Mary Bell was born in the May of 1957 to the seventeen year old prostitute, Betty Bell. On the 25th of May, 1968, Mary’s first victim’s, Martin Brown’s, body is found in a derelict house. On the 27th of May 1968, notes confessing to the murder of Martin are found in a vandalized nursery. On the 31st of July, 1968, Brian Howe is killed by Mary. In August of 1968, police charge Mary Bell and Norma Bell with the murders of Martin and Brian. On the 17th of December, 1968, the court of Newcastle convicts Mary Bell of manslaughter of Martin and Brian. Norma Bell is acquitted.
Mary’s story can best be told in a timeline. To start, her childhood was something of a nightmare. Mary was born to the seventeen year old prostitute on the 26th of May, 1957. Betty Bell, Mary’s mother, was an extreme alcoholic. She worked as a prostitute, specializing in sado-masochism, which is whipping and strangling. Once Mary was born, Betty rejected her throughout her entire childhood. Betty constantly tried to kill Mary, usually by giving her overdoses of medicine. One time, Betty attempted to give Mary to a woman who had been denied adoption. She came up with stories for her family, telling them that Mary had been hit by a train, or that she drowned. Eventually, Betty stopped attempting to rid of Mary, and began to use her as a business investment. Betty began pimping Mary as a sex object to paedophiles. Psychologists see this as the earliest sign as to why Mary attacked boys, looked for control, and mutilated her victims. Mary’s childhood is the beginning to the many precursors for her aggressive
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I believe that Mary could have been saved the trauma of psychotic breaks by being loved, and treated as a real human being. Although what she did was horrific, Mary was only a child. I believe that if this had happened in this day and age, Mar could have been helped immensely. Mary Bell was a horrified child, even as an
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Growing up Mary Karr didn't have a “stable” childhood. Her parents Pete and Charlie had many obstacles they faced throughout their life. Pete, who worked at a graveyard at the oil refinery was an alcoholic. He would drink every day, whether it was at home or with the liars club, he always had a drink in his hand. Charlie, who dealt with many illnesses such as an anxiety disorder and being a hypochondriac was not the best role model in Mary and Lecia life. At only 2 years old, Charlie almost died of pneumonia. After surviving that, she wasn't a normal kid, she had many issues.
Mary lived from 1869 to 1938, she was born in Ireland and moved to New York in 1884, when she was 15 years old. Everywhere Mary went, she seemed to bring disaster in the form of Typhoid fever. The problem was, Mary didn’t believe she could possibly be a Typhoid carrier “I never had typhoid in my life, and have always been healthy. Why should I be banished like a leper and compelled to live in solitary confinement with only a dog for a companion” (Mallon, 1)? She was very firm in her belief that she was not a threat to the public, despite previous happenings where she was the only common factor. In 1902, Mary was hired to be a cook over the summer, two weeks into her employment, 7 of the 9 servants living with her in the servants quarters caught the fever. Mary stayed and tried to help nurse the sick, they only became sicker in the process, despite this Mary received a $50 bonus for sticking around. Sometime after that, a man named Walter Browne hired Mary, soon after Mary began to work, the chambermaid fell sick. Along with the chambermaid, Browne’s daughter, Effie also fell ill. Eventually, Effie died on February 23,1907...
A basic sense of honesty is another of Mary Warren’s traits. In Act I she goes to Salem to convince Abigail to tell the truth about what really happened in the woods. When the witchcraft scare gets out of hand, Mary joins Abigail and the other girls in falsely accusing women of being witches. These false accusations are motivated by hysteria. There is evidence that Mary really believes that the women in court are bewitching her. She tells the judge that she thought she saw spirits. The other girls were screaming, and before she knew it, Mary was screaming with them. When she realizes that there are no spirits, Mary is willing to be truthful. After Elizabeth Proctor’s name is brought up in court, Mary Warren defends her against the accusation. At the end of Act II, the reader hopes that the basic sense of honesty will remain strong enough to allow Mary to testify on behalf of the accused women in Act III.
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
...nd recover from sorrow and grief. Throughout the memoir, there have been lots of ups and downs in Jeannette’s family thanks to Rose Mary’s bipolar disorder. At first, I often blamed Rose Mary for bringing an unpleasant childhood to those four Walls children since Rex Walls does not behave appropriately due to his alcohol abuse, but Rose Mary is actually a victim and patient of bipolar disorder, whose conditions have not only been largely ignored in the memoir, but also greatly influenced her ways of thinking and behaving.
Mary Katherine, a young adult with sociopathic behavior, displays her disorder with frequent outbursts, lack of remorse and disregard for social norms throughout the novel We Have Always Lived in The Castle by Shirley Jackson. Her sociopathic tendencies are constant in the novel with mention that this behavior has been consistent since she was a child. Mary Katherine progressively shows her volatile actions in the story and her actions cause way to a multitude of problems for anyone in her path, especially her close older sister Constance. Her personality disorder coupled with her schizotypal disposition is inherent and not due to being spoiled or temperamental despite her being raised wealthy in a large household.
The story of “Bloody Mary” was told to me by a twenty year old male. He is a current student at a University, studying accountancy. He has very conservative beliefs regarding politics. His father is an insurance broker and his mother stays at home. This story was collected on March 18, 2006, at his residence. This is the story as he told it to me:
Close to where Mary lived there was a man named Vultair was experimenting putting electricity through Frogs to see if they could come back to life. With that going on close to her as well as the fear of a revolution and the pressure on her to think of a ghost story it is not surprising she thought of a horror story that would still be popular in the 21st Century.
In conclusion, Mary is clearly shown to have a very manipulative and sinister character because she was a cold blooded murderer who had no feelings for her husband when she killed him, and she made people believe her grieving stories to make them feel sorry for her. But, all she wanted at the end was to cover up all of the evidence so she does not get caught and go to jail.
...ive in prison until the trial. It is believed that, because of her family’s wealth, she had a nicer cell and decent food. She was then tried by a twelve man jury. Her husband was friends with a man on the jury, who probably helped Mary. He inevitably appealed to the other jury members on her behalf. Her family’s wealth and influence undoubtedly helped her obtain release, as well.
From a glance, we see the women of the nineteenth century as devoted wives, educators of their children, poised members of society, and the religious cornerstone of their families. However, as Texas became a “land for the taking” in the early 1820s, this “cult of domesticity,” the idea that the lady cultivated Piety, Purity, Submissiveness, and Domesticity in her home and in public, became altered as many of these women, striped away from all that they had ever known, dutifully followed their husbands to an unknown land, never knowing if they would see their families and friends again. They faced the frontier, and sometimes they faced it alone. Some would face the frontier concerning the wild, while some faced the frontier of dealing with the “southern way,” and others would face a frontier of their own internal battles with the subject of death. But as each woman faced different challenges in the prospective years they settled in Texas, what might have appeared as an exceedingly difficult challenge for one woman might not have seemed quite as difficult to another. We also see that some of these women had no choice but to abandon the “cult” and
According to Hannah Bailey, the writer of the magazine New Moon, “many scary stories have historical roots” (29). The story of Bloody Mary has several different origins. Several assume the ghost Bloody Mary is the ghost of the tyrant blood thirsty sister of Elizabeth the First. Others believe Bloody Mary is the ghost of Mary Worth, who supposedly kidnapped slaves who were on the run and performed cruel rituals on them. Legend says she was burned to death by the other villagers. Whether or not the ghost of bloody Mary is the ghost of Mary Worth or the tyrant Mary, their history cause people to create the story and game of Bloody Mary which is still told in
Mary Shelley becomes mother at the age of seventeen. But unfortunately, her first daughter dies after several days. This trauma seems to be hard for her to recover. It affects her a lot. She is such a strong young woman who can suffer the loss of her first eleven days old daughter. Fr...
God has distinguished mankind from the rest of creation by creating each person with a mind. However, each person has a different level of intelligence. Over time there have been many great minds who impacted society. One person in particular is Alexander Graham Bell. While Bell is often only associated with his invention of the telephone, he was a man devoted to helping others and devoted his life to improving the lives of others. This is seen in his early life, interaction with Deaf family, teaching career, and inventions.