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    United States, the first attempt to reform the state of Virginia’s death penalty laws was proposed by Thomas Jefferson, while he was governor of Virginia at the time. He suggested that capital punishment only be used during the offense of first degree murder and treason; this attempt lost by one…

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    as they escalated from humiliations and beatings to murdering large groups in the woods and leaving them in mass graves. The chapter ends with a report which describes the affair told from the point of view of an officer that objected to the mass murder. As well as the shootings, the Order Police were also responsible for the deportations of the Jews to the Concentration Camps. Recounting the events where the Order Police were tasked with transporting Jews from Vienna to Sobibór. After being…

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    chief detective, was going to leave her. Out of desperation, Mary murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then concealing her wrongdoing and discarding the murder weapon by encouraging the policemen who were investigating the murder to eat it. The most salient idea the author explores is the betrayal; Patrick Maloney's unexplained decision to leave his pregnant wife and then Mary committing the ultimate betrayal when she murders him. Dahl emphasises his ideas and themes employing many…

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    I choose to watch Stanley Milgram “Obedience” study, where basically Milgram focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and conscience. He wanted to know what obedience does to people, and was curious to know if obedience had anything to do with genocide. He wondered if soldiers killed people just because they were following orders from higher ranked officers. Milgram gathered his participants by advertising via newspaper, particiacally for male participants. His study consisted of…

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    The movie, Bourne Supremacy, is the second movie in the Bourne series, which is directed by Paul Greengrass. The Bourne series is packed full of intense action and thrilling chase scenes that keep you intrigued at all times and Bourne Supremacy is an example of the outstanding and compelling storyline that goes throughout the series. Matt Damon is the lead role as Jason Bourne, an ex-CIA assassin that got out of the system and is trying to remember who he really is, because he has psychogenic…

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    Albert Camus toys with these questions in his novella “The Stranger” and pulls the strings of the heart and mind. In the aforementioned novella, Meursault, a universally apathetic observer and also the protagonist, is put on trial for the inscrutable murder of another man. Rather than focusing on the crime, the prosecution focuses on Meursault’s character. His character is lackluster to begin with, he internally rants about things he does not like as well as having a small capacity for emotion.…

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    How Yossi Ghinsberg struggled, won and survived against all odds in the Amazon rainforest Yossi Ghinsberg, an Israeli traveler spent his days in extreme pain and starvation for three long weeks in 1981. Through these three weeks he survived venomous snakes, survived from almost drowning while he was travelling through South Africa. His unbelievable story of survival that he calls miraculous has now been made into a documentary, popular in near about 160 countries. Recently his book, Lost in the…

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    Arizona was at the mercy of two serial killers. It was rare for Phoenix to have one serial killer, much less two. One of these killers was dubbed “The Serial Shooter”. The identity of the serial shooter is now known: Dale Hausner began committing the murders individually, and later added a partner, Samuel Dieteman, who was his roommate. Both men were in their 30s and single. The Serial Shooter terrorized the Phoenix area for over a year before the two men were caught. Detectives and police were…

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    Staying Alive and Surviving the Khmer Rouge: The Important Emotion of Determination in First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung This study will define the important role of determination in the survival skills of a young Cambodian girl in the book First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. This book defines the horrific experiences of a girl named Loung Ung in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge took control of the government in the mid-1970s. Ung (2006) describes the determination that was needed to…

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    The death penalty is looked at in many different ways here in the United States. You have people that see it as a very reliable source to when criminals have been charged with a capital crime and the only way to make them pay is the death penalty. Then there is the people that think the death penalty is the most unreliable source to go to when someone has committed a crime. They think that since “so” many innocent people have died from the death penalty that it needs to be abolished and have to…

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