Allen Welsh Dulles

The DC Snipers October 2, 2002, is the start of a series of murders that authorities had a difficult time explaining. At 5:20 p.m. the first shot of many over the course of several days was fired through a window at a Michaels Craft Store in Aspen Hill. In a little over an hour later, at 6:30 p.m., James Martin, who was a 55-year-old program analyst at NOAA, was fatally shot and killed in the Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store parking lot in Glenmont. The next morning on October 3, within two…

When a gambling dispute became violent, several of the suspects inside the establishment shot 10 people. The shooting took place inside of a Greenville bar 60 miles southwest of Atlanta. Investigators of criminal law have made no arrests, but the Meriwether County Sheriff Chuck Smith vowed to shutdown the bar. Deputies responded before 3 am to find three individuals who had suffered gunshot wounds. They later learned that seven other people had left on their own to receive help. Five women and…

SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICAL THINKING By Seth Owen The Beltway sniper attacks were a string of killings that occurred between October 2, 2002 and October 22, 2002 in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The perpetrators, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, claimed ten victims and wounded seven others during the attacks. Their criminal activity began in February, 2002 with a series of murders and robberies in eight different states which left seven dead and seven wounded. The shootings were…

population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping”(Definitions of Terrorism). This definition describes the case of John Allen Muhammad, 42, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 . Although they did not have an agenda, people to persuade, or a government to attack, clearly their assault on was meant to intimidate and frighten the citizens of the Washington D.C. area. This was…

13 Going on 30 is a romantic comedy fantasy film, written by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, produced under the direction of Gary Winick – who is well known with this kind of theme, his other movie “Bride Wars” also got a big applause since it released. 13 Going on 30 was a successful production in 2004, both on DVD rental and box office, grossed over $90 millions just after a few weeks. The movie is a story of a 13 year old girl Jenna, who desperately want to become a “Thirty, Flirty, Thriving”…

cosmic ray detector and a tape recorder into orbit with it, and unlike Explorer 2, this satellite was able to get results. Explorer 3 deceased after 93 days in orbit. Next up in the Explorer Program was Explorer 4, it was created to study the Van Allen radiation belts and the effects of nuclear detonations on it. It became the first satellite to evaluate electric particles in the radiation belt. This was the last Explorer satellite (in the series) to make it into orbit. The last satellite in the…