Ronald DeFeo

This room was 4 by 5ft, small, and compacted. With red painted walls that hadn’t been cleaned or touched up in a long while. The room was freezing, cold air absorbing into the skin as soon as one would approach the door. Defeo dabbling in the occult, often would sleep in the basement. In 1974, the voices got to Defeo causing him to obey orders and murdering his whole family with a shotgun as they peacefully slept in their bedrooms. Defeo was a monster in a nightmare. Watching the film realizing it is in fact based on a true story with true events that had taken place, chills begin to take over one’s body, the hairs on the back of the neck stick up, with an odd overpowering feeling that someone may very well be watching, or could have been there watching the entire time. One may feel themselves getting anxious and overwhelmed over the…

Ronald Defeo, the oldest son in the Defeo family, made a frantic entrance into a nearby bar. “You have to help me! I think my mother and father have been shot!” A group went to investigate, his parents were indeed dead. Police searched the house and found the rest of his family face down in their beds, shot and killed. Under protective custody, he was interviewed about the murders. He explained that it was a hitman, he even gave a name. His story didn’t fall through, when the alleged hitman…

“All of us have grown up accepting with little question certain images as accurate portraits of public figures—some living, some dead. Very seldom if ever do we ever ask if the images are true to the original.” ~Ronald Reagan Very few figures in American history are as studied and scrutinized as Ronald Reagan. Reagan was elected to the presidency in a crucial period in American history; a recession threatened American prosperity and the Soviet Union’s aggressive expansion threatened the…

The middle class struggled because their taxes were being raised to pay for special programs for the lower classes. The people of the middle class also experienced cuts in their jobs. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan cut social services and many residents came to protest against cuts in funds for the teacher, firemen, and police force. The middle class also felt the pressure on rising prices and the uneasiness of finding a job. Zinn states that, “a college education is no longer a guarentee…

era of reasonable growth with rising inequality, from 1980 until the present.”(Krugman 54), due to the rise of Movement Conservatism. What might very well be proof of the effectiveness of the New Deal, is the consequences which occur as members of the far right attempt to wither away at its policies. “The New Deal 's greatest legacy was a shift in government philosophy. As a result of the New Deal, Americans came to believe that the federal government has a responsibility to ensure the health…

As of 2016, there are 7.4 billion people on the planet. Of that 7.4 billion, the United States accounts for roughly 321 million people. Would it surprise you, that although the U.S is home to less than 5% of the world’s population, we have 25% of the world’s overall incarcerated population? Our country has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Michelle Alexander writes in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, that the impact of the drug war has been…

Torreon (Torreon, CRS 01/27/15, summary section). Regardless of whether the conflict is stand alone or part of a prolonged engagement and/or war period, a majority of these conflicts where American troops are involved do not have an associated authorization use of military force associated with them. To highlight this fact Mr. Timothy McGrath states that the United States is currently involved in 134 different operations in his 8 December 2014 article on US Foreign policy (McGrath, Global Post…

Carson’s views on education include supporting teachers more, helping expand educational opportunities for everyone, and lowering the cost of education. He believes that “teachers are the greatest resources in our educational system”, that “a student’s zip code or race should not determine their success”, and that “we must take affirmative steps that lead to a reduction in tuition costs and student loan debt” (Ben). Dr. Carson is associated with the Republican Party for the presidential…

When you hear the word ‘flood’ what do you think of? The majority of us probably think of the scientific definition of the word: a natural disaster that happens when a large amount of water covers an area of land that is normally dry (Merriam-Webster Online). However, in recent years, this scientific definition has been taken out of context to form a tasteless political metaphor. In the United States, immigration has/is frequently referred to as a flood, a stream, a tide, a wave, a tsunami, or a…

Just say no,” was a popular slogan when I was growing up. Throughout the 1980’s President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy created a powerful anti-drug campaign that used images like an egg representing a brain, and an egg frying for a brain on drugs. As a kid I couldn’t watch Saturday morning cartoons without being bombarded with anti-drug advertisements. Today kids get a different kind of message, not all drugs are bad regardless of the law. They are getting this message through the…