IV. Why does the Resistance Choose to be Violent? The reason why the resistance tend to use violence as a method of protest is fairly straightforward. It is simply because violent protests and activists normally catch more attention by the mainstream media‚ which generates more mediation opportunity to the resistance. Political violence from a mediation perspective is an extreme speech act anxiously seeking for visibility (Cammaerts‚ 2012: 123). It is arguably to be said that mainstream media endorse
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1.0 Introduction The word "spoof" means to hoax‚ trick‚ or deceive. Therefore‚ in the IT world‚ spoofing refers tricking or deceiving computer systems or other computer users. This is typically done by hiding one’s identity or faking the identity of another user on the Internet. Spoofing can take place on the Internet in several different ways. One common method is through e-mail. E-mail spoofing involves sending messages from a bogus e-mail address or faking the e-mail address of another user
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lives of several protagonists whose lives come into contact during the course of two days in modern day Los Angeles. The ensemble cast is made up of seasoned artists whose collective performance provides a spectacular experience for the viewer. The hijacking of a district attorney’s car by two male African Americans car sets off a series of events that culminate in several ethnicities “crashing” into each other with intense consequences. Theoretical Perspectives The volatile interaction between different
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manhunt ever taken in the history of mankind. But not everyone celebrated Bin Laden’s death. Not everyone saw him as a terrorist‚ in fact‚ some thought of him as a hero. Although Bin Laden may be regarded as a hero‚ but by killing innocent civilians‚ hijacking the noble religion and culture of Islam‚ and pushing the Al-Qaeda’s mentally challenged individuals as suicide bombers he has to be considered as a true terrorist. The debate about Bin Laden is a big and a very controversial one. Some
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A timeline of death penalty in the Philippines THE imposition of the death penalty in the country has had a repressive history. For the most part (from 1848 to 1987)‚ it was used to curtail the liberties‚ freedoms and rights of the Filipino people. In recent history‚ however‚ the death penalty was reimposed as a knee-jerk response to what has largely been seen as rising criminality in the country. The following‚ with help from the Mamamayang Tutol sa Bitay-Movement for Restorative Justice‚ traces
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Robert Smith Juvenile Justice First Research Paper The automatic transfer provisions were originally started as a way to become more firm with juveniles to stop in order to lower crimes and hopefully keep them from becoming criminals in the future. It has been very effective in putting juveniles in jail‚ but many argues that it is not doing what the makers of automatic transfer intended it to do. Although automatic transfer is back by many politicians‚ many of the people who oppose it are
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defined as a response people have to traumatic events in life and can arise as an immediate‚ delayed and/or protracted response (Seedat‚ 2011). These events can be natural disasters‚ such as a tsunami or earthquake‚ or it can be ‘human-made’ like a hijacking or an assault‚ and even things like apartheid and xenophobia (Austin‚ et. al. ‚ 2011:111) (Seedat‚ 2011). PTSD can lead to a person feeling helpless and having an intense fear (Austin‚ et. al. ‚ 2011:111). To diagnose a person with PTSD‚ three
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Tom McCarthy’s Remainder is a piece of metafiction that helps to “map the paradoxical remainder of the genre after everything novelistic has been subtracted from it”. It centres around a nameless narrator who‚ in the aftermath of an undisclosed accident‚ finds himself coming into eight and a half million pounds in compensation and uses said money to fund actors to replicate scenarios in order to find true authenticity. Marco Roth claims that the neuronovel “allegoris[es]the novelist’s fear of his
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government policies must be taken into account to explain the emergence of terrorism (Smith 57). Acts of terrorism are preformed in many different ways. Some acts that create terror are: bombings‚ assassinations‚ kidnapping‚ hostage taking‚ and hijacking. Often terrorists act to instill fear in a group of people through the terror put upon the victims of the attack. The victims of terrorism are often chosen because they symbolize larger groups. The fear is meant to be instilled into a large audience
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Groupthink and 9/11 Group decision making can be very helpful in getting different thoughts and opinions out of discussion‚ but also can be dangerous because of groupthink. Groupthink occurs when people avoid individually testing‚ analyzing‚ and evaluating facts in order to avoid upsetting the consensus of a group. In effect a conflict occurs whereby some topics are okay to discuss while others are closed often without the group being consciously aware of it. Those who violate the unspoken
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