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There are many reasons for violent acts. Some commit violence because they want to harm others and some because they want to harm themselves, but some because they believe they are helping the world in some way or another. People commit these kinds of acts because they don’t think clearly; causing them to justify their violent actions as caring ones. In Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the characters, Rodion Ramonovitch Raskolnikov, Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov, and Katerina Ivanova…

lacking camaraderie die first. Furthermore, camaraderie is not only important for an individual's survival, but also an entire gang’s. Shukhov complains that “either everybody gets a bonus or else they all die together. Am I supposed to starve because a louse...won’t work?” (Solzhenitsyn 61). This line invokes a ghastly tone upon the reader, for when one person lets down their gang, they all die together; ensuring the reader recognizes their fear. Furthermore, Shukhov cleverly questions the…

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale.” Poe reveals what he considers to be the building blocks of a Short Story. Poe believes that when writing a short story the author should always have a “Single Effect” in mind and tailor the form of the story to this single effect. In other words, every aspect of the story should be specifically written with the desired emotional effect in mind. This single effect which conveys a specific emotion or idea to the reader…

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment revolves around the experiences of the protagonist, Raskolnikov, in a dramatically short period of time. All in less than a week, he is subject to the emotions that accompany planning, executing, and reflecting upon a murder. With hidden motives and self-doubt, he no less destroys himself as he destroyed the life of an unsuspecting woman. Raskolnikov, though confusing, is essential in understanding the underlying truths of humanity. Yet, no less important…

Fort Delaware Fort Delaware, was a defensive point that many felt would be perfect to protect ports and anyone trying to attack from the river. It was said from many officials that this Island was an ideal defensive point. This is because it’s a medium to high ground in the Delaware river this was perfect to protect Philadelphia’s ports. Fort Delaware is located on Pea Patch island, this island is called this due to the Pea Patches that grew around it and made up a lot of the island. Fort…

I-Kappa-B-alpha which is often abbreviated IkBa is a protein whose role is to mask the nuclear localization signals to inhibit the NF-kB (nuclear factor kappa beta) proteins by keeping them in inactive states and isolating them in the cytoplasm, this inhibits the NF-kB transcription factors and blocks the NF-kB transcription factors from binding with DNA. NF-kB is a protein complex that is responsible for controlling cytokine production, transcription of DNA, cell survival, and plays a key role…

Manway 1 Patrick Manway COM 320, History of Film Prof. Kim Kneuendorf Paper A First Draft 10-15-15 Max Ophul?s Influence on Stanley Kubrick?s Filmmaking Paper Outline Introduction Ophuls Influence on Kubrick?s technical filmmaking and storytelling Liebelei and Lolita: Comparing the early works of Ophuls and Stanley Kubrick Eyes Wide Shut and La Ronde Interpretations of the work of Arthur Schnitzler Conclusion Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the…

Neurologist Sigmund Freud once said, “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious” (“The Interpretation”). Sigmund Freud firmly believes that dreams allow people to be what they cannot be, and to say what they can not say in our more repressed daily lives (Freud). Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a novel that involves dreams to symbolize characters and foreshadow situations. Raskolnikov’s dreams may give more insight to his mind than the entire novel. Raskolnikov experiences four…

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque is a story about the lives of a young group of German soldiers who fight on the French front during World War One. The book is narrated by a young man named Paul Baumer. Paul and several of his friends enlist into the army right out of high school due to the moving patriotic speeches by their schoolmaster. However, at the front lines they learn that war is nothing like they anticipated. Through the viewpoints of these characters Remarque very…

Serial killers. When brought up the same questions are always asked from the curious: how they did it? But what people need to be asking is why they did it? At first it may be a hard to answer question, but in reality, by putting together different past events, scenarios can be created that can be related to popular theories that can explain that it is due to how a person is raised that can affect whether or not they become a serial killer. Three serial killers that this is applicable to are Ted…