"B" Is for Burglar

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone, an unmarried, licensed, bonded, white woman of age thirty-two from Santa Teresa, California, investigates the homicide of Lisa Osterling’s husband, Rudd Osterling, who was previously a cocaine dealer. She also explores the disappearance of the Parker shotgun, a rare and beautifully crafted shotgun that is no longer produced anymore because the company went out of business. Lisa believes that the police wrote off the murder as a failed attempt at Rudd’s drug dealing, and she is determined to figure out the convict before the birth of her son. Initially, Kinsey heads to the gun shop located on a narrow side street in Colgate to elaborate with the owner, Avery Lamb, about the appraisal he completed on the rare Parker shotgun that Rudd had gotten. She is intent on finding out how the shotgun fell into Rudd’s hands. Furthermore, Kinsey discovers that Jackie Barnett, a plump woman in her fifties, is the wife of the previous gun owner Bill Barnett, an elderly man who was hospitalized due to his recurring strokes. In Sue Grafton’s The Parker Shotgun, Jackie and Bill Barnett exhibit covetous behavior for the highly-sought-after Parker shotgun that Kinsey Millhone recognizes to identify the culprit of Rudd’s murder, thus indicating that excessive acquisitiveness often triggers unpredictable, heartless actions. In Kinsey’s first encounter with Jackie, Jackie discloses that she had a miserable marriage with Bill due to the fact that his extravagant…

On a very early morning at about 3:00 am a burglar attempted to break into the Smiths’ house.Everyone in the family was asleep at this time except 15 year old Matt Smith.He was up late studying for his test the following monday.Matt was a very hardworking,busy boy.All week he had football practice from 5-8 and he also had to do any school work and eat dinner.To him there wasn’t enough time in a day.Although Matt was very busy with sports,he seemed to do very well in school.He was soon turning…

When looking at the case of Alice there are circumstances in which aborting her pregnancy would be morally permissible. To determine when it’s acceptable for abortion, it is wise to look at the circumstances when they are unwanted pregnancies or the pregnancy would be putting the mother at risk of death. Within these scenarios it is also knowledgeable to take into consideration the woman’s’ condition or position. In the cases of unwanted pregnancies, abortion after a rape attack that resulted…

check on other…[The three branches] should not be so far separated as to have no constitutional control over each other,” (Doc C) This means that the other branches can check on each other to make sure they all have the same amount of power. The way they check is by using their powers to agree or disagree about something that the other branch had done. They can decline a different branches idea or something they did to the president. If one branch had more power than the other then it can be an…

Sting operations have been popular among enforcement personnel for almost two decades. Sting operations were used primarily to snare burglars and other thieves. In the sting operation process, officers or undercover agents set up false business operations which were purportedly establishments where stolen merchandise could be “fenced” (which is the practice of government officers establishing crime-related fronts in order to lure offenders into engaging in illegal enterprises) often utilizing…

look at the perspective of who they want people to be. As Brent staples and James Baldwin points out the racism has been one of the issues that they were facing and fighting in order to stop racial discrimination. Brent staple is a person who experiences the racism in his own life because he struggles with stereotypes in our society. In “black men and public space” by Brent staples, staples states “when I was working as a journalist in Chicago and was rushing into the office of a…

opinion, or cultural convention? One way to understand metaethics is to test it using an ethical scenario. One example is a scenario where you have to steal food or lie for a good cause. Another scenario is if you set out to harm someone, but you ended up saving their life by accident. For example a burglar plots to break into an old woman’s house on a Sunday morning, which is a time when he knows she is always at church. So one Sunday, he creeps up through her back window and smashes it with a…

Both of the two lessons addressed the same common core standards and learning goals but different teaching approaches for the two groups of students. The first lesson was used a fiction book Caleb & Kate by William Steig which was appropriate for third graders; the teacher would ask literal, inferential, and critical questions which were created by the teacher for the group of students who received direct-instruction teaching during read aloud. Sample questions included “What is the relationship…

of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 1 Essentials a) Title of the work. The Hobbit (Fifth edition) b) Author(s) J.R.R. Tolkien c) First date of publication. In 1991 by HarperCollinsPublishers 2 Setting a) When does the story take place? How can you tell? The story took place 6000 years ago, I could not tell by reading the book ( I looked it up after I read the book because I was curious). When I was done with the book I thought it took place around 2000 years ago by reading the…

In this case point a would be the beginning of the story, and point b being the end of the story. All of this has happened in the first paragraph and the reader is wondering how there was such a drastic change. Thurber’s writing style is able to change the perspective of how the reader reads the entire story. “The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry I didn’t just let it keep on walking, and go to bed.…