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- 3011: Frankenstein
- ... murders start occurring. After the murder of William Frankenstein's brother, Victor's hesitance to accept responsibility for the boy's death causes a young girl to be hung for what was theoretically victor's crime. 'I believed in her innocence; I knew it. Could the demon, who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother, also in this hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death?' (Pg75 ...
- 3012: Freedom Through The Press
- ... press, for we have an extra challenge. Our third problem controlling the press. U.C.L.A. sociologist James Q. Wilson points out the curious fact that on city streets where broken windows go unrepared, crime rate soars. Why? the windows make an announcement: Here standards have been broken down, here no authority applies; Come and do what you like without consequences. Today, media has become a gigantic broken window to ...
- 3013: Personal Freedom In the United States of America
- ... social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and sedition laws. One law forbade the publication of false, scandalous or malicious writing against the government, Congress or the President. The penalty for this crime was a $2,000 fine and two years in prison. The public was enraged at these laws. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison pleaded for freedom of speech and the press. The alien and sedition laws ...
- 3014: Macbeth
- ... goal, including murdering his own flesh and blood. The most popular person in todays modern world that does fit the Macbeth mold is probably O.J. Simpson. O.J. has been proven guilty of the crime of murder. He has supposedly killed his wife, Nicole Brown. Why did he do it? Well, there may be many reasons. O.J. and Nicole were in the middle of a divorce. If the divorce ...
- 3015: A Democratic Society
- ... a way of telling ourselves that although morally we know what is correct we are not capable of doing so without outside interference. In other words we know that it's wrong to commit a crime but we choose to have police watch over us to make sure we don't break the law. The whole idea that society needs police to watch over us to keep us from doing what ...
- 3016: Materialism - The Great Gatsby
- ... materialism never constitutes happiness. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, a character who spends his entire adult life raising his status, only to show the stupidity of the materialistic attitude. Rather than hard work, Gatsby turns to crime and bootlegging in order to earn wealth and status to get the attention of Daisy Buchanon, a woman he falls in love with five years earlier. "He [Gatsby] found her [Daisy] excitingly desirable. He went ...
- 3017: Macbeth- Tragic Hero
- ... leader, and in the end, as a violent, desperate individual. In the first act, the witches awaken Macbeths ambition to rise to power. In the second act, Lady Macbeth encourages him to commit the crime necessary for him to fulfill this ambition. Throughout the entire play, his own insecurities lead Macbeth to rash actions to rid himself of his enemies, of which he often regrets. In act one, three witches ...
- 3018: Themes In The Great Gatsby
- ... wealth. Subsequently, reader is dazzled by the sheer extravagance of the time period-the glittering parties held on a regular basis, the shallow and fatuous guests whose extramarital affairs are commonplace, and the hint of crime and "underworld dealings;" all of which kill Jay Gatsby inside. All he wants is Daisy Buchanan. She is the epitome of his hopes and dreams-beautiful, wealthy, and unattainable. Daisy is fundamentally very similar to ...
- 3019: Corruption Of Dorian Gray (The
- ... corruption of Dorian Gray but yet is the result from the effects of the portrait. This truly evil painting not only causes Dorian to ingest horrible substances (opium) but to also commit immoral acts of crime. It is because of the portrait that Dorian kills one of his best friends, Basil Hallward. Basil is but one of the many victims of his own creation. It was Basil Hallward who had initially ...
- 3020: Cryptography
- ... help a lot to break the cipher. 4. Brute force. This method is basically to try out all the possible keys until a correct result appears. It can be time consuming but even a slow computer can break all of the simpler ciphers instantly. There are smarter versions of this which search first through more likely values, or manage to cut out large chunks of the search space by elimination before ...
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