Don Hellison Research Paper

A toddler in Virginia Beach, Virginia was recently reported missing. Twenty minutes after she was reported missing, she was found in a neighbor's pool. She died in the hospital a short time later. Kevin Dillard was the person who found the little girl in his pool. He did not know the girl. Even though he did not know the girl personally, he was devastated by her death.

When Bobby Adedge was 18 years old, he had already won two Olympic gold medals. By the time he was twenty-two, he had been a well-known goalie on a prestigious professional hockey team. He had married an even more famous supermodel, who had her own budding career as an actress. He was thought to be smart, having invented the first dissolvable hockey puck, which was great for planet Earth and recycling, but not-so-good when hockey games went into overtime, the puck often melting onto the ice before the game was over. His inventor-phase was short-lived.

“Nothing, they never did. And heed my warning, a few years after my son disappeared, a wealthy attorney from Chicago, by the name of Wendell Gladfree, who was himself an adventur-ist, started petitioning the park fathers. Gladfree wanted them to release pertinent information about scores, I’m talking about scores of people who went missing in the park from 1920 to 1969. I met Gladfree myself and got to know him well. For a while, I thought he might be the one to crack the code of silence. And believe it or not, the fathers were court ordered to produce certain documents and things for

Marty McVey has begun as a bit of an outlier in this mayoral race. At 41-years-old, he is the youngest candidate, he is single and he is one of the few that hasn’t yet been an elected official.

Johnny Cade did not kill unlawfully and also he can’t apply for a minor committing the crime because he’s 16, one year over the limit. According to Oklahoma law, first-degree murder is a person “unlawfully and with malice aforethought causes the death of another human being.” It is also not manslaughter because it is not a homicide committed without a design to effect death and in the heat of passion, but in a cruel and unusual manner, or by means of a dangerous weapon. Johnny did not have time to think and had to stab Bob to save Ponyboy’s life. Ponyboy was being drowned and to save him, Johnny had to commit the act of homicide. It lists that it was a justifiable homicide because it means that homicide is legal when committed in the lawful

Russell Willsion is a quaterback for seattle seahawks he has been playing for 5 years. When Russell Willsion had to score a touchdown for the game he did my favorite play statue of liberty he had fake it to the runing back and runs it all the way thats why.

Throughout his childhood Logan (Tachnechdorus) attained advantageous values and social etiquette. One particular influential ally was a Quaker identified as James Logan who not only provided Tachnechdorus with his name but also educated him until he befriended the future war leader . However, it was after one unprovoked fatal incident involving other settlers that Logan, who once considered the white people as his allies, quickly changed his opinion of them. Hostility erupted within this once diplomatic, unbiased and compassionate man. Recognizing the conflict among the two cultures became the major cause of Logan to take vengeance.

Charlotte Catholic High School, October 16, 2009 7:54 P.m: senior linebacker, Alex Heckard goes in for a routine tackle that will forever change his life. 20 seconds later Heckard is down on the ground and is motionless, training staff rush to his aid. 8:06 pm an ambulance arrives at the stadium and begins to put Heckard on a stretcher. Soon Heckard is carted off the field and brought to the nearest hospital; the remaining football game is cancelled. 8:47 P.m. Alex Heckard is pronounced dead at Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville due to a severed vertebrae/spinal cord. Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Alex Heckard is laid to rest at 11:30 A.m.

What makes a person a hero is their unhabitual nature to inspire others to believe that anyone can do what they want. One such man has earned his way to becoming such a hero: Chris McCandless. Christopher McCandless was a young man who decided to leave his old life, to become Alex Supertramp, and go out to do whatever he saw fit. The controversy around the life and death of Chris McCandless has been highly debated on whether he should be admired as a hero or shamed for being a fool. Chris McCandless has gained the right to be admired for being free-willed, iconic, and brave.

“People can only be found in what they do.(1)” That’s what Timothy Findley believed in despite having health illness and dropping out of 10th grade. He found himself in writing as Timothy Findley “published eight more novels, three short-story collections, and two memoirs” (2) Impressive isn’t it? Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a successful Canadian author with a victorious childhood, many accomplishments and contribution to Canadian literature throughout his life.

The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 ruled that African-Americans, even ones who were not enslaved, were not protected under The Constitution and could never be citizens. This brings up questions that will be answered in this paper. Should slaves be American citizens? Is it morally correct for one to own another human? Does the Dred Scott decision contradict The Declaration of Independence which states that every man is created equal?

When I move into my dorm for my first year of college, there is no question of which quote I would put onto my wall. Jimmy Dean, one of my favorite old school country singers, once said "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." This quote has really stuck with me. It reminds me that life will not always go my way and it is imperative that I learn to do deal with whatever the world may throw at me.

Dennis L. Rader was born on March 9, 1945 in the unremarkable town of Wichita, Kansas. A member of four siblings, Rader was a quiet kid, smart, and was well-behaved by all accounts. His family was very religious, and from every aspect, young Dennis Rader was a normal, harmless kid. However, Dennis Rader had a dark secret. As admitted later in his life, Rader had a wild sexual fantasy of bondage, a young developing sadomasochist. He dreamed of tying up girls and having his way with them, but his desire for dominance was not entirely sexual. He admitted to killing cats and dogs by hanging them, and early in his teenage years he was caught by his mother. She was worried but just passed it off as boyhood curiosity. He learned to hide his fantasies

Solomon Northup was born in July of 1808, in Minerva, New York. Solomon was born free due to the death of his father’s, Mintus, owner. His father’s owner was named Captain Henry Northup, which is how Solomon and his father received their last name. While Northup was a child, he had acquired some education, but mainly worked on his family’s farm. In 1828, Solomon married Anne Hampton. In 1834, he and his wife moved to Saratoga Springs, New York. They later had three children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. While in upstate New York, Solomon Northup received the reputation of a talented fiddler.

To this day John Donne is still considered to be one of the greatest love poets from England. He was born to a Elizabeth Heywood and John Donne, some time between January 24th and June 19th in 1572. His mother Elizabeth Heywood was the youngest of her siblings and the grand-niece to the Catholic Martyr Thomas More. His father John Donne was a prosperous London merchant, but his actual father died when Donne was only four and was believed to be a descendant from an ancient family in Wales. The family was Roman Catholic and this was a very anti-catholic period in England and this would greatly affect Donne in many ways throughout his life.