Houdini: A Good Escape Artist

Monster is an example of what Patty Campbell would call a “landmark book.” Texts such as these “encourage readers to interact with the text and with one another by employing a variety of devices, among them ambiguity” (Campbell 1) Because it is told through the eyes of Steve himself, the plot can be difficult to decipher. It is ambiguous whether he is innocent or guilty of being involved with the crime. Steve learned to make things unpredictable from his film teacher Mr. Sawicki who teaches him, “If you make your film predictable, they’ll make up their minds about it long before it’s over” (19). Steve took his teacher’s advice and made this film script entirely unpredictable,

Imagine the punches, the kicks, the smashing on the table, just to realize the character traits can change everything. Monster by Walter Dean Myers evolves on the fact that being tough is key within life. Steve Harmon, 16 year old boy, black male, is being accused of felony murder. A court case involving James King and Steve Harmon is taking place to see who is not guilty. Steve writes in his journal of the experiences in jail. Through Steve’s writing it is clear that one must be strong and avoid showing weakness.

My research paper is on Anthony Sowell, a serial killer, identified in press reports as the Cleveland Strangler. My research will examine and explain Anthony Sowell’s life and history prior to his crimes, the crimes and personality theories that apply to his deviant behavior.

1. Monster is a novel written in a screenplay format with Steve’s journal entries mixed in throughout. Do you think this is an effective format for the book? Why or why not?

Just complete reading an interesting book Monster a non-fiction book by Walter Dean Myers. I enjoy reading this book very much it had so much drama, mystery of who really murdered Mr. Nesbitt instead of the main character Steve Harmon, showing experienced example of how when committing a crime killing someone as minor age going to jail and even having to be tried as minor to an adult I have never seen this happen before even though this book is not real. My favourite was when it got really series with some witness talking about the main character, things really changing to the story of the main character who could wound up in prison for a very long time. For my recommendation of the book to improve on is look at the book to be sure it make

Harry houdini was an amazing entertainer, escapist, and magician. He set the standard for magic for all future magicians.

This week in class our guess speaker was Detective DiCarlo from the Albany Police Department. Detective. In 2014, DiCarlo started as street patrol and ten years later he became a detective for the APD. Now that he is a Detective he specialized in video recovery. Everything about video’s and the evidence pertaining to a crime is his job. I liked how he explained how it is when patrolling and his job as being the guy to handle video recovery. The one thing that stuck with me during his visit was the statement he made about “all calls sound the same, but they are different”, I thought that was an interesting way to put it. Also, I thought it was crazy how their calls range from “my son won’t do his homework” to “I’ve been shot”. I think that

Richard E. Miller, the author of The Dark Night of the Soul, is an English professor/executive director of the Plan-genre Writing Center at Rutgers University. He studies the English curriculum in the U.S and questions if it is successful or a dying art. This is evident in The Dark night of the Soul,

Currently, some people are curious about how Harry Houdini passed away. Was his death natural, or did someone want him dead? One possibility of Harry Houdini’s death is that he simply got punched in the stomach. Eric Jill from Snopes writes,

Coming into the 21st century, we have come up with a new way to shed light upon one of our scariest nightmares. The new “boogeyman” that has swept across the nation and the world is called, Slenderman. He is an unusually tall and slender man dressed in a nice suit. He doesn’t seem scary at first until you see his, well, lack of a face. Even then, he doesn’t seem that scary until you hear the stories. Slenderman stalks and psychologically torments his victims (who are usually children) for long periods of time until he takes his victim in his long tentacles, which grow from his shoulder blades, and he drags them to another dimension where he consumes them (“Slender Man” The Wiki). These tales are just scary stories to strike a new fear into

Michael Myers is known for his uncontrollable killing of his own bloodline. Known from the Halloween film series, after killing his older sister and being locked up in a mental institute for fifteen years, Myers escapes and goes on the search for his remaining family member, his little sister. He not only goes through challenges to get rid of anyone related to him, but he also kills any innocent soul that might get in his way. He has this immortality that aids him to survive any type of death that is inflicted on him. Why does a normal kid with a troubled childhood who grew up in the suburbs have this immortal life and need to kill his family? It is said that The Curse of Thorn was allocated on Michael by a cult. Compelling him to be an invincible

All day long Orloff had paced his cell. The blackness of the sky outside was equaled only by the blackness of his thoughts. The deep rolling of the thunder reverberated through the thick stone walls of his prison, and every now and then a fitful gust of rain swirled through the tiny broken window, wetting his face as he stared out into the night. Orloff cursed, wiped the water from his face with his grimy fingers, and turned to pacing his cell once more.

Palestinians and Israelis fight over Jerusalem, both wanting the holy site as their capital. The U.N. split Palestine asunder, and the adjoining Arab states declared war on the new country. After months of vehement brawling, Israel and her contiguous Arab states acquiesced ceasing the war. Palestine and Israel differ in multifarious ways. Israel has attained land throughout years and has been identified as a country since 1948, whereas Palestine lives in Gaza Strip and West Bank forthwith, and does not classify as an autonomous country. Palestine’s common language is Arabic, however, Israelis speak Hebrew commonly. Also, they practice different religions, Palestinians practice the Islamic religion, while Israelis practice Judaism. This clash

His masters may have forced him to labor hard and build walls but that never broke his integrity which enabled him to have the inner strength to escape.

Abstract: This thesis attempts to analyse the relationship between physical and psychological escape as reflected in Su Tong’s “Fleeing in 1934”, Yu Hua’s “1986”, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Textual analysis reveals that Su Tong’s delineation of escape is external but the influence becomes internal as villagers’ morality has been lost as a result of the escape, whereas Yu Hua and Kurt Vonnegut’s representation of escape emphasises on the psychical escape when both protagonists in the novels look for derangement as a means of escape. Coincidently, the three novelists all agree on the same notion of the inescapability of history.