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After the World War II (WWII), a new and strange war started. As Dunn (2009) writes, this so called Cold War was between the eastern Soviet Union (SU) led communist block and the United States (U.S.) led democratic block. In 1947, President Truman issued his doctrine; that the U.S. would keep back the Soviet threat. U.S. would contain SU. Firstly, this war occurred in Europe, the Greek, and Turkey communist actions, the Berlin Blockade, and airlift and the establishment of North Atlantic…

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20 month-old son of the legendary pilot, is a controversial case that involved all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system. The first component of the criminal justice system that was encountered were the police. On the night of March 1, 1932, immediately after being notified of the kidnapping, the police began to conduct interviews with the family and house staff. The police performed an official investigation of the house and the…

Jing-mei is the main character in the short story “ A Pair of Tickets”, by Amy Tan. Jing-mei undergoes some changes in her life. As the author presents the main character to us, she is a thirty six year old Caucasian women, who does not accept herself as being Chinese. However, after her mother’s death, Jing-mei realized the truth. Amy Tan in her short story emphasizes the changing of perspective views of Jing-mei’s life and pursuing the dream of her deceased mother. In my opinion, no one…

pretended to adopt Ted and said that Eleanor was his sister. Many people believed that Bundy was a child from incest and that his grandfather Sam Cowell was his biological father. Ted changed his last name to Bundy when his mother Eleanor married Johnnie Bundy in 1951. (clarkprosecutor.org) Many of his childhood friends remember that Ted was an…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Once in a Lifetime” is about a girl, named Hema, talking to a teenage boy Kaushik about what happened when he entered her life again. The story is written like a letter by older Hema from a future time to Kaushik, who is not present. We don’t know what happened to him and she is writing this letter to him. The most important part of this story is that Jhumpa Lahiri uses the first and second person perspective to tell the story which helps the reader to feel familiar with the…

Simpson's Bronco. Another component was the fact that Simpson was an extremely popular football player that was beloved by many (“Forensics at the OJ Simpson Trial.”). The main reason Simpson was able to win was his “Dream Team”, which included Johnnie Cochran, Robert Kardashian, Robert Shapiro, F. Lee Bailey, and Alan Dershowitz…

In the article “Hertz, Don’t It?” Becoming Colorless and Staying Black in the Crossover of O. J. Simpson,” Leola Johnson and David Roediger juxtapose O. J. from the progressive movement in that tumultuous time of 1968. Students, African Americans, Californians, and, to an unprecedented extent, athletes played central roles in the struggle of 1968. Thus Simpson’s glorious Saturday afternoons, his disdain for “politics,” his ability to socialize one moment with Bill Cosby and the next with John…

that he was a very well-known football player and actor at the time. Authors for ABC News, state “In what 's been considered the trial of the century, O.J. Simpson had the so-called legal "dream team" on his side. Each day, Simpson was surrounded by Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz and his most trusted ally, Robert Kardashian” (Deutsch, Diaz, Valiente). Robert Kardashian was close friends with O.J. Simpson before the murders occurred. After the murders Kardashian was apart of…

missed 10.” He doesn’t tell her how many he got right, he is forced to tell her how many he missed because that’s what the old grading system promotes. It doesn’t promote his ability, creativity and positivity, it promotes the negative. LIttle Johnnie can’t be happy he correctly did 40 questions right, he has to focus on what he did…

When people think of misfortune, they think dark, depressing, misery, bad luck. Quite frankly, some say that perfectly describes John Dillinger's life. The world's elements were never in John Dillinger's favor, which resulted in the country's “Public Enemy no. 1, which wasn't exactly all of his fault, many factors play in the molding of John Dillinger's short, eventful life. Mishap struck the Dillinger family shortly after John was born when his mother fell ill and died three years later. Now,…