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a prostitute in New York and eventually began raping young boys. In 1898, Fish was forced into an arranged marriage by his mother. Fish and his wife had six children. Eventually the two split up because Mrs. Fish wanted to be with another man. Spinning out of control, Albert began a sadomochistsic type of relationship with a boy was nineteen years old named Thomas Kedden (Casale). Kedden was brought out into the woods in an abandoned shed where Fish cut off his penis. Instead of killing him, Fish fixed his wound and kissed him before fleeing; however, Thomas Kedden is still unaccounted for. In 1903, Albert was arrested for the first time for grand larceny and embezzlement (Israel). While in prison, Fish took part in sexual activities with other men which are documented in Sing Sing prison in New York city. Once released, Albert Fish became uncontrollable and began doing more horrendous things. From 1927 to 1928, Albert Fish is known to have kidnapped and killed eight year old, Beatrice Kiel from Staten Island, eight year old Francis McDonnel in Long Island, five year old, Emma Richardson, four year old, Bill Gaffney, twelve year old, Yetta Abrom, and his most well-known victim, ten year old, Grace Budd (Mayo). He found his victim, Grace, by responding to an ad that was placed in the newspaper by a young boy searching for work. The boy’s younger sister, Grace, mysteriously disappeared and was noted as “missing” for six years until Detective William King proceeded to look for…

“With prisons so much in the news, costing so much money, and confining such unprecedented numbers of people, it seemed to me that their operations should be completely transparent” (Conover, 2000, p. 17). Ted Conover soon realized that by simply taking a tour of prison, he wasn’t going to see or hear the whole truth of what happens in prison. The correction world was hidden from him and the outside world. The only way to receive the access he wanted was to apply for a correctional officer…

came and grabbed a brush and started painting with me. Although I may not have asked for the help, it made the job easier and faster. We ended up finishing my room in a shorter time period. It goes to show that working together and accomplishing a goal as a team is much better than doing things alone. In the poem, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson, it illustrates how the black community joins together through the struggles to escape the harsh times of slavery. The poem was a…

street with her brother which helped her poor family financially. Her career started when she got a job with Vaudeville. Was given the name “Empress of the Blues” for her ability to endure the obstacles that a black female singer faced at the time. Bessie Smith faced indifferent, segregation, and other things in her personal life growing up. She traveled through the south singing in shows, bars, and theaters in small towns and in cities such as Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, and savannah. She was…

She has many poems out and many known books around the world. Three of her works are: Rainbow in the Clouds, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Amazing Peace. These are three of her top poems she has written. Rainbow in the Clouds has a quote saying “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” What she means by this is that it takes so little to brighten someone else's day. Yet it can leave them feeling happy for a moment, an hour, a day, or give them a sweet memory for life. The thing we learn…

Language is such a crucial part of life that people cannot imagine a world without it. It is how they learn, express themselves, and connect with each other. The power of words and the power of silence that humans experience every day are central ideas in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Like many other coming of age novels, Angelou’s biography is a story of finding identity. Maya is a young girl from Stamps, Arkansas, who moves many times throughout her life. In addition to…

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel". This is a famous quote written by Maya Angelou. Angelou is known as one of the most influential African women of all times. She is best known for her famous poems about injustices, tribulations, and experiences that she went through. For instance, Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, and I know why the caged bird sings, are some of her examples. Angelou was not…

Sometimes she gets disturbed by her look but this annoyance is for a short time. Later she positively converts her vision. Dr. Usha thinks, “The Female identity crisis is centered around her appearance. In a society attuned to White standards of physical beauty, Angelou felt plain and ugly and therefore inadequate. This threw her into a psychological prison from which she freed herself with great difficulty. Running parallel to the identity crises is the theme of displacement both personal and…

extensive life experiences to compose her most acclaimed work, a multivolume autobiography that traces the foundations of her identity as a 20th- century American black woman”(Maya Angelou Contemporary). Her real name is Marguerite Annie Johnson. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St Louis, Missouri to Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter. Maya was the second child in her family and had an older brother, Bailey Jr. She married and divorced both Tosh Angelos and Paul Du Feu. She had one child…

Conover, the author of “Guarding Sing Sing”, is a journalist with a reformer 's dream, who is attempting to reform prisons due to their many issues within them. Conover in his attempt to shine light and gain knowledge from within; requested permission to write about the experiences of a recruit; also known as a “newjack.” The request was denied. So instead, he became his subject by becoming himself, a Correctional Officer. He writes about his many experiences as a CO for a whole year. This is “a…