H. G. Wells

Dr. Shipman had one of the best guises a serial killer could expect to have. He was a family doctor, a pillar of society, respected by his colleagues and patients (England, 2015). This, on its face value made it inconceivable that he could be responsible for murdering so many people. When suspicions first arose that something criminal may be afoot with the unusually high number of deaths occurring out of Dr. Shipman’s practice, things were overlooked that could have allowed the police to end…

July 20, 2012, James E. Holmes ended the lives of 12 people and injured 70 in the a Colorado theater. This paper will go into detail about the life and thought process of a mass murder and what would make him want to kill so many people and harm so many people. This next paragraph will discuss Holmes early life. Holmes was born on December 13, 1987 in San Diego. Son of a nurse and a mathematician. He lived in the suburbs, went to church every Sunday. Kids sometimes said he was not insane but…

himself. Many people today wonder why the investigators didn’t use fingerprinting; well fingerprinting was not proven a valid source of investigating.…

Jessica Moskowitz Leverett Butts ENGL 2150 16 November 2014 Development of the Ed Gein Trope – Rough Draft Horror struck the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin in 1957 as police officers arrested Ed Gein for murdering two local women. Police officers later discovered the gruesome contents of his home: decapitated and skinned bodies, preserved organs, skin lamps, skull bowls, and more. These horrifying findings inspired the creation of iconic horror characters: Norman Bates of the Psycho…

H. H. Holmes would turn out to be a terrifying serial killer but he didn’t start that way, in fact He didn’t even start out as H. H. Holmes his real name was Herman Webster Mudgett. Herman was born on May sixteenth eighteen sixty one in Gilmanton New Hampshire. He was born into a moderately wealthy family and raised in a strict religion family. “He was constantly bullied and abused by his classmates, causing him to spend his boyhood friendless, isolated, and alone.” (Coffey, 2014). Herman was…

During the summer of the years 1133 to 1855 a famous fair came into London, most commonly known as the Bartholomew Fair. Hosted in Smithfield, otherwise known as the location popular for slaughterhouses and public executions, the fair was a trading event that attracted Londoners of all classes. Ben Jonson uses this factor to his advantage with his play entitled, “Bartholomew Fair.” The type of people, activities, and crimes that occur at the fair gives Jonson the opportunity to reflect on his…

‘Chicago’ Carl Sandburg The poem ‘Chicago’ by Carl Sandburg describes the city of Chicago in the United States of America, presumably at the time of writing, 1914. Sandburg is first speaking to the city, then speaking to the people who is reading the poem. Sandburg has described Chicago as a city of the big shoulders, busy and brawling. Sandburg’s deep affection for his city arises, in spite of the outsiders staring at the hard working people who colonise the city. He makes us imagine Chicago…

It witnessed Fredrick Jackson Turner’s The Significance of the Frontier in American History as well as Fredrick Douglas, who used his platform to present a speech that both indicted Columbus and criticized the fair (McGarry 10/2016). The White City was seen as the epitome of western civilization. For the first time, visitors were able to view anthropological…

only research about. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson uses brilliantly constructed figurative language in order to insightfully display his interpretation of the story (entailing the events of the Chicago World Fair and the serial killer H. H. Holmes) and realistically and informatively describe the details of people, places, and events in the novel. The first figurative language tool that will be addressed is the simile. The first simile that is used to describe one of the main…

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H.Holmes, was known as one of the first serial killers in the states or some could even say he was one of the first killers that genuinely defined the word. Holmes was at large around the same time as Jack The Ripper. He committed his crimes on all people regardless of age, gender, relationship status or status in life. No one was safe from the acts he committed in the mid 1800’s. To give a little light on who Holmes is, He was born in New Hampshire in…