In this paragraph i'm going to talk about how Lance Armstrong impacted the American Society socially. In 2010 the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA) started an investigation against Lance, which he constantly denied. After many months of investigation, Armstrong announced on August 23, 2012 that he would end his fight against these charges. But yet he still insisted that he was innocent of all doping violations. Immediately after the USADA announced that they would strip armstrong of his seven tour de france and the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and was banned from cycling for life.
Intro. To Ethics 6 March 2012 To the Editor: I wish to respond to Greg McNeal’s article, ”ESPN Uses ‘Chink in the Armor’ Line Twice”, published on Forbes.com. McNeal states that we need to gather our bearings because the Jeremy Lin inspired “Linsanity” phenomena has started to get ugly and I agree with him that we do. First, the on-air commentary was a few days before the headline came out but ESPN anchor Max Bretos was suspended for 30 days after using the phrase when asking New York Knicks legend Clyde Frazier if Lin had any “chinks in his armor”. Now having said that, the headline post along with the on-air commentary are both going to seem offensive when used to describe anything referring to a person of Asian decent.
Ray allegedly punched his fiancé at the time that resulted her to be unconscious. Ray was only suspended for a few months after the incident happened, but a Celebrity news website, “TMZ”, released a more in-depth video of the incident. The incident then became an even more prominent and controversial case. This led to an NFL policy change, regarding how it handles domestic violence cases among their players. Rice's contract was terminated by the Ravens on September 8, 2014 following the release of an additional video of the incident.
(AP) Former Rite Aid Corp. chief executive Martin L. Grass was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday for conspiring to falsely inflate the value of the company his father founded and cover up the scheme. Grass, 50, who headed up the nation's third-largest pharmacy chain in the late 1990s before being forced out in October 1999, also was fined $500,000 and given three years' probation for his role in a billion-dollar accounting fraud that sent the company's stock tumbling. Before U.S. District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo handed down the sentence, Grass apologized to Rite Aid, its stockholders and employees. "For the harm caused to them, I am truly sorry," he said. Grass was indicted by a federal grand jury two years ago.
Amazingly, Ramos, who had already been charged twice with being drunk in public and once with a DUI, walked away from the accident with nothing but a swollen cheek. This horrific tragedy is described in a report on the WAVY TV 10 local news channel in Virginia found on the website http://www.wavy.com/global/story (1). A question arises, and that is to why the illegal immigrant was not deported after his first conviction. This is because Virginia law protects people from having immigration checks run through if the offender is only charged with a misdemeanor (Frank 2). In a heated debate on the “O’Reilly Factor,” between talk show host Bill O’Reilly and journalist Geraldo Rivera, the issue was being pulled in a game of Tug-O-War.
PHILADELPHIA The movie Philadelphia makes a strong statement about homosexuality and AIDS. Throughout the movie, Andy Beckett (Tom Hanks), is fighting his former employer. He claimed he was fired because he gay and had AIDS. His former law firm, Wyant & Wheeler, claimed he was terminated because he had uneven performance and lost an important brief. This sets the stage for the trial that the movie is centered around.
For example, there was a “man [who was] sentenced to prison for 25 years to life under the law for stealing a bottle of vitamins” (Murphy). In March 1999, when the Three Strikes law was challenged by this case, the Supreme Court “refused to hear” (Murphy) a word that was said by the people. By putting them in prison for an excessive amount of years, housing for serious offenders is being made unavailable which will lead to an increase “to an already overcrowded and expensive prison system” (Messerli). Some of the people may have committed the innocuous crime to help their spouse and children. When used, the Three Strikes law treats all crimes the exact same way, which makes the law unjust.
He had gone through drug treatment programs multiple times, but without success. In 1999 he explained to a judge that “It’s like I’ve got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.” In May of 1996 while on parole, he trespassed into his neighbor’s home while under the influence of a controlled substance and fell asleep in one of the beds. Because of this, he was required to undergo compulsory drug testing and was sentenced to three (3) years of probation. Downey was arrested once more in 1999 for missing a required drug test. Despite having assembled the same team of lawyers that had successfully defended O.J.
He says that he endured years of torture in an Iranian prison, after his picture appeared on the cover of the “Economist” magazine. He just escaped from Iran last year, and told in a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper he recounted what he had to go through to escape and survive. Ahmad Batebi never intended to be famous. He wanted to be a photo journalist, but it was a picture of him that changed his life and almost got him killed. In July 1999, a demonstration rocked Tehran.
However, by November of 2001 Enron’s stock had plunged to $1.00 per share. On December 2nd of that year Enron claimed bankruptcy and laid off thousands of employees. Not only did the company claim bankruptcy, but Lay, Skilling, and Fastow were facing numerous legal charges. Ultimately, Lay would die of a heart attack prior to being sentenced and Skilling would be sentenced to serve more than 20 years in prison. Fastow ended up serving as a witness for the prosecutor in the case against Enron and received a reduced sentence of only ten years.