Mad Detective

situations that characters go through in the story. The main protagonist Easy Rawlins and his interactions with other characters adds to his knowledge and understanding of the situation at hand. He’s a detective, although not licensed, he’s more than capable of handling a murder case, but what do detectives do? Detect! They’re able to notice the slightest change in emotion of a character’s face. A hair from across the room could have…

in the eye of the city, behind closed doors he is committing adultery and plays pretend for the media to make him look like a better reelection candidate. Detective Graham, another one of the city's most important leaders and protectors, is covered by shield of perfection that the public lays upon him. Most people would expect a city detective to come from a nice family and have experienced a wonderful childhood. What the public doesn't know is that Det. Graham's mother is hooked on drugs and…

II. The Press When the press covered the Ripper killings they used cultural fantasies and Victorian anxieties to their advantage by challenging the police and fascinating the public. They wove a tale of sex, blood, and murder, which would forever change murder in the news. This sensationalism operated on an emotional level, appealing to the morals of the reader. David Sachsman and David Bulla summarize sensationalism in the press in their book Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging,…

Everyone tends to be connected or addicted to technology or media these days. We are so used to being on our phones all the time we can’t get off of them. I can say and I am one of those people that can never get off of their phone and is just on it cause I am bored. I have the tendency to feel lost or disconnected in the world if I don’t have my phone in my pocket. I was shocked when I read this essay because everything that was said in it, I realized that I was guilty of it all. I honestly…

exquisite horror of their reality.” Ladies, gentlemen, and lovers of poetry; behold the wondrous and darkly disturbing mind of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was a man, born in Boston in 1809, famously known to dance with the mad and peculiar. He was a master of macabre, father of the detective story and captured the imaginations…

Edgar Allan Poe, the author of “The Tell-Tale Heart” was born on 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his detective and dark stories. Most of Poe’s short stories uses a first person narration. The story, “the Tell-Tale Heart” was published on 1850. Poe uses an unreliable first person narrator, with an unknown name and unclear identity, who constantly tries to convince readers of his sanity. The narrator has an unknown relation to the old man, who he murdered in the story. By depicting…

many many bones from it. The play was not bad, that is not what I claim at all, but if I were to base my grounds on only the part I read compared to what I saw, it was barely the same. The book relies on the reader properly seeing how Raskolnikov goes mad along with many side stories, but I did not feel like any of that came through in the play - without reading the book, it barely made sense that Raskolnikov killed the pawn lady and after that, everything was rushed due to the time limit. There…

killing millions of Jews. For this reason, i think it is important to read micro histories like Neighbors, to see the complete picture. Without reading this book, many people would attribute all the deaths of Jews to the Nazi forces under the orders of a mad Adolf Hitler. There is no denying that the Poles did feed into some of the propaganda because after murdering the Jews in their hometown, they went to their homes looking for gold. This is a great injustice as very few Polish faced…

happy since he’s been out of jail, but he won’t be when he learns that Shawn is the baby daddy of Laporsha baby. Tyler is currently a CEO at Yotat Embassy which is a company that makes a millions. He had come a long way since his being lock up. Detective Allison was hired to…

has comforted me throughout my life is my love for animals. At the age of four I was introduced to my first kitten named Patches. When I was a having a hard time coping with things in my environment my feline was always there for me as he never got mad at me, listened to my feelings, and just wanted my unconditional love. Soon my love for animals took a turn and I remember having twelve cats as they were all provided with more than the basics for life of food, water, shelter, and love with an…