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    On the morning of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah. Elizabeth’s parents, Ed and Lois, worked with local and national media the next morning to increase visibility of the case; public interest in the kidnapping of the teenager grew over night and the country was on the look out. Nine months after the abduction Elizabeth’s younger sister, who had witnessed the kidnapping, unbeknownst to the kidnapper, remembered that the abductor’s voice sounded reminiscent of someone who worked for the family months before the kidnapping. That detail ultimately led to Elizabeth’s rescue, which was a media story nationwide. Elizabeth’s suspected kidnappers, Brain David Mitchell and Wanda Ilene Barzee,…

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    On June 5, 2002, Elizabeth Smart said, “Goodnight” to her family and rested her head on her pillow. Just a few hours later, Smart would wake up with a cold knife on her throat and a stranger standing above her. As she was dragged out of bed and down the hallway of her two- story home, she internally screamed and pleaded for someone to save her. Just when she thought she would actually scream, her captor, Brian David Mitchell, bent over and whispered in her ear. “If you make a sound, if you do…

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    sometimes evil world.No matter what happens though we must fight to do what we believe to be right. Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and held for nine months, and in some ways she was reborn. Elizabeth Smart was only 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night on June 4, 2002. She endured all kinds of abuse and degrading acts at the hands of her kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee. Mitchell is a manipulator and will do what he sees fit to…

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    In the book, My Story, fourteen girl old girl, Elizabeth Smart, tells the story of her nine month kidnapping. Through those nine months she experienced an unreal amount of torture and she shares the intimate details of those excruciating events. Elizabeth Smart was known as kind, respectful, and shy. She started playing the harp when she was young and loved it so she played local weddings, funerals, and recitals. She also ran cross country at her high school, Bryant Intermediate School.…

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    reached 1 million in mere 17 weeks in China, especially after people became accustomed to crazily crowded scenes in apple stores whenever new products are launched. According to an interview in a Beijing apple store (Calum MacLeod, 2015), Zuo, a 50-year-old buyer already with two smart watches, talked about his keenness on the multi-time zone function and health apps of the product. He also mentioned, “Although I’m old, I like to keep up with the trend.” Not only is this trend of IoT driven by…

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    In part one of this story, a guy moved in down the street right after weird kidnappings started to happen. A girl, Lisa thought that her brother got kidnapped but it turned out to be that he was with his biological father neither of them knew that they had. A lot of drama happened between the mom and the kids and the biological father, but who is the real kidnapper? On a bright sunny Monday in the beginning of the summer, Lisa and Dylan were playing in the yard just a month or so after finding…

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    Dear Mr. Bacarella, Mrs. Bingham, and Ms. McGrath’s family members, We have kidnaped Ms. McGrath and are holding her hostage. We also had to fight against a vigilant neighbor, that tried stopping us from kidnapping her. He is at 35street in the basement of the store next to the bakery. We understand that you are scared about your beloved Meredith McGrath. We have taken her and have put her in a safe and secure place. We are feeding her properly with her requests.We have proof of life on…

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    parent has custody of the child. The parents may not always treat the child right so the other parent resorts to abducting the child and even try to take the child overseas and out of the country. But when these cases take place not in the United States it is more difficult for the courts in the US to take care of and keep the child safe in order to reunite them with their custodial parent. There are more than 200,000 family abductions that take place in the United States every year. Some…

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    (Poe 209). This quote proves that the only reason Montresor takes revenge on Fortunato is because of all the wrong things that he had done to Montresor. There is a similar idea in the movie Taken. In the movie Brian Mills has nothing against those men until they kidnapped his daughter, after they did that he goes out and seeks revenge. One quote that really exemplifies this takes place when Brian finally finds one of the men (named Saint Claire) that took his daughter: Saint Clair: “Please…

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    As machines have evolved over the years in intelligence we have become more certain that they will be able excel in everything humans do in life and do it better than human beings. In other words, machines encompass important aspects of life except for one the most important aspect, emotion. This article discusses this important topic concerning smart machines and how people treat the machines without regard of empathy. In a highly viewed website, this interesting written piece describes…

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