On Sunday‚ none of the boys was faster than the girl. Danica Patrick became the first woman to win the pole position for the Daytona 500‚ considered the Super Bowl of NASCAR‚ posting a lap of 196.434 mph Sunday. In doing so‚ she also became the first woman to win a pole at any NASCAR top-division race‚ racking up another milestone in her barrier-breaking career. "I’ve heard stories about a kid‚ a boy or a girl‚ saying‚ ’But mommy‚ daddy. That’s a girl that’s out there racing.’ And then they can
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed on November 22‚ 1963 .One article of his death wrote‚ "The day the country cried". Unlike previous presidents killed‚ the JFK assassination is one that is filled the conspiracy theories. Such theories include a Government cover-up‚ Mafia influence and Cuban President Fidel Castro. I believe that it was the mafia and Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald‚ plotting to kill President Kennedy is too simple.Since he had no communication with the outside world but someone
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Conflict theory sees social life as a competition‚ and focuses on the distribution of resources‚ power‚ and inequality. Unlike functionalist theory‚ conflict theory is better at explaining social change‚ and weaker at explaining social stability. Conflict theory has been critiqued for its inability to explain social stability and incremental change. Conflict theory derives from the ideas of Karl Marx. TERMS conflict theory A social science perspective that holds that stratification is dysfunctional
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Essay: Bowling for Columbine & Touching the Void Introduction In the following essay I will compare two documentary films‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ Directed and written by Michael Moore‚ and Touching the Void‚ Directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from the book of the same name‚ focusing on documentary elements such as dramatic development‚ structure and subjective and objective aspects. I will also highlight and detail their presentational techniques. Bowling for Columbine A multi-award winning
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Honor killing is when the men of the household kill another family member (mainly women of the house) in the name of honor. The father of the house is generally involved. Normally when a woman has been a victim of honor killing she has been accused of committing an act that would bring dishonor on the family: refusing to marry‚ a victim of rape or sexual assault‚ asking for a divorce‚ traveling without consent of a husband or father. Men can be victims of honor killing as well. Sometimes the young
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that are killed because of gun crimes each year. In Germany that number is 381‚ while in Australia it’s 65. We’re given this information in the documentary‚ Bowling for Columbine (2002) that was written and directed by Michael Moore. The documentary discusses gun crime in America with the main focus on what happened in Columbine when two boys named Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold brought guns to school and killed 12 students and one teacher. A lot of people think that these two boys did this because
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Abstract “Honor Killings” are thought to be a justified way of cleansing an individual or family’s honor‚ by many Arab Muslims and radical followers of Islam through the murder of women. In Arab culture‚ where honor is prized and female sexual purity exalted‚ a family can be cast out if a female member brings shame upon them. “Honor Killings‚ were once thought to only happen in Middle Eastern countries such as Yemen‚ Pakistan and Iraq‚ however there is an increased number of “honor killings” being reported
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United States claims that these are “targeted killings” and that they ensure the well-being of our nation. Today‚ I will persuade you that these claims are generally false and often result in a poorer state of security by improperly using the term targeted killing‚ damaging the international image of the United States‚ and creating major legality issues behind the killings. Defining Targeted Killing It is important to understand how targeted killing is defined and used in the United States before
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In this essay‚ the human nature of physically killing its own specie and however it’s morally right to do so‚ and if so; when‚ will be analyzed in different contexts. It’s however important to show consideration and understanding to the fact that it’s also in the humans nature to not kill its own specie. Before discussing the subject itself‚ it’s important to define certain terms that will either appear or have an important purpose to the subject of the essay. Morality‚ the most common definition
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One Bad Day: A Rhetorical Analysis of The Killing Joke The Joker was once seen as a comical criminal who committed ridiculously silly crimes‚ such as spreading laughing gas throughout Gotham City. However‚ after the reinvention of Batman‚ The Joker was transformed into a grave and terrorizing character. Continuing the course of the new personality given to The Joker‚ writer Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland created a graphic novel called The Killing Joke‚ “a much more complex‚ darker‚ and ultimately
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