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    In the Documentary “Witness”, Bill Genovese whose sister Catherine “kitty Genovese was fatally stabbed in front of her apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens was very determined to find out what happened the night his sister died. 38 could have prevent the attacks on Kitty Genovese from occurring if they had just intervened or called the police, one person called the police but it wasn’t until after she was dead. In the documentary Bill Genovese sort out the victims to find out why they didn’t take actions, most of them had been deceased and the ones he did get in touch with had very trivial excuses on why they didn’t get involved. When Kitty’s attacker Winston Mosely first attacked her, lights in the apartment building went on and someone yelled…

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    On April 18, 2010 at around 5:30 AM, Hugo Alfred Tale-Yax, a homeless man, was stabbed multiple times by a mugger when trying to help a woman who was about to be the mugger’s victim. He collapsed to the floor and lay there until he died from major blood loss even though about twenty people had walked by that hour (cite). Why would the people just walk by and not at least ask if the man was doing okay? A social psychological phenomenon in which individuals do not assist a victim when others are…

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    About 37,461 deaths because one was walking while on a phone so, realize it could be anyone. Clyde Haberman is a writer for The New York Times and has been working for over 4o years. On March 17, 2018, Haberman writes “Do Not Read This Editorial While Walking” to express to young adults that deaths occur from one being on a phone while walking. Due to these deaths some states are making it illegal to walk while on a phone. Haberman wants to inform the readers that this action is dangerous and…

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    Bystander apathy or the bystander effect, "occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation" (Psychology Today). One of those most famous cases of bystander apathy was the murder of Kitty Genovese. On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death on the streets of New York. The attack lasted 30 minutes. She cried out for begging for help. 38 people reportedly witnessed the crime. None tried to stop it. No one even called…

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    The Tale of Ophelia There was once a Kingdom in Denmark named Venlighed, meaning kindness. The kingdom was ruled by a fair King and Queen. One day, the King and Queen were blessed with a gift of a daughter, and they named her Ophelia. But something wasn’t quite right with Ophelia. She was born with a deathly illness, so the noble King and Queen asked for the most powerful fairy godmother in the Kingdom. “I do not have the power to cure the princess from her illness, but I can give her a gift to…

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    played. One of the obvious metaphors in this scene is the direct comparison between the pieces in the chess game and the players in the wire. The king is Avon and as D’Angelo says “The king stays the king”. No matter how much you do, no matter how many of the Kings enemies you kill or how much money you make for the organization you will never be king. The king does not do any work, he uses his pawns or soldiers and even the queen to do his dirty work. As you see in The Wire, Avon rarely…

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    “Words can lie.” It is unknown who said this quote. Mare Barrow the main character arrives at the Silver Palace, the Silvers Palace is for the people whose blood is Silver. Mare meets Cal the first silver prince and Maven the second silver prince, Mare has to marry Maven because she is the Red princesses because Mare has red blood. Maven tells Mare lies and when she finds out it is far too late, Mare and Cal then have to fight for their lives. In the novel Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, a theme…

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    Once upon a time in a place far, far away called Ireland. Three witches were walking through the forest. Thier paths were about to cross with Macbeth and Banquo. This crossing of paths would not only change their lives but everyone in that far, far away place called Ireland. Macbeth notices the witches first. They meet up then little red riding hood come right through their path she saw the two strange characters figured out she was in the wrong story. Turned around and went back to the…

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    In the Grimm, this is especially a main component because it is what causes the stepmother to decide to kill Snow White because whenever she asked her magic mirror the question, he states that it is Snow White that will become the fairest of them all. The first time this occurs is when the young girl turned seven years old and the mirror changes what it had always stated. This time when it asks the question, it says, “My queen, you’re the fairest one here, but Snow White is a thousand times more…

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    Universal King Lear

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    Throughout the study of king Lear and the queen, an increased knowledge and understanding of universal ideas about humanity have been gained. The three main ideas that Shakespeare and Frears present include, civil unrest, challenge to authority and the divine right of kings. Despite these texts being set in different times, universal ideas are extrapolated from the two texts. During the 1990’s and early 2000’s, Great Britain experienced a period of civil unrest in which the British people…

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