Looting

THe claimed that he saw Thomas reaching for a gun and thereby shot him. No gun was ever found. Not even a day after the shooting of Timothy Thomas, the Cincinnati Riots were caused. It lasted four days and caused $3.6million damages to businesses and $2million to the city, 800 arrests were made and the riots resulted in a city-wide curfew. This was the largest urban disturbance in US history since the 1992 LA riots. 5 months later at Stephen Roach’s court hearing he was acquitted of negligent…

We The Students To truly understand the meaning of civil disobedience you’d have to say that it is the act of disobeying laws to bring about change in government legislation without the use of violence. Throughout history we the students have seen and studied examples of civil disobedience. For example, the colonies boycotted British goods during the American revolution. And with that British passed the Tea Act, reducing taxes on tea. The point is, you don’t always have to use violence to make…

Britain. I suppose you can say after their defeat here in America and we made them tuck tail and go home, it did not sit well with the world’s super power. Great Britain was acting like a bully picking on American ships leaving them in shambles and looting. After many American sailors where lost peace treaties where attempted but failed completely, so America put an embargo on Great Britain but it sadly ended up hurting Americans and merchants more than Britain. It was clear that war was…

died because of his inability to access medicine and treatment of any kind. Medicine became a thing of the past. The average lifespan quickly lowered after all infrastructure collapsed and hospitals and pharmacies just became another opportunity for looting or shelter. During the final moments of modern life the inhabitants of the Severn City airport scrambled to contact their friends and family, only to be met with dial tones. A massive part of our lives is how easy it is to socialize, taking…

exponential decline is asking for chaos to ensue in the world. It did, people started looting and killing in order to get the most of the limited resources this planet has to offer so that they could survive as long as possible. Resource prices went through the roof and became scarce, “Tap water fees . . . now regularly hitting the five dollar mark . . . .A piece of halibut . . .cost a thousand bucks” (Magary 165, 206). The looting and killing for resources caused widespread panic, thus…

On August 9th, 2014, Michael Brown, a black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson. Witnesses accounts differ on whether or not the shooting was justified, but the evidence collected from the interior of Officer Wilson’s patrol car, from the street where the shooting took place, as well as the multiple autopsies suggested that the shooting did, in fact, concur with Officer Wilson’s version of events (1), and a grand jury chose not to proceed with charges against…

flames of despair. By the end of the riots, Times Magazine reporting that “The Small Business Administration’s survey calculated damages of $8,927,000 to over 30 businesses and damage” (Sabrina Toppa). Despite the despair experienced by the rioter, by looting and destroying their community their action place a tension force breaks the community for those who oppose our unity. By protesting they are trying to advance civil rights of their community by…

The Nazis controlled many things during World War II including art. Hitler used art to help him gain power and take control. He made it very clear what his art preference was by regulating all of the art. Hitler was a very manipulative man and used his power to get what he wanted. He used art to sway people in his favor. Art started being used as propaganda, he knew how powerful propaganda was and used it to its full ability. Hitler had two official artists for the Third Reich; one of which was…

We are in a time of extremely divergent political views due to the increasing amount of public engagement in national issues. Political and governmental activity are followed by more people now than ever before. We are flooded with media messages all day long and have access to primary sources at the tips of our fingers. Media has a huge influence on how we form ideas and view the world and it has measurable media effects on its viewers. In the interview between Jeremy Hobson and Derek Thompson…

children, starving and whipping them. Later down the road, rubber would start to be manufactured and Leopold got his hands on it. Around this time, he had gone into some debt with his Congo investment (Hochschild, 159). Leopold’s soldiers started looting all the food sources of a village. They also held women, children, and sometimes chiefs hostage until the men produced enough rubber. The hostages were held in stockades, many died of starvation, and women were raped (Hochschild, 161).…