Do you ever wonder what goes on in a child’s mind? Do you ever wonder if as a parent, you could be affecting your child? Parents, peers, home environment, entertainment, some of many things that can affect a child’s mindset. For Jesse Pomeroy and Mary Bell in particular, had a completely different mindset of a child. Whether or not, Pomeroy and Bell wanted to live this lifestyle, they became something unexpected. Jesse Pomeroy and Mary Bell were both child murderers considering how different their backgrounds were. Jesse Pomeroy was born on November 29, 1859 in Charlestown, Boston, MA. Since the beginning, Pomeroy was revolted by others, including his father due to a defect in his right eye. At school, he was bullied by kids bigger than him and in return he bullied kids smaller than him. Pomeroy was not one to …show more content…
Bell grew up in a nightmare. Her mother, Betty McCrickett was a mentally, unstable alcoholic and prostitute. According to Gitta Sereny in her book, Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell, Betty would force Bell to take part in prostitution. Others say Betty had tried killing Mary making it seem like an accident. There were suspicions that Betty suffered from Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, which could explain why she acted the way she did with her daughter. Due to the bad home environment, it could have possibly affected Bell’s personality. At school, she had an unpredictable and violent behavior. Even though she was violent, nobody did anything to stop it from continuing and it eventually got out of proportion. May of 1968, Bell strangled a four-year-old. This was ruled an accident and no act was taken. Later, Bell and her friend Norma Joyce Bell broke into a nursery and vandalised it, but police considered it a prank. July of 1968, both Mary Bell and Norma Bell strangled a three-year-old. Eventually both deaths were linked and both girls were charged with two counts of
There are various things that make up a piece of literature. For example: choice of diction, modes of discourse, and figurative language. Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano were great examples of authors that used these elements of literature. There are similarities and differences in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and From Africa to America. Though Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano shared similarities in experiences, they had different writing personalities, purposes, attitudes, tones, and relations with their communities.
Slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries consisted of brutal and completely unjust treatment of African-Americans. Africans were pulled from their families and forced to work for cruel masters under horrendous conditions, oceans away from their homes. While it cannot be denied that slavery everywhere was horrible, the conditions varied greatly and some slaves lived a much more tolerable life than others. Examples of these life styles are vividly depicted in the personal narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince. The diversity of slave treatment and conditions was dependent on many different factors that affected a slave’s future. Mary Prince and Olaudah Equiano both faced similar challenges, but their conditions and life styles
Jesse Moncell Bethel was born in New York City, New York on July 8, 1922. He was born to Jesse M. Bethel and Ethel Williams. His father left the home when he was only six months old and his mother died when he was only three and a half years old. Being an orphan now, he was raised by his grandmother in Arkansas. He then moved to Oklahoma where his family sharecropped cotton and cornfields. Bethel attended elementary school while in Oklahoma and later graduated from Booker Washington High School there too. Bethel attended Tillotson College in Austin, Texas. He graduated there with a Bachelors of Science degree in chemistry. He later attended graduate school in 1944 at the University of California Berkley.
Jesse Woodson James, born on the 5th of September in Kearney, Missouri, grew up in the mid-1800s. Jesse and his brother Frank James were educated and hailed by a very prestigious group of family and farmers. Five years prior to the birth of Jesse James, His father and mother, Robert and Zerelda Cole James, moved from Kentucky to Missouri in 1842. When Jesse turned 16, he and his brother Frank joined the confederate guerrilla soldiers, riding alongside “Bloody Bill”, A.K.A William T. Anderson and William Quantrill.
Born on September 5, 1847 in Clay County, Missouri was probably the most famous criminal in all of America Jesse James. Jesse was the highlight when it came to criminology and still is his name comes up and anyone can tell you who he is in America. His life of crime began not at a young age but later on during his campaign in the civil war as a confederate soldier. Jesse and what he then started as his gang would capture unarmed Union Soldiers and put them through cruel torture sessions, but they would usually capture them and kill them without orders of their commanding officers and scalping them like game. However this did not help Jesse and his brother when they were trying to do this to what they thought were Union Soldiers who were unarmed,but Jesse found out that they were not unarmed he was shot in the chest near Lexington, Missouri. This was not all bad for Jesse this event is what lead him to marrying his wife; his cousin Zerelda Mimms (1874–1882).
Does helping the poor, saving lives, shielding families and inspiring individuals interest you or do you feel that it is your duty to uplift individuals in social classes? The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Jane Addams and William Sumner. Although Addams and Sumner bear some superficial similarities, the differences between the both of them are clear. Although Addams and Sumner share a similar background, they each have their own worldview on people that are poverty stricken and individuals that are wealthy. Addams’ main focus was to contribute in any way that she could to help the poor and impact lives for a more efficient society. Sumner believed that the supply of wealth was based on people’s skills and those that have
Velma Barfield and Marie Hilly were two very similar female killers. They used poison has their weapon to kill. They both murder their own family members. Their motives were simply the love for money to support their own selfish addictions. Their weapon of choice was poison, slowly killing their victims making look has they were sick.
It is the parents’ responsibility to guide their children in all of their activities. If parents fail to guide their children, or even go so far as to arm them, then parents are just as liable for the tragic end results as the video game developer who ‘taught’ the child to shoot a gun or a musician who told the child to “go kill yourself,” in a song lyric. Parents must realize that they are the most influential people in their child’s life from the day the child is born. It is up to the parents to try to teach their child the difference between fantasy and reality; how to interpret theatrics meant to sell tickets; how to interpret the true meaning behind seemingly violent content in their entertainment.
Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson were two different women who lived in a male dominated period in history. However, these two women were not seamstresses or maids, and they both accomplished something that was not expected of a woman during the 1600s, they were authors.
the police and the ignorance of the courts. The idea that a parent would kill
The controversy with nature versus nurture can be difficult to grasp, but after reading the article and examining the Bogle’s family tree it is noticeable that pervasive dysfunction is due to the environment that one is in. From infant to early childhood are the years of learning, it’s where children learn from their parents. As Tracy Bogle states that the children were to be raised as outlaws from the very beginning. In response the children pleased their parents with doing what they were told to do by using violent and illegal behaviors. Despite the environment that they were raised it, the nature outside of that would also play a role in how the children were raised. Besides following such dysfunctional orders, the children soon to be adults seeked for spouses/significant other with the same characteristics and environment raised in. As you can tell from the family tree the only outlier of the entire Bogle Family would be Tammie Bogle because even though she was raised within the same environment she had strayed from the behaviors of her
I have heard many stories of the cruel and evil crimes that some children have committed. There are a number of causes that can occur during development, that can cause these, kind of criminal behaviors. Antisocial behavior which can be broken down into different types of behavior (1.) the presence of antisocial behavior for instance aggressive and disobedient behavior (2.) the lack of prosocial behavior, prosocial is a behavior that demonstrates cooperative, truthful and caring children. Behaviors such as these can really alter a child’s behavior. Most children show signs of some antisocial behavior during their development, and different children demonstrate different levels of prosocial and antisocial behavior. Some children however, may manifest extreme levels of both antisocial and prosocial behaviors; for example, a very loving but hostile child. Some children can experience low levels of both types of behaviors. Extreme levels of antisocial behavior are considered a mental illness. Young children may show extreme antagonism towards authoritative figures, and be diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder.
To begin with, numerous reasons for why a child acts in the manner he exhibits and why he continues to exert such dangerous and even fatal schemes. Recent research shows that factors ranging from inherited personality traits to chemical imbalances and damages suffered in the womb can increase the odds that a child will become violent (Johnson 234). Experts argue that no one is predestined to a life of crime. They believe that influences such as repeated abuse, extreme neglect, poverty, media violence, and easy access to guns play the major role in molding children into criminals. The father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer wonders, "If potential for evil is in the blood that some of us pass on to our children" (Seifert 23).
When Marilyn refers to her own mother, she offers many details about mental illnesses that run rampant through her mother’s bloodline. Along with biological factors that include her grandfather dying in a mental hospital, her great grandmother dying in a mental hospital, and an uncle who committed suicide, she was subjected to slavery-like conditions and the many foster homes she was placed in. Her mother too died in a mental institution. With her family’s experiences with mental illnesses, it was almost certain that Marilyn would also have some sort of mental disorder.
As a parent, I have spent a great deal of time observing the behavior, motivation, and thought processes of my children. As they mature these processes have changed, and it has been fascinating to watch. I have learned a great deal on the limits of self control in the adolescent mind during this time, and I believe that families should be held responsible for crimes committed by their teenagers.