Billy The Kid Research Paper

Moore also tells the story of the little girl shot by one of her classmates and how his home life could have contributed to the shooting. The incident occurred in Buell Elementary School, in Flint, Michigan, where 6 year old Dedrick Owens shot and killed his classmate Kayla Rolland. The boy comes from an unstable household since his mother his never home because she works 2 jobs provided by the welfare-to-work program. At the time, the boy stayed at his uncle’s house since his mother was working two jobs and could not attend to the children, and she was also being evicted from her house. The boys uncle had a history of offense and it was in his house the boy found the gun.

Travis Boyette was 44 years old at the time the story takes place. He was a convicted rapist and a murderer who spent many years in prison on multiple occasions before being released to a halfway house in Topeka, Kansas. Travis was set up for a life of crime and pain during his incredibly troubled childhood. He was raped repeatedly as a little boy by a man who he thought was his uncle. Later in life he discovered that the man he thought was his father was really someone's his mom had met after giving birth to him.

Background: On January 23, 1906, Nevada Taylor was walking home from her bookkeeping job in Chattanooga to her small home in Forest Hills Cemetery, where she lived with her father, the groundskeeper (Pfeifer, “United”; “Shipp”). Before Nevada even entered the cemetery grounds, a man, who she later described to have a “soft, kind voice,” grabbed her (Pfeifer, “United”). He threateningly said, “If you scream, I will kill you” (Pfeifer, “United”). Then, everything went black for Nevada (Pfeifer, “United”).

Gary Ridgway was born on February 18th, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a child, he grew up in a troubled family and witnessed violent arguments between his parents. At the age of 16, he led another boy his age into the woods and stabbed him in the ribs "just to see what it felt like to kill someone" as Ridgway described why he did it, fortunately, the boy survived. The first murder of his was on July 7th, 1982, when a waitress named Amina Agisheff got out of work and was never seen again. The day after he took Amnina, Ridgway murders a runaway teen named Wendy Coffield.

The legend of Billy the kid was created by the one who killed him, sheriff Patrick Garrett. Henry McCarty, know as the famous outlaw “Billy the kid” was an American old west gunfighter. Billy was born on November 23, 1859, Manhattan, New york city. His mother's name was Catherine McCarthy. Sadly, Henry’s mother died of tuberculosis while he was at the age of 15 and was orphaned.

He was an excellent sniper, the three main topics of Billy 's life are the following: His before military career, His military career and After military career. Billy and his siblings grew up in Clermont and Proserpine in Central Western Queensland. As Billy was growing up he learnt many basic life skills early

While at Soldier’s Orphans Home in Glenwood, Iowa, he discovered his outstanding baseball talent. Years later, Billy abandoned the orphanage at age fourteen in order to work in Nevada, Iowa raising Shetland ponies. Under the agreement by rancher, Colonel John Scott, Billy received a quiet home to stay in while he continued his education at Nevada High School. Although Billy never received a high school diploma, he acquired a greater education than the average American in the 1880s. Choosing to pursue his

Drugs are what all the cool kids are doing this special PSA touches the topic of kids not to do crack rock cocaine ever with the help of a celebrity to children in the United States Pee Wee Herman otherwise known as Paul Reuben by stating some things about the drugs and the deadly effects it could have on them like death and its deadly addiction of using the substance known as crack also not knowing the amount needed to risk death generally reaching children. The support that is shown throughout the psa is brought to life by Pee Wee Herman’s dialogue for example “This is crack rock cocaine it isn’t glamorous or cool or kid stuff.” he clearly explains that doing crack rock cocaine isn’t safe along with the reason kids would do drugs with his

It’s scary how fear can take the place of everything else in someone’s mind, even a person’s sense of judgement. Fear changed the life of a former SEAL trainee. Dustin Turner, (also known as Dusty) and Billy Joe Brown were accused and convicted of murdering Jennifer Evans in Virginia on June 19, 1995 at a nightclub. Many people see this tragic night differently, but the truth is, only those three-people witnessed this and only two are alive to tell their stories. Sadly, two people aren’t always going to have one same situation.

Frustrated, Billy and many others succumbed to the temptation of revenge on Sheriff Brady. This was a crucial turning point in Billy's life. They ambushed the sheriff and his men on April 1, 1878, killing Sheriff Brady and wounding one of his deputies. On July 19, 1878, the new Sheriff, George Peppin, and a group of his men besieged McSween and his supporters, including Billy the Kid. McSween's house was set on fire and several people were shot dead as they came out of the house, including an unarmed Alexander McSween.

Modern Day Holden In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield expresses certain negative characteristics and patterns that we often see today. Dylan Roof, Suspected mass shooter of a church in Charleston, South Carolina, shares many of these Holden like qualities. Holden never commits any serious crimes, but growing up the two have very similar childhood’s. In both cases Holden and Dylan drift in and out school, care about little to nothing, and neglect basic rules.

The setting of Old Yeller is in a small town in central Texas in the late 1860's. A 14 year old boy named Travis must take care of his family when his papa goes to take cattle to the cattle market because they’re in need of money. That morning a stray dog arrives and when Travis goes to get some of his family’s very small food supply he finds it missing and the stray very full nearby. He goes to kick the dog but his brother, Arliss, starts throwing rocks at Travis for kicking “his dog”. His mama sides with Arliss and lets him keep the dog.

In the book, “In Cold Blood,” Truman Capote takes us through the lives of the murderers and the murdered in the 1959 Clutter family homicide, which transpires in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. The first chapter, “The Last to See Them Alive,” vividly illustrates the daily activities of the Clutter family—Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon—and the scheming plot of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith up to point where the family is found tied up, and brutally murdered. In doing so, he depicts the picture-perfect town of Holcomb with “blue skies and desert clear air”(3) whose safety is threatened when “four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives”(5). Through the eyes of a picture perfect family and criminals with social aspirations, Capote describes the American Dream and introduces his audience to the idea that this ideal was no more than an illusion. Herbert Clutter: the character Capote describes as the epitome of the American Dream.

Bret Harte an American writer known for his touch of local color, settings of the California gold rush and his character stereotypes such as “the grizzled prospector, the dance-hall girl with a heart of gold, and the smooth gambler” (505) in his literary works. Some of these portrayals of the west so famous that they have long endured past the gold rush to modern culture (505). These character stereotypes These styles Harte developed shine through in many of his short stories such as “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”, “The Luck of Roaring Camp”, and “The Idyll of Red Gulch”. “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” is a short story about a group of outcasts whom are said to be tainting the town of poker flat with their behavior. Upon their banishment they

The murderer could have been anyone. Looking into the boy’s life, we learn many things about him and his father. The boy has been beaten all his life and he was a delinquent. His father went to prison for forgery. “He was known to be a compulsive gambler and a pretty consistent loser.