The Art of Murder
In "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Bargain" murder happens. Certainly, murder is one of the most vile, inhuman crimes a person can commit. Many people commit it willfully and wantonly, but few get away with it without being suspected. General Zaroff got away with murder quite frequently, and Mr. Baumer also did. They were both good at it. Zaroff and Mr. Baumer were the most evil people in "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Bargain" because they were both very sneaky and smart about murdering, they both stacked the deck against their victims, and they were both murderers.
General Zaroff and Mr. Baumer were very sneaky and smart at committing the murders. General Zaroff "hunted"
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Slade stacked the deck against their victims. Zaroff was much more equipped to make his way through the jungle then the sailors. If his hunt took too long, he would send out dogs that could hunt down people with ease. He had much more experience and intelligence than the sailors he used. No sailor was used to walking through such a jungle, with it being so dense and having so many things that could trap them or make it harder to walk through it. Mr. Baumer also stacked the deck against his victim. He picked a day that was cold and harsh to switch the barrels. He knew that Slade couldn't read and he would have no chance to know what was in the barrel. The fact that he had hired Slade a while ago suggests Baumer had been planning a way to kill Slade for months. This gave him ample time to figure a way how to make it impossible for Slade to live and to work out all the bugs the plan might have had. Both Zaroff and Baumer made to next to impossible for their victims to survive because of the conditions of the murders. Zaroff and Baumer were both very evil, cold-blooded murderers. Zaroff knew he was killing innocent people. He had hunted people so many times that he was used to murder and probably started to like it. He made all the sailors exercise so that he would have more fun, and it would be more of a challenge for him. Baumer was almost as bad. He had planned to murder Slade for awhile, but he was waiting for the right time so that he could get
The Murderers Are Among Us, directed by Wolfe Gang Staudte, is the first postwar film. The film takes place in Berlin right after the war. Susan Wallner, a young women who has returned from a concentration camp, goes to her old apartment to find Hans Mertens living there. Hans took up there after returning home from war and finding out his house was destroyed. Hans would not leave, even after Susan returned home. Later on in the film we find out Hans was a former surgeon but can no longer deal with human suffering because of his traumatic experience in war. We find out about this traumatic experience when Ferdinand Bruckner comes into the film. Bruckner, Hans’ former captain, was responsible for killing hundreds
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, there are two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff. The story starts off with Rainsford and Rainsford’s hunting partner, Whitney, on a yacht heading to Rio de Janiero to hunt big game animals. Rainsford ends up becoming trapped on Ship-Trap Island, and that is where he and the reader are introduced to General Zaroff. Unfortunately for Rainsford, General Zaroff is not your normal General. General Zaroff and Rainsford are similar and different in many ways, and even though Rainsford believes that Zaroff is a sick individual, at the end of the story he becomes more like Zaroff than he realizes.
To begin with, Zaroff considers himself as a civilized person because of the various quotes from the story. For example, “Oh yes,.. I have electricity. We try to be civilized here.”(Pg 50). From this we can infer that Zaroff has many uses for his electricity, but in the wrong way in people's mind. First off, he used the electricity to show sailors that there is a blatant channel marker to get hunters and sailors on the island. This is how Zaroff gets his victims, this is how Rainford and his crew
Gramsci conceived of hegemony when he was imprisoned by Mussolini’s Fascist regime. He was interested in understanding how a state could remain in power and maintain its control even when so many people were oppressed by it. Gramsci developed his concept of hegemony to understand how forces of power can lead people in the lower class to maintain the status quo rather than rebel against it even in the face of oppression. He maintained that control does not always happen through violence or political and economic coercion but also through ideology. He states that hegemony is the “political leadership...consent in the life and activities of the state and civil society” (Gramsci SPN Q10,I§12). In this sense, Hegemony is defined as, “the ‘spontaneous’ consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group” (Lears 1985: 568).
General Zaroff was a war general who escaped to the caribbeans. He found pleasure in killing others as a sport. In WW1 the Russians were killing the Germans and Austrians. This could have triggered why Zaroff likes and thinks killing others is okay. “So I bought this island, built this house, and here I do my hunting. The island is perfect for my purposes—there are jungles with a maze of traits in them, hills, swamps […]". During this time no one owned the Caribbean's so for him this was a good place to live and continue his killing streak. There are many ways to trap victims in the jungle like dead-ends, pouncing, and booby traps. In WW1 they used many of these techniques and more like a pit of spears or gun traps. This story was an insight of what the narrator and Zaroff saw during
Loss of life does not bother him though, in fact nothing really does. This man is insane. He was once an avid animal hunter, but eventually, he got bored because hunting common animals became too easy for him. So he decided to bring men to his island, “the ultimate prey.” When he first meets his victims he treats them nice… right before he locks them in a cellar to train them to be hunted. How gruesome is that? To be stuck in a cellar so that your murderer can train you how to die right. Although inhumane do not mistake this murderer for stupid. This man was a high ranking, respected military officer and avid hunter well known for his skill. While being hunted this how the narrator portrays Rainsford’s experience: “Something was coming through the bush, coming slowly, carefully, coming by the same winding way Rainsford had come.” Zaroff paused, almost beneath the tree; he dropped down and studied the ground. He shook his head and walked away smiling.” (**) The Most Dangerous Game Throughout this twisting book of survival Rainsford repeatedly sets traps for Zaroff and each time somebody with Zaroff is, whether it is his dogs or faithful bodyguard; he barely even blinks an eyelash as each of his loyal followers die. Zaroff is finally outsmarted in the end but he will always be known as a true evil
The next main cause for the war was that there was a large amount of overwhelming nationalism coming in abundance from both sides. Germany (the Germanic Empire at that point) was one of the most nationalistic countries. They would teach children from around 1st grade all the way to the point where they could enlist in the war that there is nothing more honorable or...
The most significant causes of World War One include alliances, nationalism, and imperialism, but there are multiple other reasons that led to the tensions that created this war. This was one of the biggest, bloodiest wars in history, as almost the entire world was involved in some way. At the time it was called “the war to end all wars”, but unfortunately that was not true; it was just so giant compared to previous engagements that people couldn’t see how it could possibly progress past the state it was in. This war was inevitable with the pride of the countries involved; they were bound to clash heads eventually.
“About 13 of every 10,000 babies born in the United States each year is born with Down syndrome. It affects an equal number of male and female babies” (Johnson P. A. 2014). Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that found across the world, however it is more prevalent in the United States. The cause of the disorder roots to the paring of the human chromosomes. A normal human receives 23 pairs of chromosomes, each pair coming from mother and father. In Down syndrome most people affected have an abnormal cell division of the chromosome. Both parents are carriers of the There are three types of variations that includes trisomy 21, mosaic, and translocation.
calmed with the plant (Young). Marijuana can help the world out of the economic rut it has found itself in. It might not fix everything, but it could be a huge leap in right direction, as it has been in places such as Colorado, where, in a mere month after it became available legally, the state made over $1 million in taxes alone, and predict that they’ll $100 million annually (Mundahl par. 2-3). And yet, laws against marijuana, criminalizing it, exist. These laws were founded many years ago based upon nothing but ignorance and fear, and ignorance and fear remain the only true reasons why marijuana is illegal today.
In the story The Most Dangerous Game a character named General Zaroff has a passion for hunting. He has been hunting since he was born. He has hunted every animal known to man, but, then he gets tried of hunting the same animal over and over. So he discovers a new animal human flesh. General Zaroff is person of bad character because he is cruel, cowardly, and untrustworthy.
What in my opinion was the least important reason, for the war starting was how much richer all the countries were getting. England, Germany, France and Russia along with others, were all expanding their empires and in doing so they became a lot richer. England used their money to create a powerful navy, one that was said to be the “rulers of the waves”. Germany too was building a strong military and navy to compete with Britain’s. Countries also started building a new type of battleship called, the Dreadnought, which were stronger and faster than any other types of warship- these were created in 1906 – 8 years before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (whom will be explained further on in this essay) and before World War 1 was declared as a state of war. This contributed to the start of the war as, these empires had the devices, ships and armies they would need for a small war, at the very least. This meant that the countries would be less scared to take part in or declare war, as they probably thought they had a high chance of winning.
The media represented the murder of Mathew Shepard as the perfect example of a hate-crime. However, JoAnn Wypijewski, in her article titled “The Boys Life” (Wypijewski 1), takes a deeper look at the case of Mathew Shepard and comes up with a more accurate thesis on why violence occurs in most situations. At the end of her essay, she writes, “It's said that hate-crime laws symbolize a society's values. If that is true, it means gay people are recognized only in suffering, and straight people are left off the hook. It means Shepard may stand for every homosexual, but McKinney and Henderson stand just for themselves. It means nothing for life and everything for death” (Wypijewski 13). She argues that this quote is completely false and is the media version of what happened to Mathew Shepard. In reality, she explains her thesis on violence through this false quote, she expects the reader to come up with the correct version of this quote. The version believed to be correct by Wypijewski is that straight people and gay people, everyone is equally connected to this case and anyone could have been in the spot of Shepard or the killers. In reality, Shepard not only stands for every homosexual, but for everyone, and McKinney and Henderson do not stand just for themselves, but they also stand for everyone. The Media’s view shows people get nothing for life, but everything for death, no one would know who Mathew Shepard was if he was alive today. The correct interpretation of Wypijewski’s quote leads into her thesis on violence. Her thesis on violence is that both the perpetrator and victim are common individuals; violence is used to assert one’s manliness, and violence escalates from the original intention by men with self-esteem issues.
“There is very little that is new in crime. Similar patterns of behavior will emerge time and time again. People commit the same crimes for the same motives. They get caught because they make the same mistakes, and when arrested they trot out the same excuses. If they get away with it, it is often a matter of luck. I have been able to come up with a few simple rules which should always be observed when one is contemplating murder.” [Linda Crime Notes] The difficulty with committing murder is the elevated danger of being trapped. Once decided that murder is defensible, the predicament of how to do it and how to keep away from being found out are your initial feelings. Unluckily, the cops have turned out to be very sophisticated in their examination but there are ways to trick the police and the coroner's office. If more people knew how to blow up a car with Drano, or reason an enormous heart attack devoid of any bodily signs of foul play. A large number of unsettled or mysterious deaths in which much life indemnity policy would be remunerated without question, are rising. Using any intoxicating drain clog remover to bluster up a car is very effectual, yet it is very hard to heave off. You don't have to be connected to a murder in order to be a suspect in a murder case. If they find a piece of hair they will take it to a lab, anything to find the murderer. They don't just trace murderers "connected" to a murder. It could be anyone. The first thing you must do is make sure your intended victim is nowhere in view one hour previous to the car is on track. The second thing is that rubber gloves are very important; you do not want to leave fingerprints on a burnt out car or on the drain opener bottle. Disposing the rubber gloves at a...
types of situations in which a child may be taken away from their parents and siblings.