Jack Skellington

and Thomas Bond used evidence from a crime scene to describe the Jack the Rippers personality. In this case, Jack the Ripper, murdered five prostitutes and disfigured their bodies in different ways in the Whitechapel District in London. This lasted from August 7 to September 10, 1888. From the way he destroyed the bodies, criminal profilers, Bond and Phillips could tell that he had some background knowledge of human autonomy. “Jack the Ripper didn't just snuff out life with a knife, he mutilated…

H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil/ By: Adam Selzer Skyhorse Publishing, 2017, 430 pages The book I chose was The True History of the White City Devil. In this book the author describes the many scandals and murders H.H. Holmes was involved in in the late 1800's. In this report I'm going to explain some of the crimes Holmes committed and some of the reasons I enjoyed this book Throughout this book the author tells about the life of Herman Webster Mudgett who later became…

Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is an adventure story of an unnamed protagonist’s futile effort to wander out in the below zero tundra of the Yukon Territory, joined by his dog, to visit his friends. Overlooking the risks of venturing out alone, the man then underestimates the harsh weather conditions and slowly begins to freeze to death in the snow. Willa Cather’s “Neighbour Rosicky” is a character study of Anton Rosicky, a man who, confronting the approach of death, reflects on the meaning and…

The Cries that Never Should have Happened, or did they? It was a typical brisk december morning in December back in 2012. Families woke up that morning like any other. The parents, woke their children up, feed them breakfast, got them dressed and packed them into the mini-van to go to school. Once, they got to school they stated their day like any other. Meet their friends in the halls and walked to class. Neither the parents nor, teachers, nor kids believed that today would be unlike any other…

In the adventure fiction, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck, the main protagonist of the novel, goes through one of the most miserable times of his life. He is captured by Perrault and François, as both see potential in Buck as a new lead dog. However, they don't plan to just use Buck as a lead dog, they plan to put him on a grueling quest to find the Klondike region of Canada. During many points the expedition, London does something not many people do with their characters, constantly…

In Anton Chekhov's 1904 play The Cherry Orchard, a Russian family who is used to a life of riches begin to experience the hardships of poverty. Due to an extreme amount of carelessness and selfishness, the mother of the estate Lyubov Andreevna Ranvskaya loses the funds that have been allowing her to keep her family in a comfortable position financially. Throughout the play, Chekhov uses many items to represent symbolism, such as the cherry orchard itself to represent the golden age of…

doctors who started assisted suicide was Jack Kevorkian (Jack Kevorkian Biography). Jack Kevorkian was a pathologist who helped patients with certain medical conditions die. In a result of his actions Jack Kevorkian ended up spending eight years in prison (Jack Kevorkian Biography). Jack Kevorkian only ended up in prison after years of conflict with the court system about how ethical his actions were. Jack Kevorkian grew up in a very strict Christian home, however Jack Kevorkian had a hard time…

Midterm essay Patrick O’Keefe In the books Jungle book: Mowgli’s brothers and brave new world, They both have civilization vs savagery with soma changing the perception of the citizens of New World and letting them be carefree and party on their soma vacations while the reservation lives a simple life. In the story Mowgli’s brother the theme civilization versus savagery is shown with how the wolves use the rock council to make important decisions that affect all so everyone has a voice which…

depository or the grassy knoll? If not, why did his body go backward? The conspiracist, Jack Duffy, believes that Lee H. Oswald could not have possibly have time to kill the president and to be in the lunchroom at 12:15 p.m. (Duffy 46). Mr. Duffy does not believe in the lone gunman, but rather that someone shot the president from the grassy knoll. The sceptic, David Reitzes, is an author who writes…

World War II in the mid-to-late 40s. Social unrest in America after the war led to a population that was split between the normal middle-class majority and a deviant minority of youthful rebels (Russell, 2002). Three of those voices of dissent were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. After meeting at Columbia University through their mutual friend Lucien Carr in 1944, it became clear that the three of them shared not only great intelligence and a passion for writing but also an…