Madness

Hamlet’s madness: Is Hamlet mad or is he actually mad? After reading through three versions of Hamlet, such as, The Folio, The Second Quarto and The First Quarto; I found that Hamlet’s madness is questionable. Hamlet naturally reacts to events that occur to him. He isn’t figuratively mad; he is literally upset about what is revolving around his life. In other words, he isn’t crazy, he is angry and these two emotions are completely different. Several scholarly articles and parts from Hamlet show…

ghost or demon that could just be tricking him. Even when hearing this news he remains calm and thinks things through. However this revenge is what begins his journey into anger and madness. In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, he created a strong intellectual character and his journey down a hill into madness due to his blinding vengeance over his father’s death. Hamlet has always been very fond of and attached to his father. He also deeply loves his mother as well. Than one…

I found an article about March Madness that deals with statistics. Listed throughout this article are a few different ways that statistics are used or should be used while filling out a March Madness bracket. The first concept is averages/percentages. To find the average of how many points a player averages per game, you take the points made divided by the total number of games a player has played. Let’s say a player from Kansas has a high scoring percentage, someone might pick Kansas to win…

The human mind is capable of undergoing a complete change of personality and behavior at any time. This sudden change can cause said mind to fall into a state of madness. No one can ever be sure if what a madman is telling them is true, whether they are truly insane, hallucinatory, lying, or deliberately contracting a defense of homicidal mania for himself. Through "The Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe presents the ability of the human mind to recognize its wrongful acts and the deterioration of the…

“The Bell Jar”, impeccably smart college student Esther Greenwood feels conflicted in her life with the combination of her oppressive surroundings and slowly growing madness. Although…

In Pinto Madness, Mark Dowie, an award- winning journalist/author, argues that in the 1970’s corporate greed influenced the way automobile manufacturing mishandled safety regulations in order to increase profit instead of protecting human lives (148). He supports his claim by first explaining the significance of the Ford Pinto to the situation. The Ford Pinto was entirely “designed in about two years”, the car was “rushed into production” with the schedule for production “set at just under 25”…

Selfishness Can Lead To Madness One hundred and forty-one people were accused and nineteen were hanged during the Salem witch trials that occurred in 1692. Imagine living in a society that is chaotic and full of lying gossiping people who are quick to discredit others to save their own lives. Image a society that is wrongdoing. Imagine having people lying to get themselves out of trouble, and to get things their way. That pretty much sums up what The Crucible by Arthur Miller is about. In…

In “America’s gun madness, as seen from Europe” Mirar Kamdar is comparing America gun control to Europe gun control. The author believes that is way easier to buy a gun in America then to by one in Europe. In the passage, kamdar stated, “Guns can be bought for use at firing ranges, but only after an application has been filed and approved by the police. All gun buyers must provide a medical certificate of mental and physical fitness to own a weapon, and all guns must be registered.” that’s what…

In the essay “Pinto Madness,” by Mark Dowie an author of many books, reveals the corporate greed of the Ford Motor Company. The essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits,” by Milton Friedman, who in 1976 received the Nobel Prize in Economics, claims that “The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned "merely" with profit but also with promoting desirable "social" ends,” (Friedman 157). In the…

Dr. William Dement is recognized as one of the worlds leading authorities on the topic of sleep. In the article titled “Rem Madness, Dement has conducted experiments on patients regarding sleep deprivations. Using an EKG machine he was able to monitor patients in REM. However, when Dement gathered his patients for the experiment he made a mistake. First, he told the patients what they may experience during his experiment, as well as, told them about the probable outcomes of his experiment, which…