Jack

It is well known today that Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest of his kind. But Nicholson can credit Chinatown as his start as A-list regular. Even being said that Nicholson “is one of the most interesting actors now working…” (Ebert, par.6). And that “Before Chinatown, Nicholson was known, but not a bona fide star. This film, his first lead role, changed the direction of his career.”(Berardinelli, par.7). Nicholson is an actor who becomes unrecognizable as himself and is solitary remembered…

For over a century, the identity of Jack the Ripper has remained a mystery that continues to haunt criminal experts around the world. Jack the Ripper, formally known as the Whitechapel Fiend, committed gruesome murders in the year 1888 around Whitechapel, London. The killer was never caught and many men are still suspects today. Among these men are a traveling doctor, a boot-maker and a Polish immigrant. Francis Tumblety was a traveling doctor who sold Indian herbs throughout North America…

the time Jack the Ripper and Herman Webster Mudgett, who went by the alias of Dr. H.H. Holmes. The two killers began killing around the 1880’s, and they were able to escape captivity for years. It is widely debated whenever Jack the Ripper is none other than Holmes, but it can be proven false due to the different killing technique and they were located in different territory. Although, Holmes and Jack butchered multiple victims in a different region and had different murdering style,…

Jack the Ripper: Unsolved Murder? The News reports murder stories all the time, but the story of the first recorded serial killer that was never caught is older than anyone alive. Today the police can solve a murder in under a month usually, but the Jack the Ripper case has never been solved after one hundred and twenty years. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer in Whitechapel, London, during 1888 that murdered five prostitutes, removed their organs, and never had his identity fully confirmed…

often with no clear motive and consistently following a characteristic, foreseen behavior pattern. The Notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper killed at least five London female prostitutes in 1888. Never captured, his identity is one of English's most famous unresolved mysteries! Jack the Ripper was a former British killer and DNA evidence has exposed the identity of Jack the Ripper! The most infamous serial killer in history has been known as a rather underwhelming Polish madman called Aaron…

“Yes Sir!” the announcer proclaimed as “Jack Nicklaus [threatened] to make the 46th year of his life the most memorable to date - a year when this once young, strong, heroic golfer [made] middle age a time of even bigger heroics.” (The New York Times, May 24, 1986) Jack Nicklaus had just sunk a putt in the 1986 masters for eagle on the fifteenth hole, positioning only two back of the lead. It would be one of the greatest wins in golf’s history if he could pull it out, but there were only three…

abdominal mutilations and some of their organs had been removed. This was the most vicious string of murders that London had ever seen. The killer, Jack the ripper, was originally called “the white chapel murderer” or “leather apron” and didn’t actually get the name Jack the ripper until letters were received by someone that was claiming to have committed the murders but there is no actual proof that the letters were written by him and it is actually…

Throughout the centuries, Jack the Ripper’s identity has remained a mystery. Ever since the idea of Jack the Ripper has been thought of, suspicions has risen about numerous people. Today, there are over one hundred Jack the Ripper suspects. Lewis Carroll, famous for his work of “Alice in Wonderland”, is one of the hundreds that have been accused of being the murderous Jack the Ripper. The mystery began when Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, made his first killing around the…

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is an American short story that is about a man that goes out into the freezing cold Yukon, Alaska. Jack uses many literary tools throughout his story. The best ones that he used throughout his story is setting, imagery, and point-of-view. “London emphasizes the existential theme in “To Build a Fire” in several ways, the most important of which is his selection of the setting in which the story takes place.” (lonestar.edu). The story is set in Yukon, Alaska,…

Was Jack the Ripper really Jack the Ripper? Or was it someone else? Ripper was a serial killer and mutilated at least five prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 and because no one arrested or tried for murders, crime buffs are still fascinated with Jack the Ripper case more than 115 years later. To criminally profile the man named Jack the Ripper, there is evidence of his types of victims, what he did to his victims and the possible suspects to his true identity. The women experts really…