named Artkin and Miro who hold a bus load of children hostage on a bridge for two days. The bus driver‚Karen‚ tries to take control but has a hard time. Cormier brings suspense to the realistic story and engages the reader with his mastermind characters. Cormier’s plot holds a lot of suspense. The main characters‚ Artkin and Miro drug the kids twice a day so they won’t be alert to what is going on during the two days they are held as hostages. Karen‚ the driver‚ (who is very scared of danger)‚
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threats are wars with neighboring countries‚ missile attacks on cites‚ biological and chemical terrorism‚ suicide bombings‚ and hostage taking. In an April 1999 survey the most feared terrorism was bombings on US soil. (Cole‚ 1) There are many ways to combat terrorism. First‚ would be an international team that is always on call to respond to terrorist threats‚ and retrieve hostages with minimal loss of life. The second is gun control‚ which would limit the weapons accessed by potential terrorists. The
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their safe return home. If the government refuses to pay or the ransom is not paid in the given amount of time‚ the terrorists record the brutal execution of the captives‚ usually beheadings‚ and sometimes stream it online for everyone to see. These hostage situations cause a tremendous
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My fellow friends‚ Being a hostage is not a good experience for a young kids. But unfortunately‚ I happen to witness one of my younger sister’s classmate being kidnapped and it was terrifying. His name is Amri and he is ten years old. He was the victim of a kidnapping series and he was still a primary school student. The incident happened on a fine Monday morning. A man who had history of mental illness and was previously a criminal broke into the school compound. Armed with a switchblade‚ he scared
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Avenue and West 45th street near his hotel in New York‚ good PR? Or what? Another is the tourist bus hostage‚ he had made absolutely no effort to take an active interest in the case‚ never mind that it was a high profile hostage-taking scenario involving foreigners. From that alone‚ Noynoy should have dropped everything else in order to ensure that this incident would end up resolved with all hostages surviving. See? There are so many to discuss instead of setting
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are wealthy businessmen‚ more recently‚ the average tourist has become a target for kidnappers looking for monetary and material gain. In recent years‚ kidnappers have also become more organized and are demanding more money for the safe return of hostages. Why has international kidnapping been on the increase? The simple answer is because it has become an extremely profitable form of business transaction for the kidnappers. This paper analyzes and scrutinizes international kidnapping as a thriving
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In this paper I will answer several questions in regards to the following scenario. You are a police psychologist for a major metropolitan area. You are also a member of its hostage negotiation team. You have just been called out to a crisis incident at 3:15 p.m. on a Friday. It is a residential area about three blocks from a middle school and a public library. The information you have at this time is that the subject is a 42-year-old male who is holed up in his house with his wife‚ son‚ and family
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In the first 6 months of being in operation they are called on three times which is a lot for this type of thing. The first incident happens in a Swiss bank where terrorists have taken control. They also have hostages. Team 2 successfully takes them out‚ with only one hostage killed‚ but he
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Hamilton‚ Ontario- On October 15‚ 2020‚ at around 7:10 AM ‚ a group of fifteen armed Australian men pulled the emergency brake on an E-Z Express freight train in Toronto‚ and planted a bomb in the front engine. The hijackers held 50 male employees hostage onboard the train for 10 days. The reason for this unforeseen hijacking is due to the five million dollars of gold bars onboard. The train that was on route to Hamilton‚ Ontario was headed for Hamilton Harbour. The harbour is known for
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very good argument about his idea of the things that are wrong. I agree with his argument that four of the things that we should look to in whatever being we worship are “(1) genocide‚ politically induced famine‚ and germ warfare; (2) terrorism‚ hostage taking‚ and child warriors; (3) slavery‚ polygamy‚ and incest; and (4) rape and female genital cutting.” (Goodman‚ Project Muse‚ pg 88) When Goodman talks about genocide‚ famine‚ and germ warfare‚ he said that “All living things make claims to
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