Put down Your Cellphone As our society developing, we attach more and more importance to the development of technology. Cellphone is one of the most typical products in our society. We all like using cellphone, not only because it is convenient for us to communicate with others whenever and wherever, but also that we can find lots of fun into it, such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. We should admit that cellphone is interesting and convenient, and it really helps us a lot in our lives;…
The topic I decided to discuss for this research paper is social media and how it affects law enforcement agencies. Technological advances in the recent decades has led social media to be used in everyday modern life. For law enforcement, it has opened up new opportunities to share information with the general public. As our guest speaker mentioned to us on Thursday, the Fort Wayne Police Department uses Twitter and Facebook to make citizens aware of any detours or roads they may want to avoid…
gangs in New Jersey are on a rise in urban areas since the early 1990’s, mainly consisting of the Bloods and Crips. So many people are dying from the senseless killings of innocent adults and young children. Trying to understand the mindset of young African American males and females joining street gangs and committing horrible crimes such as murder, drug dealing and other criminal activities. “African-American gangs began to emerge in the Los Angeles area during the 1920's, which was in…
Police Brutality Police officers are the brave men and women out on the streets making sure the society is running smoothly. When a police officer sees something out of the ordinary, it is their duty to put a stop to it. However, if there is a situation where a suspect draws a firearm of any kind on a police officer, the police officer has to do anything in their power, including discharging their own weapon, to protect the citizens, as well as his own self. The occupation of a police officer…
There are many theories of who killed John F. Kennedy. Getting the majority democratic vote of 1960, he became the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was married to Jacqueline Kennedy, also known as Jackie. He had two living children and two children that had died under the age of 2 days old. He seemed to have good intentions and was most likely going to be a great president. Now we can never know how the world would’ve been with…
Do Black Lives Matter? Throughout centuries, blacks in America have been not only fighting for their freedom, but for their lives. In our society today, seeing a news headline of a black person brutally killed by authorities has become a common occurrence. Many of these tragic occurrences happened due to the misjudgement police officers have made towards black people. Misjudgments have arisen from constant media coverage displaying black individuals in an incorrect light. How can we change how…
country. Now with the automobile and the telephone there is no need to live close to relatives or friends. Highways were also another big advancement that helped people move around faster and more efficiently. People can now drive their car on the freeway from a farther distance and arrive to work in less or the same amount of time as if they lived closer and drove only on the streets. Of course there are some costs to sprawl. One is the cost of travel. Cars need gas. The farther someone drives…
share how Nina’s suicide affected each of them. When it’s Claire’s turn to share, she defiantly reveals the details of Nina’s death (although we never know how she has this information but no one else does). She describes how she leapt from a freeway overpass and landed on the bed of a truck that carried her all the way to Acapulco, Mexico, before being discovered. Claire’s comments are “Way to go, Nina!” and “I hate it when suicides make it easy on the survivors.” The rest of the group…
The CIA’s Shadow: Contras, Drugs and Lies By the mid-80s, a series of official and journalistic investigations that assured the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the Nicaraguan Contra and cocaine trafficking, came to light. This studies claimed that the government of Ronald Reagan, US President at the time, had illegally helped an army of counterrevolutionary mercenaries in Central America. However, and despite the conclusive evidence, the intelligence service executed a…
A Day to Remember. (2010). You Be Tails, I 'll Be Sonic. On What Separates Me From You [CD] Ocala, FL: Victory. • ‘You Be Tails, I 'll Be Sonic’ has fast paced versus, slowing down at the chorus. The effervescent loudness and rhythm to the melody transitions itself into the listener, reproducing the artist’s sentiment. It has a sense of aggravation in its lyrics, simultaneous with its musical tone imitating anger, frustration, evoking a pulsating inclination to physical be with the temperament…