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    Brooklyn Cop

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    Brooklyn Cop The poem Brooklyn Cop was written by Norman MacCaig. This poem stereotypically represents all Brooklyn Cops and convey what they go through on a typical shift. MacCaig uses realistic characterisation‚ imagery and attack on the senses. violent setting to enguage with the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy MacCaig uses a shocking description to introduce the cop‚ through a simile. The relevance of “ built like a gorilla” is that he is conveying to the reader how

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    Philosophy‚ what role does it play in one’s life‚ what are people ready to sacrifice for it.In Anthem‚ there is an ongoing battle between two major philosophies‚ Individualism and Collectivism. The novella shows the key aspects of these two philosophies‚ but has a strong bias towards individualism. This due to the fact that the structure of novella is based on these two philosophies. When someone’s philosophy changes‚ that also means that his perspective on the world also changes. Philosophy and

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    Cop in the Hood

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    Setareh Salehi Cop in the Hood Peter Moskos‘‚ Cop in The Hood‚ is the story of a sociologist going native by going through the Baltimore police academy‚ becoming a cop and working for over a year. The book follows Moskos chronological journey‚ from the academy to the street and the last part of the book is dedicated to a pretty thorough analysis of the War on Drugs. The first interesting observation from Moskos’s work is his analysis of the police academy as relatively useless for the job:

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    Suicide by Cop

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    Suicide by Cop In this type of suicide‚ a person intentionally engages in life-threatening behavior to induce a police officer to shoot that person. His/her goal is to provoke the law enforcement officer to a lethal response. This is distinguished from other police shootings by three elements: the person should show an intention to die‚ the person understands the finality of the act‚ confronts law-enforcement official with such extreme behavior that the officer is compelled to act with deadly

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    On Sunday‚ February 7th‚ 2015‚ the cruise ship Anthem of the Sea‚ owned by Royal Caribbean cruise liners‚ sailed straight into the path of a storm. Not just any storm‚ but one that had hurricane force winds blowing at close to 120 miles per hour‚ and gigantic ocean swells of up to 80 feet. Nevertheless‚ Anthem of the Sea persisted into the storm. As history shows‚ fortunately‚ no one sustained any severe injuries‚ and the ship made it back to port safely. However‚ the question had to be posed: why

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    Anthem Quote Analysis

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    brothers.” How does this quotes exemplify a theme of Anthem.” “Anthem” by Ayn Rand is about Equality 7-2125 in a society with all of his brother. In this society they live for their brothers and nobody else Equality is not like his brothers‚ he likes to have options and he likes preference but in his society that is a sin. When Equality 7-2125 experiments with light will he stay or will his brothers hold him back. This quote exemplifies anthem because he it was all about his brothers but now he

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    Prometheus Anthem Analysis

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    An Anthem to the Ego The entire essence of the novella Anthem is the build up to a song of praise to the ego voiced by its main character‚ Prometheus. This anthem he sings settles the growth of anticipation of Prometheus expressing his individuality and his ego‚ fueled by him committing the Transgression of Preference repeatedly throughout the text. The importance of this proclamation is obvious as it is substantially amplified by reason of Prometheus uncovering the unspeakable word “I” coming from

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    Jimmy Valentine‚ an awfully arrogant‚ but charismatic‚ criminal‚ was featured in O. Henry’s short story “A Retrieved Reformation”. During the late 1800s‚ Elmore‚ Arkansas became an area with many mysterious happenings. Following a brief‚ ten month period of imprisonment‚ the evasive fugitive‚ Jimmy Valentine‚ was released. Moments after his release‚ the anti-hero immediately returned home to attain a suitcase possessing his own novelties of safe-cracking tools. A week after receiving the pardon slip

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    Cyber Cop

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    Cyber Cop Child Pornography is illegal throughout the entire world. There are many perverts that have Internet access and will specifically search for pictures and/or videos of under age children because it will satisfy their sexual needs. Many may actually think that it is okay to talk to other perverts and exchange files over the Internet. They will also try and talk to the young children in chat rooms and ask them for pictures and to meet up to physically see each other. The adult users would

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    Mall Cop 2 Analysis

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    Often‚ movie studios push sequels after the success of their predecessor even when there’s clearly no need for it. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 quickly comes to mind as a production that served absolutely no purpose whatsoever – other than to make a sad attempt by a studio to cash in on said past earnings. With that‚ we come to Seth MacFarlane’s charming brainchild‚ Ted – which introduced the world to a vulgar-speaking teddy bear and his best friend‚ Johnny. On paper‚ the idea was sound‚ and managed

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