Mug shot

Cover page: What is the root of poor decisions that leads one to an imprisoned life being weighed down by shackles that one created on their own? Throughout this project my question has remained the same. What is the hold up to a successful life? As I began to explore my line of inquiry I came up with a few proposals to how one can be influenced to live a destructive lifestyle where their definition of success and goals was taught to them by hiphopcracy. A strong proposal that dominated my…

When a Suspect and a Victim Become Friends On January 16th, 1985, Ronald Cotton was convicted of the two counts of burglary and two counts of rape. He pleaded not guilty throughout the trial, but he was found guilty by the court. There were many factors that sent him to prison, such as: his prior criminal record, the three factors that can influence an officer’s use of discretion, the evidence against him, and more. After 10 years in prison, he was exonerated by DNA testing. Not long after,…

The Catching Fire film opens to the sweeping shot of a hazy, grey forest. Perhaps is it winter, but the tell-tale signs are too vague to assume. A fade to black, and the back of a woman appears, silhouetted. Katniss Everdeen gazes outward, toward the expanse of the lake she once shared with her father. Crouched on the rocks as a bird, perched with clipped wings. Her bow is strung. At the ready. A cut to her face, and those Seam eyes are too far gone. She is focused on something that she wishes…

For many people, the best part of waking up is knowing a fresh cup of coffee with a shot of espresso will be there to help get them going. For those people who may not have received a full night 's rest, a shot of espresso will really help to alert the body and get it going for the day. After heading out the door, the first stop is usually the coffeehouse for a piping hot cup of coffee, a smooth latte or a cappuccino with swirls of espresso inside! But, what about the times when the clock is…

months at Riker’s Island from which I returned penniless, homeless, and forced to take sex offender classes for five months with pedophiles and perverts while he returned to his wife in his Fifth Avenue high rise without ever being fingerprinted, mug shot, remanded or charged with a crime under the very law he signed,” said Davis. By now American voters should have learned the lesson of caveat emptor, or buyer beware, when choosing candidates who present themselves as a “family values”…

Advertisements tend to perpetuate stereotypes, often sexualizing models and displaying them in ways that conform to social norms. I struggled with finding an ad for men’s cosmetics, and found it very interesting that the best example I came across, a L’Oréal ad, had the slogan “Be yourself, and never let go.” This slogan says a lot about the socially constructed concept of masculinity, while the highly controversial ad for Benefit eyeliner clearly perpetuates the construction of femininity. The…

blood cells and release their contents into my veins? The yellow color would soon go away forever, only memorialized by all the photographs taken by my proud parents. “Why do you look so yellow?” said my best friend Garret when I showed him my baby shots. “Incompatibility of blood types and release of indirect bilirubin,” my physician father fed me the explanation. I…

The Stanford prison experiment was an investigation of the mental impacts of turning into a detainee or jail monitor. The investigation was directed at Stanford University on August 14–20, 1971, by a group of analysts drove by brain science teacher Philip Zimbardo utilizing undergrads. It was subsidized by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and was important to both the U.S. Naval force and Marine Corps as an examination concerning the reasons for strife between military gatekeepers and detainees…

This photo was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a Full Self-Portrait, “New Woman”, in 1896. She received her first camera from George Eastman, the inventor of the Eastman Kodak and a family friend. She became a noted advocate for women’s photography as well as a documenter of key historic events. When she opened her own studio in New York in 1894, She was the only woman photographer in the city. Johnston also photographed many famous photographs in Paris, but perhaps her most famous work,…

other guest arrived for Thanksgiving dinner at my house we sat down at the kitchen island for the interview and I gave her a christmas mug…