A woman gets off her shift of work at midnight. She is walking out to her car in a parking lot with no street lamps on a dark, overcast night. She finds her car only by pressing the unlock button on her key fob, lighting her headlights. She approaches her car and opens the passenger door as an assailant emerges from the dark. As she lays her purse on the passenger seat, he latches onto her arm. The woman has no form of defense and any chance to break free and flee has been forfeited. The
Title of the article: The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers Summary: Nagaland of India contains one of the world’s hottest chilies – the Naga King Chili (Bhut Jolokia). The author of the article, Mary Roach, arrived to Nagaland to experience the Hornbill Festival, in particular, to watch the Naga King Chili-Eating Competition. She aimed to find out and understand the pleasure and pain the Capsicum genus brings to the people who consume it. The Naga King Chili Pepper varies
The Goal- In life we all have goals, whether those be short term or long term goals. We set goals because we as humans like to feel accomplished. There are many more reason for setting goals, one more reason is to show how hard your work ethic is. For this project I had a lot of goals. Some I know I will achieve and some I know I won’t. Even some of these goals they won’t come out like how I pictured it in my head. Some of my early on goals were to create a paper mache animal and paint it. This
“The US department of defense defines a non-lethal weapon as a discriminate weapon that is explicitly designed and used so as to incapacitate personal or material while minimizing fatalities and undesired damage to property and environment.” (Nick Lewer) In the 21st century, we have various effective non-lethal weapons to combat and subdue riots. In order to protect rioters from their self’s and others, the police will commonly us incapacitating chemicals, flash bangs, or kinetic impact munitions
I was born into the most normal, wonderful family a kid could ask for. My moms cared for me, loved me, and gave me all the support I needed. However, some people say that that how you were raised changes how you turn out. If that were true, I would be perfectly normal. The first time I knew I wasn’t like the others in my family was at my seventh birthday party. Everyone in my first grade class was invited. Looking at one particular boy there, my heart fluttered. Excited, my legs swung back and
with a picture of individual objects, spray paint can, a box and hot glue gun. Then the teacher changed the slide, on the left side of the slide there are objects hot glued to a box in an artistic way. On the right side of the slide, you can see the box with the objects has been spray painted. The teacher then says “today we will be unifying all of the objects with spray painting”. After making the remark “we will be unifying all of the objects with spray painting” the teacher asked the students
When used in self-defense, pepper spray causes an attacker to experience temporary blindness due to swelling and burning pain in the eyes (Melnick 2). When inhaled, pepper spray causes an attacker’s airways to become restricted making breathing difficult (Melnick 2). Stun guns, which typically are the size of a small handgun, are devices that expel electrical
Why would a professional make a move if it could affect his standing? Police brutality is a lawful act. This problem had been dominant in the news this past few months. Most of the people around the globe wanted police brutality to be dimished because this causes the victims in big trouble and severe problems. Police Brutality is prevalent not only this year or the past few years. It started decades ago. Police Brutality is the wanton use of excessive and unjustified force it could be physically
Law enforcement agencies have not placed strict protocols on the use of stun guns. For example, there are no limitations on whom and when the device can be used. There have been cases were elderly people and also significantly under aged people have been tased by a stun gun. This is problematic because situations that involve elderly people being tased will more than likely turn out wrong and that goes for under aged people as well. The electric current that stun gun probes deliver to the body temporarily
techniques. Due to this perilous chasm, there have been significant advancements in the defense/restraint alternatives available to law enforcement officers (LEO). These defense/restraint alternatives are items such as oleoresin capsicum (OC or pepper) spray, conductive energy devices (CEDs or Tasers), expandable batons, and trained police canines. These alternatives have been credited by some to have reduced police shootings, use of force incidents, injuries to LEOs and civilians/suspects in events including