Strong Poison Analysis

In chapter 1 titled “Chloroform (CHCI3 )” of The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum, the most interesting story developed within the chapter was the unsolved mystery of eight deaths in a refuge called Odd Fellows Home. Frederic Mors, who claimed to be responsible for all these eight murders, confessed his own guilt in front of the district attorneys. As it was said, “To prove that these elderly residents had been poisoned, they needed solid evidence. [Rumors, suspicions, and anecdotes, a confession by a suspect who might just be crazy, weren’t enough to charge a man with murder.]” (Blum 13).

When Gayle Wald wrote, “Sayers’s career writing detective stories effectively ends with Gaudy Night” (108), she did not present a new argument, but continued the tradition that Gaudy Night does not center on the detective story.  Barbara Harrison even labeled Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter/Harriet Vane books, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, as “deliriously happy-ending romances” (66).  The label stretches the definition of a romance, but Gaudy Night indeed has very little to do with crime.  Sayers encrypted the real story within her detective novel.  This story behind the story narrates love and human relationships.  In fact, the crimes in Gaudy Night only supply a convenient way for

'One of the paradoxes of the War - one of the many - was that this most brutal of conflicts should set up a relationship between officers and men that was... domestic. Caring. As Layard would undoubtedly have said, maternal.' -Pat Barker: Birdsong

The outcome of war can distort a person completely, not just physically due to injuries, but also mentally and emotionally as the character Rat Kiley from The Things They Carried experienced. Kiley had been injured and

They also worked in city and county prisons as well as other penal institutions. Her first day as police women Mrs. Well’s was given a Gamewell key which is also known as a telephone call box. She was also given a first aid book and a “policeman’s badge.” When Mrs. Well’s displayed her badge to be able to ride the trolley cars for free like the rest of her fellow officers, the conductor accused her of misusing her husband’s identity. This was later fixed by giving her the very first “policewomen’s badge number one.”

After the past tragedies that have hit the Mountaineer community this fall; I consumed myself in wondering what could’ve been done to change the outcome. What if your best friend read the directions wrong and took something s/he shouldn’t have, wouldn’t you want to know how to save them? “Nearly 40 percent of college students engage in binge drinking,” heavy drinking such as this is directly related with injury, health problems, and a decline in academic performance (Random Control). This is so relevant in colleges that most resident assistance are expected to serve as first-aid providers, but the reality is no program exists for them to take (resident assistant training). If the resident assistance don’t have a class that they have to

Other hiccups in the investigation included Angulo not questioning Winston and either of the teammates and neither did he obtain a sample of Winston’s DNA to try and match it with Kinsman’s toxicology report. There were allegations that the TPD helped FSU Athletics stay up to date about the investigation, by informing them of everything going on before the details of the case even reached the victim. Due to media speculations, TPD turned the case over to state attorney, Willie Meggs. Once the case was in the state attorney’s possession, Tim Jensen (Winston’s lawyer) made Winston’s teammates sign a document agreeing that they both witnessed what appeared to be consensual sex between Kinsman and Winston that night (Kinsman v. Winston, 2012).

In chapter two titled “Chloroform” of The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum. The most interesting story in this chapter a murderer called Mores he said “ [He] liked chloroform for its efficiency… its wonderful poison” (9). As the story continues Mores used chloroform as an advantage for murder, he took this, as an advantage because he said that when investigators did an autopsy there was no way of finding the cause of the death since autopsies showed no clue of chloroform. This story relates to the title because as we read chloroform is a chemical, which is very poisonous and dangerous method of constraining a murder.

Another thing to consider furthermore is the roles of women in men's everyday life back then.Holmes wanted a world where women were weak and vulnerable, unable to help themselves. Ironically enough that was the thought of how men mostly viewed women back in that time period. This book proves what the times were like, there was no denying it men were dominant powers back then. Dr. Holmes used ladies weaknesses to his advantage, he knew how to play the game. Even though Holmes was like this women still threw themselves at him

Despite receiving specific knowledge and notice of the attack, Lyons-Burke failed to protect Martina Toole, and is thus in breach of its duty. Because schools cannot be reasonably expected to prevent each and every altercation between students, a plaintiff must establish that the school recovered actual or constructive notice before the attack. In the prevailing months before the attack, the mother of the victim notified the school about the specific threats Ivy made against her. As in the Wilson case, this placed the school on notice regarding the “aggressive and confrontational” behavior from the attacker. Ivy Toxicone also had a disciplinary record that should have put the school on notice regarding her behavior in general. In MacCormack

In traditional hard-boiled American detective fiction there are many themes that seem to transcend all novels. One of those themes is the concept of power and the role in which it plays in the interaction and development of characters. More specifically, the role of women within the novels can be scrutinized to better understand the power they hold over the other characters, their own lives and the direction of the story. Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon exemplifies the varying ways in which female characters attempt to obtain and utilize power in hopes of influencing, manipulating and succeeding.

The guiding question of this ADI lab was, “What are the identities of the unknown compounds?” The goal of this lab was to understand the relationships between moles and molar mass to find the identity of unknown compounds. The mole can be used to measure small amounts of a substance or is used to convert from unit to unit using dimensional analysis. One mole is equivalent to the molar mass in grams of that substance. If you start with the moles of an unknown substance, multiply it by a given compound’s molar mass, and then divide it by however many moles are in the compound of your choice, you will get the mass of the compound. With that answer you can then compare with mass of the compound in the bag to determine its identity. We first started

Women act as spies                a. Culper Ring                     1. organized spy ring                     2. Long Island                     3. consequences if captured                          a. imprisoned                          b.

This was an ambitious read for me - Science has never been my strongest subject. It was therefore quite hard work at times, definitely not something to dip into casually. Nevertheless, I found it fascinating. Some things I'd heard about before, such as Graham Young the poisoner, who I remembered from the film of his life 'The Young Poisoner's Handbook'. Other things were totally new. I'm not sure how much I'll remember about all the elements, but certain 'nuggets' will stay with me. I'm glad I read it. I would only recommend it to science buffs, though, as it did get very

While the men in the story where playing Sherlock Holmes looking for evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, they missed the bad fruit and the bread left out of the bow, a quilt that was not finished and had a few bad stiches, an unclean table and a birdcage that was empty. They were so determined to find specific clues of the murder, that they missed the clues of the emotional abuse that Mrs. Wright was subjected to from her husband. They were also so busy criticizing everything that Mrs. Wright did or did not do, that they missed everything that was right in front of their eyes. They even slipped with some sexist remarks Mr. Hale says ‘Well, women are used to worrying over trifles’, not realizing that the women were in the room.