replace the youth with another teenage boy days later. On August 1, 1975, Butkovich did not return home after threatening Gacy to pay him the money he owed him. The next day, his parents found his car parked, with the key in the ignition, with his jacket and money on the seat of the car. In fear something happened to their son, John Butkovich’s parents reported him missing to the police. As with most cases where youths are reported as missing, the police dismissed it stating they believed young…
Chapter Eighteen A Dizzying Blur of Woozy Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. The way Chance saw it escape was futile. “Look, we’re tied up.” He walked over to a window and glanced down. “And we’re on the third floor. Unless you’re suggesting we hurl ourselves through the glass and dive to our deaths. Besides, this place is infested with guards.” I realized he was right. Men were prowling like packs of wild hyenas, lurking in the shadows, waiting to devour us whole. “If we did manage to flee, which is…
Vinyl Record Materials Materials to used to make records have evolved and changed several times over the years. The earliest disc records from 1889-1894 were made of various materials including wax and. Rubber. Shortly after, a shellac based compound had been experiment with leading to it becoming standard. Each manufactures exact formula varied, but they typically coated records with a shellac (wax) resin Shellac The materials typically used to make for a shellacked disc where cardboard and…
Marvel’s Jessica Jones, or Jessica Jones, is a superhero television series created for Netflix. The show features one primary protagonist: the titular character Jessica Jones, an ex-superhero who now runs a PI out of her apartment. In addition to Jessica Jones, the show stars seven other main cast members throughout season one: Luke Cage, Patricia “Trish” Walker, Will Simpson, Hope Shlottman, Malcolm Ducasse, Jeri Hogarth, and Kilgrave. In terms of exposition, Jessica Jones is a strong…
The 1991 science fiction action film, Terminator 2: Judgement Day vastly explores a small rift in time (1995) just years before the world becomes a destructive place where technology has greatly evolved, to the point of exterminating humans, via the form of an AI(artificial intelligence) system called Skynet. However the dark future of Skynet is tied up to the present day via form of time travel, as the AI sends a Terminator back in to the current time set in Terminator 2 (T2) to kill John…
The darkness seeped in, spreading through my entire body. It weighed my body down as if I was drowning in fear, suffocating, dying.I wanted to struggle and free myself, to crawl towards light but there was none. As far as I could see a hollow blacked canvas was engulfing me. That is when the overwhelming calmness came over me as I prepared to accept my death, and that is when the true horrors of my surroundings showed itself. I urged to my feet to trudge forward into the barren wasteland to…
How did advances in technology and the development of the market contribute to new varieties of youth culture? Affluence combined with other crucial demographic, technological, ideological and institutional factors led to new varieties of youth culture. The youth of the 1960s were generally conformist and apolitical. Young people were at a stage in their life where they were most motivated to construct identities, to forge new social groupings and to negotiate alternatives. They had chosen…
Fashion is all about the what, how and the why. Throughout time fashion styles have changed, but it’s really doesn’t change. Fashion is a cycle of trends that come and go based on generational acceptance. Currently, a buyer for Nordstrom wants to understand how styles shift from generation to generation. Nordstrom is a leading fashion specialty retailer offering compelling clothing, shoes and accessories for men, women children and infants (Nordstrom). As a buyer, you determine what products…
Being just over six feet tall, with long dark shaggy hair that constantly falls into his eyes, his brooding looks, skinny jeans complete with dog chain and leather jacket I can see what draws them to him. He looks like he’s a member of the next hottest up and coming band, no one would guess him for the nerd that he really is. He should have been my ideal boyfriend as we have so much in common, the only problem…
Lying on the leather driver’s seat was a rubber mask, the kind you pulled over your head. Tufts of orange Bozo-ish hair stuck up above the temples like horns. The nose was a red rubber bulb. Without a head to stretch it, the red-lipped smile had become a sneer. “Creepy…