It was this specific experience that caused me to choose this topic. I felt that mall cops needed to be better understood for the dangerous job that they have. Most people believe that mall cops just ride around in their segways all day, but on this day that wasn’t the case. People need to understand the risk that come with being a mall cop. There are countless dangers inside of a highly public place that is a mall such as lethal attacks with weapons or diseases. Mall cops have earned a negative…
Shinrikyo actively recruited physicists, chemists, biologists and engineers much like ISIS is doing today. Aum Shinrikyo experimented with and produced chemical agents like: sarin, VX, phosgene, and sodium cyanide. As well as biological weapons: anthrax, botulism and Q fever. Aum Shinrikyo was not on anyone’s radar until their attack on a subway station in central Tokyo on March 20, 1995, in which twelve people died and more than five thousand were injured. After the attack Japanese and…
In modern day society, people are influenced by many things. Everyday citizens watch television, read the newspaper, and browse the internet. These forms of media differ from generation to generation, but the one influence that everyone experiences on a daily basis is music. Everyone on earth has experienced music in some form, whether it be when they get in the car, doing homework, or if they are just doing chores around the house. Due to music being so popular in the world, it is a large…
Poverty is one of the major issues that the world is facing, especially for 3rd world countries. It is stated in the article “Poverty” from the website Wikipedia that it is the inability to satisfy one’s basic needs and wants due to the lack of income to buy services or the lack of ability to access services. This would not be such an issue if the people do not let its causes to bring out the possibilities its causes has. These causes in the first place are just basic problems. Like, there are…
Huxley’s Predictions: No More Christianity Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, proposes that the world of Christianity will eventually convert to a world with no God due to morality deviation over time. In the world today, Christianity offers a moral compass that people tend to live by whether they believe in the faith or not. However, the Brave New World civilization completely eliminated the Christian faith from the people by “programming” their minds into a new idea of morality such as,…
The most common bacterial infections that are gram positive are staphylococci which produce enzymes such as catalase which break down hydrogen peroxide bonds, bacillus cereus - food poisoning, bacillus anthracis - anthrax and clostridium tetani - tetanus. Penicillin is an antibiotic that prevents gram positive bacteria from forming peptidoglycan. Peptidoglycan plays a key role in the cell wall. If peptidoglycan was not present, then the bacterium would swell and burst due to the high internal…
The flaws of cultivation theory have given rise to other media effects theories, such as agenda setting, which is the most popular contemporary approach to studying the media, political reporting and the media’s role in shaping public opinion (Laughey 2007). Gerbner’s cultivation theory is flawed in that its research and findings have failed to be replicated, a major issue in social science research (De Fleur & Ball-Rokeach 1989). Gerbner also failed to separate the entertainment and information…
domestic issues and how the media articulated the event to “hit home” for most all nuclear families. “‘Security moms’ were said to be salving their fears of terrorists by sticking close to the hearth and stocking their pantries with canned goods and anthrax antidotes, while suburban dads were stockpiling guns in their family’s linen closets” (Faludi, 2007, p.40). Faludi disputes unfair gender roles and the fall back into 1950’s stereotypes. Along with these old domestic roles coming to surface…
Terrorists should be stopped for economic importance and for people to feel much safer. The purposes of terrorism will be explained and discussed. What is terrorism? Terrorism is strongly affecting the world and should be stopped, the government has practiced terrorism to see terrorism related actions. Human fear is a symbol that people all over the globe are being greatly concerned of why terrorism is occurring and is characterized by the influences of using many forms of terrorism such as…
History has a tendency of repeating itself from the forms of leadership to tactics of war to the plagues that kill many. Ebola originated in West Africa in the 21st century more than five hundred years after the Black Plague. The Black Plague occurred in Europe during the middle ages and left a great impact on society. Although Ebola never reached the mass scale of the Black Plague it still had a traumatic impact on societies. Ebola and the Black Plague differ in the environment of the societies…