Aggravating factors were taken into account when sentencing Loveridge. The fact that Loveridge had a criminal record since a young age and as he was out for good behaviour for a summary offence for an alcohol fuelled offence of violence just one month prior to the 7th of July 2012, it highlights to the court that he hadn’t learnt from his mistakes. Other aggravating factors included the fact that he committed not one but several senseless unprovoked assaults that night resulting in injuries and death. These aggravating factors were taken into account and would have increased his criminal culpability thus resulting in him receiving a more severe punishment. Mitigating factors were also taken into account when sentencing Loveridge.
At the time of his plea, prosecutors said Grass admitted to a series of illegal activities, from backdating contracts and severance letters to misleading the company and federal investigators about a $2.6 million real estate deal. They said he also met with employees called to testify before the grand jury and encouraged them to lie. During Grass' time at the head of the Camp Hill-based company founded by his father, Alex Grass, its stock price soared as Rite Aid engaged in an aggressive expansion effort. But the grand jury said the boom years were accomplished by "massive accounting fraud, the deliberate falsification of financial statements, and intentionally false SEC filings." Less than a year after
Hurricane Katrina became known as one of the most disastrous and expensive natural disasters in US history. Four months after the storm hit, the death toll was over 1,300 with hundreds still missing and the estimated property damage exceeded $75 billion. It also became one of embarrassment for our country due to our government’s failure to properly respond and poor communications. There are many lessons we can learn from their poor response, including how to properly assess risk, plan in a timely manner, and communicate effectively. Since New Orleans primarily lies below sea level, the protective barriers or levee systems should have been assessed to determine the winds it was capable of withstanding.
A significant date beginning on September 11, 2001 began officially the war on terror. This war was never figured into the budgets and training of local police departments. In turn these woes experienced by police departments during the Great Recession causing external events impacting police budgets. “The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the Great Recession, this chapter places these events since 2000 in an economic context.” (Irwin, 2011) In addition, multiple interviews with police administrators, survey data, and news media content, are used to analyze police budget cuts. Most police administrators have already cut their budgets and report their jurisdictions anticipate more effects from the economic crisis.
When the storm struck New Orleans and the levees failed, the low-lying lands flooded at record levels. As only a category 3 storm, Hurricane Katrina could have caused much less damage then it did if the levees held. The reason for the levee failure was due to an engineering fault, leaving the levees prone to malfunction. Tens of thousands of victims were either forced from their homes due to the flooding, or lost their lives trying to ride out the storm. The impoverished areas of New Orleans suffered the greatest losses because the houses were poorly built and many people were not educated on the danger of the coming storm.
Marx opined that conflict holds society in order by a wealthy and powerful few that dominates and control the poorer and weaker masses. There is a clear cut parallel to Conflict Theory and the government shutdown that happened this October. 536 people- the 100 senators, the 435 congressmen and resident in the White House controlled the lives of millions of furloughed employees, the military and many more civilians because they had a visceral disagreement about the funding of the uninsured citizenry. A shutdown that happened because of Obamacare that did not even shutdown Obamacare, a crisis where millions of the poor and disenfranchised were used as pawns in a chess game of politics. No matter what one’s ideology is, some will blame a chamber of Congress, the other will blame the White House.
In 2008-2009 the island was ravaged by hurricanes causing massive destruction to the natural resources and causing strain on the already untrusted government. In 2010 a massive earthquake hit the Haiti killing thousands. The elections that followed did not have a large turn out and the election went to Michel Martelly. According to Time World (2012) Dominican Senator Félix Bautista, who owns or controls construction companies that in the past year have received Haitian government contracts worth more than $200 million and paid Martelly a total of almost $2.6 million during Martelly's presidential campaign and after his landslide victory in Haiti's 2011
The extent of France’s financial crisis was enormous enough to bring about the revolution in a form of a landslide to its people. France’s financial situation before the revolution began was a huge economic depression with an ever-increasing Royal debt. The financial system at that time was also very medieval in nature in regards to the inhuman taxes forced to be paid by the French Third Estate, taxes such as the Corvée and the Gabelle. The salt tax was a tax that was used back in the Dark Ages that forced citizens over the age of 7 to buy 7 pounds of salt each year at a commanded price. However, during the reign of King Louis XVI, France has applied a state monopoly on the salt and still forced everyone to purchase the salt at a high price but also at a very low quality.
Following Hurricane Katrina, outrage was one of the many feelings that survivors experienced. How could a disaster of this scale occur in one of the richest, most developed countries in the world? Why was relief so slow and the attitude of government so seemingly apathetic about the plight of millions of people in the Gulf Coast region? Criticism has been made about the government with respect to Katrina, in many areas: its lack of preparation for such a natural disaster, its shoddy emergency evacuation, and its slow response afterwards. The government’s initial failure came days, months, and years before Katrina stuck.
Between Saturday 6th and Thursday 11th of August 2011, thousands of people drew the English government's attention to the fact they felt neglected and overlooked by a society that would blindly pass judgment on them. “Big Brother isn't watching you” is Russel Brand's take on the UK riots of 2011, in which he tries to explain the rioters motives in detail. As Russel Brand would himself point out is that he no longer lives in London and that he has “been transplanted to Los Angeles by a combination of love and money; such good fortune and opportunity, in both cases, you might think disqualify me from commenting on matters in my homeland.” Though despite this statement, Brand qualifies himself by explaining a strong moral connection to his homeland. His attitude toward the UK riots of 2011 is that it is a common problem, one born from neglect rather than the nature of people and that it must be solved with collaboration not by separation. Brand feels that the blame of the UK riots are not necessarily to be placed with the rioters and their mindsets, but rather that it is born from the social neglect that has been predominantly seen in the lower classes of society.