In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes uses his inquisitive skills to solve a mystery. Along with Sherlock is his companion, Dr. Watson, who works with Sherlock to protect Helen Stoner from Dr. Roylott. To begin, the story takes place in April, 1883, at the Roylott Stoke Maron Manor. Troubled, Helen Stoner explains her case in vast detail to Sherlock and Dr. Watson. The main conflict of the story is that Helen feared for her life and was suspicious about Julia’s death on the eve of Julia’s wedding. After that, Sherlock and Dr. Watson begin their investigation at the Roylott Stoke Maron Manor.
Before setting off, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are confronted by the ruthless Dr. Roylott. Dr. Roylott threatens Sherlock and tells him bot to investigate the case. This event is an interwoven conflict
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Sherlock took account of Dr. Roylott’s worn down chair, the small saucer of milk in Dr. Roylott’s room, the mysterious metal safe, as well as the bell string in Julia’s room. This case was a foul play mystery because the author led the audience to believe a variety of red herrings throughout the story. Firstly, Helen Stoner suggested that the Gypsies outside had something to do with the death of Julia. Additionally, Helen told Sherlock that the metal clang she heard could have been the creaking of the timeworn building. Lastly, the fact that Dr. Roylott owned a baboon and a cheetah had nothing to do with the death of Julia Stoner. The last mood shift of the story is happy because Helen could go in life and marry the man she desired. Furthermore, the final tone of the story is uplifting because Helen was relieved to be able to live without fear in her life again. Most likely, Helen would leave her current area to marry her lover in peace. All in all, due to Sherlock, the mystery of Julia’s death had been solved and Helen Stoner would no longer live in fear
The Department of Human Service (DHS) is a national or sub national umbrella agency that was set into place to provide public assistance in different cities and regions across America (U.S. Department of Human Services, [DHS], 2011). According to Dr. Raquel Hatter, Commissioner of Tennessee, the DHS Mission Statement is; “To improve the well-being of Tennesseans who are economically disadvantaged, vulnerable or living with disabilities through a network of financial, employment, protective and rehabilitative services” (DHS, 2011). In this observation we are going to take a look at DHS in the state of Tennessee, as well as what DHS offers within their system. We will also take a look at how DHS relates to, and implements the empowerment
The passage “An Invitation to a Murder” written by Josh Pachter, included a variety of similarities and differences to the drama “The Dying Detective” written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Josh Pachter described the scene of the gathering for the murder a locked-room mystery. Furthermore, the poison that killed Mrs. Abbott was in a medicine bottle; however, the poison that killed Victor Savage was from an ivory box. In contrast, the poison that murdered Victor Savage was presented in an ivory box. Moreover, the mood articulated in “An Invitation to a Murder” was happy for the reason that Mrs. Abbott thought life would be improved after her husband’s death. Conversely, the mood in “The Dying Detective” was sorrowful as everyone suspected Sherlock
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author of the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”. In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” the main characters are Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Helen Stoner, and Dr. Roylott. The story takes place in April 1883 at the Roylott, Stoke Maron Manor. The exposition is when Helen thoroughly explained her case to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The main conflict is Helen Stoner fears for her life and has suspicions about her sister’s death on the eve of her marriage. After Helen enlightened the two detectives on her predicament, Helen was informed that her case was extremely dire and she should be aware of the dangers of being in the house.
Solutions must be made reasonable so the readers will not be baffled by the outcome. The solution needs to be reasonable so readers can come up with the same conclusion as the detective did with the information that was given throughout the story. Clues must also relate to the solution, so readers can connect the dots as to what happened.
They first visited Helens new bedroom where they spotted mysterious objects, such as, a ventilator and a bell rope. Before Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson left, they created a plan with Helen in order to sneak into her bedroom undetected, in order to witness any unusual events. The mood quickly turned too petrified, due to the fact that Holmes and Dr. Watson encountered Dr. Roylott's exotic Indian animals. The tone turned to serious as Holmes and Watson continued into Helen's room to wait for any signs of killer. Dr. Watson continued to display his loyalty to Sherlock Holmes as he puts himself in the sights of the murder that killed Julia Stoner. Sherlock shows patience as he tirelessly waits for any signs that could be involved in Julia Stoner's death. In the blink of an eye, something fell from the ventilator, in the ceiling, directly in front of Sherlock Holmes. Using cat like reflexes Sherlock struck the object that fell, with his cane, it hastily squirmed back to its hidey hole. Now fully, aware both men remained where they were, careful when they moved
Sherlock! Watson gets upset when he realizes that Holmes has been deliberately keeping him in the dark. Watson then asks about all the reports he had so carefully written and had sent off to London. Holmes tries to be nice and he says he trusts Watson completely, but he also worried that Watson wouldn't have been able to resist making contact with him on the moors. As a matter of fact, Holmes has been getting the reports—he arranged to have them delivered back to him on the moors from London. Holmes is fascinated by Watson's account of his conversation with Laura Lyons. Holmes knows that Stapleton and Laura Lyons have been hooking up, in fact Holmes also knows that Beryl (Stapleton's "sister¬") is actually Mrs. Stapleton, she is his wife not his sister! Holmes also reveals Stapleton is the one who followed Sir Henry in London, and Beryl's the one who sent that warning to Sir Henry at his hotel. Holmes knows that Stapleton's pose as an unmarried man helped him enlist Laura in his plotting, and that Laura is desperate for a divorce because she believes that she can marry him (Sir. Henry). Holmes is almost ready to charge Stapleton with murder but he needs Watson to wait at Baskerville Hall with Sir Henry for at least another day or two. Just as Holmes says this, they hear a horrible scream over the moors, followed by the growling of a dog. Holmes fears that it may too late, as
The main conflict was person versus person, or Stapleton killing Charles. Dr. Mortimer, a country doctor, doesn't want Sir Henry Baskerville, Sir Charles’s nephew and inheritor of all his money, to die. Dr. Mortimer begs Sherlock Holmes, the most superb detective in Europe, to find out how and why Sir Charles was killed, and to stop Sir Henry from perishing. (15) Dr. Watson, Holmes’s sidekick, stays at Baskerville Hall, the
Sherlock waited for a long time in a pitch-black room; Watson was near him with his revolver in hand. A hiss sounded as Sherlock had lit a match, suddenly blinding Watson. Sherlock hit something that Watson- who was narrating the story- was too blinded to see. Once Watson’s eyes had adjusted, Sherlock led him into Dr.Roylott’s room. The detective pair had found Dr. Roylott dead with the ‘speckled band’- a swamp adder- upon his head. Since Dr. Roylott had been killed, Sherlock had been released from his animosity, Helen from his abuse, and society from his scourge. Generally, everyone was content now that they were free from Dr. Roylott. Later, Watson inquired to Sherlock about how he solved the
By aggravating the venomous swamp adder, Sherlock Holmes inevitably provoked Dr. Roylott’s death. Despite the fact that he claims it was an act of fear and self preservation, Sherlock knew the consequences of what he was doing, Notably, Sherlock incriminated himself while he explained how he figured
Due to Holmes’ suspicion he and Watson desired to investigate further; they departed to Stoke Moran. They revealed some interesting clues. First of all, the bed was clamped to the floor, there were metallic bars on the windows, along with a forged bell chord attached to a ventilator. Holmes soon found out that the ventilator was connected to Dr. Roylott 's room. This made Sherlock curious, wanting to know more. Helen was a young woman who was frightened of the strong and abusive, Dr. Roylott. She had prearranged to switch places with Sherlock and Watson so they could resolve the case once and for all. She exchanged places after Dr. Roylott was “asleep”. When Sherlock and Holmes arrived to Stoke Moran, they waited and waited. During the middle of the story, both the mood and tone shift. The mood soon became petrified. The tone soon also became something else, challenging. Sherlock Holmes and
This story was a fascinating story because of the red herrings and the true clues that lead to the murder. The story does not tell you Helen Stoner’s future from that day on, but it does give hints on what her future could possible. Which is she inherited the family estate and the family money. At the same time she could end up getting married and having a family while living in the Stoke Moran. When Sherlock found Dr.Roylott dead in the worn down wooden chair, he was not as surprised as you would think he would because of the suspicions she had for Dr.Roylott. Sherlock found out about Dr.Roylott’s plan which was very shocking to
Lucy was murdered and found in the churchyard. Her own fiancé was the one who had to purify his love once again, Arthur was heartbroken after what had happened, and was grieving for a while. We wish Arthur and Lucy’s family our condolences, after the tragic incident that had occurred. Lucy was victimized by Dracula and her death was a consequence of a vampire bite.
Agatha then adds more red herrings to confuse them. Vera suggests that Lombard take Dr. Armstrong’s body out of the water. The story says that Vera’s tone “warned”
The main character in the story is Sherlock Holmes; he is the hero of the book, a very important factor in a mystery book. The Victorians would have loved this character because he was not a part of the police force; he was a character that could be relied on, when the police force was so corrupt. Holmes’s life was his job, as the reader gets further into the story; they see that Holmes works for personal satisfaction, ’my profession is its own
Abstract— An outlier is a data value which is significantly deviated from the remaining data. In Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) outliers are the major issues that affect the inherent characteristics, such as flexibility, maintenance costs and scalability. The sources of an outliers include noise, errors, events and malicious attacks on the network. In this paper, we proposed a Compressive sensing algorithm (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) to detect outliers images obtain from wireless sensors. The objective of this proposed method is to obtain an outlier degree in images through wireless sensors which provides the data quality for better selection process. CS theory