Every culture has obscene gestures; in America the middle finger is one of the most obscene. The middle finger was most likely derived from Ancient Greece‚ ‘the finger’ is one of the most widespread obscene gestures throughout the Western world. In a handful of Mediterranean and Arab countries the index finger is preferred to the middle‚ but the meaning remains crystal clear. There are tons of different stories for the origin of the finger; going back as far as 2‚500 years. Some make mention to Greek
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Ashford 5 - Week 4 – Assignment Warren Lamar Williams INF103: Computer Literacy Professor: Mortoza Abdullah 09/06/2014 Thou shall not vandalize Web pages. Thou shall not shut down Web sites. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s MP3s. FBI agents are spreading a new gospel to parents and teachers‚ hoping they’ll better educate youths that vandalism in cyberspace can be economically costly and just as criminal as mailbox
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The 2008 U.S. presidential election brought the issue of domestic terrorism to national attention when it was reported that then-candidate Barack Obama was professionally linked to William “Bill” Ayers‚ co-founder of the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground was a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)‚ a national organization representing the New Left on college campuses. The American public was forced to confront the actions of the Weathermen‚ as they were known
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Reliability of the Media Growing up in America today means being exposed to numerous half truths. These are readily found on the television‚ newspapers‚ radio‚ and movies. The truth is hardly ever told in its complete form. Take for instance the local news broadcast‚ we watch it and take it for truth. We tend to give credibility to these newscasters based on the fact that they are representing major broadcast stations. These stations are supposed to be reliable and credible sources of
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"The Escape" 1. In the cold dark night in the middle of know where it bagan to rain a tremendous amout. The trees 2.began 3.to sway back and forth. The storm became so strong it blew power lines down. While the heavy 4.rain continued‚ thunder and lighning had came about also. 5.The rain started to get heavier. It began to come down like buckets of water. While the jail cells 6.started to fill up‚ the locks on the jail cells came unlocked. The inmates all escaped‚ then acting on leaving 7.had
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George Francis Barnes Jr. also known as George “Machine Gun Kelly” (Brosnon 1). A man who had a normal childhood‚ his parents raised him in a traditional household. He has gained several people’s respect over time. In 1927‚ he began his criminal career as a bootlegger and a kidnapper. He found himself without a steady job and separated from his wife (Brosnon 2). It was about this time when Kelly joined in with a small time gangster and started a new venture as a bootlegger (2). George “Machine Gun
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Achievement Standard 91106 (2.9) Log number: 4 Title: The Heat Text type: Film Director: Paul Feig The film ‘The Heat’ is a film about a very formal but cocky FBI agent who is paired with a really aggressive Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord. The FBI agent‚ Sarah Ashburn‚ only agreed to take on this case to get a promotion. The Boston cop‚ Mullins‚ was chosen to do this case because she knew the town better than anyone else did. Sarah Ashburn and Mullins did not like each other
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The Black Panthers and The Ku Klux Klan The Black Panther Party Movement for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland California‚ October 1966.[i] The leaders of this militant group were Huey Newton‚ and Bobby Seale. The Black Panthers mission was to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing‚ and community based programs. [ii] Newton and Seale challenged the non-violent philosophy established by Martin Luther King‚ and instead encouraged African Americans living in urban ghettos
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Jon Dough Dr. Suess Afram 09/28/12 Political Prisoner Fridays Assignment Assata Shakur is an African American human rights activist who has been part of many organizations in which demanded rights and liberation to people of color. The U.S. government has criminalized her even though she was never a criminal. One of the organization’s she joined‚ Black Panther Party‚ became the number one organization targeted by the FBI’s counter intelligence program. Shorty after‚ she joined the Black Liberation
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Furious‚ I rip months of work off my apartment wall. The yellowing paint comes off as I fling the paper across the room. I’d been on this case for so long‚ and yet‚ I was still at square one. I pace the small room trying to figure out what I was missing. There was one piece of the puzzle that just didn’t fit. I walk over to the small desk and scan through the police files. The killer used the same M.O. but nothing connected the victims. At first they were all males ranging from twenty to fifty-seven
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