The dark, ominous alleyways of London’s East End divulge a very gruesome history of women “ripped up like [pigs] in a market” (Grose). The area, once littered with the torn up remains of brutally murdered prostitutes, looms over the city as symbol for the story of one of the most notorious serial killers: Jack the Ripper. The case enthralls and captivates people’s minds even today, over 100 years later (BBC). This begs the question of how serial killers become part of history, an answer found in extensive media coverage. Time Magazine describes the phenomena Jack the Ripper left behind as a “rich legacy” and a “multi-million dollar industry,” eerily analogous to today’s coverage of serial killings (Grose). Jack the Ripper’s case provides an early example of the issues that arose with the advent of the serial killer—issues that still exist. The press has a unique role to play in serial killer investigations, but the line between helping and hurting society is often blurred. While the press has a responsibility to inform society of such serial killings in order to keep them informed and safe, publishing killer communiqués crosses ethical boundaries concerning the investigations and society. Journalism has a particularly interesting influence on crime and the justice system, which first began in the early to mid 1800’s (Feldstein). Urbanization had a big impact on the development of journalism, as it allowed for the wide distribution of newspapers. However, the penny press essentially created the ethical issues concerning serial killers and media contact (Feldstein). The penny press first started in 1833 with Day’s launch of The New York Sun. Because the newspaper cost one cent instead of six, it targeted an entirely different au... ... middle of paper ... ...Colin, and Sewell Chan. "Recalling a City in Fear During the Year of ‘Son of Sam’." The New York Times. The New York Times, 7 Aug. 2007. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. . "The Penny Press, Walt Whitman, and the War." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. . "Serial Murder." FBI. FBI, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2013. . "Tabloid." Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford UP, n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. . Williams, Norman D, and Kenneth Landwehr . "Bind, Torture, Kill: The BTK Killer." The Police Chief. IACP, n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2013. .
Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, the Boston Strangler, Jeffrey Dahmer. Despite the years of history that separate these names, they remain indelibly preserved within our collective societal consciousness because of the massively violent and calculated nature of their crimes. Serial killers, both men and women, represent social monstrosities of the most terrifying variety. They are human predators, cannibals in a figurative and, often, literal sense, and are therefore uniquely subversive to society's carefully constructed behavioral tenets. They frighten because they are human in form but without the social conscience that, for many, defines humanity. They capture the public eye because they terrify, but also because they elicit a sort of gruesome curiosity about the human potential for evil; as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde alleges, wickedness lies within each heart, waiting only for the proper time and impetus to break free.
In CCD, honey bee colonies lose their workers under unclear circumstances (Cox-Foster et al., 2007, p. 283). It is not unusual for bees to die or colonies to be lost, but the nature and extent reported in the year 2006 was alarming. Statistics gathered in the United States alone show that 50-90% of the bees have been lost so far, due to this scientific phenomenon (Cox-Foster et al., 2007, p. 284).
What can we actively take part in to stop the collapse of bee colonies? Bees are such a vital part of our everyday agriculture production, however, colonies are diminishing before our eyes. Colony Collapse Disorder is a massive decrease of bees in hives and it is greatly affecting our crops because bees are not distributing the necessary amount of pollen to crops in order for them to grow the maximum, most nutritious produce possible. There are many solutions that may help CCD, such as banning neonics, urban beekeeping, and interbreeding honey bees with African killer bees. The most effective way to decrease CCD is by interbreeding honey bees with a stronger specie of bees labeled African killer bees.
On day’s one-two, they clean cells. After the worker bee emerges and grooms herself, she cleans her own cell and others so they can store new eggs. Once the cells are tidied up, new eggs can be placed in the cells so more honeybees can be born.
Bees pollinate countless food crops and produce million pounds of honey each year.They live in huge colonies consisting of thousand bees.Honey bees are black- yellow hairy insects that have long hairs on front of their legs to remove pollen from crops and plants which they store in a pollen baskets at each hind of their legs.
“Jack the Ripper”, an alias given because someone sent and signed a letter in that name, is the infamous serial killer that harmed the streets of Whitechapel district in East End London during 1888. The Ripper murdered, from what is known, at least five prostitutes in an unusual medical manner that helped provide the police with a hint that the killer might have been educated in the human anatomy (Biography.com). The killer became and remained famous for numerous reasons, one of them being that the media romanticized him. Media transformed the Ripper from a “sad killer of women” into a “bogey man”, becoming “the most romantic figures in history” (Barbee). Jack the Ripper was never caught, letting him remain as one of the world’s most infamous
The lives of humans and honeybees have been intertwined for millennia. For at least 8,000 years, humans have sought honey for applications in disciplines ranging from medicine to the culinary arts. But while humans love honey, honeybees provide a much more valuable service: pollination. As the world’s most prolific pollinator, honeybees are essential to the reproduction of many plant species, which in turn benefits other animals and plants. In fact, humans heavily rely on honeybees to pollinate our own food source, a service that is worth billions of dollars a year. Unfortunately, the honeybee population is in a severe and prolonged decline, often in the form of colony collapse disorder, in which entire colonies are seemingly abandoned by adult bees overnight. Honeybees are an indispensable component of modern agriculture, and a failure to discern and address the many causes of honeybee population decline – both manmade and natural – could have disastrous consequences for the environment and human society.
Think for a moment of a world without bees; a world without our buzzing friend. They might look like they barely do much to help our ecosystem. However, bees are a vital part of our agriculture and this makes it vital that we keep them around. The bee population decline in recent years is troubling for both us and our little friends. As their friends, we must do all we can in order to ensure their survival which in turn will ensure our own.
This historical investigation will be looking at the police investigation of the serial killer Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper is infamously known around the world as a serial killer who was never caught in 1888, Whitechapel, London. While these murders took place more than 100 years ago, new theories on the possible identity of the murderer are arising and the question of his identity still remains a mystery. Much of the original evidence of the case has been lost and facts have been altered with time. This investigation will be analyzing the effect letters and sensational journalism tampered with the Jack the Ripper case. A newspaper article will also be analyzed and the part of sensationalized journalism in the case will be discussed. The two primary sources will be the “Dear Boss” letter provided by the book The Diary of Jack the Ripper narrative by Shirley Harrison. Whilst analyzing this letter, this investigation will also be analyzing a news report during that time period, an excerpt from the New York Times on September 9, 1888. Along with these two sources other letters and reports will be considered but not referred to directly. This investigation does not seek to solve the case of Jack the Ripper but rather to analyze the significance of the public and media.
According to the Oxford Dictionary; a serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. They usually go through a cooling down period where there are no murders. Then start the killing spree back up again after the cooling down period. The killing spree usually doesn’t last more than a couple of years without the murderer being caught. And there is usually a victim type and killing style which leads to the killer being identified. This is the definition of a serial killer so why is it so commonly believed that this is a male dominated area. “However, if, as seems to be the case in many countries, the only
For some people, bees can be very annoying. They might have buzzed around you, chased you down the street, and sometimes can even sting you. Although this may seem unpleasant, the truth is, if bees didn’t exist, neither would humans. Bees are found in almost all habitats and they play a vital role. There are “nearly 20,000 known bee species in the world, and 4,000 of them are native to the United States” (Hamilton). They might look different and they might have different names, but they almost all do the same basic thing for us and for the environment. They pollinate plants and help make sure they are able to reproduce. Furthermore, bees are essential for most of the foods that we eat. “One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees...(Grossman)”. Even though bees can be a burden, they are a necessity to your wellbeing. Among the top one hundred crops that make up ninety percent of people’s diets around the world, has been responsible by bees for pollinating more than seventy of them. The fact is, these insects are nearly extinct. In order to
Whenever the young bees work, they perform duties resembling the cleaning of cells and carrying dead bees away from the hive.
Bees play a huge part in the environment and contribute to our everyday lives, but their work is not taken into account. A lot of people just see them as insects that live to sting us and spread pollen, in reality we need them more than we think. Bees have to work ten times harder to make what we love to use on our faces, love to eat, and use to help heal wounds― also known as honey. Another thing that we should be concerned about is when they are pollinating, the pesticides that are sprayed on flowers have a serious effect on on the bees. In other words, they get “drunk” off the chemicals and it doesn’t kill them right away.
All around the world honeybees are vanishing at an alarming rate, according to the documentary Vanishing of the Honeybees. This film features two commercial bee keepers and their fight to preserve their bee numbers. David Hackenburg was the first commercial bee keeper to go public the bee population was decreasing. Approximately two billions bees have vanished and nobody knows the reason why. Honeybees are used all across America to help pollinate monoculture crops like broccoli, watermelon, cherries, and other produce. Without the honeybees the price for fresh and local produce would be too much money. According, to this film commercial bee keeper’s help fifteen billion dollars of food get pollinated by commercial
Bees are small flying insects, buzzing around with its painful stings which always make people afraid and annoyed. What generally relate with bees are their roles in pollination and producing honey and beeswax. So it seems that bees might be nothing to human as it’s easy to find substitutes for honey as flavoring. However, this perception is mistaken. Without bees, aftermath.