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    products that portray an adventurous character. In the world of advertising, athletic companies have always been able to make creative commercials that grab the audience's attention. In 2012, Nike released a commercial called “Find Your Greatness: Jogger” to introduce one of their new campaigns. Three years later in the start of 2015, Under Armour released a commercial show-casing an athlete’s first signature shoe. A close look at these two commercials shows that each company's use of two…

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    All five said that they themselves had only helped restrain the jogger, or touched her, while one or more others raped her. Analysis indicated that the DNA collected at the crime scene did not match any of the suspects, and that it had come from a single, as yet unknown person. When the boys went to trial, the prosecution's…

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    The Central Park Five: Background and Bias The 2012 documentary, The Central Park Five, revisits the 1989 Central Park jogger case. Five teenagers were coerced into confessing to a rape of which they were innocent, which was not discovered until over ten years later. The filmmakers and producers of this film are Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. Ken Burns, who has directed or co-directed 27 films, is often named the best-known documentary filmmaker in America.…

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    and says on this night a jogger was found beaten and raped in New York City’s Central Park, and the names of those who were convicted of the crime with a moonlit background with trees over it. Afterwards, another inscription appears that says Antron McCray chose to only have his voice recorded in the documentary to protect his privacy, and the New York police department choose not to comment. The voice of Matias Reyes begins playing, and he goes on to say he saw the jogger in the park , and then…

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    perpetrators are more likely to be acquitted or receive lenient sentence, as seen in the Kennedy case and St. John’s case, and minority perpetrators will receive more criticism and face harsher sentences, as seen by the Big Dan’s case and Central Park Jogger case. The hysteria against ethnic groups was rampant in the cases involving minority perpetrators, and the exiguous attention when minority victims are involved shows that White patriarchal media seeks to either blame minorities, or hide the…

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    case. A white woman was raped and left for dead in the central park in 1989. The group of teenagers were charged and convicted for assault, robbery, rape, sexual abuse, and attempted murder, which is known as the infamous crime as The Central Park Jogger in New York City. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise served sentences between five to thirteen years. From the beginning I knew that the boys are all innocent, however the police think in an…

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    teenagers were arrested once the police were informed about the chaotic presence the boys were creating. The five teenagers were Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana Jr. and Kharey Wise. These five boys were blamed for a female jogger that was raped around the same time the boys were in the park even though they had nothing to do with it. The four main factors that contributed to the 5 boys’ incarceration started with being near the crime at the time it happened, the…

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    Ashley Martinez Professor Nick Philosophy 11 December 5, 2015 Analysis of Central Park Five Case On April 1989, a woman was brutally beaten and raped near Central Park’s 102nd street in New York City, while going on her daily night jog. Five minority youth from ages 13 to 16 were arrested and convicted for the rape and almost-murder of Trisha Meili, a 28 year-old white woman from the upper east side of Manhattan. During this time in 1989 the city of New York was going through some rough…

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    Personally I do not own sweatpants at the moment. They are perfect for all year round. Specially during those cozy winter nights. Notably, they have become more popular, since they are now being made into skinny sweatpants. The term for that is “joggers”. Joggers have a comfortable upper, tailored leg, and a casual menswear feel to the cuffs. Which can make you look more stylish, if you know how to accessory it. Considering this, guys feel more comfortable wearing…

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    Gold Star Park is located in Wetumpka, Alabama on the banks of the Coosa River. It is underneath the city's historical “Bibb’s Grave Bridge” in between City Hall and the Wetumpka Public Library. Gold Star Park used to house an outdoor church. Gold Star Park is surrounded by history, such as the city’s first jail and the antique movie theater. Furthermore, Gold Star holds outdoor activities, a playground, and festivals that make the community thrive. To begin, Gold Star Park is home to two…

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