Jack the Ripper

The songs in Bob Dylan’s album Highway 61 Revisited can arguably be said to be filled with messages that express Dylan’s anger towards the government and the wealthy class of America and conveys these messages by strategically placing the songs in a specific order. The positioning of the songs allows the audience see Dylan’s intended message as the album progresses as well as his approach to addressing the social conflicts occurring in the 1960’s. As each song unfolds it consistently carries…

Kathryn Allamong Jacob’s article “She Couldn’t Have Done It, Even If She Did” revolves around the murder mystery of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Borden was an Upper-class woman who lived in the Industrial Era of the late 1800’s. Lizzie Borden was accused of Brutally murdering her father and stepmother, but was later deemed innocent on account of the jury. From the start, Jacob’s made her stance of Borden’s evident guilt very clear. The murder is centered in an era that dealt with gender discrimination.…

The changes are easy to see upon juxtaposition of A Study in Terror (1965) and Murder by Decree (1979), which are both Jack the Ripper murder stories and thus feature a serial killer targeting women and crime scenes are in Whitechapel, a den of vice in London’s East End. However, the victim’s portrayals are drastically different between the two movies. In A Study in Terror, the…

Use the ‘Schnellbrief' to answer the following THREE questions: 1. Determine the provenance of the source. (Hint: It's to do with the source author's background/beliefs etc and how these would have affected what is being presented in the source.) 10 Marks This source was a list of instructions set out by Heydrich to somewhat direct ‘the final aim'. Heydrich was a very anti-semitic person, he was seen as one of the darkest Nazi officers at the time. He was put in charge of some of the key…

As time goes, the act of killing multiple people has become apparent in the daily lives of people. Though it has been going on for centuries, serial murder has become a huge part in social media. Just like everything else, social media has shaped the way people think about the reasons for such traumatic events. People begin to lose sight of the truth about serial murders. The who, the when, the why, and the how all become figments of imagination, a made up belief because of the information…

The criminal justice system has a rich history, dating back to the colonial days, and has undergone several changes when it comes to all aspects of this field, including criminal investigations. There were many important figures who began criminal investigation organizations and could be seen as the fathers of this field. Many of them have also inspired popular culture, specifically literature, having had famous novels drawing from their experiences. In addition, many of these founders were far…

Maureen Johnson is an American author of young adult fiction and is recognized for the Shades of London series, including The Name of the Star. Johnson’s style is easily characterized by long, complex sentences, extensive use of allusion, and a modern story-telling ability. Mediocre metaphors aside, The Name of the Star is a well-developed novel through Johnson’s use of beautiful descriptions and believable dialogue. The novel is a part contemporary, part paranormal thriller, marked by two…

“Big Brother isn’t watching you”. Russell Brand who is an English comedian, actor, musician and writer wrote this phrase which was posted on the “The Guardian”, an English website. Even though Russell Brand now lives in Los Angeles, he feels the need to make a statement about the UK riots, because England used to be his homeland. “I feel proud to be English, proud to be a Londoner (all right, an Essex boy).” (p. 2, l. 30.) It is clear that the phrase is directed towards the politicians and the…

Jerome Crabb once said, “crime is to man as fleas are to dog, the likelihood of its presence increases as the quality of one 's personal circumstances decreases.” Oftentimes we attribute crime to an individual’s socio-economic situation. In more recent years however, theories surrounding hereditary factors in crime have emerged. Nativists believe that criminal predisposition can be passed down from parent to offspring whereas empiricists believe that all crime and criminal behavior is learned…

In life we generally tend to copy things. From deciding what electronic gadget to use, what to wear, what kind of car to drive, we are all in one way or another influenced by the media (social and commercial). Depending on the weight the media gives to a certain issue, its just normal to find ourselves pick a few aspects and tend to imitate them especially if they attract much attention (Hammond, n.d.). This can be disadvantageous if we start copycatting crimes and other vices due to the much…