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    chose to visually compare Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery with Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. I have watched all the movies on the list and thought that two films would have several characteristics to compare. The Great Train Robbery was a revolutionary film that was one of the first in the Western Genres. Citizen Kane’s greatness comes from the fact that it remains relevant over 70 years after its premier. The Great Train Robbery used advanced filming techniques for the time and…

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    Sam Bass Short Story

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    you can buy handguns. The trained shooting in the plains for the first heist. It was the day of the big heist for the young men they rode to the tracks waiting for the train to come, this was their chance to start saving an amount of cash as much as $60,000 this train robbery was there first heist. In the distance you can hear the train screeching as it advanced towards the…

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    If you manage to come out of a robbery safe and sound after you averted a theft, the way Blake did in scenario 2, your employer could fire you for violating company policy. In fact, your employee doesn’t need a reason to fire you if you’re an at-will employee. Employment-at-will can be…

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    Rosseau Road Case Study

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    It is Mr. Castleman and his buddies needing some supplies and to get any mail for the last time. They are heading back to Virginia by train early in the day. Dutifully, Henry obliges, but distrusts this man - after all one of his cooks had disappeared a few days before and another the year before. Hence, Henry demands to be payed in cash, which is not normal Deyett protocol. Mr. Castleman…

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    Nightcrawler exemplifies the surveillance film genre. Nightcrawler first exemplifies the surveillance film genre by having someone use equipment to film, listen, or spy on a person or event that is happening. In almost all of the movies or series that I have watched in this class, they all have had something to deal with a set of equipment. Louis Bloom, uses a hand held camera to shoot different crime scenes that he has hunted down to find. We have also seen in Rear Window, The Conversation,…

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    Essay On Kidnapping

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    The many purposes of kidnapping, primarily aggravated, include ransom demands, procuring a hostage(in a bank robbery perhaps), with intent to commit sexual crimes, robbery, murder, to terrorize the victim(perhaps a stalker or a domestic dispute), or to achieve political aims(which may fall into a terroristic act). In many foreign countries kidnapping is an often used tool to fund terrorism…

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    Mary Bouie: A Short Story

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    Okay, Im pretty sure you know who i am now. Mary. Mary Ann. Mary Bouie. yeah, you know. For the whole 16 years of my life, there is one significant memory i think has shaped me. I believe they 're still shaping me to become a better person today. I might be illiturate, but just hang in there, okay? “Wake up mary” it would be 10 oclock at night waking me up. we had to go to grandma house again. "come on baby girl i gotta go to work." my oldest brother lifted me up and carried me to the…

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    Bank Kicks Elderly Headline: One Bank Kicks an Elderly Man Out. To Their Surprise, a Cop Brings Him Back in to Finish the Job. Summary: Christophe was an officer with the Montebello Police Department. In one amazing act, he showed the world a vital lesson in compassion and empathy. One unusual incident at a local bank completely changed Christophe's life. Introduction: Robert Camden was 84 years old. As he aged, it became harder to communicate and understand what other people were…

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    robbers often did little planning before committing a robbery, some of which were carried out within a time frame of less than twenty four hours once it had been conceived (As cited in Morrison and O’Donnell, 1987). As the literature above suggests, it is quite difficult to deter whether or not robbers are actual rational actors, however, I must argue that I do not believe robbers to rational actors. There are many cognitive aspects of robbery in which robbers display irrational decisions for…

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    The memories of his childhood continue to only bring only fear and sadness. I look back at the lone hours in vast and see that I have lived in the same old cave where there is nothing I can do to bring happiness into my life. The cave was a horrible place, full of passages, where you can only see the cobwebs and shadows. There was never light and so sometimes, I used to light candles to look at what is outside. I had always wished to go outside in the real world, and go into the society. But, I…

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