Little Jack Horner

In the novel, Little Brother, Marcus proves to be clever and quick-thinking. Firstly, Marcus is very clever. In the fifth chapter of the book, Marcus realized someone had been in his room when he found a bug planted in his laptop. He was smart enough to understand the possibility that there is also a camera watching him. Marcus says, “Knowing how to turn a toilet paper roll and three bucks’ worth of parts into a camera detector is just good sense” (Doctorow 85). Overall, this quotation proves…

When Starr first told me that she was going to become a ‘call girl’, I wasn’t really sure what to think. I was angry, I was scared, but most of all I was ignorant. She had told me multiple times that she had been running into some money problems and even though I offered some assistance to her, she turned it down and said “Thank you, but it’s not enough”. In turn I started to think: how much trouble could she be in? After I voiced my concerns to her, she began to explain to me why she had an…

Imagine that you were swimming then all of a sudden your eyes are burning and your arms are getting heavy, that’s how some of these penguins felt in these two articles. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicle” both talk about how the beaches that penguins live on are contaminated with a oil spill. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “The Seabird Chronicles” have similarities and differences like similarity in conflict but differences in setting. “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and…

Childhood, Immortality and the Little Prince One of the reasures I inherited from my grandmother “Nanný” when she passed, was a soft copy of The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antone de Saint-Exupéry. It is a beautiful 1946 edition in French with original illustrations. This tome has been read, that I know, by at least five generations in my family (my daughters included) in its original language. This Little book of les tan 100 pages is the fourth most translated book in history; it has…

On August 6 1945, a US plane named the Enola Gay flew over Hiroshima, a civilian city that had minimal military value and dropped the worlds first atomic bomb nicknamed little boy over Hiroshima, the initial blast instantly killed 80,000 people leaving Hiroshima a wasteland for months. This was a significant event of WW2 as it enlightened the world on why nuclear weapons shouldn’t be used in warfare. The use of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 has long remained one of the most controversial…

story of Jack the Ripper was always piqued the interest due to the ambiguous personality and the unsolved case. Jack the ripper had committed five murders, all of women between 25 and 40 years old, but the most horrifying thing was the mean by which he killed his victims, as he used to remove their organs. As a result people were panicked ending in attacking on everyone matched the description, especially of someone who carried a bag. Soon enough the police accused two person for being Jack the…

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…

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…

Jack The Ripper Name: Course: Institution: Tutor: Date: Introduction: the identity of Jack the Ripper The Whitechapel area of London was a crime scene between 6th August and 9th November 1888. Five women who were prostitutes were secretly murdered and one of them mutilated. Mary AnnNicholes was murdered on 31st August, Annie Chapman, on 8th September, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes on 30th September and Mary Jane Kelly on 9th November 1888 (Harrison, 2010). Being…

Whitechapel London had a series of grisly murders that were committed by a serial killer that would later be labeled as Jack the Ripper. The murders took place from August 31st, 1888 - November 9th, 1888. In total 5 prostitutes were murdered in the area of Whitechapel, to this day, no one knows who committed these horrific murders. Which brings a lot of speculation on who Jack the Ripper was, many theorized that the killers were suspects Francis Tumblety, George Chapman, and James Kelly. Of…