Looting

As a nation, our citizens are learning less from newspaper articles and radio programs and more from television and the internet. Media influence has become more prominent in our nation in the last ten years than ever before. The media has sufficiently made an impact on the increasingly liberal views in our country even when news sources have been accused of leaning to the left or right of the political spectrum when reporting the news; FOX News and MSNBC are infamous for showing conservative…

As seen in these pictures, there is quite a difference between today’s meaning of vandal and its very first beginnings. Nowadays, it is used to illustrate criminals such as arsonists and graffiti artists (I will be talking more about them later on); “vandal” is actually its own criminal term, meaning one who “deliberately destroys or damages public property”. And that is what it has unfairly become to mean: one who intentionally and carelessly ruins/wrecks something beautiful or worthy of…

Discrimination, joblessness, poverty, segregation, and housing problems prompted many urban riots in the 1960s. While some riots happened due to specific events, all of these incidents of civil unrest took place in areas with a large population of African Americans. According to Thomson Gale of Encyclopedia.com, if there was a sufficient African American population and something set them off, in those days it was enough to start a riot. History.com asserts that the assassination of Martin…

According to Foreman, “there is a much more savage, bullying edge to this looting and vandalism.” This is primarily because they were accustomed to more extreme violence and rule over the streets. Teenagers, and most people in general, are used to seeing more extreme violence, whether in movies, video games, or even just the news…

Throughout centuries, The Byzantine Empire was a center for arts, architecture and religion. Under the leadership of The Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Byzantines stood still as the cornerstone of the Orthodox world. While many churches were built during the empire’s 1120-year life, but most of them vanished over time either getting destroyed or being converted. However, one of them, an old tiny church overshadowed by the mighty Hagia Sophia, stayed where it was despite the powers against…

Plays that took place in the Colosseum were often stories that told of the gods or acted as tributes for those gods. This was also important for Ancient Roman society because they revolved everything they did around the gods. They believed that in order to keep Rome’s status as a magnificent and powerful city, they must please the gods by tributing them and making sacrifices for them. The Colosseum, therefore, allowed for this tribute to take place. The Egyptian pyramids are spread across Egypt…

Anthrax has been used a biological weapon through out the ages, and modern times are not any different from then. The reason anthrax is a popular weapon of choice for terrorist is how easy it can be to obtain. Anthrax is a naturally occurring biological agent, bacteria, that forms in the soil. ( Defencejournal) Anthrax has several different routes of potential exposure to its victims. The first route of exposure and also the most dangerous is that of inhalation, or breathing in the spores. The…

What most people believe about the police forces in the United States were seriously questioned after the LA riots occurred in 1992. The Los Angeles Riots were one of the most famous cases ever of police brutality and abuse of power. When four white LAPD beat Rodney King, a video of the beatings went viral and started a highly public rebellious riot. Many people felt that the police went way overboard and abused their power; it was also believed by many minorities that the beating was racially…

of the sickness to be checked out of the hospital himself. He goes out into a world where everyone he once knew had died, and he now has hardly anything to his name. He goes to his old apartment in the city, a once decent area now battered by the looting and chaos that came with the epidemic. He wonders which, if any, of his neighbors might still be alive. His phone rings the next morning, and it’s the old man. He arranges him to be picked up and taken to his house, a large mansion outside of…

In the early hours of August 29th 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and surrounding areas of the United States. Whilst moving towards land in the form of Florida on the 25th of August 2005, Katrina started of as a tropical storm then slowly turned into a category one hurricane. After passing Florida, the hurricane gradually increased to category two and then three and then, when around 300 or so miles out from New Orleans(8), it reached a category five level when winds amounted to…