Peter Edward Rose, Sr. was born on April 14, 1941 in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. As a young boy he played baseball and football at western hills high school. During Rose’s sophomore year he was starting to struggle with school. He either had a choice to go to summer school or else he would fail his father Harry Rose decided that it would be best for him to repeat the grade instead of missing a summer playing baseball. During his high school years rose thought that he was not good enough to graduate out of high school. His grades were not always the best but somehow he managed to pull it together and make it to his senior year. Pete’s senior year he had played his four years of sports so he joined a league called the AA class baseball team.…
Granville Allen was born in 1910, in Kansas City, Missouri. Granville was the 7th person ever to be executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary. He was executed at age 28 on October 28th, 1938. Granville lived with his mother and some other relatives.…
Richard Ramirez was a California-based serial killer who operated from 1984 to 1985. He was born in El Paso, Texas, but eventually moved out to California. He was known as the “Night Stalker” because he would break into homes at night, raping and killing his victims. Ramirez got his start early, as he (unsurprisingly) had a rough childhood. His father was known to abuse him, and he spent some time in juvenile detention for petty crimes. He also sustained two major head injuries as a child, having a dresser fall on him and being knocked out by a swing at a park. However, he was heavily influenced by his cousin Mike, who was a Green Beret who had returned from the war in Vietnam. Mike told Richard graphic stories about the women he raped, tortured, and…
Peter Abelard was born in 1079 near Brittany, and was the eldest son in his noble Breton family. Peter also known as "Pierre la Pallet" was a veryquick learner. With the encouragement of his wealthy father, Peter was able to study liberal arts, and excell is art of dialect. Following his studies, peter traveled around france debating, learing philosophy, and was even taught by St. Anslem. His travels brought him to Paris, were is was taught by William of Champeaux. Peters thoughts soon turned away from Williams teachings, and against Williams teaching peter started his own school Melun and then Corbeil.…
Richard Ramirez was serial killer who went on a two rampage killing innocent people in southern California. He raped and tortured more than 25 victims and killed more than a dozen of them. Most of these victims were killed in their own homes; as he would find opened windows and doors in the night to kill his victims. But what were the contributing factors that maybe helped mold Richard Ramirez into this brutal serial killer who seemed to have no conscious? Was he born with the so- called “bad seed”, or was it events in his life that contributed and somewhat opened the door for him to be a murderer. There have been accounts stated that while Richards mother was carrying him in her womb she was having health issues almost as if her body was rejecting…
Elected into the New York State Assembly as a Republican, and during his time in the Assembly, his consistent struggle against machine politics earned him the nickname of "the cyclone assemblyman." (1881-1884)…
Adam Lee Byerly was a chubby baby with curly blonde locks of hair. Born on November 14, 2001. Adam was born to the proud parents Becky and Scott Byerly. Adam has four sisters and two brothers. He only lives with one of his siblings.…
In 1971 in Accra, Ghana, Steve Ewert woke up in a cold sweat. Bugs crawled out his mouth. Fear gripped his very soul. “I’m losing my mind!” he cried repeatedly to his travel companion Dick Russell.…
In 1993 two minors had committed burglary, and murder. The minors names are Christopher Simmons age of 17, and Charles Benjamin age of 15. The victim was a neighbor of Christopher Simmons. Her name is Shirley Crook age of 46. Christopher Simmons and Charles Benjamin had tied up Shirley Crook to the chair and thrown her in the St. Louis Meramec river. Drowning her at the age of 46 .…
His name name was Edward James Wolff, he was born in San Diego, California April 7th 1896. Lived with my parents Edward Wolff and Pauline Wolff, they came to the United States from germany. He moved to Seattle, Washington at the age of 4. He went to school in Seattle and it was great. He didn’t really mind about me being from german descent because germans were one of the biggest immigrant groups in the United States and he was taught that everyone is equal. He always felt comfortable and not scared of being discriminated. Until the World War 1 began, he was 18 years old trying to make a living. But, he got discriminated, he was getting worse treatment that the rest of people, he got called names and made his life a lot harder, it got to the point where a german got lynched. Even though germans were a big…
Have you ever thought about what it really means to be a Canadian? What you need to do to even consider yourself to be a part of this country? I believe that Sam Steele could be considered a Canadian. There are many things that he did that made him canadian but the main reason for that is that he was the one who actually fought for Canada.…
Would you give your life for something you believed in? Jim Elliot died trying to bring people to Christ. This might be all you know about this famous martyr, but he didn’t start out as a missionary in Ecuador. Early on in life, Jim’s parents introduced him to many missionaries who sparked his interest in mission work. In college, he became ever more focused on his goal of spreading the Gospel to the world. Finally, he went to the mission field where he began full-time missionary work. Passionate followers of Christ, like Jim Elliot, will give everything they have, including their lives to reach others, just as Christ did for us.…
Alex Grey was born on November 29, 1953 in Columbus, Ohio to a middle class family eventually becoming one the world's greatest visionary artists of today. As a young kid he use to collect insects and dead animals and bury them in his backyard until he was bitten by a rabid bat. He had to endure a painful series of rabies antitoxin injections with a serum that was made of dead dried duck embryos which left a big lump under his skin. At age 10 he would watch his grandmother turn jaundice yellow and asked his dad when she would be getting better. He told him she wouldn't get better, and that she was dying. These things taught him something about death and how things don't last forever. This early brush with the non-living as well as with medicine warped his art subject matter and got him thinking what happens to us when we die and if we have a spirit where does it go.…
Have you ever been driving down the road and have something bad happen to you that you have to slam on the breaks? If you have, then maybe you can relate to the following commercial. Even if you have never had this happen to you, you still might be able to relate to it. The basic idea of the commercial is that no matter what happens in life, that you should always be prepared for what to do next.…
The movie begins with Eddie, his mother, and sibling movies into a new house after his mother left his abusive father. Eddie and his family attend his grandfather’s birthday party where Eddie is dress in his sister’s pink party dress by his sister and cousins then present to his family to see. As a child Eddie likes to play dress-up by wearing his mother’s clothes and lip. His strange habits worry her mother, so she has him checked out by a doctor that tells her Eddie is fine. In high school Eddie decides to become Gwen by dressing like a girl, growing his hair, and wearing make-up. Gwen tells his mother that he is spending the night at his best friends, but instead he go to a party. His best friend calls his phone, which his mother answers to discover that Gwen never showed up at her house. The police find Gwen’s body buried in the wilderness wrapped in a shower curtain, which they then inform his family. Gwen was strangled to death with a rope by four young men after they discover that she was a male. The movie ends with Gwen’s murders facing trial for the horrible crime they committed and becoming sentence.…