Modus operandi

Topic: Psychological Profiling General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about psychological profiling. Central Idea Statement/Thesis: I will discuss (1) what psychological profiling is, (2) the profiling of Jack the Ripper, and (3) the most important uses of psychological profiling. Introduction I. [Attention Getter] Which well-known murderer is not defined as a serial killer? (Pictures of known offenders) II. [Topic Justification] Knowing…

Yesterday I was given the opportunity to facilitate a group interested in Conscious Capitalism. I was not unfamiliar with CC, however have never really subscribed. I came away with a new appreciation of its foundation and thought it was worth sharing. After a general session of finding some distance from our normal façade, acquainting ourselves with various dominant aspects of self and looking inward; we turned the focus toward aspects related to CC. In the four tenets of CC they use the acronym…

Authoritarian or Democratic? Following the democratization of The United States of America after their secession from Britain, democracy spread to other states through various reforms. Many states, however, still hold on to authoritarianism as their modus operandi. A form of government defined by strong central power and limited political freedoms, authoritarianism chiefly describes Vietnam’s government today. Freedom House’s Report of Vietnam in 2006 described the Vietnamese government as “a…

me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body,” (85). The man knew that this would make it difficult, and almost impossible to espy the corpse. He would not have thought of this modus operandi, if he was insane. In addition, the man left not a single stain of blood in the old man’s house. In his confession, he stated, "There was nothing to wash out—no stain of any kind—no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for that," (86). …

The Modus Operandi of Antibiotics As we all know, antibiotics eliminate bacteria, and by doing that, the infection is almost cured. This operation is not as simple as it seems, it requires high levels of specificity, selectivity, and accuracy. The outcome of taking antibiotics is well known, but how do antibiotics actually work? What are the specifics of the fierce interactions between bacteria and antibiotics? These questions can only be answered by following the process of bacteria…

Yearly, there are fifty to sixty volcanoes erupted. Within the year, two tsunamis devastate, and several million earthquakes befall upon the planet. These are geoprocesses, all of these affect Earth’s surface and the inhabitants thereof. Earth’s surface changes through geoprocesses including volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Firstly, volcanoes are one example of geoprocesses that affect earth’s surface. Volcanoes happen when tectonic plates sink down into the mantle, made up of molten rock,…

a woman named Kathy Kolbe. The conation is about a person’s natural style for solving a problem. According to Hallowell (2011), a person’s conative style has its own realm in the mind and combine to create what Kolbe calls your natural MO, or modus operandi; your natural way of interacting with the world, solving problems, and initiating actions (p.58). In this…

even those whites who see much wrong with the system make it their business to control the response of the blacks to the provocation… It appears to us as too much of a coincidence that liberals—few as they are—should not only be determining the modus operandi of those blacks who…

When people think of New Orleans they think of Bourbon street, Mardi Gras, food, and now a high crime rate. The murder rate has sporadically changed over the years, having a large spike after hurricane Katrina. New Orleans needs to shed the image of violence and death that it now has. New Orleans’s crime and murder rate will continue to rise if people do not do something to quell the pointless violence plaguing the once vibrant city. One of the major reasons New Orleans’s crime rate is at…

Disintegration of the USSR happened mainly because the late Soviet leadership renounced the very forces that forged the Soviet empire and that propped up Bolshevik government’s modus operandi since its inception. In 1917, the yoke of repression was heated by Lenin, and through 1953 cooked by Stalin in complete totalitarian fashion. Gorbachev, however, resolved to govern differently not realizing the policy contradictions that would ultimately lead to USSR’s demise. If Gorbachev were the same…