FACT Vs. FICTION

I think that the group meeting this week went extremely well. It was good to sit and talk to group and discuss all our ideas, and I am looking forward to our final presentation.
We started the morning discussing a topic and some ideas of what we wanted to do for the presentation, but we seemed to be looking at a lot more work then we could fit into just 15 minutes. It was like a light bulb suddenly flashed above our heads when we came up with an idea that we all got really excited about. We were all really interested in the media hype surrounding the Ripper case and how modern day media seem to use the name Ripper to gain attention and we thought it would be interesting to look at the actual facts from the murders themselves, and how little there is. A lot of what we know, or think we know about Jack the Ripper has actually been fictionalized by other people. Theresa had a good idea that she wanted to look into if we had gone on the Ripper walk and that was to ask people from other countries, particularly America, if they thought that Sherlock Holmes had actually investigated the Ripper murders.
For the presentation we thought it would be good to start by quizzing our audience’s knowledge of Jack the Ripper and then go onto the aim of the presentation which would be looking at Fact Vs. Fiction.
We decided that this week we would all try to come up with a good introduction; definition of Ripperology and our aim. We also want to try to find out the basic true facts about the murders themselves, rather than what other people have predicted.