Jack Skellington

Is life on the road for everyone? Life on the road is not for everybody which in theory is understandable because traveling can be unpredictable. People who do not like to travel have their reasons; some people may say that they dislike traveling because they find it to be boring, while others will say that traveling causes them to stress due to fear of the unknown and therefore would rather avoid unnecessary worries and fears. There is also many thrill-seeking people who find that traveling the…

case was almost forgotten by the press by the beginning of 1889. In the Whitechapel murders casebook, the last report was written on October 18, 1896 by Detective Chief Inspector Henry Moore, regarding the reception of another “Ripper” letter claiming Jack was returning. Based on his investigation of the correspondence, Moore did not believe the letter to have any connection to the previous letters or merit regarding the Ripper case. The police’s hunt for the Ripper was…

Ice Age: Meltdown The 2002 animated film, Ice Age: Meltdown is based off of global warming. The main characters: Manny, Sid, and Diego all came together at one point in time to create their own herd. Manny, being the leader of the pack is very lonely and depressed, being the only mammoth left on Earth. Sid the is the hyperactive, annoying sloth, whose family abandoned him long into his adulthood, and Diego is the mean and irritable tiger, who left his pack to join Manny and Sid. Manny, Sid,…

of 1963. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist get paired together that summer to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain. Ennis Del Mar is the main character and narrates the book. Ennis describes him and Jack as, "high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life." (Proulx 3) One night on the mountain their relationship led to intimacy, an unexpected encounter for both Ennis and Jack. This was surprising for…

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…