Clarence Earl Gideon was pretty much a nobody. He had only culminated his studies up to the eighth grade and even ran away from home while he was still in middle school. As an adult he committed several nonviolent crimes and was sent to jail more than once. He was a drifter that spent a lot of time in and out of prisons until one day it caught up to him. One night Gideon was seen breaking and entering into a local Pool Room and stealing a couple of beers and money from a jukebox.…
Ryerson University Fiery Assassination The Death of Christopher Wood Darian Chau CHY183-011 Introduction to Forensic Sciences Dr. Monica Sauer April 7th, 2016 Darian Chau Dr. Monica Sauer CHY183-011 7 April 2016 Fiery Assassination: The Death of Christopher Wood On February 9th, 1999, on a quiet street of Newman Lake Washington, “investigators were overwhelmed by the carnage of a single case. Arson, murder, fraud, suicide, and more. The bizarre trail of evidence left even seasoned investigators baffled” (Dowling, Flood, Sherry, Jennings, and Katz, “The Forensic Files - Cereal Killer”).…
The Little Rock Nine is a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. These students included, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were actually prevented from entering the segregated school. They eventually attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The students had to be escorted by the 101st Airborne Division to have protection in the hallways of Central High.…
The parents of Westside High School senior, Chris Browning, were killed in a tragic car accident right outside of Savannah, Georgia when he was 8 years old. He now resides with Alan and Melissa Smith, who adopted Chris after a few short months after the accident. He also has a step brother Jacob (18 years old). Chris excels in baseball, as well as in the classroom. Chris grew up in a house where he did not feel so welcomed by his step brother, Jacob.…
Have you ever heard of the "Comeback Kid," or "Joe Cool?" These were the nicknames of one of the most iconic quarterbacks in NFL history. He broke records. He won super bowls. He was also a leader.…
Theodore Judson Jemison born August 1st 1918 to November 15th 2013. T.J Jemison was president of the National Baptist Convention USA. This organization was the largest African-American organization. Jemison made sure the Baptiste World Center in Nashville Tennessee, was constructed, this was one of the first headquarters of predominantly black churches in the USA. In 1953, while minister of a large church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jemison helped lead the first civil rights boycott of segregated seating in public bus service.…
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, tortured, tied to a fence, and left for dead by local teenagers all because of his sexuality. Shortly before Matthew’s death, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African American man from Jasper, Texas, was found decapitated and dismembered on a road near his hometown. The perpetrators tied him up and dragged his body with their truck. The men who committed this terrible crime had connections with the Ku Klux Klan and held white supremacist ideologies. Two days after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh gas station owner in Arizona, was savagely murdered by an attacker who thought that because he wore a turban, he was a follower of Osama…
Little Rock Nine Attempting To Integrate Central High School Little Rock Nine A few weeks ago on September 4th, 1957, nine black students also known as Little Rock Nine High school students were attempting to integrate into Little Rock Central High but they were blocked from the entrance by the National Guard. But later on, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the students into the school on September 25.…
Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820) pioneer and resident American Forests, he is England origin and was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on November 2, 1734. Then in 1751 he stay with his father Squire Boone and his family in yadken Valley which is now located in the Davey region in Carolina North, and he work on a farm’s father also he spent most of his time in hunting and trapping. in 1755 he was wagon maker and blacksmith (metal works) in Edward Braddock campaign disastrous against the Indians, and in 1765 he visited Florida and then in 1767 visited the Kentucky territory for the first time, has toured the region between the years 1769 to 1771 with his friends, including John Finley, who visited the region in 1752. Boone has entered into a fight with…
John Tyler's was born into a wealthy family with 7 other children. Tyler studied law at the College of William and Mary, graduating in 1807, and being admitted to the bar in 1809. After his admittance, Tyler worked in a prominent law firm in Richmond, Virginia. His father became Governor of Virginia in 1810, and used his connections to get John a position in the Virginia House of Delegates.…
Jurist, colonial administrator and North American chronicler, born in Edwardstone, Suffolk (England) on January 12, 1588 and died in Boston on March 26, 1649. Winthrop began his law studies at Cambridge, which he abandoned before obtaining a bachelor's degree. Married in 1605. Later he graduated in law and began to practice as judge of peace in 1609. Along with a group of leading English Puritans, Winthrop founded the Massachusetts Bay Company and, once obtained the privilege of Carlos I to colonize the New world, the company emigrated completely to America in 1630, where they founded Boston, city of which Winthrop had been appointed governor for a period of four years; Sometime later, the company established different settlements in the vicinity.…
Research Assignment Final: Bensonhurst Like many neighborhoods in New York, Bensonhurst has also been subjected to gentrification and reurbanization. Undeniably, over the years, my neighborhood has experienced death and life as an authentic urban place. Essentially, the drastic changes of the population, social relations, and etc. have led to the development of its current authenticity related to its new beginning. Bensonhurst has undergone a cultural, social, and economic transformation; evident from how the attributes of the new, innovative Bensonhurst remold the old, historical one.…
American Dream Is the American dream still alive and do people still achieve it successfully? Do people all dream about it? The American dream is the belief that anyone even if they were born in a high-class family or poor family, can achieve their own success in a society that it is possible for everyone. Although there are specific values that help people achieve the American Dream such as; individual freedom, work hard, and competition, people succeed if they are self-reliant and have equality of opportunity, not just by chance or because of sheer luck. The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.1…
There is always a secret, no one should ever know, but if a person digs hard enough they will find it. Rather it is a baby farmer who is rumored to have killed over 400 children, a man who decided to control women and bending them to his own sadistic desires, or a woman who rapes, mutilates, and kills girls with her husband. Not all the skeletons in Britain’s closet are as well known as Jack the Ripper but they are just as cruel and unusual serial killers, such as Amelia Dryer and the couple Fred and Rose West .…
Murder is one of the most violent malevolent crimes which society has to bear in their every day life. There is a myth, which our society believes in “murderers are both not made”. I believe our society makes a person who he or she will be. No one is born a killer. Serial Killer Ted Bundy is the man who is considered as one of the most notorious criminals in the history of the United States.…