Picture Murder “Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book”—Unknown . In the book “Picture Perfect”June 4th thirty year old Travis Alexander’s battered body was found in his home. Sustained stabbed multiple times in his back and gunshot to the head. Jodi Arias, The 35-year-old was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for boyfriend Travis Alexander's murder in 'a jealous rage'.
Casey Anthony thought to be one of Americas most hated women she gained that title after she was accused of murdering her two year old daughter Caylee Anthony. Main reason behind Casey Anthony’s hate is the fact that she had so much evidence against herself and she was proven not guilty. The evidence pointing that Casey Anthony did murder her daughter lies in the fact that she waited one whole month before filing her daughter as missing. Casey also in that month was found partying instead of looking for her daughter. There was also some witnesses testifying that Casey’s car had an awful smell coming from the trunk.
The article,“Teens Who Fought Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis describes the tragedies that happened during the Holocaust to Ben a Jewish boy, and Ben’s family and all the other Jews which millions perished at the hands of the Nazis including his parents. Ben Kamm lived during one of the most horrific and traumatizing events in world history, the Holocaust. Him and his family lived a normal life but in 1918 was when he would no longer live that life when Hitler and the Nazis invaded Warsaw and sent all Jews to the ghetto then to bring them to concentration camps killing them with gas. However, some of the kids went through holes in the walls joining partisan camps to sabotage the Nazis. Thankfully he survived though the unspeakable and unimaginable challenges
Life after the Civil War In the following document, Klan Violence against Blacks, Elias Hill is describing the life of an African America post-emancipation. Mr. Hill is writing this letter to the Congressional Committee stating events that has occurred throughout the south and personally. On May 5th, Mr. Hill illustrates a scenario where he was laying in bed helpless while the Ku Klux Klan members terrorized his neighborhood. It comes to a point where the Klan members were profusely after the head of the Union League, a Republican organization that assisted African American exercise their right to vote, Elias Hill.
The book takes place in Pluto, ND and the reservation around it. A girl named Evelina is the main character and throughout the book you learn about her life and you see the struggles she has with finding herself. At the beginning of the book she is a little girl living with her parents, her brother Joseph, and her grandfather Mooshum. The book begins talking about the past, with the plague of doves and how Evelina’s grandfather met her grandmother. When the point of view switches to the present you find out that Evelina loves a boy name Corwin Peace.
Elliot Rodger is the perpetrator of the Santa Barbra shooting that occurred on May 23, 2014. He uploaded a video outlining his reasonings for his violent actions. In this video he explained how he plans to get retribution for the years he suffered without a girlfriend. He highlighted how he was a nice guy and he did not know why women would not go out with him and how he planned to slaughter the women who rejected and refused to have sex with him all these years and how he planned to murder the men who have had sex with women. He justified his actions as pay back for being a part of the out group when it came to having access to women’s bodies.
What makes a person “tick?” To clarify the word “tick,” it means what makes people do the things they do. What does a person live for? An even better question: what do people kill for? Dylan Klebold was a person, just like anyone else.
Anne Moody’s memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi, tells the story of Moody as a civil rights activist in the Jim Crow South. Growing up and spending much of her life in Mississippi, Moody grows thick skin to the horrors of being African American during the 1940s and the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s to 1960s. Although Moody supports numerous other Civil Rights activists, she develops a dynamic opinion that is shaped from her life experiences. Moody has a raw and realistic view on race relations that often gives her little hope that change will happen. She comes of age quickly as a driven, young lady.
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America was written by Mamie Till-Mobley, a supporter of equal opportunities for different ethnicities. Christopher Benson, a writer and lawyer, assisted Mamie Till-Mobley as a co-author in her personal biography. Death of Innocence was published in the year 2003 by Random House in New York. This memoir has 290 pages, including seven pages of Christopher Benson’s personal experiences with Mamie Till-Mobley in the afterword. Death of Innocence is categorized as an adult nonfiction book.
When a Southern Town Broke a Heart In the short story When a Southern Town Broke a Heart by Jacqueline Woodson, the reader learns about Woodson’s memories of being a young black girl in the early 70’s who travels to the south every summer and she feels that even though she lives in Brooklyn, her real home is there in the southern town of Greenville, South Carolina where her grandmother lives. A central theme of the short story is that the innocence of youth protects us from reality. One way Woodson starts to convey the theme is when early in the story she brings up what “home” was to her when she was young. How Woodson thinks about what her home is to her changes when the reality that has been hidden from her while being a little kid is revealed at age 9.
This book is about two friends named Libby and May who were separated by a tragic event, but work hard solving clues and hidden messages to get back together. They get help from some friends, named Trick and Jackdaw, who go along with them. Their friendship and bravery is tested when they are faced with scary dangers and strange events. There are many characters in this book who all have very important roles, but three stand out to me, May, Libby, and Trick. Libby is an artistic girl who loves to draw and design the character, Princess X, but she supposedly died in a car crash.
Dear Ms. Stockton, I would like to tell you about the book Children of Exile by Margaret Haddix. The book is about a girl named Rosie. She lives in a place called Fred town where everything is perfectly organized and peaceful. Her life is turned upside down when she and all the other children that live in Fred town, are flown to their real parents in a town nothing like they have been prepared for. It is ridden by crime and discrimination.
This remarkable novel, recipient of the Newbury medal, is set around two young children learning to cope with the struggles and anxieties of the real world. Along the journey, their imagination grows as they venture further into the fictional land of Terabithia. I absolutely adore this book and I would happily recommend it to anyone who wants comfort and a good read. The story starts off with Leslie Burke moving into her new house in a rural area of the South and happens to be neighbours with Jess Aarons.
The book is set in or around Pittsburgh, PA in 1991, and deals with the struggles of a boy in his first year of high school. Despite being set is in 1990’s the book still has a lot of relevance to this day. Whether it is a struggle of treading unchartered waters, facing
Atlanta Child Murders On June 21, 1981 Wayne Williams was arrested for the murders of Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne. Wayne Williams is the man who most people claim was the one who committed the Atlanta Child Murders, some people would disagree or say there was never enough to prove it was Wayne Williams. At first when the first few kids went missing police and the news didn’t really pay attention to any of it mainly because they were poor african american kids and at the time that really wasn’t anything important to the media and no one ever cared except for the black communities in Atlanta. After a few more kids were being kidnapped and started turning up found murdered in the woods around Atlanta people realized that this was something
