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    Art has been apart of humanity for about 300,000 to 700,000 years and has served as a form of expression ever since. With expression comes interpretation and with interpretation comes controversy. Controversy can be found in all forms of art such as music, illustrations, and even television shows. Controversy in artwork can affect the consumer in numerous ways and some may argue how the controversy affects the consumer. Author Jessica Hopper shows how controversy in art can lead to a stronger emotional

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    childhoods. Whilst I will look at various different killers to reach more rounded conclusions (see appendix for comparison table), this essay will focus on four in detail to examine the debate; Ted Bundy (1946-89), Jeffery Dahmer (1960-1994), John Wayne Gacy (1942-1994) and Gary Ridgway (1949-present). What is definition of a serial killer? A Serial Killer is often defined as a person who murders more than three people in separate events with a "cooling off period" between the killings. Serial killers

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    As Boorstin identified, we choose who is famous by our attention, what they do in fact is not what determines their fate. Fame is no longer about the deed behind it, but simply the spectacle – Hitler made the cover of Time magazine seven times, Stalin following with 12 covers of his own. The line between people we love to love and people we love to hate is becoming thinner and blurred, so we thrust not only heroes into the public view but also ‘villains’. This confusion between fame and celebrity

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    young men and shattering the lives of their families. He carried out his crimes until he was captured in the late ‘70s. The killer clown was revealed to be the man known as John Wayne Gacy. His case was very unique. He struggled with his sexuality and even had an alter ego known as “Pogo the Clown” (Morrison). According to Gacy, this alter ego controlled who he was and forced him to kill. Cases like Gacy’s is where the question of insanity appears. This has led many forensic psychologists to raise

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    Drilling into the skull of a young man, he began to pour sulfuric acid into the head of his unconscious victim. Dead within a day, he mummified the cranium, and then placed it in the freezer beside those of the men who came before. Dismembering the remains of the body, he put skin, blood, and bone into a gallon of a substance that would eventually get rid of all the evidence left. This is the mind of Jeffrey Dahmer. He killed not in anger, revenge, or financial enrichment, but on urge and desire

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    Psychopaths have been around for more than a century, and have found themselves to be able to make the public fear them. Belle Gunness, the Zodiac Killer, and John Wayne Gacy are all examples for the character traits compatible with psychopathy and have been able to provide more reason to the research of psychopaths. Statistically, psychopathy is found in three percent of the male population and in one percent of one percent of the female population. A psychopath’s behavior of exploitation, lying

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    KEISER UNIVERSITY Killer Stories H.H. Holmes, “Ted” Bundy & John Wayne Gacy Faraz Garcia 10/16/2017   Abstract When you tell children scary stories they shouldn’t be able to come true but unfortunately for the people victimized by the vicious killers in this paper those horror stories did come true. Traveling and staying in a “Hotel” owned by a wealthy “doctor” got them tortured, experimented on and ultimately killed, helping a seemingly helpless man put things in his vehicle lead them

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    In recent discussions of serial killers, a controversial issue has been whether they were born being the killer that they are or if it is impacted by the way that they grew up. On the one hand, some argue that serial killers are influenced by things in their lives that cause them to become these guiltless killers. From this perspective, porn and violence in the home are big factors in what people believe to be influencing these people. On the other hand, however, others argue that these people are

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    reinforced. During that time is typically when the father would leave and no longer be in the picture. When John Wayne Gacy was a young boy, his father would come home and head straight for the basement where he would sit and drink. If any of the family members would come near the intoxicated Mr. Gacy, he would chase them away. At dinner he would come up and fight and beat his wife and children. John Gacy later would kill thirty-three young men, burying them underneath his his home (Serial

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    John Wayne Gacy was the most frightening and first actual serial killer clown. What will paragraph 2 be about? John wayne gacy's background was really painful. Transition, + What will paragraph 3 be about? His history of sexual assaults was what led to his killings. What will paragraph 4 be about? He was captured and executed with lethal injection. Transition, + A hook, quote, or an interesting fact that leads into paragraph two “The dead won't bother you it's the living you have to worry about”

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