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The James Holmes and the Aurora theatre shooting case. There are many pieces of evidence in this case that could be looked at as someone who committed a premeditated shooting and someone who was in fact insane. Ultimately the insanity plea did not work in James Holmes favor but it did extend what would have already been a long death penalty case. Some key pieces of evidence were highly controversial in the fact that there was arguing over whether or not it should be allowed in court.
Jesse James was a well known gang leader, bank robber, and train robber. He was a member of the notorious gang named the James-Younger gang. Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847 in Clay County, Missouri. Jesse and his older brother Frank lost their father in 1849. The father, Reverend Robert James, abandoned his family and disappeared and was thought to go to the California gold fields.
On page 24, Dr. Holmes states, "I am deeply relieved when an agent comes to my cell and lets me know they decided not to prosecute me with smuggling and would be giving me simply the $5,000 fine for Entry Without Inspection." While Dr. Holmes is relieved that no further charges will be brought against him and relieved perhaps at the rapport he has now built with the Triqui people, Dr. Holmes violates certain ethical laws by crossing the border. It is made obvious that Dr. Holmes is taking part in participant observation in this case, he crosses the border with migrant workers. But certain questions come to mind when considering the extent of his participation in the ethnography that translates into ethical
And something about his mysterious profile, gray eyes, or maybe the position of his baseball cap reminded me of a modern day Sherlock Holmes. “Seth did you see—” “The ghost, yeah!” he said. “Come on, Madison, let’s get the heck out of here!”
A great deal of people would say we are all just products of our environment― for two adolescent boys from Baltimore this couldn't be any truer. In the autobiographical memoir, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, unbeknownst, two fatherless African American boys with an identical name and living in the same neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, ended up on two entirely different paths of life. One evolves to be a Rhodes Scholar, honored and respected combat veteran, and business leader. The other is spending the rest of his life in a federal prison for committing a murder. However, in their separate lives, they both started out as young boys that grew up in single mom households in the rough streets of Baltimore.
Andrea Yates case is known as one of the horrifying murderer events that had happened in Texas. Also she is the most hated woman in the United States because of her cruel crime, of murdering her five children one by one in the bathtub just because she thinks that they were doomed to hell because their parents sins. Yates was treated for postpartum depression and psychosis illnesses that ran in her family, meaning that based on these facts on the mental problem that she had and her family where the reason why she murder her own children’s. Referring to all these facts on the case of Andrea Yates whether or not she is culpable being insane at the time of her crime offense of murdering her kids, I believe that she was under a period of mental problem at the time of her offense. Referring to the website biography.com “ Andrea Yates Biography”.
It was another work day at the business Francis Brown owns. He treats everyone poorly in his office. Especially, a young 30 year old women. Gives her no respect, like she is a different species from a different planet. Then, the boss Francis told Anna Thorn (non respected women) to get him a cup of tea or she is fired.
Tania Covarrubias Criminal Justice 234 Tina January 30, 2018 Case Involving James Holmes Facts of the case involving James Holmes On July 20, 2012 James Holmes, murder twelve people and injured seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. On July 16, 2015, “James Holmes was found guilty on all 165 counts against him: 24 first-degree murder, 140 attempted murder and one count of possession or control of an explosive or incendiary device” (“Colorado Theater”, 2017). Holmes proposes to plead guilty to dodge the death penalty. His request was denied.
Elizabeth Pace Doctor Jane Hinckley IHUM 202-001 2 August 2023 Monsters Must First be Seen as Victims Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein contains several elements that comment on the unnatural formation and tragic life of Frankenstein’s monster. There are moments where the reader feels pity for the creature, followed by moments of disgust at his actions. As the reader continues, they are left to ponder if Frankenstien’s creation was constructed as a monster from the beginning or if his monstrous demeanor was developed through choices and unjust segregation from society.
Have you ever gone somewhere like an ice cream shop and not known what you wanted? Decisions are hard to make. Sometimes people get set as a scapegoat and the culprit gets away. Just like in this case the Countess loses her jewel and finds it inside of her black striped goose and doesn’t know who did it. After they find the felon, Mr. Holmes rules to let them go and bid them not to do it again.
Eleven In short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros she uses different stylistic techniques such as imagery and figurative language such as similes to create the narrator's youthful voice. The author uses imagery to make the the narrator sound like a little girl on page 3 it indicates in the following quote “ This is when I wish I wasn't eleven because all the years inside of me ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two and one are pushing at the back of my eyes when I put one arm through one sleeves of the sweater that smells like a cottage cheese” this shows that she still a little girl because as she putting it on she crying because she doesn't wanna put on the sweater it stanks and it's not hers. The author displays imagery through the story by using the quote, “ I wish I wasn't eleven because all the years inside of me ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two and one are pushing at the back of my eyes when I put one arm through one sleeves of the sweater that smells like a cottage cheese”.
as it might be observed in Mary Shelley's Frankestein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818), in which the scientist Victor Frankestein creates a new being out of parts of dead bodies by using electricity; as well as can be appreciated in the interest that Polidori's vampire Lord Ruthven shows towards the possibility of reviving life from death. This hope of creating life is an attempt to explain the origins of monsters in literature. This connection between science and vampires can be, in fact, seen in the figure of Doctor Van Helsing in Dracula, he is who appeals to the other characters to have a scientific mind, what he considers to be an open mind, and not to dismiss mysterious events because they are not completely understood: “To believe in
(Shelly 42, 43) Here, the effects of his continued pursuit of knowledge and neglect of well-being is shown evidently. Once Frankenstein creates the monster, his unquenchable thirst for knowledge is frightened into silence. He then presently returns to the outside world,
More specifically, the mysteries of cheating death by creating life. It was through this area of study that he procured the self-entitlement one only associates with those who try to become God. Ethically speaking, Victor Frankenstein should not have pursued his experiment. Not only does it violate a cultural tradition of allowing the dead to rest in peace, but it also goes against ethic principles put forth by the NIEHS. Technically, according to the list of ethics listed on the National Institute of Health’s website, there is nothing wrong with creating life from death.
ENG-3U0 November 20 2015 Frankenstein: The Pursuit of Knowledge Throughout the course of their individual journeys, Victor Frankenstein’s extreme passion for gaining knowledge about creating life, Robert Walton’s curiosity to discover land beyond the North Pole and the monster’s eagerness to obtain knowledge about humans was the principal cause of each of their suffering. As such, In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the pursuit of knowledge is a dangerous path which leads to suffering. Victor Frankenstein develops a keen interest in discovering knowledge about living beings which ultimately results in his personal suffering as well as others suffering. To begin with, Victor embarks on an assignment through combining body parts and following various
