...Rebekka Westermeyer ENG Comp 1 McGough 3/12/2015 The Gothic Novel In the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century, gothic fiction arose as a new genre in the literary field. Functioning as cult literature gothic literature compels readers to think, and really consider the immense emotion writers could stimulate. Often overly dramatic with its supernatural, horrific, and suspenseful material, this melancholy form of literature prompted the use of darkness and mystery in order to spawn feelings of obscurity, secrecy, and trepidation. Gothic literature operates as a pulp genre that was often seen as an intense type of romance with its stylized, non-realistic, idealized or emblematic tales presented in the form of an adventure through the use of a discovery quest. Yet its evocative powers of horror and terror explore the gratification and titillations of shockingly perverse. Before being applied to the context of a literary form the term gothic originally referred to an ancient Germanic tribe that derived from what is now known as southern Sweden, before migrating to the shores of the Baltic Sea known as the Goths. This tribe eventually split into two factions that would be known as the Visigoths or West Goths and the Ostrogoths or East Goths. Centuries would pass before the term gothic would once again emerge this time with a different meaning. Sometime during the renaissance Greco-Roman culture was rediscovered by Europeans. In this rediscovery the term “gothic” now referred...
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...A Red, Red Rose BY ROBERT BURNS O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun; I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve! And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my luve, Though it were ten thousand mile. The Castle of Otranto- Summary The novel begins with the impending marriage of Conrad, son the lord of the Castle Otranto, to Isabella. On the day of the marriage, Conrad is mysteriously struck down by a helmet that falls from the sky and crushes his skull and killing him. Remembering the curse set over the inhabitants of Castle of Otranto declaring that, should they become too proud, they will be replaced by another family, Conrad’s father Manfred panics. Afraid that his family is about to be ended, he decides to divorce his wife, Hippolita, because she has failed to give him a healthy son. Instead, he will marry Isabella himself and attempt to continue his line. But Isabella escapes. Aided by a peasant, Theodore, she manages to escape to Friar Jerome who gives her sanctuary before Manfred can force her into marriage. Infuriated at her attempt to thwart him, Manfred sets out to get Isabella back,...
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... } RequestProcessor processor = new RequestProcessor(collection); int numberOfThreads = 5; Thread[] threads = new Thread[numberOfThreads]; for (int index = 0; index < threads.length; index++) { threads[index] = new Thread(processor); threads[index].start(); } try { for (int index = 0; index < threads.length; index++) { threads[index].join(); } } catch(InterruptedException ie) { ie.printStackTrace(); } ThreadStatisticsSetup.print(); } One possible output is: Tabulator: 1 Count 1137 for candidate Bill O'Reilly=20.695303967965053% Tabulator: 1 Count 1077 for candidate Ann Coulter=19.603203494721516% Tabulator: 1 Count 1090 for candidate Rachel Maddow=19.839825263924283% Tabulator: 1 Count 1094 for...
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...Introduction to Philosophy American Intercontinental University Philosophy ABSTRACT Throughout life, we deal with many day-to-day situations. Some come in forms of Mere Assertions, Circular Reasoning’s and Ad Hominem to name a few. If you ever knew what these terms mean. I will give a brief description and example of these meanings. There are nine different types of segmentations in philosophy that are used in the world today. The different segmentations are mere assertions, circular reasoning’s, ad hominem, red herring, pseudo questions, false cause, sweeping generalization, slippery slope and equivocation or changing meanings. These different segments play an essential role in our day-to-day environment. For instance, if you read in the newspaper that a crime was committed, that is an example of mere assertions. In society today, this phrase is heard repeatedly, “You do the crime, you pay the time.” This means that if you commit a crime you, will be punished to the extent of law. In some Middle Eastern countries, they cut your hand off for stealing. In the other parts of the world including the United States, you are innocent until proven guilty. They have to prove with a reasonable doubt that the individual committed the crime. This means that they have to provide evidence to the court showing that beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual was guilty of the crime. This is an example of mere assertions, if someone commits a crime you must have the...
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...In today’s society, the majority of the public receives its news from networks putting forth mass media broadcasts. Many of these news stories attempt to summarize published research studies; however, people need to understand that all of the information they receive from news networks are not always accurate and truthful. The article “Study says person's trustworthiness determined by how close photo is taken,” published by Fox News on October 25th, 2012, is an example of how a news network can present a story that is bias, and lacks information. The study, “Perspective Distortion from Interpersonal Distance Is an Implicit Visual Cue for Social Judgments of Faces,” conducted by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), tested whether or not a person’s trustworthiness is affected by how close their photo was taken. The study consisted of four experiments testing multiple audiences on various photos of white males. Each experiment had two pictures for the test participants to analyze; one picture was a man’s face from two feet away, the other being seven feet away. The subjects then rated the man’s trustworthiness by using the “trust meter” they received. For example, the mean trust investment difference in experiment one was 3.2 > 2.45 (far face - close face). The other three experiments had similar results, supporting the claim that the closer someone’s picture was taken, the less trustworthy that person will look in that individual picture (Bryan, Perona, & Adolphs...
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...Writing Good Columnist, Bad Columnist Paul Krugman Krugman's sentence syntax, word choice, clarity of argument and logical paths toward establishing a chronology of events specific to a given topic make him the easiest columnist for me to mentally digest. Not that his concepts or arguments are simple, but rather he sidesteps so many issues with language that other writers are not nearly as savvy at avoiding. In addition to his precision with language, he seems to be one of the few columnists who applies his creativity to typically innocuous aspects of a typical column, such as tying back the title of his piece to a common theme he hopes to point out. He even forgoes traditional SEO principles to maintain this tradition. Ann Coulter Coulter is not without her positives – however few they may be – and the two that I'm aware of are her differing sentence structures, and her incorporation of descriptive language to demonstrate her points. She points out propaganda and talking points of certain liberals and Democrats, though she typically uses this as hook for attracting non-neoconservatives to her creative conclusions. Her ultimate aim seems to be to deceive her readers, opposed to employing her observations on fraudulent emotions and language from Democrats for greater civic awareness, or leading the formation of a new, legitimate debate on a given topic. Her batting average for making valid arguments and conclusions is too low for me to recommend her to anyone...
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...Answer choice A is incorrect. According to the "Shakers: Part 1" video, the Shaker community did not practice marriage. Traditionally, all Shakers practiced celibacy- abstaining from marriage and sexual relations. The speaker in the "Shakers: Part 1" mentioned, "...although their religious views and, especially, the prohibition of marriage frightened many away..." The values of the Shaker community reflect that of a family; not a society of couples. Answer choice B is also incorrect. The "Shakers: Part 1" video and the website both maintain the fact that the Shaker community was celibate. The first video confirms "...[the Shakers] did not marry or bear children..." Therefore, the Shakers did not practice polygamy because they did not marry. This answer is furthermore wrong because the Shakers never moved to Utah. The "One of Last Shakers Talks About 'the Life'" article acknowledges the Shaker community's existence in places such as New York, Florida, Ohio, and Maine. In fact, the Shakers moved as far east as Tennessee; however, they never relocated to Utah. Answer choice C is false. The Shakers did participate in economic activities such as farming and manufacturing- but that was not the extent of their economic undertakings. Part 2 of the Shakers video expounds the variety of occupations the Shakers had. "The Shakers were farmers, carpenters, printers, bakers, merchants, chemists, and architects." Answer choice D is the only accurate answer choice presented. The website...
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...On August 4th ,1961 Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr. was black American from Alego, Kenya. His parents separated, and his father moved back to Kenya. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia when Barack was six. In 1970 Obama moved back to Hawaii, to live with his grandparents. They lived in a small apartment where his grandfather was a furniture salesman and his grandmother worked in a bank. Barack still managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, he visited only once, when Barack was ten. Obama later attended Columbia...
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...maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell, who raised him as their son to avoid the social stigma that accompanied illegitimate birth at the time. Family, friends, and even young Ted were told that his grandparents were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. Eventually he discovered the truth, but how and when is not clear. He told his girlfriend that a co usin showed him a copy of his birth certificate after calling him a "bastard", but he told biographers Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth that he found the certificate himself. Biographer and true crime writer Ann Rule, who knew Bundy personally, believes that he tracked down his original birth record in Vermont in 1969. Bundy expressed a lifelong resentment toward his mother for lying about his true parentage and leaving him to discover it for himself. While Bundy spoke warmly of his grandparents in some interviews and told Ann Rule that he "identified with", "respected", and "clung to" his grandfather, he and other family members told attorneys in 1987 that Samuel Cowell was a tyrannical bully and a bigot who hated blacks, Italians, Catholics, and Jews, beat his wife and the family dog, and swung neighborhood cats by their tails. He once threw Louise's younger sister Julia down a flight of stairs for oversleeping. He sometimes spoke aloud to unseen presences, and at least once he flew into a violent rage when the...
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...Bundy chose to serve as his own attorney during a preliminary hearing in Pitkin County. Bundy successfully escaped form the Pitkin County Courthouse during a court recess. Bundy was a fugitive for six days before his recapture. Bundy’s second escape lasted longer and had graver consequences than his first escape. Bundy fled from Colorado and went to Chicago. After leaving Chicago, Bundy went to Atlanta and then later to Tallahassee, Florida. While in Florida, Bundy entered the Chi Omega Sorority house and committed some of the most gruesome murders during his reign of terror. Bundy was convicted of murder for the Chi Omega Sorority murders. During the sentencing phase, Bundy took advantage of a unique Florida law and got married to Carole Ann Boone. It was reported that during his incarceration, he and Boone conceived a daughter. In 2014 an interview with a former prison guard explained how Boone became pregnant. This former officer explained that Bundy ejaculated into a condom and secretly passed the condom full of semen to Boone. Boone then hurried out of the prison and to fertility clinic where she was inseminated. The daughter from this strange sequence of events was born in 1982. Bundy’s legacy continued through a daughter that has disappeared into thin air (examiner.com). Bundy was saved from death on several occasions, but was ultimately put to death in Florida. Theodore Bundy was finally executed on January 24, 1989. Bundy’s ashes were spread in the Cascade Mountains...
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...Theodore Robert Bundy (a.k.a. Ted Bundy) is one of the most intriguing criminals this country has witnessed in the past century. A serial killer, rapist, and necrophile, Bundy had accrued a body count of thirty plus women over seven states before being caught in August of 1975. Bundy was ultimately given three death sentences, and died by the electric chair in Raiford Prison, Florida. Numerous books, films, and articles have been created about him and the horrendous crimes he committed, and his name is infamously known to almost every individual. It is reasonable to believe that Bundy may have possessed quite a few personality disorders, especially based on the crimes he committed and how he was described as an individual. My goal for this paper is to explore Bundy’s childhood, adult years, character qualities, and try to ‘diagnose’ him according to the DSM – 5 criteria. I hypothesize that Ted Bundy possessed antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). First, the DSM – 5 requires that the individual have significant impairment in personality functioning: in self functioning, either in identity, self-direction, or both, and interpersonal functioning, either in empathy, intimacy, or both. Based off various life circumstances of Bundy’s, I would argue that he was impaired in at least self-direction and empathy. The characteristics of his murders implies that he planned each rape and murder in a way that most deeply satisfied his sexual desires (goal-setting). He kept the bodies of...
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...Angela Jamison Mr. Grubbs Y.A. Literature 12 October 2012 Ann Brashares was born in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She became an editor when she decided to take a year off of school, but stayed there because she loved her job so much. She then wrote her first book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ("Ann Brashares author bio"). She said she got the idea from talking with a friend who shared a story about a summer where her and her friends shared a pair of jeans ("Ann Brashares author bio"). The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about how four very different best friends find a pair of jeans that fit all of them. They decide the jeans are magic because they are all different sizes. Carmen is bigger, Lena is tiny, Tibby is normal sized, and Bridgett is athletic, tall, and lean. So, if the jeans fit all of them, then they must be magic. They decide to share the jeans over the summer and send them to each other throughout the summer because they will all be in different places. Lena went to Greece to see meet her grandparents, Bridgett went to Mexico for soccer camp, Carmen went to visit her father, and poor Tibby was left working at the local grocery store. However, this summer would change all of their lives. For the most part, each one of them experiences a search for love even if they did not mean to. Lena fell in love with someone while in Greece, Bridgett with a soccer camp counselor, Carmen re-established her relationship with her father, and Tibby gained a new friend...
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...Forensic Science and Murder: The Ted Bundy Case Sheila Hawkins Criminalistics Abstract Forensic science is the foundational element of all crime investigation procedures. Recent advances in forensic technologies make possible to resolve even the most challenging crimes. This paper tells a story of Ted Bundy, a serial killer, whose case was solved with the help of forensic science. Implications and possible changes in case investigation are proposed. Keywords: forensic science, Ted Bundy, serial killer, case, solve. The Ted Bundy Case Forensic science is at the heart of all crime investigation procedures. Recent advances in forensic science make possible to solve even the most challenging cases. The contribution of forensic science to crime investigation is difficult to overestimate: according to Ribaux, Walsh and Margot (2006), forensic science facilitates accreditation, standardization, and interpretation of forensic evidence and ensures the scientific efficiency and objectivity of crime data. The case of Ted Bundy, a serial killer, is no exception: it is with the help of forensic science that the crimes committed by Ted Bundy were solved. The story of Ted Bundy is believed to have started between 1973 and 1974, when he committed his first murders. In just two years, Bundy managed to kill almost two dozens of girls (Ramsland, n.d.). Victims’ age ranged from 12 to 20; some of them were reported to be missing, whereas others vanished from their rooms, leaving...
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...index < 10000; index++) { int candidate = ((int) (Math.random() * 10000)) % 5; Integer integ = new Integer(candidate); collection.enqueue(integ); } RequestProcessor processor = new RequestProcessor(collection); int numberOfThreads = 5; Thread[] threads = new Thread[numberOfThreads]; for (int index = 0; index < threads.length; index++) { threads[index] = new Thread(processor); threads[index].start(); } try { for (int index = 0; index < threads.length; index++) { threads[index].join(); } } catch(InterruptedException ie) { ie.printStackTrace(); } ThreadStatisticsSetup.print(); } One possible output is: Tabulator: 1 Count 1137 for candidate Bill O'Reilly=20.695303967965053% Tabulator: 1 Count 1077 for candidate Ann Coulter=19.603203494721516% Tabulator: 1 Count 1090 for candidate Rachel Maddow=19.839825263924283% Tabulator: 1 Count 1094 for candidate Rush Limbaugh=19.912631962140516% Tabulator: 1 Count 1096 for candidate Glenn Beck=19.949035311248636% Tabulator: 2 Count 232 for candidate Bill O'Reilly=19.414225941422593% Tabulator: 2 Count 232...
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..."Twenty-one years ago on April 3rd, 1996 Theodore John Kaczynski was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. Ted Kaczynski was blamed to be the Unabomber that caused 16 mails bombs which killed 3 people and injured several during an 18-year period." As said by editors on History.com ("Unabomber arrested." History.com, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/unabomber-arrested. Accessed 10 May 2017.) All though Ted is still alive and well today he is 75-years-old. He has not been released out of prison, he is currently in the Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. "On January 22nd, 1998, Ted was put on trial and plead guilty on all counts of crime and was spared the death penalty. He was sentenced to four life sentences including 30 years in prison." According to History.com, they go on to say "After receiving his Ph.D. at University of Michigan, Ted became a professor at the University of California at Berkeley." As quoted on biography.com ",Kaczynski taught at the university of California at Berkeley before retreating to the survivalist lifestyle in the Montana woods." ("Ted Kaczynski." Biography.com, www.biography.com/people/ted-kaczynski-578450. Accessed 10 May 2017.) Although he did get arrested he did succeed in living off of the land for around 25 years, Kaczynski wasn't only successful in that but he is also very sharp-witted. Found on Biography.com "His parents pushed him to be academically successful. Kaczynski skipped two grades...
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