Characteristics of Theodore Bundy, A Sociopath

control of himself. This happens when a greater authority has the power to deny a

Theodore Bundy born Theodore Robert Cowell was born in Burlington, Vermont to Eleanor Cowell. He was born on November 24, 1946. She had him when she was still a teeneager and so Ted was raised believing that she was his sister. His birth father is somewhat confusing on his birth certificate it has Lloyd Marshall but investigators believe that his real father 's name was Jack Worthington. Ted’s mother married Johnnie Bundy who eventually adopted Ted as his son.

which I now feel as most severe evil” (6) describes how his feelings got out of hand.

Throughout history we have had a plethora of people that were called “a leader” in the public’s eyes. Of course, when a leader steps up to the plate; they will have “Haters” as Maya Angelou stated. Yet, are they a True Leader, or an infamous leader? Weather a true, or infamous the traits of that leader had to appeal to the particular public to gain that popularity. A leader that I look up to is none other than Theodore Roosevelt a.k.a Teddy! Now President Roosevelt has shown great characteristics of a great leader. The traits that he that stood out the strongest in my opinion was honesty, his integrity, and in a way him being a humanitarian. The beginning of the 1900’s would have been as successful if it wasn’t for President Roosevelt.

Irrationality of Totalitarianistic Control Oftentimes, people become so addicted to power and the ability to control others, that they go to far extremes to keep it. In the nineteen-hundreds around the same time, two examples of this developed under Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. After Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union, he conducted a reign of terror in which he purged anyone who represented a threat to his power. In addition, when Hitler came into power in Germany he eliminated all opposition through execution. He also took over control of all aspects of society with the use of censoring the media, spying, and having a secret police.

There have been hundreds of serial killers throughout history. They look like ordinary people and could be walking among us everyday. With a hunger for death, they pick off their victims one by one until they are finally caught or suddenly disappear without a trace. What makes them act this way? Although serial killers may seem like monsters, they are still humans; however, due to genetic and environmental factors, they have been transformed into murderers with an insatiable desire to kill.

For example, Commodus’s spies and praetorians followed, and often arrested, all who dared to defy him, just as the Thought Police and telescreens monitored citizens’ behavior, ready to arrest any “rebels” for thoughtcrime. Also, identical to the Party’s frequent use of executions was Commodus’s tendency to put his enemies to death in order to maintain the love and respect he believed he deserved from his subjects. In each case, the Party and the Emperor strove to avoid making martyrs out of their victims. Lastly, to achieve their ends, each tyrant used the ultimate form of torment: “Room 101.” Commodus used methods similar to those of O’Brien by threatening Lucilla with her worst fear—the death of her son—for the sake of forcing her to betray Maximus.

He killed people due to supernatural witches who gave him prophecies knowing that he would act upon them (Shakespeare).

Coercion is demonstrated through physical force used with the intent to harm humans. This is a form of power because a person is willing to harm others in order to get people to do what is asked. Spain allowed Equatorial Guinea to become independent and organized its first election. A very insecure Macias Nguema won the elections. People spoke out about their opposition against his leadership. Macias jailed them and two were noted, “both were murdered: one first had his legs broken and was then starved” (20). Also, after “political reshuffles; ten of the dozen cabinet members in his first government were butchered” (20). Macias would kill people that he felt could take him out of power. Killing people would show that that he should not be messed with and he had the ability to take a person’s life without facing personal consequences. Since he felt like this, Macias killed thousands of people and caused many people to flee the country.

Having been nurtured by a rather sensible and overall educated family, both my academic and career goals are set up astonishingly high.

All My Sons, written by Arthur Miller, uses a main character that is a father and nothing more worthy. The Joe Keller in this story is no tragic hero as the author and many readers would like to think, he is nothing near the sort of anything even slightly heroic. He is a truly deceitful sociopath to his society and his family.

He held the threat of dismissal over their heads like a Damoclean Sword suspended on a frayed hair. Workers knew that being sacked meant more than losing their jobs: it was as close to a sentence of death as any of them wished to come. It was not the thundering certainty of roasting in Hell’s fire from the irate Staithes that held workers in check. It was the certainty that being sacked inflicted homelessness and hunger leading to starvation and death in the uncaring age in which people died in droves from hunger. Winters were worse because homeless families froze to death as they took whatever shelter they could find beneath sparse hedges, against leeward walls, in the doorways of commercial premises, and on the streets of textile towns. Death claimed them all and relief was unavailable. Employment, even under a tyrant such as Staithes, was preferable to the calamitous penalties of losing one's job. The choice before the nation's poor was "Work or Die!" Their choice was between two evils: suffering the degradation of millwork or quitting and starving to death. Because of this, Staithes was deliberately unscrupulous.

This use of direct speech reiterates his power-hungry, self-centered nature, and how people hated him for his cruel and unnerving

an individual had power over that person. As in most cases, the tormentors were part of

ii. [support for III] He enjoyed having his assistants round up 14 gypsy twins one night, then injecting chloroform into the hearts and killing them, which then he dissected every inch of their bodies.