The Wrong Man

life. Pyle’s bombs are not Fowler’s primary motivator, they are his primary excuse. Fowler’s text is a long-form confession, all but admitting that it is Pyle’s affection for Phuong that gets him killed, not the bombs he sets off on Saigon. Any explanation that defends Fowler’s actions as moral struggles to hold water. If Fowler’s ultimate goal is to end the bombings in Vietnam, why does he decide to take action against Pyle (as opposed to General Thé) and why does he feel so much guilt during and after the event? How will killing a plastics supplier prevent (and not just delay) the threat of bombs in Vietnam? The efficacy of getting rid of Pyle is questionable, yet Fowler still sacrifices his innocence in the name of this shoddy plan. For a man who is averse to getting involved, Fowler is leaving a lot up to chance. Unless peace is not his main concern. Unless his involvement is primarily intended to elicit the death of the American. Assuming he is motivated to act because of Pyle’s relationship with Phuong, the aforementioned questions immediately become clarified. This interpretation of Fowler’s motivations is also more consistent with his self-narrated character. Fowler has only ever been moved to act when he himself is a benefactor. On his own admission, he leaves his religious wife in England and constantly requests a divorce, despite her wishes. He claims possession of Phuong, even though she and her sister have a preference for younger, unmarried men. Their…

The courts got it all wrong; they jailed the wrong man! In 1999, a student at Woodlawn High School was accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend. His name was Adnan Syed; he was accused, tried, and convicted of murdering a fellow student. The body of Hae Min Lee, an eighteen-year-old senior, was found in Leakin Park. When the state wrongly convicted him for Hae Min Lee’s murder, the prosecutors used testimonies from suspects that were inconsistent and they attempted to vilify him to make him out to…

The terms structure and direction can seem overwhelming and difficult to understand, but when trying to comprehend certain issues, events, or ideas, those terms can help in the distinguishing between right and wrong. Structure and direction can also help in understanding how some things are the way they are and how they got that way. Everyone can have their own ideas of how structure and direction apply to certain issues also, which sometimes allows for disagreement. Using my own interpretation…

As most counselling professionals work in teams, this is easier for them to know what to do and also easier in helping them in their work. Morality is often defined as how an individual thinks about what is right and what is wrong and also think weather if what they are about to do is considered good or bad behaviour. Morality is also often drawn from temptation of the individual and also greed for example if an individual were to find a bag of money on the floor, would that individual take it…

When defining the word ethics, I think of it as a moral guideline of what is right and wrong. How do we define what is right and what is wrong is based upon how we were taught and raised. As a person with Chinese background, I believe culture plays a huge role in defining ethics. Born as a Chinese American, I often find it hard for myself to fit into the “Chinese group” while attending at Penn State. Probably because I never had any Chinese friends prior to college. I grew up in a small town in…

She starts her week more actions which are wrong in comparison to the right actions. She managed her actions only on day 3 where her right actions were more than the wrongs ones. This is the day when she performs community services where she has to resolve one issue per week for the society in which she lives. This activity is launched through her university where she will present her task so that other university student can get inspiration from her activities. Besides this one day, she acts…

marriage. Her sarcastic tone in that line stresses how women have no power at all, and they can only “rise” to power if men give them that power through marriage. Her sarcasm also suggests that marriage will not let them rise to power at all. In fact, they will become even more trapped by their husbands and therefore lose their agency. Similarly, Mary Wollstonecraft’s novel, Maria depicts a woman trapped in marriage with female protagonist Maria being literally unjustly imprisoned by her…

for the better. And you can’t do better unless someone points out what you are doing wrong that’s causing drama and problems in your life. I have prayed about it and read about it and I have gained a little balance but it still is a question that comes up for me often. Then I had the pleasure of meeting John the Uber driver. In his previous life he was a social worker who eventually became a social worker with a drinking problem. He put that issue behind him and moved on but he told me as an…

Denny needed a drink. That’s what he decided. But he thought better of it. Too much was happening to be getting drunk. Yes, it was his vacation—classic drinking time—but even so. He felt like he’d been pretty much cleared by this Detective Washington, but the fact of the matter was that the scumbag who killed Rashida was still out there. And Denny was determined to help find the guy. Then again, he remembered Jimmy Clarke. He didn’t want to end up a fall guy like Jimmy had. Thirty-six months in…

Every man had gone through a different method of torture. One bloody man is strapped onto a chair with an eyeball hanging out of his skull. One man is strapped to a table with all his legs cut off. Another is shackled to the wall with his balls cut off. All of these men seem to have been left to die bleeding in one way or another. They must've been that close to dying because they didn't seem to react to the yelling further down and some of them were even twitching oddly. It wasn't until we were…