Glen Ridge, New Jersey

true story of a group of Glen Ridge, New Jersey teenage boys who sexually assaulted a young retarded girl.

The novel Our Guys, written by Bernard Lefkowitz, is a very dynamic story about the heinous actions of a dozen middle-class athletes, from a small New York suburb, against a defenseless mentally handicapped girl. Lefkowitz describes a brutal gang rape involving a baseball bat and broomhandle, which took place in this unsuspecting town, by these upstanding young group of boys, as the town would describe them. Lefkowitz looks at the incident which took place and then examines the “jock clique” sub-culture

Bernard Lefkowitz The book “Our Guys” is more of a cultural and sociological study than just a mere crime book. Bernard provides detailed information about the story of a young girl known as Leslie who was raped by the Jocks in a town known as Glen ridge in New Jersey. The story reports that the Jocks had been in trouble since their middle years in school. However they were considered the star athletes, golden boys in a town that valued competition and athleticism. The behavior of one of the young men

Tom Cruise was born on July 3rd, 1969, in Syracuse, New York, United States. When he was just a child, he and his family moved around, for his father’s career. Tom Cruise’s parent divorced when he was only eleven years old. He moved in with his siblings and his mother to Louisville, Kentucky, Glen Ridge, and New Jersey after his mother got remarriage. Due to moving around schools, he once suffered from a disease called “Dyslexia”, dyslexia is a common term of disorders that required struggles in

The Steubenville and Glen Ridge rape cases are two very similar cases. The perpetrators were football student athletes with promising futures and the victims were teenage girls whose capability of consenting to the acts done to them were questioned. One of the victims was seventeen-years old and had an intelligence quotient of 64 and the reading comprehension of a second grader. The second victim was sixteen-years old and was publicly assaulted while she was completely intoxicated. This paper will

Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and born on January 19th, 1954 but she grew up in Huntington, New York. She is well known by her beautiful photography and her film directing. But she is famous for her conceptual portraits. Conceptual portraits are photographs that try to illustrate an idea or story for the viewers. Sherman started her artistic career with painting in college at Buffalo State University, but as she continued with painting she became frustrated with her results so

Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954, but moved to Huntington, New York where she grew up. Cindy went to college at the State University of Buffalo and started as a painter. She soon became frustrated with painting because she had nothing else to express in a painting, so she picked up a camera. Cindy Sherman is known for her photography of conceptual portraits. Conceptual portraits tell a story or illustrate and idea. Cindy would play around with make-up, costumes, and wigs and

Like every other artistry representation either through painting, photography, sculpture etc, I find Cindy Sherman's passion for photography rather fascinating. She was born in January 19th, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Her love and passion for art is the reason why I've decided to take interest in her works because she wasn't born into a family of painters, photographers or the family that associated with "art" hence, she carved and turned her interest in art into a global recognition. She was

Cindy Sherman was born in a small town of Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954 (Sherman, 2004). Throughout her childhood she wasn't really involved with art much. Her parents had different careers. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a teacher at a school (Sherman, 2004). She first learned about art when she found and read one of her parents books about paintings. She was interested and continued to learn about the art. Eventually she attended the State University of Buffalo after graduating

Tom Cruise has produced and starred in over thirty blockbuster movies including Top Gun, Oblivion, War of the Worlds and The Firm. The little known aspect about Tom is that he had a very hard life growing up. He was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, to his mother Mary and father Thomas Mapother. Due to his father’s career, Tom was forced to move around very often, leaving him little time to develop friends or other relationships. At the age of 11 his parents divorced and he went with his