detection dogs, live person search dogs, cadaver search dogs, patrol dogs, and even therapy dogs. All of these dogs work with humans to make their lives easier by using their superior senses of sight, smell, and hearing. For example, after a jewelry robbery, a team of search dogs was let loose in a field to find one of the missing rings after it had been missing for eleven days (James-Mesloh & Mesloh, 2006, pp. 534-539). Dogs are able to help officers and citizens in many ways that humans…
Thousands of people of different ethnic groups (mostly whites and blacks) fell victim to lynchings in America for a range of crimes or violations. America saw almost a hundred years of lynchings, highlighting the demographic and economic changes many southerners did not want to face. The number of victims lynched was very high, but the exact number may never be known. Lynchings, mostly committed by extralegal groups, were feared my many, mostly in the Deep South. These were public events…
The existence of violence goes back to early civilizations because violent acts were committed. According to Pinker’s (2007) Ted Talk on the decline of violence, the Bible itself portrays early civilization as violent because “…in the Bible, one sees that the death penalty was the accepted punishment for crimes such as homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, idolatry, talking back to your, and picking up sticks on the Sabbath.” Not to mention the acts of genocide that occurred in Armenia, The…
consumed control over […] [and] prisoners escaped from prison” (Bynum 235). Also, John Franklin says in “Reconstruction: After the Civil War” that, “After the Civil War, the banks, trains, and even stage coaches were being robbed […] [by] outlaw gangs. [These gangs] were actively involved in cattle rustling and armed robbery remained very affective in New Mexico” (Franklin 386). Therefore, the entire film inaccurately makes the Union look like they were only fighting to enforce laws, because…
Within medicine, a doctor’s course of treatment goes further than simply performing a deed towards a patient. For instance, a doctor trains for years through education, practical experience, and accreditation in order to perform a multitude of complex and difficult tasks. When a patient enters into a hospital with need of care, that doctor will attempt to act in a way that will maximize…
The quote “Australia is a lucky country, run by second rate people who share its luck” was said by Donald Horne. Donal Horne was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who was the author of ‘The Lucky Country’ which was published in 1964 and was an evaluation of Australian society that questioned traditional attitudes. In saying Australia is a “Lucky country” its implying that by our social, economical, political, historical and social benefits we have, by world standards,…
such as a train passing by or a horse galloping on a dirt path. Film never lost its popularity; film kept developing. It started with the simple scenes that were less than a minute and moved on to stories, and then non-fiction stories. Next there was sound and color, and then parallel storylines and camera movement. With each new advancement in film, the viewers were wowed. It is insane how far the film industry has come in a little more than a century; it has advanced from a passing train to…
Every day in the local news, viewers witness a host of tragedies that have hit Chicago every weekend and sometimes every night. Many of the stories featured concern gun violence and the amount of deaths or injuries resulting from it. It has become a problem so synonymous with our city that many people, from neighborhood activists to politicians at Capitol Hill, have expressed their opinions as to what the city and its residents could do to either minimize or eradicate the violence. In late 2013,…
2002 in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The perpetrators, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, claimed ten victims and wounded seven others during the attacks. Their criminal activity began in February, 2002 with a series of murders and robberies in eight different states which left seven dead and seven wounded. The shootings were carried out with a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle fired through a hole in the rear of a blue Chevrolet Caprice. In each attack, the perpetrators killed their…
training its employees on the requirements of Brady. Furthermore, the concern was about the prosecutor’s behavior. Therefore, the U.S Court of Appeals found in favor of assigning liability to the district attorney’s office for failing to properly train its employees (law.cornell.edu. n.d.). Mr. Thompson concerns were that the prosecutors’ lack of training amounted to a deliberate…