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    SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICAL THINKING By Seth Owen The Beltway sniper attacks were a string of killings that occurred between October 2, 2002 and October 22, 2002 in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The perpetrators, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, claimed ten victims and wounded seven others during the attacks. Their criminal activity began in February, 2002 with a series of murders and robberies in eight different states which left seven dead and seven wounded. The shootings were carried out with a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle fired through a hole in the rear of a blue Chevrolet Caprice. In each attack, the perpetrators killed their victims with a single round fired at considerable range and then drove away. The offenders were eventually…

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    Dc Sniper Research Paper

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    Muhammad was raised by his aunt in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after his mother died when he was four years old. After he graduated from high school, Muhammed married Carol Kaglear. During the same period of time he joined the Louisiana National Guard. Together they had a son that they named Lindbergh. During Muhammed’s time in the military, many of his commanding officers described him as personable and outgoing by one of his commanders. In the early 1980s, he got in trouble twice; once for…

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    Beltway Sniper Case Study

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    of Terrorism). This definition describes the case of John Allen Muhammad, 42, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 . Although they did not have an agenda, people to persuade, or a government to attack, clearly their assault on was meant to intimidate and frighten the citizens of the Washington D.C. area. This was the solitary goal in the Beltway Sniper case. The bond…

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    this point people couldn’t help but to wonder if it was an isolated incident. Although it was a miss, many questions were asked. Who was the intended target? Why would someone do such a thing? Is the attacker mentally ill, or are they just a disgruntled person trying to take out anger on innocent people? These are just a few questions many people had going through their minds. The less we know, the more uneasy we tend to be, which leads to our first question we should ask; what was their motive?…

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    “I was a monster” said Lee Boyd Malvo in an interview ten years after him and John Allen Mahummad went on a killing spree during the month of October in 2002(White 2012). The two were also known as the D.C. Snipers or Beltway Snipers. The infamous killing spree spread though out a number of states. The states include: Alabama Arizona Florida Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington. The Snipers took the lives away from a total of seventeen people, leaving ten injured. John Allen Mahummad was…

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    When a gambling dispute became violent, several of the suspects inside the establishment shot 10 people. The shooting took place inside of a Greenville bar 60 miles southwest of Atlanta. Investigators of criminal law have made no arrests, but the Meriwether County Sheriff Chuck Smith vowed to shutdown the bar. Deputies responded before 3 am to find three individuals who had suffered gunshot wounds. They later learned that seven other people had left on their own to receive help. Five women and…

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    There are some things that people need to be able to thrive in the cruel world we live in today. Will Allen wrote the book, The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, and Communities, and in this book he made some interesting analogies that interesting enough, alluded to these. Will Allen is a former pro basketball player, now he spends his time and money trying to make a difference in his town by trying to urbanize farming in a economically friendly manner. Allen talks a lot about food…

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    Louis Allen is from Bedfordshire, England and is also autistic but discovered his talent after suffering from a back injury. When Frank Louis Allen draws, he plays music or the television to distract his brain enough to let his subconscious do the work, therefore giving his hands the freedom to flow with all of the ideas that are in his head. Allen used marker in his Live I and Live II drawings, located in the basement of the Academic Center, but mainly used black throughout both drawings. Live…

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    I have had the privilege to interview Mrs. Davida Gee- Allen for this assignment. Mrs. Allen is a graduate from Mississippi Valley State, where she received her master’s in the field of Social Work. She is currently a supervisor at the department of human serves in the Mississippi delta. She emphasizes the fact that she love what she do, no matter the cost. She entered this field to help people with everyday crisis and most of all defenseless children. Her future plan is to become an…

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    1. List five personal details from the life of Muhammad. • Muhammad became an orphan after the death of his mother when he was six years old and was raised by his uncle starting from age eight. • In 594, Muhammad married Khadija bint Khawalayd, a wealth Meccan merchant that he was working for in his early twenties. • An angel named Gabriel that called him to prophethood around 610 approached Muhammad. • In 613, Muhammad began discussing his encounters with the angel to his tribe members. • On…

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