Capital accumulation

The poem’s author seems to be against capital punishments because he implies that if we were all in an “electrical storm…” (107), and “a lightning would eventually strike us” (108). We would not know for which of our “sins” (109) we would die. In other words, the author of the poem is saying that capital punishment is a worthless act, because it does not benefit the executer or us in any positive way. The author also said…

external conflict and throughout the development of each story must overcome an obstacle. What is interesting about the story is that through the author’s view of the execution it is the turning point which gave him the inspiration to say he is against capital punishment and tell the tale.…

During the 19th century, France had their own version of the famous Britain serial killer Jack the Ripper, and his name was Joseph Vacher. Joseph Vacher killed twice as many innocent people then Jack the Ripper. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science, written by Douglas Starr gives the story of Joseph Vacher’s life and the brutal crimes he committed. Starr also introduces the criminologist Alexandre Lacassagne, for whom he gives credits to for the…

The first installment of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trilogy hit book shelves in 1981. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is about a guy named George Flint. He wants liver, but his wife eats all the liver one by one while she cooks it. So she goes to the church and steals a woman’s liver. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is not beneficial for children because it has graphic details, it’s too violent, and is way too scary for children. To begin, Scary stories to tell in the dark is not…

Question: Why were people court martialed during the war? At the end of the novel Private Peaceful written by Michael Morpurgo, Thomas Peaceful's brother, Charlie, is trialed and sentenced to a firing squad for insubordination and cowardice while in the readers eyes he is a hero. This sparked my interest in why people were court martialed and what for. During World War One, hundreds of men were court martialed for reasons that are very questionable in today’s society. These consisted of…

The idea of criminal profiling dates to the 1880’s. George Phillips and Thomas Bond used evidence from a crime scene to describe the Jack the Rippers personality. In this case, Jack the Ripper, murdered five prostitutes and disfigured their bodies in different ways in the Whitechapel District in London. This lasted from August 7 to September 10, 1888. From the way he destroyed the bodies, criminal profilers, Bond and Phillips could tell that he had some background knowledge of human autonomy.…

Erased Lynching by Ken Gonzales-Day presents lynching photographs, but removes the victim and the rope from the image summoning viewers to complete the picture in our imagination. This is meant to “redirect the viewer’s attention away from the lifeless body of the lynch victim and allow viewers to see the crowd, the mechanism of the spectacle.” The meaning and the power of each image resides not in what’s visible, but in what’s not: He seeks to change the usual focus of lynching (the victim) to…

When a Suspect and a Victim Become Friends On January 16th, 1985, Ronald Cotton was convicted of the two counts of burglary and two counts of rape. He pleaded not guilty throughout the trial, but he was found guilty by the court. There were many factors that sent him to prison, such as: his prior criminal record, the three factors that can influence an officer’s use of discretion, the evidence against him, and more. After 10 years in prison, he was exonerated by DNA testing. Not long after,…

The Thoughtless Killing Of John Fulton; The Kimberly Noyes Case After the brutal murder of John Fulton an autistic twelve-year-old boy, Kimberly Noyes was declared not criminally responsible due to mental disorder. This is a Canadian law that states, “No person is criminally responsible for an act committed or an omission made while suffering from a mental disorder that rendered the person incapable of appreciating the nature and quality of the act or omission or of knowing that it was…

“There are two things in life you can be sure of...death and taxes.” While both are realities we may try to avoid, many people never give much thought to the details, both financially and socially, of what happens when we die. Death is and will always be the last thing that I would talk about. When the topic of death tries to surface, I always change the subject and start a new conversation. Talking about death is very depressing and I am actually getting anxiety typing this but I guess now is…