Hostage

In the Oklahoma City bombing, the medias influence had substantially magnified the effect of this terrorist act. Media covered the event for days, and the public was watching because it was a major source of information. However, Pfefferbaum concluded, if people are experiencing fear, arousal and hypervigilance it can lead to seeking further information and continuing concerns about safety (Vasterman, Yzermans, & Dirkzwager, 2005). In addition, viewing the televised coverage from this bombing…

Kidnapping Kidnapping is usually interpreted as the taking of a person from one place to another against his or her will, or keeping someone in a small, controlled place for a long period of time. In some laws of kidnapping, it is required that the confining and taking be unlawful in purpose such as extortion or the facilitation of a crime. For example, a child’s own parents may be charged with kidnapping if the do not have legal custody rights in some instances. There are some differences…

I read Room by Emma Donoghue, and I have finished the novel. This book is about a young five-year-old boy named Jack and his Ma, who live in a mysterious unknown “Room”. To Jack Room is the world, but to his Ma, it is the place where her kidnapper has kept her for the past seven years. When Ma and Jack finally escape Room, life on the outside is not as simplistic as Ma had thought. Jack gets agitated easily and throws multiple fits, meanwhile, Ma gets sick and has to go to the hospital. However,…

in time, begging it to open to admit me as he was…” She reminisces the experience of her hostage situation and longs for her captors to come take her back so she may live an open and equally treated life without worrying of her sins constantly. The speaker truly wants to be gone from Puritan society to experience a more liberating life. This concept of being liberated has been present in some female hostages who were taken by the Native Americans during the Puritan era. Traditionally, the life…

In the article "British journalist, now ISIS hostage, sends message from terror group", Atika Shubert and Catherine E. Shoichet from CNN inform people about the detrimental situation that is occurring in Syria. In July of 2012 a British Journalist named John Cantlie was abducted by the terrorist group ISIS. Fortunately he was saved by the Free Syrian Army rebels; unfortunately he was captured yet another time in November of 2012. Currently Cantlie is being forced to convey a message from the…

it was playing a stupid game called “Hostage”. In this game a group of people split into two teams and then two people, “The Hostages”, from each group are blindfolded and dropped off by the opposite team, somewhere outside of town. The objective is for the hostages to figure out where they are and call their teammates to come pick them up. First team back to the chosen base wins. After a long process of arguing about who would be the hostages, me and my friend Chris volunteered…

There are predictably four prominent stages in nearly all hostage/barricade situations: pre-crisis, crisis, accommodation/negotiation, and resolution (Vecchi, 2009). The first stage, pre-crisis, occurs “when a person goes about his or her normal routine with no specific knowledge of the looming event. During this stage, the person may or may not be aware of an impending problem. The crisis stage is characterized by high emotions, low rationality, and an inability to cope with a problem that is…

Algerian Hostage Crisis Heightens As Scores Are Reported Dead by Arthur Bright and Hostages Reportedly Dead In Algerian Oil Filed Siege by Jamie Dettmer, depict an accident where the Algerian forces attempting to resolve an attack caused by a Mokhta Blemokhtar. Both Bright and Dettmer, showcase the event differently with their own styles. Bright’s interpretation is similar to a summary with quotes and focuses on the situation in general. Stating how Algerians and foreigners are being held…

the medias spotlight, In America and Iran, the open opinion and public attacks towards Carter started to wake up Americans. Since his failed attempts to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Iran with other financial issues and domestic policies. In David Farber’s, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical…

started to guarantee their own dangers through an item called "Hostage Insurance." Small prisoners (otherwise called single-guardian prisoners) are insurance agencies built up by the proprietors of firmly held organizations hoping to safeguard chances that are either too immoderate or excessively troublesome, making it impossible to protect through the conventional protection commercial center. Brad Barros, a specialist in the field of hostage protection, clarifies how "all prisoners are dealt…