Facts/Truths
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“Jacob’s occupation was noted as that of a butcher and the cause of
his illness was mania”-Agreed upon reality
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Presumptions
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“Jacob finally died at the asylum from General Paralysis of the
Insane brought on by the serious sexually transmitted disease syphilis,
therefore indicating a possibility of liaisons with the Adelgate/Whitechapel
prostitutes.”
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Presumptions
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“Jacob may have very well blamed prostitutes for the cause of his
illness together with the impending failure of his once successful family
butchering business, and he may have also believed, or assumed, that his
children were now syphillic.”
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Presumptions
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“The opposite sides of Middlesex Street were divided by the
boundaries of both the City of London and Metropolitan police jurisdictions
and nestling within the City boundaries resided Jacob Levy, and moreover,
some 100 metres away to the east and over in the Met's jurisdiction was
located Goulston Street - and it was here that the Ripper, when on flight
from Mitre Square, had discarded a cut away portion of Catharine Eddowes
apron inside a doorway entrance to some tenement buildings. Now this may have
been purposely contrived by Jacob in an attempt to deceive the authorities
into assuming the direction as to which the Ripper was heading, seemingly
deeper into the Met's jurisdiction, so therefore Jacob may very well have
rapidly backtracked after employing this false trail the mere 100 metres
across the border and into the City's jurisdiction, and the safety of his
home, for he may very well have suspected that Joseph Hyam Levy had only
minutes earlier recognised him in the company of a woman believed to be Catharine
Eddowes loitering inside the covered entrance to Church Passage.”
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Coexistence-Intentions
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“…his wife had complained that he almost ruined her business: ‘he
also feels that if he is not restrained he will do some violence to someone;
he complains about hearing strange noises; cries for no reason; feels
compelled to do acts that his conscience cannot stand; and has a conscience
of feeling exaltation… he does not sleep at night and wanders aimlessly for
hours.”- These various acts reveal a unified essence of Jacob Levy’s
character and intentions, and he could be the type of person that could be
Jack the Ripper.
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Double Heirarchy
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“Interestingly, three days prior to Catharine's death she had
returned from a hop-picking excursion in Kent claiming her belief as to the
identity of the Whitechapel murderer and was constantly seen in the Aidgate
vicinity within the last hours of her life, in such a vicinity to where the
diseased and insane Jewish butcher Jacob Levy lived and worked, and the year
1891 coinciding with Jacob's death saw the official police files on the case
finally and inexplicably close.”-Catherine may have known that Jacob was the Ripper
and because of this knowledge, Jacob killed her.
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This blog will be filled with data analysis samples created by students in my COMM 274 class at TLU. You will see a variety of types of rhetorical analysis methods on display here.
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
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It's my opinion, based on your analyses posted on blogger, that the author makes a pretty firm argument for Jacob Levy being the Ripper. If you're going to argue against this, I think the best way to do it would be to drive home the fact that Levy was never actually convicted. That is, it would be beneficial for you to explain in your thesis or an extension of it that the authorities of the time weren't able to use the information you have here to convict Levy. This would make a good base for you to argue things like presumption and hasty generalization/unrepresentative sample off of.
ReplyDeleteThis is a sticky situation because this is actually argued decently. I'd pull apart the small flaws and make them a big deal.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to prove the author wrong. You just need to figure out what the author achieved by making these arguments. Also why he chose these particular arguments to make.
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