I was killing chickens. It was my 38th birthday. My brother had chosen that morning to tell me that he had caught his wife – my best friend, Ashley – in bed with my husband a year before. I had absorbed the rumors with suspicions about other women for 10 years, but this one, I knew, was going to break us. When I roared upstairs and confronted John, he told me to go fuck myself, ran downstairs and jumped into the truck. Our sons, Sam and Ben, were making a surprise for me at the table; they stood behind me silently in the kitchen door while John gunned the truck out of the yard (5).…
Detective Tim Elmore and I arrived at 421 Lemmons Road just before midnight. The true story was beyond what one`s own imagination could have ever created. Only our worst nightmares could have conjured…
When I first picked up Inside Rikers by Jennifer Wynn, I could not help but notice a disturbing image of the book cover; it was an image of an inmate locked up in his cell; he had one hand holding the bar, while having the other hand out of the cell, with a cigarette in his hand. Then I read the Publisher Weekly’s description of the book in the cover page, which read, “a penetrating exploration of inmates’ lives in New York’s ‘vast penal colony’… unusually stirring.” Based on this image and Publisher Weekly’s description, I thought this book was going to talk about inmates’ involvement in criminal activities inside Rikers Island, i.e. fights between the prison gangs. Nevertheless, once I started reading, I came to realize my presumption was totally wrong.…
The challenging and complicated lives of women in the 1930s are explored in the novel, The Group, by Mary McCarthy as 8 Vassar students struggle through their first 7 years of adulthood after college graduation. Through the lives of these women, the readers experience firsthand the political, social, and economic discrimination women went through in the early twentieth century. The group of friends grow apart as the years go by, but a funeral for one of their own ends the book with the remaining 7 together again. The Group is a story about friendship, overcoming gender barriers, and healthy and unhealthy relationships, using different characters' perspectives throughout the book in order to give the reader a complex and full understanding of each storyline and character arc.…
I took fish lines and matches and other things-everything that was worth a cent. I cleaned out the place. I wanted an ax, but there wasn’t any, only the one out at the woodpile, and I knowed why I was going to leave that. I fetched out the gun, and now I was done” (43).…
The FBI and other Illinois Government were determined to stomp out criminals that plagued America and great city of Chicago. This task was easier said than done,loans were taken out to keep a crumbling law enforcement up to date. Millions of dollars were spent buying firearms, extensive training, and more policemen. This new code of terror was to be eliminated with extreme prejudice.…
After miss Pelley’s brothers were contacted, they went on a rage and got a huge crowd of people together. The crowd had demanded and took possession of a freight train with 300 men with cars. After the crowd was chasing them for a while they started firing shots and the train and threatened them that if they don't stop they would burn the prisoner alive. After the train had stopped on Tenth Street, the prisoner was dragged with a rope to Eighth Street. The crowd had fired gun shots saying “You dog!…
Life was good in portland quiet evening , kinda warm since it’s spring. Next thing that I see is a bunch of trucks coming and I saw the Nazi’s come out and everyone came out of their houses wondering what is happening . The Nazi’s told the jews that they have to come with them to take them to a camp and must forsake everything they have and come with them now.I’m sick of these Nazi’s , they’re just like pigs ! People were yelling, crying , and getting mad. So the Nazi’s commander got a gun and shoot people so they know he’s not playing and the jews and I went in the truck.…
This is meant to mean that no matter the severity of the crime committed by a person, it doesn’t automatically mean that they are a bad person. To determine if a criminal is a bad person it involves understanding the motivation that is the cause of the crime committed by the criminal. This is shown in the film Ned Kelly as Ned’s crimes are committed in retaliation for the mistreatment of him by the Victorian Police. This film portrays Ned as heroic figure who is standing up to mistreatment and it portrays the police as villainous scum due to their abuse of power.…
SAMPLE MEMORY STORY: Officer Gary Hanson of the Burke Police Department was questioning Mathew Meyers, the owner of Meyers Sporting Goods located at 321 Payne Avenue, about a burglary that occurred the previous evening. Meyers said that when he arrived at the store at 8:50 A.M., he noticed that the rear door had been broken into. Meyers said that, after he had checked his inventory, he was missing 20 rifles, 16 pellet guns, 12 shotguns, and 8…
I read The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. The book is 421 pages, and was published by Lippincott Williams &Wilkins in 1975. It is a fictional story about a group of four people who meet, and all want the same thing. To stop development on America’s southwest.…
The book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia talks about Joseph D. Pistone life as an undercover agent in the mob. This book start off by Joseph posing as a jewel theft named Donnie and Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggierro trying to sell a diamond. Then the book moves to Lefty showing Donnie how to act around the mob and introducing to people by say “This is a friend of mine”. With Lefty introducing Donnie as an associate to the mob he became well like and moved up in the mob quickly. After the mob boss Rubout died one of Lefty best friends Sunny Black gained control of Brooklyn. As Donnie moved up in the mob he evenly became a “made man” by Sunny when he introduced him to people as a “friend of ours”. In the end Joseph Pistone undercover work was successful and lead to new information about the mob and many convictions.…
I had been in these situations before. The observing gang members did as their leader said. One by one, they came at me with weapons they had concealed. The first man had a knife and hurled it forcefully towards me. I positioned my hands so that the rope binding them would be cut. The knife arched and split through the ropes seamlessly. My hands were now free! I jabbed my elbow into the man's side causing him to drop the knife. I reached down to grab the fallen object, but was interrupted by another gang member hitting me with a metal pipe. I had been thrown to the side and was already charging back at him. I jumped and locked my legs around the neck of my opponent. I gave a fast motion with my legs and heard the snap of his neck breaking.…
Some of the terrible events that happened to two of them are real which is effective it’s not something that we imagine. It‘s real which adds the depth of fear and really gives the toll of the dangerous situation. We see what the gangs will do and who they get their power and get away with their deeds. The whole it happens and no one comes forward is no…
“By 10:30 a.m., all firing had stopped. Both Ma and Fred, it was soon learned, were dead” (“Barker/Karpis Gang”). Kate “Ma” Barker was the supposed leader of the Barker-Karpis gang in the 1940’s. People suspected she had led the gang for the benefit of the money they would receive from kidnappings for ransom and bank robberies. However, many people debate whether she led their gang.…