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meant to disable someone. Many police departments have adopted using stun guns in their departments in an attempt to lower the amount of shootings. However, they must also accept that tasers can still be deadly or abused. According to an article by NBC News, if a stun gun is used for a few seconds too long, the voltage (which could reach 50,000 Volts) could seriously harm or even kill someone with serious medical conditions or heart problems. (In-text citation here.) Even a perfectly healthy…

Saint Joseph’s University student Matthew McCracken endured a period of isolation and limitations while living on campus during September 26 and 27 this year. Saint Joseph's University students were confined to their dorms while massive crowds gathered outside. For him, and all college students throughout Philadelphia, this meant I.D.s being swiped at every entry as well as policemen patrolling the eerily empty buildings. McCracken found himself restrained to his dorm throughout the duration of…

When people think of bad leaders their minds often jump to well-known past leaders such as Hitler, Stalin, or Mussolini; however, they often do not think that there can be such leaders in present time. Omar al-Bashir, president of Sudan, causes us to re-think this assumption. He was born on January 1, 1944 in Hoshe Bannaga, Sudan (CNN Library 2015). He graduated as an officer from the Sudan Military College in Khartoum in 1966 (CNN Library 2015). After graduating he became involved in…

degree in journalism and a master's degree in the same field at the University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. She has served as a communications consultant, an incentive speaker, and a reporter for San Francisco Public Television and NBC members of the Bay Area. Just like Melba pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson also faced Racism, and even got threatened by whites, but he didn’t give up his dream. He kept going and Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player to play in the…

Relationship and Married Life Entertainment Tonight hostO’Dell has been married twice. She was married to her second husband Keith Zubchevich in 2005. A year after she parted ways with her first husband, Richard O’Dell. The couple shares a daughter, Ashby Grace, 9. She is step-mother to Tyler and Carson. Though they were together for more than decades, things didn’t work between them. The couple is no longer together as a source has confirmed to US Weekly. Career and Progression O'Dell…

phenomenon because it started way beyond 9/11, and I agree, but the growing number of terror attacks shows that it is a major global security threat. In addition, the global death tolls caused by terror attacks have also increased. According to an NBC News article containing some released information from the U.S. State Department (DOS), the DOS found that between 2013 and 2014, terror attacks increase by 35% and total fatalities went up by 81%. Such an increase might have been caused by the…

Often in the history of war, we forget those who fought it. We remember names of people and days they died, but it often slips our mind that they were people. They had families. They had mothers. They had lives outside of death. Too many people forget that. People also seem keen on forgetting that fight is not all soldiers do. Soldiers love. In 1975, one such soldier was discharged for doing so. In detail, Leonard P. Matlovich, a Vietnam war veteran was a unique case, as he was the first to…

The Pros and Cons of Child Abuse We live in an era where child abuse is used a lot amongst parents not only in the United States but also in the World. Child Abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment or neglecting of a child or children. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also known as the CDC and the Department for Children and Families (DCF) describe child mistreatment as any act sequence of acts of commission by a parent or other guardian that…

How Media Influences the Portrayal of Stem Cell Research Swikriti Dasgupta INTRODUCTION Link to Media and Stem Cells: Facebook. Twitter. Myspace. YouTube. Fox. BBC. NBC. Snapchat, Instagram etc. If you did not post a photo of the food you ate, did you actually eat it? If you did not check in the place you visited, did you actually go there? If you think about it, we are live at all times on social media. Everybody knows what we are doing, where we are going, what we are eating, and what we…

or actions, but there is something that we did not bother to know, on how we could maintain that happiness. Nowadays, looking back to history, either parents or teachers would use punishments as their way to remove students’ bad behaviour. Recently, NBC News (2016) reported that majority of parents still allowing spanking kids if they did bad behaviour. Getting hit and yelled by parents and educators is the common things…