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Considered by many as one of the most famous disappearances, D.B. Cooper’s identity remains mysterious and enigmatic in recent history. Almost 45 years after the hijacking incident of Northwest Airlines, nobody still knows his real identity. Recently, the F.B.I has closed the manhunt, but the question remains the same: Who is D.B. Cooper? The name D.B. Cooper is a descriptive name created by the media to refer to an unknown man who hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305. The story of D.B.…

INTRODUCTION The Bosnia Genocide started in April of 1992. Serbians were sent out to ethnically clean the Bosnia territory by steadily removing all Bosnian, Muslims, known was Bosnia’s. the Bosnia genocide is a representation of the Holocaust and is the most well known in the 20th century. The Genocide occurred in Bosnia in Muslims between 1992 to 1995. The long standing tensions between Serbs and Muslims and political and economic chaos which followed Tito’s death and Milosevic’s subsequent…

Lima, Ohio is a small, industrial town of just around 40,000 people, located between Dayton and Toledo on I-75. If you were to go to Lima, Ohio and ask who the greatest basketball player ever was you would get one name, Greg Simpson. Greg Simpson's story was that of success and failure. There was nothing stopping him from success, but himself. He was his own poison during his college years. He was featured in the Lima News as an eighth-grader at West Junior High. He garnered coverage due to his…

The Appropriate Use of a Metaphor As children we are taught that society is made up of many different people with many different ideas and beliefs about an array of issues. We are also taught that there are many ways to interpret these different beliefs or situations. Our culture has become accustomed to masking some of these situations with the use of metaphors to describe what is truly occurring. While these metaphors typically are not fully relatable to the issue, I believe that the use of…

years old, almost an adult. She has a very happy life being an only child. Both of Emily’s parents are surgeons at the nearby hospital. Olie and Page are her two best friends and are in the beginning of their senior year at Coal Grove High School in Dayton, Ohio with Emily. One late fall night, when her parents were on call, Emily was home alone and had just ordered pizza. The doorbell rings and, expecting pizza, Emily jumps up to grab her wallet then heads to the front door. She was very…

Flannel heart under the tree. By; Dayton Weldin These flannel pajamas are so soft, this rocks! I cant believe mom let me open them early this year. Christmas morning is just 4 days away and dancing around my house showing my new pajamas off to all my relatives is how I choose to spend them. "Hey uncle Jeff you wanna feel my pajamas? They 're new! Mom let me open them early this year!" I beamed with excitement. He sat up in his chair and touched my sleeve with his hairy jungle arms. "Oh…

We all dream about how our lives could be improved. We dream about being more essential to everyone in the world. We dream about ongoing happiness. All people in the world want more than they already have whether it is fame, fortune, or success. However it is pleasurable to dream, it is not safe to get absorbed in them. Reality is what we as people need to live in in order to survive. The oppression that we deal with will not be solved if we make up fake realities to make our conditions seem…

Policy Proposal – Affordable Housing Regulations Problem: The availability of affordable housing is in limited supply, causing the middle class families face potential homelessness. Claim 1: The property business gets better after the financial crisis abates. 1. The selling price of homes skyrocketing again after numbers of local and foreign investors, especially from China, started purchasing properties in compelling quantity. “Middle class Chinese has spent over $28 billion on American homes…

Ellis Jacobs, an attorney for Advocates for Basics Legal Equality of Dayton, said, “The drug test plan distracts from the true cause of poverty. The economy has quit working for a significant portion of Ohioans.” According to the article by Health Research Funding, “Pros and Cons of Drug Testing Welfare Recipients,” in the…

Dayton Flack Mr. Baxter 1st Hour 3/2/17 Concentration Camps Concentration camps were a physiological distraught to the people who lived in them and also the people who were involved with running the camps, Even though People believed that this was a steady environment for the people living there and needed rehabilitation to be "cured.", The Nazis killed over 6 million people. Auschwitz was the most popular concentration camp. Over 1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz. The Nazis killed the…