Natural Born Killers

Comparing two cultures there will always be obvious differences, this couldn’t be any more true when you compeer the United States of America to Japan. On one end of the spectrum you have Japan that has thousands of years of history and deep sense of tradition. Then you have America when put into comparison to Japan. When it comes to age is like a child and American culture is consistently changing and being influenced. I am not saying that Japanese culture has not changed over the years, but…

War, as many people know, creates massive casualties of humans, hatred among humankind, and overall, catastrophe. Many soldiers, who are also the leading generation for our future, are forced to take part in what could be known as “homicide” as they would go on to kill their enemies, most of them belonging to same age. It is no wonder that the horribleness and atrocity of war is a common theme among poets. The literary works of Owen, Jarrell, and Komunyakaa asserts that war causes severe damages…

INTRODUCTION - ~ THESIS - When evaluating Arnold “Junior” Spirit from Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Jin Wang from Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, similarities radiate in both characters as their disparity in race deem the two of them as outcasts in the entirety of society. In addition to their lack of social interactions, their uniformity in their impulsive decisions cost them each a dear friend. Although Junior and Jin are quite similar, they…

Each killer has their own unique motives for killing and one of the hardest things to do is to determine the why the killer committed the crime. Television shows such as Criminal Minds make the job look easy. On the show it may only take the actors hours to look at the evidence, determine the behavior of the suspect, and develop a list of suspects, however, in real life, this process may take days, months, or even years to determine. Sadly, this means that the killer has more time to carry out…

One of the most scandalous and deranged serial killers is staring directly into the face of death. In just minutes, he will soon be put to an excruciating death for committing inhumane crimes to innocent people. Before he is completely engulfed by the demise of his stability, he is asked the simple, existential question: “Why did you do it?” Being pushed to the brink of distress and forced to question his own insanity, he claims unsentimentally that his actions were solely based on his emotions,…

contemporary conjecture establishes that the commencement of childhood experiences forms the adult into an serial killer. The purpose of the research is to analyze the mental, emotional, and physical state of a serial killer. Therefore, acknowledging their justification for committing crimes is the primary topic of the research. Prior research has shown, that the motivation for an serial killer commences from traumatic childhood experience, annihilation…

dolphins and sea lions, the killer whale became its icon. As of today there are 3 SeaWorld parks, the original in San Diego, California, another in Orlando, Florida, and a third in San Antonio, Texas. The Discovery Cove in Orlando provides guests the option of swimming with dolphins…

A documentary about killer whales may not be that intriguing when one first catches word of it; once the viewer takes a look, they understand why it has become a well know film and has spread like wild fire. Blackfish, a documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, discusses the negatives of keeping killer whales in captivity. It drives home the fact that industries who keep these large creatures captive, should be boycotted by the public. Blackfish uses literary devices to evoke the…

emotionally destroyed and are ticking time bombs that eventually explode. There have been over seventy occasions when an orca acted out on a trainer. A few incidents of when an orca acted out were when Orky crushed John Sillick while he was riding another killer whale or when Orkid pulled Tamari into the whale tank. Ken Peters was one of the lucky trainers at SeaWorld. Kasatka dragged him to the bottom of the pool. After continually being let go of and grabbed onto again by Kasatka, Ken Peters…

Mackenzie Adkins Professor Leslie Similly English 1213 June 18, 2017 Captive Killer Whales There are currently a total of sixty-two orcas held in captivity as of May 2017. Thirty-four of these whales were born in captivity and twenty-eight of them were captured from the wild (Robles). The popular marine park, SeaWorld, is home to the majority of these captive Killer Whales. Even though the park has announced that its days of breeding the Orcas is over, the whales are still mentally and…