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Annie Karim

Ms. Barklow

Monsters and Misfits

4/25/18

Introduction Letter

A multi-genre project is a creative way to combine a collection of writing into one project. In Monsters and Misfits I choose Conspiracy Theories. I looked and researched different kind of conspiracy theories and created a multiply kind of stories concerning each conspiracy theory. One story is about A 13 year old girl named Rosie Bell that saw a creature across the street one eventful night in mid summer of 1970 and suddenly started behaving differently. She was a rebellious girl that seemed out of control to her parents and everyone around her, even before the sighting but after she would be screaming at nothing for hours and start fighting her shadows and just plain air. After she experienced the fighting she began acting strange which led to her parents admitting her into an asylum. One of my creative stories while tell the story of Rozie Bell. Another Story is about Helda Russ, a 45 year old lady who starts questioning the government and starts doing research on her own.

This topic is important because it talks about the reasoning behind conspiracy theories and where they are created from. This topic is quite general but by creating these stories it will explain the effects of these dark secrets. Another reason why this topic is important because we live in a world where the people in control are trying their best to hide things from us that affect us in someway and I think it’s important for people to question these ideas and go against the norm idea.

I choose this Conspiracy Theories as my topic after reading an article about how the government has a cure for cancer but won’t release it because that would cost the, billions of dollars. That article got me to release that the Government is hiding much more from us and I started doing some more research.

Conspiracy theories show the mistrust we possess as a society. They tend to be unfinished stories or things that don’t add us as a whole, so we create

new endings and new possibilities with other events or facts that could help support it.

Monsters and Misfits

Annie Karim

Ms. Barklow

Monsters and Misfits

05/10/2018

The Mind of Rozie Bell

Every day, at precisely 6 P.M. Mr. Andy Bell comes come from a stressful day of work to have dinner with his loving family. And everyday, everyone, counting Lisa, his wife, Ryan, his 13 year old and Emma, his 11 year old are all waiting for him except for Rozie. Rozie hasn't been coming down for dinner or breakfast or lunch, She is always in her room hiding away, quietly. Sometimes shell start screaming at nothing and won't stop for hours leaving us all worried bout her. She would scream and scream until she cant talk anymore and would start coughing and blood would be realized into the tissue held up to her lips. A few months ago, Rozie was only having a rebellious phase and never acted this way but one night I Had a fight with her about her attitude towards her mom and i she left the house for about three hours and came back silently, gong straight up to her room and not saying a single word to us. Every since then she has been like this.

I went into the living to place my bags down on he couch, to help Lisa prep for dinner and i see Rozie sitting on the loveseat across the tv, starring at the black screen in front of her.

“ Hey Rozie, It's nice to see you down here,” i said hoping for some sort of response, knowing full well i wont get one.

“ I know, it's been a long time ,” She responded, leaving , me utterly shocked.

I smiled at her and walked slowly out of the living room into the kitchen. I see Lisa cutting up lettuce

“ Umm.. Roze is sitting down in the living room?” i said with a questioning tone.

“ Yeah, she came down and started playing with her siblings out of nowhere earlier today, but she said something very weird.” Lisa respond not looking up.

“ What did she say?”

“ She asked Ryan and Emma if she can help them with their homework and Ryan told her that it's summer.”

“ That's weird she knew they were on vacation” I said

“ then she freaked out and started panicking. I had to get the kids up and into the other room. I bought her water and tried calming her down. All she said was thank you and didn’t say anything to me for the rest of the day.” Lisa replied, leaving me speechless

I don't know what to do, Im worried she’ll be a danger to everyone but she is my oldest daughter I can’t do much.

I left the kitchen and started setting up the dinner table hoping to get a little help from any of the kids but nope Ryan and Emma were upstairs doing whatever and Roze was still sitting in the same spot not moving.

A few minutes later the table was ready and the kids were called down and Rozie finally got up from her seat.

“ Lets all join hands for Grace,” Lisa said, reaching her hands out for Andy on one end and Rozie on another. She was hesitant at first but she accepted and reached her hand back to her mother.

“ Dear lord, we thank you for the food you have provided us with today” Lisa began and was suddenly interrupted by the screams that belonged her daughter that was seated next to her. Rozies screams filled the entire house adn their ears. She got out kicking out her chair from under her and using her powers to lift up the dinner table that once held the delicious dinner created by her mother. Her family just stood there, completely shocked. Her siblings were scared and tried running behind their parents. Rozie did not allow that and sent the kids flying into the wall across the house.

“ ROZIE STOP!!”

Screams were bouncing off the walls and it was impossible to know who they belonged to. Things were being thrown around and the kids have yet to get up. Their mother tried to go check on them but rozie would not allow it. Finally after three hours of screams and war in that small house Rozie fainted and the objects that were in the air are now on the ground around the house. Lisa using the last of her power gets up and goes to her kids that are still yet to move. She checks their pulse but there isn't one.

Rosie was then admitted into the hospital, breaking her families hearts.

Endnote: This short story is to show the readers the impact that Rosie’s “illness” had on her family. It was influenced by the article written called “ The likely and Unlikely stories: Conspiracy Theories in an Age of Propaganda,” by Stephen M.E. Marmura.

Annie Karim

Ms. Barklow

Monsters and Misfits

01 May 2018

Biography: Helda Russ

Born on January 3rd, 1925, Helda Russ lived a happy life with her religious mother and father. Growing up her family was always in need of money but her parents wanted to make sure she never knew but she knew. She realized that they were in dire need of money when she was grocery shopping with her mom, Helen, started panicking because the total was way too high for her and she had to return some items. At 13 Helda made it her mission to help her family in some way, she just didnt know how. Until her 8th grade english teacher told them that whoever wanted a little extra cash can work for her around the house this summer and she would pay $0.25, which was pretty good. So in the hot summer of 1940 Helda worked for Mrs.Red around the house. Before that summer, Heldas life was good except for the fact that her family had some financial issues until her mother started behaving very weirdly. She became very depressed and shut off. Whenever helda wanted to do anything her mother would warn her that people are watching and that affected Helda in many ways but mostly she was scared. This made helda very paranoid. She mother would sit alone in the basement reading the same article over and over again. Heldas father was clearly getting really agaited with the whole situation because he was never home anymore. Before, he would make sure to be home at 6:30 to eat dinner with his wife and daughter but after he came home to his wife throwing plates at the wall two weeks ago he became very angry all the time and was never home. A few more weeks pass and Helen gets worse, she started becoming really aggressive towards everyone around her even her shadows. So finally her husband , Brett, decided to take her to the hospital to get her checked out, After months of doctors appointments they finally discovered that Helen was Schizophrenic. Helda didn't really know what to do with that information but she knew that she couldn't let it destroy her family. The only thing that she was worried about is that her mother would be taken away from her. Her mother's doctor told her to not worry and that if she keeps up with her treatments she should be fine. But that didn't help Helda because something told her this isn't over. A few years later, Helda was forced to drop out of school in the year of 1943 in her 3rd year of high school to take care of her mother. She didn’t regret it but she always wondered what her life would have been like if she stayed in school, if her mother wasn’t sick, if her father didn’t leave.

As years went by Helda spent more and more time with her mother to the point where she would not interact with anyone else for days on end. Slowly she picked up some of her moms ideas and beliefs. She wasn’t at the extent that her mother was at just yet but some things she couldn’t help but believe. One thing she truly believed is that government was getting people sick so that why could make more money out of them.

Helen never got better and she blamed it on everyone but mostly the government. She always said that after reading the article written by Nicoli Nattrass about the AIDS Conspiracy something within her changed. Helda tried and tried to explain to her that it was just human nature and an illness passed down from generation to generation but Helen wasn't having it. After 20 years Helen passed away but at that point Helda mentality was long gone. After years of her mother abusing her mentally and physically, Helda gave in. She stopped fighting her mother and the dark thoughts deep in her mind and started to become her mother. At first it started simple, with her cutting people out then it got worse. After the death of Helen, Helda spent days and nights reading about government conspiracy theories and about the spread of diseases all around the world. At 47, Helda was all alone traveling the world in search for answers and listening to the voices inside her head.

Endnote: I choose the article written by Nicoli Nattrass about the AIDS Conspiracy theory as an inspiration to write this biography about Helda and her mother Helen. I thought it was important to get a background on why Helda is the way she is. Helda becomes obsessed with her ill mothers beliefs and ideas because of the time she was forced to spend with her. This biography goes over the early life of Helda and also explains the psychological abuse she was put through as a child and even as an adult by her mother.

Endnote: I wrote this Mental Health Intake Form for Rozie Bell because of the substantial symptoms she was suffering. This form is meant to show the readers the great psychological impact seeing an extertial being has on the human mind. Rozie was just another rebellious teen that was following her right of passage.

03/03/1979

Trenz Pruca

456 long Street

Flint, Michigan 48501

Dear Trenz,

I am contacting you to get some more information on an article you wrote a year back. It was the article posted with Make magazine. The article contained information about the spreads of diseases in third world countries and how the American government uses vaccines to spread them for their own benefits. I was wondering if I can take a look at your notes because I, myself is writing a book on the connections between the government and the wide spread of deadly diseases.

Sincerely yours,

Helda Russ

Email Endnote: I wrote the email to show the measures Helda went through to prove the her theories.

Annie Karim

Ms. Barklow Monsters and Misfits 01 May 2018

Interview with Rozie Bell

This is an interview done why Mr. Randall Wells at the Cherry Psychiatric Hospital

Interviewer: Hi Rozie, Do you know why we are here today? Rozie: Yes

Interviewer: why?

Does not get a response..

Interviewer: Rozie, Can you tell me why we are here today? And please speak loudly and clearly Rozie: No I can’t do that

Interviewer: Why can’t you?

Rozie: *Whispers* they will hear

Interviewer: Hear what?

*Total Silence*

Interviewer: Rozie are you okay? Interviewer: Answer me

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Rozie: He wants me to do something bad, really really bad Interviewer: what does he want you to do?

Rozie: Burn you

Interviewer: what does this person look like?

Rozie: Big eyes

Rozie: Big

Rozie: Long

Interviewer: Does he look like anyone you know?

Rozie: No but i have met him before. I met him on the night i saw that big plane with people falling out of it.

Interviewer: do you think he fell out of the plane? Rozie: He said that he is not from here. Interviewer: Where is he from?

Rozie: I can’t say, he’ll do something bad again. Interviewer: What did he do last time

Rozie: He made me burn

Interviewer: Burn?

Rozie: With fire. I saw it

Interviewer: When did this happen? Did your parents know? Rozie: STOP

Interviewer: w-what? Rozie: LEAVE

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*all the sudden Randall, the interviewer was picked up and thrown across the room, and with great force hit the wall. Trying to regain consciousness, Randall feels a warmth traveling through his body, then all he was flames. Looking down he can see his entire body engulfed in burning red flames. After a minute of screaming in pain, the door flew open by the doctors and rushed to the man laying on the floor, while Rozie stood there, staring eyes black as the night sky. Randall was considered brain dead by the doctors and Rozie was officially admitted into Cherry Hospital. To this day nobody known what exactly happened in that small interview room because Rozie never spoke after that incident and Randall Wells never woke up.

Endnote: I choose to write about the interview that went down between Mr. wells and Rozie because of what happened after. Randall was officially announced brain dead two weeks after the incident and nobody was able to explain why. They watched the surveillance videos over and over again but never found anything. The only thing they can see is Randall being thrown across the room and no sign of an sort of fire. I was inspired to write this biography by an article written by Renee Hobbs called, “Teaching the conspiracies.”

Work Cited

● McCaffrey, Paul. "Categories of Conspiracy Theories." Points of View: Reference Shelf- Conspiracy Theories, 3/1/2016, p. 1. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=https://search.ebscohost.co m/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=pwh&AN=74674735&site= eds-live.

(Conspiracy theories are hidden narratives and they are ideas that are that take any garlic twist or alternative to mainstream ideas. Broke a conspiracy theories are one of the most talked about it all theories and that to this day make a big impact on our societies in the US the presidents are usually Moore’s associated or targeted with conspiracy theories a real big one that people still talk about is involving Bill Clinton. This theory suggests that Bill Clinton is involved in drug running in murder the really scary part is that there is evidence supporting this idea. Another popular theory is that George W Washington help to 9/11. A large part of people believe that Bush helped with 911 so that he would have a reason to attack the Middle East in 2003. Another conspiracy theory is the New World order is a theory that originated from the fear of totalitarian one world and believed that there was an implementation of a global authoritarian regime. The other two type of theories that exist or ethnic and religious. ethnic and religious conspiracy theories are usually created by marginalized minority. People in the dominant majority great theories to justify, ensure, and expand their preeminence. But the oppressed minority create their own ideas and

theories to resist and fight their oppression. This article states of the most important factor to this conspiracy theories and studying them is the fact that there is usually evidence used that pulls people into these ideas. Studies have shown that more than 80% of Americans believe in some sort of conspiracy theory to some extent.)

● Nattrass, Nicoli and University Columbia. The AIDS Conspiracy : Science Fights Back. Columbia University Press, 2012. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=https://search.ebscohost.co m/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=nlebk&AN=584637&site=e ds-live.

( This theory believes that the America manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus to be used as a biological weapon against the homosexual and African American communities. This idea grew from Russia and Germany in the mid-1980’s to spread rumors about America after the Cold War. This article also talks about another theory that says that the medicine used to treat HIV is also a way to make them worse and spread the virus. South Africa’s leader, Thabos Mbeki also believes this and discourages the people of his country to use it. Reading this article it seemed to be trying to side with medicine and help the readers see the science behind this conspiracy theory.)

● Kim, Minchul and Xiaoxia Cao. "The Impact of Exposure to Media Messages Promoting Government Conspiracy Theories on Distrust in the Government: Evidence from a Two-Stage Randomized Experiment." International Journal of

Communication (Online), 2016, p. 3808. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=https://search.ebscohost.co m/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.491909 942&site=eds-live.

( This research was done to see if showing a random group of people videos of conspiracy theories will influence their views on the government. This article proved that to be true because all of the people watching those videos said they had a new found distrust in the government or the world. The exposure to a political conspiracy theory increased their distrust and increased their paranoia. After two weeks, the researchers went back to check in on that group and found out that they all now believed in some sort of conspiracy theory. That is because conspiracy theory tackle our deepest fears and give us explanations for them. This suggests that because of the propaganda promoted in the media conspiracy theories will always continue to grow.)

● Hobbs, Renee. "Teach the Conspiracies." Knowledge Quest, vol. 46, no. 1, Sep/Oct2017, p. 16. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?

(This article offers the readers a guiding point on why conspiracy theories have such a big impact on us and how it connects with the U.S. state department public affairs. It talks about how as years continue to move forward so will these theories. This article also shows students ways to have unbais ideas that are not influenced by the media surround us. )

● Marmura, Stephen M.E. "Likely and Unlikely Stories: Conspiracy Theories in an Age of Propaganda." International Journal of Communication (Online), 2014, p.

2377. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=https://search.ebscohost.co m/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.398953 440&site=eds-live.

(This article breaks down reasons as to why people believe in unlikely conspiracy theories and likely conspiracy theories. It tackles the relationship between the likely and unlikely as well as to why the grow with such power and influence in the media. According to the author people tend to ignore the facts that they do not like and tend to only believe the facts and use the facts that they like. Having media at their fingertips also creates exposure for these ideas and gives them a bigger platform to expand and get more of a following.)

● Waugaman, Elisabeth. "Understanding America’s Obsession with Guns: How Did We Get Where We Are?." Psychoanalytic Inquiry, vol. 36, no. 6, Aug/Sep2016, p. 440. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=https://search.ebscohost.co m/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edb&AN=117484760&site =eds-live.

(A research found the reason why guns were so popular among the people of America is because of the distrust for the American government. The nations fear of the “other” has pushed us to have a war after war. For example the revolutionary war or the Civil War was lead because of fear of the “other”. To this day the minority groups are considered the “other” and is targeted and feared by some gun owners and advocates. There was a fear of

mafias after World War I, fear of communist after World War II, fear of Muslims after 911, and fear of illegal aliens after most recent recession are just some of the few examples on how gun control and fear of the other are tied together. The gun industry is run on by people who fear the unknown and people who fear the “other.”)

● Matthew, Gray. "Revisiting Saddam Hussein's Political Language: The Sources and Roles of Conspiracy Theories." Arab Studies Quarterly, no. 1, 2010, p. 28. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=https://search.ebscohost.co m/login.aspxdirect=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.4185860 2&site=eds-live.

(In this article an argument was going on on why Saddam Hussein acted the way he did and why he voiced his ideas the way he did. Many conspiracy theories cover this issue one of them talks about his psychological state and others are you that dumb I seen was driven by the need for power and hunger for money. Another Siri states that he was a victim of curse circumstance. There is a conspiracy the Cesta Saddam Hussein is a victim of an actual conspiracy theory involving George W. Bush so he can attack you rock and take oil from them. Conspiracy also says that Saddam Hussein was controlled someway to attack Kuwait and have other countries angry so this would start a war.)

● Stempel, Carl, et al. "Media Use, Social Structure, and Belief in 9/11 Conspiracy Theories." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 2,

Summer2007, p. 353. EBSCOhost, libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=https://search.ebscohost.co m/login.aspx direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=edb&AN=26650948&site=eds-live.

(This research papers started with 1010 people were randomly asked about media use in the three conspiracy theories involving 911. This study show that racial minorities, Lower social class, women, and people of younger ages 10 to believe in series more often because these groups are more involved with media or less legitimate it media. Research shows that every American believe in at least one conspiracy theory even if they have no contact with modern human societies or any social media but that the ones that are involved in social media tend to believe more strongly in conspiracy theories. )

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