Eamonn Holmes

Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case is a case that dramatically influenced forensic science. On the night of February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin a 17 year old high school student was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, The United States. Gorge Zimmerman, who was a 28 year old man of mixed race (Hispanic) was the coordinator for a neighborhood watch for the gated community where Trayvon Martin was living temporarily (Gray 2012). The 17 year old Trayvon Martin was unarmed during…

In this current day and age, it is hard for creators to produce new ideas. Most of the things that are around today are innovations. When you pay close attention, the shows and movies we watch, the books we read, and the music we listen to are mostly transformative works. Sometimes these works can be caught due to the little changes that are found in the structure or storyline yet; they are having a sense of individuality that separates it from the original. However, most transformative works…

Sherlock Holmes has become known as a tremendously intelligent and unique individual who has a strong passion for solving mysteries. In fact, his name has almost come to stand for, someone who almost seems to have telepathy. Sherlock in the new adaptations, Elementary, House M.D. and Sherlock Holmes, has the ability to look at any given character he can distinguish their life story without even speaking a single word to them, just using his observations. Within the BBC vision of Sherlock, he…

Sherlock Holmes. The story initially was rejected by various publishers and the full rights to the story were eventually sold for twenty five euros. A Study in Scarlet was published the next year in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. Sherlock Holmes officially launched Doyle’s writing career and allowed him countless more opportunities to write countless more stories and officially retire from medicine. In an ironic twist of fate Doyle’s most famous creation became a thorn in his side. Doyle saw Holmes…

named Sherlock Holmes to show the audience how investigators solved crime back then during that time period and the different technology they used to solve them and how it is different today’s technology. In the show series Sherlock, the episode “A Study in Pink”, gives a little bit of a modern take on A Study in Scarlet and shows how technology advancements can make the better. Having these modern twists strengthens the story, A Study in Scarlet. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes, a…

The representation of the London of ‘light’ and the London of ‘darkness’ has evolved throughout the history of literature; this change can be explored and observed when comparing the topics of the country and the city within popular literary works of art. Within Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist the countryside is viewed as the London of ‘light’ while the city is viewed as the London of ‘darkness’. These themes are brought out by the realism Dickens uses in relation to the period in which his novel…

i) What is modal realism and why would one need to believe in it? What problems is modal realism proposed to solve? What problems accepting modal realism might create? In this essay I am going to explain what Modal Realism is the reasons people will choose to believe in it and the reasons people will not. I will outline the problems of Modality and how Possible World Theory, and extended on to that Modal Realism, will be able to solve it. I will then move onto the weaknesses of Modal…

Television has produced numerous shows that do not paint a clear or accurate picture of what a Forensic Scientist job entails. Criminal shows exaggerate the techniques and fail to note the importance of the abilities of Forensic Scientist and Crime Scene Investigators. A reported 100 million people watch criminal television shows weekly, who form a perception often skewed and fictional in regarding the real world of Forensics. Sorenson Forensics Executive Director Tim Kupferschmid…

Imagine it’s the start of WW2 and you were given a task of decoding an ever changing, impossible to crack, nazi code called the enigma. This very task was what was assigned to many of Britain's greatest minds among them was a man named Alan Turing. In short Alan was smart but socially awkward and found himself working alone even though he is apart of the team. Throughout his work during the WWII era he conducted extensive research using major mathematical concepts in order to further his work on…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time One day Christopher Boone saw a dead dog, lying on the lawn. It was Mrs. Shears’ dog called Wellington and somebody killed it with a garden fork. The boy loved dogs and he decided to find out who was a murderer and to write a detective story about his investigation. Christopher started asking his neighbors about what had happened to Wellington. But when his father learned what Christopher was doing he was very angry and he forbade his son…