The Ripper Presentation

Does anyone have any preference yet with regards to the question we do for the presentation?

I've looked through them and like the idea of the second one: Suspects over the ages: who and why?

The history of Ripper suspects is a history of panic, paranoia, and prejudice. Your presentation should concentrate on conceptualising the varieties of suspects, and the reasons why people have proposed them, rather than attempting to put forward a case for any particular view. In examining your materials, look for cultural assumptions, ideological positions, stereotypical views. Think about when and why a theory about a suspect was proposed – what were the social conditions at the time? Why are some theories taken up by popular audiences, and used in fictional representations, while others are the preserve only of specialists and obsessives? And what motivates writers to propose famous people as Ripper suspects?

This sounds like quite an interesting question, we don't need to necessarily discover who was the ripper (that would be a trick!) but we can talk about why many of these people are suspects despite there being a complete lack of trustworthy evidence with many of them. We have spoke earlier in the semester about how society blamed many foreign people, polish jews it appears were particularly unpopular, and there were many people blamed with mental problems. We could try to find out why these particular people were targetted and the possible motives they could of had. Also, we could look into the many suspects that have been blamed through film and literature over time. Hopefully we would be able to arrange this question into sub-topics that we could all approach and make the presentation clear and equal. Anyone else have any thoughts?