...“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period” (Nugent). There are millions and millions of people who owns guns. That does not mean that guns are bad. Many people argue that guns are too harmful and people should not have the right to own them. However, there are many cases where guns have saved peoples’ lives. It can be argued that they are dangerous or are good devices to have. I believe that guns are beneficial to have because they can help save people’s lives, put food on the table, and they can stop a crime before it happens. My first issue I will talk about to prove my point is a little history about guns. How many people own guns, how many people have them registered, etc. In 2009, in the United States, Americans owned roughly 310 million firearms. The United States population is around 315 million people (Curry). With these numbers, it means that statistically just about every American owns a gun. That is not the case, however, because many Americans own more than only one gun and some own none. They have handguns, rifles, shotguns, etc. and there are many different purposes for each type of gun. While there are a high number of gun owners in America, there were “approximately 8 million active concealed-carry permits in the United States as of the end of 2011” (Curry). Many people...
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...ho help other countries during a war? They should just sit back and mind their own business until they’re being directed in the war. The troops are being deployed to different areas around the world. The president needs to just keep them all in one spot to decrease the killing that’s happening. The military shouldn’t get involved with other countries war because that’s causing deaths, lack of support from the ones who are really battling in the war, and funding for it (Romesh 1). When the troops try to ask the government for help they always turn them down. Instead, the government is willing to help other countries like Syria with their weapons instead of the U.S. It’s the...
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...The United States of America stayed out of World War One for three years, therefore why did we declare war in Germany in 1917? This war merely started out with Serbia and Austria-Hungary until the alliances of these countries and the alliances’ allies were pulled into it. Therefore why would we put ourselves in this messy war in Europe? To answer this we are going to look at three things of relative importance: German naval policy, allied propaganda, Woodrow Wilson’s idealism thoughts (who was our President at the time), American economic interests and America's claim to world power. The German naval policy enforced submarine attacks on any opponents in the war receiving import or exporting supplies, therefore preventing food and war supplies to reach Britain. Germany’s blockade against Britain caused exactly what they wanted; it caused severe shortages of food and materials, Kaiser Wilhelm, the leader of Russia and this country later became a part of the Soviet Union in 1922, instructed the submarines to go on unrestricted warfare which allowed them to attack all merchant shipping, no matter where it came from. This included America which infuriated exporters and made them report to the government repeatedly. It also included supplies which were going into the United States...
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...energy companies have been experiencing vast amounts of success, in the nineties and early part of the new millennium, They were showing extremely high profits and flourishing greatly. Companies like Tyco, Worldcom, Enron and others were using unethical practices , which not only cost their investors money, but also this made the general public have no faith in the securities markets. It, the trust, was very non-existent, and understandably so. These companies had executives attempting to hide funds and bad practices from the boards and directors that were there and in place to govern their business practices in order to keep the business running smoothly, it did not work for some. Enron was famous or infamous, for this practice of unethical dealings. Which is why they were the face/poster boys for bad business, they even took the name off of the Baseball Stadium that it was emblazoned on. With the Sarbanes Oxley Act, smaller businesses were affected more than the bigger guys. Remember, they had to pay for inside and outside...
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...FBI Cyber Security Division, one of bodies hacked into during credits. John McLane, interrupts guy making out with his daughter, Lucy. She told the guy he was dead. [i.e. family dynamics, dysfunctional] She’s not talking to him. ‘You are such an asshole’. She isn’t using his surname. McLane asked to pick up one of hackers being sought for possible FBI breach. Matthew Farrell, who we saw earlier being contacted by one of those involved in the hacking (fits geeky stereotype in collectable figures, etc). Killers after him, just as McLane arrives. First real action sequence, although not large scale, mainly shooting. Explosion in computer – booby-trapped. Escape building. Into car, grabbed through window – action continues, stunts, etc, guys on car. But doesn’t turn into car chase to follow (as might expect). Followed by quiet reaction – of bad guys, of the two in the car. ‘Have you done stuff like that before’, asks M (intertextual ref, but also motivated). Seven dead hackers so far, none of whom were on the FBI list of suspects. (Hackers used without knowing what they were involved in.) 4th of July weekend (fitting DH holiday template). Music taste difference between M and J (old rock preference of J, Credence; marker of generational difference). M: news is completely manipulated, to keep you living in fear, so will go out and spend on things you don’t need. Bad guys control traffic lights, cause crashes as their helicopter moves in. Gridlock. Train network system...
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...History is a blank sheet of paper, authored by whoever took the pen first. Look at Galileo Galilei for an instance. For hundreds of years, he was thought to be the first to find the groundbreaking fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Sorry Nicholas Copernicus, but Galileo grabbed the pen first. History is also altered by winners. Why did America get involved in World War 2? Because Japan sneak attacked Pearl Harbor of course. After World War 1, Japan was promoted to become an influential nation. However, they lacked in many natural resources. Thus, they looked to their neighboring country, China. Japan’s imperialistic plan was a big concern for the Americans. So, when Japan invaded Manchuria, President Roosevelt froze Japanese assets....
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...five or possibly ten guns in the room with me. And what if a student dropped his backpack and his gun inside accidently discharged? While this may be highly unlikely, I know that each time I saw a backpack fall to the floor, I would react a little differently than before. We have all seen the horror when a troubled person at school is wanting to make a statement by causing as much carnage as possible. Whenever a tragedy happens in this country, we want answers. If a tragedy involves young people within a school, it hits us all even harder and we demand immediate solutions. Supporters of this law state that bad guys will think twice about coming onto a campus knowing their planned attack may be cut short by students packing heat. The National Rifle Association's Executive Vice President and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, says "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." While in theory that could be true, I don't buy it. We have seen shootings at police stations, courthouses, Embassy's and many other places where everybody is aware guns are present. If there is someone out there with the intent to hurt others, a math teacher, coed or classmate won't prevent him from his mission as common sense rarely plays a large part of their plan. None of that matters as the law has passed and is coming soon to a campus near you. The effect I see from this law will be reflected more in the college culture and the psychology of the student body. A college campus...
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...number of people do not watch the political debates, or the news, or try and keep up with the presidential election, so seeing a bumper sticker with “Romney/Ryan 2012” could be the sole factor of swaying an undecided voter. The context of the “Expendables 2” poster seems to be pretty straightforward to me, the majority of the characters from the first movie are back to act in the second, but in this one there are new additions to the lineup. Those additions include guys like Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme, whom we do not know if there are good guys or the scum of the earth to be eventually destroyed by the aging action heroes. The time period is not obviously displayed on the poster but from previous knowledge of the movie franchise one can assume that the time period is still the present, as it was in the original movie. The context of the second movie poster is much different than the first. We have a very stoic looking Daniel Day Lewis occupying the majority of the poster portraying former president Abraham Lincoln. From that simple fact we can deduce that this movie must take place around the early 1800’s in the great country of America. The form of advertisements that we are examining are, well, movie posters. I had to research what a petroglyph is to make sure it wasn’t one. A movie poster like this conveys its message, the general...
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...by Mexico through conflicts, which further created turmoil and provoked the initiation of the Mexican-American War. Although the leadership of President Polk over the United States was one reason Mexico had to provoke the war, in the end, the beliefs of Manifest Destiny, the Texas annexation, and the weakness of the Mexican government during this time period were some of the factors which led the United States to provoke the Mexican-American War. These factors are considerably important because they show how the United States was focused on Westward expansion seeking to claim the territories of...
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...greatly intensifying the allure of ripping off one's employer. The amounts being stolen from companies appear to be growing dramatically. In the past several weeks a former General Electric Capital manager, allegedly in cahoots with a bank vice president, was charged with taking $30,000 in kickbacks as part of a scheme that resulted in $4.5 million of fraudulent loans. A Continental Illinois vice president went on trial charged with approving $1 billion of bad loans in exchange for $585,000 in kickbacks, loans that allegedly cost the Chicago bank $800 million and helped trigger its 1984 collapse. FDIC investigators say internal fraud was the major cause of one-third of all bank failures over the past two years. To some extent the victims have themselves to blame. A company with shoddy financial controls or badly trained internal auditors practically begs employees to steal. Take the case of Albert Miano, a $35,000-a-year middle manager at Reader's Digest, who from 1982 to 1987 embezzled $1 million. The Digest's controls, claims Miano, were woefully lacking. ''I even told them they needed better internal controls,'' he says, ''and they didn't listen.'' Reader's Digest contends its controls, which have since been tightened, weren't all that bad. One...
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...On August 6, 1945, the U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later ordered the same for Nagasaki, upon which Japan surrendered, ending World War II. Those very actions have been widely debated by many people since the order has been fulfilled. War is crazy, war is devastating, war is war and that which happens in war is always thought to be the best or right course to take by one leader or another, but the question people ask, from time to time, is: should the U.S. have dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The hardest part of debating this topic is looking at the whole of the matter impersonally. No one goes into a war asking just how many lives will be lost and still be acceptable, because the ultimate answer to that is none. However, that isn’t a realistic idea, so the only reasonable thing to do then is to find a way to minimize the death toll for one’s side. Dropping the bombs seemed like a viable option that was selected at that time because of a study done for the Secretary of War Henry Stimson's staff by William Shockley that estimated that conquering the main land of Japan would cost from 1.7 to 4 million American casualties, including 400,000 to 800,000 fatalities, and five to ten million Japanese fatalities, both civilian and military; the key - and correct - assumption was that Japanese civilians were prepared to fight to the death rather than let their country be taken by the US (Operation...
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...Gun control is a complex and divisive issue in America. People who are in favor of gun control foresee no violence whatsoever if guns were banned. But is that a realistic thought? I will carefully analyze details discussing how an actual gun ban would result. Would a gun ban make the world safer to live in? Would it make the world more dangerous? Prompted by horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama tasked his administration with creating concrete proposals to reduce gun violence that has plagued the country. The President includes both legislative proposals that would need to be acted on by Congress and executive actions he can perform on his own. Many of the executive actions involve the president directing agencies to do a better job of sharing information. Proposed congressional actions include, but are not limited to: (1) Requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, including those by private sellers that currently are exempt; (2) Reinstating and strengthening the ban on assault weapons that was in place from 1994 to 2004; (3) Limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds; (4) Financing programs to train more police officers, first responders and school officials on how to respond to active armed attacks; and (5) Providing financing to expand mental health programs for young people. A national survey of police officers show overwhelming support for the Second Amendment and the country’s strong tradition of gun ownership, while opposing...
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...African American Stereotypes in Movies Media Research Methods CO 455 November 20, 2012 African American Stereotypes in Movies Introduction There once was a time when everyone expected the black man to be the first actor to die in every movie that possessed a black man in its cast. However, over time the assumption of the black man being the first to die has changed. Currently in the year 2012, there are progressively more movies in which black men portray leading roles. This change in black men as leading characters in movies is a welcome change. In the past, supporting or backup roles were considered the best role a black man could achieve. In this paper, the researcher will conduct information by means of content analysis. Content analysis is the most commonly used methodology because of its ability to measure human behavior, assuming that the verbal behavior is a form of behavior. This study will examine specific media products and define these products by determining smaller elements that complement these products. This document will address a wide view of concerns regarding the African American culture, and will provide assumptions on how this issue can be addressed in the future. The stereotype of African Americans in movies today, is the topic of this research paper. Why do African Americans face stereotypes in the media? Why do black actors and actresses have difficulty obtaining roles that are not stereotypical...
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...people, who are covered in brown and sadness. “Jimmy, they are calling this the Great Depression, why?” Jimmy replies, “I reckon it’s because of the dust storms and everyone’s attitude.” Billy asks, “Why do we live in this mess?” Jimmy stops their march and replies angrily, “Look out yonder, do you see another place to live?” The poor boy shamefully says “No”. “Then let’s head back to the house, the old man is waiting for us.” The two boys walk into their makeshift house, Billy nervously exclaims, “We’re home Ol’ Greg!” The elderly man responds, “Get in here! You kids need to be workin! Ain’t no army here, ever since the Hoover guy came in with rugged...
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...Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States of America, he was also a disgusting sweaty, gross, slob, who loved to go bowling, played multiple instruments, and drank a lot of alcohol, even tho he was extremely religious. Nixon was born on a Farmhouse in California and had five brothers. As a child Richard and his family had to deal with financial hardship, a couple years after he was born Nixon and his family moved into the town of Whittier and bought a store that the whole family ran together. You’d think that with everything Nixon went through as a child it would humble him and he would be a great president, but that's not exactly how it went. Now thats not to say Richard Nixon was a horrible president in actuality he helped America in many detrimental ways, for example he successfully ended the vietnamese war and improved relations between both the USSR and the Chinese. Unfortunately all the of these good things are trumped by all the horrible things that he did, but let's start with Vietnam for now. Vietnam was a...
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