W. H. Holmes's Life And Death

Elizabeth Pace Doctor Jane Hinckley IHUM 202-001 2 August 2023 Monsters Must First be Seen as Victims Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein contains several elements that comment on the unnatural formation and tragic life of Frankenstein’s monster. There are moments where the reader feels pity for the creature, followed by moments of disgust at his actions. As the reader continues, they are left to ponder if Frankenstien’s creation was constructed as a monster from the beginning or if his monstrous demeanor was developed through choices and unjust segregation from society.

The Unsolved Murder of William Desmond Taylor The Hollywood star of the early 1900’s, William Desmond Taylor, was suddenly brutally murdered and to this day, we still do not truly know who killed the man. There are many conspiracy theories that give strong evidence that could very well solve this mystery. Some people have even claimed to the police that they were the killer, but there was not enough evidence to actually prove them as guilty. As of right now, there is just enough evidence to prove that the murder of this Hollywood star was Taylor’s personal valet, Edward Sands!

On page 24, Dr. Holmes states, "I am deeply relieved when an agent comes to my cell and lets me know they decided not to prosecute me with smuggling and would be giving me simply the $5,000 fine for Entry Without Inspection." While Dr. Holmes is relieved that no further charges will be brought against him and relieved perhaps at the rapport he has now built with the Triqui people, Dr. Holmes violates certain ethical laws by crossing the border. It is made obvious that Dr. Holmes is taking part in participant observation in this case, he crosses the border with migrant workers. But certain questions come to mind when considering the extent of his participation in the ethnography that translates into ethical

The James Holmes and the Aurora theatre shooting case. There are many pieces of evidence in this case that could be looked at as someone who committed a premeditated shooting and someone who was in fact insane. Ultimately the insanity plea did not work in James Holmes favor but it did extend what would have already been a long death penalty case. Some key pieces of evidence were highly controversial in the fact that there was arguing over whether or not it should be allowed in court.

Jesse James was a well known gang leader, bank robber, and train robber. He was a member of the notorious gang named the James-Younger gang. Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847 in Clay County, Missouri. Jesse and his older brother Frank lost their father in 1849. The father, Reverend Robert James, abandoned his family and disappeared and was thought to go to the California gold fields.

And something about his mysterious profile, gray eyes, or maybe the position of his baseball cap reminded me of a modern day Sherlock Holmes. “Seth did you see—” “The ghost, yeah!” he said. “Come on, Madison, let’s get the heck out of here!”

Throughout his opinion, Holmes loosely cited the Fourteenth Amendment in his explanation for bringing the men to trial. He uses it to affirm the Supreme Court authority in charging those responsible because it was a violation of federal law. They had to enforce the Court's judgement but failed to protect Johnson from harm. Justice Holmes said, “the sheriff was to be regarded as bailee of the United States…” He failed so, a contempt charge was applicable. He noted the circumstances of Johnson’s case that helped influenced his opinion because he did not have a fair shot.

A great deal of people would say we are all just products of our environment― for two adolescent boys from Baltimore this couldn't be any truer. In the autobiographical memoir, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, unbeknownst, two fatherless African American boys with an identical name and liv­ing in the same neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, ended up on two entirely different paths of life. One evolves to be a Rhodes Scholar, honored and respected com­bat vet­eran, and busi­ness leader. The other is spending the rest of his life in a federal prison for committing a mur­der. However, in their separate lives, they both started out as young boys that grew up in single mom households in the rough streets of Baltimore.

Andrea Yates case is known as one of the horrifying murderer events that had happened in Texas. Also she is the most hated woman in the United States because of her cruel crime, of murdering her five children one by one in the bathtub just because she thinks that they were doomed to hell because their parents sins. Yates was treated for postpartum depression and psychosis illnesses that ran in her family, meaning that based on these facts on the mental problem that she had and her family where the reason why she murder her own children’s. Referring to all these facts on the case of Andrea Yates whether or not she is culpable being insane at the time of her crime offense of murdering her kids, I believe that she was under a period of mental problem at the time of her offense. Referring to the website biography.com “ Andrea Yates Biography”.

The documentary H. H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer follows the life of the brilliantly sadistic criminal mastermind, Herman Webster Mudgett, notoriously known under his alias, Henry Howard Holmes. Through his manipulative tactics, expertise in chemistry and anatomy, and meticulously devised creations, America would encounter one of its most monstrous and depraved beings to ever taint the nation with horror. Like many serial killers, H. H. Holmes had a traumatic childhood of receiving abuse from his parents and peers. With both of his parents being devout Methodists, a Protestant Christianity denomination, he had a profound religious upbringing, which appears paradoxical to his fascination with death as an adult.

Wayne Bertram Williams was born on May 27, 1958, in Atlanta, Georgia. Catastrophically, Wayne Williams is still the prime suspect in the murders of more than twenty black youths from 1979 to 1981 that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, although he was only convicted of killing two adults. Little is known about Wayne Williams’s early life, but his public journey to infamy began on July 28, 1979, when a woman in Atlanta came across two bodies hidden under bushes at the side of the road. Both corpses were male, black and children; Edward Smith, fourteen, reported missing a week before, was shot with a .22-caliber weapon. The other victim, thirteen-year-old Alfred Adams, was reported missing three days before and was murdered by asphyxiation.

ENG-3U0 November 20 2015 Frankenstein: The Pursuit of Knowledge Throughout the course of their individual journeys, Victor Frankenstein’s extreme passion for gaining knowledge about creating life, Robert Walton’s curiosity to discover land beyond the North Pole and the monster’s eagerness to obtain knowledge about humans was the principal cause of each of their suffering. As such, In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the pursuit of knowledge is a dangerous path which leads to suffering. Victor Frankenstein develops a keen interest in discovering knowledge about living beings which ultimately results in his personal suffering as well as others suffering. To begin with, Victor embarks on an assignment through combining body parts and following various

(Shelly 42, 43) Here, the effects of his continued pursuit of knowledge and neglect of well-being is shown evidently. Once Frankenstein creates the monster, his unquenchable thirst for knowledge is frightened into silence. He then presently returns to the outside world,

as it might be observed in Mary Shelley's Frankestein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818), in which the scientist Victor Frankestein creates a new being out of parts of dead bodies by using electricity; as well as can be appreciated in the interest that Polidori's vampire Lord Ruthven shows towards the possibility of reviving life from death. This hope of creating life is an attempt to explain the origins of monsters in literature. This connection between science and vampires can be, in fact, seen in the figure of Doctor Van Helsing in Dracula, he is who appeals to the other characters to have a scientific mind, what he considers to be an open mind, and not to dismiss mysterious events because they are not completely understood: “To believe in

Two of the stories that played a role were “The Gold Bug,” and “The Murder in the Rue Morgue.” During his college years, his professor Dr. Joseph Bell was the inspiration for the fantastic mystery solver, Sherlock Holmes. In 1892, in a letter to Bell, Doyle wrote, "It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock