...Detecting Media Bias I decided to talk about the economics in my local community. As a resident of Jacksonville TX the outlook for the East Texas economy looks positive, according to area leaders who attended an economic summit in Nacogdoches last week. So knowing where our town stands, so everything was mainly made clear. Some information were pointed out at the beginning, but not all was said until the end and that was when City officials from Jacksonville, Bullard, Rusk and around East Texas flocked to Nacogdoches on a Thursday for the 2012 East Texas Economic Development Summit in Nacogdoches to put all the facts out on the table. Gov. Rick Perry and State Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, were two of the officials who spoke at the summit about the economic status of Texas and East Texas in particular. The news did eventually make it close to worldwide, when all of our police from that city was taken off duty. So our town went a couple of months without officers due to the funds that was not available to keep them. After several months, Darrell Prcin, Jacksonville Economic Development Corp. president, said it was a very good possibility that the police force would be returning due to the economic changes that was made during that meeting. According to Prcin, Ray Perryman, president of The Perryman Group, an economic and financial analysis firm headquartered in Waco, presented a report. “For almost two years, the U.S. has faced historic economic challenges...
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...Paulo Freire Introduction I think it is important—for my own sake as well as the reader’s—that we try, at the very outset, to clarify some points fundamental to the general understanding of my ideas on education as cultural action for freedom. This is all the more important since one of the basic aims of this work, where the process of adult literacy is discussed, is to show that if our option is for man, education is cultural action for freedom and therefore an act of knowing and not of memorization. This act can never be accounted for in its complex totality by a mechanistic theory, for such a theory does not perceive education in general and adult literacy in particular as an act of knowing. Instead, it reduces the practice of education to a complex of techniques, naively considered to be neutral, by means of which the educational process is standardized in a sterile and bureaucratic operation. This is not a gratuitous assertion. We will later clarify the radical distinction between knowing and memorizing and the reasons why we attach such importance to the adult literacy process. But first, some words about the socio-historical conditioning of the thinking presented here, as well as an explanation of the necessity for critical reflection on such conditioning. From a non-dualistic viewpoint, thought and language, constituting a whole, always refer to the reality of the thinking subject. Authentic thought-language is generated in the dialectical relationship...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton University of Phoenix Mr. Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow Scotland to William and Isabelle Pinkerton on August 25, 1819. Allan father was a police sergeant who was shot and killed during a political riot in a city square. Allan quit school and went to work to support the family. Allan worked as a apprentice in the McCauley Cooperage works, barrel makers, he worked his way up to supervision and at the age of 22, Allan Pinkerton married Juan Carfares on March 13, 1842. Allan and his new wife didn’t have a honeymoon of sort due to a company of soldiers marching that was to arrest Mr. Pinkerton. Instead Mr. Pinkerton and his wife were on a ship the very next morning headed to the United States. Once the couple reached Chicago the Pinkerton sold the horse, the wagon for lodging, Allan met with some fellow Scotsman got a job with a local Brewery and got hired as a barrel maker. Pinkerton and his wife soon found themselves as parents. A son was born William, was born in 1846 and other were born later to the couple and they were twins Robert and Joan. Pinkerton’s career started in law enforcement official was when the courts Sheriff was so impresses with Pinkerton quick thinking barrel maker, who served to be in the wrong line of work; offered Pinkerton a full time job on his staff as an investigator. Before the end of 1848 Pinkerton had the highest number of arrest for burglaries and murders than any of the experienced police on the Chicago’s...
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...I have decided to write about the Joseph Biden plagiarism scandal that came to light during his first presidential run in 1988. This particular case peaks my interest because the allegations are true as they have been confirmed by Joseph Biden himself yet he seems to fail to see his actions as plagiarism. Mr. Biden is accused of copying five pages of material for a 15 page paper assignment when attending Syracuse University College of Law. While Mr. Biden did include one footnote to attribute credit to the original work, his efforts are grossly inadequate for a student in his first year of law school. The definition of this offense is, “Plagiarism is the intentional failure to give sufficient attribution to the words, ideas, or data of others that the student has incorporated into his/her work for the purpose of misleading the reader” and then goes on to say, “Students who have any doubt as to whether they have provided sufficient attribution have the responsibility to obtain guidance from their professor or other person to whom they are submitting their work” as defined by Liberty University [ (Online, 2015) ]. “Mr. Biden maintains today, as he did 22 years ago, that he had misunderstood the rules of citation and footnoting” and that he “did not intentionally move to mislead anybody” (Dionne, 1987). It is my opinion that even though Mr. Biden claims he was not ‘malevolent’ in his actions he still had a reasonability to consult with his professor if he is unclear or confused...
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...Megan's Law arms the public with certain information on the whereabouts of dangerous sex offenders so that local communities may protect themselves and their children. The law also authorizes local law enforcement to notify the public about highrisk and serious sex offenders who reside in, are employed in, or frequent the community. Sex offenders are required to register with local law enforcement agencies within five working days released from a local jail or state prison, or completion of any alternate sentence. Sex offenders also must re-register every year within five working days of his or her birthday, relocation or changing of his or her name. Sex offenders who are released from prison should have the same rights as any American citizen. Every sex offender should be allowed to his or her right to privacy and the freedom to realize his or her dreams. Megan's Law is named after Megan Kanka, a seven-year0old who lived in Hamilton Township, New Jersey with her parents. On July 29,1994 Megan was raped and strangled to death by a twice-convicted sex offender who had been released from jail. Few days had gone by since the death of Megan, but already many frustrated, angry neighbors where collecting signatures in order to make Megan's Law credible. At the time Megan's Law was known as "Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Crimes against Children (Jones 1). There voices were immediately heard and Megan's Law was passed. This required that states notify law enforcement...
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...Ronald Davis Mrs. Gray 30 April 2015 Black Folks, We Better Get Moving (The Root) -- Last week I moderated a panel on 3-D printing at the Milken Institute's Global Conference, where two CEOs offered insights into this technology that has the potential to disrupt gun safety, manufacturing and possibly the geopolitical relationships between countries. On another panel, a 16-year-old winner of the Intel Science Fair Grand Prize explained how he created a simple test to detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer. Others discussed the rise and fall of civilizations and the mobile Web explosion, while Al Gore lamented spider goats. (Google it!) Held at the plush Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the halls are lined with pictures of Hollywood celebrities in their heyday, the conference attracted some of the world's most affluent people, who mingled with some of the most innovative minds. A few of us were there to ask questions and learn. The global elite gather regularly at Milken, TED, the Clinton Global Initiative, Aspen Institute and other conferences to ponder the future of the planet. Unfortunately, relatively few African Americans attend. Instead, more black leaders attend conventions and conferences held by national organizations of fraternities, sororities, professional societies and civil rights organizations. Some of these organizations are more forward-looking...
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...Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow. Scotland on August 25, 1819. After emigrating to the United States in 1842 Pinkerton established a barrel making shop on the banks of the Fox River, which was one of the portage waterways that led to Chicago. By an accident, Pinkerton discovered a gang of counterfeits making coins and spreading reproduced bills throughout Illinois. A few days later after watching the men Pinkerton helped Sheriff Yates bring down the gang. Impressing the town’s council with the arrest of the counterfeiting ring along with another gang. Pinkerton was offered a full-time position as an investigator. He relocated back to Chicago to defend the law with his family. By 1848 he accrued the highest number of arrest for burglaries and murders. He was soon asked to become the city’s first detective. In 1850 Pinkerton resigned from his job with the city as a detective to start his own detective agency. His detective business was named Pinkerton national Detective Agency, which provided detective services and specialized in capturing train robbers and counterfeiters. In 1861 while Pinkerton and his staff was investigating a railway case they uncovered an assassination plot against President Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton met with Abraham Lincoln to let him know of his findings. Pinkerton decided to make changes to the Presidents route being that the assassins knew of the route he was taking. Abraham Lincoln’s itinerary was changes so that he passed through the city secretly...
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...Al Sharpton “The Reverend” Full Name: Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr. Born: October 3, 1954 Brooklyn, NY Occupation: Baptist Minister Civil Rights/Social Justice Activist Radio/Television talk show host Education: Graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, NY Dropped out of Brooklyn College after 2 years Chronology: • • • • • • • Born in Brooklyn, NY to father Alfred Sharpton Sr. and Ada Richards, then raised in Queens, NY. [1954] Preached first sermon, “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled” at Washington Temple Church of God at age 4 to an audience of over 800 people. [1959] At the age of 7, Al Sharpton first heard of the struggles with race issues through the stories of his grandfather, who was beaten by white men for “not getting out of the way” [1963] Al Sharpton's parents divorced, and his father refused to help the family financially. Sharpton's mom was forced to move herself and her kids back to Brooklyn. [1964] Preached a sermon before a Mahalia Jackson performance at New York's World Fair and went on to tour with her to continue his preaching. [1964] Bishop Frederick Douglas Washington officially ordained him as a minister. [1964] On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., one of Al Sharpton's idols, was assassinated. [1968] • The Southern Christian Leadership Conference appoints Al Sharpton as Youth Director for Operation Breadbasket, a program that organized boycotts against businesses using unfair employment methods. [1969] Founded the National Youth...
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...signed Louie up for Track. By his tenth grade year(1933) he was running a mile in 4:42. He continually got better and started focusing in the olympics. By 1936 his running dream was about to come true. He was going to run in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but not running the mile but in the 5000 meter run. He end up in 8th place and started to focus his mind elsewhere. Louie wanted to enlist in World War 2. His started in September of 1940. He was a liberator bombardier on a B-24 plane. He was in the air several times and always felt safe. That was until the Green Hornet. Louie's original plane, SuperMan, was no longer working so he boarded the Green Hornet on the sunny morning of May 27, 1943 in Kahuku, Hawaii. Louie boarded the plane not knowing his life would be changed from that point on. A few hours into the ride the engines started to fail. Down they went. Only Louie and two other men survived the crash. They would drift in the ocean on the raft for 47 days with little water or food, because there was no emergency kit in the plane because it was so old. Facing many challenges like sharks, dehydration, and starvation one of Louie's raft mates did not make it through the 47 days. Little did Louie know the pain that was about to come. Louie was picked up by a Japanese ship and sent to a prisoner of war camp(POW). He was tortured at Ofuna, Omori, and Naoetsu, but one person made Naoetsu considerably worse. Mutsuhiro Watanbe. Nicknamed “the Bird.” He was a sadistic man who made Louie's...
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...“It’s only murder if they find a body otherwise it’s just a missing person” ~Anonymous. John Wesley Hardin was born May 26th 1853, Bonham, Texas and his parents were James Hardin and Mary Elizabeth Dixson Hardin. He had 8 siblings- Joseph Gipson Hardin, Elizabeth Hardin Cobb, Martha Ann Hardin Smith, Benjamin Hardin, Jefferson Davis Hardin, Nannie Hardin Witt, Nannie D. Hardin Mosteller, and James Gipson Hardin. James was almost expelled from school for stabbing a classmate at age 14 and at age 15 he shot a black man to death in Polk County. He shot the man while fleeing from the law. He killed at least one and possibly four union soldiers who were attempting to arrest him. As a cowboy in Chisom trail in 1871 he killed 7 people...
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...In 2003 a costly technology became affordable and available for most of the people, and the Internet made it very easy to stay connected with all the people around the world, a computer programming student in Harvard Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) launched a website, it began as a college dorm project, but now it’s a worldwide website called Facebook. It has more than half a billion users. The social network movie shows how Facebook started, it also present the battle for the ownership of Facebook which left many people have doubts about the young entrepreneur zuckerberg honesty. There is absolutely no doubt that Facebook or the social media influences our behavior in many different aspects, one of the important aspects I’m going to talk about is our buying behavior and how it can be affected by the social media. Social media creates an idealized image or flawless environments. Have ever checked pictures for your friends where they were attending some kind of event and they look like they are having a really good time, and immediately or unconsciously you make a decision to go there and live the experience and attend that event! But when you actually go, you were surprised that event was very disappointing and there is nothing except punch of people who were taking these pictures. This is an example on how social media influences our buying behavior, because when you decided to go buy a ticket and attend the event your decision was based on idealized fake images posted...
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...“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” “Literacy is a way to know others” As time pass, many people has many ways to describe literacy. Many of us like it and many of us don’t. Many of us think it is corruptive and many think it’s honorable, but my opinion of would be literacy is totally different than others. I think of literacy as a source, what teaches us to learn how to live and go on. I think this way because when I was very little, I got bullied. I cry every day after I came from school. Then my life responded in the way of Forrest Gump’s quote about, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” One day I took a bite in a type of chocolate that just changed my life and bought a light. I discovered how to read. After that day, the only best friend of mine was booked. I learn to do everything from a book, it taught how to go on also, who to go with? It taught me many things. It taught me the meaning of my life and the power I have, whom I hate and whom I really trust in this big world of unknown. These books really change the view of the world from my distinct. Though the real book to affect my life and change my point of view of the world was wonder and art book. Wonder was one of the first books I ever read. It was about a little boy who had deformed face. No one would play with him because of his deformed face. He was homeschooled, because...
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...inventors. Two influential civil rights activists that come to mind are Maya Angelo and Jesse Jackson. These two helped in the fight for equal rights, but they also were much more than that. They lived completely different lifestyles and accomplished many different tasks within their lives. Jesse Burns, also known as Jesse Jackson, was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina (Dyson, 2006). His father always noted him as being a gifted child. Jesse’s father recalls Jesse saying that one day he would be a preacher and lead his congregation through the water. Once Jesse Jackson graduated high school in 1959, he attended college. He was enrolled at North Carolina A&T where he excelled in his football career. This was also the time in his life where he decided to begin his activist career (Dyson, 2006). He was a part of a sit-in movement to help integrate Greensboro’s pubic facilities (Dyson, 2006). By 1964, Jesse had received his Bachelor of Science degree in sociology. Throughout his life, Jesse Jackson had a very influential role in regards to the African American community. He once walked, and was also the youngest, beside Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King also appointed Jesse as head of the SCLC Operation Breadbasket. After the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, Jesse Jackson decided to leave the SCLC and founded Operation PUSH. Jesse Jackson strived for the equality of blacks in our...
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...James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens September 12, 1913 March 31, 1980 he was a American track and field athlete and four time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 games.He achieved three world records. Owens specialized in the sprints,long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history. Owens won international fame with four gold medals. . Jesse Owens was the youngest of ten children, three girls and seven boys, born to Henry Cleveland Owens. Jesse Owens greatest achievement was in a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935, during the Big Ten meet. Owens ran a dry cleaning business and worked as a gas station attendant to earn a living. Jesse Owens...
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...Everyone enjoys a roaring crowd and everyone cheering them on and wanting them to well just so they can say they were there when they saw that person make history, and Jesse Owens had it all. Jesse Owens was one of the best track and field athletes to ever live. He played a large real in the cold war between the United States and Germany before World War II. Jesse Owens had a very outstanding track and field career way back from when he was a kid in high school all the way up to when he was competing in the 1936 Olympic Games. James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913 (Turini). His family was a poor sharecropping family from Oakville, Alabama (Turini). Owens parents were named Henry and Emma Owens. His father was a son to former slaves and grew up in the same town as Jesse had. Henry spent most of his life afraid of...
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