The Boston Marathon Bombing: Working Through the Surveillant Assemblage Introduction The tragic bombing of the Boston Marathon captivated national and international audiences alike. Hundreds of local‚ state and federal agencies came together to undertake the massive investigation that would ensue. Surveillance technologies played an integral role in the investigation‚ and became headline news as we watched the events unfold in real time. As the five-day manhunt progressed‚ there was a coming together
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Emile Durkheim – Suicide: A Study in Sociology Durkheim investigated suicide and categorized into four separate types as follows: egoistic‚ altruistic‚ anomic‚ and fatalistic. He explored egoistic suicide through the three religions of Protestant‚ Catholicism‚ and Judaism as well as an investigation into married and unmarried people. He explored altruistic suicide through interpretation of primitive and Eastern societies. He explored anomic suicide by examining economic and financial crises
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number of casualties for both sides. Due to these factors‚ the U.S. should have dropped the bomb on Japan to save lives on both sides. Some people believe the bombing of Hiroshima was unnecessary. They claim that Japan was on the edge of surrendering‚ therefore the United States had no right to bomb the Japanese. Many feel that the bombing was unjust due to the amount of civilians that were either killed or injured. One year after the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima‚ the death toll stood at 70‚000 from
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The Oklahoma City Bombing claimed the lives of 168 people and caused hundreds of injuries (“From Decorated Veteran to Mass Murderer” 1). But who did it‚ and more importantly why? The attack happened during a time when most Americans thought terrorism was an overseas problem and served as a wake-up call; no one expected that an act of terrorism would be carried out on US soil‚ let alone done by American citizens. The bombing left the country stunned and has caused various social and political changes
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different theories surrounding suicide. This essay shall briefly describe Durkheim ’s Sociological Theory of suicide and Freud ’s Psychoanalytic Theory. Psychological autopsies shall then be discussed which have contributed to Shneidman ’s shared characteristics of suicide. Suicide victims and prevention will also be discussed. Durkheim ’s Sociological Theory of suicide identifies three different types of suicide - egoistic‚ altruistic and anomic. Egoistic suicide victims feel that they have too
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Robert Pellen English 101C-1T Professor Landis 14 December 2010 Suicide Prevention for the Military Today is very sad and troubling days in the military. The hero’s are coming home from war safe and sound only to die by their own hands‚ suicide. I am deeply saddened to know that my band of brothers and sisters are dying. The fact that they are not dying on the battle field is not what has my sorrows at the forefront of my thoughts‚ but that they themselves are taking their lives by their own
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Logann Stambaugh Mrs. Kohn English II 24 March 2014 Final Copy Atomic Bombing The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still considered two of the most devastating bombings ever seen in mankind. There is uncertainty over the rationality and judgment of President Truman’s reasons for releasing the bombs‚ as well as the thought process on the mortality of the situation. However‚ there is no doubt that this was a difficult decision to make. The United States is still paying for this cataclysmic
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decision? In the seven long decades since the decision was made to bomb Hiroshima‚ much has been written both defending and attacking it. With all the information given‚ this paper should present an argument that the atomic bombings of Japan were wrong. The “wrongness” of the bombing of Hiroshima can be approached from a few different ways. One reason why I am against it is because I feel there were other things that could have been done that were less intrusive than an atomic bomb. Secondly‚ I argue
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The atomic bomb is the most destructive weapon that has ever been used‚ so deadly it has never been used after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not necessary to drop the bomb on these cities as there were many other ways that they could have made Japan surrender without dropping/developing the atomic bomb.However many believe that the atomic bomb should have been dropped on Japan so that the casualties could have been minimized for the allies. The United States had made 2 bombs to decimate
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Can the bombing of Dresden be justified? Dresden was Germanys 7th largest city at the time of the war. Historically‚ Dresden had been northern Germany’s cultural centre – a city filled with museums and historic buildings. The Frauenkirche Cathedral was one of the world’s famous buildings. Dresden was also an extremely important industrial area‚ which was something that the allies really did not want‚ but before February 1945 Dresden was a peaceful country and there were not any threats from the
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