Mass murder

behaviour in The Crucible and how dark desires and hidden agendas are played out. Abigail seizes the opportunity to try to take Elizabeth’s place, her husband and social status. She lies, manipulates and even goes as far as self-mutilation and murder (by falsely accusing people) to achieve her goals. • poppet/needle • false accusations “I saw Sarah Good with the Devil…” • liar – “an endless capacity for dissembling” • she claims to go to God, “I want the light of God” yet is

principles of Western civilization. Wars between nations have resulted in the deaths of millions of people, but it is the murders supported by the States that gave it a special reputation. Some 135 million people were killed by their own governments, and some ideas and not the claims were behind the violence.  Despite the tragedies of Rwanda, Srebrenica and Darfur, organized mass killings did not continue on a scale in any way comparable to the one it had already reached. But the idea of ​​improving

Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T., (1992). Understanding mass murder: A starting point. Federal Probation, Vol 56(1), Mar, 1992. pp. 53-61. Cette référence est un article très complet qui permet bien de poser les bases sur le thème des tueries scolaires. En effet dans cet article, un tueur de masse est défini comme une personne qui a délibérément blessée au moins cinq personnes et dont trois personnes ou plus sont tuées par cette même personne en un seul incident. Avant de pouvoir se spécialiser

intervention and further public unrest. Racism, crime, social disturbance, and real deprivation fed public perceptions that Whitechapel was a notorious den of immorality. In 1888, such perceptions were strengthened when a series of vicious and grotesque murders attributed to "Jack the Ripper" received unprecedented coverage in the media. "Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district

non-white cultures and civilizations “heathen” and “pagans” white people justified the inferiority of the non-whites. While in prison, Malcolm earned the nickname of 'Satan' for his extreme hatred towards the Bible, God and religion in general. (Mass Moments: Malcolm X Imprisoned) He famously converted to The Nation of Islam but was later assassinated by the movement. Malcolm X, one of the heads of the civil rights movement responded to racism in a very angry and extreme way. He could see

by the Islamic Revolution, and during the Iran-Iraq war. People who she loved were imprisoned and killed by the fundamentalist leadership. Her family lived in constant fear of government and military interference and reprisal. They could arrest and murder people for little to no reason. Satrapi was there and saw all of that. So the movie is really realistic. Seeing the Islamic Revolution through the eyes of a young girl is an exciting prospect. Especially when she has westernized. That part of the

programmes such as sitcoms or talk shows have been overwhelmed by a new wave : the abundance of reality shows. This new genre is centered around the routine and everyday life’s of celebrities or simple people. Nowadays, we can say that it is a real mass phenomenon. Indeed reality shows are everywhere, mostly in America and Europe of course, but also in poorer countries such as India. The concept was born in Germany, in 1970’s, but really has deepen in 1999 with the Big Brother : 12 candidates are

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german population to settle this area, Nazis launched a mass ghettoization of the undesirable in the central territory of Poland (the « General Governement ») and in Warthegau (Poland area annexed to germany), such those occuring in mid october 1941, when 53000 Jews were moved to Minsk, Riga, when 5000 Gypsies were resettled in Łódź. After the german invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the Einsatzgruppen started to carry out mass murders against entire jewish communities there as well as in Poland

thousands of deaths. He blames Hollywood for “glamorizing smoking” (l 34) / for making tobacco sexy. He accuses Hollywood films of being the “advertising agency” for tobacco companies (l 37-38) : he even accuses Hollywood of being an accomplice to mass murders (l 38-40) as they have a responsibility in the appalling / shocking figure of 10,000 daily deaths: everyday, 10,000 people die of tobacco-related diseases. He reveals that Hollywood manipulates and aims at (=vise) young teenagers (between 12