The story of Bernhardt “Bernie” Tiede is well known for its realistic and entertaining motion picture. This adaptation depicts the impression of a warm, caring man who the community wouldn’t believe partook in the murder of an elderly woman. It is not the question if Bernie committed the act, rather than “did he plan it?” I believe this crime was not premeditated, but was done in the “heat of the moment”.
The lives of Olga Polites, and her family, were rattled to their very foundation when a beloved family member was savagely murdered. Prior to this tragedy, Olga had stood, adamantly, on the side against capital punishment. Throughout the course of her article, she explains how her stance has been shaken. Such a heinous act, occurring to her so personally, had changed her views. She states that, instead of viewing the shooter as a person, she was “indifferent… to his personal plight.
One day Marisela was protesting in front of the government municipal and had asked them if they can give her protection and they denied it. So when I got late a person approaches Marisela and her brother, they try to run away and the person ends up killing
Murder on a Sunday Morning, is an Oscar award-winning documentary that tells of the conviction and trial of 15-year-old Brenton Butler for the death of Mary Ann Stephens in Jacksonville, Florida of May 2000. The film is a 111-minute movie directed by Jean-Xavier de Lastrade. The plot originates from the incident of Mary Ann Stephens being shot in the head by a black assailant; and then begins to unravel as Brenton Butler is arrested 90 minutes after the murder has occurred. Pat McGuinness, one of the main interviewees in the movie, takes up the case and defends Brenton Butler. The documentary presents the film from the trial, as well as interviews and investigations that Pat McGuinness and his partner Ann Finnel performed to gather facts for
Testing Humanity Humanity is defined as the quality or state of being human. Now to be human is defined according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary as having good or bad qualities that people usually have. “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” and “The Plague” both test the level of humanity or “quality of being human” of the people mentioned in both passages as well as its audience. The title “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” directly tells us that 37 people witnessed a homicide occur and didn’t feel compelled to call the authorities.
Andre Dubus, short stories contain a common theme of revenge, morality, and justice. In “Killings” published in 1979, Andre displays the theme of revenge and justice through the development of characters, the title of the story, and the thrill of the suspense. Dubus neglects to take sides with the characters in the “Killings”, which leaves it upon the readers to make assumption whether the killings were justifiable. Dubus has a very unique style of writing, the main characters in “Killings” were given a choice that could’ve led them to a completely different outcome. Dubus keeps the readers on their toes because the opposite usually ends up happening.
What if the world didn’t think? What would happen if people didn’t take what they learned from past experiences, whether it had a negative or positive effect, and apply it to future situations. What would happen if people made decisions simply based on the fact that they wanted to fit in, without thinking about what consequences it could have on them. In the short story, “Abuela Invents the Zero” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Constancia isn’t making the best decisions with her Abuela. In an excerpt from Little Women, the March sisters craved attention from their mother and had to make the difficult of helping others.
None of her neighbors thought to call the police as she was being attacked. According to Martin Gansberg in his writing “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” the neighbors did not act in this case because they either “didn’t want to get involved” or they “went back to bed”(130,131). The neighbors were either too lazy or too tired to help this poor woman. As a result, her attacker was able to return three different times in order to finish the crime. This is a case where remaining apathetic leads to a deadly consequence.
The killing of John Wright represents the death of prejudice attitude since men were beginning to tolerate women in all aspects of society. One sign that women were gaining ground was the fact that they were allowed to be at the crime scene. It is peculiar that the men even allowed the women to be there. The author attempts to balance this out by making the women’s reason to be there is to collect things for
Often times when people are oppressed it causes them to do things that will later result in major consequences that generally one can end up regretting. For example, in the fiction book named Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury talks about how firemen burn books which is out of the ordinary because originally firemen are supposed to put out fires and not start them. The main character Guy Montag who is a firemen struggles with the burning of books and starts to go against the rules. Montag rebelling causes him to make a bad decision that causes a bigger problem. Fortunately, other times when people are feeling unease about a negative situation impacting their society, speaking out can cause a satisfying solution.
The world today is a rollercoaster that goes in all different directions all the time. Everyone has an impact on where the rollercoaster goes and how it impacts the world. Two of the major things that impact this rollercoaster can be: actions and words. Just one person’s opinion can impact so much that will happen in the future. That is why expressing your opinion is such an important thing to do in today’s society, but doing it in a civil matter is more important.
There are many images in the poem Auto Wreck that provide an emotional value of saving. The equipped vehicle that carries people to the hospital called an ambulance, simply gave a feeling of saving. At first a silver bell is noticed by its soft sound, repeatedly giving its gentle low volume, “its quick soft silver bell beating,” The bell itself gives an alarming feeling. As the hospital wagon arrives it gives a hopeful feeling. Likewise, in the saying “past beacons and illuminated clocks,” which were represented as the city lights and how fast time goes.
In the article Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn 't Call Police, author Martin Gansberg recalls the events that occurred on the night of March 13, 1964. "38 respectful, law abiding citizens" (120) stood idle as Kitty Genovese was hunted down on three separate occasions and murdered. Not once was an attempt made to alert authorities, an action that may have resulted in Kitty 's life being spared. When questioned, the spectators had a multitude of excuses for why they had not notified authorities, some of which included, "I didn 't want to get involved," (122) and even, "I was tired" (123). This article demonstrates the violence of this time period and the unwillingness of humans to assist those in need.
As far as the gender of victims and their assassins is concerned, judging by Walsh’s two concluding chapters (93 ff.; 123 ff.), we can presume that in cases of spousal murder, instances of mariticide were approximately equal to those of uxoricide. As for the means of murder, cases of stabbing invariably captured undivided public attention, probably because the brutality and savagery of such acts have the power to dull the readership’s voracious appetite for violence. The example of fictional stabbing that I will concentrate on is Tess of the D 'Urbervilles’ killing of her rapist Alec, with whom she was eventually forced to cohabitate in order to avoid starvation. I wish to stress that, even though both rape and murder are pivotal to this work, we should not regard Tess of the D 'Urbervilles as a sensation novel inasmuch as its plot does not revolve around the mystery surrounding these atrocities; rather than building up suspense, Thomas Hardy inspects the causes as well as the outcomes of these crimes with a view to
Creating a stable society is key to creating a reliable and pleasant life for its citizens. With an unstable society many people will be unhappy and argue with each other; most of which leads to larger disagreements. People should learn to control themselves when it comes to disagreement to prevent and big riots. Napoleon Bonaparte; a French statesman, once said, “If nations want peace, they should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” What he means by this is, if everyone argues over every imperfection their country has, it can only lead to bad things.
