ResProj paper ideas

"focus on the fact that these men were everyday normal people that you wouldn’t expect to be reading about as serial killers and they got away with a lot of their crimes  because of their charm and good looks."

 -For this quote I can evaluate and look at why charming and good looking people get away with so much more than others and if this is a big factor when looking at serial killers.

"The way that we deal with serial killers has also changed.  Back in the 19th century they didn’t have the technology that we have today so it was harder for them to catch them.  Like all the different DNA equipment that they have in labs that can cut down on time and find the person faster."

-For this quote I can examine why this advancement made such a big impact and how it has helped us today.

 After reading these quotes from my 2Syn paper what do you think about these topic ideas? Do you understand what I am getting at? Which one sounds best to use for the 3ResProj? Why?

integrating sources

Example #1:
Serial killers from different centuries can be similar in many ways as H.H. Holmes illustrates in the 19th century:

Holmes and Ted Bundy are the two serial killers that can be linked together.  H.H. Holmes is from the 19th century and Bundy is from the 20th.  They both have common links between them like "having no motive when killing his victims."(Chicago Tribune)

Even though these guys are from different times they still have similarities when it comes to being serial killers.  This is why the idea of the serial killer hasn’t changed over time.

Example #2:

As People magazine points out " he was a son any mother would be proud to call her own.”  This is one of the reasons why it was so easy for both Bundy and Holmes to get victims because of their charm. 

Work Cited

 “The Chicago Tribune.” Fold3. 18 Aug. 1895. Library Resources. Web. 17 Sep. 2011

McCall, Cheryl. "Did he kill 18 women? Or has he been framed?" People 7 Jan. 1980.

First paragraph of my 2Syn paper

You might think of a serial killer as a lot of things crazy, disturbing maybe even horrifying, but you would never say innocent about one would you?  That is what happened when it came to serial killer Ted Bundy.  Up until the day that he was executed friends, family, and strangers all around the world thought of Ted Bundy as an innocent man not a serial killer.   An example of people believing he is innocent is the article done in People magazine that asks questions that got people thinking did he really kill all those women?

After reading this first paragraph what do you think my paper is about?

What is a synthesis?

Synthesis means putting your ideas from many sources together in an essay.  When writing a synthesis paper you should first put your ideas together that you are going to talk about in your essay.  Then you have to look at all your information and put some of your information around one theme or question.  Then you have to present your information in a way that supports your argument that you are going to write about.  A synthesis is also not a summary, it’s about the integration of what you have learned, read, and heard about your topic.

One of the first things that you have to do when writing a synthesis paper is that you need a thesis.  The next step you need to do is summarize your articles or any other source of information.  Try to make sure and put some real world examples in your paper that support your topic.  In the conclusion you should summarize your thesis and outline some questions that you will then answer.

When I synthesize my paper I will summarize my newest article on Ted Bundy.  I will talk about how in the article it talks about how he could be innocent.  I will then use some of the examples that were in the article to support why he could be innocent.  Next I will talk about the similarities between Holmes and Bundy.  Then I will talk about the differences between both Bundy and Holmes.  After that is done I will do my synthesis part of my paper.  In this part I will ask one question then answer it using my old document on Holmes.  Then I will answer it using the new article on Bundy.  After answering the question I will explain why it applies to my topic and how it is related.        

http://archives.evergreen.edu/webpages/curricular/2001-2002/poliecon2001/synthesis.htm

Insights from reading the new document

From reading the new document about Ted Bundy I have learned a lot of different things.  One thing that I learned is that they are different in many ways.  First off Ted Bundy and H.H. Holmes were brought up in two very different ways.  Ted had a normal upbringing with a family that loved him and took care of him, but Holmes did not have a normal upbringing.  Also the way the articles were set up was completely different as well.  In Holmes’ article it talked about the place where he killed people and what was inside this place.  In Bundy’s article it talked about how people taught that he was still innocent and if he really did kill all those women.  Another big difference was the fact that Holmes got away with a lot more murders than Bundy and that maybe because of the time period.

These articles and both Holmes and Bundy are also both very similar as well.  For one both Holmes and Bundy killed mainly young women.  They also both have killed people in multiple states, and have death totals in the double digits.  They also both were sentenced to be killed for the murders that they have committed.  Also both Holmes and Bundy did have sexual relations with their female victims.  They both had a lot of attention from the media on them as being big serial killers. 

I have learned a lot from reading these different articles.  Like for example that they are written in different ways to go with the time era that the serial killer came from.  For example in Holmes’ time it was written in a newspaper article, but for Ted Bundy it was written in People magazine.  This is because the times have changed and in order for more people to find out about Bundy especially the younger people they have to gear towards them like People magazine.