Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics. A key fact of white-collar crime is that we hear about only th
e very slim fraction of people who are caught cheating. Most embezzlers lead quiet and theoretically happy lives; employees who steal company property are rarely detected. With street crime, meanwhile, that is not the case. A mugging or a burglary or a murder is usually tallied whether or not the criminal is caught. A street crime has a victim, who typically reports the crime to the police, who generate data, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists, sociologists, and economists. But white-collar crime presents no obvious victim. In this excerpt, the authors present a comparison between various criminals. an argument in favor of reporting crime. a contrast between different types of crime. an argument against embezzlement.
diary of a wimpy kid and lord of the rings, when they abuse smeagel for eating dead animals and raw fish, right before he rejects the hobbits chips. rodrick locks greg in a closet, too.
Nowhere in those lines does it talk about Luke or anything other than what Marissa seems to be doing and, by her tone I also don't think this is the conflict. She also doesn't seem to be hopeful about anything either.
