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    Prison Reflection

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    In the first prison which was Cummings the security system was my overall impression for me. At Wrightsville the furniture was my overall because the way the inmates built and working hard to produce the best furniture. In the Washington prison my overall was the when the security system where so organized. The way the officers talk to us and explained. Voner the most overall impression was when we was able to see the inmates that where on dead road and to see how the live before the get…

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    “푆푒푟푖푎푙” is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Augusta Koenig, narrating a nonfiction story about Adnan Masud Syed. Adnan was charged with murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Hae was a Woodlawn High School senior, who went missing on January 1, 1999. Hea’s family reported her missing that day, after she failed to pick up her cousin at about 15:00 hours. Adnan was found guilty and given a life sentence. His case is full of evidence that was incriminating against him because…

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    respected Clutter family are killed. When the murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, are finally caught after an extensive investigation, they are given the death sentence. Through a historically accurate and compelling novel, Capote criticizes capital punishment by humanizing Perry and Dick, suggesting their sentence to be unnecessary, and exposing its brutal nature. Capote paints the death penalty in a negative light by presenting the criminals’ more humane characteristics to create…

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    JonBenet Ramsey: 20 Years Still Unsolved“Speaking to anyone about your situation, such as police, F.B.I, etc., will result in your daughter being beheaded.” (“Forensic Outreach”) That’s what the ransom note found in the Ramsey kitchen said. The note that began the investigation still going on to this day. On Christmas day of 1996, JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old beauty pageant queen, was found dead in her family’s Boulder Colorado home. It has been 20 years and the murder is still unsolved.…

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    Rape In England Analysis

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    Throughout England’s early modern period, rape is seen through a lens that focuses on a violation of property, reputation, and honour, as well as an assault committed against an individual. In Sir Matthew Hale’s treatise, Historia Placitorum Coronae, the seventeenth century jurist asserts that rape requires “carnal knowledge against her will,” as well as penetration without consent, and under statute law rape is considered a felony, punishable by death. Hale's treatise provides a contemporary…

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    JonBenet Ramsey’s death is one of the most compelling cases in the history of the FBI. Jonbenet was just six years old when she was killed. She was born in 1990 and killed in 1996. She was mainly famous for her pageants that she participated in, winning six total. Nobody knows how JonBenet truly died, and more information is still being discovered to this day. There are many theories on her death and what happened. There are the common theories saying that her parents killed her, a stranger…

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    life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the group themselves,” in other words to force extinction upon a specific group of people. 3. What event established genocide as an international crime? The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide established genocide as an international crime. 4. In what two distinct historical periods…

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    The question of whether or not cannibalism occurred in the Jamestown settlement in the 1600’s had been debated by historians for generations. Recently, scholars have turned their attention towards a different question with regards to the cannibalism rumors; the more modern line of inquiry about Jamestown, exemplified in Rachel Herrman’s The “tragicall historie”: Cannibalism and Abundance in Colonial Jamestown, is focused on the reasoning behind why multiple accounts of the events were published,…

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    Ian Watkins is a Welsh singer who born in 1977. He grew up in Pontypridd and debut as a rock band, Lostprophets in 1997 (BBC NEWS, 2013). He was convicted as serious sex offender and was charged in late 2012. He strongly denied about allegations and previously claimed that he was innocent. However, there were many evidence found out such as victim’s indecent photos and videos and crime record of texting. Finally, he pleaded guilty to attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under 13 in…

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    A murderer always has a motive for killing someone. Everyone is different which means there could be billions of different scenarios, none of which having the exact same outcome. In the hit crime investigating show Criminal Minds, Season 5 Episode 21 tells the story of a BAU investigation team working to find a man who has gone on a killing spree, murdering five people the team believes to be all connected. The murderer of this episode is discovered to be a young sixteen year old boy whose only…

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