For the past 56 years the Church of Scientology has blazed a path of headlines and mystery across the globe. Once existing only as the idea held by a single man, the Church has grown into a multinational, highly organized institution in record time. There is little doubt...
Jessie Lunderby's nude Playboy photographs may cost her a job. The Arkansas Sheriff's Office is outraged that twenty one year old employee Jessie Lunderby stripped for a series of provocative nude pictures for Playboy. Officials in the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Fayetteville,...
Before everyone had a cell phone and the capacity to record video on the fly, a police beat down was, by sheer chance, caught on tape in Los Angeles on March 3, 1991. Public fury about racism and police brutality erupted when a portion of the video showing several LAPD officers Tasering, kicking,...
The next time the credits of a movie rolls, sit and wait to give due attention and recognition to one of the most important “stars” of the show—the key grip. The key grip is responsible for a lot of the movie’s legwork. He is the supervisor of the team that handles moving the lights, dolly tracks,...
Completing a Bachelor's degree in psychology won't qualify a student to become a practicing psychologist, but it can be used as a stepping stone to further study or the basis for a career in a number of fields. Students who are drawn to this program have a basic curiosity about humans and "what...
A teacher was fired for her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Jarretta Hamilton, a former 4th grade teacher at the Southland Christian School located in St. Cloud, Florida, was terminated from her job because she conceived her now 8 month old daughter, Sarah, just three weeks before her February 20,...
A bank teller is an employee of the bank who deals with customers face to face. Bank tellers are the people who you interact with when you go to the bank to deposit or withdraw money, among other things. Sometimes, they are also called cashiers. In order to become a bank teller, the requirements...
A woman was wrongly fired for being too hot for Citibank. Debrahlee Lorenzana, formerly employed by Citibank in the Chrysler building in NYC, recently filed a suit against Citibank. Court documents reveal Citibank fired Lorenzana "for being too hot." Lorenzana reported the details to Village...
The issue of copycat crime is a fascinating one that raises deep questions in the fields of psychology, philosophy, criminology and jurisprudence. Are filmmakers – if not legally, at least morally – responsible for their creations that motivate people to commit crime?
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from an offshore platform explosion on April 20, 2010 is worse than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The Gulf of Mexico faces 210,000 gallons of crude oil furiously pouring out of the Deepwater Horizon site which claimed the lives of 11 workers. The only...
