Calico Jack

Legal State of Euthanasia: Preservation or Condemnation Imagine lying on a hospital bed in a state of perpetual intense agony with no sign of relief within the distant future and being reduced to a completely undignified and incompetent human being. If only there was a way to end it all, in a quick and painless way. Why prolong the inevitable in favor of a few more stretched moments of suffering. There is one solution that comes to mind; doctors should be able to legally end their patient’s…

Pratchett - Thinking, Impulses, Actions, and Consequences In the book Jingo written by Terry Pratchett, Pratchett uses characters to provide insight on issues in society, more specially how Kennedy’s assassination relates to issues in society. The main commentary that Jingo makes is an insight on problem solving. The majority of the time solving problems people jump to conclusions and have naive opinions. This can lead to reckless and negligent fighting. Often times people have hindsight of…

He was a robust crossbreed living in the lap of luxury in California before being taken away and being sold into a horrid sort of “dog slavery.” He was beaten into the submission of man, after which I thought that Buck would try to make his way back to the Santa Clara Valley. He seemed to have evolved from a civilized pet into a dominant, savage, beast throughout his time in the Yukon. He adopted a cruel kill-or-be-killed way of thinking, which helped during his fight with Spitz. He ultimately…

Jack the Ripper is a serial killer and still nowadays is remembered by the impeccable crimes he committed which didn’t attach him to any direct suspect. In this book, Patricia Cornwell narrates the story in her point of view where Walter Sickert, a painter and printmaker, was known for painting Jack´s crime scenes. Many of these paintings are all around the world and some of them were used against Sickert to blame him. Other perfect suspects could have been Prince Albert Victor who suffered from…

Case name: Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987) Facts: Ardith McPherson was appointed a deputy in the Constable’s office of Harris County, Texas, on January 12, 1981. Her duties were only clerical. On March 30, 1981, McPherson discussed with her boyfriend, and fellow employee, a report about an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. She made the remark “If they go for him again, I hope they get him”. Her remark was reported to Constable Rankin, who fired McPherson, even…

Jack London is a legendary writer of adventure tales. White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and To Build a Fire are a few of his many published stories. Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild follows the story of the young Chris McCandless as he experiences the wild places of North America. Chris leaves his family, changes his name to Alexander Supertramp, and lives a nomadic life until his untimely end in Alaska. London’s To Build a Fire tells of an inexperienced man who ventures into the Yukon accompanied…

them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” (Yann Martle) As the quote from Yann Martle shows above, you can tell that a major theme in Jack London's classic book Call of the Wild is that adaptability is essential for survival, which Buck goes throughout the whole story. At the beginning, buck has to adapt to the hostile environment of Alaska. First, Buck went from living to sun…

is written. Many authors use style devices, movements of literature, and thematic meaning in their works. Jack London wrote "Love of Life" and "To Build a Fire," with these ideas in mind. London uses a lucid style, many movements of literature of his time and deliberate thematic ideas in his many tales of the gold rush. According to http://www.biography.com/people/jack-london-9385499, Jack London was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. He was originally named John…

Oswald These are reasons and facts on my understanding that Oswald was not the lone assassin, how he was part of a larger conspiracy, and how he was not completely innocent. According to The JFK Assassination, “The FBI told a man to keep quiet about one man, and the other with a gun.” I do not think that Oswald was the lone assassin because in the text a man saw two men, one a railroad worker, and one that looked like a person in a police outfit, and the FBI told that man who…

The assassination of John F. Kennedy was November 22, 1963. He was in a parade in Dallas, TexasX. He was there to get support for Democratic Party before the 1964 election. He was riding in a car that had three rows of seats and was a convertible. His wife, Jackie Kennedy, was sitting right next to him. John F. Kennedy was shot at three times. The first one missed and the second one hit his neck and the third one finally hit him in the head. Also the second shot hit the guy in front of…