Chokehold

Police brutality is one of the most serious human rights violation in the United States. The excessive use of force by officers including severe beatings, fatal chokings, and unjustified beatings against innocent civilians persists today. On June 8, 2011, a 34 years-old man named Ernest Duenez was shot and killed by Manteca, CA police officer, John Moody. Moody was waiting for Duenez in a corner, when he saw Duenez’s truck he followed him to his driveway. Moody yelled at Duenez to drop his…

Police brutality is a serious problem Americans face today. Police brutality is taken into effect when an officer uses excessive physical contact, verbal attack, or psychological intimidation against a person without a logical reason for doing so. Police officials have been abusing their power and authority by their extortionate use of violence towards people. With civil disobedience continuously happening, there have been an exponentially increasing amount of cases that are lead by police…

I chose the most logical path to shut down the operation by first gunning the cameras on each floor with two automatic guns, grabbing one of the undaunted traitors in a chokehold as a shield from the gunfire, then I dispose of him once the undaunted man has been shot carrying his weight will slow me down. As one of the undaunted traitors approach me with a revolver I realize I’m out of ammunition so I grab the gun holstered…

In his article, “Today’s Exhausted Superkids”, Frank Bruni extensively covers the issue of sleep deprivation in children today. Bruni’s main point is that the lack of sleep among students comes from what he calls the “pressure of perfection” and the constant need to keep up with the rest of their peers. Bruni states how this mentality stunts spontaneity and gives kids so little wiggle room to find true passions, independences, etc.. But while anyone that Bruni consults agrees that kids need to…

Hush is a horror movie about a woman named Madison Young. Maddie is a mute author, who temporarily lost her hearing and her speaking ability when she contracted bacterial meningitis when she was 13. She ended up losing both her hearing and her speaking ability after she had a surgery that went wrong. Due to Maddie’s disabilities, Hush presents an emphasis on isolation and the importance of existential awareness that other horror movies fail to provide. Hush is different because most of the…

“basic liberal feminist framework for sex education” and “contrasts such a framework with the conservative sexual economy of ‘abstinence-only’ sex education” (McClain 63). McClain suggests that liberal feminists should combat the ritualized religious chokehold on public policy by educating the nation’s youth comprehensively. She suggests that we focus on “capacity, equality, and responsibility” in order to educate adolescents about sex, rather than imposing a restrictive national standard on the…

Police brutality is one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States and it occurs in every community. The job of a police officer is to maintain public order, prevent, and detect crime. Police brutality refers to the use of excessive force against a civilian. Author, Jerome Skolnick, an influential police scholar in the United States, stated in his book that, “as long as members of society do not comply with the law and resist the police, force will remain an…

Police Authority Abused or Misused “Every year in this country, there are constant incidents of police brutality, and yet, United States is supposed to be this great country that supports life, liberty, justice, and happiness for everyone” (Nyguen 16). If that is the case, why is it that everywhere you look, the number of shootings and killings by police officers are continuing to rise and the reasons behind them have yet to be made clear? According to ‘The Humanist’ even the head of the…

Pankration, The Forefather of MMA Athletics played an essential role in the ancient Greek world. The Ancient Olympic Games dates back to 776 BCE, but we have knowledge that athletic competition in ancient Greece had a long history prior to this date. The ancient Greek athletics was a quest for an individual’s excellence and fame, which the ancient Greeks called Arete. Because of this emphasis on the individual, sports in ancient Greece largely excluded team competitions. In this paper, I will be…

“I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don’t see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.” – Malcom X 52 years ago Martin Luther King Junior stood on the steps of the Lincoln memorial and became the face of a revolution. The civil rights movement saw African Americans finally gain a sense of equality amongst their white counterparts. Despite America priding themselves on being a post-racist society, they live in a society that is anything but post-racial. We live in a world that…