...What have you heard about Area 51? What do you believe? Do you believe that it is just an old historical military base or that it is a base full of alien bodies and space crafts? In this paper I will be giving you what I have dug up about this old testing site as well as some conspiracy theories. I have found eyewitness accounts and reports from actual workers from Area 51. You will read what I have found then again, I will ask what you believe. Area 51 is a military base that has been in operation sense the early 1950’s. It is located in the southern portion of Nevada by Groom Lake. Before the base was built, the land was used as a bombing and gunnery range for the US Air Force. contresinonAfter it was built in 1955, it was used as testing...
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...but there are many who believe. The theory about aliens and intelligent life has been around for a long time from movies to books. However, the Bible does not directly mention extraterrestrials, but many think that aliens are demons. However, the theory has not been yet proven, and most likely will not be, many think they are. It is a possibility that God had made aliens and intelligent life on other planets that are a million times smarter than us. Its a possibility, but most likely not. Space is huge we haven’t even explored some of the earth, yet so no one knows for sure if aliens are real. Another thing that gives...
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...Before I explain why I would limit the information content of conspiracy theories and political misinformation on the internet, first I need to define and distinguish what classifies as a conspiracy theory and political misinformation. Conspiracy theories and political misinformation are more common than most people believe. There are conspiracies in every aspect of our lives. They come in many form and nuance. It can be blatantly false, or too systematically complex to prove wrong. It is fair to point out that the word “theory” in conspiracy theory is not used in the same understanding or value of the term “theory” used by scientists in industry and academia. Anyone can have theory and the meaning of that term can differ greatly from one to another....
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...I define a conspiracy as any organized plan that is acted upon based upon assumptions of guilt with little or no proof to support accusations. Conspiracies are conniving and created out of a desire for personal gain. People fear what they cannot understand and create theories to explain why some people choose to live outside of the norm. Many of these theories are inaccurate and stem from paranoia. Today, our culture has become accustomed to diversity, but during the height of the witch-hunts being different was unacceptable and seen as a sign of witchcraft. While I do not accept everything I hear with blind faith, I am skeptical of most of the conspiracy theories that I have encountered. I am not definitive in my beliefs about conspiracies as a whole because some conspiracies seem plausible, while other seem nonsensical. It was not difficult for me to believe that witches held a “Sabbath” and celebrated by mixing the fat of children with poisonous animals such as serpents. However, I do not believe that every individual that was accused of witchcraft was in fact guilty. In some cases, such as the case of Dame Alice Kyteler, evidence showed that the accused were indeed guilty. In other instances, such as the Salem witch trials, innocent people died because they were wrongfully accused. Conspiracy theorists are still perpetuating their arguments today in premises that range from government protected aliens living in Area 51 to beliefs that September 11th was orchestrated by...
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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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...isolated, off the grid Air Force most commonly referred to as, Area 51. Due to the secrecy of this base and some strange sightings; there has since been several popular conspiracy theories surrounding and questioning the “true purpose” behind Area 51. Many eager conspiracy theorist claims range from extremely unlikely to that could be possible. For example, Area 51 is a secret base that uses its facility for reverse engineering of alien UFO’s, to hide aliens, and for other sorts of alien activities. Throughout this paper I will dive into the claim, finding evidence to support and discredit the claim being made, providing arguments for each side and then determining which is the strongest and most likely claim....
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...How much has alien sightings affected the everyday life of the public people? The experts say that in the late 1960’s many people reported UFO sighting. But many did not have enough evidence to be confirmed as real “but it goes without saying that that cases such as Roswell continues to intrigue the research community” (Losey.1). But it is pretty clear that they have not told us the full story. But to claim that we don’t get to see good solid evidence from the military, government and intelligence agencies is just plain wrong. To put it bluntly there are some solid reports that go far but that statement is plain wrong. “There are countless reports that very solid of UFO activities and have reach the hands of the officials” (Losey.2). Which have been given to the public via FOLA, and different other websites all over the internet but if you really want to know learn about aliens, you just need to know where to find them. One example is one particular document of 23 June, 1949. That describes the encounter of a pilot who had served in the navy during WWII, who was described as being married with three kids, and with a BS and BA degree from the...
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...111 Area 51: Alien testing facility? Area 51 is located near the town of Rachel, Nevada; Groom Lake surrounds the base (Strickland). To enter Area 51 you need a top secret clearance, a need to know, and an invitation by the upper most ranks of the CIA (Jacobsen xi-3). The majority of employees travel to Area 51 on unmarked aircraft from Las Vegas (Strickland). The U.S. government has never officially admitted to the existence of Area 51 (Jacobsen xi-3). This fuels the Alien controversies surrounding Area 51; theorists believe the government has aliens and alien aircraft on site (Strickland). Have aliens visited Earth? It is possible but unlikely that aliens are at Area 51. The majority of conspiracy theorists believe aliens crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, on July 2, 1947 (Soodin). The UFO wreckage and three aliens were retrieved by the US military and sent to Area 51 for research. Lieutenant Walter Haut, a public relations officer at Roswell Army Air Field, claims to have seen the UFO and the alien bodies (“Roswell Theory”). He describes the aliens as having enormous heads and being approximately three and half feet tall. General William Blanchard wrote an official statement saying the Army had recovered UFO remains on the 8th of July, 1947 (Strickland). According to Haut there was a second crash site where more wreckage was recovered. This is why the U.S Army gave the first statement to take the attention away from the more significant site (“Roswell Theory”). According...
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...In the ocean exists an ancient god Cthulhu, sleeping in his stone house in R’yleh under the sea. He sleeps and telepathically invades our dreams, turning them into nightmares. There is a cult that follows the ancient god, and they relate the details of this ancient being and his intentions: The HP Lovecraft Wiki 2014 [“Cthulhu,” at http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Cthulhu] The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu in "The Tale of Cthulhu" are based on statues of the creature. One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have "yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature [...] A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings."[6] Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, "represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."[7] When the creature finally appears, the story says that the "thing cannot be described," but it is called "the green, sticky spawn of the stars", with "flabby claws" and an "awful squid-head with writhing feelers." Johansen's phrase "a mountain walked or stumbled" gives a sense of the creature's scale[8] (this is corroborated by Wilcox's dreams, which "touched wildly on a gigantic thing 'miles high' which walked or lumbered about"). Cthulhu is depicted as having a worldwide...
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...Session 2 The Intelligence Process Information is material of every description, including that derived from observations, surveillance, reports, rumors, and other sources. The information itself may be true or false, accurate or inaccurate, confirmed or unconfirmed, relevant or irrelevant. Although the intelligence process requires that information be stored, organized, and retrieved, the production of intelligence requires much more. Intelligence is the product resulting from the collection, evaluation and interpretation of information. Thus, intelligence can be viewed as information to which something has been added. The something added is the result of analysis—an explanation of what the information means. Intelligence may be general or specialized in nature. General intelligence focuses on a broad range of criminal activities, typically in smaller agencies or jurisdictions. Specialized intelligence focuses on a particular type of criminal activity or entity, such as narcotics, industrial espionage, or organized crime. Intelligence has both tactical and strategic applications. Tactical intelligence is directed towards a short term law enforcement objective or active case, with an immediate impact in mind—arrest, forfeiture, seizure. Strategic intelligence deals with larger, more long-term issues and goals, such as the identification of major criminal individuals or syndicates, projections of growth in types of criminal activity, and the establishment...
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...“The Slave Power Conspiracy and Latin America” Throughout the course of America’s history there have been events that are so unbelievable and lack sufficient evidence to back them up, thus they become known as conspiracies. One of these conspiracies is the idea of Slave Power. The Slave Power Conspiracy, to most American’s this conspiracy is probably unknown, but it relates to an idea which is a topic of debate among scholars and historians. The Slave Power Conspiracy is an idea that came to be in the 1840’s and lasted till the end of the Civil War. As was stated this idea is a conspiracy as there is no direct evidence to give it a strong foundation or validity in our time. The term “Slave Power” coined in 1864 in a book written by John Smith Dye entitled “History Of The Plots And Crimes Of The Great Conspiracy To Overthrow Liberty In America.” The term started off simply as the Slave Power (conspiracy was added in the modern era). In the book Dye alleges that since the time of Independence, the aristocrats of the South and politicians from the South have had an agenda to extend slavery to the Western United States and Latin America and thus increase their power, wealth, and influence in the United States.[1] There are certain events that happened in Dye’s time that can show this idea was real. They can also prove the legitimate and real threat Slave Power posed, to Latin America. By examining all angles...
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...personal constructs, Implicit personality theories, stereotype, Cognitive algebra, summation, averaging, weighted averaging Schema, script, roles, self-schema, content-free schema Prototype, fuzzy sets, stereotypes, exemplars Social identity theory, self-categorisation theory, salience Accentuation principle, bookkeeping, conversion, subtyping Attribution & Social Knowledge You have just arrived in a foreign country and find yourself becoming irritated at the seemingly aloof and offhand manner in which people respond to your requests for directions to the hotel. Is their unfriendliness deliberate? Might it be a cultural practice? Are you an intolerant person to have taken offence so readily? 09/26/07 Joseph Dodds 2006 4 Attribution & Social Knowledge Or does their behaviour simply confirm your expectations about people from that country? Do you really care? What factors would you take into account to explain their behaviour and your reactions? What might be the consequences of the explanation you arrive at? 09/26/07 Joseph Dodds 2006 5 Attribution Theory Attribution: process of assigning cause to our own or others behaviour We are preoccupied with seeking, constructing and testing explanations of our experiences To render it orderly, meaningful and predictable for adaptive action 09/26/07 Joseph Dodds 2006 6 Attribution Theory Attribution theory: 7 main theoretical emphases: Heider's...
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...Final Review for ACCT 436 M/C题： 1. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) -Act that lists more than 30 different state and federal crimes for which the violation of any two in a related pattern over a 10-year period can lead to criminal and/or civil liability with criminal penalties of fines up to $25,000 and 20 years in prison; part of the Organized Crime Control Act (OCCA) of 1970. -The act was designed to combat organized crime, forbids certain organized gambling, and to allow the prosecution of criminal leaders who may not have been directly involved in a series of criminal acts but whose criminal organization carried out the details. 2. Benford’s Law (1)定义：A fraud indicator that predicts the relative incidence of first digits of numbers in certain types of random data. (2)Benford Analysis Benford analysis presents another interesting approach to fraud detection. Its general use is to determine the likelihood that fraud exists in records. This technique is based on Benford’s law, named after Frank Benford who realized that the likelihood that numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 will appear as the first digit in numbers occurring in a random data set conforms to a predictable pattern. That is, the number 1 is more likely to appear as the first digit in a number than is the number 2. The pattern of likelihood (Figure 6.6) continues with other digits: The number 2 is more likely to appear as a first digit than 3, 3 is more likely to appear as a first...
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...Crime, Corruption and Cover-ups in the Chicago Police Department Anti-Corruption Report Number 7 January 17, 2013 Authored by: John Hagedorn Bart Kmiecik Dick Simpson Thomas J. Gradel Melissa Mouritsen Zmuda David Sterrett With Ivana Savic Justin Escamilla Magdalena Waluszko Dalibor Jurisic Tricia Chebat Published by University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science 1 The Chicago Police Department has a legacy of both heroism and corruption. On the one hand, the department’s officers risk their lives on a daily basis to enforce the law, protect the public and preserve the peace. On the other hand, Chicago has a checkered history of police scandals and an embarrassingly long list of police officers who have crossed the line to engage in brutality, corruption and criminal activity. An analysis of five decades of news reports reveals that since 1960, a total of 295 Chicago Police officers have been convicted of serious crimes, such as drug dealing, beatings of civilians, destroying evidence, protecting mobsters, theft and murder. Moreover, the listing of police convicted of crimes undoubtedly underestimates the problem of corruption in the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The list does not include undetected and unreported illegal activity, serious misconduct resulting in internal disciplinary action, and officers who retire rather than face charges. Our analysis of police corruption in Chicago yields four major findings. First, corruption has long persisted...
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...Directed Research Human Trafficking-The Sex Trade Research Paper Raquel Barbour Fall Semester 2012 Florida Gulf Coast University Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………...………...….……3 What is Human Trafficking? ……………………………………………………………..…...4 What is the Sex Trafficking? …………………………………………………..…………….5-6 The Case of Texas Sex Slaves.………….…………………………………………………....6-7 The Case of Houston Sex Slaves…………..…………………………………………………7-9 The Case of Cleveland Sex Slaves………..…………………………………………..…………9 The Case of the New Jersey Sex Slaves……….…………………………………………....10-11 All in the Family…………………………………………………………………………….12-13 The Polaris Project………………………………………………………………………….13-14 Conclusion…………………..…………………………………………………………………..14 References……………………………………………………………………..……………15-16 Introduction Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them (Wylie, 2006). Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Every country in the world is affected by trafficking. The effect may be that the country is the country of origin for the victims. The country may be used as a transit underground tunnel for the traffickers. Finally the country that is affected by human trafficking may be the victims’ destination point and introduction to their hell on earth. Whichever...
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