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~Busted~

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Online hangouts like Face book and My Space have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource. In the article "Web networking photos come back to bite defendants" , Joshua Lipton was charge of drinking and driving crash that injured a 20 year old woman. When Lipton attended court he claimed that he wasn't the person the women. He also said that he does not party or drink. Days after the incident, detectives found pictures of Lipton on his face book page the day of Halloween drinking and partying. These pictures was shown to the judge. Lipton was guilty and was sentenced two years in jail. Rhode Island prosecutors say Lipton was drunk and speeding near his school, Bryant University in Smithfield, in October 2006 when he triggered a three-car collision that left 20-year-old Jade Combies hospitalized for weeks. Kevin Bristow, Lipton's attorney uses the incident as an example to his own teenage children to watch what they post online."If

~~SATIRE~~

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Mark Twain uses satire in his essay. Satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like in exposing, denouncing or deriding vice, folly. Twain provides six items of advice to the youth. Always obey your parents, be respectful to your superior, go to bed early;getup early, never handle firearms carelessly, be careful about lying. Obeying is the best policy according to Twain because if I don't they will make I. Most parents think they know better than I do, and I can generally make more by humoring that superstition than I can by acting own better judgment. Twain instructed the youth to avoid firearms and violence. Twain says don’t I meddle with old unloaded firearms ; they are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. He'd rather no one set a hand on a gun to aim it at no one. Playing with firearms is very dangerous. He also says to be very careful about lying ; otherwise I am nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, I can never again be in