Jack the Ripper

caustic now as it was over fifty years ago. To convey the film as a black comedy, Kubrick utilizes both sexual allegories and paradoxes, thus also adding its cinematic value. Even the characters’ names are either double entendres or innuendo. General Jack Ripper, for instance, refers…

course, my young mind did not quite understand what was going on but it still fascinated me. It fascinated me because in the show, they focused on the criminal instead of the crime itself. Years later, my mother gave me a book detailing the Jack the Ripper case and I was hooked immediately. Within the book, they proposed ideas of what might have caused his behavior and of course, they were all solid possibilities, but is there a main cause behind criminal behavior, and what is it? The first…

On August 29, 2016 I walked in to the Family Life building of Utah State University knowing that I was not going to be a fan of my first class – English 1010. I knew I would not like it because I had learned to hate writing for someone other than myself in my senior year of high school. I had a teacher who loved to make essays and papers bleed with red ink. She told us it was to improve our writing; what it really did was make me hate writing. Deanna Allred did not have the goal to grammatically…

The Death Penalty has been a topic of interest recently, with many people arguing both sides. There are claims that it’s inhuman, that incident people are being killed, and that it cost the tax payers more money then a life sentence, but what about the other side of this complex argument? Is the death penalty really an cruel and painful process that cost taxpayers millions? The death penalty has been made out to be a horrible injustice to both the perpetrators and the tax payers, in reality it’s…

Hopeless Isolation In 1926, the League of Nations created the ‘Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery’, a global treaty where the objective is to end slavery and all slave trades. Slavery by definition is ‘a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.’(Dictionary). Labor could be anything from cleaning, agriculture, construction, and sex. If sex seemed out of the ordinary of being an example of labor, it is not. For it is common labor…

Profiling for Law Enforcement Seeing and predicting the future is something that has always been intriguing for human beings. Many people admire Sherlock Holmes for his uncanny ability to solve crimes with an almost all knowing, future seeing, and super-human ability. While Sherlock Holmes may be a fictional character, the principles of applying the process of elimination to scenarios are very real indeed. Profiling is a word that brings controversy in today’s society, but it can be used very…

fascinated with serial killers, mass murders, and other dramatized criminal cases. Honestly, society does not realize that the shows are realistic fiction. They are fake, though based off real events. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Jack the Ripper are now household names because a Majority of Americans think that it is cool to see these shows and glorify the villains. The majority of the nation wants to be in the drama; we want to know all about what is going…

How did the genre arise and how did it change when television came? Before the genre started evolving into what it is today, the method of frightening people through words and tales has been done from at least the first recorded stories. But before we continue, when spoken of horror it is not all that frightens man, but all supernatural fiction with a dark side; witches, werewolves, etc. Folklore and religious traditions contain the roots of horror because of fictional characters, for example…

like movies and video games were invented. The behavior was already present in their mind, and something triggered an angry or outright violent behavior in these individuals, driving them to kill or injure someone. Famous serial killers such as Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, Jeffery Dahmer, and countless others didn 't commit the crimes that they had because they had played a violent video game or watched a violent movie. They committed the crimes of their own free will, because they wanted…

within the same and preceding paragraphs indicate a disregard for life and implication that money is of higher priority. Boyle invokes an image of a casino, a token symbol for money or greed. Preceding this, Nathaniel was cleaving the fish like “Jack the Ripper,” a notorious killer (92). The close proximity of these ideas with in the work suggests an animalistic or frantic clamour for wealth. With this tableau in mind, it can be argued that the reader is better equipped to assess particular…