...Cultural Event: Morse Museum For my cultural event, I attended the Morse Museum in Winter Park. At first I did not know what to expect, I have passed by this museum plenty of time but never went in. I was pleasantly surprised by what I discovered in this quaint museum down Park Avenue. My friend and I spent about an hour roaming throughout the rooms of the stained glass covered walls, immaculate paintings and other types of glass work. First walking in we were greeted by these two kind women who handed us pamphlets and a map of the museum. They suggested we watch a film about the history about the glass and painting we were about to see. After watching the film, we wandered into a vibrant orange room filled with stained glass lamps, each...
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...Exclusive trial: 2 whites 1 black Maycomb County, Alabama had one of the biggest trials in August 1935. An african american man named Tom Robinson (25) was convicted of raping and beating Mayella Ewell (19). The Maycomb County Court was filled with all the residents in the town wanting to discover the ugly truth. Was Tom Robinson really capable of doing such thing or is Mayella not telling the whole truth? We attended the trial and found out many things that had us gaping. Mr. Ewell (Mayella’s Father) was on the stand and his testimony was that “she was mighty beat up” but he did not mention the small detail that she had a black eye on her right eye.He just agreed with whatever the sheriff had said which really caught our attention. Mr....
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...So personally, I don’t buy into the whole fact that sentencing effects social class, gender, or age, however I do believe it plays into victim characteristics. One statement I read in the book is the most ridiculous race baiting thing I have ever read. The book talks about federal sentencing guidelines and how critics say there is racial bias regarding sentencing over cocaine in the powder form and crack form. The book mentions that sentences are harsher for people caught with crack cocaine as opposed to those caught with powder. They say this is a racial because black people are more likely to be caught with crack cocaine as opposed with powder cocaine. This is one of the problems with our country, anytime somebody is caught, they bring race...
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...Zachary Mayes English 1321 What literacy is, what it meant to them, and how they became literate? Literacy is the ability to read and write. The inability to read and write is called illiteracy. There wasn’t a successful place for illiterate people in the past, there still isn’t in the present and I don’t believe it will be later on in the future. Almost everything anyone does requires them to read or write. It is said that the illiterate don’t play an important part in society. The great Malcolm X stated “I use literacy as my biggest weapon”. If anyone has heard Malcolm X speak, they could definitely tell he was an intelligent and educated man. Being an educated man with influence over many people was a very big threat to the community controlled by white folks. Malcolm Smith dropped out of school after the 8th grade and started his life down the crime road. He was 20 years old when he got caught stealing and was sent to prison. In jail he met an inmate named Bimbi who encouraged him to read as much as he could and take classes offered through the prison. After prison, he continued to read books on religion, history, and philosophy. When Malcolm joined the nation of Islam, he changed his name to Malcolm X and told the brothers to get an education because, “Education is the passport to the future”. Malcolm was not a man who believed that the problem of the African Americans would be solved through a peaceful, quiet means and nuances, he believes the problem has graduated...
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...In an article I read, it states that the state has absolute and systematic control of all forms of telecommunications and is actively spying on its citizens through mass surveillance programmes. They have sent civilians to prison camps for communicating with the world, which is illegal to do. The ‘Bureau 27’ monitors every phone call and internet activity in North Korea’s State Security Department. Apparently, the unit specialises in converting intelligence and uses sophisticated equipment to detect mobile phone frequencies. Citizens find it impossible to make international calls. The vast majority of North Koreans have no access to the internet and live like if they are in prison. The domestic intranet, the Kwangmyong, are the only ones allowed access to government approved websites and email systems. Someone proficient at computers, especially a hobbyist, can take advantage of his/hers knowledge and stalk,spy and stalk on someone. They can hack into a person’s mobile device and read their private messages or try to empty someone’s bank savings in an instant. Sounds creepy, but that’s how we live in today’s society. The bright news is there are people who set up firewalls and prevent from this from...
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...abroad in Japan. Ten years later, here I was, 6,300 miles away from San Francisco, California. I have just gotten of the plane, after a long 12-hour flight of excitement and anxiety. As I was grabbing my luggage to depart the airport, I found myself wondering about how I am going to adapt to this new culture. I was excited to explore Japan; first thing first was to obtain my rail pass. Since Japan is too small for every household to own a vehicle, the best way of getting around was by train. I made my way to the self-serve ticket booth, and proceed to purchase a transit pass. At first, it was confusing because I did not know what I was supposed to do since everything was written in Japanese. As I stared at the screen, there was a button that read “English” in the upper right hand corner. With some relief of not having to verbally or physically ask someone about how to purchase a transit card, I quick click on the “English” button. Well what did you know; I was able to understand what the buttons on the screen after all. I pressed the button that says “new card”, then it asked me to insert ¥1000, ¥5000, or ¥10000. I inserted a ¥5000 bill and like magic, my transit card popped out. I retrieved my card from the machine and made an entrance onto the train station’s platform. As the train approaches, I was expecting to be shoved into the train cart with other riders, like sardines in a can, but it was not as bad as I expect it to be. As the sliding doors...
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...I lived through the 1980s, but was not touched by them. They might as well have been the 1880s, for all the notice I took of the defining characteristics of the decade. I didn’t own a wide-¬shouldered jacket with rolled-up sleeves, a double-breasted suit, or indeed any item of clothing that cost more than a pot plant. I dressed myself from charity shops, right down to the socks and underpants. I didn’t own a watch or a television, got around by bicycle, cut my own hair, and was not acquainted with any person who owned albums by Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Sade or Spandau Ballet. (Maybe it was because the few friends I had were lesbians.) The prospect of buying that newfangled invention, a CD) player, was as remote as investing in a Picasso. A high-flying career in the corporate sphere, or a steady job of any kind, held no attraction for me. Who needs money when so much of the food in supermarkets is exactly the right shape to fit down the front of one’s trousers, hidden by a loose jumper? Who needs status when one is an Artist, already living on Mount Olympus? At the dawn of the 1980s, my first wife and I were in fact living in Fitzroy, a shabby inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Both of us were writers, misfits, snobs. In the grand intellectual tradition of Wyndham Lewis, Sylvia Plath, TS Eliot et al, we detested the common horde - lowbrow Philistines, the lot of them! We lurked in our tiny student flat, reading Four Quartets and In Memoriam, admiring shoplifted art books...
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...Michel Faber Me and Dave and Mount Olympus (2006) I lived through the 1980s, but was not touched by them. They might as well have been the 1880s, for all the notice I took of the defining characteristics of the decade. I didn’t own a wide-shouldered jacket with rolled-up sleeves, a double-breasted suit, or indeed any item of clothing that cost more than a pot plant. I dressed myself from charity shops, right down to the socks and underpants. I didn’t own a watch or a television, got around by bicycle, cut my own hair, and was not acquainted with any person who owned albums by Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Sade or Spandau Ballet. (Maybe it was because the few friends I had were lesbians.) The prospect of buying that newfangled invention, a CD) player, was as remote as investing in a Picasso. A high-flying career in the corporate sphere, or a steady job of any kind, held no attraction for me. Who needs money when so much of the food in supermarkets is exactly the right shape to fit down the front of one’s trousers, hidden by a loose jumper? Who needs status when one is an Artist, already living on Mount Olympus? At the dawn of the 1980s, my first wife and I were in fact living in Fitzroy, a shabby inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Both of us were writers, misfits, snobs. In the grand intellectual tradition of Wyndham Lewis, Sylvia Plath, TS Eliot et al, we detested the common horde - lowbrow Philistines, the lot of them! We lurked in our tiny student flat, reading Four...
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...his benefits (i.e. hacking). By using a personal computer and a modem Kevin was able to commandeer a phone company’s digital central office switch by dialling in remotely, this simple technique allowed Kevin to make free calls and eavesdrop all communications made by every individual. This was the start of his hacking “career”. At the of 17 years old, Kevin was arrested and charged with “destroying data over a computer network”, he spend three months in jail. What did he do? Instead of using his knowledge to explore the various computer adventures, Mr Kevin preferred to rather have a run-in with the police. Time after time he had a collision with the police. His next arrest was in 1983 at the University Southern California, where he was caught trying to gain illegal access to ARPnet using the university’s computer. For the crime committed he was sentenced to six months in prison. When he was released, he had the number plate of his car printed “XHACKER”, but he still had a hacking appetite. A couple of years later he was accused of tampering with a credit transfer computer. An arrest warrant was issued, but it later disappeared from the policies records without a clear explanation. Kevin’s main method of obtaining illegal information was through social engineering, his stolen information included user-names, passwords etc. Kubutona Letuka PT2013-0675 C_ITSS311 A couple of years...
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...online gaming is fast becoming an addiction among school children. It has been reported that there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of cases of online-gaming addiction among teens in Singapore. Furthermore, book loan statistics from the libraries of Singapore show a decrease in the number of books borrowed per person over the past few years. This has prompted the National Library Board to launch a series of reading programmes and measures to “up” the statistics as well as interest among Singaporeans, for example, increasing the maximum number of books borrowable from eight to twelve [Ed.: from 4 to 8?], as well as launching “Read! Singapore 2006”, a reading-centred campaign. If reading as a hobby has not been facing some significant decline in popularity, would it be necessary to embark on such programmes to encourage others to read more? Hence reading risks being outdated in our increasingly...
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...Life is only the Beginning When we think of the end times there are all kinds of examples that flood our minds. These examples come from things we may have read, heard or been taught. The Bible is our key piece to use for understanding because it gives us so many different ideas of what we will see in the end times. When thinking about the different ideas of the end times two of them pop out at me. The rapture and how future events can be looked forward to by Christians. What is the rapture all about anyway? Will when you get right down to it means to be caught up. How as a Christian does that help us understand what rapture even means? For a true meaning of the word rapture we have to dig a little deeper in God’s word to find out the answer. As we take time to learn about the rapture we then will have a much better understanding. Being caught up or being taken up to heaven is what we can define the word rapture as. If the rapture would happen today then Jesus has retuned and we as Christians are being raised up in spirit to the heavens. That is exciting to even think about the opportunity to be whisked away right where we stand. It reads in 1st Thessalonians 4:14 that since we believed that Christ was raise from the dead then when Christ comes back he will raise us up. One of the things that we have to do is be ready for that day because it could happen without a moment’s notice. God did not give us the time or the date because if we knew then we would use that information...
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...enough. At first I thought that getting your essay read and critiqued by everyone in the class was pointless and insignificant. After we had finished I realized that some benefits had came out of the class critique session. Back when I was in IB English class the teacher used to give us grammar warm ups everyday. One day she decided to change our...
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...Dear Ms. Kamo McHugh, I have just finished reading the book “Stealing Phoenix” by Joss Stirling. The story is about a girl named Phoenix, also known as Phee, and a boy called Yves who are both Savants – people with extra sensory perceptions and powers. The girl is tied down to the Community – a gang of thieves with paranormal powers. One day in London she has to steal something from Yves Benedict – a handsome and smart lad. That way they meet and find out that they are soulfinders – soulmates in the Savant world. They try to overcome all the obstacles in the way while trying to get Phoenix out of the Community. Along the way Phee and Yves get themselves into a lot of drama, trouble, and love. Phoenix Corrigan is the main heroine and protagonist...
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...The owner was Bernice Worden and she had been missing. They searched his farmhouse and found her body decapitated and was hanging upside down by her feet. Her body was dressed out like that of a deer. He had shot her with a .22 caliber rifle. They questioned Gein about all the body parts he had in his house. He told investigators that he had made about 40 visits to local graveyards in a daze like state. He didn’t know what he was doing sometimes he would come out of the daze like state and return home empty handed. Ed Gein was born to George and Augusta Gein in La Crosse County, Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. They had two sons Henry George Gein and Edward Theodore Gein. They lived on a farm on the outskirts of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Augusta moved here to prevent outsiders from influencing her kids. Ed Gein would leave his only to go to school, and when he would come home he would spend most of his day doing chores. Eds dad was a drunk that would spend his time drinking, but the marriage continued because of the families religious belief about...
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...Major Kennedy Professor Tucker HMXP 102 Media Fasting Essay #3 Fasting from social media or any type of media for a whole twenty four hours is pretty hard. During this time of pure meditation from the digital world was a good way for me to understand, why we need media and why it’s also not needed. Since I was born, I’ve always been surrounded by technology, even the earliest stages of the internet. Most of us today use social media, television, or even our phones to obtain news and information around us. Personally I couldn’t tell you the last time I read a newspaper to know what’s going on in my community. Media is making our lifestyles a microwavable generation where everything is quick and handed to us. Not knocking technology or social media because I feel like it’s much easier to get information in the palm of your hand. But one thing I notice about using too much technology is that we are slowly losing face to face communication skills. More people use texting as a main source of communication and I’ve seen my peers write essay papers like the way they text which isn’t a good trait to obtain. By doing this fasting from technology, I felt at peace for a while, felt like I didn’t have worry about people or the world. Sometimes we don’t even realize how stuck on our phones we be or even the fact that we check our phones even when no one has called or text us. Media is influencing us in our everyday lives, by commercials, reality shows, and even game shows. Realizing...
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