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    The Story This fictional story is a narration of an event that transpired during the fabled Democratic Republican National Convention event taking place in Miami‚ Florida. At 5:50 PM on Wednesday afternoon‚ a patrol officer for the City of Miami Police responded to a missing child report at the Intercontinental Hotel in Downton Miami. The officer met with DRNC delegates James‚ Camilla Jones and their two daughters; 16 year old Samantha and 13 year old Priscilla in the hotel lobby. The family has

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    and gave in the quote “...and the slender-ankled daughter whom Adoneus abducted‚ but loud-thundering‚ far-seeing Zeus gave.” These three words placed together reflect the rape‚ death and marriage that are seen throughout the poem. Rape being the abduction‚ Adoneus being god of the underworld representing death‚ and gave suggesting the practice of an arranged marriage. Since Persephone cannot die as an immortal‚ Hades represents death through the inaccessibility of the underworld‚ which separates

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    and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh‚ Jr. Charles Lindbergh Jr. was a twenty month old child who was abducted from his family’s home at night‚ while his family was in the home. The police found evidence that a ladder had been utilized in the abduction of the child‚ who was located in his nursery on the second floor of the home. Mud and footprints were found on the nursery floor beneath the window sill‚ but they were not defined‚ and subsequently the investigators could not quantify them. There

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    Fred Willard Professor Charbonneau February 24‚ 2013 Missing Child It began on April 19‚ 2002 at 12:26 pm‚ when Sabrina Allen was abducted by her biological mother‚ Dara Marie Llorens. Sabrina was three years old at the time of the disappearance and is now 15 years old. Some personal descriptions of Sabrina is that she was born on May 30‚ 1997‚ she was blonde hair‚ blue eyes‚ and was 3 feet 6 inches‚ 35 lbs. at the time of the disappearance. Sabrina speaks good Spanish with and American accent

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    Abduction and Rape of Persephone (Goddess of the Underworld) Hades wished to have a wife‚ and fell in love with Persephone because of her beauty He abducted and raped her‚ and took her to the Underworld The abduction and her consequent disappearance occurred without many eye witnesses Demeter longed to see her daughter after her disappearance When Demeter knew of Hades’ obligations‚ she found him unsuitable a companion Persephone was tricked into consuming a single pomegranate seed (anyone who

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    style tests. These tests measure the ability to work flexibly with unfamiliar information and find solutions. People who perform well on these tests tend to have a greater capacity to think conceptually as well as analytically. ABDUCTIVE REASONING Abduction is a kind of logical inference described by Charles Sanders Peirce as "guessing". The term refers to the process of arriving at an explanatory hypothesis. Peirce said that to abduce a hypothetical explanation a from an observed surprising circumstance

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    types of joints

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    give us a wider range of movement than a hinge joint. Ball and socket joints‚ like hinge‚ allow flexion and extension but they also allow us to perform movements away from the centre of our body and towards the centre of our body. This is called ABDUCTION and ADDUCTION. The ball and socket joint can also allow us to rotate at the joint. When looking at the basketball jump shot our hips go from a position of flexion to extension. There may also be some rotation of the hips depending on where on court

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    $2‚000 for the boy’s safe return. After the kidnapping‚ police attempted to hold off the news to report nothing on the case. All but The New York Daily News obeyed. By the following day‚ word of the kidnapping leaked almost immediately. News reporters circled the drop off area where the kidnapper demanded the money be left. The police left a false ransom package at the spot but the kidnapper did not show up. On July 10‚ six days after the kidnapping‚ the kidnapper called the Weinberger home with

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    technique used is to lure victims in with a promise of a better life for themselves. These criminals even go as far as to stage themselves as travel agencies to persuade the victim. If lying does not work for them‚ then they revert back to force‚ abduction and bluntly threatening victims along with their loved ones. Generally‚ countries that have a bad economy are among the higher percentages for recruitment and sex trafficking. For example‚ seventeen criminals in Ohio and Pennsylvania back in 2012

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    objective is to discuss the theory of Rational Choice Deterrence with brief insights into classical theory and discover the fundamental association within the offence of kidnapping. Kidnapping involves the theft of an individual with the desire of a cash settlement for their survival or‚ a ransom. Over the centuries the term kidnapping has had association to the idea of the theft of a child. Conversely‚ it has been stated that the term “kid” was

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