until they obtain it. Through the short poems of “Dear John Wayne” by Louise Erdrich and “Slam, Dunk, and Hook” by Yusef Komunyakaa it will show that America has always strived to become the best time and time again. Louise Erdrich poem “Dear John Wayne” can have many different settings throughout the reading and can attract to people of many separate races. The poem starts out with a group of people at a drive-in movie theater watching a John Wayne Western. It then goes into a scene where people are
man in Hollywood history, John Wayne entered the film business while working as a laborer on the Fox Studios lot during summer vacations from university, which he attended on a football scholarship. He met and was befriended by John Ford, a young director who was beginning to make a name for himself in action films, comedies, and dramas. Wayne was cast in small roles in Ford's late-'20s films, occasionally under the name Duke Morrison. It was Ford who recommended Wayne to director Raoul Walsh for
The Duke takes his place in history. John Wayne, one of America’s greatest actors and directors of all time. His fame and superstardom led to many problems in his career. His image as an icon of American individualism and the frontier spirit has overshadowed his career to such an extent that it is almost impossible for the fans and writers to separate Wayne the legend from Wayne the actor and Wayne the man. Before the start of his movie career he played football at USC under his birth name
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17 1942. Gacy had an uneventful childhood up until the age of eleven. While out playing he had been struck on the head by a swing. Subsequently he suffered fainting fits for many years. Gacy graduated from business school and went on to work as a shoe salesman for the Nunn Bush shoe company. Gacy met and then married work colleague Marilynn Myres in 1964. The marriage ended when Gacy was imprisoned for ten years at a correctional institute
John Wayne as an American Icon Marion Morrison, also known as John Wayne, is perhaps one of the most popular movie personalities ever. He began as a mere stagehand, but by the end of his career he had developed himself as a very successful actor, producer, and director. Marion Michael Morrison was born on May 26, 1907, in Winterest, Iowa. His father, Clyde, worked as a pharmacist, and John Wayne thought of his father as the “kindest, most patient man I ever knew.” Later on in life, John Wayne’s
John Wayne Gacy (better known as the Clown killer and Pogo the Clown.) killed 33 men burying most under his house. He was born March 17,1942 in Chicago,Illinois. His parents were Danish and Polish. He was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school. He often worked small jobs and was a Boy Scout. When Gacy was 11, he was playing on a swing set and was hit in the head with one of the swings. The accident caused a blood clot in his brain that was not discovered until he was 16. Between the time
John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted of the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men. Known as the Killer Clown, because of his odd love of of entertaining children in a clown outfit. In December 1978, a 15 year old boy named Robert Priest went missing. The boy was reported to be going to the local Pharmacy, According to the record Priest said something to his mother about how he wanted to go back home later because some contractor wants to talk to me about a job
Biography of John Wayne Gacy One of the most horrendous serial killers in modern history would have to be John Wayne Gacy, Jr. He was the second of three children and born in 1942. He lived in Chicago and attended catholic schools, and wasn't a very popular boy in school. Gacy seemed to live a very normal childhood, with exception to his relationship with his father, and series of accidents that effected him. No one could have known what the future held for John, not even his father. When Gacy
John Wayne Gacy, an American serial killer also known as the “Killer Clown” was a rapist who sexually assaulted, abused, and murdered young men and children. John Wayne Gacy was not interested in women what so ever. John Wayne Gacy murdered about thirty-three young teenage boys and young men from the year of 1972 to 1978 where he lived in Chicago, Illinois. Gacy had lured several young men and children into his home by offering them money for perform sexual needs for him, dressing as a police officer
The Double Life of John Wayne Gacy John Szyc, Gregory Godzik, Sam Stapleton, and Robert Peist; what do all of these names have in common? These four young men and twenty-nine others lost their lives because of Gacy. John Wayne Gacy raped and murdered thirty-three young men in the timespan of six years. Throughout John Wayne Gacy’s double life as a rapist and murderer, he exhibits the traits of a human monster that can only be developed through both nature and nurture, as well as a
understanding on how an event occurred. However, when history is coerced in a manner that changes history, then it can lead people to have false misinterpretations about people and in some unfortunate cases lead to racism. The short story “The Ghost of John Wayne”, written by Ray Gonzales, is a story about a man who is trying to come to terms with what really happened in the famous Battle of The Alamo. In his trajectory he meets of psychic who alleges contact with Mexican spirits trapped in The Alamo. Through
John Wayne Gacy was a serial killer who killed 33 boys and men. He was one of the most prolific serial killers ever. He was sentenced to 12 death years and 21 natural life sentence. He took a job as a clown and used this as his disguised to kill. His last words were Kiss my ass. John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 17, 1942. He was the only son out of three kids. His parents were John Stanley Gacy who was an auto repair machinist and World War I. his mother was Marion Elaine
John Wayne Gacy, also known as the Killer Clown, is an infamous serial killer in American history. He was able to fool those around him into believing that he was a good, community loving man, when in fact, he had 25 decomposing bodies in his crawlspace. This man was the epitome of the worst kind of criminal to ever exist, a person who tortures and kills others with no sign of remorse and then later taunts the victim’s family and society. At the beginning of his life, Gacy did have problems with
John Wayne Gacy also know as “The Killer Clown” was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago Illinois. John was the only boy of the three children his parents John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. John had a turbulent relationship with his father. His father was an unpleasant person who abused alcohol and was very prone to physically and verbally abusing his wife and children as discipline. John always seeking approval from his father and never succeeded in doing so. John experienced peer rejection
John Wayne Gacy, also known as the killer clown or pogo the clown, was one of the most horrific serial killers in America at the time of the late 70’s. He was also Americas’ first openly/closeted gay serial killer, and we know this because before killing his victim, he engaged in sex with them and counted to strangle them to death.(Close Case Killer) He freely admitted to killing 33 young boys ranging from the ages 14 - 21, and burying them in the crawl space under his house. Gacy was only thirty
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois March 17, 1942. As a child, Gacy was fat and did not play sports. He was described as being close to his mother, but not so with his father, an alcoholic who was abusive toward his wife and children. The Senior Gacy was described as “An Archie Bunker type, but with all humor removed.” At the age of 4, his father beat him with a belt for rearranging car parts he had removed, and another time beat him unconscious with a broomstick. He was also
John Wayne Gacy was a serial killer from Chicago, Illinois between 1972 and 1978(when he was arrested). He is also known as the “Killer Clown” and “Pogo the Clown” because he liked to dress up in a clown costume to entertain children. Gacy dressed up as a clown when he had parties with his neighbors in his backyard. He loved to entertain kids this way. What his neighbors didn’t know while they were partying at his house was that Gacy’s victims lay buried in the crawl space under his house. He is
John Wayne Gacy Carson Jenkins LaFayette High School Abstract John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer based in Chicago, Illinois in the 1960s and 1970s. To his neighbors he was know as a friendly man that would host parties at his house and dress up as “Pogo the Clown” to entertain children. In 1968 he was convicted of sexually assaulting a young, this was before the grizzly discoveries of his murders. Gacy killed at least 33 young males in the Chicago area, hiding most of the bodies under
Infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Gacy, born into an abusive environment, was assaulted physically along with his siblings, with a razor strap if they were perceived to have misbehaved by their alcoholic father. In addition, Gacy’s mother was physically abused as well throughout her marriage and during the children’s upbringing. During John Wayne Gacy’s childhood education, he suffered further alienation due to a congenital heart condition
Some times in life there are events that happen so horrific that it shocks the whole nation. Sometimes individuals that commit murderous sprees gain the attention of a whole community or country with a common unanswered question of why? John Wayne Gacy was one of those individuals that gained the attention of the mid west of our nation just outside of Chicago Illinois, with the murders of 33 young men and boys. Looking at the life of Gacy as a killer we do not see any one incident that clicked the