Nuclear Assault

The traumatizing scenes a man experiences during a plague probably haunt him throughout his life – if he manages to survive. In Jack London’s 1912 novella, “The Scarlet Plague”, London brilliantly narrates the life of an elderly man, Granser who manages to survive the lethal hands of the plague that decimated millions sixty years ago, reverting the once “colossal civilization” (16) to cave-man existence. Granser recounts the emergence of the Scarlet Plague and its catastrophic impact on society as he tells his savage grandsons the world before and after the epidemic. London’s use of imagery offers a graphic appeal to open the reader’s eyes and ears to the physical pandemonium of the plague, evoking to the reader’s soul the themes the plague symbolizes: reclamation of nature and reversion to barbarism and savagery, in the wake of the fear of dying from the plague. Jack London makes sure his readers grasp the magnitude of the plague’s destruction through inclusion of vivid, sensory details, making the past incident a present terror in the reader’s mind. Through Granser’s narrative, London discusses how the plague intensifies from a “scarlet rash spreading over a person’s face” (19) and body, marking the presence of the plague, to decaying bodies lying everywhere. This shows how a mere rash, which no one seemed to be bothered about before, turns millions of people into corpses, all within the span of an hour. London then describes the chaos the people in large cities are…

During the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries the spread of the plague struck society with a variety of responses throughout Europe. First, fear caused the fabric of society to crumble apart with the upper, middle, and lower classes to leave behind their regular activities and the rich to flee towards safety. Second, people of all classes began moving toward religion and the church as salvation from the plague. Third, theologians and physicians strived to find the causes of this wretched…

words. Domestic violence can be defined in two terms social and legal. Most of the time domestic violence refers to violence between married or couples who live together, but domestic violence can also include violence against household members, children, and relatives. Over the years the laws of domestic violence have changed, now there is more security for the victims and a rougher penalty for the offender. Domestic violence is a subject that keeps growing therefore there are more laws against…

be reported as a separate, distinct crime, rather than just a part of another offense. As you can see NIBRS provides greater specificity in reporting instead of categories. NIBRS collects the details of crime incidents; it allows much greater specificity in reporting. NIBRS has a new scoring category called “Crimes Against Society” to account for crimes such as drug and narcotic offenses, gambling offenses, pornography/obscene material, and prostitution offenses. They are not Crimes Against…

Violence Another major viewpoint from which violence is studied is the criminal justice system. In the United States, the four primary categories of crime considered a violent crime are: Murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault A violent crime can be defined as, “the use or threat of force against the victim” (Dale & Smith, 2013, p. 374). Statistics suggest violence may be more prominent in the south, between minorities and in poor neighborhoods,…

Hate crimes are crimes that someone commits based on their hatred to a person or a specific group of people. This may include, bias that they have against a person. But it could also be because the person doesn’t like one’s sexual orientation, religious preference, ethnic background, and quite possibly even their religion. Hate crimes are continuously growing at a fast pace according to yearly statistics and we see hate crimes all the way back to past times. Hate crimes go back in history in…

When it comes to the client’s diversity and how it relates to the crisis situation, all of her demographical information affects the crisis situation. The client is a young 27 year-old female. Her young age affects her thought process and how well she handles such stressful situation. Her marital status contributes to her crisis situation as well, due to the fact that around 1.3 million women are physically assaulted by their close partner annually within the United States (Billings, 2012). …

Laws”). There were 18 men allegedly responsible for the deaths of these three men. An all-white jury had only seven men in the end charged with civil rights violations. The sentences of those seven men were between three and ten years, an outrageously short period of time for how malicious the crime was. According to the article, these murders along with others were motivated by the civil rights movements going on at the time. In 1963, Medgar Evers was shot from behind by a white supremacist…

All individuals have the right to express themselves in whatever ways they desire, as long as it is done in a sane, humane, and harmless way. All individuals have their own unique identity; people have their own likes, dislikes, and preferences which set them apart from others. Using these different preferences and uniqueness can allow governments, universities, and other institutions to become successful by creating diverse environments with people who all have different talents and…

that there are not welcome in their community. Bennett, Levin and Mcdevitt describe hate crime offenders in four different typology: thrill, defensive, retaliatory and mission. In the thrill typology, offenders usually act in groups. Defensive typology, offenders attacks because they feel tret for territory and political power. The retaliatory typology is more after 9/11 attack. They dehumanized the other groups and believe that everyone is bad about the other group. Last, mission typology is…