...“A Brother’s Murder” Everyone is born the way they are but can people actually change that for other people and have influence on other people? People either go into the life of a good person or a bad person but can always be changed by the influence of others and in the story Staples brother goes into the bad life and ends up being shot and killed because of gang violence and drugs. In “A Brother’s Murder” by Brent Staples expressed how he felt about when his younger brother Blake was murdered. Brent Staples explain how they both were raised in Chester, Pennsylvania, a heavily black, poor, industrial city with lots of violence. Staples remember how his cousin, neighbors and others were killed. One explanation and sample I read was about teens in there twenties were killing one another because they wanted to be real men. It said that killing was extreme; teens were in gangs and were becoming drug dealers. They used to fight and would kill each other, and they were not allowed to cross-territories lines or else all hell would break loose, which is never good. Staples gives an example on how to get away from all that violence. He protected himself by moving out form the industrial city where he grew up. After graduated he moved to Chicago and became a journalist. Within ten years after he left his hometown he became a better person, educated, and all settled in a quiet place. He was still in communication about his old world, the industrial city he grew up; he still heard...
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...A Second Bite of the Apple Kimberly Richards Kaplan University Dual Sovereignty Doctrine “Dual sovereignty doctrine provides that when a defendant in a single act violates the “peace and dignity” of two sovereigns by breaking the laws of each, he has committed two distinct “offences” for double jeopardy purposes. In applying the doctrine, the crucial determination is whether the two entities that seek successively to prosecute a defendant for the same course of conduct can be termed separate sovereigns. This determination turns on whether the prosecuting entities’ powers to undertake criminal prosecutions derive from separate and independent sources. It has been uniformly held that the states are separate sovereigns with respect to the federal government because each states’ power to prosecute derives from its inherent sovereignty, preserved to it by the Tenth Amendment, and not from the federal government. Give the distinct sources of their powers to try a defendant, the states are no less sovereign with respect to each other than they ae with respect to the Federal Government.” (Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82 (1985) Pp. 437 -439) A Second Bite of the Apple Double jeopardy clause prevents the government from prosecuting a person accused of a crime more than once for the same offense. To bar from retrying the accused if the prior prosecution had progressed to the point in which jeopardy had attached; if it involved the same offenses; and if both prosecutions where...
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...by killing another person, which resulted in terrible consequences. There were many terrible sins committed, most of which were related to lies, betrayal and worst of all, murder. These terrible sins eventually led to negative consequences which built up and led to death. Everyone in the play Hamlet committed sins except for Horatio, who was the only survivor at the end of the play. This proves that all the other characters committed terrible sins that led to death. The sins and mistakes these other characters made led to their death. All of the characters in Hamlet deserved what they got. Both Hamlet and Laertes tried to avenge the death of a loved one by wanting to kill someone else. Claudius murdered his own brother for selfish needs; all three characters deserved death as a consequence. Young Hamlet has committed murder; Hamlet has killed his own uncle king Claudius for revenge. Revenge resulting to murder is a sin, which exactly what Hamlet did, he committed a sin. “A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send.” (III.iii.76-77) After Hamlet found out the truth of his father’s death he decided to avenge his death, which meant killing Claudius. The thought of killing someone is a murderous sin. The fact that Hamlet wants to murder Claudius means that Hamlet has committed a sin. Hamlet did not only think about killing Claudius, he actually followed through with his plan of killing Claudius. Following...
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...The Menendez Brothers: Privileged Until the End Lyle and Erik Menendez were two young men who lived a very privileged life and wanted for very little, mostly because their father, Jose who worked so hard to give these boys and wife Mary Louise, known as Kitty, everything they could possibly need. However, this lifestyle did not seem to be a great as everyone thought. On the night of August 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik murdered both of their parents with an unclear motive. Although the motive for these violent acts are still said to be unclear, it is known that their father was extremely tough on them. Always placing such high expectations on the boys, and when they failed to meet them, enforced repercussions. After being known to put these high expectations on the boys, there...
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...turmoil with an internal monologue. In Claudius's soliloquy, he states that he had murdered his brother,the absolute confirmation that such an act has occurred. Through Claudius soliloquy, Shakespeare reveals Claudius's inner character and further characterizes his disposition, though the remorse he feels is not for his slain brother but for the consequences he faces because of it. Shakespeare is able to depict Claudius’s internal conflict and how it reflects his character. In Claudius’s confession, Shakespeare is able to expose a sharp alteration to his character; he goes from being a fraud to a caring, sensitive, and emotional human being. WIth the first line in his soliloquy, Claudius’s grieves over the fact he has murdered his brother--the king: “O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven”(3.3 40). With the use of hyperbole, Claudius’s is able to emphasize his sin is so foul that it can even be smelled from “heaven”. The “rank” he has stolen as king is an “offense”, which also emphasizes Claudius’s regret over killing the king. This is unusual for Claudius’s as he is suppose hide under the facade of a person who has killed the king--a insensitive character who only cares for power. Claudius’s feels cursed by his atrocity, that God has struck him: “It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t”(3.3 41). With this allusion to the Biblical tale of cain, cursed by God for murdering his brother, Shakespeare shows Claudius’s deep anxiety. Claudius’s wants to be forgiven for his sin and seeks...
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...Tison had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a guard whom he killed in the course of a prison escape. After spending a number of years in jail, Tison’s wife, their three sons, Tison’s brother and other relatives engineered a prison escape. The escape was executed such that no shots were fired at the prison. However, after the escape, the getaway car had a flat tire. The group elected to flag down a passing motorist and steal a car. A car occupied by John Lyons, his wife Donnelda, his two-year-old son Christopher and his 15-year-old niece, Theresa Tyson, pulled over to render aid. Gary Tison and his former cellmate Randy Greenawalt, intentionally shot and killed all four passengers. Several days later, the Tisons and Greenawalt were apprehended at a police roadblock. A firefight broke out. Donald Tison was killed at the scene; Gary Tison was wounded and escaped into the desert where he later died. The two remaining Tison brothers were tried individually for capital murder in the deaths of the Lyonses. The murder charges were predicated on Arizona's felony-murder statute, which provided that killings that occurred during a robbery or kidnapping were first-degree, death-eligible murder. The Tison brothers were convicted. At a separate sentencing hearing, three aggravating factors were proved: the Tisons had created a grave risk of death to others, the murders were committed for pecuniary gain, and the murders were especially heinous, cruel, or depraved. The Arizona...
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...In the Shakespearean play “Hamlet”, the main character’s, Prince Hamlet, revelations of the sins committed by his uncle, Claudius, adds to the tension that already existed between the two and is the catalyst to the tragic events that take place within the play. The grievances that Hamlet had against his Claudius, now his step-father and King, is the murder of his father, the theft of his crown and Claudius’ hasty marriage of his mother and queen, Gertrude. The main grievance Hamlet has with his uncle is the murder of his father, the king. Already grieving over death of his father, Hamlet discovers, by confession of his father, that Claudius murder him in order to become king. Called to action by his friend Horatio and the guards who have witness appearances of a ghost during their night watch, Hamlet goes to confront the ghost that looks like the late King Hamlet. A ghost doomed to walk the earth for an unspecified number of years to atone for the sins that he was not able to confess, King Hamlet Sr., tells the prince that he was murdered by Claudius through foul means. He states, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural” (249), demanding that Hamlet, his son, avenge his ill-conceived death. Overcome with grief and anger at the injustice done to him (as Claudius has managed to steal the crown from him) and his father, Hamlet begins to plot...
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...The first quote sums up the narrator’s intention of writing this novel and the town’s fascination with the crime of honor. Throughout the span of the novel, it becomes increasingly clear that the murder had to happen. Santiago’s fate was to die for the sake of honor as well as the functionality of the town. Although, it is not even clear that he took Angela’s virginity the murder needed to happen. This demonstrates the irrationality of the values. There is no fact showing that he in fact took this virginity but the town needs to point a finger to move on. This quote is illustrative of the town’s obsession with the murder and its inevitability as fate. However, due to the town’s obsessive nature it may be that some townspeople have difficulty rationalizing the event. Perhaps in hindsight they begin to realize their guilt in the crime. When the narrator writes that no one could talk about anything else, it suggests that the event had an adverse effect on the town. It was society’s fault for creating these ridiculous standards. Many people could’ve prevented it from happening but no one did. The blame of the crime shouldn’t be placed on the brother’s because society dismissed it as something that needed to happen. However, according to excerpt the knowledge of the facts isn’t pivotal to the town’s people; this is witnessed when the narrator says “that we weren’t doing it on an urge to clear up mysteries”. Perhaps, some of the more traditional member’s of this town are more interested...
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...25,1996. Her case was never solved and it has been twenty years. The belief of this case has been unsolved for multiple reasons.According to deep research she found in the wine cellar of the family house taped up with a fractured skull. They found a suppose it ransom note,but they couldn’t find any DNA on the note.Also in that ransom note they say it's similar to the mother’s handwriting in the note and the sharpie came from the house. They found the murder weapon to be a flashlight and she was battered with it. As well as seeing the evidence lead up to no clues on her murder,but they found the range of how she was hit and they believed it was a young child. Also in the intense they couldn’t find any true evidence if it was true. Her brother was most under investigation, because he had a pure hate it for his sister. They had to investigate 140 people who could be the actually suspect in the crime. The case took so long they had to move the case to the FBI,because the family thought the police wasn’t working hard enough. Her brother had a complex issues with himself and he wanted he sister gone. The evidence found couldn’t define it was him or not they felt a hunch that could have been him that night....
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...God creates the world by dividing it into a system of doubles—the sun and the moon, light and dark, the land and the sea, and male and female. When Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, and when Cain kills his brother Abel, good and evil become apparent in the otherwise perfect world that god creates. It is described in Genesis that not only is man made in the image of God, making man parallel to god, but woman, also contrasts with man, because of how she was created from man’s rib. Old Testament writers describe the world as a place of binary opposites, setting two opposing forces against each other in order to show the stark contrast between the two. These forces include positive and negative, good and bad, and lesser and greater. The Old...
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...into poetic verse. 'Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in loves eye!' This is the first two lines of Keats's Isabella, from the start Keats uses imaginative description, this again is another difference of the two. Boccaccio's writing is far more factual, this creates a good affect but Keats chooses the other option and lets his imagination and also the reader's imagination to tell the story. 'Know then that there were at Messina three young men, that were brothers and merchants, who were left very rich on the death of their father' As you can see by comparing the two beginnings of each piece, it is easy to see their differences already. In the beginning of Keats's version he immediately refers to the lovers, he bases his whole poem around the love of these two people, however Boccaccio's original is quite different, he starts off by talking of the brothers, and he instead of love his story revolves around murder and treachery. This major difference could be put down to the fact that the two pieces were written 4 centuries apart, Boccaccio's being written in the 14th and Keats's in the 18th. This I feel plays a huge part in the differences between them, writing styles had changed dramatically since Boccaccio wrote the original 'Decameron'. This is clearly visible in the languages they both use, Boccaccio uses old contemporary grammar and Keats's uses a far more modern style and language. 'With...
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...Mufasa and King Hamlet both fulfill the roles of a dedicated father giving a good example of a loving father and a proper example of kingship. Both are righteous and teach the main protagonists, Hamlet and Simba, the importance of right from wrong. Both characters are also murdered by their brother counterparts so that said brother can achieve the monarchy status of king. Both characters also fulfill a “ghost role,” although what the two say when in their ghost-like form to the protagonists are different, they both motivate and enrich the protagonists towards their goals and let them see the roles they must play. They are a solid role model for both protagonists as well. Scar and Claudius fulfill the roles as villains in both stories. Both...
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...A capable king or a foolish peasant? That is the question. The tragic story of Hamlet written by William Shakespeare in the 1600’s invites us into the minds of many ruthless characters. Claudius was appointed king after his brothers’ suffering death followed by his marriage to the queen. Claudius plays a confident king to the eye of Denmark,; yet inside he is unstable and hides an unforgiving secret that he himself killed the king. His erratic behavior begins to worry him about his choices and eventually leads him into destroying his relationships with the people closest to him. This essay will investigate the process Claudius went through as he descends from his aspiration to be king, to guilt, to finally, self-defeat. Claudius made a courageous speech to the court about his sorrows towards the kings’ death. However, he was just trying to cover up how he betrayed his own brother. Claudius shows confidence and leadership in his speech, he started with saying “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death/The memory be green, and that it us befitted/To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom/To be contracted in one brow of woe” (1. 2, 1-4). This shows the reader that Claudius is taking charge of the situation and telling the people of the court to stay strong and move on; displaying his ambition to be king. As declared by Nicholas J. Bonnet, “This speech seems carefully planned out, as if Claudius had written it out before he delivered it” in his article on Student Pulse...
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...Mirabelli, 1 Hamlet Tragedy reveals the true identity of a person as it draws out one’s deepest inner emotions; this is evident in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. In the play, the newly appointed King and brother of the late King Hamlet, is responsible for the murder of his own brother and Denmark’s beloved ruler. The new King, Claudius, displays several different sides of himself to his audience when all begins to go awry. He now knows that the former King’s son, Hamlet, knows of his murder, his friend Polonius was killed by a seemingly insane Hamlet, and Polonius’ children are losing their sense of sanity and are blaming Claudius for their father’s murder. Within his speech, Claudius shows his true inner guilt over murdering his brother now that everything seems to be falling apart. Also, his sensitive side is portrayed for Polonius’ children and the loss of their beloved father. Finally, the King is shown to be deceiving and manipulative with others, showing himself as innocent and hurt when he is far from innocent. In Shakespeare’s original version of Hamlet, Claudius’ speech in Act IV, scene v, effectively captures the attention of not only the Elizabethan audience of the play, but also his wife Gertrude. Just like any villain, Claudius has a very guilty conscience that slowly comes out during the play. Firstly, he mentions that everything is going horribly, and the audience can identify a sense of guilt when Claudius brings up this point. Within the speech...
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...done with good intention and under and good cause. The town expected the Vicario brothers to have killed Santiago Nassar for dishonoring her family and the killing would have restored her family’s status and avenged them from the horrible actions bestowed upon them. The Vicario brothers even confirmed that they “would have done it again a thousand times over for the same reason.” (page 48)They had no desire to truly kill him, as stated in the second quote, as they had told everyone in town of their plan to kill Santiago yet, they had failed to have someone stop them from killing him. It was “an act of great dignity” (page 49)according to the town and Colombian culture. The Vicario twins knew the consequences of the murder yet had to abide by their family and continue with their actions even if they had no true desire of doing so. The town expected these actions and did nothing to stop them. This can be supported by the quote on page 50 “There had never been a death more foretold.” #5: The beginning paragraph of chapter 5 is a very interesting and eye opening one. The first sentence “For years we couldn't talk about anything else.” shows the towns obsession with the murder of Santiago Nassar. Despite the many years that have passed, the murder is all they could think about because they each had a specific role they played in the murder. Most were not in action participants like the Vicario brothers but they all knew that Santiago was going to be killed yet didn't do a single thing...
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