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    raised controversy on what actually happened in the final moments of Scott’s life. Protests against the event have escalated into riots, where stores and buildings like the Spectrum Center, home of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets have been victims of looting and vandalism.…

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    As the author delves into great detail and highlights many examples of the “insensitivity” of archaeologists. Killick goes on to say that some archaeologists scientists have been accused of “abetting the looting of archaeological sites…by lending their analytical expertise to collectors, art museums, and auction houses” (Killick:246). That, including the idea that most post processual archaeologists believe that “our own interpretation of the past involves…

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    Police Brutality Proposal

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    A Modest Proposal, for preventing police brutality in America. It is a sad subject to those who travel through this in country, when they see the streets, the roads, and fronts of stores, crowded with the victims of police brutality, African American males, beaten and killed for no reason. These African Americans, instead of being able to make a living selling cigarettes on the street, are being subjected to police harassment and brutality, and their children grow up without a father, turning to…

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    A shop lifter is a person who is trying to steal from a store or not buying an item that cost money. Other forms of shop lifting are burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, fraud, theft by taking, theft by receiving stolen property and identity theft. A difference between shop lifting and robbery, in robbery the stealing takes place along with physical violence and or threats. Although a shop lifting charge is that the person stealing does it in a way to cover that he or she did it.…

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    status quo and wanted change and they saw Clinton as more of the same. But, the democrats could not admit that and so her loosing caused negative behaviors to escalate. There were some peaceful riots, but there were also riots that caused violence, looting, and destruction of property. Some republicans feared of the consequences if they said the voted republican. Even the behaviors of some celebrities became aggressive. For instance, Madonna stated she thought of blowing up the White House and…

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    was altered, the last decade of the war made Spain weak. The war was devastating in all of Europe and had effects abroad too. Famine struck many regions and disease decreased the population. Many nations went bankrupt and lost power. Armies began looting to fund…

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    tell the world their side of the story, it could only be what the news wanted to show everyone. During hurricane Katrina Kanye West also stood up to and stated “I hate they way they portray us in the media, if you see a black family, it says they’re looting; if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food” (Lynskey, 2004). Kanye then went on and called Bush racist, others called him a gold digger who only liked people with money. Eminem himself even went as far as comparing Bush to a…

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    Acropolis Museum Essay

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    The Acropolis Museum was opened to the public in 2009 and was built to replace the original museum that had sat on the site since the original foundations were laid in 1865 (30 years after the Turkish garrison withdrew from the Acropolis. Integral to this decision to build the museum was the desire to build a space that was equipped to house and conserve the artifacts from the Acropolis and to reunite the Parthenon sculptures. The museum has five permanent galleries to do this – The Gallery of…

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    “A genocide that is when an ethnic group wants to bury another ethnic group. Genocide goes beyond War, because the intention lasts forever”( Hatzfeld 107). On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the Hutu President, Juvenal Habyarimana, sparked one of the greatest atrocities that mankind knows today as the Rwandan Genocide. A modern genocide that contained unimaginable techniques and foreshadowed events that could have been prevented by The West. The majority ethnic group, Hutus, slaughtered…

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    driver who became world known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department, followed by a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. The crimes that occurred in 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots. These riots consisted of lootings, arsons, civil disturbance and deaths throughout Los Angeles, California. The riot of the Rodney Kings’ police brutality case began on April 29, 1992 with a protest that shortly began after the acquittal of police officers on trial…

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