Ted Honderich

Freud in his 1919 essay, The ‘Uncanny’, offers us an explanation of ‘uncanny’. According to him, ‘uncanny’ is the experience of dread which returns to what is already known and familiar. In other words, he investigates how the familiar returns as a lingering, uncertain dread. For the purpose of this paper, I will look at the film, The Cure (1997) to explore the concept of Freud’s ‘uncanny’. I intend to look at how the film deploys the concept of ‘uncanny’ in a two-pronged approach: how the…

How can two children be so different when they grow up in the same family, with the same economic and social disadvantages as each other? This question, along with many others about Canadian society, are examined through the often satirical lens of author Mordecai Richler, in the novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. During their childhoods, Duddy, and his brother Lennie, are born into a dysfunctional family. This dysfunction is a result of a lack of a motherly presence. Additionally,…

Theodore Robert Cowell or as many people would refer to him as Ted Bundy, was a notorious serial killer and rapist who was born on November 24th 1946 and was executed by an electric chair on January 24th 1989. Ted 's ' mother Eleanor Louise Cowell gave birth to him in Burlington, Vermont. When Ted was born, Eleanor left Ted for three months and returned to Philadelphia. Later, Teds ' grandparents pretended to adopt Ted and said that Eleanor was his sister. Many people believed that Bundy was a…

The United States of America has had a rich history of presidential elections, with every one being interesting and important to the future of the country. Out of all the steps in the election process, debates have been an important factor. Atifete Jahjaga once said, “Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.” Debates are crucial to American elections, as evidenced by the…

The poem “Daddy,” by Sylvia Plath is a descriptive poem of Plath’s feelings towards her dead father. The grief stuck by her father passing, heavily impacting her way of life. Plath had a hard time growing up because she felt alone without her father and she felt incomplete because she never got a chance to know her father or what he was like. Plath claims she is “through,” but evidence shows that she did not come to terms with her father because her suffering, aggression, and disrespect towards…

married when she had him. Her parents decided to take the responsibility of raising Ted in order to hide Eleanor’s role of being an unmarried mother. Ted was told that Eleanor was really his sister and that her parents were his as well. Ted never thought anything about the situation because it was all that he had known growing up. However, he did move with Eleanor to Washington a few years later. It was not until Ted was older that the truth came out about his family.…

The distinctions between serial, mass and sensational or murders who are on a killing spree are, serial killers murder three or more people or as we say victims, but on separate occasions they normally select their victims and have periods of time in between before the next killing, serial murders also like to plan out their murders carefully and will travel to find their victims others may stay in a general area. Serial killers also may have specifics, such as they may target a specific type of…

Jack the Ripper is a serial killer and still nowadays is remembered by the impeccable crimes he committed which didn’t attach him to any direct suspect. In this book, Patricia Cornwell narrates the story in her point of view where Walter Sickert, a painter and printmaker, was known for painting Jack´s crime scenes. Many of these paintings are all around the world and some of them were used against Sickert to blame him. Other perfect suspects could have been Prince Albert Victor who suffered from…

people with these traits go on to make a positive name for themselves; however, one man took this concept in a different direction. Ted Bundy exploited his good looks and charm to his advantage taking the lives of young women and girls who were too trusting, and too vulnerable. And his path of terror made him one of the most memorable serial killers of all time. Ted Bundy’s full name was Theodore Robert Cowell, he was born at the Elizabeth Lund home for unwed mothers in Burlington, Vermont on…

murderers, how they got caught and what were there penalties. Ted Bundy was born November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. When growing up, he was raised by a single mom which was not acceptable for their religion so they moved to another state to hide the fact that Ted was born an illegitimate baby. Ted was raised by his grandparents and they told ted that his mom was his sister because he was too young to know who was who. The mom moved with Ted to Tacoma, Washington, a couple years later…