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  • Story About White Crime
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    UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition Mai Pham Another Senseless Hate Crime March 5, 1997 Another Senseless Hate Crime Tragedy befell the Vietnamese community on Jan 29, 1996, when Thien Minh Ly, a 24-year old Vietnamese man and former graduate of UCLA, was murdered while rollerblading in his Tustin hometown high school tennis court. Ly was found lying in a pool of blood the following morning by a janitor, maimed by an excessive number of stabbing wounds to various parts of his body, as well as slashing ...
  • Murder And Lonnot
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    Upon my first reading of Jorge Luis Borges Death and the Compass I found myself reacting to the chain of events not unlike the bland but efficient Inspector Treviranus. The Hotel du Nord with its hateful whiteness, numbered divisibility, and general appearance of a bordello seemed a natural place for a crime of greed and betrayal to have gone sour on a luckless criminal. The lure of priceless sapphires and mistaken destination was more than enough to recreate the crime that had taken place. Insp...
  • Nathan Leopold And Richard Loeb
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    Social reaction to school massacres and inexplicable acts of violence among the teenage population in the late twentieth century flooded television news programs and media broadcasting almost on a monthly basis. Many Americans questioned why such seemingly healthy and established children would want to harm themselves and others around them. Several psychological and moral issues arise from this question. Despite legal efforts to differentiate between adult and adolescent crimes, many argue that...
  • McKinney And Henderson
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    Matthew Shepard Case Brief Facts: Twenty one year old, University of Wyoming college student, Matthew Shepard, died October 12, 1998 at 12: 53 a.m. after spending five days in a comma due to massive injuries and head trauma in a robbery and hate crime assault (Matthew Shepard, 2000 [on-line]). Matthew Shepard met Aaron McKinney (22) and Russell Henderson (21) of Laramie in a local bar called Fireside Lounge. McKinney and Henderson had been drinking. The two led Shepard to believe they were gay a...
  • Death Penalty Deters Crime
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    In the book The Chamber John Grisham shares the need for the death penalty in our society. The death penalty has existed as long as humans have existed. The quote "an eye for an eye" is found in the Bible. In the middle ages fines, public humiliation and imprisonment were appropriate punishments for all crimes, and death penalty for all murders. Today, Federal law states that the death penalty is to be enforced with convicted criminals for: treason; deserting armed forces during wartime; murder ...
  • Parmenter And Beradelli
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    SACCO & VANZETTI The Sacco and Vanzetti Case was an extremely controversial murder trial held in Massachusetts from 1921-1927. The two defendants were Nicola Sacco who was a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a self-employed fish-peddler. While both men did want to earn a living, neither of them seem to have been overly preoccupied with achieving wealth. They were generous, and just wanted, as Vanzetti said, 'a little land to grow, a roof, some books. ' Neither of the men had any kind of prior ...
  • Hickock And Smith
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    'In Cold Blood' Review 'In Cold Blood' is a tragic story of two men, Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward, who murder an entire family in search of money and then find themselves running from the law. While writing the book, Truman Capote used only facts to create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes on the subject, but his problem was making his book read like a novel. He accomplished this by adding dialogue and describing characters feelings. This technique is used in the film ...
  • Wargrave The Number Of Murders
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    Two policeman, Sir Thomas Legge and Inspector Maine, discuss the perplexing Indian Island case. They have reconstructed much of what happened on Indian Island from diaries kept by various guests. It is clear to them that the murderer was not Blore, Lombard, or Vera. When they arrived, the police found the chair Vera kicked away to hang herself mysteriously set upright against the wall. We learn that Isaac Morris, who hired Lombard and Blore and bought the island in the name of U.N. Owen, died of...
  • Amount Of Violent Crime
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    How often have we heard the statement Two wrongs dont make a right Yet, is this saying ever really applied to our lives When do we ever turn the other cheek As far as history is concerned, the human race has never felt the sting of a hand consecutively on both sides. Evidence to this can be found anywhere. Soldiers kill the enemy to win the war. Athletes become violent in order to obtain a trophy. And, in the judicial system, the ultimate crime of murder is dealt with the ultimate punishment of ...
  • Narrator Of The Tell Tale Heart
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    Some people believe that most murderers have a mental illness which causes them to commit their crime. This belief is strongly disagreed with by the authors Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Cask of Amontillado are very similar in this contradiction. Each murderer takes a specific journey that has been illustrated in each case. The psychological make-up of each murderer shows that he is a normal person up to the point at whic...
  • Help Of Alvirah Rhonda
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    Blake Moreland The Lottery Winner Clark, Mary Pocket Books 1994 SETTING: The book starts out in Manhattan, New York in modern times. The book mostly takes place in New York city but throughout the book they also travel to London, England, cypress point spa, and several other places. The book ends back in Manhattan, New York. CHARACTERS: 1. Alvirah Meehan is a former maid that is near her sixties and has quit her job after her and her husband struck it rich in the winning of the lottery. Alvirah ...
  • Rae Carruth
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    Rae, We Pray for you Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated. Ralph Waldo Emerson Is Rae Carruth unsettled Is he bothered Is Carruth in the contemplative mood yet I certainly hope he is. Rae Carruth has taken away a human life. He has violated that certain enjoyment that exists in life. It is what separates the human race, from all...
  • Celebrated Cases Of Judge Dee
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    The Chinese Culture The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee allows its readers to gain a perspective of the people and culture of China. This novel translated by Robert Van Guilin demonstrates the ideology of Chinese law of that point in time. Judge Dee, during the Tang Dynasty, was a well-known statesman and a magistrate to a town called Chang-Ping. He was known to be a famous detective, in which he could solve all crimes through careful investigation. In the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, he is face...
  • Infamous Name Jack The Ripper
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    "My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away... ". -Jack the Ripper A Twisted Attraction Jack the Ripper: few names in history are as recognizable as this anonymous assailant's. Violence has always been a twisted attraction for many, yet the mere name 'Jack the Ripper' conjures images of brutality and murder more than one hundred years later. Why is this symbol of crime as popular today as he was during Victorian times? What has continued the fascination with such a villain? Mo...
  • Murderer In Victorian Times And Sherlock Holmes
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    "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "The Speckled Band" were written sixty-four years apart and therefore differ in their style and content, however there are also some similarities present. "Lamb to the Slaughter" was written by Roald Dahl and first published in 1954. He is famous for writing children's books such as "The Twits" and having a vast quantity illustrated by Quentin Blake. He also wrote an autobiography, which he called "Boy", which was aimed at adults. "The Speckled Band" was written by Si...
  • Raskolnikov Being
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    'Tis a stated fact that the physical environment surrounding a living creature has a profound impact on their mind, attitude, charisma, integrity, and basically all the key essentials that makes that creature unique from all others. What Dostoyevsky did in the novel, Crime and Punishment, was make the surrounding environment of St. Petersburg, Russia, during the 1850's, be a noticeably decaying place of both moral and virtue and with this theme of the city being in a constant downward spiral, th...
  • Execution Of An Innocent Person
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    An eye for an eye! If you hit me, I'll hit you back! It this the principle we want to pass down to our future generation? According to the jury on the case of Alexander Sor to, a criminal that was given the death sentence for the murder of two victim, this is the principle we want to pass down to our children. After reading over the article that contain the information on the case, I have take my stand on opposing with the jury decision. I think that the jury didn't made the right decision. Ther...
  • Crimes Of Danny Rolling
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    "The Gainesville Ripper" There is a theory that family life in the early stages of life greatly influences a person's emotions and mental state. The theory has been taken as far as to try and connect the points between serial killers and abusive childhoods. For this theory, the man who was known as the Gainesville Ripper is the poster child. Born on May 26, 1954, Daniel Harold Rolling found himself in a terribly abusive situation in which his father, James, began abusing him before he could walk...
  • Pre Crime
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    Set in a surprisingly realistic vision of what Washington, D.C. might look like in 2054, murder is becoming a thing of the past, thanks in part to the work of John Anderton, a detective in Washington D.C.'s Pre-Crime division. It's his job to stop murders before they happen. While the philosophical ramifications of this are interesting, in the logic of the story there is no paradox to convicting someone of a crime they have not committed, however predestined to do so in theory through three pre-...
  • Island's Guests
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    And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie And Then There Were None, is an intriguing murder mystery novel that follows the lines of a poem called "Ten Little Indians'. The story is intricately written to keep the reader in absolute suspense from the beginning to end. The novel involves eight people being mysteriously invited to spend a summer holiday on "Indian Island'. Among the eight are a judge (Justice John Wargrave), doctor (Edward James Armstrong), military general (General John Macarthu...

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