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Chief Charles Moose with additional help from other government services such as the FBI. The identities of these two men were discovered due to clues that were purposely left behind by the perpetrators. Their names were John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. During this time in history, these two names were known to strike fear in people’s hearts and make people think twice about going outside and continuing their regular day-to-day activities. In the end, both of Malvo and Muhammad were charged

In the article “Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production,” author Danah Boyd writes about how educators are against using Wikipedia as a quality source. She goes into detail about how most students are told to stay clear of the site at all cost because their teachers think it is misleading and inaccurate. On the contrary, Boyd mentions that analysis have shown Wikipedia’s content as creditable as, if not more reliable than, traditional resources. She also writes about some of the sites features

The Beltway Sniper Press Releases Beginning in October of 2002, the Nation is gripped in fear as people are randomly shot by a sniper or snipers in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. The shootings occurred in mall parking lots, near schools and gas stations, no one felt safe. People were staying indoors, walking in zig-zag patterns outdoors and filling their gas tanks from inside their vehicles. Two men, who are later identified as John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo , drove around in a 1990

How proud we must all be to live in an era of unbiased judgment and true equality amongst all. In a time so prosperous and friendly as now, it's all we can do to not scoff at decades past for all the bigotry and prejudice existing back in those days of such ancient history. To think of a time when ethnic groups were discriminated against, or poorly represented would mean to be thinking of years before the mid/late 1900s, before the struggle for fair judgment was fought for and won. Or has equality

On November 5, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Devin Patrick Kelley shot at the church. The shooting killed at least 26 people, with many more wounded. Kelley fired from the outside and hit two people. He then travelled around to the side and entered, still shooting. He was wearing black tactical gear, a ballistic vest and extra rounds of ammunition. The shooter was armed with a rifle. As he left the church, an armed neighbor returned fire. Consequently, Kelley was hit, causing

A reporter and cameraman of WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Va., were shot and killed Wednesday during a live broadcast of the morning news. Vester Lee Flanagan II fired 17 shots from point-blank range to kill Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, and injuring another woman before taking his own life later that day. After fleeing the scene, Flanagan left no evidence of where he was planning on going or what he would do next. After five hours of searching, Virginia police caught up to his car, and Flanagan shot

On December 24th, 2007 Joseph McEnroe and Michele Kristen, both 29, murdered six people with a .357 caliber magnum handgun. They shot and killed her parents, brother and his wife and their two children. The motive is believed to be money, her parents had requested they start paying rent on the trailer home they were living in (Green, 2014). When Joseph pulled the trigger of the .357 caliber magnum handgun he had set off a chain reaction. When he pulled the trigger it caused the firing pin to

Evelyn Boyd Granville was one of the first African Americans to be a Mathematician. She was well educated by schools that helped her become a teacher (Professor) and has a background of her family whom also helped. Evelyn was born on May 1, 1924 in Washington, DC. Her father, William Boyd, had many jobs to help support her family. Her mother, Julia Boyd, was a secretary and also support her family. When she was just five years old, she and her family lived through the Great Depression which caused

Polarization of the People Although some might argue the internet helps us better understand the world around us, Charles Seife and Danah Boyd and , I think that the internet has narrowed people’s opinions and has divided/polarized us. In their works “The Loneliness of the interconnected” and “inequality” Seife and Boyd explain the problem with the media and how it has changed people drastically. Technology is actually really good, it has advanced so far over the past twenty years and we are able

Foreknowledge, Molinism, and Calvinism. These four views are explained throughout the book “Divine Foreknowledge” written by Gregory A. Boyd- Open Theism, David Hunt- Simple Foreknowledge, William Lane Craig- Molinism, and Paul Helm- Calvinism. One of the most popular views is Open Theism. This view holds that “Reality… is composed of both settled and open aspects.”(Boyd 14) What Boyd means by this is that God’s knowledge of what will happen, his foreknowledge, does not necessarily extend to knowledge of everything