanity and abusive language towards them, the use of commands to move on or get home, stopping and questioning people on the street or search ing them and their cars without probable cause, the use of threats to use force if not obeyed, prodding with a nightstick or approaching with a pistol, and actual use of physical force or violence itself for no reason at all. Police brutality causes a lack of communication between minority groups and the police department and a lack of trust because of previous run-ins with brutality. In some cases police brutality runs over into an officer’s personal life as well. There have been several cases where an officer is arrested due to domestic violence and leads to an investigation of their work life. Most of the time there are cover ups, when domestic disputes occur so that the department does not get negative coverage if the incident was to get out. 2002, November) Ethics are considered a structure for most departments in the United States. There are several bad apples that get greedy and are cocky at times and think that they cannot be touched if they do wrong. Police departments around the U. S. have several issues with corruption, misconduct, and brutality. Most of the time these issues are covered up so that, these officers do not give the departments bad names and people do not trust them and the y, are having more crime on their hands instead of defeating the crime.

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Wright And Wrong Essays - Nelle A. Coley, Pedagogy, Scout Promise Wright And Wrong old brain acquired any knowledge from was my parents. They were my soul teachers on what was and what was not ethical. Then one brisk fall day my tiny right foot hit the bus steps and I was off to my first day of school. It was in this one isolated incident in wh Beginning from birth until I was about five years old the only source that my five-year ich my brain began to fog up from the entire worlds views on ethics. Basically in the fraction of a second that it took my foot to make contact with the rubber stuff on the bus steps, I became perpetually confused as to what was right and what was wrong. As I made my way down the aisle of the bus I found a seat with a very scruffy little kid (Danny McCormick), whom would soon become my partner in crime. This was my best bud back in the day when days lasted weeks and weeks lasted years. Now being an extremely shy child I was his lackey, he said jump and I responded how high? We were that children who always had to sit on the wall during recess for throwing dirt at little Billy or for teasing little Susie about her stupid pink bow. To this day the smell of Windex will send me straight back to the days of cleaning the chalkboard and the desks during recess. Also we were the well-published chalkboard names with the vivacious yellow check mark strategically placed directly following. The two of us could be found at any given time together and probably causing trouble. So my best bud until about fourth grade basically taught me to be a little punk. Which totally went against everything my parents had taught me. Here is where I need to flashback to fill you in on my parent's background and what they had taught me until I started attending school. My parents are the basic run of the mile middle class parents. They are not: drug addicts, alcoholics, quick-tempered, violent, or in any way emotionally scaring. To sum it up my parents are the Huxtable's without all the sappy make you want to vomit scenes. They had always grilled a sense of love everyone, treat others the way you want to be treated view into my head. So meeting my little scruffy Danny was something extremely new and exciting to me. He taught me it could be fun to get in trouble, my parents of course thought otherwise and would try at all lengths to keep us apart. This was like trying to keep Bert away from Ernie. During the summer before fourth-grade Danny and his family moved to the upper- peninsula and we lost contact after about five years of what seemed like an everlasting friendship. I'm sure my parents were pained to see me hurt by the whole ordeal of losing my best buddy, but I also believe that they jumped for joy internally when he left in his parents beat-up old station wagon that day lost so long ago. The memory lives on and what he taught me will always be apart of what I hold ethical. Upon returning to school in the fall of the fourth grade I found myself surrounded by all the familiar faces minus one. I realized all these kids were the ones that we had tormented for so many years, why would they ever speak to me. So for a few days I basically kept to myself, went back to being really shy and I spoke to no one. My whole personality had changed into something these kids had never seen; I was not being a little bad ass. And one day a little curly-headed girl, (Heather Ross), whom we had repeatedly tormented, approached me and asked me to come over to her house and play and I did. This was the beginning of my second most beautiful friendship. Heather and I would do everything together just as Danny and I had, but this relationship was quite different. We didn't do everything to physically or emotionally injure another person, which was what I basically was doing for

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The 3 Types of ACT Science Passages What You Must Know SAT / ACT Prep Online Guides and Tips The ACT Science section is one of the bigger mysteries to students since it is the most different from the SAT, PSAT, and other tests you have taken. Here, I will try to unravel the mystery by explaining the types of passages on the ACT, as well as the unique question types for each of these passages. By the end of thisarticle, you will have a clear understanding of what the ACT Science section entails and how to best prepare for it. The 3 Types of ACT Science Passages There are always either six or seven passages in the ACT Science section, split among a few types. Here is the overview of the types of the three questions you'll find: 2-3 Data Representation Passages 5 or 6 questions per passage 2-3 Research Summaries Passages 5 or 6 questions per passage 1 Conflicting Viewpoints Passage 7 questions per passage I will delve into more detail on the specifics of each type below. Each passage type also has uniquetypes of questions, all requiring their own approaches. Passage Type 1: Data Representation Passages These passages are similar to those found in science journals and texts. They present you with a short paragraph or two as well asone to fourvisual representations of data (such as graphs, tables, and/or scatterplots). The passages will mention specific studies and label sections as Study 1, Study 2, and Study 3. Here is a sample passage from an ACT practice test: Each Data Representation Passage has 5 or 6 questions. In thePrepScholarACT Program, we categorize the questions for Data Representation into three categories (not everyone categorizes them the same way). Understanding these three categories is key to figuring out how to answer each question correctly, so let's take a closer look at the three question types below. Question Type 1: Factual Questions These questions simply ask you to relay factual information that is presented in the passage. To answer these questions, you need to read the graphs, tables, and/or scatterplots. You'll also need to pull out specificdata points from the passage without making further calculations or inferences. The key here is to read carefully and be able to pick out and understand factual information. For instance, here's an example from the above passage: As you can see, as long as you understand how to read graphs, you should be able to answer this question easily. There may also be more advanced versions of these questions in which you are asked to look at a weirdgraph. They can look pretty intimidating at first. Check out the "weird" graph below: Is that English? I don't understand. The trick to tackling a crazy-looking chart is reading the questionand the answerscarefully. It will give you an idea about what information matters...and what information doesn't. Question Type 2:Interpreting Trends Questions These questions ask you toevaluate graphs, tables, and/or scatterplots to decide if there is a relationship.Is it increasing or decreasing? Is there an inverse relationship or direct relationship? Here is an example from the above passage: There may be more advanced versions of these questions in which there is no clear relationship between the data points. At that point, you'll have to make educated, scientific inferences from the information you've given. Question Type 3:Calculations Questions These questions ask you to take what is given and figure out where it is going.Given the data, what might Y be at value X? The questions ask you to make extrapolations and interpolations. Here is an example related to the below passage: Like we mentioned above, these types of questions ask you to draw conclusions from the data you've been given. Passage Type 2: Research Summaries Passages These passages look similar to the Data Representation Passages in that they usually present you with a short paragraph or two plus visuals (graphs, tables, scatterplots, or images). The difference is that Research SummariesPassages focus on a specific experiment or a couple of experiments. The passages will usually label sections as Experiment 1, Experiment 2, and Experiment 3. Often, they'llmention a scientist or student who is conducting the experiment.There may also be an image of how the experiments are set up. Below is an example of a Research Summaries Passage: Notice how unlike the Type 1 Data Representation passages above, Type 2 Research Summary passages mention specific experiments. Each Research SummariesPassage has 5 or 6 questions.The types of questions they ask are also very different from Type 1 Data Representation passages.Let's take a look at these new question types in a little more depth. Question Type 4: Experimental Design/Researcher Intent Questions These questions ask you to determine why the researcher designed the experiment a certain way. What arethe controls and variables in the experiment? What is the hypothesis on which the experiment is based? Here is an example from the above passage: Question Type 5: Hypothetical ExperimentalQuestions These questions askyou to determine what would happen if there was a change in the experiment (in the temperature, solution, etc.). They often require you to understand the trend of the data to predict how the outcome would change if the experiment were changed. Here is an example from the above passage: Question Type 6: Interpreting Experiments Questions These questions ask you interpret the information that you are given. Based on the data shown, is this statement supported?These questions are often framed in a 2x2 matrix: Yes because A, Yes because B, No because A, No because B. Here is an example from the above passage Break for Strategies: Data Representation and Research Summaries Passages Data Representation and Research Summaries are similar in that both rely primarily on the visuals (graphs, tables, etc.) to relay information.You can use the same strategy for both passages. It's easier than chess. Trust me. Strategy: Go straight to the questions without reading.Try to answer all of the questions using only the visuals. Manystudents get bogged down in reading the science passage. There are dozens of data points to consider, and most of them won't have any questions about them. So you'll end up wasting time trying to understand data that really aren't important. Instead,try to answer questions without reading the passage. This lets you avoid wasting too much time understanding parts of the passage that aren't important. Let’s use the very first question from the Data Representation section as an example. It is okay if you don’t immediately understand what finches are or what beak depth means (since you haven’t read the passage). After reading that question, you should jump to Figure 2, the visual associated with Study 1. I can ignore the top chart, since it says "percent of captured finches from Island A" in the y-axis, and I only need to compare the beak depth for percent of captured finches from Island B and C (and I see Island B and C are on the y-axis for the middle and bottom charts, respectively). Starting with the bottom chart, I see the highest percent of finches captured from Island C was around 35%, if I follow that bar down to the x-axis, I see that the corresponding beak depth was 10 mm. I am now pretty sure the answer is D since that is the only answer choice which says the beak depth is 10 mm for Island C finches. I will check the Island B finch chart to be sure. Looking at the middle chart, I see the highest percent is about 33%, if I follow that bar down to the x-axis, I see the corresponding beak depth is 10 mm. Now, I know for sure the answer is D! Sometimes, this method of answering questions will require a little inference and/or your deduction skills, so it may not work for everyone on every question. Let’s take for example the last question from the Research Summaries section above: It is okay if you don’t immediately understand what the words "titrant" or "sample solution" mean (since you haven’t read the passage).After reading that question, you should jump to Figure 2, the visual associated with Experiment 2. Then, check out the pH color and conductivity at 0.2 mL of titrant added.Even if I don’t know what titrant is (because I didn’t read the passage), I can see that volume of titrant added is on the x-axis.Following the x-axis to 0.2 ml of titrant added, I find the conductivity is less than 0.5 kS/cm (it is okay if I don’t understand the unit measurement). Based on the heavily dotted line, according to the key, the color is yellow. Already with this information alone, I could go ahead and eliminate answer choices B and Dsince both say the color is blue at 0.2 ml of titrant added.I will double check by finding the conductivity and color at 1.8 ml of titrant added. Using the graph, I see the conductivity is between 2.5 and 3 kS/cm. Based on the wider spaced line, according to the key, the color is blue. So yes, I was correct to eliminate B and D. I now have to choose between A and C. At this point, I need to use a little deduction if I choose not to read/skim the passage.The question is asking whether the pH is greater at 0.2 ml than at 1.8 ml of titrant added.Well, I know the conductivity is less at 0.2 ml than at 1.8 ml, but as far as pH I only know the color and don’t know what the colors mean. I know from my previous knowledge that pH and conductivity are directly related.So as one increases, so does the other. Side note: I actually did a science fair experiment in middle school testing the differing conductivity of acidic fruit based on their pH levels. No, I did not get to meet Barack Obama. So, I am going to pick answer A since no, the pH is less at 0.2 ml of titrant added than at 1.8 ml of titrant added.If you skim the passage, you will find that yellow color signifies pH less than 6 and blue color signifies pH greater than 7, so my assumption was correct. While not everyone may be able to make that second leap, you can definitely take the first step to eliminate B and E. Then, you only needed to skim to find out what yellow and blue mean in terms of pH in order to pick the correct answer. For the questions you can't answer with visuals, circle them and returnto them later. After you have answered all the questions you could with visuals, as I mentioned above, skim the passage for keywords to answer the remaining question(s). Want to learn more about ACT Science? Check out our new ACT Science prep book. If you liked this lesson, you'll love our book. It includes everything you need to know to ace ACT Science, including deep analysis of the logic behind ACT Science questions, a full breakdown of the different passage and question types, and tons of expert test-taking and study tips. Download our full-length prep book now: Passage Type 3: Conflicting Viewpoints Passage This passage is the most unique.The passage presents you with two short essays (and looks similar to apassage on the English portion of the exam).The essays represent conflicting scientific viewpoints or theories.Here is a sample passage: It's very important that you first figure out the difference in opinion between the two writers.It's always nice when the opinions are totally opposite from one another, but sometimes the differences will be subtle. There are two types of questions in the Conflicting Viewpoints Passage. Question Type 7: Understanding of Viewpoints Questions These questions check to make sure you understand each author's point of view. What would researcher X predict to happen? Here is a sample question from the above passage: Question Type 8: Comparing Viewpoints Questions These questions ask you to point outthe similarities and differences between the authors. Here is a sample question with another conflicting viewpoints passage: I recommend saving this passage for last because it takes the most time for most people since it requires you to read the whole passage to answer the questions. How Can You Use What You’ve Learned? Our Top 3 Tips We knowthere's a lot you need to know when it comes to mastering ACT Science section. That's why we've boiled down everything into our top three tips for tackling the ACT Science passages we just went over. Tip #1: Figure Out Which Types of Passages You Excel At...and Which YouDon't The different types of passages need very different approaches, and you may have particular strengths and weaknesses. Math/Science-minded students often need practice on Conflicting Viewpoints.English/Reading minded students often need more practice on Data Representation and Research Summaries. Furthermore,figure out what type of question weaknessesyou have within each type of passage.If you don’t know how to read graphs, you will need to drill questions that ask you to reference graphs. Tip #2: The Only Way to Improve Is Practice When you find your weaknesses, find practice materials that let you train your weak spots until you improve. Find more examples of the passage types and question types that you're weak in. Practice, practice practice. Tip #3:Understand Your Mistakes You might have misread a graph accidentally, or you interpreted an experiment incorrectly. Drill down on this to have the best shot at improving. If you like this approach, you would love our PrepScholar ACT prepprogram. We do the heavy lifting for you, by splitting up our prep material into specific skills. We'll detect your weaknesses automatically and give you focused lessons and quizzes to improve those skills. For even more good study material, check out ourrecommended ACT prep books. What’s Next? 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