Stolen base

the first time we lay our eyes on a person, we notice the color of their skin and the clothes they wear, and right at that second we base our judgment off of that. Although we have made some progress regarding discrimination against a person’s race, some seem to be stuck with the same mentality as those who lived before us a hundred years ago. People still tend to base their judgements off the stereotypes they hear about a certain race and allow it to dictate how they perceive a person. That…

She was described as a beautifully young lady. Buchanan grew up in Louisville, KY where she was very well known around the military base stationed near her home. Daisy is known to be Nick’s cousin and also to be the center of Jay Gatsby’s world. Daisy met Jay whenever he was getting rid to go to war. He fell head over heels for her and she promised to always wait for him to come back…

World-wide-web technologies are a fundamental contributing factor for economic growth and affluence. The use and development of the internet and world-wide-web technologies have significantly increased over the past two decades; its use has become a common reality of the everyday lives of many. The internet has changed the way that businesses connect with consumers and perform their work. This is exemplified by the use of social media by businesses, and there is also the decline of the economy…

“With the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in February of 1898 signaling the start of the Spanish American war, establishing a mid-pacific fueling station and naval base became a strategic imperative for the United States. The Hawaiian Islands were the clear choice, and this time congress moved to annex the Hawaiian Islands.” (Hawaii Annexation) The Hawaiian Islands were annexed by joint resolution on July 12, 1898…

People all over the world are dying of hunger and the main reason is because they’re in poverty. The reasons for this is lack of education, overpopulation, epidemic diseases and a great deal of these are problems they cannot completely control such as climate, weather, natural disasters and long droughts. This results into the hunger, illness, and underdevelopment of numerous countries and countless children with malnutrition leading to stress on the brain. A majority of the problems will never…

like this, people start to think: First of all, why does a 14-year old have a shotgun? Second, what was going on in their head to cause them to shoot the gun? Third, is it even legal for them to have a shotgun? Many people argue about guns on a daily base. They argue whether owning guns should be controlled or not. Others believe if guns were controlled, then it would be unconstitutional. What exactly makes something unconstitutional? If it is “unauthorized by, or inconsistent with the…

malnutrition that it pushes the men past what they believed they were capable of doing. Their bodies and their mental fortitude are pushed to their limits. Starvation, and moreover the mere fear of starvation, lead the novel in what can be seen as the base motive behind the extreme actions taken among the men of the Essex, such as cannibalism and even the act of picking straws to choose which man was next to meet his fate. When you take a look behind these actions, survival due to fear of…

about multiple options to fix a problem. Like the saying goes, "there's multiple ways to skin a cat." On a certain situation, an officers' recommendation helped me avoid an impending bad situation. For example, there was one volatile situation with a stolen vehicle that had dark tinted windows preventing us from looking inside the car. After using a FLIR (device used to detect a heat source) inside the vehicle, it revealed there was heat emanating from inside the car. One of my officers…

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. They leave people with unanswered questions. The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect Leonardo da Vinci. It as created sometime between 1503 and 1519, when he was living in Florence. ("Mona Lisa By Leonardo Da Vinci Arts." UKessay.com. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 01 2018) It now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the…

antivirus app that will automatically check the system periodically and after the app updates it’s virus database. The Content provider uses a relational database interface to control the sharing of data. Using Structured Query language or SQL as a base language, the Content provider relays date between apps, and from apps to internet and vice versa. This is regulated with the SQL Delete, Select, and Insert are several commands that the Content provider uses to set permissions between one object…