Essays on Gruesome

The song titled Formation is a black power trap anthem sang by songstress Beyoncé Knowles. This song opens up the soul and speaks to us on numerous levels. Its main aim is to clearly bring out the oppression and liberation of the black population in the United States of America (Scribner 5). This is due to the fact that both the visuals as well as the textual lyrics in the song aim at embracing the black race. Beyoncé in the song struggles to shun the stereotyping of the black population. She advocates for the liberation of their suppressed voices ...

Introduction

The connection between Colonial America, Atlantic trade and slavery helped in the development and growth of America’s colonies. Without slavery, it would have unmanageable for European colonists to develop the New World (Morgan 6). It is also inconceivable that colonists and settlers could have managed to settle and develop America without slave labour. Slave labour is the essential reason American was able to produce major consumer goods that became the basis of global trade of tobacco, cotton, rice, etc. (Dodson). Slavery and the Making of America is a documentary made by PBS that discusses the role played by ...

Argumentative Essay: Capital Punishment

Introduction Capital punishment is one of the most controversial topics pertaining to criminal punishment. For many years, this issue has been debated, yet until today, no conclusive position has been reached especially in the United States. Discussing the issue of capital punishment is important primarily because people are divided on whether capital punishment should be imposed or abolished. Furthermore, capital punishment raises an ethical dilemma that needs to be resolved since it is crucial in achieving a just justice system. This paper would like to argue that capital punishment is a just form of punishment.

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Introduction Capital punishment is the legal remedy afforded by the state that legitimizes the punishment of death penalty for those criminals who have violated a particular law. Such method of punishment is not new. In fact, in the history of mankind, the capital punishment has been observed. Various forms of capital punishment such as stoning, burning, hanging, beheading, crucifying, etc., can be observed in various societies and cultures of the world that goes back as far as history can tell. Today, the imposition of capital punishment has survived. And though there are modern ways of taking someone’ ...

Questions abound regarding the appropriateness of displaying horrific and gory images for the public to view. One instance that comes to mind is the images related to the death of Osama Bin Laden that the White House decided not to make public anymore. Society is divided whether White House should show the images or not. One side says it is important to show the pictures as proof that the fallen Al-Qaeda leader is indeed dead, while the other half is against it saying that everybody must be given decency in death and to ensure it will not trigger another ...

1. Holocaust is the story of Nazi atrocities going way beyond mere extermination of Jews. Doris L. Bergen, historian and an author gives new insights and nerve-chilling details using several survivor and eyewitness testimonies. Bergen has uncovered hitherto unknown photographs. The systematic extermination of Afro-Germans, non-Jewish Poles, the Soviets, and homo-sexual men, among others is far gruesome than what was thought earlier. Hitler’s men, police, and even his doctors were trained to be killers. Hitler’s regime created a sense of legitimacy to these vicious acts of genocide. Timothy Snyder describes in gross detail of how Jews on their ...

The United States government bears almost complete responsibility for the Massacre at El Mozote, as the U.S. President, Congress, and military encouraged the policies that led to the massacre, trained and armed the soldiers responsible, and covered it up. Apparently, the government of the United States played a key role in the massacre since its military trained the Atlactl Battalion, a unit of the Salvadorian armed forces, in order to combat the Salvadorian guerilla. The Atlactl Battalion was an elite unit and the government of the United States was extremely proud of having taken part in its creation. Therefore, the government ...

Victims of Violence

Photographs portray deeper messages than written stories hence have over time become the major methods journalists use to ensure their stories stick. Pulitzer Prizes are given to journalists who have the most gruesome photographs. Readers ethically get repulsed by such images despite the fact that they really want to know what happened. The immediate impact of these photos is that they spark emotional response. Photos have a greater impact in the transmission of the message than written words (Godwin 1983). Many people who are not addicted to reading or rather can’t read at all at least peruse the ...

Vygotsky and Luria: Soviet Psychologists

Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria were two Soviet psychologists that were rejected their own country, and it was only in the 1970s when it began to be taken into account in the United States of America, mostly due to Cold War prejudices. Thus, their theory has not been so profoundly studied. Also, many researchers have questioned the authoritative nature of the available translations, which could be obscuring the comprehension of what these researchers were truly proposing, which is usually called cultural-historical psychology. This label, however, “does not reflect the genuine self-concept of the respective researchers. Rather, both designations originally ...

Hotel Rwanda is the portrayal of a violent disagreement between the radical nationalist Hutus, who waged war on the Tutsis. The Tutsis were considered a minority but had still been granted power over the area by the Belgian colonies when they departed. The film follows this disagreement in power and how it brings about discriminations and prejudice, eventually leading to ruthless acts of violence such as genocidal massacres. The film also follows one man, Paul Rusesabagina. He is a Hutu and a successful hotel manager who is doing well for himself and his family. His wife, Tatiana, is a Tutsi. She spends parts of ...

The Museum of Tolerance Experience

Travelling Back to the Gruesome Years of Intolerance:The Museum of Tolerance Experience I know very well the history of the holocaust during the Nazi Germany. I know that Jews were evicted from their homes, brought down from their profession, were made to live in the concentration camps and killed. However, my tour to the Museum of Tolerance in San Diego, California was different to the point that I cannot hide my goose bumps. The technology made the scenes interactive that things appeared to be in the present tense. The portion where they showed us the concentration camps with ...

Abstract

First responders who are also referred to as emergency medical personnel are often considered as a high risk occupational group due to fact that they face a wide range of mental and health consequences because of the exposure to various critical incidents. If first responders are affected by such things, it becomes almost impossible for them to perform their jobs to the best of their ability. Therefore, there is a great need for intervention procedures to initiate for first responders to ensure that they are not affected by the exposure to critical incidents. These interventions should be designed to ensure that even ...

Zero Dark Thirty is absolute thrill-ride starting from the very first shot of the movie till the last shot. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Noel are one of the very few genuine creators in the cinema industry. Hurt Locker was a masterpiece. The amount of research and authenticity that the visionary director dedicated in the creation of this visual ecstasy is unbelievable. The writing of Mark Noel is crisp and flawless. The originality and the depth of the screenplay, story and acting is amazing. The facts and figures are mind-blowing. The skeleton of the movie is comprehension on some basic factors ...

Zero Dark Thirty is absolute thrill-ride starting from the very first shot of the movie till the last shot. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Noel are one of the very few genuine creators in the cinema industry. Hurt Locker was a masterpiece. The amount of research and authenticity that the visionary director dedicated in the creation of this visual ecstasy is unbelievable. The writing of Mark Noel is crisp and flawless. The originality and the depth of the screenplay, story and acting is amazing. The facts and figures are mind-blowing. The skeleton of the movie is comprehension on some basic factors ...

New images usually shape the culture of the society in both profound and deep ways. This implies that photojournalism normally has a long and even a cherished tradition of truthfulness. Faking the photographs either by stage direction or picture manipulations has also claimed a long tradition. The media has been criticized for broadcasting very many gruesome images, which have hardened towards the violent injustices. The term photoshopping is slowly becoming synonymous with the photo manipulation. However, this practice is aging out with the new establishment of computer software, which is as old as the photography itself. Some commentators argue that photographic as ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a novel and a collection of short stories related to one another. It talks of the war with a protagonist that shares the author’s name. However, perhaps the most interesting character in the book was Kiowa. He was American Indian and was raised a Baptist by his father who taught Sunday school. In the midst of war, Kiowa brought rationality and a sense of calm to the members of the Alpha Company. Kiowa was kind to everyone, and it was apparent that he was Tim O’Brien’s closest friend, although it was ...

The Theme of Death in the fiction of R.L. Stine Child fiction unquestionably requires an extra surge of imagination on the author’s part and horror fiction requires an even more elevated form of that creativity. When one thinks of horror fiction writers there is a limited list of good authors. R.L.Stine undoubtedly tops that list and is widely renowned for his horror stories especially among teenagers. He shot to fame with his series ‘Goosebumps’ and the extensive use of plot devices in his stories set them apart from other works at the time. However there is an inevitability ...

Everyone suffers from guilt sometime in their life while some people suffer these bitter feelings for a lifetime. Guilt is a bothered conscience that occurs when a person commits an offense, crime or violates a moral standard or code. It is associated with the beliefs of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A person’s guilt not only affects his/her own life but also the lives of everyone involved. This particular emotion is the subject of my analysis in which I have chosen to evaluate the novel, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” written by a Colombian writer, novelist and journalist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...

Introduction

USA has the highest percentage of prison population than any other country in the world. Over the last 35 years, USA has seen a boom in the rate of incarceration by increasingly relying on its strategy of building and filling prisons for crime reduction. USA took about 160 years to gather its first 1 million inmates and another 1 million just took 12 years. It is estimated the prison population witnessed a 321% hike between the years 1980-2000 when the total number of prisoners went from 315,956 to 1,329,367 (Kovandzic & Vieraitis, 2006). Statistics show that prison population has ...

A Military Coup for the Wrong Reason

Looking at the history of human civilisation, one can understand that there were more wars then times of peace and diplomacy. Nations and people can be in various forms of confrontation with one another, but one of the most curious and specific is the civil war. When someone is asked about perception of civil war the answer would often be that it has something to do with national uprising against undemocratic government or military coup against the existing legitimate government, when civilian population is involved one of the sides or simply in-between. In most of the cases, this way ...

The eight pieces of writing we are analyzing for this assignment have many common themes. Love, war, loyalty, death, and peace are all themes I noticed in the readings. This essay will focus on the theme of peace in the selected readings. Peace is thought of by some as the opposite of war, but it can also be an inner peace, the absence of conflict, or a feeling of calm or contentment. As I read each piece, I was struck with the thought that each story had at least one death in it, and from each death came some sort ...

For Cause and Comrades

Introduction For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a book by James M. McPherson about the civil war. The book draws heavily from 250 diaries and 2500 letters from 1000 Rebel and Yankee soldiers. In the book, McPherson explores the factors that kept the soldiers motivated and engaged in the horribly bloody and gruesome war. Using the letters and diaries, McPherson provides a comprehensive set of ideals that he believes were some of the key reasons why the individuals kept fighting in this war. In For Causes and Comrades, the author’s thesis is ...

The term “monster” in history has come to be associated with creatures which do not resemble human beings and pose a threat to the existence of man. Monsters are capable of affecting people in a metaphorical sense by influencing the humaneness of humanity, such as the despotic acts of tyrants and the brutality of serial killers. In a literal sense, monsters assume the form of the fictive beats in horror stories or the anthropophagous predators in nature. Sufficient ontological examination is necessary to determine whether monsters happen to be innately evil. But monstrosity is not limited to deviant appearances but extends ...

Introduction

Very many civilians are of the opinion that soldiers live extremely secretive lives. They believe that the soldiers are always in battle with enemies or they are constantly getting bombed and mortared. The civilians therefore believe that danger is a constant thing in the soldier’s life. On the soldier’s part, most of them view the civilian life as bland and boring. They perceive that most of the civilians have unimportant jobs that contribute to the boring nature of their lives. The major difference between the military and civilian lives is that soldiers are expected to lead disciplined and ...

- Introduction, General Overview, & Thesis Statement. The Central – African nation of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is richly endowed with minerals and natural resources. Despite the presence of these endowments, this population of this country continues to live in abject poverty. The country has had a gruesome history since the colonial period. King Leopold of Belgium was allowed to colonize the country during the Berlin Conference of 1884 that was intended to partition Africa among various European powers. Despite never setting foot in Africa, King Leopold of Belgium treated Congo as his own property. His colonization process was characterized ...

Death Penalty alias Capital Punishment refers to the execution of a convicted criminal who has been sentenced to death on the ground of a capital offense. Capital offense deserving death varies from country to country in the world. In most of the countries, death penalty is awarded for the offense of espionage, murder and treason. In Islamic nations, those guilty of sexual crimes including rape, incest, sodomy and religious offense are condemned to capital punishment. There are many countries where human trafficking, drug smuggling and serious crimes of corruption are considered as punishable offense by death. History of death penalty dates ...

A Summary

War came naturally to Rome. Slaughter and cruelty were pillars of the Roman culture. The fact that Rome had ruled close to over one sixth of the World’s population at one point in time had a by-product and the innumerable inhuman suffering of slaves and gladiators was only one of these by-products. Even while at war and later, Roman armies are known to have indulged in human slaughter. Warriors would brutally crush the one weak link of their team to death. At other times, they would coolly kill another soldier of their army, ‘for his own good.’ Cruelty was ...

The mention of Holocaust brings to mind probably the greatest agony in history that mankind has ever faced. It is agonizing to even imagine the world being revisited by the horrendous events between 1938 and 1945. More than six million people (most of them Jews) were murdered in a state-sponsored spree led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party in Germany during the World War 2. The event of the Holocaust have been captured in several books and films each trying to capture the horrific memories of the events in the best way they know how. In the film Night ...

The Asian Horror films that we have viewed for the previous ten weeks were impressive to analyze and view. Last term, I had the experience of attending the lecture of a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film; this term is much different. In contrast to the last term, this term included diverse horror films from different countries in Asia, and last term was Japanese films only. Each film during this term has their own characteristic including directing style, unique way of thrilling the audience, and the way in which the message and theme of each film is delivered. Comparing the genres of Asian ...

Introduction

Hans Bellmar and Cindy Sherman are great photographs whose photographs change the photo industry and influence it in a variety of ways.

HANS BELLMER BIOGRAPHY

Hans Bellmer born on 13 March 1902 in a Kattowitz city, which by then was in the German Empire, but now is Katowice of Poland is a well-known German artist for the pubescent female dollies that he created in the mid-1930s. He started the doll project to be in conflict with fascism of Nazi’s by announcing that his work will not back new German public. A sequence of occasions in Bellmer’s personal life is what the catalyst to ...

Hate Crimes in North Carolina

Hate crimes are among the major type of crime committed out of bias and act of discrimination. In the United States, hate crimes prevail because of the differences in ideologies and cultural beliefs. However, the reasons and method of committing hate crimes vary from one state to another. In this paper, North Carolina would be the center of the topic surrounding hate crimes because of the many factors that would point out the state to be one of the places plagued by such crime. The definition and quick overview about hate crimes would be presented together with statistical data ...

In the history of American society, there were both gruesome and inhuman events and policies. There were times when people were not just denied of their human rights, but even of their human nature and inborn equality. Slavery and racial segregation are humiliating features of American history. Some might suggest that they should be forgotten and life should take its normal pace of democratic development. I think that by forgetting the gruesome past of the history, society is doomed to repeat it, and by rejecting the atmosphere people lived and died in, modern society is also forgetting sacrifices of ...

On May 2, 2011, the US Navy SEALs performed an operation that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. There are photos of his body, but they have not been released to the American public, despite many people’s requests to the contrary. However, there are many good reasons to not release the images. The photos of Osama bin Laden should not be released, due to their gruesome nature, the insensitivity of the act, and the absolute lack of political gain.

The image of Osama bin Laden’s death is too gruesome for the average viewer. According to ...

‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell

My favourite poem in the English canon is ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell, written, most scholars agree, around 1649, when Marvell was employed as a tutor to Maria Fairfax, the daughter of Sir Thomas Fairfax, commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary Army during the recent Civil War between the King and Parliament, but only published posthumously. It is a poem that is often found in anthologies, both for schools and colleges, all around the English-speaking world. Marvell wrote many other lyric poems, but most readers know his work only by this poem. It is my favourite because its imagery and ...

The main theme of ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell is known by the Latin phrase ‘Carpe diem.’ This means ‘Seize the day’; in other words, live life to the full now, because life is short and tomorrow we may be dead. It was a very common theme for poets to write about in the 16th and 17th centuries, perhaps because life and death were more unpredictable, life expectancy was shorter and medical knowledge very primitive. Another notable feature of this poem is its syllogistic structure: it is a carefully constructed argument. The first verse paragraph presents one possible scenario; ...