Melissa Barthelemy was born in April of 1985. She went missing, and presumably died at age 24 in July of 2009. She grew up in Buffalo, lived with her dad in Texas for several years, and then moved back to Buffalo with her mom and younger sister in order to finish high school. She received her license in cosmetology and and worked at a Supercuts in Buffalo until she moved to the Bronx in 2007. Her mother stated that she wanted to save up enough money to open up her own salon and that she claimed she was working at a salon when she moved to the Bronx. Looking back at it now, her mother believes that Melissa’s job at the salon was just a cover-up for her actual ‘career’. While she put on the façade of an innocent girl to her parents and sister,
Barbara was born in 1948, convicted for manslaughter, due to emotional duress, sentenced for 25 years, to be suspended after 10, arrested in 1996. Barbara’s story stood out the most to me and i found it very interesting and sad. Barbara 's life has been filled with tragedy since she was young. Barbara was molested by her grandfather when she was a child, and was too young to understand what had happened at the time. Barbara ended up telling her mother about what happened recently after, but her mother told her to keep it to herself. When Barbara got older she learned that her grandfather also molested her mother as well. This made Barbara very confused and question her mother.
Donna was working for a social outreach program that was mainly focused upon helping women and children find alternatives to prostitution and drugs. Donna is currently under a considerable amount of stress as she was recently divorced and laid off from her job. Donna has admitted to recently relapsing with the use of alcohol and has recently shaved her head in a personal
The murder of Lorraine Kelly and Mary Pryor still haunts the town of North Bergen because their disappearance was strange and rapid. This case has been closed due to the lack of evidence but was reopened again after forty years for the purpose of acquiring justice and answers to the death of both teenage girls. The last person to have seen and spoken to Mary Pryor was her sister Nancy Pryor when she was told by her sister that she would be back by eight o’ clock the latest. For the purpose of hiding her and her families’ identity, after the murder occurred she moved out of Hudson County and didn’t divulge her married name or current locality of residence because of the frantic fear that the murderer may plan an attack to her and or family. Prior to their killing both teenagers used to reside at 76st and were active hitchhikers. Both victims were found in a wooded area in Bergen County known as Montvale, and it was evident that they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled by force. As a result, when the bodies were found they were in an early state of decomposition which allowed the medical examiners to see visible evidence on the body such as sperm and marks.
On July 15th, 2008, Caylee Anthony was reported missing by her grandmother Cindy Anthony. Cindy Anthony in the report stated that she hadn’t seen her grand-daughter Caylee for a month and that she and her husband were suspicious because their daughter Casey’s car reeked of decay, as if a dead body had been stored inside the vehicle for days. Caylee and her mother resided with Casey Anthony’s parents. However, Cindy Anthony claimed that Casey had given different explanations about Caylee's whereabouts before telling Cindy that she hadn’t seen her own daughter for several weeks. When questioned by authorities, Casey told the detectives several lies: stating the child had been kidnapped by her nanny on June 9, and that Casey had been trying to contact the nanny to find her daughter. Preceding this information, Casey Anthony was convicted and charged with first degree murder in 2008, but pleaded not guilty ...
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard is an autobiography recounting the chilling memories that make up the author’s past. She abducted when she was eleven years old by a man named Phillip Garrido with the help of his wife Nancy. “I was kept in a backyard and not allowed to say my own name,” (Dugard ix). She began her life relatively normally. She had a wonderful loving mother, a beautiful baby sister,, and some really good friends at school. Her outlook on life was bright until June 10th, 1991, the day of her abduction. The story was published a little while after her liberation from the backyard nightmare. She attended multiple therapy sessions to help her cope before she had the courage to share her amazing story. For example she says, “My growth has not been an overnight phenomenon…it has slowly and surely come about,” (D 261). She finally began to put the pieces of her life back together and decided to go a leap further and reach out to other families in similar situations. She has founded the J A Y C Foundation or Just Ask Yourself to Care. One of her goals was, amazingly, to ensure that other families have the help that they need. Another motive for writing the book may have also been to become a concrete form of closure for Miss Dugard and her family. It shows her amazing recovery while also retelling of all of the hardships she had to endure and overcome. She also writes the memoir in a very powerful and curious way. She writes with very simple language and sentence structures. This becomes a constant reminder for the reader that she was a very young girl when she was taken. She was stripped of the knowledge many people take for granted. She writes for her last level of education. She also describes all of the even...
Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith was born September 26, 1971 in Union, South Carolina to Linda and Harry Vaughan. She was born the third child in the Vaughan family, with two older brothers. Linda Vaughan divorced Harry when Susan turned 7, and five weeks later Harry committed suicide at 37 (Montaldo). Within weeks of Linda and Harry’s divorce, Linda got remarried to Beverly (Bev) Russell, a local successful businessman. Linda and the children moved from their home into Bev’s, a larger house located in an exclusive subdivision in Union, South Carolina. Susan grew to be a well-liked teenager, and even became president of her Junior Civitan Club and Friendliest Female in her senior year (Montaldo). Everyone liked her, and she put on a great show at school. But after the last bell rang, she had to look forward to seeing Bev at home, something she feared above anything else. Bev had taken to molesting Susan when she turned sixteen, and it was not long afterward that she sought help with the local Department of Social Services (Wiki). The Department of Social services did little to help Susan, only making Bev attend a few counseling sessions (Wiki). When he returned home, he chastised Susan heavily for “airing their dirty laundry in public” and continued with the molestation (Montaldo). I believe thi...
A woman taking a peaceful morning stroll in central Los Angeles with her three year-old daughter, came across what she thought was a mannequin broken in half. But as she got closer to the figure laying in the dirt face up, she realized that it wasn’t a broken mannequin, it was something far worse. It was a woman’s naked body, cut in half. Her hair was tattered, she had gashes cut into the corner of her mouth and her intestines were tucked into her buttocks. It was a very macabre scene. When the two detectives assigned to the case, Harry Hansen and Finnis Brown, arrived on the scene they lifted the woman’s fingerprints and sent them into the FBI headquarters. A match was quickly found. The dead woman lying in the vacant lot was Elizabeth Short, a beautiful, young aspiring actress. She had her whole life ahead of her, with nothing but big dreams. Who killed her and why ?
Subsequently, she had another change to achieve her life in Milwards. She has dreamed about her future there, but her misfortune did not leave her. She was fired again from her work, and the assailant was another member of Birling family.
The teacher I choose to interview was Michelle Niinisto. Mrs. Niinisto has been teaching for 14 years. This is her first year teaching general education. She is currently an 8th grade language arts and social studies teacher at Hyre Community Learning Center. Before this year she taught special education, with a focus on deaf and hard of hearing. She spent about 4 years teaching second and third grade deaf special education. She had explained to me since the questions I was going to ask her were mostly about phonics, that she would have to go back to her elementary teacher days. She explained to me that really once they get past 3rd grade, general education teachers don’t tend to focus on phonic. She said they did a little bit of phonics in
Shaping is key to Claire Frazier’s success in being able to mand. As defined in our text, Cooper, Heron, and Heward (1987), shaping is the use of differential reinforcement that promotes gradual changes in a response. If she were unable to say a specific word, shaping would be beneficial so she can properly pronounce it. For example, if Claire were unable to say, “toy”, shaping would allow her to approximate each sound in the word. We would start off by teaching her to say the “t” sound and then the “oy” sound. Both of which would be an approximation to the end goal. Afterwards, we would teach her to say both sounds together to properly pronounce, “toy.” Each word would be done on a case-by-case basis in reference to the need of shaping. Shaping will not be necessary to say certain words such as, “no”, seeing as how she is already able to pronounce it correctly.
Mary Lambert had happy family. She wasn’t always the crazy person who kills her husband just because he decided to leave her for other women. She was normal and innocent but it all changed one night. Mary was only five years old and her sister was only Nine. She had bright, beautiful , blonde curls that fell on the back like curly fry and gorgeous blue eyes that looked like they were sculpted from sapphire. Mary’s sister was also extremely beautiful with her long straight brown hair and her dark almond eyes. But Mary’s mother was not so pretty. She didn’t even looked like her daughters. How could such pretty children come from an unattractive mother? Well, obviously the girls got their beauty from their father. He was quite handsome with his
Jessica Bateman has been one of our longest standing members. She has been an active WWFH partner since 2010 and a co-chair in 2012. When asked what has kept her committed to WWFH for so long, she replied, "I feel that there is a tremendous amount of value in coalition work. Particularly, the broad scope of partners who comprise WWFH including patients, physicians, and research institutions results in impactful advocacy campaigns that promote access to life-saving medical treatments."
Death: it is something that has touched, or will touch, every single human being in the world. It is something that connects all living things to one another and helps humans relate experiences, and one person’s death may affect many. Through the usage visual elements such as color and symbolism along with her words, Joanna Sakellion’s “Intersecting Lives” shows how a woman’s death connected three individuals.
There was a girl named Josie Stedman. I was born late but still healthy and happy. I was a happy child. I had tough times thought my ,but that’s ok everyone does. I have dreams like being a dolphin trainer, traveling the world, and and have the biggest house in the world. Keep reading to find out if those dreams come true.