Decapitation

Violence in the media has been heavily scrutinized for hundreds of years. After any publicized tragedy that includes violent behavior, some are quick to assert the idea that we are causing or at the very least contributing to these violent outbursts by glorifying violence in media such as movies, TV shows, and video games. It is estimated that by the age of 18, children will see more than 200,00 acts of violence and 16,000 murders on TV (Senate Committee). They contend that the violence seen by…

The Third of May 1808 was painted in 1814 by Francisco Goya commissioned by Ferdinand VII, who had taken the throne after the French had been driven out of Spain. This work’s dimensions are 8' 9" x 12' 4" painted with oil on canvas. Guernica was painted later in 1937 by Pablo Picasso as a piece for the Spanish Pavilion at the World’s Fair. This painting was created with oil on canvas with dimensions reaching 11’6” x 25’8”. While Goya and Picasso took radically different approaches to depicting…

THE DEATH PENALTY 3 The Death Penalty and Its Justification under the Constitution One of the biggest topics up for political discussion today is the death penalty. For years people have tried to argue whether or not the death penalty is actually justified under the United States Constitution. One side argues that it clearly does go against the Constitution on the basis of the Eight…

and water, have prolonged periods of time of physical restraint, inflicted with burns and other wounds to study the healing process, inflicted with pain to study the effects and remedies, and “killing carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck breaking, decapitation, and much more, (Humane Society “All About Animal Testing”,hsi.org). These shows how cruel these researchers are to these innocent animals who cannot fight back for themselves. There is a Draize Eye Test that they use on rabbits which involve…

Marquis, as he removes his jacket, asks for the keys, finds the bloodstain on the key to the forbidden room, rebukes the girl for her transgression, imprints her forehead with a heart-shaped bloodstain from the key and pronounces her death sentence—Decapitation. He orders her to take bath, put on her white dress and the red choker, and wait in the music room for his telephone call. As she reaches the music room, she finds that though all the servants were given a holiday by the Marquis, the…

2. Materials and methods 2.1. Chemicals Zingerone was obtained from Alfa Aesar, Heysham, UK. Cisplatin, Bradford reagent, trichloroacetic acid (TCA), thiobarbituric acid (TBA), reduced glutathione (GSH), glacial metaphosphoric acid (Gmpa), 5,5ˊ-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB), proteinase K and agarose were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Co, MO, USA. All other chemicals and solvents used were of the highest purity grade available. 2.2. Animals Sixty Adult male albino rats (180-200g) were…

As Charles Dickens once said, “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” The French Revolution has been seen as a war that caused death, pain, and prosperity. Many primary documents, like Simon Schama Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, have mentioned that the amount of human lives lost during the French Revolution was unnecessary. The amount of deaths in the revolution explains the outcome of how much violence took place. Was the…

In 2012, McDonagh released Seven Psychopaths, a black comedy film starring Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken. In Seven Psychopaths, a character’s head explodes, there’s a decapitation, a man’s hands are fastened to a table with knives and then he’s burned alive. Again, the mix of violence and humor along with strong use of dialogue evokes a Tarantino comparison. In an interview with the New York Times shortly after the film’s…

“His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast (pg. 305).” The collection of ideas, images, and symbols portrayed in the novel Dracula provide an insight to the darker, supernatural world of reading and support the various motifs that are contained in Gothic literature. The most prominent gothic…

The Kennewick Man is human skeleton discovered in 1996 whose ethnic affiliation has sparked legal controversy and scientific debates. Scientists asserted that the Kennewick Man neither belonged to Native Americans nor related to the tribes in the Northwest areas of Pacific region. These two groups advocated for the repatriation bones because they believed they were related to the Kennewick Man. The main law that warranted the return of the bones to natives was the Native Americans Graves…