...Jack the Ripper was one of the most famous and renowned killers in history. Even though he was not the first serial killer, he was the first killer to strike on a metropolis setting. Jack the Ripper was in his prime at a time when the media had a strong control over society and society had as a whole was becoming much more literate. Jack started his killing campaign at a time of political controversy between the liberals and social reformers along with the Irish Home rule partisans. The reports of Jack the Ripper were collected and reported by the police, but then the different newspapers with their political influences slightly distorted the stories to give them their own effect. It has been more the one hundred years since the last murder and there is no longer any more original evidence, and the "facts" about the stories have changed over time due to different writers or differing sources. The press changed Jack the Ripper from being a depressed killer of prostitutes to one of the most romantic figures seen throughout history. One fact that most sources agreed upon was that the Ripper was a killer who wanted nothing more than to strike fear into the entire city by horribly mutilating his victims and then leaving them in locations where they were sure to be seen. Jack was the type of killer that wants fame and loved the fact that his "name" was on everyone's lips and was able to strike fear into anyone and everyone's heart. In the late 1800's "Jack the Ripper"...
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...We have come a long way from the days of Feudalism where Lords were land (fief) owners and the vassals were the common folk who provided a service to the Lord for use of the land, whether it is to serve in the military or other forms as requested. This was the way of life in medieval times, up until the 15th century (Hirst, 2012). From here, the transition began from Feudalism to the early stage Capitalism, where the ordinary people broke away from the Feudal system and owned property and the means of production as well as the resources to make and maintain wealth (Dictionary.com, 2012). England in the 1800’s was hard in comparison to today. The life expectancy for a man aged 20 in 1850 was 60.1 years compared to 76.7 in 2004 (Geoff Canyon's Appeal to Authority, 2009). This was mainly due to the living conditions and especially those in the poor area of East London, where animals not only shared the often over crowed living area with humans but also the human waste that was thrown onto the streets. Often those who lived in the bottom apartments lived close to if not in the stench, more so than those who lived multiple stories above the streets. With the pollution of human waste in the streets and the polluted River Thames from the sewage of the West End, no matter where you lived in the East End, you still had to walk through the rising filth. These living conditions were the main reason for the various outbreaks of diseases, sores and premature deaths during the 1800’s...
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...day. The Whitechapel murderer was one name given to this monster, but everyone came to know him as Jack the Ripper (“Jack the Ripper - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia”). Whose killings are filled with startling truths, numerous theories, and a multitude of unanswered questions. 1. Facts From the 31 August to 9 November 1888, five female prostitutes were murdered in a very poor area of London, known as the East End of the Whitechapel District. These five people were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Who are now known as the canonical five because they were believed to have all been slaughtered by Jack the Ripper, especially because these murders were never solved (“Jack...
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...Jack the Ripper was a serial killer in the town of White chapel in the year of 1888. These Murders were all on women who were prostitutes they all had been brutally murdered. The Five prostitutes were all stabbed in the Town of White chapel in London England between August 31st and November 9th 1888. The Five women were Mary Ann , Elizabeth Stride,Catherine Edwards , Mary Jane Kelly , and Annie Chapman.It is said that the women weren't just murdered they were brutally mutilated and there was a strong possibility of cannibalism when each body of the women were found they had organs removed the last victim (Mary Jane Kelly) was said to be mutilated beyond recognition. The Identity of Jack the Ripper is still unknown to this day there was little...
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...There are many possible suspects in the Jack the Ripper case. Some suspects seem more probable than others, however. Based on information that has been obtained from what happened during the “Autumn of Terrors,” as many call it, there are many facts that seem probable about Jack the Ripper. The specific suspects that have been publicized fit some of these possible qualities and tendencies of Jack the Ripper, though none fit all the standards. A background in medicine along with a history of some sort of mental illness are likely characteristics of the Ripper. Also, he was most likely someone that was often seen around his victims long before their murders. Jack the Ripper was most likely someone with a background in medicine. At the very least, it is feasible he had more basic anatomical knowledge than the average citizen of his time. Based on autopsies and reports from medical officials who saw the bodies after the murders, it is evident that the Ripper was able to remove his desired organ without disturbing any surrounding areas too severely. Dr. Frederick Gordon Brown, the medical examiner who performed the post-mortem exam on Catherine Eddowes, also believed the murderer had medical knowledge based on the exam he performed on Eddowes’ body: “I believe the perpetrator of the act must have had considerable knowledge of the position of the organs in the abdominal cavity and the way of removing them. It required a great deal of medical knowledge to have removed the kidney...
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...Jack the Ripper Case Study: “From Hell” Film The Assignment Gender: Male because females are not that strong to do such damage Occupation: Butcher or surgeon because of the way that they cut the person Lifestyle: Pretty high lifestyle because he could have not gotten away with these crimes and have had some connections. Motivation: He did not like women or prostitues so he went for revenge. Age: 30-45 the average age of a serial killer Education: High Education Personality Type: Quite because if he was the opposite someone would have heard him say something Family (my choice): He was abused by his mother when he was a little kid so he is getting revenge. Had no family because most serial killers have no remorse and don't car about anyone else than them selves. 2. Rippers identity and motivate presented in the movie are feasible because he a very high person in free the masons so he had some connection, so he got away with the crimes. Everything fit together at the end 3. The social conditions of Whitechaple is that everyone knows everything. When the prostitues are talking about gossip at the beginning of this film. No people still talk gossip. 4. I think prostitutes are the victims because first of all serial killers see them as easy targets because they think that they are “sex machines” which makes a serial killer have little remorse and hesitant. So they think that this “object” does not have friends or family so no one would really miss them or...
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...The case of Jack the Ripper has both horrified and fascinated the people of England and the world for years. “Jack the Ripper” is the name given to an unknown killer who murdered several women in London’s East End in 1888 (Casebook: Jack the Ripper). Due to the long suspect list and conflicting information, a culprit was never named by the London police and has still not been definitively found. 1. Facts The five victims who are typically attributed to the Ripper—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catharine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelley—were murdered in 1888 in London’s East End. The Ripper strangled his victims to unconsciousness and then cut their throats to kill them (Casebook: Jack the Ripper). All 5 had mutilations performed on their abdomens postmortem. Several victims had organs...
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...Whitechapel London, also known as the East End, was the scene of at least five gruesome murders in 1988 that were committed by a killer now famously known as Jack the Ripper. These murders took place in the height of transition from feudalism to capitalism and fueled by this, the East End was plagued with gross overcrowding, unemployment, and was a place of severe poverty and prostitution. Marxist theories of alienation and dialectical materialism help to explain how the rise of capitalism formed the case setting and supported The Ripper’s murders of five women. In the mid-nineteenth century, an influx of Irish and Jewish immigrants hit England and swelled the population, including that of East London (Kershen 2008). Whitechapel suffered gross overcrowding and an urban proletariat started to emerge (Rumbelow 2001). Housing and working conditions became worse and poverty led many people to alcohol, crime and violence and women were driven into prostitution as work was hard to find (Vaughan 2008). Many people were dependent on lodging houses for a place to sleep, and would only be admitted if they had four pence as payment. Those who did not have the money were left outside on the streets (Rumbelow 2001). The first of the official Jack the Ripper murders occurred in the early hours of 31st August 1988 (Rumbelow 2001). A woman later identified as forty-two year old Polly Nichols was found with her throat cut from ear to ear and when taken to the morgue and undressed by morgue...
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...Tristan Poore Ms. Tubbs English 9 2 November 2015 Jack the Ripper Jack the ripper one of the many well-known serial killers. He murdered eleven or more victims. Jack the Ripper usually involved female prostitutes who worked and lived in the nasty parts of the east end of London. They had their necks slashed before their organs were removed from their torso so the killer had to know how to do surgery or he wouldn’t of succeeded The canonical five Ripper victims were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. The belief that these five crimes were committed by the same man is derived from contemporary documents that link them together to the exclusion of others. During 1894, Sir Melville Macnaghten, Assistant Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police Service and Head of the Criminal Investigation Department wrote a report that stated the white chapel murder had 5 victims and five victims only....
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... Ngo Kotna 1 EN 102 Prof. Robinson October 11th 2013 Film Argument Essay “From Hell” “From Hell” is a movie based on the case of Jack The Ripper by the New 20th Century Fox Production. Jack the Ripper, a serial killer, haunted Whitechapel, a district of East London, during the late 1880s; The Ripper was said to be the first documented and investigated serial killer at the time. The movie “From Hell” relates how, when and where The Ripper killed his victims. The main point of this movie is illustrate exactly how Jack The Ripper was operating back in those days, to give us an image of what the district looked like, of how it was like to live there. Now the question is, does the movie accurately deliver the history of Jack the Ripper? The physical appearance of Whitechapel? The way people lived at that time? Attempting to answer these questions will be the main focus of our essay. Let’s start with the context and costuming: the murders of the Ripper occurred in the 1880s in London, making it a little hard to capture the essence the fact and a physical space looking East London. Fortunately, the story was documented, and adapted into a book in which directors and producers drew the plot of the movie from, and the movie was filmed in Prague because it was the place...
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...CIS-170 July 7, 2011 ASSIGNMENT #1 Table of Contents I. RESPONSE TO REQUIREMENT #1 Question 1.1 Information Technology and my life Question 1.2 Computer Competency level Question 1.3 Jack the Ripper Slides 1.1 Information Technology has had far-reaching effects on our lives. How have the computer and IT affected your life? At the age of 18 I entered the United State Air Force as a communications technician. The skills that I acquired in the service afforded me the opportunity to work with information technology for the next eleven years of my life. In my profession everything in technology based so it is my opinion that IT has substantially affected my life because everything I do is affected by technology; from the badge readers to get into the building to the access code for elevators, voice and bio detector to access systems that I use every day. Technology is ever present in my day to day life. 1.2 Do you consider yourself to be IT competent? Why? Why not? I consider myself t o be IT competent because I have been in the information systems field for over ten years. I have six years of military training in information systems as well as an additional five in the government sector, where I am constantly sent to training for all newly implemented technology and software. 1.2.1 Which software application do you use most and least? The application I use the most in my day to day life are is Microsoft office if I had to choose the one I used the most...
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...Between August and November 1888, the Whitechapel area in the East End of London became the scene of five or even six heinous and brutal murders. The identity of the killer of these poor victims has remained a mystery. This mysterious killer was given the name “Jack the Ripper”. Jack wasn’t the first serial killer in the world, but he had no doubt managed to captivate the entire London. All women murdered by Jack the Ripper were prositutes lived and worked in the slums in the East Eng of London. All victims except for one were brutally mutilated. At least three of the victims’ internal organs were even removed from their bodies. People proposed from this action that the Ripper might prossesed anatomical or surgical knowledge. Jack the Ripper was never caught and the whole London was terrorized. The crimes were widely reported in the newspapers and the notoriety of the Ripper endures. In the 1880s, Britain exprienced an influx of immigrants and some cities including the East End of London’s population swelled. The Whitechapel area in London’s East End was overcrowed with immigrants who did not have a job and housing. The area was full of people at or below the poverty line. Working and housing conditions were awful at that time. Many of the residents could not find a job and for those who were lucky to get a job, they were forced to work 15 hours a day. There was not much option for women without a spouse or family. They had to fight very hard in any means for themselves. For...
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...with a form of psychological gratification as the primary motive. The need for psychological gratification distinguishes serial killers from other types of murderers, who usually murder for things like profit or revenge. Because an element of psychological instability is involved in serial killing, many serial killers are committed to mental institutions if and when they are caught, reflecting a general belief that they are not of sound mind. While many people think of serial murder as a crime which emerged in the 20th century, it is actually quite ancient. Documents from places like China indicate that serial killers were operating well before the common era, and some particularly notorious serial killers like Erzsebet Bathory and Jack the Ripper date to periods before the 20th century. It is true, however, that the number of serial killings seems to have increased in the 20th century, perhaps due to increased population or social and cultural shifts. As a general rule, someone does not start out life as a serial killer. The progress from ordinary individual to serial killer may begin early in life, but it proceeds in stages, beginning with crimes like arson, progressing to animal abuse, and then moving into the realm of human abuse. The reasons why people develop into serial killers are not known, although many show signs of childhood trauma and abuse. Psychologists believe that all serial killers demonstrate some form of antisocial personality disorder, along with other...
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...English III Mr. Howard March 18th 2012 Who was Jack the Ripper, Really? Jack the Ripper terrorized London in the last part of the 19th century. He was responsible for at least five brutal murders, and some experts attribute more killings to his total. While these murders were never actually solved, there is much evidence to suggest that the true identity of Jack the Ripper. The real serial killer was actually Walter Richard Sickert. Walter Richard Sickert was one of England’s greatest impressionist painters. “He was born and raised in Munich. His father was a great writer, and his mother was a very bad alcoholic. Walter at a young age underwent a series of penis surgeries which may have left him impotent. He suffered from fistula this is a hole in your penis”(Cornwell chapters 5 through 6). So this ment that sickert was unable to have intercourse.Sickerts artwork was one of the greatest clues to his crimes. His paintings are menacing and threatening towards women of a lower class. In other words, prostitutes. A few of Sickerts paintings resemble some of the Rippers crime scenes. The ripper may have been a man who had a hate for women, because of his own sexual inabilities or problems. Sickert was a master of disguise and could of easily of lured a prostitute to her death and then escaped without being noticed. He had an unhealthy fascination with the human body that went far and beyond a normal person would. The ripper liked to write letters and disclose certain items...
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