Jack London’s “Credo” I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor‚ every atom of me in magnificent glow‚ than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live‚ not exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them‚ I shall use my time.” – Jack London 1876-1916 Jack London was a man
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appeared to be wooden’. He also claimed to have seen a knife protruding from James pocket. James was questioned but soon cleared of any suspicion of being Jack the Ripper because according to the press reports‚ he was a well-known local lunatic. Exactly how a lunatic wandering around Whitechapel possibly armed with a knife‚ when there was a knife wielding killer on the loose‚ could be considered harmless is hard to understand. James was described as wearing a two peaked cap similar to one worn by
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know what they were getting into. Jack London is a well-known author who based a couple of his stories in the Yukon near Alaska. The main theme in both stories is man’s struggle for survival. In “Love of Life” and “To Build a Fire”‚ both men are lost in the Yukon wilderness. London’s style is a steraight-forward; he describes the men’s circumstances in lifelike detail. The vividness of these details sets London apart from other authors in this time period. Jack London’s life was more like one of
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Jack the Ripper is an infamous criminal whose identity has remained shrouded in mystery for over 125 years. There is a copious amount of factors that contribute to the killer’s identity remaining unknown for over a century; these factors include a lack of forensic evidence‚ inconsistent facts‚ false witnesses‚ an incredible amount of suspects‚ and a lack of consensus about who the actual victims of Jack the Ripper were. There are numerous important factors to consider when investigating these murders
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Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining (1980) depicts a family man‚ Jack Torrance‚ driven to a murderous rampage by a nefarious haunted hotel. But is the hotel truly responsible for his actions? However haunted or evil the hotel is‚ Jack’s own predisposition towards hypermasculine traits and his susceptibility to misogynistic ideas engenders his murderous rampage and subsequent demise. The Shining‚ in addition to being completely terrifying‚ exemplifies and hyperbolizes the effect patriarchal
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John Griffith “Jack” London was born on January 12‚ 1876 in San Francisco‚ CA. Although London originally had the surname Griffith‚ when his mother married John London later in 1876‚ the couple had the infant’s name changed to London. London worked many different‚ unique jobs in his youth. His occupations ranged from pirating for oysters on San Francisco Bay to running for mayor of San Francisco on the socialist ticket. London became an author to escape the drudgery of a potential life as factory
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In Shane by Jack Schaefer‚ actions and attitudes develop archetypes of two important men. Through their triumphs and failures‚ Shane is characterized as of a hero and mentor‚ and Fletcher as a shadow. Shane expresses the qualities of a hero‚ both physically and mentally. Shane appears in the valley with matching pants and an elegantly worn out coat and a black dress hat. This hero is aristocratic and well dressed in order to convince the reader that he is a mysterious character that has survived
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Jack the Ripper was a murderous madman who terrorized prostitutes in the late 1880�s. Time has not diminished the gruesomeness of the killings. All the victims’ throats were cut ;some victims were disemboweled ;and the killer took organs from some of his victims. When fear of the Ripper peaked‚ the killings stopped‚ and a century of speculation ensued (jack 1). Many authors have tried to sift through the evidence and have arrived at their own theories as to the identity Jack the Ripper Jack the
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The Psychopath Case Study: Jack the Ripper Criminal Behavior Between 1888 and 1891‚ several brutal and violent murders occurred in Whitechapel‚ London. All the victims were poor females who were said to be prostitutes. The murders involved several signature characteristics that include: overkill‚ incapacitation‚ sexual degradation‚ genital mutilation and much more. The serial killer who was named “Jack the Ripper” was never captured and to this day there is much specialization on who and why
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WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER AND WHY? Jack the Ripper was a murderer who killed all the young women who were a prostitute in London‚ 1888. There were many suspects to who Jack the Ripper was. Many people suspected Montague John Druitt‚ Jacob Levy and Dr T. Neil Cream as Jack the Ripper. However‚ there weren’t any exact evidence that they were the murderer so called “Jack the Ripper”. The first suspected man to be Jack the Ripper was Montague John Druitt who was a Barrister and a school master. He
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