From there, the illegal diamonds get mixed into the legal supply and sent to a company in New York, who then hoards the diamonds to control supply and demand. This results in the consumer being forced to pay a higher price, leading to higher profit. The labor is provided by the economically desired yet morally wrong practice of forced labor camps. The RUF, a name which suggests a certain “by the people, for the people” mentality, instead enslaves poor fisherman and farmers. The children are essentially brainwashed into being child soldiers, much like the recent events surrounding the dictator Kony.
Since I will be writing about structural transformations, structural transformations are transfer resources from a few sectors to others in a society which is facilitated through its objective or policies. In in research of respect you can be able to see deviant behavior which is a behavior that goes beyond what is norm or accepted in our society. Crime definitely falls into the deviance category that goes against the formal social norms. People who involve themselves in deviant behavior are ostracized by society and in return are victims of structural transformations. A particular group of people in this immense subculture of the drug dealers like Ray engage in violence to gain respect.
Throughout the novel, Boyle makes use of situational irony, on the where bouts of wanting to kick them out of the country for crossing the borders and its gate, yet they get paid for building those borders and gates. Furthermore, Boyle carries on the notion of how Americans despise illegal immigrants, more specific Mexicans, for being in their “American” country, with “American” values, and
ARE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE THE MOST CORRUPT? WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON DEVELOPMENT? By Lickson Mchepa 1. INTRODUCTION Corruption Watch (2013 defines corruption as the abuse of public resources to enrich or give unfair advantage to individuals, their family or their friends. It is the practice of obtaining power, influence, or other personal gains through illegitimate means, often at other people’s expense.
Swartz points out how the business of human trafficking starts and how the immigrants end up becoming victims of various social injustices such as slavery in a form of prostitution. Third world countries such as Thailand and other Asian countries are the major sources of the discussed immigrants. Due to harsh economic conditions, the victims decide to pursue greener pastures in developed countries oblivious of the trouble they are involving themselves in. As Swartz exposes, there is a network of human traffickers who operate locally as well internationally. The responsible authorities don’t have efficient policies and laws to regulate this business, thereby facilitating human trafficking to uncontrollable levels.
Power Corrupts In this essay I will give examples to prove the fact that power corrupts. Whether it is the chance to gain more power or just to secure what you already had, power changes people. Of course, there are also examples where people use power wisely and fairly, but most of the time people use it unjustly. Some aspects of corruptness are too much ambition, deceit, loss of morals and greed. As examples I will use the Medici family in renaissance Italy, how the US government treated the Indians during the 19th century, Macbeth and factory owners during the industrial revolution.
Social justice is a topic known all to well in today's society. Such issues as social heirarchial structure and unjust representatives of citizens of nations are issues in need of attention by those in power. Corruption, lies and greed by those in power however stand in the way of this form of justice from occurring, leaving many with little or no social status open to prejudice on race, religious and sexual grounds. William Shakespeare illustrates the ease in which power can corrupt in his play, Measure for Measure. In Measure for Measure, a leader corrupts the legal system for his own benefit.
Some examples of such would be, illegally lobbying or bribing government leaders to gain passage of certain laws, or tax codes. Another form of class conflict may include, a lock out aimed at destroying a labor union, and this is called “open conflict”, or “hidden conflict”, which could be a slowdown in production protesting the wages being paid. According to Karl Marx however, class conflict and struggle are inevitable dissentions that occur because of the economic organization of most societies (Johnson, 2000). Marx also believed that class is defined by the ownership of property and such ownership vests a person with the power to exclude others from the property and to use it for personal purposes. In relation to property, there are three classes of society, they include, the bourgeoisie or the people who own the means of production such as factory and machinery buildings, and whose income is profit, landowners whose income is rent, and the proletariat who own their labor and sell it for a wage.
In recent times, there is a growing concern of wealth inequality in America. This has really drawn criticism and challenge to capitalism as the model of socio-economic structure. Debates surrounding this issue are often traditionally addressed through two models: communism and capitalism. Karl Marx, in his work, “The Communist Manifesto,” criticizes capitalism for it’s preaching of individualism and competition, which leads to the exploitation of the working class thus resulting in further antagonization between socio-economic classes. Marx ends his criticism by offering up the complete abandonment of capitalist system in favor of a communistic system in which socio-economic autonomy is in the hands of the state.
Corruption in the Government (Point) A political challenge that Venice had faced is its corruption in the government. (Example) An example of corruption in the government is that the Venetian Government suspended the salaries of civil servants to finance wars, resulting in some nobles being poor. Poorer nobles sold their votes to richer nobles who wanted to be elected to government. (Explanation) This resulted in incompetent men gaining important leadership posts, which meant that Venice began to have inefficient governments with leaders who were concerned with only their own interests and not Venice, and hence made decisions which were for their own and not Venice. This lead to Venice’s downfall as the policies made were not suitable for the country’s needs.