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    Book Review Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders Criminal Justice 370 Cornada McLester Mercer University Abstract This is a book review on killer clown. The John Wayne Gacy Murders. The author this book is Terry Sullivan with Peter T. Maiken and this book was published by Pinnacle Publishing Corp. they are located on 119 west 40th street New York, New York. Killer clown the John Wayne Gacy Murders was first copyright in 1983 and then again in 2013. Updated with the latest DNA…

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    Chicago may be widely interpreted as one man’s visualization of his city. The author’s use of a sort of ordered free verse reflects the controlled chaos within the city itself. One must be well familiarized with Chicago and all of its parts and citizens to truly understand the order of the city’s work, play, and crime. Sandburg also uses numerous adjectives and similes, which applies a sort of personal, human-like aura to this city. In the first half of the poem, Sandburg describes Chicago as…

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    H.H Holmes was born May 16th, 1861, in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. His legal name was Herman Webster Mudgett. When he was young he was bullied. His peers discovered that he was afraid of doctors so they made him stand in front of a human skeleton at a doctors office. Holmes was afraid at first but soon intrigued by the experience. It may have led to his fascination and unhealthy obsession. Holmes was a con-artist. His first committed crimes were fraud and scams. Holmes went to the university of…

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    Murders are seen on the news and television shows on a daily basis. People often hear of the brute and forceful methods killers use to harm their victims. The Devil in the White City, In Cold Blood, and Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone all divulge accounts of murders. These three books all use similar and some unique tactics for their books to be a success. As some murderers employ similar killing strategies, authors of murder novels employ similar devices of foreshadowing, pathos, and point of view…

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    House- She was an american activist and reformer. The Hull house was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House served as a place where the working class immigrants could use as shelter and for social purposes. In Devil in the White City, when problems occurred about America's lower and middle class, the Hull House was used as a place to speak and issue these problems. B. Frederick Law Olmstead- He was an american landscape architect, born in 1822. He was known around…

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    underdeveloped city that comprises of poor people and corrupt politicians. Even then, experts like Daniel Burnham and John Root created this state of the art structure and made everything possible. This novel is a perfect portrayal of the Chicago World Exposition 1893. It defines the versatile structures that were a part of the fair and how people in large numbers were attracted to the greatness of this…

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    Letter from Birmingham city jail. Martin Luther King Jr. message was not to convince all clergymen that what he was doing was right. It was to try and open them up so they wouldn't see him and his people as the bad people. First of all, great…

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    fleeing into the woods. After Brown escapes the town, he has an epiphany that “people are evil by nature ” (“Young Goodman Brown” 298). This detail adds to Hawthorne’s idea that civilization corrupts the individual. In explanation, while talking to the Devil, Brown understands that all…

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    What Are Spiritual Gates

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    villages, towns, cities and nations and there is no exception. All these have spiritual and physical gates just as your eyes are a physical gate and also a spiritual gate. Another example is that man is first and foremost a spirit being, having a physical body and living in the natural. The White House has gates. At the main gate of the white house, you will not see much security officer. Why? Because that gate in itself is a statement, that there is a restriction to entry into the White…

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    Hajj Pilgrimage Description: The religion of Islam is Global, discursive and rich and monolithic in its origin. The religion of Islam is diverse and the cultural practices varieties from place to place. The Islam culture is mainly based on “Quran” and “Sunnah” and is also derived from human experiences and learning. The most remarkable notion of the Islamic culture is that they staunchly believe in the existence of truth and the dematerialization of falsehood. They perform scads of festivals,…

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