Why did the police in 1888 never catch Jack the Ripper? In the autumn of 1888‚ an air of mystery and terror cloaked and surrounded the city of London. An unidentified murderer who had given himself the name Jack the Ripper was loose on the streets of the east end‚ killing and mutilating innocent women whilst the police seemed helpless‚ unable to catch the killer. But why was Jack the Ripper never caught? In this essay I will investigate the reasons why the infamous murderer was never caught‚ including
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“Buck’s Transformation” “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory” (George S. Patton). In this story Buck is triumphant when faced with the challenges of leadership and life in the wild. The Call Of The Wild‚ by Jack London‚ is about a sled dog making his way through the wilderness‚ after being kidnapped. In the Yukon Gold Rush sled dogs are in high demand to take hard trips through the cold surroundings. In the beginning of the book‚ Buck uses interdependence to learn
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Twain and Jack London - witness catastrophe‚ yet the way they perceive and describe it are different. Not one soul looks on and shall distinguish it exactly the same‚ but the mood or tone in which the disasters are described would be expected to be comparable. Twain brings to the table a personal take and focuses on the “curiosities” of the earthquake. London observes the disaster from the relative distance of “the bay”‚ while describing the destruction of the “conflagration.” Twain and London write
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1. Read Niccolo Ammaniti’s epigraph by Jack London. Why has Ammaniti chosen to begin his novel with his novel with this quote? How does it illuminate what happens in the story? What is the literal and symbolic meaning in the novel about "falling into darkness"? Niccolo Ammaniti had chosen to start his novel with an epigraph by Jack London‚ this foreshadows that we’re going to read about a journey of discovering real evil and the loss of innocence. "He had fallen into darkness" the literal meaning
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This essay attempts to compare‚ analyse and contrast two texts. Text A being an adaptation of a dairy entry of Samuel Pepys about the Great Fire of London in 1666‚ text B being a news article on a fire that devastated Tasmania a few year ago. Do the texts have similarities? Despite there being about a 300-year difference between the two articles written there are actually quite a few similarities. Firstly‚ both the texts are written in first person and in a personal way. They use the same pronouns
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Alan Boone‚ one of London’s boss’s‚ talked about how London could have changed the world with his books. London as a boy‚ grew up in the working class. He read about other writers and their novels‚ inspired by them‚ he took it upon himself to read and write novels of his own. The Call of the Wild is one of his most known books and the main theme of his book is the struggle for power. THESIS John London‚ later adopted the name of Jack‚ was born in San Francisco in 1876. While his mother Flora
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In “To Build a Fire‚” Jack London chronicles the journey of an overconfident man who travels accompanied by only a dog throughout the Alaskan wilderness during a cold snap. As the text ensues the main character attempts to fight the cold that envelops him; nature however has already decided the fate of this man. The theme of this text presents itself as a struggle for survival against the unyielding methodical elements. The theme also delves into what the better survival tactic is‚ confidence or
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Underestimating the power of weather and what comes with it can often lead to regret. Weather is an important factor in everyday lifestyles. In the short story “To Build a Fire” written by Jack London the protagonist undergoes an important inner change. The man in this short story is both dynamic and the protagonist. He is living the same everyday lifestyle‚ but soon becomes too comfortable with this everyday lifestyle. At the beginning our first impression of the man is that he is confident within
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The main character stupidly travels across the Alaskan tundra after an old wise man told him that‚ “…no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below” (London 132). The Yukon man did not listen. He thought he was better than the advice given‚ just as I had with my mother. For example the man gets his feet wet while crossing a soft patch of ice‚ yet he is able to start a fire to stave off frost bite. While
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way. I am not saying that we humans are stupid‚ what I am saying is that our human nature is to be clueless and we do not know everything. We are all full of curiosity and we want to know what certain things do. In this story To Build a Fire by Jack London‚ this main character has some stupidity and he did not lessen. I am going to tell you about this long short story and the main character. The first thing the main character did in this story that I thought was really stupid was‚ going out in general
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