Sharon Cuneta

The Manson trial began in June of 1970. The jury in this case was locked up for the entire trial to protect the jury from the publicity and the harassment they would face from the public. Five women and seven men were selected to be on the jury with ages spanning from twenty-five to seventy-three. One of the jury members was a retired deputy sheriff. The prosecutor of this case was Vincent Bugliosi. Bugliosi’s opening statement described Manson a man “Who would refer to himself as Jesus Christ”

The Bully My book I chose is about a 15 year old boy named Darrell. He lived in Philadelphia all his live until his mom found a better job in California. He loved being in Philadelphia with his best friend Malik and when he found out he had to go he was devastated. Him and his mom had to go because after his father died in a car accident six years back it got hard on his mom. She had to find another job after a large insurance company bought out the agency where she worked and they eliminated her

Sussex Healthcare is located in Sussex, UK. The organization owns and operates care homes and provides important support services for people in the care homes. In fact, the well respected organization has been providing care and support services in the homes for 25 years. Sussex Healthcare focuses primarily on providing care to older adults, people with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities, dementia patients and more. Now, the organization is experiencing new growth under the

A 43 year old New York woman named Rosemary Billquist was shot dead with a pistol by a hunter who thought she was a deer. Rosemary was killed when she took her dogs for a walk in her home town near the Pennsylvania border around 5:30 on Wednesday. As police investigate they say that Rosemary was walking in a field when a man hunting nearby mistook her for a deer and shot her once with a pistol. The hunter heard her scream, called 911 and stayed by the girl’s side until emergency crews arrived. She

In 1967 the Manson Family began in Venice, California. Charles Manson took the role of being a leader to his cult members by making connections between religion and rock n’ roll music in order to brainwash them with his beliefs. During the summer of 1969, it is documented that there was a total of twenty-four dead bodies throughout three different murder scenes. Most believe there was a total of thirty-five killings, but some were not included in the total because there was not enough evidence. Due

The word “Cult” has not always had such a negative connotation attached to it. Many religions would’ve been considered cults when they first began. By the end of the 19th century many visionaries had revealed radically new religious systems, claiming immunity to the impurities of the old ones (Powers, 1997). These were no more than a group of people organizing themselves in worship and devotion for a person, object, or movement. They practiced rituals different to other “mainstream” religions, and

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco on November 19, 1942. At age fifteen, she was sent to a boarding school in Massachusetts. Many of her poems focus on difficult childhood and the body. As Olivia Laing, literary critic of several literary novels and publications, says, “The physical body is a document of being, physical experience is the primary mode of forming, and physical contact is the primary human relationship.” Like Whitman, Olds celebrates the body in its pleasures and pains. She is a

mirror, beginning to prepare her ten-year-old daughter for bed. As she works out the last few tangles from her hair, the woman’s gaze turns to her reflection—the dulling of her once youthful body palpable in the company of her youthful daughter. Author Sharon Olds uses the narrative of a mother-daughter relationship to address issues of aging, death and replacement, juxtaposing the youth of a ten-year-old with the maturity of the thirty-five-year-old. “35/10” takes readers on one woman’s journey of sorrow

Duc Tran ENGL 111 10/7/2015 Rite of Passage (1983) – Sharon Olds As the guests arrive at my son 's party they gather in the living room-- short men, men in first grade with smooth jaws and chins. Hands in pockets, they stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights breaking out and calming. One says to another How old are you? Six. I 'm seven. So? They eye each other, seeing themselves tiny in the other 's pupils. They clear their throats a lot, a room of small bankers, they fold

Cults Two of America’s most famous cult leaders are Jim Jones and Charles Manson, they are powerful leaders that drove their followers to commit insanely violent, and crazy acts. Today, many people wonder what gave those men such power to influence their followers to commit crimes. Jim Jones, for example, was a visionary and he used religion to influence his followers to join his “community”. Jones persuasion was highly successful among the homeless, dispossessed, lonely, and lower-middle-class