The Cecil Hotel‚ located in downtown Los Angeles near skid row‚ opened in 1924. The original hotel owner‚ William Banks Hanner‚ was looking for an upscale art-Deco hotel for its time with stained glass windows‚ potted palm trees‚ and alabaster Greek statues. The Great Depression suddenly set in and Hanner was unable to complete the entirety of the fifteen floored hotel in five years. The hotel once sat on Main Street and that quickly declined to Skid Row which was home to many of the homeless people
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In society‚ most people have an obsession to some extent‚ these may include such things as a hobby collecting antiques; or even as simple as having to have things a certain way. For others though‚ obsession has a different meaning‚ they might become obsessed with one special object‚ or possibly attaining a certain goal. They might go about achieving this goal no matter what the consequences to others might be. Mordecai Richler’s book the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz‚ illustrates one such case
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Boom! It’s going‚ it’s going‚ it’s gone! Home run for Mickey Mantle! This seemed to happen once a game in Mickey’s career. Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest players baseball has ever seen. Breaking and setting records year in and year out. In a time where players such as Willie Mays‚ Hank Aaron‚ and Roberto Clemente dominated baseball‚ Mickey stood second to none. Mickey Mantle‚ who had a decent childhood‚ and even better career‚ unfortunately experienced hardship after retirement. Mickey
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Essay Just like Sylvia Plath tries to illustrate her dislike towards Nazis in a very explicit way by saying “every woman adores a Fascist” as an irony- I think she intends to express another idea rather than the fact that she disliked Nazis or that her father resembled them. At a first glance‚ Sylvia Plath could be telling the world that all en have Nazi features in one way or another. The narrator of the poem has obviously had a terrible‚ severe and authoritarian father‚ even compared to
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The Protagonist’s Transformation in Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger “It’s not a big thing‚ but i guess it’s true - big things are often just small things that are noticed” (221). It doesn’t seem like a big thing to Ed Kennedy when he receives his first ace. But after receiving four playing cards‚ each containing a message to deliver to someone in his community‚ it becomes obvious that the situation is indeed momentous. In the novel‚ I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak‚ Ed Kennedy‚ the protagonist
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Grave Robbing “Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead.” This statement by Jocelyn Murray in A Tale Of Ancient Egypt serves as a direct reference to the tomb looting in Ancient Egypt‚ and displays the irony that the living robbed the dead’s possessions and even their bodies‚ and attempted to justify it. The two main motives for grave robbing were body snatching and grave looting. Grave robbing‚ although a travesty and an immoral violation of human rights‚ did however‚ help to further
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Obsessed With Killing In the novel The Wasp Factory‚ by Iain Banks‚ All the characters possess an uncommon character trait. The main character‚ Frank Cauldhame is obsessed with killing. He has been obsessed with killing since he was a young child‚ when he murdered three innocent children. His obsession has evolved into a daily ritual due to multiple reasons. First‚ Frank’s dad has secretly put additional male hormones in Frank’s food since he was a young child. (Frank was born female‚ but after
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Jeffrey Dahmer or “The Milwaukee Cannibal” is one of America’s most horrifying serial killers. Dahmer began killing in 1978 and continued to kill until 1991. He murdered a total of seventeen males. Jeffrey Dahmer was not only a serial killer he was also a molester‚ a necrophiliac‚ and a cannibal. Jeffery Dahmer Biographay.com (n.d.) mentions how Dahmer usually found his victims “…at gay bars‚ malls and bus stops‚”. Dahmer’s method of killing often consisted drugging and strangling his victims. Thought
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Trevon Franklin Ms. Gregory Missouri History 31 October 2017 Granville Allen 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. Granville Allen was convicted in the Jackson County Circuit Court on the murder of Howard Preston. He shot Preston to death after he searched Preston’s pants and then threatened
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Roy Criner Case The body of Deanna Ogg was found in a secluded wooded area near an old logging road on September 27‚ 1986‚ in Montgomery County‚ Texas. The cause of death was determined by autopsy to be blunt trauma injuries to the head and multiple stab wounds to the neck. The victim was also sexually assaulted. Roy Criner became a suspect after allegedly bragging to friends that he had picked up and had sex with a young woman and "had to get rough with her." In 1990‚ Criner was convicted of
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