For 27 years‚ my father served the city of New York as a New York City Police detective. I remember seeing my father coming home weary‚ exhausted from work daily and some days depressed‚ due to the stress of his job and the tension between officers and civilians‚ specifically minority groups. Currently‚ tension among police officers and minority groups including African Americans are at an all-time high. Recent events such as the deaths of African Americans including Eric Garner‚ Philando Castile
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much in his lifetime. He added many new lands to his vast empire including Asia Minor‚ Syria‚ Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ Persia‚ Sogdiana‚ and part of India. He became the conqueror of the world he knew. Alexander the Great was the son of Princess Olympias of Epirus (Cinderella) and King Philip II of Macedonia (Popovic). His parents hated each other and had an unstable marriage (Cinderella). Philip’s relationship with Alexander was also poor. He once told his son that he should be embarrassed by his high-pitched
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He Is Listening Tina L. Smith Communication in Human Services HS6024 Argosy University July 29‚ 2014 Dr. Audra Marks‚ Instructor He Is Listening Listening can be defined as the active process of receiving‚ attending to‚ interpreting and responding to symbolic activity (Duck‚ 2011). Did you hear what he just said? If they would have paid more attention to what that child had said‚ he may be alive today. Although rare‚ this this has happened all because no one would listen to a child as
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Video Security System? Cameras on a modern analog CCTV system send their video over co-axil cabling back to a digital video recorder (DVR). Most modern DVRs are a network device‚ and as such can be accessed remotely from the LAN‚ or with the proper configuration‚ from across a WAN or the internet. Video is kept on hard drives‚ typically on a FIFO basis so there is always a rolling video archive of the past X number of days. What is an IP Video Security System? IP video cameras broadcast their video
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shy of completing his shift. Suddenly‚ his radio crackles to life directing him to respond to a domestic call in a dangerous area of his jurisdiction. Officer Smith is met in the darkened Livingroom by a bloody and naked woman‚ and his functioning body camera captures the scene in front of him. As he is attempting to calm the distraught women‚ his peripheral vision captures a man lunging at him with a metallic object from an adjoining room. Officer Smith leaps aside‚ pulls his weapon‚ and fatally
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Camera Shots A camera shot is the amount of space that is seen in one shot or frame. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of a film’s setting‚ characters and themes. As a result‚ camera shots are very important in shaping meaning in a film. Reviewing the examples on the right hand side of this page should make the different camera shots clearer. An extreme long shot (animation on right) contains a large amount of landscape. It is often used at the beginning of a scene or a film
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light cameras are effective or not can cause a great divide among any group of people. Proponents of the cameras say that they are effective in reducing accidents and those against them are adamant that they are only in place to increase revenues for local law enforcement. Red light cameras are cameras that are placed at intersections and connected to traffic signals. The camera is triggered by any vehicle entering the intersection above a certain speed and after the signal light has turned
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Lights‚ Camera‚ History Book Review Lights‚ Camera‚ History takes the reader through history within the film. A large problem this book faces is the depiction of history within films and the challenges directors face. This book provides an enthusiastic argument in the defense of directors saying the purpose is to make money not be historians. It is important to tell students do not accept what you see as fact. In the chapter “In Praise of the Biopic‚” the author talks about: “Reds‚ They Died with
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police officers wear body cameras? Body cameras are a safe means of making sure police officers are doing their public duty of protecting and serving. Body cameras can help be sure that police officers aren’t abusing their power to frighten others and become dirty cops. Incidents like that where officers weren’t equipped with body cameras are the reasons for Ferguson and Baltimore‚ where the public and the legal system had no real evidence of what occurred. Body cameras for police officers are a
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American International School April 29‚ 2011 The Digital Camera Have you ever wondered who created a camera that can actually capture a moment in time and saves it inside the camera‚ and that camera can transfer the image to the computer‚ while being capable of editing the image on the camera itself? I think the digital camera is very important because it takes photography to a whole new level. In this essay‚ I will explore who invented the digital camera‚ where that person got their idea‚ and how it
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