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Japan's rising murder trend, a foreigner's analysis

Murder in Japan is a bloody subject, excuse the pun. Various methods are used when someone wants to kill another individual and the rising trend is that, murder is becoming more common in Japan. Brothers killing sisters, sons killing fathers, wives killing husbands, stalkers killing young girls, sailors killing taxi drivers, Otaku-haters killing anyone they can, the list goes on and on. And why do these particular examples stick out in ones mind? Because those types of killings seem to be happen

2 comments    tokyo taxi driver death sentence
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"The importance of news" lesson plan

Theme: The Importance of Current Event Awareness Objectives: Students will be exposed to newspapers in order to increase their awareness and interest of news and current events. ...

4 comments    education news school
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Don,t move to California !

I was watchin the news tonight with my usual skeptical eye ! And the Govenator Arnold was dicussing the state budget or should I say the lack thereof . Our state budget deficit has now officially ballooned...

35 comments    entertainment finance politics
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Giving The Finger to North Korea

Recently (April 5, 2009) North Korea again attempted to flex its military muscle launching a long range missile. The test failed causing some embarassment for the crowd running the show in Pyongyang, North...

4 comments    politics history united states
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Is Media News Unbiased?

Well this is a massively loaded question. No one would respond to this question with a 'yes' because those people would consider this an irrelevant question. So I'll go ahead and take a shot at wooing you...

0 comments    entertainment life technology
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To Iniquity, and Beyond: News from a lunatic-infested dirt clod

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism and satire the most potent form of dissent. Hailed as The InSultan of Satire and The Definitive Voice of the Apocalypse. Thirty-seven Tim Hollis fans can't be wrong....

22 comments    internet politics humor
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The Year Was 1969

1969.…a year that I wasn’t born into, but I wish I was. It was a new rebellion that year, and one of my favorite years. That is when the hippies spoke up for what they believe in by riots, celebrations,...

0 comments    entertainment politics history
We need to give the terrorist time outs and take away their TV privileges . That will show em !!!61

Meet new public enemy number one !

We need to give the terrorist time outs and take away their TV privileges . That will show em !!!               In the wake of Ted Kennedy dying I hope people are not taking their eye off the...

56 comments    politics news barack obama
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Ten Books to Change Your Life

From an avid reader comes ten books you absolutely cannot miss. A little something for everybody.

19 comments    love advice life
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Americans - A Patchwork of the World

Ask any American what his nationality is, and nine out of ten, he won’t say “American.” Instead he’ll say something like, “I’m half French and half Polish with a little German thrown in” There...

66 comments    life family relationships
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