Jack Finney

I chose the book Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed By Patricia Cornwell. This book is published by Berkley Books in 2002 and has 383 pages. In this book Patricia Cornwell lays out all evidence as to why she believes Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper all those years ago. This book goes into great detail explaining how Walter Sickert and Jack the Ripper are similar. This book begins by setting the date as Monday, August 6th , 1888 and in London. Walter Sickert was a well known…

Who Killed John F. Kennedy? In 1963, the president of the United States, was brutally murdered by being shot while in a motorcade driving down Elm Street in Dallas, Texas as he was campaigning to be re-elected. The FBI says that Lee Harvey Oswald, a U.S. Marine, fired off 3 shots at the car in which the president was riding in the back of the with his wife, the Governor of Texas, John Connally and his wife also. As the vehicle with the Kennedys and Connallys drove past the Texas School Book…

The constellation I have chosen to study for this assignment is that of Lupus. Lupus is Latin for “wolf” and is located in the southern hemisphere and was one of the 48 original listed by Ptolemy, a second century astronomer, despite previously being an asterism associated with Centaurus. In mythology, it is thought that Lupus represents the African dog of the first King of Arcadia. It wasn’t until Ptolemy called the constellation “Lupus” that the constellation was associated with the wolf as…

The Art of Killing, a documentary about the Indonesian killings of 1965-66, is a raw and terrifying film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. This bone chilling feature delves deep into the failed coup in Indonesia that resulted in the death of over a million Indonesians at the hands of a ruthless gangster in an anti-communist cull. These gangsters for the large part have escaped prosecution and are even considered local heroes by some. The documentary provides a platform in which viewers are able to…

In 2018 the director Ryan Coogler created the astonishing movie “Black Panther”. Black Panther barely feels like a Marvel film, or even a hero film. As this film offers a bold, fresh take on the superhero origin story. Chadwick Boseman plays King T'Challa, of Wakanda, the fictional African country housing mystery science fiction innovation, who must advance up and grasp the profound obligation of his inheritance after the death of his dad. Rather than building another, super-suited personality…

Jack Torrance, the main character of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, played by Jack Nicholson, dutifully fills his role as breadwinner to the nuclear family until the pressures of carrying the “white man’s burden” become to great for him to bear and ultimately causing him to go insane. Because a wide gap exists between Torrance’s desire (to be a creative person) and his interpolated role (which imposes breadwinning over his desire), he experiences heightened inner tension. This inner tension…

at Texas State University, as identifying Flower and Dean Street as the epicenter of Jack the Ripper plausible residency. (Spencer) Kosminski was a known local of the Whitechapel district during the late 1880s and therefore he would have intimate knowledge of the surrounding area and the nefarious activities that took place after nightfall. Robert House shared essay ‘Aaron Kosminski Reconsidered’ on Casebook: Jack…

chronology of the events of the assassination, including the arrest and shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald Kennedy died on November 22, 1963. He was assassinated in Dallas Texas, and was in the Dealey Plaza area. Kennedy had been speaking at many different states, and wanted to win the reelection. "As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza."(jfk.library.org) The time was about 12:30 in the evening, and many people were in the crowds where he was…

Rick Smith: How Securus Technologies’ CEO Reinvented the Company to Cement its Dominance In The Inmate Communications Industry Rick Smith is undoubtedly an accomplished entrepreneur. As the CEO and President of Securus Technologies, Mr. Smith has painstakingly upped his work ethic and commitment to steer the company to astronomic success. In essence, Securus Technologies is widely considered to be a leading tech company specializing as a communications service provider for several prisons in…

In this case study of “THE COMIC BOOK AS SYMBOLIC ENVIRONMENT:THE CASE ON IRON MAN BY JON HOGAN” talks about the realism and the technology that Iron man the marvel comic book character, inspired many of the inventions we have in our world today. “Iron Man is a popular comic series in which the relationship between humanity and technology is a dominant theme”(Hogan 201). As the new generations build on the iconic ironman, the man beneath never changes; only technology evolves with the hero.Iron…