The witnesses are motivated by fear, as seen in Brigg’s, King’s lawyer, question to them, saying, “You were afraid and you would have said anything” (Meyers, 37). The witnesses themselves would admit to this. Bolden stated that “I knew that the people got killed, and was thinking of trading what I knew for some slack” (Meyers, 48). When someone is afraid, they are willing to say anything to get out of trouble. Both witnesses were afraid of going to or staying in jail.
The reason for the murders o How the community was affected • Thesis Statement: o We can express Capote’s intended audience, his person outlook of the suspects, and the many ways the actual event effected the community from the story of the Clutter Family murders. • Body: o Main point: Why did Capote put other information into the book to make the tragedy seem harsher than it was? o
Thirdly, Sandra Petrocelli, argumentative and persuasive, contended that it’s not about the character of a person, but about an innocent Alguinaldo Nesbitt, dead and disheveled, wishing he was alive. Petrocelli uses Mr. Evans’ testimony as her main evidence throughout her argument. “He also places Mr. King in the drugstore with him on the 22nd of December.” Smoothly squeezing a scenario, Petrocelli attempts to win over the jury. “Perhaps, in some strange way, [Steve Harmon] can even say, as his attorney has suggested, that because he did not give a thumbs-up signal, or some sign to that effect,
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.
The gruesomeness of the crime that riddled the town , the nation, in shock. These two murders destroyed the trust that both communities had within one another. The innocents of the people were taken and now they thought the worst of their next door neighbor. These men, in both cases, did not think, or care, of the consequences and did what they wanted to do. In both murders, there was a leader like person in charge.
In Suzanne Lebsock’s A Murder in Virginia, 2003, the judicial proceedings of a court case are depicted after a women, Lucy Pollard, was found brutally slain in her own backyard. Most would think this to be a simple illustration of a murder trial, but this case comes with a twist. The twist is that the murder took place in rural Virginia in 1895. This is a time period that is characterized as post Reconstruction but before the implementation of the Jim Crow Laws. Being a Confederate state shortly after the Civil War, one would believe that race relations in Virginia would be extremely tumultuous, but this case just happens to fall in a small window of time in which relationships were surprisingly harmonious.
In his article Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police Martin Gansberg was trying to inform his readers who were living in an ever violent society that a murder had occurred that might have prevented if witnesses had call police. As I continued to read the background on Ms. Catherine "Kitty " Genovese, I understood the hesitation of the residents of that quiet Kew Gardens neighborhood. The author does an excellent job placing the scene of this murder. In a span of less than an hour, thirty-eight people could have saved a life. Well, let us say that the neighbors did call the police it can not be certain the attacker would not have returned to finish the job at a later date or night.
In “38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” heard and witness a woman getting murdered. The citizens do too little to help the victim. The majority of residents do nothing to help the victim. When the residents finally did something, it was too late. Martin Ginsberg’s “38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” argues that society has moral apathy.
A person’s life, in my opinion, is without a doubt the most imperative factor to consider to the general public. However, in Martin Gansberg’s article “Thirty-eight who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”, wrote about a woman named Kitty Genovese describing that 38 people ignored her screams during an attack on her and did nothing to stop the murder. That same the thirty-eight observers for this situation totally overlooked a preventive murder, despite the fact that they knew they could have helped her but they chose not to. They could have easily picked up the phone and called the police without putting themselves in danger. The vast majority do not want to try and get included in someone else's issues but as a society, if we see something terrible or someone getting assaulted we should do something about it.
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
In the ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell on it, but now and then, when I’m reading a newspaper or just sitting alone in a room, I’ll look up and see the young man coming out of the morning fog” (Ambush). Tim O’Brien was a father, a son, and a husband, yet he was also able to kill without giving thought to the action. Afterwards, however, when presented with his family, friends, and other civilians, Tim realized the gravity of the deaths he caused. Another example of paradox was the murder that in Queens, New York, around the same period as the Vietnam War. A criminal stabbed a woman outside her home, and out of the thirty-eight people in the neighborhood, zero people called the police or helped the woman.
Levine argued, that the `bystander effect` is a gerneral principle and it can not be applied on every real-life emergency.(Byford,p.235) To find out what the reasons where, in the murder case of James Bulger, why the bystanders didn 't step in he did a discourse analysis, in which he analyzed the testemonies of the trial. He tried to understand the witnesses responses. by putting them in the social and historical context. (Byford,p.235) James Bulger was just three years old when he was abducted and killed by two ten year old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
The presence of cannibals in Native American tribes is debatable; their descendants claim it is a myth, nonetheless factual data was discovered to oppose that. Archaeologists identified “butchered human bones, stone cutting tools stained with human blood, a ceramic cooking pot holding residues of human tissues, and finally the most telling evidence found in the actual human feces: traces of digested human muscle and protein” (Wilford). This solid proof was discovered from the site of an ancient Anasazi settlement in southwestern Colorado. The researchers think that this proof dates back to A.D. 900 to 1150 but as these traces are fairly rare, it is most likely that these instances occurred in times of desperation among the community, like starvation. This evidence almost certainly proves cannibalism amongst the Anasazi and yet only proves it to be within this tribe.
Not content to deal with the monster in the legal and proper manner, Detective Mills is drawn into sympathy with a statement that Doe himself makes in defense of his murders. After his arrest, Doe tells the two officers that “wanting people to listen,
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.
