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Dean Corll recruited two teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, to help him commit: abduction, rape, torture and murder of young boys from the Houston Heights area. The victims were invited to parties by David and Wayne, there they were given drugs and alcohol and tied to a torture board. Dean destructively, castrated, emasculated, sodomized and mutilated his victims. The Houston Police Department had listed the boys as "runaway" children. This allowed Dean and his accomplices to continue…

In the 1800s, one might give up after not being elected for the Illinois General Assembly, and the same person might give up after continuing to lose a race for the U.S. congress, two races for the U.S. senate, and one movement to be nominated as a vice-president (10 Facts 1). However, Abraham Lincoln never gave up, and now he is widely considered one of the best presidents to ever live. The story, “The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant”, by W. D. Wetherell, is a story about a boy who takes the…

One day machines will take over the world, or so that man on the corner of the sidewalk says every day. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines machine as, “a piece of equipment with moving parts that do work when given power.” Machine describes many of the devices that we keep with us every single day like cell phones, computers, televisions, and cars. However, there was a simpler time when the word machine meant any structure. (Simpson 156) The word machine has developed from a…

he had framed ``a group'' of 15 to 20 officers in his Brooklyn area that hit up merchants routinely. In the end one of them was paying Dowd and an alternate officer $8,000 a week in assurance cash. Dowd purchased four rural homes and a $35,000 red Corvette. Not one individual had solicited how he dealt with all from that on take-home pay of about $400 a week. In May 1992, Dowd, four different officers, and one previous officer were captured for medication trafficking by police in Long Island's…

My Acura is no Corvette or Lamborghini, but it still can reach up to remarkable speeds. When I first purchased the Acura, I was surprised with how it handled. It was fairly cheap, but I definitely got my money’s worth. When I first started driving it, I was astonished.…

To some people, cars are more than just the sum of their parts. Ever since 1970 the United States Government has been placed crippling restrictions on sports vehicles. On December 2nd, 1970, Congress voted to pass a bill that would establish the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate and standardize the auto industry in order to protect the environment from pollution. From 1970 until now there have been thousands of vehicle emissions and fuel consumption regulations that have put…

bass of his life but is forced to let it go to hide his true feelings about fishing, Wetherall has a “nauseous feeling in [his] stomach” and realizes he made the wrong decision when “[Sheila] explains that he would be going home in Eric Caswell’s Corvette” (Wetherall). Wetherall is able to overcome this adversity by “never making that mistake again” even though there were “other Sheila Mants in [his] life”, become more grownup of a person and more resilient at the same time. Adversity can be…

curtains” ( Cofer 240). Whereas “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” the boy did not get the girl by the end of the story. On page 249 the author writes, “her coming over to me once the music was done to explain she would be going home in Eric Caswell Corvette” (Wetherell 249). In addition we see that another difference between the stories is it takes Luis from “Catch the moon” A day to impress and talk to Naomi but in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” the boy took a whole summer to ask…

The Escape of the Freeway in Didion 's Play it As it Lays The absence or termination of life or existence provokes an act of escape. Escape from a life of nothingness can be both a healing mechanism and the discovery of purpose in an individuals life. Maria Wyeth 's intensity of denial and passivity devour every single one of her actions throughout Joan Didion 's Play It As It Lays. It seems as if nothing really gives genuine meaning in Maria 's life, however, something she does possess is…

Marriage-Farris Stephanie Coontz wrote a bold statement “The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community. This sentence extracted from her essay the “Five Myths About Marriage. In her essay Coontz, does make a plausible case that some divorced families do enjoy a wholesome existence. Although, marriage is more than a liability. Moreover, marriage is the combination of two very different perspectives; one female and one male perspective which empowers and…