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- 5161: Serial Killers in the U.S
- ... put a stop to a wave of skyjacking during 1968-72 by inter-viewing every known skyjacker in captivity. He designed techniques to psychologically take them apart and shut down their fantasies of power and control. Hubbard then assisted the airlines with a training program that helped the airlines by enabling pilots and flight attendants to abort 42 consecutive skyjackings and put a stop to the fad. The skyjacking rate fell ...
- 5162: Corporal Punishment Is Physical Abuse
- ... become social, productive and responsible adults. Punishment is a method of disciplining and corporal punishment is only one aspect of punishment. Parents and teachers who lower themselves to physical violence and aggression in order to control children are setting an example that children may try to follow (Bandura, 1967). This is the hypocrisy of Do what I say, not what I do, but the actions are often louder than the words ...
- 5163: The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?
- ... Age: 21 For Everyone? In the United States, the legal drinking age for all 50 States and the District of Columbia is 21 years of age. The drinking age is 21 because the powers that control our government decided that when one becomes 21, one is magically transformed into a responsible person capable of handling the burden that comes with the right to consume alcohol. The drinking age is too high ...
- 5164: Slobodan Milosevic
- ... elections! Milosevic , whose ideology spawned such mass murderers as Radovan Karadzic and General Mladic in Bosnia, had deprived Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989. He maintained his power by his repression of political opponents, his control over the media, and the opportunistic alliances he formed with parties across the political spectrum. Milosevic enjoys a tightly controlled media that for years have been a mouthpiece for his regime; even well-meaning Serbs ...
- 5165: Socrates
- ... was a rather simple and apathetic one. He thought that no matter what kind of government subsists; it should be followed solely because a form of law and order must exist in a society to control it. One of the tyrannys leaders was a former pupil of Socrates and hated his teacher. He tried to make life harder for Socrates by banning the teaching of philosophy in the streets. Socrates ...
- 5166: Socrates
- ... agreed with Anaxagoras, but wanted more answers and explanations. He listened to many other scientists and philosophers, but when Anaxagoras book came out in writing, he read about the "Mind" and that it was the control of all living things, everything else was a "mixture". Socrates read on to many other writings, but soon found himself confused in all the abstract concepts. Then, he understood that he had to ask himself ...
- 5167: Ted Bundy
- ... to break in her car. Bundy escorted her into his VW Bug, took her to a remote area which, he stopped the vehicle (Larsen.) He put handcuffs on her and he threatened her with a gun, she managed to get away and escape with some people passing by in a car. Police found blood on the victim's coat, which matched Bundy's blood type. Later that same night the police ...
- 5168: Young Offenders
- ... offenses he would have got charged with first degree murder. Two teen got arrested and charged when they tried to hijack a bus. A pair of grade 10 students armed with a knife and a gun tried to hijack a school bus from Osoyoos, B.C, to Ontario. A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old face kidnapping and weapons charges . This is another typical example of what youth are ...
- 5169: Thomas Edison
- ... to be to keep the burner, or the bulb, from being consumed by preventing it from overheating. Edison thought he would be able to solve this by coming up with a microtasimeter-like device to control the current. He proclaimed that he would invent a safe, mild, and inexpensive electric light that would replace the gaslight. Inventors had been attempting to devise the incandescent light bulb for fifty years, but Edison ...
- 5170: Methods of Execution
- ... heart with a stethescope and pins a circular white target over it. Twenty feet away, on the other side of a canvas wall, are five men with .30- caliber rifles. Each man aims through a gun portal located in the center of the canvas and fire simultaneously. A prisoner dies as a result of blood loss caused by rupture of the heart or a large blood vessel, or tearing of the ...
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