Prison Break

Is Adnan guilty or innocent? In the podcast and transcript, Adnan was a high school teenager, whose best friend is Jay. Adnan was the one that killed Hae which is his ex-girlfriend. A few days after Hae was killed, Adnan got sent to jail for his crime of murder. A detective named Sarah Koenig was investigating whether Adnan actually did killed Hae. When Sarah was listening to Jay when he was being interviewed by a police, he told 2 different stories which gave the police a lot of complications…

All it takes is two simple words: it's over. As Bitterness, frustration, and confusion flooded my vision, I stood there not wanting to hear the rest. Breakups happen to the best of us, but that does not make it any easier. Shawn Mendes has been through moments like this as well, showing the vulnerable side to him in his second album Illuminate. As Mendes walks his listeners through the album, he exposes how he feels, thinks, and acts towards his recent relationship. Illuminate is inspirational…

Scholars have developed some theories that could be applied in the way communication is done in relationships. These theories could talk about couples coming together, their expectations of each other, or maybe about couples breaking up. The movie The Break-Up shows one kind of how relationships could go. The interpersonal relationship between Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) was mostly showing breaking up stages. Many interpersonal…

costs more money than he has. In this line, "...And when she lifted a chocolate/ That cost a dime,/ I didn't say anything" (line 33-35). Soto ends the line with "I didn't say anything and does not continue the poem until the following line. This is a break in his pattern of frequent enjambment and calls attention to this line, which is the first time the speaker is forced…

Loss of Innocence Loss of innocence is an inevitable part of growing up. However, in A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene is exposed to the outside world and realizes humanity’s capabilities before other boys his age. Although, the Devon School shelters the boys from the war and preserves their innocence, Gene is exposed to the outside world and the war going on. This causes Gene to realize the evil of man in society and himself. Gene’s experiences at Devon represent a loss of innocence as…

Increased Reliance on Prisons What does the available evidence have to say about whether increased reliance on prisons is a viable explanation for the drop in crime in the 1990s? In the 1990s a large increase in prison population is linked to increase punishment with lower crime rates. Criminals that did petty crimes that normally were set free were now being locked up, violent crimes were locked up longer. In the year 2000 two million people were in prison. Prisons are expensive, however the…

Despite solitary confinement being widely accepted and practiced among most of the prisons in the United States, there are several Supreme Court case precedents that help prove the use of this punishment is unconstitutional. In the Supreme Court case Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 (1958), U.S. Army private Albert Trop escaped from his punishment in a military stockade for a disciplinary violation. Even though he decided to go back he was still court martialed for his actions, and as a result he had…

not right to break the law. To break the law is a form of disrespect to the government. Laws are made to protect and to keep the country in control. If everyone breaks the law, there will be no order and there will be endless chaos. When people break laws, it shows everyone else surrounding them that its okay to just do whatever you want. People that breaks laws assume that the police cant touch them, and that there wont be any consequences involved. Depending on the laws that you break, the…

aspect, I was not too worried and I did not feel as though I needed some sort of preparation. I tend to spend a lot of time alone in a small room. My main concern was definitely not being able to use electronics and the restricted bathroom and water breaks. My preparation is hardly comparable to what an offender goes through before a period of incarceration. Piper Kerman’s preparation detailed in her book Orange is the New Black, was much different…

Unit, is defined as isolating an inmate from the general population for twenty-two to twenty-three hours a day for months or years. Its main purpose is to punish inmates who break prison rules or endanger prison guards and other inmates. First, let’s take a step back and look at the downfall of solitary confinement. U.S prisons must ban solitary confinement because it causes psychological effects on inmates, it is considered cruel and unusual punishment and doesn't provide any known…