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    Martin Gansberg in the article, “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call The Police,” explains that people are apathetic, and they need to take action when there are conflicts. Gansberg supports his claim by describing an actual murder case and the number of people that did nothing when there was a simple solution. The author’s purpose is to point out the lazy and selfish nature of people in order to persuade them to be proactive in solving problems. The author writes in an educated yet…

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    In every good story, you always have your hero or main character who tries to achieve his or her goal, but the villain or antagonist has some reason to stop them from achieving it. Finally, a bystander is always watching this conflict go down and has nothing to say about it and just goes on with their life because they don’t have to worry about it. In the books: Romeo and Juliet, And Then There Were None, and To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters in their respected books all show the theme of…

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    37 Who Saw Murder

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    The article, “37 Who saw murder didn't call the police” by Martin Gansberg talks about a 28-year old woman,Catherine Genovese who was stabbed to death in Kew Gardens, Queens in the view of 37 people who saw the murder occurring. The appalling part about this article is that no one tried to report it at the moment. She screamed her lungs out for help, but not a single person tried to call the cops and just one witness communicated the police after the woman was dead. The occurrence of the…

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    The murder of Kitty Genovese is a very touchy subject. No one really knows the truth. Was there 37 or 38 witnesses? Psychologists say they only found a half a dozen witnesses, and the 6 people who seen it, didn’t see the whole incident. In 1964, Kitty Genovese was attacked, raped and murdered in her home by a man named Winston Moseley after returning from her job early on March 13, 1964. Winston approached Kitty as she was walking toward her home. As Kitty began to run away in fear, she was…

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    “Loudon Wainright: A Tale of Human Nature” On March 13, 1964, 38 people watched, 38 people looked away, 38 people did not do anything, only 1 person suffered. That's what happened in "The Dying Girl that No One Helped," an editorial by Loudon Wainright. In the editorial Wainright tells about Kitty Genovese and how she was murdered in front of at least 38 witnesses. After the murder nobody wanted to fess up and explain what happened that night, they did not even want to call the police. This…

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    Emergency Observation

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    In 1968, an experiment based on analyzing the level of people’s intervention during an emergency situation was running. This experiment is studied due to a tragic incident that happened in New York; Kitty Genovese was stabbed by an attacker for almost one and half hour while there are 38 present witnesses observed the whole scene, yet none of the witnesses tried to intervene nor calling 911. This incident has come into researcher’s vision and with a question of will the number of people effects…

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    Bystander Effect

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    in or even called the police. The bystander effect is to blame for her murder. When there is an emergency situation, people are more likely to help if there are less people around. Because you are part of a crowd, no single person has to take responsibility. This is known as the bystander effect. In a study conducted by Bibb Latane and John Darley, it was found that the amount of time it takes to take action depends on the amount of people in the area. They set up three different conditions…

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    The bystander effect is a phenomenon where people are less likely to help if others are present. According to a survey done by the US Department of Justice, 84% of police officers have stated that they’ve directly witnessed a fellow officer using more force during an arrest than was necessary. II. Lead into topic: This is a jarring statistic because it shows just how easy police officers find it to use force, and how much they can get caught up in the moment, which leads to cases of extreme…

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    Would you stick up for someone being harassed for their wealth, religious view, or political view? In the text “The Harvest Gypsies” and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” the authors explain what it’s like to have all those things done to you. For that reason, bystanders are guilty if they don’t help a situation because they have the power to change it for the better. In the text “The Harvest Gypsies” bystanders watched as poor families struggled to get by and did nothing to help. For example, as…

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    Martin Luther King Jr. once said “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. In the texts “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech, they both have bystanders that do not help out when it came to harming humans. People just stand around watching others get hurt and that's why no one believes in good people, that leads me to say bystanders are not innocent. In “The Lottery” people gather around every year to watch or join…

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