...really seeing something from another world? In the article “Extraterrestrial encounters: UFOs,” Alexander Geppert, an Emmy Noether Research Group Director at Freie Universitat Berlin, contends that people throughout the country and around the whole world have seen UFOs. The size of the UFOs seen can vary from eyewitness to eyewitness. The first UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947. While flying his plane, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects, glowing bright blue-white, flying in formation over Washington State’s Mount Rainier.After the Arnold sighting, a “reputed” UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico occurred on July 8, 1947; this crash is known as the Roswell incident. Reported UFO sightings in Great Britain, North America, Japan and Eastern Europe, all within weeks of each other, showed a global phenomenon. People refer to these sighting as the “First Waves” of UFOs. Immediately following these encounters from 1947 to 1953, UFOs invaded popular culture; they were everywhere from movies to music. Movies portrayed UFOs as flying discs and aliens were pictured with small bodies, huge heads and big eyes. According to Geppert, “Science continue[d] to struggle: Are we alone in the universe? Some believed that, in the future-saturated Space Age, the age-long wait for an answer had finally come to an end. At last, ‘they’ were here” (335-353). In analyzing the situation,...
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...The Mystery Behind the Spiritual Alien Agenda Beryl King 12 March 2012 The Search for Earth-like Planets December 5, 2011 must have been an exciting day for astronomers all over the world as NASA announced to the public the discovery of an Earth-like planet potentially able to support life. The planet, 2.4 times the size of the Earth, is six hundred light-years away in what astronomers call the “Goldilocks Zone”, an area in which a planet has an ideal temperature because of its distance from a star. It orbits around a star similar to the sun of the Earth, and the temperature of its surface is habitable at 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists are hopeful that this planet might possess water and land, but they are not sure as of the moment if the majority of it is made up of solid, liquid or gas (Bloxham). Kepler 22-b is just one of the extrasolar planets observed by NASA that has a probability to be inhabited by extraterrestrial life forms. Since 1960, NASA has funded different exobiology projects, including Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), in hopes that astronomers can find evidences of life in outer space. Thinking that extraterrestrials would likely leave something behind to signal other intelligent beings during their exploration, astronomers of SETI previously tried to detect interstellar probes to be able send messages back to them, but until now, none have been discovered. Despite this, scientists working on SETI have not given up, focusing more on...
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...against their will, often under deplorable and unsafe conditions, held captive by physical, psychological, or financial threats. Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or reproductive slavery,forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery. Trafficking is a lucrative industry. It has been identified as the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. It is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable illegal industry in the world. In 2004, the total annual revenue for trafficking in persons were estimated to be between USD$5 billion and $9 billion. Trafficking in human beings takes many forms but can be basically broken down into these two categories. Forced abduction – To use physical force to move a human being to become either a sex slave, involuntary worker or other bizarre and uses which could include quasi religious rituals when can result in the death of the abducted....
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...Debbie said. "While she was putting tape on me, Matthew told me if I screamed or acted stupid, he'd shoot me. So I just stayed quiet”...” Debbie said her captors drove her around the streets of Phoenix for hours. Exhausted and confused, she was finally taken to an apartment 25 miles from her home. She said one of her captors put a gun to her head”…” Debbie said she was then drugged by her captors and other men were brought into the room, where she was gang raped.” (Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.). Many Americans hear stories all the time of abduction and sexual slavery all around the world. They feel like something should be done about this injustice but since the acts are happening outside the country they feel disconnected. Unfortunately, most Americans are not as far from this problem as they would like to believe. Sex trafficking happens at an alarming rate in America. Between the years 1996-2000, America had the highest number of victims trafficked illegally into the country (Cullen-Dupont 44). With this high level of trafficking going on, why are many Americans unaware of this issue? They most likely believe that only foreign victims are trafficked into slavery, but the Texas Attorney General states that an epidemic exists of domestic women being forced into sexual slavery as well (Bellows 489). Debbie was an American born citizen and she was kidnapped at the age of fifteen off her own driveway. A casual friend called Debbie to meet up and when she arrived...
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...to come over here to Money, Mississippi. Emmett was a classic prankster, so his friends dared him to “wolf-whistle” at Miss Bryant. This is the minor event that lead to the incident that happened that night August 28th after midnight. Those men, Roy Bryant and JW Milan banged consistently on the door of Till’s uncles home and bombarded into their house, grabbing Emmett and kidnapping him away to a place only they knew. ABDUCTION, is what it is. They drove far out into the plantations in Sun Flower county, only to beat him repeatedly into an unrecognizable condition whilst having seventy fie pounds of cotton gin tied around his neck held together by pieces of barbed wire. After being severely beaten where he was crying out for help only to be faced with the reality that nobody was going to hear him. They did not want to heard Till’s cries anymore so right then and there they ended it. They ended his life with a gun shot, ending him from his suffering and ending his life. These men should be convicted of murder! They need to be found guilty on accounts of abduction, battery and murder! These men are a danger to our society, if we let them free, we are putting our country and our people in danger. Men like these need to be secluded from society. How are we going to allow these men walk away free and let them enter society? These men ABDUCTED a young joke over a petty joke that was not meant to be took to such extent. This “joke” could have been handled in a much different matter...
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...The two art periods that I chose are Baroque and Impressionism. Baroque art refers to the style that would be found in Europe and North and South America during the 17th and 18th century. The Catholic Church heavily influenced their art, as well as the Protestant rising up during this time. There was an emphasis on unity and harmony in all of the visual arts that often had themes from the Bible or stories. There was realism and more attention was paid to physical details in portrait paintings, there was more light contrast, landscapes were more expansive and there was use of more deep, rich colors. In architecture there were structures that expressed humans longing for spirituality and there was extreme presentation and in the grand scale it was reflected theatrically (Mindedge, 2013). In the Baroque period the art would depict a play, that it was not just a picture but every figure would have meaning, the art was meant to be read just not looked at as decoration. Figures would be drawn with realism, they have depth in the art, and they are almost falling off the page. They used dark shades and lights to show realism in their paintings. This was brought on with the further discovery of how our universe was formed, how we are not the center of the universe and also with that discovery, we discovered that Europe is not the middle of the Earth as well. Each painting had a story, told about us, about real people and there was more realism than before. Sculptures were made to...
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...Menzel was trotted out to tell the world that it was all hysteria, that UFO’s were not real. What is USAP? It is a top secret, compartmentalized project requiring special access even for those with a top secret clearance, and it is unacknowledged. Really secret stuff was kept from even a man who was head of M15 and MoD. By overwhelming the sound of actual ET events, the noise became of stimulated ones of an increasingly, implausible nature. The wilder and more absurd the scenarios are which are fed to victims of human convert abductions, the more the general scientific and media communities knew the entire field as so much nonsense. Certain adept humans can manifest abilities which are extremely similar to both extraterrestrial and ‘astral’ beings. People with classic ET abductions experiences who undergo hypnotic regression may subconsciously fill in details, especially to please a hypnotist with strong bias towards retrieving alleged memories of ET abductions. Human covert programs designed to confuse, mislead, and deceive society on the ET question. Military members have confirmed to us that psycho-electronic technologies exist, off the shelf, which can target an individual or group and remotely make them have a personal conversation with their...
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...The two art periods that I chose are Baroque and Impressionism. Baroque art refers to the style that would be found in Europe and North and South America during the 17th and 18th century. The Catholic Church heavily influenced their art, as well as the Protestant rising up during this time. There was an emphasis on unity and harmony in all of the visual arts that often had themes from the Bible or stories. There was realism and more attention was paid to physical details in portrait paintings, there was more light contrast, landscapes were more expansive and there was use of more deep, rich colors. In architecture there were structures that expressed humans longing for spirituality and there was extreme presentation and in the grand scale it was reflected theatrically (Mindedge, 2013). In the Baroque period the art would depict a play, that it was not just a picture but every figure would have meaning, the art was meant to be read just not looked at as decoration. Figures would be drawn with realism, they have depth in the art, and they are almost falling off the page. They used dark shades and lights to show realism in their paintings. This was brought on with the further discovery of how our universe was formed, how we are not the center of the universe and also with that discovery, we discovered that Europe is not the middle of the Earth as well. Each painting had a story, told about us, about real people and there was more realism than before. Sculptures were made to...
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...The Death of Emmett Till Beginning in the 1950’s African Americans began to form civil rights groups in order to end segregation and fight for equality. Many things contributed to this, but the death of Emmett Till is what many would consider the spark that ignited the flame for the Civil Rights Movement. The brutality of his murder changed the way that racism was viewed throughout the nation. Emmett was born July 25th, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois to mother Mamie Carthan and father Louis Till. At the age of six Emmett was stricken with polio, despite a full recovery; he was left with a stutter that would follow him throughout the rest of his life. In spite of his stutter, Emmett was known for being a prankster and the center of attention amongst his peers while attending McCosh Grammer School. Although McCosh was an all-black school, the severity of racism in Chicago was far less than that in the south; allowing Emmett to have white friends as well. (Networks) In August of 1955, Emmett’s Uncle Moses came up from Mississippi to visit. Emmett heard stories from his uncle about the south and at the end of his stay, inquisitive of the validity, Emmett pleaded with his mother to travel back with his uncle to Mississippi. (Crowe 44) Little did she know that those last few days before their trip down south would be the last time she would see Emmett alive. (Crowe 47) A few days after arriving in Mississippi, Emmett found himself outside of Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market, owned...
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...active system. Currently, there is the newest version of the Amber Alert System which uses the internet as another outreach from the media which will alert the public when an abduction of a child occurs. This paper explores the history and creation of the Amber Alert System. Furthermore, an evaluation of how the system has and has not been effective is discussed. A review of the making of the policies and implementation of issues within this system to make it successful are reviewed. 3 Amber AlertThe Amber Alert System is a program used for when a child goes missing or is abducted. This program uses resources, such as law enforcement, state, local, and federal, and media to alert the general public that a kidnapping of a child is in action. The Amber Alert System is used when a child of a young age is missing, when police feel a child has been kidnapped, and when a child is under serious threat of bodily harm or death, even if it is a parent in which the child is being held.When the law enforcement has determined that a need for an Amber Alert, all of the local media sources are contacted. This includes local radio stations, local television stations, local surrounding police stations, and highway signs, which alert the public of the details of the current abduction. The details of the abduction usually consist of names or descriptions of the...
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...Johnathan Melicia Thomas Riddle Eng. 111 July 2, 2015 Free Range Parenting In the article “ There’s Never Been a Safer Time to be a Kid in America,” by Christopher Ingraham, spring folds the spotlight parents are put on about letting their kids have free range while being unsupervised or having to be by their side while the child is wanting to go somewhere just down the road. This has parents contemplating on letting their child be alone even though there really is no reason to be dwelling over the worst that can happen. Marc Elrich, chairman of the Montgomery County Council’s Public Safety Committee, refers to Ingraham by stating “walked more than a mile on his own to school” and baffled that “All of our parents would have been in jail” if there was a problem with letting your kids walk safely down the road. Thus persuading the fact that kids should be able to be unsupervised because it is safer than it used to be; for example, child mortality rates have decreased, abduction rates have dropped, and children pedestrians being struck in traffic had fallen tremendously. The importance of imagery in this article is used to give the audience a sense of direction in order to see Ingraham’s point of view. He gives a clear analogy of how two siblings, 6 and 10, were walking home when they got picked up by the police and detain them in the car for three hours. Ingraham uses the words “searching for you frantically” to give the audience an image of what the parents would be doing...
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...Are We Alone? The answer to the elusive question: Are we really alone? Still remains shrouded by controversy, mystery and new discoveries. Humans have struggled with the possibility of the existence of intelligent life out there in the galaxy. The developed world has spent billions of dollars in deep space exploration in an endeavor to understand what exactly is out there. People have been fascinated by alien life forms a fact which can be seen in the many successful movies on the subject. The many reported cases of unidentified flying objects that are still a mystery and which have generated conspiracy theories that have fanatical believers (Arnold.112). There are tales of flying saucers and elaborate accounts of encounters with aliens. With all these conspiracies theories, TV shows, movies and alien life form fascination, it hard to decipher the fiction from the reality. E.T. moved movie audiences with a story of friendship between an alien and a human. Star Wars stretched the human imagination and demonstrated the possibility of an enterprise with human and alien life forms out there in the galaxy. The Stargate series adds the concept of time travel and the use of alien technology to defend the earth from hostile aliens. It depicts a complex relationship between humans and aliens in strategic alliances driven by mutual interest and the greed for power and influence on a universal level. Hollywood is dynamic on the issue of aliens because it has cast good aliens...
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...A Modest Proposal for Solving the Problem of Rising Obesity in America Buttons bursting, shirts tearing, pants ripping: the effects of obesity never cease to amaze us. Obesity in America in the recent decades has been a problem rising among the rich, the middle class, and even the poor. Two thirds of the adult population and one third of children struggle with being healthy and fall into the overweight/ obese category. On average Americans eat fast food 159 times a year equating to about 193,000 calories and no one thinks twice before buying that appealing Big Mac to still their hunger. But how you could blame our people when no one wants to believe that, that mouthwatering cheese burger is not just a delicious meal but an ally to obesity. Technology has also played a major role in turning our once active American...
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...Asian Criminology (2008) 3:61–73 DOI 10.1007/s11417-007-9040-1 Kidnap for Ransom in South East Asia The Case for a Regional Recording Standard Mohd Kassim Noor Mohamed Received: 27 July 2007 / Accepted: 5 November 2007 / Published online: 15 December 2007 # Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007 Abstract Kidnapping for ransom is not a new phenomenon. According to the Control Risk Group, an international risk consultancy, kidnappings of foreign nationals globally have increased by 275% over the past 10 years. High profile incidents such as the tourist kidnappings in 2000 by the Abu Sayyaf group, operating out of the troubled southern region of the Philippines, show that South East Asia has its own regionalised kidnapping hotspots. It is suspected that a high proportion of kidnappings are perpetrated by economically motivated crime groups but it is not possible to estimate with any degree of accuracy what percentage can be attributed to organised crime. This article will provide an overview of the problem, drawing upon existing literature available in the public domain. A typological discussion will show the critical differences between the various categories of kidnapping. The reliability of existing statistics, categorisation and recording of kidnapping for ransom will also be scrutinised, in particular for their variability across the region, to see whether this presents a barrier to a better understanding of the size and seriousness of the problem. As kidnapping for...
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...A. The Rise of Colonialism The rise of colonialism in North America began in the early sixteenth century when cartography reawakened after years of stagnation allowing for the exploration of New World. (Goucher, LeGuin, and Walton, 1998). Opening up an exciting new adventure for Europeans who were seeking economic gain and religious freedom from Europe. The first colonists sailed to the Atlantic seaboard in 1584, giving them the opportunity to explore the New World and establish their own colonies (Annenberg Learner,2013b). The consequence from this first undertaking of colonization dissipated without a trace in1590 and was dubbed, The Lost Colony of Roanoke (Annenberg Learner, 2013b). Seventeen years later, in 1607, Captain Christopher Newport would sail the Atlantic ocean landing on the shores of Chesapeake Bay and establishing Jamestown on May 13,1607 (Annenberg Learner, 2103b). Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in North America and the inauguration of colonization in North America ( Annenberg Learner, 2013b). Although the colony of Jamestown began to decline, new colonist still arrived yearly, nearly 80 percent of them died over the next three years, a result of starvation and attacks from the Indians (Annenberg Learner, 2103b). Captain Newport left Jamestown and Captain John Smith, a dictator, was placed in charge of the colony. In order for the colony of Jamestown to prosper, Captain Smith gave the settlers an ultimatum, to work or starve...
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