Superficial charm

Informal leaders can be anyone and they might not even really know it. The thing about informal leadership is that the judgement on whether or not an informal leader should be followed is based on an almost subconscious level and sometimes for superficial reasons. Informal leaders often spring up as the strongest or most attractive or most intelligent and maybe a combination of all three of these qualities or none of them at all. Ambitious leaders often pursue positions with formal authority. It…

When one thinks of a serial killer does their victims come to mind? Or does one think of the person behind the murders and what drove them to kill? Serial killers all have a situation that triggers them to commit murder. A majority of society views serial killers as insane for murdering. Despite these assumptions by society, only two serial killers have successfully pleaded guilty by reason of insanity. Society judges serial killers too harshly and they need to take a second to look at all the…

Now, out of my own journalistic curiosity, I spoke to a few other experts, and they said the pinstripe suit he wore when I met him was a classic indicator of a psychopath - it spoke to multiple items on the psychopath checklist: glibness, superficial charm and grandiose sense of self-worth. So at this point I asked "Well, why didn't he hang out with the other…

Introduction Ricardo Leyva Ramirez (Richards) was born on February 28th, 1980 in El Paso, Texas. He was born into a Mexican-American family, and he was the youngest out of five children. Richards had four brothers and one sister. Richards loved his younger brother Joseph, who was born with defects. He grew up with both parents, but his father was abusive, which made Richards very upset to see his father abuse his brothers. According to a short documentary, Richards was a happy child despite the…

To be classified as serial killer there has to be three important considerations. “Other suggestions are that there must be a motivation, that this motivation tends to be sexual, that the killer will fantasize about the murder and finally, that the killing is premeditated. To eliminate other types of killings like terrorism or assassinations, the murder itself must be the primary motivator. Once serial murder is adequately defined, a deeper look can be taken into the life of the murderer”…

Witchcraft, Fortunes and Tarot: An Interview with Wiccan Practicer In this ever changing society, the religion of Wicca has been one of the fastest growing faiths throughout the world. It is by those who believe in the respective values of nature and realized the intrinsic connection between these forces that truly illustrate the Wiccan belief. However, due to the romanticized portrayal of witches and their views in the media today, many are charmed by this craft but do not realize the true…

In the past and present the world has had many political figures that are either famous for their success or their cruelty. Their success and actions comes from their level of empathy. According to Merriam-Webster empathy is the ability to understand, be sensitive to, and experience the feelings of another. In looking for the level of empathy among the leaders I researched their upbringing, life circumstances/experiences, and health come in to play when developing empathy. It is debated whether…

A form of pathological liar makes up four percent of our total population, or roughly twelve million people in the United States alone, is destined by blood not made by choice. An abundant amount of people believe that sociopaths are developed due to the results and influences in their past as an adolescence but all sociopaths are born with a brain that differs those of the average human’s. Beverly Bird wrote an article entitled “Sociopathic traits in children” and said, “A potentially…

The play Tartuffe by Moliere is a play with many underlying complicated themes, and one of them might be the way it mocks the weaknesses of the characters. The play exaggerates the human folly of characters like Orgon and their inability to see beyond their narrowed perspective and believing everyone else to be following the same train of thought. Also, the play highlights the strict conduct blindly followed by french society like gender norms and religious affiliation and puts them out of…

Years later, I was a journalist in London when I was asked to report on a case about a criminal mental patient, Bryan, who was petitioning to get released. So I caught a train to Broadmoor – London’s premier mental institution for the criminally insane. I began to yawn uncontrollably on the way there, which apparently is what dogs do when anxious - they yawn uncontrollably. Once I arrived, the staff took me through gate after gate until, eventually, we got to the wellness center – the place…