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President Kennedy's Assassination According to Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's 1991 Film JFK

(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...

'The Angel of Death' Serial Killer Donald Harvey

an overly religious nature. And, yet, Harvey was not remarkably religious either. Once he was incarcerated, the length of his tal...

Freudian Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

Evidence Found in the 1996 Case of Jon Benet Ramsey

be suspects after many years of lingering doubt. Still, the timing is curious as Christmas Eve is a time that is usually associate...

Kazuo Ishiguro and Agatha Christie

is not the police: "I am better than the police, said Poirot" (Christie NA). There is a very powerful sense of romance concerni...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Character of Gertrude

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

Courtroom Audiences and Their Importance

lines firmly drawn. The title of the film is taken from the book of Proverbs in the Bible: He that troubleth his own house shall i...

Guilt and Motives in the Case of Lizzie Borden

was struck repeatedly with an axe-like instrument until his face was unrecognizable" (Goldman, 2003; Dorfman, 2001). The original...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Reasonable Doubt A True Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland by Steve Vogel

evidence at the trial. Hendricks was ultimately acquitted of the crime and released from prison in 1991. November 7, 1983 In t h...

Justice and the O.J. Simpson Double Murder Case

he received All-American honors at the University of Southern California, won the Heisman Trophy in 1968 and set several National ...

Suicide or Murder of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

Films A Place in the Sun, Double Indemnity, Suspicion and the Interaction Between Money, Love, and Murder

these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...

Directors as Authors in the Movie Germany in Autumn

Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rup?, Vol...

Middle Ages Representation of Macbeth

altered these events to increase the dramatic impact of his play. This being the case, however, the principal manner in which Shak...

Guilt or Innocence in Robert Blake's Murder Case

is important for the student to realize how the inherent fallibility of first-hand testimony has been the focus of myriad debates,...

Trial of O.J. Simpson

the jury members were selected, they were not under any direction not to watch the local newscasts and so would have been exposed ...

DNA Testing and Joseph Wambaugh's The Blooding

tights, underpants and shoes were in a rolled-up heap about ten or fifteen feet away.2 She was naked from the waist down, with her...

Adult Punishment for Murderous Teens

"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...

Emily Mann's The Execution of Justice and Social Injustice

an interesting portrayal of the injustices which exist in American culture and, in particular, our justice system. The play is cl...

Jealousy and Love in William Shakespeare's Othello

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

East and West Coast Rap Wars and the Deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

for example (Kinnon, 1997). However, the genre changed around 1988 with the emergence of a sub-genre termed gangsta rap (1997). A ...

Critiques of 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson Examined

that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...

Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

Tate LaBianca Murder Trial Chronology and Charles Manson

robberies, burglaries of approximately 20 gas stations and the sodomization of a boy in 1952. At that time he was placed into the ...

Ramifications of Social Judgment Theory

level of "ego-involvement" impacts the size of latitudes, in other words, how flexible people are in listening to persuasion (Boot...

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

ones, most notably Tuckers story about his brother Silas, also tell the stories of the history of racism in the South. Nonetheless...

1980 Crimes

well-known and senseless killings of 1980 was the cold-blooded killing of famous Beatle John Lennon. As Lennon stepped from a lim...

Murder Charges and Drunk Drivers

In fifteen pages this paper argues in favor of murder charges for those who kill a person or persons when driving while intoxicate...

Arguing Against Capital Punishment

also recognized that the "overburdened public defense attorneys" who often represent the poor may be a part of the problem that ha...