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Assignment 2: Narrative-Imaginative-Descriptive

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Hacking Case Anonymous Reportage

One night two hackers decided to hack a banks bill. They were two old good

friends in a small house in New York, who knew a lot about computers. Their dreams of

their whole lives have been to hack a bank and become millionaires. Apparently that

night was a great opportunity to take action.

They had just arrived from a computer-dealers shop downtown, and bought the

two routers they lacked of to complete the hacking operation. Excited by their anxiety

they established their computing room in the living-room, connected all cables in their

places and began working. They entered the banks archives and finally changed somenumbers. With great amusement they both took out some beer and drank all the night.

As the plan followed, one of them was supposed to go personally to the bank and get all

the 5000000 dollars they had put into the account.

At 10:00 a.m., the morning after, Matt, the older guy, owner of the house and the

account, got up and changed clothes while his friend remained asleep with a beer bottle

in his left hand. He loaded a gun just in case and left away towards the Merrill Lynch

New Yorks bank ready to get their money out.

(also paragraphing) Having asked a bank-guard where he could take away great

amounts of money, he headed towards the managers office, knocked at the door, and a

secretary told Matt to wait nearby since the manager Mc Donald was on the phone. 15

minutes of waiting time seemed an hour for the anxious and nervous newly rich robber.

He stared out of the window as a cute girl walked past the street when his cell phone

rang; it was Ben Matt? Where are you? Im at the bank just about to take away our

fortune. Wait, hold on! Ive been trying to enter the banks archives and someone has

apparently changed the password, it seems theyve noticed weve hacked the archives

why dont you wait 5 minutes and let me enter the banks archives again so I check

everything is going on as we planned it. Dont be fool Ben! He ended the

conversation just at the time the manager opened his office door Mr. Matthew

Peterson? Yes sir. Come in please, take a sit so what do you need? I want to take

my money out of my account. All of it? Right now? Yes sir, if I can. Well well,

lets seeThe manager began researching for his account in the computer and said allowed: -

5000000 dollars, well Ill give them to you right now - He went to another room

and after 20 minutes came out again with a black thick suitcase. He opened it and it was

full of 100 dollars notes. Matt saw this suitcase and couldnt believe it. ( ) Manager

said: - do you want to count them by yourself? Matt didnt answer, he felt

uncomfortably nervous, he was all sweat, his anxiousness wouldnt let him breathe, and

finally he suffered a heart attack. Ambulances arrived but it was too late. Matt

Peterson died that morning at the Merrill Lynch bank in an attempt to take 5000000

dollars out from his account.

Ben got this news by the afternoon whenafter calling Matt at his cell phone

repeatedly, got worried and drove to the bank.

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From one joyful moment to another all went wrong. Ben went. that same

afternoon to Matts funeral and returned home crying, feeling as if it was his funeral too.Benjamin remained in his bed thoughtful. The stolen money lied in Matts account.

Matt didnt have a family, nor-parents, nor-cousins, nor-nephews alive. Where will all

that money to? How could he take it away if it wasnt his account?

What happened the following day as I heard was that all those 5000000 dollars

may have been absolved by the state. All was lost, all was gone for Ben Mayer, a poor

21 year old fellow died of a heart attack due to stress and depression. No-one could

prove certainly why Ben got to that extreme of stress, but I wouldnt open my mouth.

The day after his death, a black suitcase arrived to Bens house with a will, Matts

will, in which he stated clearly that his property should be given to Benjamin Mayer

(his best friend) in case he died.

Where did all that money end? Well as I said, I wont open my mouth but whynot tell you that Benjamin had a servant ?

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Assignment 2: Narrative-Imaginative-Descriptive

Hacking - Case Anonymous Reportage

- Hey Tom, how come that you have such a spectacular cara beautiful house

in the seashorewhen two months ago you were nothing more than aservant?

- Its a long story do you wanna hear it?

- Why not?

One night two hackers decided to hack a banks archives. They were two old good

friends in a small house in New York, who knew a lot about computers. Their dreams of

their whole lives had been to hack a bank and become millionaires. Apparently, that

night was a great opportunity to take action.

They had just arrived from a computer-dealers shop downtown, and bought the

two routers they lacked of to complete the hacking operation. Excited by their anxietythey established their computing room in the living-room, connected all cables in their

places and began working. They entered the banks archives and finally changed some

numbers. With great amusement, both of them took out some beer and drank all the

night. As the plan followed, one of them was supposed to go to the bank and get all the

five million dollars they had put into the account.

At 10:00 a.m., the morning after, Matt, the older guy, owner of the house and the

account, got up and dressed up in formal clothes while his friend remained asleep with

a beer bottle in his left hand. He loaded a gun just in case and drove towards the Merrill

Lynch New Yorks bank ready to get their money out.

Having asked a bank-guard where he could take away great amounts of money, he

headed towards the managers office, knocked at the door, and a secretary told Matt towait nearby since the manager Mc Donald was on the phone. Fifteen minutes of waiting

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time seemed an hour for the anxious and nervous newly rich robber. He stared out of the

window as a cute girl walked past the street when his cell phone rang; it was Ben Matt? Where are you? Im at the bank just about to get our fortune. Wait, hold on!

Ive been trying to enter the banks archives and someone has apparently changed the

password, it seems theyve noticed weve hacked the archives why dont you wait

five minutes and let me enter the banks archives again so I check everything is going

on as we planned it. Dont be innocent Ben! He ended the conversation by the time

the manager opened his office door Mr. Matthew Peterson? Yes sir. Come in

please, take a sit so what do you need? I want to take my money out of my account.

All of it? Right now? Yes sir, if I can. Wellwell, lets see

The manager began searching for his account in the computer and said allowed: -

five million dollars, well Ill give them to you right now - He went to another room

and after 20 minutes came out again with a black thick suitcase. He opened it and it wasfull of 100 dollars notes. Matt saw this suitcase and couldnt believe it. Mc Donald

said: - do you want to count them by yourself? Matt didnt answer, he felt

uncomfortably nervous, drops of sweat fell down from his forehead, his anxiousness

wouldnt let him breathe, and finally he suffered a heart attack. Ambulances arrived

but it was too late. Matt Peterson died that morning at the Merrill Lynch bank in an

attempt to take five million dollars out of his account.

Ben got this news by the afternoon when, after calling Matt at his cell phone

repeatedly, got worried and drove to the bank.

From one joyful moment to another all went wrong. Ben went that same afternoon

to Matts funeral and returned home crying, feeling as if it was his funeral too.

Benjamin remained in his bed thoughtful. The stolen money lied in Matts account.Matt didnt have a family, nor-parents, nor-cousins, nor-nephews alive. Where will all

that money end? How could he take it away if it wasnt his account?

What happened the following day as I heard all those five million dollars were

absolved by the state. All was lost; all was gone for Ben Mayer, a poor 21 year old

fellow who died of a heart attack due to stress and depression. No-one could prove

certainly why Ben got to that extreme of stress, but I wont tell anymore.

The day after his death, a black suitcase arrived to Bens house with a will, Matts

will, in which he stated clearly that his property should be given to Benjamin Mayer

(his best friend) in case he died.

Where did all that money end? Well as I said, I wont tell anymore but whynot tell you that Benjamin had a servant in his house?

Gripping story!! Very well written. 34 out of 40 points.

Assignment 3: Reading and writing. Based on the following article:

Web underused in time of crisisTechnology commentator Bill Thompson says the web was a powerful tool - but sorelyunderused - during the airport chaos caused by arrests on Thursday for alleged plotting to

blow up planes.

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This should be coming to you via e-mail from Venice, where the cybercafes havestarted offering wireless connections and you can even log on while sitting at thewaterbus stop.

Instead I'm sitting on my living room floor trying to decide whether the 1900Ryanair flight to Forli I booked myself on Thursday night will actually take off, andlooking at the Trenitalia website trying to decide whether I'll be in Italy in time tocatch the last train to Venice's Santa Lucia station.

Thursday wasn't a good day to try to get off this island of ours.

I woke to the news of the new security procedures and growing chaos, but sincemy Easyjet flight from Gatwick wasn't until that evening I decided to go to theairport anyway, hoping that the system would have settled down a little.

Unfortunately Easyjet cancelled all their flights from Gatwick, Luton and Stanstedand I was left stranded.

After queuing at the British Airways ticket desk I learned that they weren't sellingany tickets at all for flights within the next two days, so it seemed was no chance

of getting on a plane that day.

The information screens were little help,

showing flight times that had long passed, so

I headed to a caf downstairs and paid for aday's wi-fi.

None of the airlines has anything as useful as an RSS feed for flightupdates that I could subscribe to

From my laptop I was able to check out the various airline websites and get a

sense of what was going on.

Showing remarkable efficiency, Easyjet were already offering any passengers oncancelled flights free re-booking, so I moved my flight to Sunday, the earliestavailable slot and one that seemed to stand a chance of flying.

Then I surfed around, looking at news services and airline sites, and found thatRyanair was running a limited service from Stansted.

Desperate to get away, and confident that if I could get anywhere in continentalEurope I could get a train or even another flight, I went there to see what wasavailable.

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And that means if anything goes wrong I'll be completely stuck. I won't even havemy phone, once I've checked in my bag.

In the old days any working journalist would head off on a story with a pocket fullof loose change so that they could phone the office - I wonder if I'm allowed a feweuro coins in my clear plastic bag?

Bill Thompson is a regular commentator on the BBC World Service programmeDigital Planet

Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/5245080.stm

Published: 2006/08/04 11:02:48

Ive been analyzing the article Web Underused in Time ofCrisis which was published on the BBC network. It is based on theexperience Bill Thompson, the technology commentator of BBC,went through during a turmoil caused by the arrests due to aterrorists attempt to blow up planes in an English airport.

He states that the web was underused and ignored in such achaotic situation, being this technological advance a powerfultool, a convenient alternative to book tickets and follow the flightsschedules.

I strongly support Thompsons main idea; the web is a veryimportant innovation of modern times, and offers great facilitiesand alternatives of communications and medias distribution fromwhich people in general do not seem to take advantage.

In my opinion, people should be more concerned about thefacilities offered by the web; they can be of great help in times ofcrisis up to the point that when you start using it, it becomes nearlya must. This is clearly shown in Thompsons report: But once I gotto the airports and into the maelstrom the net was vital. Butwithout the web it would simply have been impossible.

In Argentina, the web is practically unused. People aregenerally concerned only about the advantages offered by e-mailsor chats and the web pages finders such as Google or Yahoo. Butthey are missing other facilities such as long-distance studyprograms, or virtual trading pages such as Mercadolibre in SouthAmerica or the global E-Bay service, Tickets bookings for flights orwhatever you can imagine could be facilitated by the use of theweb.

Argentina is not a country with end technology, moreover, agreat proportion of its population live in poverty, which implies theycannot afford computers or easy access to the Internet. Butconcentrating my analysis on the sector of people who can accessthe web, I find that the younger generations are more in touch withthe web than adults since the least generations were born amongtechnology and its cyclic advances. Different is the situation of a

sixty-year-old person trying to understand technology and beingaware of the facilities offered by it.

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Technology is apparently advancing quicker than what people

are aware of, so thats why many others are not up to it.Although the Internet is a powerful tool that facilitates life, it is

a very personal decision whether to take profit of it or not, I know alot of people who hate the Internet while others criticize theirposition. The truth is that this anti-technology people provide soundarguments such as that it is unnatural to dedicate our time to amachine, and quiet boring.

Regarding those persons who do not get along with computersand the web, but I still understand the web as a revolution ofmodern times. It is up to us to cling our selves to it, take profits,and live in a modern way.

Quite original reading passage, very good supporting arguments. 8 out of 10.

Assignment 1 Argumentative & informative

John F. Kennedys Assassination

John F. Kennedy was shot to death in 1963, in Dallas. He was hit in the head and

throat when three shots were fired at his open-topped car, while he was travelling

through the main business area of the city. One of the murderers was identified: HarveyLee Oswald.

However, it is unbelievable that still today nobody knows for sure why he was

killed and by whom. Will we ever get to know? I do not think so; many years have

passed since the assassination occurred. During this lapse of time, evidences have been

destroyed and many witnesses have died. But we can still make our own suppositions to

provide answers to this question.

At first sight it appeared that the crime consisted in an attempt towards the

government of the United States. Shortly after the shooting, it was a time of great

confusion, since it took place during the cold war, people started to wonder if the crime

was not part of a longer attack. But some evidence began to prove that it was a whole

conspiracy within an agent of the FBI, James Hosty, who appeared in Oswalds addressbook. But later on, the FBI provided a typewritten transcription of the document in

which Hostys name and phone number were deleted. More over, two days before the

murder, Oswald went to the FBI office in Dallas to meet Hosty, and he when found that

Hosty was not at work, he left a letter for him. When Oswald was arrested, he was

immediately murdered, and in order to destroy evidences completely, Hosty was asked

(by his supervisor) to destroy the letter, and Hosty did so. Here we can clearly see that

the government was involved in the crime but we still can not prove who gave the order.

To my mind it is reasonable to take Lyndon B. Johnson as the promoter of the crime

since, before it, he was the vice-president, and it is sound to say that he was motivated

by a great ambition for power.

Johnson is greatly suspicious of the crime also because he had enough power tocreate a secret conspiracy with the FBI. Indeed, the first official investigation of the

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assassination was established by him two weeks after Kennedys death. This

commission of investigation was headed by Earl Warren under the supervision ofJohnson, universally known as the Warren Commission. It is quiet suspicious the fact

that Lyndon Johnson was the one who took action in informing the world on what

happened, since this would let him narrate his own version of the crime according to his

plans, in order to hide evidences.

There are many other controversial theories about President Kennedys

assassination. There are many people that sustain the existence of an unknown

conspiracy involved in the crime, but they also state Oswald was not involved at all

since shortly after his arrest he insisted he was a patsy, and never admitted any

participation in the assassination. This supposition gives place to another version of the

conflict. Supposing there was another conspiracy with nothing to do with the FBI, we

can think that Oswald was first, unfairly accused as the murderer and soon assassinatedin order to make people think he was the assassin (and the conspiracy did not want him

to reveal information which in fact, he would not have since we are supposing he was

innocent).Taking advantage of Oswalds relationship with the FBI agent, would have

also been of great convenience for this people by causing confusion by involving the

FBI.

There are still a lot of theories to mention but which cannot be proved. Despite

the attempts of many people to find and prove someone to blame, a lot of years have

already passed, and year by year it turns more difficult to get a concrete response to this

mysterious question: Who killed John F. Kennedy? Being without an answer yet is

astonishing. Without any doubt and without sustaining the murderers commitments, I

can conclude that whoever the author of the crime was, they did it in a very effectiveand shrewd way.

Very interesting investigation, clearly expressed in quite good language. 34 out of

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