Evaluating Edward Pierce's The Great Train Robbery

2. What personality types did Hans J. Eysenck believe were related to crime? Describe each

What’s the best way to face a difficult situation? Day in and day out, life circumstances force people to live their lives differently than planned. Some struggle with this concept, never seeing the silver lining in the unexpected turn of events. Others however, live their lives as normally as they can, regardless of whatever they’re faced with. During the second world war, America was faced with the question of how to keep their country safe from enemies that might live within its borders. Although every American citizen is legally innocent until proven guilty, all’s fair in love and war. America saw no choice but to lock away immigrants and their American born children. This is detailed in The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell as

Many people today wonder what caused Stephen Paddock to shoot 605 people, including himself. Acting like an average and moral man prior to the shooting, Paddock makes it difficult to understand the reason behind his actions. While we cannot deduce the exact cause of Paddock’s evil act, we can study the general roots of the immoral actions of good people through other historical examples. Although many believe that humans are innately good and act accordingly, events throughout history have proven that the potential self-gain that evil can bring drives seemingly good people to do horrible things when it outweighs in their sight the gratification of acting morally. Egocentrism or a lack of fear of punishment, because they cause a danger comparable to that caused by greed, can lead even the most moral person astray.

Consider the painting The Railroad Bride, Argenteuil by Claude Monet. This artwork looks simple, but uses geometry and one point linear perspective. Monet uses a sense of opposition is created by the alternating rhythm of light to dark established by the bridge pillars and the color orange and blue in both water and smoke from the train above. The light and dark areas given the picture asymmetrical balance between the dark and light areas. Monet uses one point linear perspective to create the bride. He uses proportions in the relationship between the parts of the object and the whole object by using geometry. Monet uses grid like geometry. The wooden structure support under the bridge is the same overall structure of grid and diagonals. Other lines are the apparent in the two diagonals as well as opposing directional lines of the train and the boat. The smoke shows direction of the wind and that the boat is moving that way as well. The visual weight/balance of the sail boat is smaller than the bridge. I believe the focal point is the new bridge for the train and new travels was is focal point in the picture.

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was written by Ann Petry. It was published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1955. The book has 242 pages. This book tells about Harriet 's life as a young slave and how she escaped slavery. She led many other slaves to freedom in the North throughout her life.

Edmund Emil Kemper III grew up in a setting similar to that of many serial killers we hear about in the mainstream media. Although Kemper displayed signs of high intelligence as a child, he also showed other, troubling signs that are typical of many serial killers. For example, in his early years Kemper played games in which he forced his sisters to sit and watch him pretend to suffer and die and even killed his pet cat when he observed that the animal had imprinted on his two sisters. After his parents' divorce, Kemper moved with his mother and sisters to Montana, where he suffered psychological abuse from his alcoholic mother. Eventually, Kemper’s mother sent him to live with his father and shortly after, with his grandparents on their farm in North Fork, California.

Criminals are smart, but they use their good for the wrong. This essay will be informing you about these infamous criminals who all thought they would get it away with it. Criminal always think that they will never get caught until the smallest thing gets them caught.

Edward Pierce was also an intelligent man and knew Agar would give him away. (Crichton page 250) So he made extensive and high risk plans accounting for this betrayal. Pierce complied with everything the police asked of him by giving vague answers, only giving the location of the money after his henchman, Barlow, had gotten to it first. His greatest act was not only keeping the money from being taken away but was escaping his captors and never being heard from again. (Crichton 265)

After the Industrial Revolution fabricated society for nineteenth century America, many families were moving to the cities for new opportunities. Immigrants found a niche in society and life was beginning to flourish and build the nation into what it’s citizens know it as today. However, while most of the country was settling down, a man by the name of Herman Webster Mudgett, otherwise known as HH Holmes, had a different approximation of why he should move to the city. HH Holmes was perhaps the most intelligent and deadly serial killer due to countless acts of successful insurance scams and murders.

Sometimes being too brilliant is dangerous. Herman Mudgett lived a normal childhood, for the most part, but he also did things your average child wouldn’t do. He had an impressive college education, although it lead to him committing insurance fraud and the stealing of corpses. After moving to Chicago, he continued the fraud and began the homicides. He had many girlfriends and wives, women tended to fall for his charm, which lead to their death. Henry H. Holmes did terrible things, from tricking people to killing them, but the intelligence behind his actions is what kept him from getting caught for so many years.

I was thrilled to see Freight Train by Donald Crews on our reading list for this week! The books use of bright colors contrasting with dark shapes and lines drew me to this book. On the front cover we see a steam engine pulling train cars with gradient smoke coming from the chimney. The steam engine and cars are flat, geometric, shapes helping anchor them to the track. The billows of smoke are organic as they rise into the air. I can now see there is not only bright versus dark but a hard versus soft quality going on that will continue to stay throughout the book.

    The consolidation of criminals both common and unexpected constituted the highly-skilled team needed to execute the great train robbery of 1855.  Pierce enjoyed a comfortable life in high society.  Others involved in the crime were not high society members like Pierce, but lower class criminals like Clean Willy,

Individuals always have tried to maintain a good lifestyle, but they sometimes ignore reality while pursuing a goal that is merely an illusion. There is a strong connection between reality and illusion which is that when these two elements are balanced, they can provide a clean pathway in terms of individuals attaining their goals and interests. In the modern drama, “A streetcar named desire”, Tennessee Williams establishes a strong connection between reality and illusion. The author explores the idea of individuals giving up their touch with reality and trying to lead a life which is borderline fairy tale, going on to describe rather dramatic outcomes of the imbalance between these two elements. In this play the protagonist, Blanche DuBois,

It’s Stella DuBois’ birthday and I've decided to give her the gift. In a pink and blue bag lies the gift of realization. It is clear that she doesn't accept the cold hard facts on what is going on in her relationship.Stella fails to fully understand that she is in an abusive relationship with her husband, who physically put his hands on her and destroys some items around the house. Throughout the book, Stanley is known for his witty responses and short temperament. It is the first time that Blanche finds out how Stanley acts when he is drunk. Even so, he somewhat acts the same when he is sober. When Blanche tries to talk some sense into her, she brushes it off “ what were you thinking of … how could you come back in this place last night?...

In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams portrays a former southern belle’s fight against the change in her surroundings. The protagonist, Blanche DeBois, no longer lives on her family’s plantation, Belle Reve, and moves to her sister’s home in New Orleans French Quarter. Although Blanche loves her sister, she begins to despise and look down on her husband because of his status and actions. When Blanche eventually conveys her thoughts to her sister, she seems to oblivious to her own personality.