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Jack the Ripper terrorized the streets of Whitechapel, London in the 1880s. It was a time of poverty and brutality. The streets were dim and the crime rate was high; the citizens became alcoholic prostitutes. There are five women linked to Jack the Ripper named Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Jack the Ripper’s victims were all linked due to the type of deaths occurred. 43 year old Mary Ann Nichols was the first victim of Jack the Ripper…

encounters with prostitutes. This practice caused him much ridicule and the risk of possible scandal throughout his political career. Some writers have suggested that he took this reforming zeal a little further than he perhaps should, and was in fact Jack the Ripper. In 1888 at the time of the Whitechapel murders, Gladstone was almost 80 years old and half-blind from an unsuccessful cataract operation. Gladstone died from cancer at the age of 88 on 19 May 1898 at Hawarden Castle Flint, and is…

In this day and age, serial killers have become part of the American culture. From Ted Bundy to the infamous “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, numerous serial killers have become remarkably well-known for their crimes. So well-know, in fact, that they are now their own kind of celebrities, their twisted stories living on even after their deaths. It’s no secret that we can’t get enough of these individuals as well as the heinous murders they commit, but why is this the case? For many years,…

Payne Stewart American athlete Payne Stewart began golfing at the young age of four and was earned a spot on the PGA tour just two years after he graduated college. Stewart became famous on the tour and among fans for his singular style, he dressed in old fashion golf clothing. He had eleven tour victories and three major titles under his belt when he died at age 42 in a plane crash. For Payne Stewart to get into the PGA it took years of practice. Payne Stewart started when he was four, and…

Superman is a DC comics superhero created in 1933 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Since his first appearance in Action Comics #1, he appeared in radio serials, TV shows, movies, newspaper strips etc. It was his huge success and popularity that established the superhero genre as the center of comic book culture in the US. Superman's characteristics and traits changed more than once over the years, and those changes were explained as parallel universes. However, throughout all those changes,…

If you were born and raised in California then suddenly sent to the Yukon would you survive? The Call Of The Wild is a book about Buck, a dog born and raised in California. That is suddenly kidnapped and sent to the Yukon. Buck then battles the call of the wild. Buck learned to survive primitive well he was in the Yukon. He learned this all from his ancestors. Throughout the book Buck learned to become more primitive. Doing this buck found it easier to survive the primitive ways. Well buck was…

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in an era dominated by war and strife. From the heart of World War II to the expansion and inspiration from communism, chaos was evident in this man’s life. The irony behind Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of John. F Kennedy is evident. As a man who has only admired the man, the motive behind Lee’s murder is questionable. Lee Harvey Oswald’s had failed as a man, a husband, a worker, a Marine and a son his entire life. Added with Oswald’s embrace of communism, his…

The official final report is 889 pages long and was presented to Lyndon B Johnson on September 24th, 1964. Its conclusion was that President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and that Oswald acted entirely alone. It also concluded that Jack Ruby also acted alone when…

There is a common practice to place twins in separate classes. Some schools even make a policy to separate twins even if the parents disagree. Jamison J Grime noted, “The policies of the principals... were formed from misconceived stereotypes that twins need to be separated in order to form an individual personality” (92). Stereotypes often lead to hurtful, if not damaging behavior. In the case of separation of twins in classrooms, the policies could cause lasting damage to twins. In a poll on…

Profiling has been used around the world for hundreds of years. Many people do not realize that they use profiling in their everyday lives. From watching one’s body language to looking at one’s appearance, profiling is used all of the time by ordinary people. When profiling is applied to a crime scene it is known as criminal profiling. Criminal profiling is considered an investigative tool used by law enforcement in order to identify suspects or prevent future crimes of an offender from…