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The murders of Betty Boyd, Verline Boyd, and Evangela Boyd in 1993 were tragic and heartbreaking. The man accused of the murders, Sherwood Brown, caused the police to chase him and ending up making himself seem even more guilty (Sherwood, 1997). He was convicted of the murders and sentenced to two life sentences and the death penalty. After many attempts made by Brown for DNA testing during his time in prison, the Mississippi Supreme Court granted the testing in 2012 and found he may not be the…

“ Fate decides who comes into your life, your heart decides who stays.” Macbeth is a Shakespearean play about how an innocent soldier becomes a ruthless king, all because of his proposed fate. In Macbeth, fate played a huge role in how Macbeth as a character acted and why he had a tragic resolution. Fate is what drove Macbeth into having a tragic resolution. Every human believes fate is predetermined. People tend to hold onto the unknown. It moves us in many ways, whether that be hope or…

The famous play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare in 1606 took place during the medieval times in Scotland, around the 11th century. The plot is about Scottish nobleman Macbeth who hears prophesy of him becoming King which awakens his desire to seize the throne. This is where his wife, Lady Macbeth, comes in - she tempts and bullies Macbeth into killing King Duncan. The play was written during the reign of King James I who saw himself as an expert on witchcraft. ‘Witches’ at that time were…

In a scene where a character is confronted with frailty of life, George RR Martin's, A Game of Thrones, touches on the fear of death. However, unlike the book series people have not always been able to simply tell death "not today," and have a talented swordsman defend their life. In fact, from Everyman to modern day texts death is constantly studied. Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," shifts between a seemingly political poem to a in depth exploration of the concept of…

Jesse Goodman Hewitt English 10 9 March 2018 Welcome to Discriminatory America Societal norms cause police officers to kill innocent individuals of color, all because of incorrect and invalid expectations of one another that we have as a society. In the book Always Running, Luis Rodriguez writes an autobiography about the harsh reality of the gang life as a teenager. He watches rape, experiences killings, sees death, and so much more all for a little power and freedom. Always Running exhibits…

1. This diverse themed movie shows some link to the Social Morality Theory that has been imparted in our lessons. The violence in this movie was seen when Jack Slater’s cousin was threaten by Tony Vivaldi and caused him to seriously injured then eventually set a bomb on his body and consequently killed two police officer. Besides, the characters shot each other while they were driving at the beginning of the movie. Bombs were thrown by the villains and bomb…

were against the police as they tried to catch Jack the Ripper. These reasons suggest that the lack of evidence was not the police’s fault for the failure, but after the last murder police stopped searching for the Ripper only two months from the last homicide. This gap of two months is shorter than the gap between the murders, hinting the police might of know something that the public didn’t. In the year 1888 the police force had limited forensic equipment. DNA testing was far beyond their…

Michael Ondaatje in Coming Through Slaughter presents his own take on the man credited with the invention of jazz, Buddy Bolden. The book is a fictional rendition of Bolden’s years before he was diagnosed as mentally ill. By using the character of Bolden, descriptive passages of music and style, Ondaatje shows how transience pervades the work of an artist and how the artist is quickly forgotten. The character of Buddy Bolden is based on the real Charles Bolden. Charles Bolden is considered to…

believes that he is part of an elite “superman” echelon and can consequently transgress accepted moral standards for higher purposes such as utilitarian good. However, that guilt that torments him after he murders Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta and his recurring faintness at the mention of the murders serve as proof to him that…

In 1893, a woman named Sarah Collins was brutally murdered by her husband, Patrick Collins, in the cloakroom of the kindergarten at which she was a janitress. In his novel, McTeague, Frank Norris eerily echoed this case, which was claimed to be evidence of social Darwinism. The novel, named after the protagonist, is centered on a man named McTeague, a hulking and dim-witted dentist, and the events that befall him and those around him. Though the novel initially met much resistance and little…