Prince Leopold

It was the crime of the century in the 1920’s, it was committed by two wealthy college men, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Lobe. They wanted to prove that they were smart enough to get away with murder. They said it would be the perfect crime and went on to perform the crime for the thrill of it, “To kidnap a child would be an act of daring—and no one, Loeb proclaimed, would ever know who had accomplished it.” (Baatz 1). It was indeed not the “perfect crime” they imagined. On…

part of a much bigger world, hence freedom. In A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold expresses the theme of freedom and its limits through the…

“Give me a chance,” Xavier (Patrick Stewart) begged to Logan (Hugh Jackman) way back in Bryan Singer’s X-Men. “I might be able to help you find some answers.” And to paraphrase famous songwriter Bob Dylan, things have drastically changed. Since that has happened, comic book movies have taken over the movie screens. It’s an uglier world with uglier heroes and uglier villains, and “Logan” is the product of that world. All of those years and feelings together form the latest installment of Fox’s…

Broadly known as the father of “The Land Ethic,” Aldo Leopold brought to light a ever growing problem in the mistreatment of the environment, in his main work ‘Sand County Almanac’ (1947) he talks about the ecosystem as a member of a larger community that should be enlarged to include non-human elements such as soils, waters, plants, and animals or collectively the land, and that all forms of life are valuable. In his concept, land Ethic reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and…

Leopold and Loeb, a pair of teenage prodigies, were seen as perfect to the general public. This was until the boys committed what was known as the “Crime of the Century”. There were many reasons that the Leopold and Loeb case earned the title “Crime of the Century”. To start, kidnapping itself is a severe crime, especially when a child is involved. Although Leopold and Loeb spent months planning the crime, their victim could have been anyone in the area. They lived in a very wealthy area in…

Journal Two: Leopold Aldo Leopold’s The Land Ethic mainly focuses on the importance of developing a sort of ethic for interacting with the land or a symbiotic relationship with the land and the world around us. This piece touches on numerous aspects of our current relationship with the environment and what needs to be reformed and understood in order to improve this relationship. Although The Land Ethic was published in 1949, Leopold’s statements and evaluations made in this piece are…

How we should treat the environment? Do we have a moral responsibility to preserve the environment? The state of our environment these days is very crucial. Weather changes all the time. On summer days, we can expect the sun always brightly shining. During fall and winter, we can expect a calmer weather. But these have changed over time. It rains in the summer more than usual and it gets hot in fall and winter times. The weather change has been the new norm. Sometimes, the weather gets too dry…

Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb both came from wealthy families from Chicago, Illinois. Loeb was a troublemaker and has been obsessed with committing crimes all his life. It was just a matter of time where he would prove to everyone that he was capable of committing the perfect crime. Leopold, on the other hand, has not been much of a troublemaker. Leopold focused on his studies and was planning on attending the prestigious Harvard Law School soon in the future. During his studies, Leopold came…

Racial prejudice is a big issue within the courts globally. The biggest source of prejudice that the world receives is from government, and the information citizens get is what the government sees as suitable for the world to see. Discrimination in the courts comes from old political and social views, that in today’s society are seen as racist. The criminal justice and judicial systems are not color blind, they see deeper than African- American, Muslim , or Hispanic; they see the stereotypical…

Since the dawn of human existence, nature has been, as poet Emily Dickinson writes in her poem title, "the gentlest mother." The Earth has provided the human race with all of life's necessities, allowing us to prosper as a species, and reach for great heights. However, we repay this nurturing mother by depleting and destroying her, and one day, despite her immense strength, she will no longer be able to tolerate human excess. In the current, consumer driven American culture, value, and purpose…