identity absract

I id my paper on identity and tried to find some ways and reasons why we got hrough chanes in our identities. I chose to look at three areas tha kinda interesed where people have changed personalities for whatever reasons.The first I looked at was kidnappig victims and their relationships with their abductors, for these I focued on Elizabeth Smart of Utah, Heather Wendorf of Florida, and Patty Hearst of California. Smart,14 year old in 2003 who was kidnapped and made to believe she was the 'bride' of a homeless handy man and his freind.
Patty Hearst was the heiress to a billion dollar magazine fortune and was kdnapped and made int a guerilla terrorist, held up some banks, was arrested, convicted and eventually pardoned. Heather Wendorf, unlike the others, was not 100% innocent in her plight. she fell under the spell of a charismatic 'vampire' named Roderick Ferel and was taken under his wing as a vampiress. Her parents (whom she was very close to) were evetnually beaten to death by Rod, in an attempt to 'free her' from her human hell. Rod then took heather and his rag-tag clan of goth artists on a road trip to Louisiana to meet up with other vamps.

I used Rod to segway into gaming culture and deal with online and offline personalities and how being immersed in fantasy worlds could start to fudge with you head and such. I also talked breifly about forming online friendships and how to see one off were something happen to them in reality. overal I liked this paper and how i turned it out. Looking into the lives of Hearst, Wendorf and Smart while they were kidnapped were fascinating.
to sum it up: I dealt with Vampires, Guerillas, teenage delinquints with blood to spill, innocent children being kidnapped formt heir bedroom, Internet video games, people losing control of their minds and mass mayhem and murder followed by a cross sate road trip. Only in america will this be the combined into a term paper. only in america.