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Assignment 2: Narrative-Imaginative-Descriptive
DRAFT
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 ?
See to word order and punctuation mistakes
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
40
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