Ted Danson

The label serial killer is defined as a person who commits three or more killings. The killings have commonalities that propose the crimes were committed by the person or persons. Federal law provides this definition only to aid law enforcement agencies with investigations of serial killers. However, the definition is not meant to serve as all-encompassing description for serial murders. Serial killers vary in many ways so there is not a blanket profile for a serial killer. However, there…

July27, 1981 six-year old Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. Revé Walsh, his mother, allowed young Adam to busy himself with a video game display while she shopped. A few minutes later, she returned to the display to find her son missing. What she did not know was that, there had been an argument between Adam and a group of kids at the display that resulted in them all being put out of the store where little Adam was abducted. About a month later, two…

The Pied Piper Arnold Friend, diversely known as Charles Schmid or “The Pied Piper of Tuscon,” in the story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” is a serial killer who has a name for himself. Throughout his life, Charles Schmid manages to kill three teenage girls from 1964 to 1965 by beguiling them to him by altering his appearance and intriguing his victims by his persuasive choice of words . In 1966, Joyce Carol Oates found inspiration to write ,“Where Are You Going, Where Have You…

Intro: (radio station mix effect) Radio host: Your listening to Poetry radio station, coming to you live every Monday night from 5 with new, music and discussions. First up we have Hayley to talk burning poetry. Hayley: Hey guys and welcome to burning poetry, where poetry is the bonfire of discussion. Tonight’s episode is “shackled” all about depression and mental illness. Although not always easily detected or obvious, mental illness is alive and can have devastating effects on sufferers. The…

Poets and Poetry Task 8 Noel Mains Biography of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was known as an American poet, novelist, and a short- story writer. She was born on October 27, 1932. Boston, Massachusetts was where she was born. Her parents Aurelia Schober Plath and Otto Plath were so happy to have a baby girl. Three short years later Sylvia gets to meet her new little brother Warren Plath. Who was born on April 27, 1935. A little later Sylvia and her family moved to Winthrop Massachusetts. This is…

Plath Updike Comparison Draft 3 By denying change, one lives only in the past. Comparing Plath's “Sylvia Plath at Seventeen” and Updike's, “Ex-Basketball Player” reveals both authors create speakers who live in their past out of fear for their future. For this, the authors use similar thematic and stylistic elements, which both Plath and Updike employ to display humanity's resistance towards change and moving on. The thematic ideas in Plath and Updike's work, while slightly different, revolve…

attempted suicides. After her first suicide, she started to get treated, and eventually recovered from her mental breakdown. After a short period of time, she went back to attempting suicide that failed several times. Unfortunately, Sylvia and her husband, Ted Hughes got divorced in 1962 after six…

Silvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston. She had a complicated relationship with her father, who died from diabetes when she was 8. She later said that his death was the reason for her emotional turmoil in her adult years. Her mother was an English teacher and she encouraged Plath to write. Plath published her first piece in the newspaper around the time her father died (“Silvia Plath.” 1046-1047). She attended Smith college and her junior year she won a prize from the Mademoiselle…

Ted Bundy Christopher Gregory Community College of Aurora Theodore Robert Bundy, AKA Ted Bundy, is one of the more well-known serial killers in this nation. Before his death in 1989, he had confessed to thirty-six murders, but the number is likely much higher and some estimate it’s likely in the hundreds. Bundy was a serial rapist and killer, he raped his victims before beating them to death, that had a tristate murder spree. Bundy had escaped prison twice, before he was eventually caught and…

unmarried. She got pregnant with Ted from a sailor named Jack Worthington who had left after he learned of her condition.During Ted’s childhood he believed that his grandmother and grandfather were his parents and that his real mother Louise was his sister. His grandfather had a violent temper and Ted was exposed to this. His grandfather was also abusive to animals, physically violent, and had a collection of disturbing pornography that Ted was also exposed to. Ted displayed unusual behavior at…