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Sherlock Holmes: An Expert Consulting Detective For over one hundred years, the Sherlock Holmes detective stories have entertained the world, from the original penny comic stories, to the books and films that followed. Sherlock Holmes is one of the greatest fictional detectives ever created and arguably the most famous. However, he isn’t just a great detective. He is also a chemist, a violinist, and a master swordsman. Sherlock is mostly famous for his power of deduction, power of observation, special

the West Coast of the United States was seeing an influx of Chinese immigrants. Nationalist believed that Chinese men who were culturally associated with smoking opium -- were enticing women into opium dens to take advantage of them. Congress went one step further with the Anti-Opium Act of 1909, which created a federal bar of smoking opium (Benson, 2015). “The scare tactics of the 1960s gave way to the contradictory messages of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Drugs became

In Chapter XI of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the eponymous character, Dorian, practices escapist behavior. Upon noticing his portrait changing to reflect his immoral acts, he hides the picture in his upstairs schoolroom and distracts himself with New Hedonism, the amoral lifestyle preached by Lord Henry Wotton. Chapter XI chronicles Dorian 's material pleasures over the course of eighteen years. Initially, I believed that the purpose of this cataloguing chapter was to illustrate Dorian

The Signalman, The Red Room and The Man with the Twisted Lip “How do Dickens, Wells and Doyle create tension and suspense in The Signalman, The Red Room and The Man with the Twisted Lip respectively?” It is obvious that these tales were written in the mid nineteenth century because the style of writing is very different to the more modern techniques writers employ today. In these stories, we are told about objects which no longer have a place in modern society, such as 'the telegraph'

releases dopamine in the brains of the characters because that’s why they keep doing it. Another way dopamine is released is when one undergoes the use of drugs, like when Marion says, “Not by operating an electronic opium den,” showing that the euphoriaphone is as dangerous as opium, which is a very addictive drug (95). When something becomes too addictive, we begin to lose how much control we have over body, mind, etc., like when the state trooper says to Eddie, “Hey kid---like guns?” and takes

When it comes to addiction, there truly is no easy way out. The worst type of addiction comes from the opium poppy, heroin. Heroin addiction can be extremely easy to fall into and can have some awful withdrawal symptoms. In many ways the recovery process of heroin can be paralleled with “The Allegory of the Cave” in such that being on the drug can be similar to living in the cave, the process of quitting the drug can be viewed as leaving the cave, the after effects can then be used to describe living

and dreams.       Tom uses irony as a means of keeping pain and himself apart.  Amanda accuses Tom of going out drinking every night, and to this Tom makes up a humorous story about how "killer, killer, Wingfield" spends his nights in "opium dens, dens of vice and criminals' hangouts..."  By Tom agreeing with his mother and turning what was an argument into a form of art, based completely on exaggerations, he ends up ironically protecting himself.  By turning the situation into a joke, Tom

it shall have upon his friends nor his soul. This already shows signs of the gothic genre, as he is able to become completely free. In the end it destroys him and he dies. In Chapter 16 Oscar Wilde writes about how Dorian Gray visits opium dens. The opium dens almost take Dorian Gray out of reality and into the dream world. On page 177 Oscar Wilde writes an amazing line that is very gothic ‘…the streets like the black web of some sprawling spider. The monotony became unbearable, and as the

Drug abuse is a disease where people compulsively seek and use drugs knowing the harmful consequences (Nida, 2017). Most of America's top social problems relate to or are impacted by drug abuse: drugged driving, child abuse, violence, and stress. Drugs take an immense toll on our society at many different levels. This includes health care expenditures, lost earnings, and costs associated with crime and accidents (Nida, 2017). For example, according to NIDA(National Institute On Drug Abuse) Illicit

hasn’t seen Breezer in weeks. He checks Iris for a wire, but she’s clean. Iris fixes herself a hit with the drugs, but begins coughing. Eventually, foamy blood bubbles out of her mouth. BLAKE FIELDS (40) a private detective frequents an opium den. He leaves the den and runs into Iris, but she’s Crazy Iris, covered in blood and spider veins. Her right ear falls off. Blake whips out his butterfly knife and when Crazy Iris lunges at him, he drives the knife through the top of her skull. ELIZABETH PRESTON