The Small Assassin

big crime figure. After a life that followed, played out in small time crime, Moran finally died in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary on February 25, 1957 where he was serving time for a bank robbery. His death from lung cancer, at the age 65. His net worth at the time of his death was $100. He received a pauper’s burial in the prison cemetery. It is generally believed, through admissions and eye witness accounts, that the actual assassins were former members of the Egan’s Rats, led by Fred…

would later be assassinated (UMKC). What turned this well-traveled actor into a cold hard assassin? How did commit such a drastic deed single handily? What abled him to escape that theater and evade the authorities for such a long time? Before finding out any of those answers, John Wilkes Booth’s life has to be learned about from the beginning. Booth was born on May 10, 1838, and grew up on a farm near small town Bel Air, Maryland. He was born to the famous actor Junius Booth and grew up with…

The year is 2325 the place is Big city, United States and some well-known archaeologist is called to an exceptional unearthing that will soon redefine the 1960s. The site is a commercial development location for apartment buildings which in the 1960s was the location of a prominent high school in the city. The time capsule is carefully unearthed by the archaeologists and taken back their office at the university. Once in a control environment of the university the time capsule was opened by…

Last year nearly 701,000 people were arrested for marijuana related offenses. That equates to roughly one arrest every 45 seconds (Marijuana Legalization 2015…). Too many Americans are behind bars for trivial offences, in this case, possession of marijuana. Marijuana should be decriminalized in Minnesota because it would free up police resources to deal with more serious crimes, fix the problem that more harm is caused by the criminal prohibition of marijuana than by the use of marijuana itself,…

The fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin portrays war, politics, and human nature in a morally ambiguous (and realistic) light. The series follows many characters in a fantasy world, each intertwined in a grand power struggle often referred to as the “Game of Thrones.” Amidst court intrigue, assassination plots, blood feuds, and illicit betrayals, characters in A Song of Ice and Fire make decisions that are not necessarily good nor evil. Tyrion Lannister encapsulates this…

for the 119 minute long movie. In the second movie, the average shot length is 2,4 seconds, which is about 2700 edits for the 108 minute long movie. The movie has a whole lot of close ups, and the fight scene where Jason Bourne fights Castel, an assassin from the CIA, has 46 close-ups in only one minute. (Cinematography editing during fight scenes in The Bourne Identity and Hero) The fight lasts for only about two and a half minutes, but in only one minute we had a close-up about every 1,3rd…

Pablo Escobar was born 1st of December 1949 in a small town called Rionegro. According to Escobar his upbringing was poor and humble, by Colombian standards; he grew up in a middle classed family with his mother being a schoolteacher and his father being a farmer. Early 1970s, Escobar began his life in the cocaine trade. Through the leadership of Escobar, large amounts of coca paste were brought in from Peru and Bolivia and proceed in Colombia and sent and sold in the United States. Escobar…

Usama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born March 10th, 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While bin Laden's story has been an American nightmare, his fathers was “the American dream”.(4) Bin Laden was the twelfth child out of fifty-two children born to wealthy business man, Mohammed Bin Laden. Mohammed owned a large construction and shipping company, Saudi Binladen Group, which worked with products such as Snapple, General Electric, and many other big name brands. His company shipped these…

a horse(1). In the mid 19th century, Etienni-Frederic Bouisson reported that 63 out of 68 patients he treated for oral cancer smoked tobacco(2). These early warning signs were a diminutive prelude for an epidemic that was not yet under way. The assassins in the smoke were still asleep. Big tobacco was about to…

The assassination of John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy changed America forever, his charisma caught the attention of every citizen in America, his want for change curved the thoughts of the American people, there is no telling what could have come of his leadership and want for more, but on November 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Days before the assassination of JFK, an ambassador had come to Dallas, and he was booed and spat on as he walked off of the podium after the…