Ted Robert Gurr

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…

Born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946, Theodore Robert Bundy was a wicked child of Louise Cowell which during the next few years they spent living with Louise’s parents. 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,…

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…

“One night a man who had a very tranquil marriage, chased his wife into the street. There he stabbed her repeatedly and then smashed her head on pavement all while brushing off neighbors who tried to stop him. He fell asleep in his car and when he woke up he was confused and couldn’t recall the incident.” This is just one of the many cases of sleepwalking that lead to murders.There are very few extreme cases of sleepwalking murders. Sleepwalking crimes are very rare so courts don’t have a…

neighbor. Theodore Bundy, one of the most significant serial killers of all time, lived a complicated and vulgar life; many believe this was a result of a troublesome upbringing and an unhealthy relationship. There has been controversy on whether or not Ted Bundy’s childhood had influenced his behavior as a serial killer.According to Juan Blanco (2015) in the article…

Milestone Two The two poems being used for this assignment are Sylvia Plath’s “mad girls love song” and Nikki Giovanni’s “balance.” Mad girls love song is about a girl that feels like the man she fell in love with isn’t real, but just something she created in her own head because he suddenly disappeared and never returned. Balance is about the balance of black and white, truth and lies, love and loneliness. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the linguistic principles demonstrated in each of…

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a novel on the end of Morrie Schwartz’s life. This book has many examples of the four reasons we do not express emotions and many examples of those reason being broke so people can express their emotions. Morrie was Mitch’s professor back in college and after college Mitch never contacted Morrie again until he saw Morrie on “Nightline”. Morrie was dying of ALS, which is why he was on “Nightline”. Mitch calls to see how his old professor is doing and they…