War is not only causes physical injuries, but emotional ones as well. Throughout history, soldiers returning from war have acquired emotional damage after enduring to the harsh conditions of combat. They suffer from illnesses such as PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress disorder, a disorder in which traumatizing experiences from the past still affect an individual to which they are unlike themselves anymore. Along with PTSD they suffer from moral injury, the pain that results from damage to a person's moral foundation. In All Quiet on The Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque and Thomas Hardy's’ “The Man He Killed” characters struggles with the emotional effects of war. Despite the internal struggle faced by Paul and the speaker from the poem, both…
In 1903 the late Mrs. Annie Johnson of Arkansas found herself with two toddling sons, very little money, a slight ability to read and add simple numbers. To this picture add a disastrous marriage and the burdensome fact that Mrs. Johnson was a Negro. When she told her husband, Mr. William Johnson, of her dissatisfaction with their marriage, he conceded that he too found it to be less than he expected, and had been secretly hoping to leave and study religion. He added that he thought God was calling him not only to preach but to do so in Enid, Oklahoma. He did not tell her that he knew a minister in Enid with whom he could study and who had a friendly, unmarried daughter. They parted amicably, Annie keeping the one-room house and William taking most of the cash to carry himself to Oklahoma.…
Another article I would like to discuss is from People magazine written by Jeff Truesdell, Neighbors of Making a Murderer's Steven Avery Speak Out About His Guilt or Innocence: 'Those of Us Who Live Here Know He's Guilty.’ In this article, Jeff Truesdell interviewed locals of Manitowoc County; Steven Avery’s neighbors. The neighbors paint an incredibly different picture than what is provided in Making a Murderer. The neighbors discuss how much safer they felt now that Steven Avery was back in jail, and how when he was released the first time they believed something strange happened. The general consensus of his neighbors was that he was guilty for the assault he was in jail for originally, and for the crimes he is in jail for now. One neighbor…
The author Renny Cushing is both the founder and executive director of Murder Victims’ Families for human rights. Cushings was affected by the crime of murder himself, as his father was. He now acts as a support of the victims of murder in order to counteract the death penalty. He has also spoken in front of the U.S Congress against the death penalty, and has spent two terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In the beginning paragraphs he describes the hardship the comes of family members being murdered. He states that his views of the death penalty are centered around the victims, and not the morals of the situation. He proceeds to say that the death penalty does not bring those who are lost back to life. He concludes by saying…
I couldn’t dare imagine a situation were I’m kicking and screaming for my life, trying my hardest to get away from the claws of death. And even though everyone can see and hear me yelling at the top of my lungs for help, no one has the courage to do so. In the short story “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” by Martin Gansberg, that was the fate for Catherine Genovese. Gansberg does an exceptional job explaining the events leading up to, and after the tragic death of Catherine Genovese. How could 37 people be aware of what was happening and not one person call the police? Why was the first call made too late? Not everyone can be a hero, but I agree with Gransberg that at least a call should have been made, especially when someones’ life is in danger.…
Levitt and Dubner begin an argument with a murder crime of a woman called Kitty Genovese. Genovese was attacked by a man in a residential area and died because of the bystander effect. As New York newspaper reported, 38 people saw the murder but no one called the police or stop the assailant. This murder case astonished so many people and some people blamed the 38 residents, thought they're indifferent. Then, writers mention the rise of crime in the USA and analyze three reasons of this situation: the policy of releasing prisoners, post-war baby boom and violent TV show. (98-99) When I read this case, I feel angry about the 38 residents and think they're indifferent. At the same time, I also wonder why the residents are so apathetic. Maybe they thought other people will help Genovese; maybe they didn't…
In this situation, I suppose the victims were herself and the other people she scared and put in danger because of her reckless actions.…
This story is a cliché. The ending is neither happy nor is it sad. Take it as you please.…
Twelve Angry Men is a drama written by Reginald Rose concerning the jury of a homicide trial. It was broadcasted initially as a television play in 1954. The following year it made it's path to the stage, and was made a highly successful film. Since then it has been given numerous remakes, adaptations, and tributes.…
The sad events that took place during the murder of Miss Genovese left many wondering as to the reason why the 38 law abiding citizens did not intervene. However, many people sought to understand this occurrence with concerns being raised from all quarters. The sad story got the attention of most scholars among them prominent psychologists such as John Darley and Bibb Latane. The two became interested in understanding the murder of Genovese and in particular the reason why the 38 people who watched for almost forty minutes did not help either passively or actively. Darley and Latane experimented in 1968 four years after the murder of Genovese. The two social Psychologist carried out the famously known Bystander Apathy Experiment. The two discovered that the presence of other bystanders minimizes an individual’s feeling of personal responsibility hence reducing…
The factors that lead to the bystander effect transpiring are firstly, if the individual bystander notices the person in needs, interprets the event to be an emergency and they themselves assume the responsibility to take action or if they follow another’s cue.The death of Kitty Genovese in 1964 inspired research into the bystander effect, 38 people had witnessed Genovese’s attack but no one had taken it upon themselves to call the police who were only called after the attacker had fled. John Darley and Bibb Latane extrapolated the characteristics of Kitty Genovese’s case at New York University to study the occurrence themselves. A woman would seizure in a controlled environment and it would be left to the subjects to decide how they react. Subjects who believed others had heard the same woman’s cry for help would help only 31% of the time whereas subject who believed no one was listening would seek help 85% of the time.A form of discrimination is the reluctance to help, this discrimination may stem from prejudices which then results in the bystander…
John was trying to put in 2 defenses against his charges. He argued that killing a criminal want would be considered as justifiable homicide. Refer to the law about justifiable homicide, homicide to a criminal want is excusable only if a legally sentence of death is imposed on the criminal want. His second defense, which was defense of others, is also not an effective defense. It is because the stranger was walking toward his daughter’s direction, at that point, the action wasn’t threatening anyone. Deadly force should not be used. John was being over-sensitive to the crimial want anouncement. He should have followed the instructions in the news, and call 911 instead of killing the criminal want. His over-sensitiveness in this case is considered as the provocation for his voluntary…
One of the key events that spurred the interest of psychologists in relation to helping behaviour and what facilitates and impedes such acts was the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 (as cited in Collins 2004). Kitty was walking home from work when she was attacked and murdered by a man. It was claimed that Kitty screamed, shouted and attempted to defend herself. It has been reported that 38 people heard her screams and many witnessed the attack, which lasted for over 40 minutes, from their windows. However, nobody tried to help her and nobody phoned the police. This developed the question as to what causes people to help and act in a 'pro-social' manner.…
Understanding when and why people intervene to help others, or when they don’t, is at the heart of social psychology. All students of psychology study the famous case of Kitty Genovese, whose screams while being attacked failed to elicit help from the nearly 40 bystanders. Most research on bystander intervention has found that the size of the group greatly impacts the likelihood of intervention. Too big of a group and everybody shifts responsibility assuming that someone else will help but the more people the less likely that any individual will help.…
In today’s world, being a Good Samaritan is not an easy thing to do when it comes to reporting wrongdoing. First of all, most people among Earth are strangers, and why would a stranger report another person's business if they don't even know what is going on. In the 37 Witnesses but no one Called the Police article, it points out that 37 people did not report the incident. Although this number was very facetious, it still supports the fact that some people did not report the incident because they didn't know Kitty Genovese or her situation. Overall, the result was lethal however; if any of these 37 people had been a Good Samaritan, than it would not have mattered who Kitty was, or how much information the witnesses had on the incident. In the end, it is always…