Andrew Gregg Curtin

About one hundred and fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts & Summary). “The Gettysburg Address” was meant to reinvigorate the Union populace’s desire to bring the Confederacy back into the United States. “The Gettysburg address” also capitalizes on the emotions that resulted from a battle where there were a combined total of over 50,000 casualties, split almost evenly between Union and Confederate troops (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts & Summary). Despite the massive casualty count, the battle could be considered a win for the Union troops, as the conflict ended with the Confederate invaders being repelled. Lincoln crafted a speech that used this victory to remind the Union forces which had become disheartened by unexpected resistance from the Confederacy of their original mission to reunite both the north and south into the country their forefathers had fought so hard to establish. Though widely known today, Lincoln’s famous oration was not the original focus for the event at which it was first given. The main event for the occasion was a…

Special Effects have been evolving for years it all started in 1895 when Alfred Clarke created what is considered the first-ever special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clarke instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clarke stopped the camera, had all the actors freeze, and had the person playing Mary step off the set. He placed a Mary dummy in the actor's place, restarted…

Individuals may encounter countless scenes, outrageous ideas, and most importantly a perfected conclusion. Nevertheless, when it comes to the motion picture “Requiem for a dream”, words and words may fill these pages, however nothing can truly clarify the depth of intensity and meaning towards such a realization. Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer; born in Brooklyn, New York in the 1960’s and being brought up in a conservative Jewish family surely…

associated with passing of time. While Thompson uses various narrators to gather information of Charles Kane, the plot uses them both to furnish us with narrative information and to conceal information. Thus, allowing us to think of meaning of Charles’ last dying words ‘Rosebud’, and yet withholding enough information that we can’t. This adds to the curiosity and suspense of the motion picture. The storytelling techniques succeed in painting Charles Foster Kane as an enigma, a tortured,…

Quentin Tarantino’s work of director as a DJ Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino’s first film as a director and it became really huge. The film was made partly by reappropriating Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire, but it was better than City on Fire and became a classical one. While Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire was a typical Hong Kong feature film which included gangster loyalty, cops’ infighting and beauties, Reservoir Dogs was more like an artwork, a masterpiece. It jumped out of the threadbare…

accident he claimed, as he was leaving the house he tripped and his firearm shot the owner killing him. His previous statement had been that he had turned and blindly shot the victim. He was found guilty of committing murder during a robbery and was punished to death. However, Furman was never put to death. The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision the court decided that the death penalty was cruel punishment that violated the Constitution. Only two justices believed that the death penalty was…

In 1976, a man named Troy Leon Gregg was charged and convicted of armed robbery and murder of Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. In accordance with the Georgia procedure in capital cases, the trial must be in two stages, a guilt stage and a sentencing stage and after both stages, Troy Gregg was ultimately sentenced to death for the murder of Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. Unfortunately, due to the 1972 case, Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court established that the death penalty system was…

empirical data, and the current state of society. Retribution as a justification for preserving the death penalty is unconstitutional and disproportionally ranks ‘heinous’ crimes for the victims and whether their murderer is worthy of receiving the death penalty. In Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the US Supreme Court in a 7 - 2 decision written by Justice Potter Stewart, stated: that “the instinct for retribution is part of the nature of man” (Gregg v Georgia, 428 U.S. 138). Justice…

Introduction The death penalty is one off the premier issues facing not only criminal justice professionals, but every day citizens as well. The purpose of this paper is to examine the death penalty in the United States including ways to carry out and arguments to abolish, the costs involved, and possible alternatives. “In 1972, the Supreme Court declared that under then-existing laws ‘the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty… constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation…

It has been argued over the years that capital punishment violates the eight amendment in the Constitution of the United States of America. It was argued that because the eighth amendment states that no cruel and unusual punishments should be inflicted upon anyone, so, capital punishment should not be used as a form of paying for a crime. What is not being taken under consideration, however, is the fact that the law has been morally and properly assessing these cases. How so? Well, lets begin by…