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The Worst Crime: Matt’s or Richard’s “Killings”, written by Andre Dubus, illustrates how the death of a loved one may lead to dire consequences for all the parties included. Matt Fowler’s son, Frank, was murdered in cold blood by a jealous soon-to-be ex-husband, Richard Strout. When the death of Frank sunk into the lives of the Fowler’s, Matt believed he had to retaliate in some sort of fashion. The sort of fashion he chose was to seek revenge and kill Richard for his wrongdoings, which he did. Some people believe that the murder committed by Richard Strout can be considered more serious because of his act of passion and his lackadaisical style of living without worrying about his future.
1. Born into an Catholic Irish-American family of six children and two low class working parents, James "Whitey" Bulger didn't waste any time before ensuing his career in crime. Growing up as a young kid Whitey always had dreams of "running away with the circus" and he did just that at the age of 10. He began to get into street fights and stealing and quickly at the age of 13 was when he was first charged and arrested for delinquency and stealing. Things would only escalate from here.
Where the courts come into play is when Erik got to his trial. During Erik’s trial the Columbine shooting happened. In the same town, with another white teen whose name was also Eric. This gave him an unfair trial because of the media surrounding the shootings. Some might argue today, that if Erik had a fair trial he, might not be found guilty or have a lesser sentence.
The world is a beautiful place. Nature is the painting of a wonderful God, and human life is the sculpture. However, some feel the need to destroy that which is created. No one knows or understands the reason why, but what is surely understood is the fact that it is wrong to take away one’s life. Everyone in this country knows that, from childhood to their senior years.
For hundreds of years, people have used art as a way of portraying strong emotions such as passion, lust and joy. One of the more powerful of these emotions is that of loss, which is often portrayed as a overwhelming and devastating feeling. Various forms of art have different ways of conveying emotions, whether it be through the use of melody in music, with colors in paintings or through the thoughts and actions of characters in literature. Several characters in Andre Dubus’ “Killings” clearly display their feelings of loss in the story through the way they are characterized and this highlights the devastating power that loss has on those who are forced to experience it. The protagonist of the story, the grieving father of Matt,
The article that I chose was on the crime of a double homicide. A double homicide is the killing of two victims by one person and instead of getting charged once by combining the two deaths, they would be charged for two separate murders. This article was written in November of 2009, in Kentucky, where state police and the Olive Hill Police Department investigated a double homicide and also found a third body on that same day. The double homicide victims were able to be identified and were both found in the same house. They have not done an autopsy yet but have scheduled one.
In the story “The Man I Killed” the story focuses on the thought of what the Vietnamese character could have been. Tim O’Brien dreams up a scenario that the character could have been just like him. This section of the book shows how much the author cares about humanity he dreams up this character to be a person like him, a boy with various dreams and a family struggling through for independence. When Kiowa tried to comfort him by saying “All right, let me ask a question,” “You want to trade places with him? Turn it all upside down-you want that?
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America was written by Mamie Till-Mobley, a supporter of equal opportunities for different ethnicities. Christopher Benson, a writer and lawyer, assisted Mamie Till-Mobley as a co-author in her personal biography. Death of Innocence was published in the year 2003 by Random House in New York. This memoir has 290 pages, including seven pages of Christopher Benson’s personal experiences with Mamie Till-Mobley in the afterword. Death of Innocence is categorized as an adult nonfiction book.
Everywhere you look there is thrill and peril, every time you think you’re safe there is murder and treason in The Runaway King. The author of The Runaway King is Jennifer A. Nielsen. In the book The Runaway King, Jaron the King of Carthya evades assassination and sets off on a journey on to keep the Crown and stop the ever coming war. Treason, murder, thrills, and peril are all present in the plot, setting, and characters in The Runaway King.
“A Father’s Story”, a short story written by Andre Dubus, is an extremely interesting an insightful look into Catholic literature of the modern day. Dubus uses the medium of Catholicism to deliver a story that is both captivating in its action, while also being reaffirming in its attempt to contemplate both belief and faith in God in a man who leads an existence that is seemingly black-and-white and adrift. Through the presence of God and the main character’s struggle with his Catholic religion however, the life that appears to be, isn’t in fact all that is, and as long as he still retains and balances his faith with his love and fatherly duties, new meaning is given to being a Catholic in the modern day. The main character of the story, Luke
When analyzing the periodic shifts in the governments and regimes of the 18th and 19th centuries, one must wonder to what extent the cultural aspects of each countries respective society affects the manner in which the state is governed and led. It cannot be denied that the promotion of culture in different states results in the promotion of nationalistic ideas and tendencies, to the point where each citizen feels dedicated to their country and worthy of being called a “German,” for example, rather than just some other inhabitant of land in a country. Some cultural aspects of societies all across the world (and particularly throughout Europe) include religion, identity, race and ethnicity, language, and art. In order to analyze the shifts in governmental policy and beliefs, it is equally as important to analyze the shift in culture that came from the citizens of each state, and to what extent they affected how the government was led, either by revolting against them or working cohesively with them.
For the topic of this paper, I picked the paradox named “Murder” as the most interesting from today’s reading. In this paradox, we are opened with a case that occurred in Thabo Meli, South Africa in 1954. During an attack, a gang hits the victim in the head with an instrument, trying to kill the victim. After the hit, they believe the victim to be dead and roll the victim off a cliff to give the image of an accident. What the gang was unaware of, was that the victim had survived the initial attack, and had only died of exposure after falling off the cliff.
The despot Saddam Hussein started the Iraq war, a warmonger who overthrew the government in Iraq. The Iraqi high tribunal, in coordination with the United States assassinated President Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006 (Britannica, 1). The United States captured Hussein and he went on trial in front of the Iraqi High Tribunal for crimes, including the murdering of 148 Shi’iahs in the village of Dujail in 1982 (PBS, 23). The assassination of Saddam Hussein was just because he rose to political power and maintained it through violent means and was a war-hungry despot, looking to conquer the Middle East; however others believe that the United States viewed him as such and that he had good intentions in mind.
In, Truth novel, the main issue was about murders. The rate of murders in the society have been raised the last 20 years. Some people think that murdering others is a cool thing to do, especially teens. As in the novel, a guy named Ross had committed a murder in a high school house party. After he committed this murder, it is easy and possible for him to do the second and the third.
In the story And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie I believe that the killer does not act justly for many reasons. The first reason is because most of the guest on the island had payed for what they did. They did not just get off the hook they all had something taken from them after they committed the murder. The second reason is because justice had no right to just go around killing more people. Just because he was a judge doesn't mean he has the right to kill the guests on the island.