Ted Conover

Stab stab stab death despair. I am referring to Machu Picchu and all of the death in Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was a cool place and people still visit Machu Picchu today. What you are about to read is all about Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was built around 1450 and was abandoned about a century later and no one knows why the place was abandoned but some people speculate that it was smallpox. after further research, they figured out that most of the deaths at Machu Picchu were women. Machu Picchu…

Matthew Goldberg ENGL 280 The Journey To Life And Death Sylvia Plath’s “BlackBerrying,” uses imagery and personification to bring the reader into the life of the speaker. Plath committed suicide at age 30, with these poems to show how much life you can live in a short period of time. In this three stanza poem Plath uses seven different colors which allows each reader to create their own image in their head. The poem is straight forward, meaning it is read consecutively. This also illustrates an…

There was a man named Frederick Matthews. Freddy had blond hair, and green eyes that seemed like they burned into the souls of anyone who looked into them. Freddy was a retired athlete who played football. He was married to Raven Boris. Their relationship was not the best. They always got in fights and if you could listen closely you could hear them from a half a mile away, but they always loved each other either way but that would change. One day they were arguing and six gunshots fired.…

The Golden State Killer was a prolific news story and spree during the late 1970s to 1980s, also known as the East Area Rapist in his earlier days of crime. There were many speculations on how he could fall between the cracks of over 50 rapes and 12 murders all in a decade and suddenly disappear off the face of the earth. However, it took over forty years to find any sort of lead in the story of the Golden State Killer, really by a stroke of chance by the police force investigating the case. Who…

On March 13, 1933, Donald Gaskins was born in Florence County, South Carolina. At a young age, Gaskins was teased and given the nickname “Pee Wee” as a result of his small body frame. Violence followed him everywhere, starting from his home where his stepfather beat him to school. At school Gaskins would fight with the other kids daily. This would ultimately lead him to become the most terrified serial killer in South Carolina. Gaskins was 42 years old in 1975 and had been killing steadily for…

There were speculating to believe they led Ted and others believe that his mother was his older sister. Others believed it was during this time that Ted had been traumatized by his aggressive grandfather. It was not until at age four Ted and his mother moved to Tacoma, Washington where Ted’s mother went on to marry an army cook, Johnnie Bundy. Bundy was so fed up the fact that he didn’t have such a rich respectable social lifestyle. It wasn’t long until Ted began to develop a deep obsession into…

A charming young man with a bright political future, Ted Bundy would commit travesties that the world could not have possibly predicted. A serial rapist and murderer, Bundy eventually admitted to killing 36 women, with most experts believing the actual number to be over 100 (“Capital Punishment”). When the shocking evidence was revealed, Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death. During his nine years on death row, he cost taxpayers over 5 million dollars and received three extensions on his…

Sylvia Plath established a brilliant academic record and exhibited talent both as an artist and as a writer, publishing her first short story in Seventeen magazine soon after finishing high school. Her academic and literary successes continued after her admission to Smith College in the fall of 1950. The recipient of several prestigious scholarships, she performed impressively in her college courses and published her works in several national magazines, earning, among other accolades, a summer…

The serial killer I chose to do a report on is Joseph Roy Metheny, also known as “The Cannibal Killer”. He was born on March 2, 1955 and died on August 5, 2017 (Blanco, n.d.). Despite what Joseph has said about his home life, it was pretty normal. He grew up in the North Point Boulevard area of Essex, in Maryland (Wynter, 2017). In an interview, his mother, Jean Metheny, openly spoke about his childhood. She said that when Joe was six, his father got in a car crash and left her a single mother…

the story. The feeling of freedom is from the distance away from her distant and unloving husband, while the restricting feeling that comes from the tulips is from the ‘presence’ of her husband during what was her time of freedom. Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, was also the main inspiration for other poems by her, such as “The Rabbit Catcher”. He was a very negative presence in her life, while leaving her for another woman, that was one of the reasons Plath's depression worsened and led to her…