Mr. Pennell murdered a total number of five Caucasian females who were between the ages of 25 to 35 years of age. Shirley A. Ellis’s body was discovered on November 29, 1987, Catherine…
Overnight Shooting- 32 years old, PATRICE SMITH, was found shot last night on the ground around 3:22 am, on Lincoln Drive between Bldgs. 26 and 27. According to Clarksville Police, Smith also known as “APPLES” (B/F, DOB: 11-11-80) was rushed to Gateway Medical Center where she was pronounced dead after 4 am. Lead Investigator, Detective Mike Urely, said they are looking for CARL ALLEN WHITESIDE JR in the shooting death of Patrice Smith.…
Aggleton and Chalmers (2000) states in the second stage of assessment the nurse will assess the patient ability to carry out the 12 ALs. Cindy’s pain was affecting Cindy’s ability to independently perform these tasks and it is the goal of the nurse that Cindy independently achieves the same level of functioning or greater after intervention. The main focus of Cindy care was pain. Cindy explained to the nurse that the pain in the Left knee gets worst when standing. According to Roper, Logan and Tierney to assess a patient pain there are three main methods- person’s own description, past medical history and observation to reaction of pain.…
Henry McCrummin Keightley: Henry McCrummin Keightley arrived in NSW in on the 8th May 1853 onboard the 'Panthea' 511 tonnes under the command of Captain Hannant. Keightley's English departure point was from 'The Downs' situated ajacent to the southern North Sea near the eastern entry to the English Channel off the east Kent Coast. Whilst in England, Keightley it would appear was offered an opportunity to travel to NSW by Charles Grant Tindal, who at the time was visiting reletives in Kent, and who inconjunction with his brother Frederick Tindal owned a large cattle station at the the head of the Clarence River in northern NSW called ‘Koreelah' and which at that time was managed by Charles' brother Frederick Tindal. Another gentleman, and…
Federick Martin of the 7th Pennsylvania insulted her. It was at this time that Belle Boyd shot Pvt Martin. Because of this, Union officers stopped daily to intimidate the family. In turn, Boyd flirted and used her femininity to withdraw secrets and sensitive matter from Union officers. She would pass secrets to slaves to pass onto Confederate officers (Cox, 2012).…
Chris was born April 8th 1974 in Odessa, Tx. the first of two boys to Debby Lynn Mercer and Wayne Kenneth kyle. Debby was a Sunday school teacher and his son a Deacon. Kyle’s dad bought him his first rifle at the age of 8. Then later a shotgun that he hunted pheasant, quail and deer with.…
In Houston, Texas, 48-year-old Mary Lou Morris, was found burnt to death in her car only three miles away from her home. Mary’s husband, Jay Morris, had not been able to reach her all day since she left for work earlier that morning. Jay soon found Mary had not made it to work after her supervisor called to see why Mary had not shown up. Mary had a successful career, lots of friends, and no known enemies, which made her death very confusing. Three days later, 39-year-old Mary McGinnis Morris was found dead in her car, not far from where Mary Lou was found.…
Through the eyes of both early Americans and today’s society, represented through the founding documents and Will Allen’s The Other Wes Moore, being an American means demonstrating change and progression. When the colonies became unhappy with the British Crown’s tyranny, they changed and progressed by writing “The Declaration of Independence.” While this change was seen as beneficial towards America’s future, not all changes that America went through were advantageous. The “Articles of Confederation,” for example, represent some of the adverse choices that America made. While the choices that characters faced in The Other Wes Moore were miniscule in comparison to the early American decisions, they still altered the outcome to a situation.…
Robert Morgan claims in the text were reasonable because in the fourth paragraph in the book “Lions of The West” by: Robert Morgan, it states “Andrew Jackson probably did more to extend democratic power to a greater number of citizens of the nation in that era than anyone except Jefferson.” (Morgan 2).This quote tells you that Robert Morgan stereotypes and claims that although Jefferson did do more to extend a democratic power to a greater number of citizens of the nation than Jackson he is still being biased towards the situation . “Yet he is blamed for displacing and destroying much of the native population in the Southeast.” (Morgan 2). This quote is telling you that Jefferson did well, but people are also blaming him for many wrongful…
In 2001, a fourteen-year-old juvenile by the name of Lionel Tate was charged as an adult with murder in the first degree. In relation to the Criminal Justice System, multiple articles and other numerous sources, such as Michael J. Dale (2004), state that Lionel Tate “was considered the youngest person in the United State to have ever been given the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.” At the age of 12, Lionel Tate murdered a little 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick in Pembroke Park, Florida 1999. On July 28th of that year, Tiffany’s mother asked her long life friend, Lionel’s mother Kathleen, if she would watch Tiffany for the evening. After dinner, Kathleen had withdrawn from the kitchen to upstairs leaving the children to watch…
“The criminal justice system failed Donald Marshall, Jr. at virtually every turn from his arrest and wrongful conviction for murder in 1971, up to, and even beyond, his acquittal by the Court of Appeal in 1983.” What is one to do when racism overshadows the law? For Donald, there was nothing that he could do. His background made him susceptible to having an unfair accusation take away countless years of his life that he won’t ever get back, and unfortunately, that was the norm for many Mi’kmaq people. For him, however, it wasn’t just being sentenced to community service; Donald Marshall Jr. was wrongfully given the title of a murderer.…
Even though violence may be used, the main point of is for material gaining. The social gang/group is most of the time a permanent group of youths who generally exist in the pact with society. In difference to the common character of a gang/group generated crime self reported studies have revealed that youth crimes is a personal thing. Making young people pay with their lives for a certain crime has a very long history in the U.S. dating back to the 17th century. When a 16 year old boy became the first juvenile sentenced to death in colonial America.…
“Do you think we’re all just products of our environments?” His smile dissolved into a smirk, with the left side of his face resting at ease. “I think so, or maybe products of our expectations.” “Other’s expectations of us or our expectations for ourselves?” “I mean others’ expectations that you take on as your own.”…
Earnest J. Gaines novel, a Lesson before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940’s, where a horrible incident occurs convicting a presumed innocent man, to death. No one quite knows how long Jefferson has, however, in the time he does have, he must learn the most important lesson of all, and that is how to be human. There are many characters in the story that learn this lesson alongside, or even because of, Jefferson, such as Grant and his girlfriend Vivian. The entire community has been effected by Jefferson’s sentence, and every character will learn a lesson while they await the dreaded end to his sentence, and watch as ‘hog’, is turned into a man. Grant Wiggins is the protagonist of the novel, and is given the task of…
James Marion Sims was an important milestone in history for he was the doctor to revolutionize women's reproductive health. Most doctors in his time would refuse to even examine women because it was highly against the standards. However, he practiced on slaves in order to find cures to some of the worst infections. He changed the face of women's healthcare and opened up a whole new world of learning through gynecology. Sims was so successful that he was the first medical professional to get a statue in his honor.…