"B" Is for Burglar

For as long as we can remember, people have been communicating using their voices. Today this has not changed; however how those voices are heard, where they can be heard and by whom has changed drastically. What at one time was limited to only what was being said or written, at the time it was being documented and only heard or read by those in the immediate vicinity; can now be heard by anyone, anywhere in the world at any time. This is possible because of the dramatic advances in recording…

one’s memory. Furthermore, once one finished reading about vast ideas, one does not think about them, and thus, Thamus notes that students of the reading will gain an “appearance of wisdom”, but, for the most part they will know nothing” (Plato 275a-b). Forgetfulness, Wisdom, & Hypocriticality Thamus’s statements which…

regulated the transfer of the “hush money,” was fired from his position (Johnson and Stern, 1973). The men who left could have possibly been involved in the Watergate scandal, or they did not want to take the risk of being accused of helping the burglars. Woodward and Bernstein, the two investigative reporters from the Post, received special insider information about Watergate from a whistleblower named “Deep Throat.” This info unraveled the Watergate case. Deep Throat was “an old friend and…

Do More Guns Really Result in Less Crime? Gun control has played a prevalent role in American history since the mid 1900’s. The first real gun control bill, passed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968, was meant to regulate the sale of firearms and prohibited the selling of firearms to convicted felons. Due to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and other political figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at that time, he mandated a prohibition on mail-order firearms and also harshened gun related…

Evolution of an American Serial Killer Cruelty towards animals, arson, and enuresis. These three factors contribute to what is known as the MacDonald Triad. A method that was used to determine a serial killer in the making (Beck). Though this theory had been disproved, others have taken its place and evolved alongside the serial killer themselves. The first documented American serial killer dates back to the eighteen hundreds, or more specifically eighteen ninety-three, in Chicago, Illinois.…

On January 19, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a Quaker home in Yorba Linda, California (Aronson 8). He attended East Whittier High School and joined the debate team, eventually becoming one of the school’s best debaters. His teacher noted that Nixon “had this ability to kind of slide around an argument instead of meeting it head-on” (Barr 12). His senior year, Nixon ran for president of his class. He lost the election, and in his memoirs, he would refer to this as his first political…

In the Summer of 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement came to fruition in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a young and unarmed black male. Since then, the movement has demonstrated against other deaths of many black men believed to have been victims of police brutality. Despite the scrutiny behind police practices such as the chokehold and racial profiling, which are both deemed illegal, the police have not changed these practices and instead made them…

Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…