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The Greeks/Romans never invaded Rutherford County– physically. Yet the Greeks have left a deep and unforgettable mark on Rutherford County and the United States thinking, politics, philosophy, law, art, architecture, literature and the sciences. In going out and about in “Small-Town” friendly Rutherford County, I realized that just like the Romans of old we like to “borrow” other people ideas. My husband, kids and I, travel through Rutherford each Sunday on our way to church, when I started reading these chapters I become conscious of how much Greek and Roman Architecture is around us. I also work and attend Isothermal Community College and many of the building here have Roman/Greek influence. The library has tall columns and arches are use in it and the administration building. The buildings that I would like to commit on are the Rutherford County Courthouse, Cliffside Elementary School, and First Baptist church (some people call it Forest City Baptist). I choose these buildings because I thought they showed a good assortment in Rutherford County.
I will start with the Courthouse, we travel by the Courthouse each Sunday and Wednesday night, I have always thought that the courthouse was very impressive and magnificent in appearance. Every inch is symbolic, the high columns, big windows, high steps going up to the front windows. It combines Roman and Greek stunning with an American twist. The courthouse and nearby jail was built in 1784 on land purchase from James Adair, it combines a variety of services for Rutherford County citizens including Register of Deeds, taxes, license, birth and death certificates and is the 29th district court of law.
The next building that I visited was Cliffside Elementary School, When Cliffside School was built by Cliffside Mills in 1920, at a cost of over one-quarter million dollars, Cliffside School was the most modern and up-to-date building in Rutherford County. The building is still in use today, presently educating over 450 pupils it is located on Main Street, Cliffside and it is in a beautiful location (see picture) with the tall, high, columns and the arch in the windows it is hard to hide the Roman/Greek influence on this very striking building. You can almost imagery it being in Roman and Roman children being educated by Socrates, or Plato (not far from Cliffside elementary is Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy when a more classical education is offered) Cliffside was made a state historical site in 1998.
“It is incumbent on us to provide that they [i.e. Elgin’s party] meet no opposition in walking, viewing, or contemplating the pictures and buildings they may wish to design or copy; and in any of their works of fixing scaffolding ... around the ancient Temple of the Idols, or in modeling with chalk or gypsum the said ornaments and visible figures ... or in excavati...
When envisioning a prison, one often conceptualizes a grisly scene of hardened rapists and murderers wandering aimlessly down the darkened halls of Alcatraz, as opposed to a pleasant facility catering to the needs of troubled souls. Prisons have long been a source of punishment for inmates in America and the debate continues as to whether or not an overhaul of the US prison system should occur. Such an overhaul would readjust the focuses of prison to rehabilitation and incarceration of inmates instead of the current focuses of punishment and incarceration. Altering the goal of the entire state and federal prison system for the purpose of rehabilitation is an unrealistic objective, however. Rehabilitation should not be the main purpose of prison because there are outlying factors that negatively affect the success of rehabilitation programs and such programs would be too costly for prisons currently struggling to accommodate additional inmate needs.
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To start, a second language should be mandatory in American schools because it makes employees more marketable.For example, 4 out of 5 new jobs in the US are created by foreign trade; therefore, foreign language is imperative for the future (Latimer). Also, when applying for a job position a person is more likely to get a job if he has previous foreign language skills because this makes him a more valuable employee to their potential
Greek and Roman architecture is truly amazing. They each had great ideas, and fabulous productions. It is said that the Pantheon is to Italy what the Parthenon is to Greece. Both are tremendous monuments that reek of culture and history. Each had a purpose which was displayed by the design and construction of each. There are such great meanings behind each of these architecural structures. The Romans and the Greeks alike worshipped and dedicated their structures and designs to the Gods and Goddess they believed in.
The FBI has defined serial killing as “the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s) in separate events” (Farrell, Keppal, & Titterington, 2011, p. 231). While individuals who partake in such activity do receive a large amount of attention, the female parts of this population are vastly under recognized. Female serial killers receive little academic attention, even though they are a complex and dynamic group to study (p. 229). Women make up 15% of American serial killers, with 36 known to be active in the last century (p. 230). It is speculated that at any given time there are 50-70 serial killers in the United States, and approximately 7-8 of them are female (Schurman, 2000, p. 12). Moreover, females acting alone manage
In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of research conducted in order to better understand and profile both male and female serial killers. With this new research in the law enforcement system, more information about female serial killers and how they tend to differ from their male counterparts is more accessible. The differences between male and female serial killers vary in many different areas such as victim damage, victim torture, weapon/method, stalking versus luring behavior, crime scene organization, reasons for murders, substance abuse history, psychiatric diagnosis, and household composition (Keeney and Heide, 1994). These differences, along with information describing the social background of the perpetrator provide researchers and individuals in the law enforcement system with substantial signs that can be used to pre...
As the current prison structures and sentencing process continues to neglect the issues that current offenders have no change will accrue to prevent recidivism. The issue with the current structure of the prison sentencing process is it does not deal with the “why” the individual is an social deviant but only looks at the punishment process to remove the deviant from society. This method does not allow an offender to return back to society without continuing where they left off. As an offender is punished they are sentenced (removal from society) they continue in an isolated environment (prison) after their punishment time is completed and are released back to society they are now an outsider to the rapidly changing social environment. These individuals are returned to society without any coping skills, job training, or transitional training which will prevent them from continuing down th...
Which allows there killing spree to go on for years even decades without being caught unlike males who get caught within years of committing serial murders. Their victims are usually people they know or have known, and the killing style is not as messy and overdone as a male. They either use poison, or any other non-detectable and not aggressive means. The poisoning method may take a long time and the killer has to be a witness to the victim slowly dying from the small amounts of poison given. The motifs associated with female killers are revenge, control, power, and gained assets. These motifs and the victim types are all emotion triggered. An example is a woman marrying or dating multiple men to just kill him for the assets he owns, this is called the black widow type. The female killers also sometimes do not have a criminal record or even have the stigma of someone troubled or harmful. But they can also be dealing with childhood abuse and/or rape. Causing a psychiatric break adding to why they became serial killers. This is not always the case for everyone who deals with this type of trauma. Just certain people use the traumatizing events to become serial
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There are many imitations, and reproductions of Greek and Roman forms in the modern society of today. Even though the times of the great Ancient Greek and Roman Empires have passed, people of today are still able to honor their legacy with their long-lasting influences on modern society today, especially in architecture. If one just looks at today’s style of buildings, they can see the similarities between the two different time spans.