"A" Is for Alibi

The title of the show “Shameless” explains all 8 seasons, it’s extremely different from any other show you will watch, we can all agree. It illustrates real-life situations of nudity, crime, and profanity which results in the 'shamelessness' of each character. What’s so interesting about this show is that it touches upon important issues today while also being funny and outrageous at the same time. The home of the Gallagher family is a beat-up home on the Southside of Chicago. With the…

In this article, “Rationality, Pirates, and the Law: A Retrospective”, the author, Peter T. Leeson, discusses the legal changes that brought Caribbean piracy in the 1720s to an end, and their overall effectiveness. In the article he also discusses the pirates response to these legal changes. The different topics that he is recounting allows him to use the information that he gathers to use the law to address present day pirates. The author is able to effectively gather this information by…

Mary's murder is one of the most popular unsolved murder cases of all time. Why? Well because no one could ever figure out who did it. Three years before Mary’s death she disappeared, then later returned to work at a local cigar store, which is where she picked up the name “cigar girl”, there she was seen as very attractive by men that came in and out of her store, but no one thought anything of it at the time. A gang of thugs and Daniel Payne are two theories linked to the mysterious death of…

1996). After investigating suspects outside of the immediate family, the attention had shifted to Lizzie Borden, the daughter of Andrew Borden, and Bridget Sullivan, the family’s domestic. However, attention soon shifted to Lizzie after she gave an alibi for Bridget. Although there is speculation about whether or not Lizzie Borden is the one who committed the murder, a possible motivation/psychological idea is nature vs. nurture. Nature vs. nurture is typically…

Justice Wargrave has always felt empowered, but his idea of it changed after his life changing news. Wargrave went from a well-respected man to a mass murderer. For many mass murderers, motives are always unclear. For Justice Wargrave his motive was because he needed to act and hold the guilty accountable. Justice Wargrave is a main character in the book And Then There Were None, written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on September 15, 1890. She was born in Torquay,…

again. Because of her love for Patrick, one would expect Mary to be filled with guilt. However, Mary carefully runs through all of the penalties and what would happen to the child. Her mind is so clear that she devises a plan to create the perfect alibi. Situational irony is used by Dahl to develop a plot not…

The Grapes of Wrath begins with Tom Joad, a young man fresh out of prison and on parole, searching for his family home which he hadn’t seen in four years. In his search he finds an empty shell of a past, with his family home, as well as the rest of the town, being abandoned. In his searches, Tom also finds a companionship with an ex-preacher who is an idealistic man that believes humanity works best as one. While at his former home Tom comes across an old neighbor who is the only man who remains…

As she planned her alibi, her first move was to head out to the grocery store. She was greeted by Sam, a grocer, and tried to maintain normal facial expressions and voice tones in order to deceive him. She came home telling herself she must remain composed and act natural…

course he had to complete an autopsy. Linda told the police they should go question her boyfriend Ty because he was the last person she saw Marrisa with at Denny’s, but she failed to mention the argument. The police went to question Ty, but he had an alibi. He dropped Marrisa off at home after they left Denny’s that night and went to stay with his friend, Jay. Jay’s mother clarified that Ty was there that night. After Ty informed the police about the scene at Denny’s, the police went to the…

“Her first instinct was to not believe any of it. She thought that perhaps she’d imagined the whole thing. Perhaps, if she acted as though she had not heard him, she would find out that none of it ever happened” (Dahl 2). Mary Maloney said this right before she killed her husband out of a crime of passion. This essay will discuss that Mary Maloney was a dynamic character in Roald Dahl’s Lamb To The Slaughter by the way she acts, what she says, and how her thoughts are described in the text.…