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Alfred Hitchcock School Library
1,607 words... for a peeping Tom killer in his forties (the age of the murderer in Bloch's novel), the director proposed using a much younger character and even suggested to the writer that Perkins get the lead role (Rebello 111). When Hitchcock began production on PSYCHO, he was told that he would have to use the facilities at Revue Studios, the television division of Universal Studios, which Paramount had rented for the making of the film (Rebello 112). Although he was unable to use his regular cinematog...
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Adolf Hitler Physical Evidence
1,646 wordsDuring the spring of 1945, the German army was retreating from the European battlefield. The Allies, aided by British general Montgomery and American general George S. Patton, were pushing the German army back from the western occupied zones. The Russian Red Army was pushing the Germans back from the eastern occupied zone. It was now clear that Germany lost the war and many of its soldiers were surrendering to the Allies. Although the Allied force's chief general Dwight D. Eisenhower was America...
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Legalism Confucianism And Taoism Character Of Judge Dee Philosophies
756 wordsThe character of Judge Dee is largely molded by the ideas of his time. During his reign, the philosophies of Legalism, Confucianism, and Taoism, were heavily relied upon for the basis of ethics within the common people and magistrates alike. Judge Dees persona is derived directly from the strictest teachings of these philosophies. As the revered district magistrate of Chang-ping province, his conduct was expected to serve as a model for the citizens. This expectation demanded he act accordingly,...
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Shell Hole Words Words
1,478 words... in the world of it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 151) But Baumer continues to wait and the sign does not come; quiet rapture does not occur. The room itself, and the pre-enlistment world it represents, become alien to him. "A sudden feeling foreignness suddenly rises in me. I cannot find my way back" (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 152). Baumer understands that he irredeemably lost to the primitive, military, non-academic the war. Ultimately...
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Edgar Allan Poe Superstitious Belief
2,129 words... group with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from hardening. Moreover, in one of the walls was a projection, caused by a false chimney, or fireplace, that had been filled up and made to resemble the rest of the cellar. " The narrator knew that he .".. could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious. "By means of a crowbar [the narrator] easily dislodged the b...
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Males And Females Killer Whales
1,028 wordsIntroduction Narwhals, the unicorns of the sea, are very mysterious creatures that are not widely known. They are whales with many fascinating features and historical value. This research paper is answering the question, What are Narwhals? . General Description Monodon Monoceros, Latin for one tooth, one horn#; or Narwhal, Norwegian for corpse whale, because of it mottled coloration suggests a bloated corpse#. Narwhals are in the white whale family, along with the beluga, but are actually covere...
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Stage Directions God Apollo
1,923 wordsAlcestis is a myth that is "the most touching of all the Greek dramas to a modern audience" (Lind 213). It is a tragicomedy by the playwright Euripides and it centers on the king and queen of Thessalia. Admetus, the king, has been fated to die yet, due to his alliance with Apollo, is given the chance to find a replacement. His wife, Alcestis, volunteers for the position claiming that she cannot imagine life without her husband. After Alcestis submits her life, Admetus discovers the pain of loss ...
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Ancient Egyptian Religious Architecture
1,320 wordsOne of the greatest cultural achievements of Ancient Egypt was undoubtedly in their architecture associated with religion. Temples, tombs and pyramids all have witnessed this earth for thousands of years. What better than to say that these architectural achievements show us that Egypt's greatest virtue lay in its architecture (Fumeaux: 11, 1964) When one travels to Egypt, what does he / she see pyramid after temple after tomb, each standing the test of time. One stands out they are all associate...
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Divine Laws Driving Force
1,820 wordsIn the play Antigone, Sophocles poses many different themes and moral lessons. The specific component I would like to focus on is selfishness and its effects. Through the characters various actions and ultimate fates, Sophocles teaches us that selfish, self-serving motives lead to destruction, loneliness and loss. Two characters that exemplify the consequences of selfishness are Creon, the King, and Ismene, Antigone's sister. Antigone, of course, being the heroin of the story reinforces this les...
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Irish Families 'folk' Music Corpse
732 wordsare short, aged, intoxicated, shoemakers, who are guardians of ancient treasure. Lepricans are normally dressed in pointed, or curled shoes and a green outfit. They avoid human contact for they have riches to offer a human once caught. The leprechaun is split into two distinctive groups - leprechaun and cluricaun. Cluricauns steal or borrow almost anything, creating mayhem in houses during the hours of darkness, raiding wine cellars and larders. They will also harness sheep, goats, dogs and even...
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A Tale Of William Burke And Hare
923 wordsWilliam Burke had travel to Scottland to work on the Union Canal, it is there that he met a young lady by the name of Helen McDougal. They left Scottland together to journey to Edinburgh, where they had to work on farms, sell old clothes and mend shoes just to earn enough money to eat on. William Hare had also moved to Scottland to work on the Union Canal, after the Canal was completed Hare moved to Edinburgh and found cheap lodging in a boarding house in a small area called West Prot. The owner...
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Dead Person Middle Ages
1,884 wordsDeath ends a life, Not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon Pagan roots of modern funeral practice Perhaps discussing of death and burial process is a welcome subject for most people, but it is an integral part of our life so we are to talk about these subjects. Some of the old practices were lost when indigenous religions encountered militant Christianity and were forced to go underground for survival. But however, parents transmitted their traditions to their children. I think in this way some old tr...
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Thousand Years Ago Similar In Many Ways
1,316 wordsBetween five and six thousand years ago, the Hmong people lived in todays Hebei province, said Professors Wu and Yang. Their leader at the time was the legendary Chiyou, and his people were known as the Jiuli tribes. The ancestors of the Han Chinese, ruled by leaders Huang Di and Yan Di, lived to the northwest of the Jiuli Kingdom. As Chinese population grew, they expanded southward into Hmong territory. A major war broke out between the two sides on the northwestern part of modern-day Beijing. ...
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Homer Baron Miss Emily Story
351 wordsA Rose for Emily is a very popular short story because of its, style, climax, and plot. The author, William Faulkner, was a Southern writer from Oxford, Mississippi. FAulkner bases this story on the tale of Oxfords aristocratic Miss Mary Neilson. She married Captain jack Hume, the charming yankee foreman of a street-paving crew, over her family's shocked protests. The style of this story is false romance. Miss Emily's father, before his death, would run off every man that tried to court her. Bec...
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Jeffrey Dahmer Serial Killers
2,653 wordsWhen I was Dahmer Childhood When I was a little kid I was just like anybody else. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer came into the world at 4. 34 pm on the 21 st of May at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee 1960. Little did his parents know at the time of his birth that there son would become one of Americas most famous serial killers not only for the amount of victims which he had killed but also for dismembering them and his necrophilic tendencies. Jeffreys childhood started like any other he ...
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Canopy Jars Body Parts
936 wordsMummification is the form of embalming practiced by the ancient Egyptians. The mummification process changed over time from the Old Kingdom, when only kings could be mummified to the New Kingdom, in which everyone could be mummified. The entire process of mummification to be completed took 70 days. After a body was delivered to the per never, which is where the embalmers conducted their tasks. The first thing that was done was put the deceased on a slanted table. The first thing that needed to b...
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Royal Society Eighty Years
3,387 wordsCan? la Analucinda Jaramillo " Truganinny" [] begins with an epigraph dated 1972, from Paul Coe, Australian Aboriginal Activist, stating that Truganinny " had seen the stuffed and mounted body of her husband and it was her dying wish that she be buried in the outback or at sea for she did not wish her body to be subjected to the same indignities. Upon her death, she was nevertheless stuffed and mounted and put on display for over eighty years" []. Roses persona poem finds Tru...
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House Of Usher Fall Of The House
1,034 wordsGothic Setting The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe has a gothic horror story setting. Gothic means that the author emphasizes the mysterious, the horrible, the ghostly and the fear that can be aroused in the reader. Everyone knows that a gothic story or a ghost story will often have a setting that will be in an old, decaying mansion far out in a desolate countryside. The mansion will be filled with cobwebs, strange noises, bats, and an abundance of secret panels and corridors, in w...
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Van Den Haag Death Penalty
4,062 wordsWhy Capital Punishment Should be Abolished Unlike popular belief, the death penalty does not act as a deterrent to criminals. As stated by Alfred Blumstein, Expert after expert and study after study has shown the lack of correlation between the treat of the death penalty and the occurrence of violent crimes. (Blumstein 68) Isaac Ehrlich's study on the limiting effects of capital punishment in America reveals this to the public. The study spans twenty-five years, from 1957 till 1982, and shows th...
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Organs Needed Match Corpse
427 wordsIt The Morgue The Morgue It was time to go now. The patient was in desperate need of repair. I had to go to the morgue. It never fails to be the most miserable type of weather when I make the trip. Cloudy, cold and dreary looking all around. So, off I went to find the organs needed for transplant. I arrived around 2 pm. I brought along an assistant in case I needed an extra pair of hands to remove the organs needed. We signed in at the front reception area and went in. Oh, the vast area of the d...
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