Grave Digger

Leonard Nimoy, or Mr. Spock from the famous Star Trek television series, once stated “I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may”. Prince Hamlet had the same attitude towards his life, and death, at the climax of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. His ever-changing thoughts and views on death throughout the play accumulate to impact his final actions before death. His own contemplation of life and death is not the only reason his attitude…

stone slabs, and lumber and oil drums. This was the final phase of Babi Yar- they tried to erase it from history. People were split into brigades and the unflagging productive toil exacted of them was a model of methodical German efficiency. The diggers dug out the pits, taking out bodies was extremely hard, some bodies especially children’s had no scars which meant that they were buried alive. Women’s body especially young once were the opposite it was sadistically mutilated. The stench made…

“The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” is believed to have been written between the year 1599 and 1601, and although the play actually takes place in the Middle Ages occasionally reference to the Elizabethan era are made. During this time plays revolving around revenge and tragedy were quite popular. It was not uncommon to see at the end of a play that all the major characters end up dead. In this particular revenge tragedy, Prince Hamlet is visited by his father’s ghost who tells him his…

Burke’s view of history, which grounded himself in his classical conservative views, believed that continuing in the systems of old was the best way to keep a stable and functioning political climate. Burke’s differing reactions to the American and French Revolutions highlights this fact nicely. Burke, a supporter of the American Revolution, believed that their revolution was an attempt to preserve their old way of life from an increasingly involved British government. In his view, the…

A spontaneous organic society is a society that encourages individuality. Like the principle of an organic solidarity, spontaneity allows people to be able to move around in a society without restrictions due to external causes. Understanding of the abnormal forms of division of labor is crucial in understanding the archetypes of a well-functioning society. There are two well-functioning society, mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity societies. In organic solidarity society, there are two…

This course has demonstrated how we can incorporate a literary detective’s sometimes unorthodox methods of deduction to solve the confounded mysteries in our own lives. These fictional tales of reasoning can be applied outside the world of crime because the methodology is sound enough to put to use in everyday situations. Upon reflection, I came to find that I utilized many techniques prescribed by the detectives in this course while researching a high school project. I was given the task of…

For over 300 years between the 15th and 18th century a plague known as the Black Death killed over one third of the population of Europe. Most of the people in the had no idea of why the plague came and killed so many people, so they believed in religious or supernatural reasoning. Everyone came up with their own reasoning for the plague. Some people believed that the plague was caused by an irrational or supernatural reasoning , some believed it was caused by rational reasoning. The people…

The book This Republic of Suffering illustrates the great deal of hardship the American Civil War brought upon not only the soldiers fighting the battles along with the generals and political officials at the front of the war but also how the civilians were affected. The book shows how people of this time dealt with death and how the death of so many young soldiers would change their lives forever. It is evident after reading this book that the war brought many struggles that the American people…

Chester Himes, who grew up in America in the 1930th, established himself as a innovator in the field of popular crime fiction from the beginning. Even though his popularity came to him while he was a resident of a foreign land, nevertheless, his work, which is often considered as uncompromising, despairing and full of violence, is well known in the United States today. Moreover, Walter Mosley, whose work is often compared to Himes', grew up in the era of the Civil Rights, perhaps that's why his…

my mother everyone always told me, but until then I never believed them. My mother and i both had long flowing blond hair and jewel like green eyes. It took my father seven years to remarry, when he did the women he was with was obviously a gold digger, she never loved my father. I knew the only reason he married her was so if he died I wouldn 't be alone.Two weeks after their marriage my father dies of poisoning, no one thought anything more of the issue, only I knew it was her.I stayed with…