When Prophecy Fails

John Wayne Gacy is one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. During a seven-year span of the 1970s, Gacy murdered 33 men. As is the case with many high profile murderers, to the average person, one would have to be insane to commit such acts, which is what Gacy 's defense claimed. The jury did not buy it though, and Gacy would be executed by lethal injection in 1994. Criminologists study why people commit crime, and assemble theories. Though there is yet to be a perfect theory…

be wrong. His stubbornness and hubris makes him failing at the end of the play. At first Sophocles explains that Creon has been just a leader, who manage laws and punishments very well. But he fails because of he didn’t…

Throughout the history of criminal justice, theories have been proposed left and right, leaving students like myself to try and figure out which ones still apply in our society today. Two theories that I find particularly interesting would be Sykes and Matza’s (2002) neutralization theory and the theory that stemmed from Frank Tannenbaum’s book, Crime and the Community (1938), the labeling theory. The neutralization theory basically states that criminals know they do wrong and it is not “in…

There is no doubt that people want to spend their life with the ones they love, however, one’s love for another may not be enough. The novel Everyday written by David Levithan explains the complex love between young individuals and their struggle to love each other no matter what. Essentially, the novel Everyday follows the main character A, who is an undefined being who wakes up in a different body every day. It is never specified whether or not A is a male or female, yet most people label A as…

Films plays and important role in media and society. All of our lives we’ve have watched movies and television and what we see on our screen is what we categorize as normal and acceptable behavior. Films can either progressively improve our societal view of typical archetypes, or they can reinforce negative stereotypes that are already so abundant in the media today. The two films I chose to write about were Pretty Woman and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Both films has positives and negatives…

be stopped from trying to end the war even if they still remain inside the domestic sphere they were patriarchally subjected to. Though as the play goes on, women begin to utilize male­centered language to gain power from the dominant point of view. When the men attempt to smoke out the women, the women respond with a masculine appeal of language, saying “Cover with grace these redeemers of Greece from battles, insanity, Man’s inhumanity. Gold­browed goddess, hither to aid us! Fight as our ally,…

Jesus remaining as a presence in the church (Mark and Mathew) and the promise of Jesus sending the Holy Spirit’s companionship (Luke [24:48]). In addition, Jesus is a spirit- an empowered servant whose work here on earth will appeal to Isaiah’s prophecies calling for prophetic justice (Isaiah [61:1-2]) without being predicative of the specific prophetic events like in Matthew [1:22-23] or Matthew [2:5]. I believe the tone of the Holy Spirit disseminating justice leads to compassion for the poor…

driving force in their world. The Druids were polytheistic, for them their main god Sucellus, the god of nature and natural function. They felt that life included, life death, and exstince in a heavenly world. They were praying to the god of nature when they realized that their empire was coming to an end. Unlike most people the Druids knew the importance of creating new empires so that the world could go on with their heavenly life cycle. The Druids knew to create their empire in heaven like…

identified as deviants in society aren’t the only ones who contemplate deviant acts, as the impulse to deviate is a human trait (Kirby et al., 2000). Becker (1973) suggests deviance is learned, not just a label, his view supported by the self fulfilling prophecy whereby those labeled assume the labels characteristics and join together with those similarly branded (Kirby et al.,…

himself. Was he Jewish or gentile? German or Czech? Militarist or pacifist? World War I found him surrounded by civilians who fell neatly into the categories of pacifism and militarism, but he himself was neither. The decision was made for him, however, when he developed tuberculosis. Consequently, he could neither enjoy a long life, nor sacrifice it for his nation. Likewise, Gregor Samsa is in a state of ‘purgatory’ in The Metamorphosis. He is neither entirely human nor entirely bug, as he…