Calico Jack

Eleven murders in four years all linked to an unidentified serial killer later named by the public as “Jack the Ripper”. The true identity of Jack the Ripper is a Whitechapel resident Aaron Kosminski and he is to blame for all eleven murders. Back in early fall of 1888 in Whitechapel located in London's East end, prostitute Mary Anne Nichols was murdered. Mary Anne Nichols’ body is found naked and mutilated with organs missing and her abdomen in ruins. Eight days later a few blocks down from…

Throughout the comic, Captain America and his team believe that the government shouldn’t have a say in the way they are run because it limits their ability to do good. On the other hand, Iron Man and his team believe that they should be regulated by the government and elected officials. The Civil War demonstrates what happens when a society is stripped of their civil liberties. In the today’s society we are facing the same problem that the Avengers are facing in the comic, some people want…

Throughout America’s history, writers/poets have contributed to what we now call the American voice. Their novels and poems have shaped Americans’ ideas and events. The American voice is a way for authors to come together and shape future generations of Americans to become “true” Americans. The American voice was shaped by events such as the end of isolationism in America. With this end, teens began to protest the “norms” of America- shaping the American voice of the 1950s-60s. Through the use…

Nature has always tested man. Often man fails to conquer nature. Whether it be extreme temperatures or lack of experience, the man often learns a lot about himself through this struggle. Jack London’s short story, “To Build a Fire,” is a tragic story about a man who decides to travel alone throughout the bad environment of the Yukon in sub-freezing temperatures and he falls his journey. Because of the unforgiving power of nature. During his journey, the man gets his feet wet as he falls through…

Looking back at the JFK assassination, with regards to news media of the past and present, there are many differences to how the terrible event would have been covered today. Back in 1963, before hundreds of cable channels, before smart phones, before social media, and decades before the invention of the Internet, there were more limited sources of information and the media had more time to compose their stories. Kennedy was shot during a presidential motorcade through Dallas, Texas. Many news…

all the players in the U.S. open at a dinner held at the club. This tests Francis because most of them don’t like armatures and don’t think he should be able to play in the open. They look below him because he is in the working class and doesn’t have much money. Francis does try to put on a fake personification of him to others but they can see right though him and they know the truth. This is a test for Francis to see if he can handle the pressure. He meets one girl Sara who he tries to impress…

The titles of the first three chapters are “Into the Primitive”, “The Law of the Club and Fang”, and “The Dominant Primordial Beast.” These titles all tie into each other through the development of Buck. In the chapter “Into the Primitive”, Buck is in the primary stages of growing to adapt to the harsh environment of the Yukon. When Buck got to the Yukon, he was not expecting a big difference between Santa Clara (his hometown) and the Yukon, but he was wrong. He had to adapt to the small amounts…

identified as a footman called Frederick, employed by eminent surgeon and Ripper suspect Sir William Gull, at 78 Brook Street, by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper And The Royals. Alberrici is included, not because he was suspected of being Jack the Ripper himself, but because he was said to be part of the Masonic conspiracy theory, and was alleged to have aided Gull in his search for the prostitutes who knew of the alleged secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor and commoner…

After John Wilkes Booth escaped from the heavy locked-down Washington D.C. and the Northern army, on the night of the assassination of President Lincoln, JWB headed to Texas and there he took the alias: John Saint Helen. This Friday, October 27th, 2017 the, supposedly, last of the withheld records associated with the John F. Kennedy assassination are set to be released. With the many, many coincidences between these two murders, one more seems to be ready to hit the consciousness of millions of…

Buck is a dog, he is a Saint Bernard, Scottish Shepherd mix living in Santa Clara Valley, California. He lives in the home of Judge Miller. Unfortunately for Buck, an addictive gambler dognapped him and is sold to Northerners. In the North, there is a gold rush going on and Buck becomes a sled-dog. Buck can't tolerate being tied up, so he fights against his new master. But all of his efforts to escape had no point. Buck learns this concept of "master," but in an unwilling way. After days of…