"A" Is for Alibi

The media was not only against Indigenous people, but in the 1990s and before there was still a great amount of tension between the Franco-phones and Anglo-phone Canadians. “Robin Philpot argues in Oka: Dernier Alibi du Canada Anglais (Oka: English Canada's Last Alibi) that English-language coverage of the standoffs at Oka and Kahnawake was tainted by anti-Quebec,” potentially caused by the end of the Meech Lake constitutional accord (Wells, 1991). This accord was intended to persuade the…

“U.G.L.Y you ain’t got no alibi!” You’ve heard it, I’ve heard it, we’ve all hear this horrifying cheer, that cheerleaders use all around the country. Cheerleading is a very dramatic activity. When you first hear the word drama, what do you think of? You might be thinking, chaos, exclusion, crying, fights, judgement, etc. All of these words lead back to one thing. Cheerleading. Most girls, teenagers especially are full of drama. So cheerleading could easily turn to bullying, by saying hurtful…

February 28th 1999, the life Adnan Syed once lived, would soon quickly fall apart. The 17 year old amiable, intelligent, athletic honors student that everyone loved was now behind bars, for a dreadful crime that he has been accused of committing. This atrocity being the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Hae was South Korean and also attended the same high school as Adnan which was Woodlawn High School, where she played lacrosse and field hockey. Her and Adnan had broken up. They both…

headlines across the country. The as shocked at the brutality of the killings. Police tried desperately to determine who was responsible. Al Capone had an air tight alibi because he had been called in for questioning by the Dade County solicitor in Miami during the time of the massacre. “Machine Gun” McGurn had what became called a “blonde alibi” –he had been at a hotel with his blonde girlfriend from 9 p.m. on February 13 through 3p.m. on February 14. Fred Burke was arrested by police in March…

As a surprise, forensic science error is the second leading cause of wrongful convictions. This could be due to how forensic scientists or forensic examiners present the evidence. Invalidated or improper forensic science contributed to the wrongful convictions of about half of DNA exonerations. (innocence) Though there has been a significant increase with science over the years, there are still issues with other forensic techniques, such as hair microscopy, firearm tool mark analysis, bite mark…

Dr. Michael Stones identifies a mass murderer as a person who is angry or dissatisfied with their life. The statistics show that 96.5% of mass murderers are male (Crocker). The males are not usually clinically psychotic. The act of mass murder is described as the killing of several victims at one time and in one place (Crocker). In the novel, And Then There Were None, Justice Wargrave had many characteristics of a mass murderer. Justice Wargrave was a methodical killer, a mastermind of…

In the poem Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth certainly shows signs of completely losing his mind. Not only does Macbeth kill a man, but also he sends other men to kill two more men. Thought out the poem it talks of Macbeth trying to clean his hands of this murder but he simply just cannot and begins to lose his mind. Even before the murders just the planning of killing Duncan was pulling Macbeth into to he was nervous and almost suspicious. Without Lady Macbeth keeping him…

discovered that he had been murdered. Someone entered the house and struck Gary in the head with his favorite sculpture killing him instantly. Molly thought there was a connection with many unexplained deaths of her late husband’s patients. With no alibi, it looked as if she were responsible for the murder.…

Macbeth, explaining the fact that if she would have done it, then the plan would have stayed on the rails. She claims that her husband was too cowardly to take the daggers back so she did it herself. She says that next the both agreed to be each other alibi and that they should return to their sleeping chambers. In the morning Macduff comes in with the news that the King has been murdered in cold blood. Sorrow swept the kingdom with the news of the death. Macbeth emotionally admits that he…

Lamb to the Slaughter Theme Paragraph "Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short story written by Roald Dahl and tells of two betrayals: Patrick Maloney's unexplained decision to leave his pregnant wife and Mary Maloney’s killing of her husband right after which concludes to be the ultimate betrayal. Patrick Maloney betrays his pregnant wife by telling her news, which requires him to leave her and their child. Mary Maloney is at home waiting for her beloved husband, Patrick to come home…