Marvin Gaye Is Shot And Killed By His Own Father Analysis

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In every person’s heart, there is a spark of passion that is waiting for to be triggered. If we trigger this spark the way it should be, you sparkle among all those people and passion brings you to success. My passion is violin and when I was in fifth grade, I lost the thread of practice. At the end of the first term of that school year, my grades were worse than before. All of my teachers and my family, asked me why this happened and I didn’t say anything to them because they thought that I was studying, but instead of that, I was practising. After that I realized that I shouldn’t put my passion at the center of my life because there is something more important, there always is. Even though I love playing the violin
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As in the article “Marvin Gaye is Shot and Killed by His Own Father” on History.com states, “By some reports, Marvin Sr. harbored significant envy over his son’s tremendous success, and Marvin Jr. clearly harbored unresolved feelings toward his abusive father” (“Marvin Gaye is Shot and Killed by His Own Father”). The envy of his father caused the murder of Marvin Gaye. As the name implies, extreme passion is the main cause crimes of passions. When their excessive passion capture their soul, people can’t be aware of what they’re doing. Because of that, even though people don’t want to hurt others,they can’t avert those feeling and passion. Besides, sometimes this passion make people see red and commit murder. Exemplary, as the article “The Astronaut Love Triangle 9 Years Later” on People Crime states, NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak attacked and kidnapped air force captain Colleen Shipman, because Lisa was still in love with her ex who is Shipman’s husband (Jeff Truesdell). According to Victim Shipman’s statement to Jeff Truesdell from People Magazine “I know in my heart she wanted me dead” (Shipman), Lisa’s passion blindfolded her and she attacked the woman who didn’t do any malignancy to her and that crime consisted on the exaggerating the passion and became obsessed with Shipman’s husband. As those two crimes of passion points out that excessive passion can make people be so blinded by anger or become obsessed to someone else which both bring bad results to people’s

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