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- 981: Agatha Christie
- ... suspenseful writings: "Readers of mysteries look for an absorbing puzzle, a well-paced plot, and a brilliant ending" (Gill, p.1). This is one reason why writer Agatha Christie has earned the title "Queen of Crime." Millions of people have read her detective stories for decades. Her first success came in 1926 with her novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. By 1980, Christie's books had sold more than four hundred ... The majority of Christie's mystery novels have basically five main series, each containing specific character or characters. These are the ever-so-famous detectives. In detective fiction, the detective must discover who committed the crime, and explain the puzzle or riddle the murderer managed to generate (Critical Survey, p. 345). The detective starts off with a blank slate, and then receives a series of clues , each of which needs to ... a reader confidently anticipates an ending that will satisfy expectations, but he can count on being surprised by the manipulation of details that lead to that ending" (C.L.C., Vol. 48, p. 78). CONCLUSION Crime stories have always been greatly undervalued by the literary establishment, and those who write them seldom run off with the Pulitzer Prize. And yet most of the fines works of fiction from the "Orestia" ...
- 982: Capitalistic Punishment
- ... such effect is apparent. "Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, the number of executions and the size of death row have substantially increased. Yet during this same period of time, the FBI Uniform Crime Reports show virtually no change in the national murder rate" (). Moreover, some sociologists like Hugo Adam Bedau in his book The Death Penalty in America suggest that these very executions intended to deter crime, may, in fact, incite crime through a "brutalization" effect, whereby a cycle of violence and murder is only intensified by government-approved homicide. Common sense backs up this empirical evidence. First, one can classify homicides into two categories for ...
- 983: The History of General Motors
- ... muscle cars like the Chevy Camaro and the Pontiac GTO. Combining lightweight bodies with powerful engines, muscle cars made speed and power available for a modest price. The Camaro--brought out in 1967--was partly computer designed. The 1963 Buick Riviera, the first personal luxury car, was a styling inspiration to the entire industry throughout the 1960s. Opel, Holden and Vauxhall experimented with sports cars and luxury sports cars. GM built ... first GM division to be started from scratch), as well as Electronic Data Systems and Hughes Aircraft. In the 1970s, the Chevy Vega had been the first American car to be manufactured using robots. Now computer technology began to make more of an impact on car design. GM tested computer models of cars to see what areas of the body were under stress, and adjusted the type of body material accordingly. Its Computer Command Control system went standard on all gasoline-powered models. The ...
- 984: Grace Murray Hopper
- ... in 1930, and her Ph.D. in 1934, along with two Sterling Scholarships and an election to Sigma Xi. While finishing her college education she married the New York University English teacher Vincent Hopper. Her computer technology life would soon begin following her graduation. Upon graduating, Grace was accepted to the Bureau of Ordinance at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]" not a problem for Grace. She would ... was a beautiful code." Grace was then forced to teach herself octal arithmetic, since that is what the code was performed in. A sort time after that, many people started to believe a user-friendlier computer was needed. Grace got to work on it. Grace was credited with the first compiler in 1952, the A-0. The compiler was "a set of instructions that translated mathematical code into machine language." ...
- 985: Examine The Social Conditions
- ... to the Industrial Revolution, soaring birth rates and higher age of death. The dramatic rise in the birth rate led to a lot of people being unable to find work and in desperation turning to crime. In 1776, Britain lost America as a colony and also a place to send their convicts. British jails were in desperate ruin and ran in appalling condition. They were also overflowing and Britain needed to ... factors to the 18th century Britain. The lowering of the death rate meant more young people were surviving to have children of their own. The rise in the birth rate contributed largely to the overwhelming crime rate. Britain now had an influx of young people facing unemployment – something in such a large scale, that Britain had never faced before. Crime was often a form of desperation and many of the young faced crime or starvation. The swelling wave of crime helped shaped the laws. Britain had over 200 offences, mostly relating to property, which ...
- 986: Diplomatic Immunity
- ... weapons, and priceless artwork are all to common. In these cases, abuse of the diplomatic pouch is obvious, yet in some instances the sending country is also involved. Once a diplomat is accused of a crime in the host country the only means possible to bring the diplomat to justice is to have the sending country waive the diplomat's immunity. In most cases the sending country wishes to protect its reputation and ultimately the reputation of the diplomat, therefore refusing to give up immunity. The question of rescinding immunity brings up the second major aspect of this topic. When a crime is committed what options do the two countries have to solve the problem? The first option is to have the sending country waive the diplomat's immunity, allowing the diplomat to be punished for the ... The third solution is the complete severing of all diplomatic ties. The latter two solutions present many problems. Rejection of a diplomatic mission produces unwanted tension between nations and jeopardizes current progress. Many times the crime goes unpunished. Something must be said for the diplomats doing their job every day and making this world a little safer to live in. Most diplomats are courteous law abiding citizens of the sending ...
- 987: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... with a sarcastic and furious tone where he accused John Allan for not keeping his promises and blaming him for his debts at the University since he did not provide well enough, "it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me". Edgar also expressed that he felt that John Allan had taken him away from a better life which he could have had ... to a detective story to be found would be Voltaire's 1748 "Zadig". Poe referred to this new literary style as "tales of ratiocination", the word detective did not exist at the time. Problems with crime was spreading out in the US and the police forces were increased in American cities. The periodicals at the time reported of bloody murders and suicides which influenced Poe, and then especially articles he found ... discussed American poetry and Edgar also asked Dickens to find a publisher for a revised edition of the Tales. Back in England, Dickens asked several publishers but none of them were willing to help him. Crime and Detection Poe published several revisions of old poems and also a few new ones. One of them, which seemed influenced by Virginia's illness, was "Lenore", which handles the subject on how you ...
- 988: Legalization of Drugs
- ... countries are functioning that have less enforcement on drugs and what the statistics were after drugs were decriminalized. Within the last thirty years many groups have their attempts. The use of drugs is a victimless crime much like homosexuality. Homosexuals have fought for a great deal of freedom that is based on their basic human rights; the right to make decisions and act freely based on what is protected under the ... the United States in 1919, the results were very similar to today's drug trade. Alcohol quality was brewed illicitly; importers were considered criminals and behaved as such; protection rackets, bribes and gang warfare organized crime in the United States. (Boaz, p.118) The enforcement budget rose from $7 million in 1921 to $15 million in 1930, $108 million in 1988 dollars. In 1926, the Senate Judiciary Committee produced a 1 ... United States has cut back drastically on its alcohol and tobacco consumption are dangerous. The same thing must be done for other drugs. Pragmatically, the legal and controlled sale of drugs would not only reduce crime but channel valuable resources into treatment.(Riga, p.7) With the treatment of drugs as a medical problem, we can then and only then focus on the real problem: people and adulteration of supplies ...
- 989: “Technology and the Library Perfect Together”
- ... in Morristown”. They were not computerized then, I remember her handing out bookmarks with the Dewey Decimal System. Things have certainly changed since then. I feel very lucky to grow up in a time where computer technology is everywhere. At the library it is so much faster and fun to look up a book by computer, But just as much fun to go search for it on the shelf. Sometimes you find other books nearby on the shelf that interest you also and it helps you learn your way around the ... you don’t get to see very often. It also helps people who are not comfortable with computers become aware of how easy and helpful they really are. You can do virtually anything on the computer. I can’t remember when we didn’t have a computer at home. A computer is a part of our everyday lives, but it s also nice to turn it off and a read ...
- 990: The Drug War in America
- ... when in reality it was an act that would make it illegal for a physician to prescribe narcotics to addicts. This caused the addicts to flock to hospitals and sanatoriums. There was and increases in crime as addicts were forced to desperate efforts to obtain drugs and illicit drug trafficking became a profitable venture. Rather then “free humanity from the scourge of addition” this law took it out of the physician ... concerning the mandated sentence for crack is the fact that a person could surely overdose on 500 grams of cocaine but would be much less likely to overdose on 5 grams of crack. Reports that crime is down due to the success of the drug war may not be accurate. One reporter for the Washington Post state that reports that say that violent crime has decreased since 1993 fail to take in to account the “usually high levels of violence that prevailed in the late 1980s and early 1099s”. (Las Review-Journal) The violence associated with the street ...
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