Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Essays

  • The Makings of a Killer: The Story of Henry Lee Lucas

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    committing murder is very thin” (Murder Quotes). While the line is thin, many have crossed it and have done so to such an extent they have been labeled as a serial killer. A serial killer is defined as one who carries out a series of murders over an extended period of time. One of the names that rise to the top of the list is none other than Henry Lee Lucas. Lucas was notorious for his series of rape and murders both alone and with his partner in crime: Ottis Toole. While Lucas spent most of his life

  • The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites

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    The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod is written by Heather Brewer is a fictional fantasy book that would keep you reading until the end of the series. The main characters Vladimir, Henry, Mr. Otis and Aunt Nelly don’t know how much mayhem they are about to get into. D’Ablo is the antagonist trying to kill Vladimir for his father’s wrong-doing. Vladimir is tall, pale and skinny. He was also bullied a lot and was very shy. Oh yeah did I also mention he is a vampire? He is also the first of his species: he

  • The Life of Mass Murderer, Henry Lee Lucas

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    The Life of Mass Murderer, Henry Lee Lucas "Henry Lee Lucas enjoyed holding the title of 'the most infamous man on death row.' His fleeting fame did not evolve from the three cold-blooded murders he did commit, but from hundreds of murders he did not." (Bonnie Bobit) He confessed to hundreds of murders to prove several points, as well as to delay his death sentence. Lucas lived through a childhood of abuse and neglect. If there is a case that proves a person's childhood is reflected in their later

  • The Frick Collection: A Little Known Place with Big Names in Art

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    some of the world's most celebrated Western artists, such as Goya, Manet, Monet, Rembrandt, and Renoir. Located in 1 East 70th Street, in New York City, The Frick Collection is an elegant and well maintained museum housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick, a successful steel and coke industrialist who amassed an incredible fortune during the 19th century in Pittsburgh. The museum is easily accessible by public transportation as various trains such as the N or the R lines stop nearby at 5th

  • Analysis Of Mary Shelley's The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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    himself, he may not have turned into such an awful monster. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is quite opposite of The Creation in that he has too much attention, only it is negative. Because of this fight for attention between Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian Gray begins to become arrogant and careless in what he does. He has little awareness of people’s feelings and begins to use people in order to get what he wants. Although these are not the traits of monsters that haunt most people’s

  • Patricia Cornwell Ripper Letter

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    book - Portrait Of A Killer. Fuller's hypothesis that Sickert was the Ripper is based on the claims made by Florence Pash, a friend of Sickert's, who told Fuller's mother Violet Overton Fuller, who in turn told her daughter, that Sickert knew the identity of the murderer and painted clues into some of his pictures. Also that the murders were connected to an illegitimate child of an unnamed member of the royal family. Cornwell, in her book, makes the claim that Sickert became a serial killer after

  • Moral and Social Decline in Three Victorian Texts

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    Discuss representations of social and/or moral decline in Victorian texts. Moral and social decline are essential concepts to the Victorian era, the period having experienced radical change, innovation and uncertainty. The texts: The picture of Dorian Gray, The Time Machine, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, analogously act as dynamic explorative pieces of Victorian literature, centralising on pre-existing anxieties and concerns. The three pieces focalize on the anxieties specifically