Natural Born Killers

kneed him in the thigh. Warner stomped on Jack’s ankle, and Jack just happened to hit him in the solar plexus.” (75). Not only does Greyson use a man versus man theme, but he also utilizes the theme of perseverance. Jack perseveres to find the true killer despite the difficulties of having to get interrogated several times by the police, struggles at home, complications with friends, and eventually getting…

What if you discovered that a loved one was a serial killer? We’ll that’s what happened to 17 year old Bonnie Stevens. Bonnie thought that she had a completely normal life until she found something that would change her forever. She found a book sitting on the kitchen table. She thought it was just her brothers library book that he got from school but as she opened the book there was writing in it. It had places written down and names crossed out. She looked hard at the names and remember seeing…

Ponyboy was really the first person I could express my opinions to and the first person I could really talk to about how I feel about this stupid social division we have to go by. Even though he doesn’t really understand how we Socs have problems too, I can see that he at least sort of understands- not completely, but just a little… Knowing that he sort of understands is a mixed feeling of relief and just a bit of an absurd feeling as well, I mean, a Soc and a greaser actually having a nice…

The Heart of Prejudice Prejudice is a two-headed serpent. When prejudice exists, it is never one-sided, and it is driven by fear. In The Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus, one sees the dual-sided fears that create prejudice. Fears of unfamiliar customs, differences in religion, and personal appearance issues created prejudices exhibited by the Japanese and the “barbarians”. The Japanese people called Americans the “foreign devils—the barbarians” (4). Fear was created in the Japanese because…

“I was considering always in my room of the lodging house and besides, felt that it is vain to try. Because reading a lot of books doesn’t indulge my appetite actually, then, I gave it up. At the same time, gradually I couldn’t catch the meaning even myself that what I read the books so much for.” Souseki Natsume wrote this in his essay ‘My individualism’, which retrospect the prehistory of shaping ‘A theory of literature’ and it was the description when he was studying abroad in England in…

Part One There are many differences between the American and Japanese culture. One must never assume that any one culture is the same, even if the two culture appear similar on the surface. American and Japanese cultures appear similar on the surface. But if one looks any deeper than surface level, it is very easy to see that the two cultures are as different as any two cultures can be. In this section three key differences will be discussed between American and Japanese culture. The author…

Essay Draft The story The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brien takes place in the Vietnam War. The author Tim O’ Brien narrates the story of how was it like being a soldier. Also while sharing many of his war stories, it’s becomes interesting how it leads to the stories of other soldiers that he knew during the war. Many young soldiers went to war. It can be seen that Tim O’Brien and other soldiers changed from boys to men. Tim O’ Brien has achieved his first kill in the Vietnam War. Due to…

Those with PTSD show an altered chemical formation of cortisol in the brain, which deals with acute stress. “Cortisol is normally released as anti-stress hormone that shuts off biological reactions”(Van Der Kolk, 2002, p.5). Those with PTSD have low levels of cortisol resulting in their biological reactions of norepinephrine to be released. The response to this stimuli results in a fight or flight response, which is commonly seen in war. Those engaging in a state of high arousal will often…

In What Would We Find in the Brain of a Serial Killer, Pemment states that the first disorder closely related with psychology is Antisocial Personality Disorder. According to (Pemment, 2013), “killers have a lower resting heart rate, and significant differences in their brains, such as reduced prefrontal gray matter, amydalar abnormalities, and an asymmetric hippocampus.” The more I read the more it appeared that serial executioners had numerous properties of a few unique personality disorders,…

According to statistic researcher Aaron Guo, the number of active serial killers in the United States at all times is 35. That is an alarming number considering what a threat serial killers are to society. The term “serial killer” is often misinterpreted and can be mistaken for someone who is a “murderer”. Although they may sound like the same thing, they are not. A serial killer is someone who murders a numerous amount of people in a non-categorized grouping. Most of the time, they do it out of…