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…JOHN JOUBERT A Not-So-Well Known Serial Killer ABSTRACT On a warm summer morning in September of 1983 a young boy's life was about to end. He would…

…Many people are forced into a position that makes them stand up for a cause. John Proctor from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Maximus from Warrens Film Gladiator, were two characters that evolved into activists. During the Roman Empire Maximus…

…What Makes John Cheever’s “Reunion” An Effective Story? A family who ends up in divorce with a child stuck in the middle has become a typical and common entity…

…The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. -John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, ch. 1 (1989)- Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted…

…John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. John was the second of nine children born to Joseph Patrick and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was brought up in a family that demanded intense physical…

…Cisco. Sure, Cisco has the greatest wind of our lifetime at its back (it's the Internet, stupid). But as its crusty billionaire-next-door chairman, John Morgridge, says over a bagel at a Palo Alto coffee shop, "Lots of companies had that wind at their back…

…John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. It is accurate to say that John Locke is the theoretical architect of democracy as it exists in the western world today. His ideas, as expressed…

…John Prine’s Sam Stone There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes. Jesus Christ died for nothin’ I suppose. Little pitchers have big ears. Don’t stop to count the years. Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios. --John Prine…

…in politics and he was somehow related to it in his community. He used to give speeches concerned on his liberal way of thinking. John remembers how much his dad advised him of how he has to bring changes to the world. Nowadays, he is married to Catherine Atwater…

…Throughout the time period of the slavery, there were few civilian men who were willing to risk their life for the freedom of slaves everywhere. Among those who took this risk was John Brown. He was a simple man from Torrington, Connecticut, who had…