...Kidnapped One night, Molly was lying in bed, just on the verge of falling asleep, when she heard her mother call her name from the kitchen. Rubbing her eyes she slowly went downstairs to see what her mother wanted, but as she passed the cupboard under the stairs, the door was open and there she saw a knife as sharp as a razor covered with red stains. Running to tell her mother, she stopped and stood there, horrified by what she saw, her mouth dropped open. Hanging from the ceiling by her neck, her mum hung, slowly swinging side to side. Thick, red blood dripped, splashing against the table, making the puddle bigger and bigger which seemed to look like a river. Screaming in pain she fell to floor crying, banging her hands against the floor blood splattering on face, and still she didn't stop, she didn't care anymore, about anything. All she felt was anger and pain, she knew it was all her fault. Only if she had come downstairs quicker her mum wouldn't have been killed. Standing up she walked to the sink and washed the blood off as if she washing her mum away. Then she went back to the cupboard, checking to see if there was anything in there. When she opened the door the knife was gone. Stepping inside she was locked in and a hand covered her mouth. Two minutes later she felt dizzy and heard two men whispering, checking she hadn't woken up. Looking around, she realised she was in a car and tried to move but couldn't, she was too weak as she had flashback of what happened to mum...
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...ever, so every day after school my mom would buy me one. After my purchase my mom and I started walking to the car, I put my book bag in the trunk then sat in the back as I savored my delicious hot dog. As my mom was putting the key in the ignition, two men came from behind us and asked my mom to get out of the car nicely but she refused to. Then the men got aggressive pulled his gun out, put it in my mom’s temple and this time yelled: “get out of the car!”. I then stopped eating and started shaking when I saw tears gashing out of my moms eyes as she screamed: ‘’let him go!!”. The guys shut the doors, the one in the back put my head on his lap to make sure I didn’t see where I was going and then off we went to an unknown place, I had been kidnapped. I was too scared at the moment to...
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...In the novels Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote both authors demonstrate their use of characters and their change throughout the novel. In Kidnapped, the characters David and Ebenezer Balfour and the characters Herb Clutter, Perry, and Alvin Dewey in In Cold Blood are dynamic characters because they all undergo a change within the novels. Furthermore, Capote and Stevenson use suspense to promote the character dynamics within the novels. Capote and Stevenson cohesively use suspense with irony, the theme of chase and the overall structure of their novels to illustrate the character dynamics. Suspenseful irony is used to show the change in character throughout the novels. Suspense adds to the theme of chase because the characters try to converge on something they are after. The structure of the novels plays to the authors’ use of suspense in their own styles. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Kidnapped, depicts the adventures of David Balfour in search of his inheritance in the perilous Scottish Highlands in 1751. David comes close to retrieving his inheritance, but his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, has other plans for David. He tries to kill David by coercing him to climb a rickety, old stair-tower. David barely manages to make it out alive because his uncle has lied to him about the condition of the stairs thus the devious side of Ebenezer Balfour emerges. Ebenezer’s failed attempt to get rid of David calls for the use of his secondary plan involving...
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...where she became friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls' High School magazine (the family returned to Wellington proper in 1898), in 1898 and 1899. In 1902 she became in love of a cellist, Arnold Trowell, although the feelings were largely unanswered. Mansfield herself was an accomplished cellist, having received lessons from Trowell's father. Mansfield wrote in her journals of feeling disturbed in New Zealand, and of how she had become disillusioned because of the repression of the Māori people. Maori characters are often portrayed in a sympathetic or positive light in her later stories, such as "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped”. In 1903 she moved to London, where she attended Queen's College along with her sisters. Mansfield recommenced playing the cello, an occupation that she believed she would take up professionally, but she also began contributing to the college newspaper with such dedication that she eventually became its editor. She met fellow writer Ida Baker (also known as Lesley Moore), a South African, at the college, and they became lifelong friends. Certainly, her writing meditates on themes and emotional states that were central to her own life—loneliness, disconnection, travel, depression, attraction and revulsion, power and impotence, love and hate. She died from tuberculosis in France at the age of 34. The life lends itself to melodrama, prompting...
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...The use of violence as a means of resistance invokes problematic actions. In the context of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, militias made use of child soldiers to fight against the military. We quote from the narrative of Sukumar (male, 36 years) a Tamil refugee living in a camp in India, who was kidnapped as a child by a militia and trained to become a soldier, ‘My father used to work as a school teacher. He taught me to read and write. One day, I was at home, and my father had gone to work. I was 10 years old at that time. The people from a local militia came and kidnapped me. I was to be trained to become a child soldier. When my father came back and discovered what had happened, he broke down. He went to the people in the militia and begged them to let me go. They refused. He came there everyday for a week and cried, but the people in the militia showed no sympathy. So at the age of 10, I started participating in physical exercises that trained me for the military. I also learnt to use the gun. As a child I did not understand what was happening. Also, the sense of physical fatigue was easily overcome, and I got used to the drill. I stopped going to school. Whatever little I can read and write was due to what my father had taught me when I was very young.’ The kidnapping of the child is an act of colonising the body. In converting the child into a soldier, the body of the child is mechanised. The resistance has been reduced to the practice of management. Continuing...
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...times. The shirt looks beaten up and it has the name Huawa Muta who was the initial owner of the shirt. On April 15, 2014, Hauwa Mutah and 200 little girls were kidnapped from their school in Chibok which is in Borno State. Hauwa Mutah was kidnapped from her school by Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria. Boko Haram means that "Western" or "non-Islamic" education is a sin. I see this torn up shirt and it makes me think of how that little girl was having an ordinary school day and now she and the other girls are being deprived of their education. There is no way of knowing the season...
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...How Red Chief Creates Irony The situation irony in the Ransom of Red Chief creates humor and develops them because when Red Chief was kidnapped it caused a situation in the story. I know it was this irony because of the story is wrote and the situation in it. In the story it shows how irony was created by humor and how irony develop into a theme. In this paragraph I would like to talk about how irony is created by humor in the story. In paragraph #16, sentence #1 it states " I like this fine. I never camped out before; but I had a pet 'possum' once, and I was nine last birthday." What I think this quote means is that even know him got kidnapped he having fun. This story show that there is a problem but he is do things he has never...
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...Examples of this would be: If someone was kidnapped, house was broken into, or even if a victim is mute. If someone was kidnapped and unable to call 911 they could text in their emergency and possibly save their own life. It would be more convenient to text instead of call in situation like this one because if their kidnapper was outside the room they would not be able to hear them. It would not always be the case, but in today’s’ world almost everyone knows how to text and would feel more comfortable texting than calling in a situation like being kidnapped. Another situation would be if someone’s’ house was being broken into. If someone hears someone break into their home runs and hides they would not be able to call the police at that moment. They would be too scared that the burglar would hear them. It would be ideal for them to be able to text in their emergency. I believe in a situation like this emergency response would be faster and they could possibly catch the criminal in the act. If someone was mute would also be a circumstance where it would be a good idea to have text as an option to send in an emergency. If someone is mute they aren’t able to call and that could put them in a more dangerous situation. But if they were able to text in it could save their life whatever that predicament may be. In conclusion I believe that texting would be a great new communication system. Whether, it may be if someone has been kidnapped, or if they were being robbed, or if they...
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...“I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.” February 4, 1974 a 19-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and abused. Is it fair that she served a two-year sentence? No, she didn’t choose what happened to her. She did not have a sane mind when she went out and robbed banks. Patty Hearst should have been found innocent due to insanity. Stockholm Syndrome is a serious problem, one that Patty Hearst was sent to jail for. Patty Hearst had been a sophomore attending Berkeley in February 4,1974, when a group of people knocked on her door and kidnapped her. They put her in the back of their trunk and drove off. She was kidnapped by a terrorist group called Symbionese Liberation Army, in order for them to receive attention. SLA was...
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...and the best part of having her is that she is working with me. Together we have solved a lot of cases. One day my phone rang. “Hello?” the only thing I heard was a really loud noise. I tried one more time, “Hello? Are you there?” “Oh, yes my darling. I’m here” it was my boss. “Why did you call, sir?” he answered “I have a very important job for you. You need to find a lost boy, he got kidnapped by his nanny.” I can’t believe it. A little boy got kidnapped by his own nanny. “I’m on my way, boss.” I ran outside to my car. “Oh no, I forgot Bella inside! Bella, come here!” I screamed. When she finally came, we drove to the police station. “Good morning sir, where should we go looking?” everybody was staring at us. “Good morning darling, you can start with the place the little boy last was seen. We are talking to his parents now.” How could I know where he was last seen? I started talking to one of the employed. “Do you know where the little boy was last seen?” “Yes and his name is James. He was last seen in the church. His parents said that he was just going to the toilet and then he got kidnapped.” I either can’t believe that his own parents let him go to the toilet all alone. Bella and I was going to find little James and his nanny. We drove over to his house and went looking for clues. After a while I got a little mad, because I didn’t found anything. Bella started barking. “What is it? What have you found?” Bella took her nose down to the floor. It was a room under us, hidden...
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...The historically history show how the slave trade was not an act of consent, but one of resistance. African resisted the slave trade throughout the whole process and many times were forced and kidnapped. The Slave Trade was one huge organization that took place between Europe, Africa, and America that was very successful throughout the centuries. But to say that European was capturing slaves is a false statement. When the slave trade first started European where capturing and kidnapping, but as the slave trade progressed it was African kidnapping fellow Africans. With this organizational structure of the slave trade being implemented, the Europeans found an approach of gaining Africans that was more efficient. . The slave trade was legal for a very long time , meaning that the capturing of slaves was as well . But most of the captures where of war criminals that the judicial system sent them off. Kidnapping was not seen as abnormal just something that happens as a consciousness of the slave trade, that the European had the right to abduct African. Where European Kidnapping African during the slave trade? No. But they created a system where African kidnapped other Africans and sold them to European buyers. The slave trade was built on the foundation of kidnapped Africans and the Europeans found an efficient way to take slaves without directly having to kidnap them. The slave trade was both it was corrupt business that exploited Africans to sell fellow Africans for...
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...STRIKE AND EMPLOYERS 1 NIGERIANS TEACHER STRIKE OVER KIDNAPPED GIRLS, KILLINGS OF COLLEAGUE AUGUSTINE COMPOSITION 2, EN142O OCTOBER 6, 2015 SRIKE AND EMPLOYERS 2 Nigeria teachers went on strike and staged rallies nationwide on Thursday in protest against the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Islamist Boko Haram sect and killing of nearly as many teachers during its insurgency. According to the writer teacher decided to embark on strike based on the issue of kidnapped schoolgirls and the killing of teachers, I quite understand that they want to show concern and to force government to act on the issue, but considering the fact that just kidnapped are student but shouldn’t affect the nation as whole, I quite remember that during this period, Nigerian States and citizen turn to something else because students that supposed to graduate that time was denied of it because of the Strike and for that reason violence became the other of the day. Although I believe strike was the only option to draw Government attention towards such calamity and crime. Boko haram gunmen stormed a school outside the remote northeastern town of chibok on April 14, carting some 270 girls away in trucks. More than 50 have escaped but at least 200 remain in captivity, as do scores of other girl’s kidnapped previously, STRIKE AND EMPLOYERS 3 Boko Haram want to create a breakaway Islamic State in a religiously-MIXED, Muslim and Christian country of 170 million people, African...
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...The Disappearance of the Sodder Children While everyone was sleeping, the night before Christmas in 1945 five of the Sodder children went missing. Where did they go? The Sodders were a big Italian family with parents, George and Jennie, who had ten children. One of their sons was away in the army. That night a fire broke out. Four kids and their parents got out unharmed, but the other five were never seen again. Death by fire and rumors of the children being kidnapped by the Italian mafia could have been the cause of his tragic event. Since the fire in 1945, George and Jennie never saw their five children again. No one really knows what happened to them. It is believed that they were kidnapped or they died in the fire (¨Where Are The Sodder Children¨). After the fire, their father, George, apparently tried to save his children that could have been stuck in the house (¨Where Are The Sodder Children¨). George says, ¨We didn't see the five kids at the windows crying for help. They weren't there¨. While the fire was burning, only four of the children were with them John, George Jr, Marian and Sylvia (¨Mystery of Missing Children...
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...Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano Empire Contrast and Contrast Paper Life in captivity will greatly affect the life of a captive. The types of things that a captive has to endure are horrifying. Olaudah Equiano and Mary Rowlandson can both agree that life in captivity is tough. Equiano and Rowlandson were both pulled from their family and forced into a life neither were expecting. Rowlandson resorted to her faith; whereas, Equiano did all he could to survive. Equiano and Rowlandson were both greatly affected by being taken and held captive. Olaudah Equiano and his sister were taken from their family when the adults were out farming and they were left to take care of the house. The captors took Equiano and his sister to many different places....
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...live on a plot of land, that they farm in New Mexico in 1885. Maggie is a doctor and lives with her boyfriend who helps run the farm. A stranger visits to seek treatment for a wound and it is Maggie’s estranged father. Her father left her family when she was young to be with the Indians. Maggie does not like her father and eventually makes him leave. Her eldest daughter Lilly, Dot and Maggie’s boyfriend head out on a trip the next day with the cattle. The following morning Maggie is alarmed when they do not return and sets out to find them. She discovers that her boyfriend has been killed and her daughter Dot appears wandering out of the woods. Dot tells Maggie that Indians attacked them and took the older daughter Lilly. Lilly has been kidnapped by Indians and a male witch Indian. Maggie seeks help from the local sheriff who says they don’t have the resources and Maggie has to seek her father’s help. They head off in search of Lilly trying to track down the Indians before it’s too late. In the movie Maggie plays a very head strong, independent woman, who is the head of her household. Her character was not completely accurate because I don’t believe that a woman with no husband and runs her own “healer” doctor clinic is a very realistic idea in the West. She is treated with a lot of respect by all of the men and is even treated equally. They do depict her mothering as strong and firm. The children have to help with everything they do and it showed a very accurate picture of the...
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