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    Joseph Barnett Case

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    Solving the Case of Jack the Ripper: Joseph Barnett Sadman Abu Louise Arbour Secondary School Purpose The purpose of this report is to solve the case of Jack the Ripper and explaining why Joseph Barnett is the true murderer. Profile of a Killer Joseph Barnett was born on 1858‚ in Whitechapel‚ England. He lived in a family of 7 (2 parents‚ 5 kids). His father‚ a fish porter‚ passed away when Joseph was only 6 years old‚ and shortly after‚ his mother abandoned the family‚ leaving Joseph to be

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    Jack The Ripper Assessment: - Why were the Whitechapel murders solved? 125 years ago in The East End of London there was a series of murders took place‚ the man said to be the murderer signed his named as ‘Jack the ripper’. However the murders were never solved. But why? There is many reasons why the murders were never solved‚ such as the way The East End was in 1888. One of the given sources (Source A) shows a picture of The East End of London in 1888‚ from this we can see that it was a poor

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    The Island of Dr. Moreau

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    anarchy is Wells’s way of drawing a parallel to Victorian society. During the Victorian age‚ the streets of London were clothed with fear. The people were cautious and hesitant to walk the streets at night. This was the time when the infamous Jack the Ripper was preying on helpless victims. Much like the small bunny in The Island of Dr. Moreau‚ a vulnerable woman could have been easily torn apart just seconds from her home. The people of this time lived double lives. They pretended to be of high-society

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    Media and Crime

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    There has always been a longstanding relationship between the media and crime. The newspapers have a duty to report it and the stories can make for excellent TV and film‚ however the line between reporting facts and creating a story can often be blurred. The celebrity killer is now a recognized figure within society with D. Schmid describing how “The celebrity culture around serial killers has developed so far that one can now purchase the nail clippings and hair of some killers‚ as if they were

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    in detail what these people went through to survive. Gray broke his novel in nine different chapters‚ in which he discussed different aspects of people’s lives in London. The novels first chapter discusses the myth of Jack the Ripper and the people who “Ripperologists” believe Jack to have been. The second chapter looked at murders in the nineteenth century as a whole to provide a better understanding of the Whitechapel murders. Within the second chapter‚ through using a more modern knowledge of

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    Dracula

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    anesthesia‚ no painkillers for after‚ and no electric equipment to reduce the duration of an operation. Victorian surgery was not just creepy it was outright horrific. In the late Victorian era‚ the monster known as Jack the Ripper terrorized London. Using the pea soupers as a cover‚ the Ripper ultimately slaughtered five or more prostitutes working

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    There were screams all around the room... There were screams all around the room and I could sense dangers beyond the door. Without lingering for the next second‚ I banged on the door with as much force I could gather as I knew the door was locked inside and after a few attempts‚ my effort bore fruits. The door was opened. I stared in disbelief as the sight was simply too appalling to behold. The room was lingering with eerie silence just after the panic and screams I heard. Even though the

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    before being helped at the Royal London Hospital which was right across the street from where he was being shown off. From 1888 to 1891 the Whitechapel Murders took place. Eleven prostitutes were brutally murdered. Some of them are attributed to Jack the Ripper but not all. One of the women was sexually assaulted and

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    Criminal Profiling

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    Criminal Profiling The term “serial killer” was derived from a man named Robert K. Ressler‚ who‚ in the 1970’s deemed this term because of the term the English used; “crimes in a series” and because of the serial films he grew up watching. (Freeman‚ 2007) Prior to the term serial killer‚ people would use the terms‚ mass murders and stranger-on-stranger crime. The definition of a serial killer‚ according to dictionary.com is; “a person who attacks and kills victims one by one in a series

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    alevels

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    remained a mystery. Between August and November 1888‚ the Whitechapel area of London became hell around the time there was five brutal murders committed. The mysterious killer was titled ‘Jack the Ripper’. The people that he murder there was a link they were women who where prostitutes but except from one victim. Jack the ripper’s most common victim was Catharine Eddowes. Catharine Eddowes was the 4th victim and second on the night of the so called “double event”. Catharine was murdered on the September

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