Kitty Genovese

Batman and the Watchmen have revised the image of what a superhero is by being described as a vigilante. Superman works with the government and stay invisible and abides by their every rule. While Batman argues, “You gave them the power that should’ve been ours” (32). Batman is motivated to fight law breakers because of the death of his parents. Dressed in a costume he’d go looking for crime to stop. Though he is fighting crime for the greater good he is still breaking the law. All other…

humans are mostly apathetic but seldom altruistic in their book Super Freakonomics. I somewhat agree and disagree with their ideas because humans are innately altruistic. First, they provide a murder case that took place in a peaceful neighborhood. Kitty Genovese, lived here and was stabbed and raped by a man. The whole process lasted 30 minutes, but no one in the neighborhood called the police. Therefore, Levitt and Dubner suggest that humans are apathetic because of the bystander effect…

compassion or lack empathy toward the the situation or victims. Martin Gansberg was a reporter for the New York Times. He investigated and wrote an article called “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”, about the murder case where Kitty Genovese was stalked and stabbed three times, while 38 people watched. In the article Gansberg uses a very sarcastic tone. He sarcastically calls the bystanders “good people” ,…

interpreting the emergency as a problem, that reduces the probability of a bystander assuming responsibility for initiating action to help. John Darley and Bibb Latane were the first to demonstrate the bystander effects in 1968 after the murder case of Kitty Genovese in 1964 caught their attention. Darley and Latane conducted numerous…

The world has suffered much indifference, and I have found that most people on this earth are happy to remain bystanders- blissfully ignorant and entirely uninterested in the matters of this world. For them, it is easier not to care, and to be so entirely absorbed in their own life that they don’t take the time to realize other people, or their individual problems. Indifference is the greatest epidemic. The fact that one is able to see a fellow being suffering, struggling, and walk past them…

Michelle Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was an only child. Although at first, she seemed to be a normal baby but as the days went on her parents starting observing that she seemed to have some sort of super power. Some examples of this includes, dogs always would come to her no matter what the occasion, she was able to communicate with dogs, and even in her earliest days she would always smile when she saw something dog related. As she got older, her friends at school started…

during a distressed situation. Ask yourself the question what should I do? Slater introduces two psychologist who studied the human styles of crisis management, John Darley and Bibb Latane. Both of them studied the case of human group behavior with the Kitty…

comes to mind would be Bystander Effect. Psychology Today states, “The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation”(1). No one really knew what this was before 1964 when Kitty Genovese was stabbed outside of her apartment while all of her neighbors watched…

In Martin Gansberg’s “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” citizens in a Queens neighborhood witnessed the murder of Kitty Genovese but did not call the authorities. Gansberg insists that one man even responded with, “‘I was tired,’ he said without emotion, ‘I went back to bed’” (123). These people simply did not care about the sanity and safety of their city, so they gave…

At a party full of under-age teens who were drinking, Brett Finbloom passed out after drinking vodka. Brett’s friends did not call for help right away because they were afraid to get arrested for under aged drinking. Eventually one of them called for help and Brett was rushed to the hospital, which later on diagnosed Finbloom of having alcohol poisoning. Brett died two-and-a-half days later. Maybe if someone would’ve called sooner, he might still be alive today. Unfortunately they were too…