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    many of the poet’s readers believed were real animals, the Beowulf poet created a more tangible consequence to the looting of pagan burial mounds, a practice that was equally relevant to the Beowulf poet’s audience. The use of the dragon in Beowulf as a realistic threat makes the creature function as a symbol of human greed and possibly as a practical repercussion to the practice of looting that was not uncommon in the poet’s time. The “reality” of dragons as it pertains to the Beowulf poet’s…

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    Excavations of Ancient Egypt has led historians to uncover bits and pieces of life during that time period, but only to a limited extent. Historians have been able to conclude that the Ancient Egyptians valued tombs and temples, and had specific domestic housing architecture. Analyses of these features indicates Ancient Egyptian lifestyles; however, these features only provide historians with a limited amount of knowledge due to no direct evidence from robbing of tombs, flooding of the Nile,…

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    government and police looks different at people with a different skin color than white and black. They were also very racial towards both Zeitoun and Nasser because they thought they were terrorist waiting out the storm and terrorizing people’s house and looting places while everyone was gone. Living in the prison was horrible they were provided with no food, water had no bed and, barley any sleep. Zeitoun, Todd, and Nasser where all in the prison together and Nasser had all his money that he…

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    Ever since the beginning, certain people feel like they are more deserving / have more power over others. In particular, white people have been seen as most guilty for this. Although African Americans have come a long way from being slaves, they still face discrimination every day. White people often believe that they are not being racist when in fact they are. It is the ways that white people are unaware of being racist and the use “white talk” and micro aggressions as well as being…

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    Emergency management Over the years disasters of all kinds have surfaced when least expected, a situation that has made it imperative for the introduction of emergency management. Emergency management is basically the management of various situations to cope with disasters. The main aim of emergency management is to have a safer environment where the society is less vulnerable to disasters. Disasters like the September 11 bombing in the US, earthquakes, tsunamis and the continued rise of…

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    in particular had numerous episodes of violence committed against innocents before they even got to the lands occupied by their enemies. The unorganized and ill-disciplined men headed by Peter the Hermit often acted more like a mob than an army, looting and sacking cities along their path regardless of allegiances or religious convictions. The People’s Crusade committed numerous atrocities in Hungary, even burning the city of Sofia. Jews in particular received a harsh treatment during the 1st…

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    August 2014, an unarmed black teenager from Ferguson, Mo., named Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson in a suburb of St. Louis. The ethics concern, in this case, focus on the issue of rather the TV news media covering the looting, rioting, and fighting instead of the peaceful protest, the loved ones of Michael Brown and the death. This also became an issue because the TV news media allowed the opportunity to interview people that were protesting, which expressed their…

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    They were asked to show there ID'S and handcuffed without being read their rights. They were accused of "looting" a local grocery store because of the items they had on their kitchen counter. The soliders made an illegal arrest because they didn't have prrof they stole, northe soliders didn’t even know what items were stolen from the grocery store. It showed…

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    Ionia during the revolt of the Persian War. The Persians looted and and burned the temples of Athens leaving it in ruins. In revenge of the beloved Religious Temples Alexander the Great conquered the Persian capital city of Persepolis, and after looting its treasures, burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground. Ancient Greeks has a Greek God of war, Ares who…

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    in hopes of uniting each side and bringing peace, get the same treatment. Black Lives Matters protesters often cause violence as well. It seems almost every time some case gets blown up by the media, the following day there is massive amounts of looting that takes place in the surrounding area. And often, they encourage anarchy. At one point, the organization had signs in a protest that said something about stop obeying the police. Without police, there is…

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