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“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Murder in the Deep South

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

Understanding Memento

the protagonist, Leonard, is very confusing, since his memory of recent actions fades roughly every twenty minutes, taking him bac...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Princess Diana’s Death

was in terms of the media, so are many people in the world. President Bush is surely a victim of the press, and perhaps rightly so...

Ann Jones/ "Women Who Kill"

be viewed within its historical context in order to be fully understood. For example, rather than viewing the Salem Witch Trials a...

The Trial of Tom Robinson: America in the 1930s

in Scottsboro, Alabama (Champion). In these proceedings, nine black men were accused of raping two white women; both groups had be...

Violent Crimes and Female Perpetrators

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

Problems and Solutions of Serial Murder

them by type ("Serial killer," 2005). Motive types of serial killing include the visionary, one that is mission oriented, the hedo...

Sociological Phenomenon of Serial Killing

of the subject. He notes that many earlier studies tend to focus on a psychiatric model (such as Abrahamsen, 1973) or with what he...

First Person Fictional Narrative on an 'Ideal' Trip

doors. We prepared for some time and I wanted the trip to be perfect. He asked if this trip lived up to my expectations. I said ye...

Town of Maycomb's Role in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" (Lee 10). In this one gets the impression that it i...

Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Structural Contrast

to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...

Fighting the Vietnam War

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

Cinematic Analysis of The Killing Fields

of hope and a future for the people, not a controlled government that decimates the people. Without really having been in ...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...

Overview of Mercy Killing

history Even though the debate over life vs. assisted death keeps heating up, it is by no means a new one. The...

Telling More Than a Good Story in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

but a poor teacher, and we learn this more and more as the story unfolds. We further see this important theme, that being which...

An Explanation and Possible Solutions Regarding a Seven Year Old Child's Antisocial and Aggressive Behavior

(Papert, 1999, p. 104+) - believed that children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the ...

Circumstance and Characterization

from his self induced stupor. Chris stood and glared at the man. The dim light offered little definition to the mans face, but the...

Harry T. Moore and His Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

1911's Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

hours and poor pay" (Kovacik, 1998, p. 137) - had decided to stay late that particular March Saturday in 1911. With a standard we...

Enforced Leisure and Its Dangers

Much of Europe always has predisposed to "big government" and a view that the government needs to oversee the welfare of its citiz...

Education in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

they are adults who can understand issues at his level. By the time Scout attends her first day of school she is highly literate,...

Maycomb, Alabama and Themes of Loneliness and Childhood in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Montgomery. It could be contended that even the geographical location of Maycomb is a critical element in Lees plot. Montgomery,...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...

Surviving Rwanda: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Evil

The dialogue uses the book The Lucifer effect as its main source; the people have been hiding in the bathroom for a week at the po...

Jeffrey Dahmer: An Analysis of Crime Causation

left behind a criminal legacy that hopefully will never be equaled. His perverse activities spanned a thirteen year period but hi...

Jack and Twenty One Grams of Multiple Personality Disorder

therapeutic steps down the path of recovery. The loss of 21 grams of soul is Jack stripping himself of his other personalities, t...

Mending Wall and To Kill a Mockingbird

narrator is speaking of fences, a fence that divides his land from his neighbors. He wonders about why people have fences, especia...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...