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English II CP
June 8, 2010
Human Violence and Nature
When thinking of human nature and the violence that surrounds us, most people tend to think of wars, and strive for power. An interesting thing to think about is how some people and ethnic groups consider themselves superior and act on that thought, resulting in genocide. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor describes the horrors of living in a concentration camp. In comparison to the literature, survivors of the Rwandan Genocide have very similar stories to tell about the mass murder of thousands of Tutsis in Africa. In both cases, two groups were sought after and brutally murdered, and both are examples of human nature and violence.
The Holocaust was a period in Germany and German occupied countries where the Nazi Regime, led by Adolf Hitler, decided that Jews, Romas, homosexuals, and handicapped people were a threat to the Aryan race. (Victims of the Holocaust) To fix the “problem”, Hitler led a mass genocide of the Jewish race, sending them and other ethnic groups deemed threatening to concentration camps were they were forced to work and were starved to death. Hitler was convinced that is was the Jewish people’s fault for Germany’s defeat in WW1, and continued to strip away their individual rights until they had no more left and were forced to either go to a concentration camp or try to find a German family who would risk their lives to hide them. By 1945, nearly 2 out of every 3 Jews were killed. (Jewish Genocide)
In Rwanda, Africa, a very similar thing happened. One ethnic group, the Hutu, felt politically challenged by the Tutsis and decided that the Tutsi should be both feared and resented after years of rule over Rwanda. On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the Hutu president Habyarimana was shot down, signaling the start of the Rwandan Genocide. Over the span of a month, the Tutsi population in Africa significantly dropped, and was almost exterminated completely. Not only Tutsis were killed though, several Hutu people who opposed the genocide and the forces behind it where also murdered. Women and children were brutally murdered and raped, and families were killed in their homes when they least expected it. The genocide only ended when the Tutsi dominated rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front or RPF, defeated the Hutu regime and president Paul Kagama took control. (Genocide in Rwanda, Human Rights Council)
In both cases, one group thought they were better than the other and decided they had the right to do something about it. Also, in both cases, help could’ve come form other countries sooner to prevent so many deaths. Both the Jews and the Tutsis were blamed for their countries economic and social problems, and both died unjustly for that. Hitler thought that the blue eyed, blonde hair Aryan race was superior, just as the Hutus thought themselves superior to the Tutsis. About 3/4s of the Tutsi population in Rwanda was killed, and in Germany and German occupied countries, about 2/3s of the Jewish population was exterminated. (History of the Holocaust) Both people were systematically tortured and had their rights stolen from them under cover of war.
Human nature can cause people to do terrible things, like the Holocaust and Rwandan Genocide. When someone gets the idea that somehow they are better, or more superior, or stronger than another, then that idea can lead them to do inhumane things. The systematic killing of any race, religion, orientation, or gender is not right, and only happens because of the beliefs some people have. To act on violence when faced with the opportunity has become the human way. People, when faced with the chance, would sooner act with violence that try to work out a problem, or just turn the other cheek, and that is something that our race needs to work on.
Sara Johnson - Lew
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Genocide in Rwanda, Human Rights Council retrieved June 4, 2010
Jewish Genocide retrieved June 4, 2010
Victims of the Holocaust retrieved June 7, 2010
History of the Holocaust retrieved June 4, 2010
Mr.Hartshorn
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English II CP
June 8, 2010
Notorious Husband Killer
We as human are unpredictable when it comes to our behavior. One minute you can be happy and next thing you know they are trying to kill you. A good example is found in a book called Lamb to The Slaughter. In the story she is happy, glad to see her husband is home. When he tells he wants a divorce she snaps and kills him with a leg of lamb. In today world their are cases when wives kill there husband out of anger.
One case involved a woman who killed her husband because of a argument.It was in the middle of march when a house wife was in her home cooking when the husband return home drunk. She claimed every time he came home drunk he would abuse her. Then that night she got tried of all the abuse and while he wasn’t looking she bashed his head with a hammer multiple times. He was pronounce dead on the site and she was sentence to prison for 40 years.
Another case involved a famous football player, Steve Mcnair. Steve had a happy family with two children. He also had a girlfriend on the side which his wife didn’t know about. One afternoon he and his girlfriend had a argument because she found out that he had a wife. she felt if she could have him nobody could. She went to the room grab a gun and shot Steve multiple times killing him,then turned the gun on her self.
The most notorious husband killer to me is Susan Wright. She was convicted of killing her 34 year old husband by stabbing him 193 times over an argument. After the killing she grabs his body and threw it in the hole dug in the yard by the husband for a fountain. When caught she claims she killed him out of self defense, but the judge didn’t believe her and as sentence to a life term.
Humans are unpredictable. We cant be always trusted all the time. Woman killers is an example of how human behavior can quickly change in a five minutes. If we were able to control our behavior without using violent to solve it I think life would be alot better. The following stories taught me a valuable lesson. Never anger a crazy woman because you never will no when they will snap.
Jasmine Chávez
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English II C.P.
June 11, 2010
Human Nature
The story Night tells a story similar to the events that happened in the Armenian Genocide. In the story Night, Jews are killed because they are blamed for Germany’s problems. In the Armenian Genocide Armenians are killed because they are Christian not Muslim. These two groups were targeted for no good reason. They were killed unfairly and didn’t get much justice.
The holocaust was when the Nazis lead by Hitler killed thousands of Jews. The Armenian Genocide was when the Young Turks killed thousands of Armenians. Although Turkey denies that it was a genocide I think that it was a genocide because there was no good reason to kill the Armenians. Both the Jews and Armenians didn’t know how cruel people can be, until they witnessed the horrific events of their people being killed. They kept asking god why this was happening to them.
In both Night and the Armenian Genocide people were deported. They were sent to locations were others were not able to see what was going on. People were beaten, raped, shot, starved to death, and walked in week long marches. Valuable items were taken away from them. Many families were separated. People worried, and hoped that their family would be okay.
People never forgot the things that happened to them or what they witnessed. Many people hoped that someone would come and save them. Others started to loose their faith. Over half of the Jewish and Armenian communities were killed. People that survived never forgot what happened to them, and they missed their loved ones that were killed. Both the Jews and Armenians hoped for justice, but no one could make things better because their faith in humanity went down.
Both these events were Genocides. Many people were killed just because they were not liked. They did nothing wrong, yet thousand were killed. They were not liked because they believed in different things. Because of these events the world saw how cruel human nature can be.
Chelsea Pearce
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English I I CP
June 7, 2010
Women killing husbands
Some women take abuse or cheating because they there no way out .woman have reason for killing their husband. News or they find something horrible out so that it drives them to the extreme.
Lamb to slaughter tells of women who is pregnant and finds the husband is leaving her for anther women she then goes to fix his dinner get the leg of lamb comes back with it and smacks him in the back of the head with it.”Apparently a 52-year-old woman in Dusseldorf, Germany took things several steps further. Instead of filing for divorce, she allegedly murdered her husband, chopped his body into pieces, and flushed them one by one down the toilet.” this couple marriage was already steeped in hatred. some even said they had a very spiteful marriage. Wife before killing husband attacked him with hammer and also tried to poison him. Police say the find couple house repainted also that the wife left bigger chunks of his body in trash bags attempted to leave it at a public incineration site. Has fled Germany for Macedonia. International warrant has been issued for her arrest. this says that women are not always sweet natured and just accept and leave that guy
women castrates her husband and then stabs her husband to death for abusive and his decision to take up a fourth wife. Which is not illegal in Bangladesh? Currently being held on murder charges. Most women think they have to stay and take the abuse there husbands dish out. This women’s shows that the can lose their cool after taking so much abuse. Most think men commit a lot of murder of their wife’s women is more commonly are killing there husbands think this women in Bangladesh was trying to stand up for herself. The women in lamb to slaughter kill her husband just for some news. In her head she probably was thinking if I can’t have him nobody can.
Sometimes violence happens because the women grew up in a abusive family. With a kitchen knife, the woman cuts off her husband’s penis, then stabs him to death. His physical abuse and his decision to take a new wife drove her to such action. Polygamy is legal in Bangladesh but is a rapidly waning social practice. Only 10 per cent of men have more than one wife. This women shows that she stood up for herself in the wrong way. She should of just found a way to take there daughter and just leave. The women in lamb to slaughter shows that she could of could done worse ways of killing her cheating husband. There is ways to get out of a relationship or get help out a marriage.
Violence can happen because of chemical imbalance is off in the barin.there is some reason why women kill a lot more now than men. There is so much women take of abuse. They stay Because there’s no way out of the relationship.
Bibliography
Ajc June 3, 2010 http://www.ajc.com/news/alanta/women-charged-with-killing-344266.html
Buzzle.com June 3rd 2010 http://buzzle.com/articles/woman-kills-husband-flushes-him-down-toilet.html
Reuters June 3rd,2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idusl0919437820080709
Fox news.com June 3rd 2010 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291696,00.html
Asianews.it June 4 2010 http://www.aisanews.it/news-en/fighting-polgamy;women-castrates-husband,-and-then-kills-him-17629.html
China daily June 7 2010 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/27/content_386285.htm
Erica Estrada
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English II CP, P. 4
June 4, 2010
Human’s Violence
There are many times when we read a story and we think that they are fiction, but have you noticed that many of them relate to real life stories? Not so long ago I read a book named “Night” by Elie Wiesel and it is about the holocaust. I noticed that this story relates to something that actually happened, the Rwandan Genocide. Night is also a true story because the Holocaust actually happened, but the Rwandan Genocide is something that not many people know about. These two stories show us how we, the human race, can be cruel and violent against each other without mercy.
In the book “Night”, Elie Wiesel tells us about his experience through the Holocaust. He gives us details on how it felt to be in that situation, and how there was no way out of it. Elie tells us how it felt when he was two steps away from the furnace in which they were going to throw them into. This book shows us how the Nazis did not care about Jews, they saw them inferior and as “enemies” so they decided to kill them. They would take the Jews to concentration camps, some were labor camps where they made them work and some would be extermination camps where they would kill them(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The Nazis had no mercy with the Jews and other disabled and homosexual people, they killed approximately six million people. The Jews had no say, they rights were stripped away from them with no consideration and after all, no one else did anything to try and stop the Nazis.
Similar to the story “Night” is the Rwandan Genocide. This is another real life event that shows us how humans can be violent against each other. There has been hatred between the tutsis and the hutus since approximately 1916(BBC NEWS/Africa/Rwanda). Tutsis were considered superior because they were from Ethiopia, so the Hutus resentment had grown for many years. When the Rwandan president Habyarimana, a Hutu, was killed is when it all started(United human Rights Council). After the president died the Rwandan army and the Hutu militia went from house to house killing every Tutsi they could find. the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front responded back, so many Hutus ran away. They would kill each other because of their ethnicity. This genocide lasted 100 days, from April to June in 1994 and about 800,000 Rwandans were murdered. Many people around the world knew about the planning of this genocide, and again, no one did anything to stop it.
In both of these cases many people had the opportunity to at least try to do something and stop these massacres. No one did anything to prevent cruel people from murdering thousands of innocents. Every one knew about it but probably acted as if nothing was going on. They probably tried to ignore everything and thought that things would stop on their own. Many times we see bad things happening around us and we are afraid to try and stop them. There are times that with at least trying we can save many innocent people’s lives. We as humans can be really cruel against each other by not offering help to one another. Humans act violent, we let racism and religion set us apart or even do something against each others. Like in these two stories, they allowed racism to take control over them, that is why they murdered millions of innocent people.
Both of these stories show us how humans are cruel and violent. First, there is the holocaust and then there is the Rwandan genocide. Many innocent people were killed because no one dared to do anything about it. It is sad how much harm and damage we can do to each other. Whenever we read a story we should stop and think, “has this happened before?” Well many times we are reading a story and don’t realize that it is a story that has happened already. These type of stories should actually make us realize how far human’s violence can get.
Erica Estrada
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Mr. Hartshorn
8 June 2010
Bibliography
BBC NEWS/ Africa/ Rwanda: How the genocide happened. Retrieved 4 June 2010
Genocide in Rwanda/United Human Rights Council. Retrieved 3 June 2010
HistoryWiz: The Rwandan Genocide. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
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Hartshorn
English II CP
June 13, 2010
violence and Human Nature
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and Martin Luther King JR can be compared
and contrast in many different ways ,for example they were both two power
ful men, but one cared more about him self and the other cared more about
the people which makes them very different.
In the Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar was a worrier that fought and won most all the wars he fought in. When he returned to Rome the citizens wanted him to become their king, but he kept refusing the crown to show how selfish and arrogant he wasn’t. Once everyone started wanting him more and more Caesar became selfish and arrogant but he didn’t show it towards the people. Cassius was man that was against Caesar, he didn’t want him as king neither did he want him in Rome, so he and another man that was on Cassius’s side named Brutus helped him. Cassius sometimes would fill Brutus’s head with reasons he should be king, and sometimes would make decisions for him. One day Caesar went up to the capital for a meeting, his friend Mark Antony was with him. When Cassius, Brutus, and the other conspirators got there they some how got Mark Antony away from Caesar. Earlier that morning Caesar’s wife Calpernia had a dream that if he went up to the capital someone would kill him and bathe in his blood. Caesar did not listen and Calpernia’s dream came true. Cassius, Brutus, and the conspirators killed Caesar and bathed their arms and knives in his blood.
Martin Luther King JR’s story is similar to The Tragedy of Julius Caesar but also very different. Martin Luther King JR was a civil rights activist. He had a big effect on people which made him powerful, but unlike Caesar he didn’t abuse it. Martin Luther King did for the people, he tried to make things right for everyone. Some people were upset that he was doing this because they didn’t want to be equal to someone who had a different color skin then they did. The people who didn’t like what he was doing wanted to get rid of him.
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Martin Luther King spoke at the March on Washington, that was where he gave one of the most famous speeches in history. On April 4th 1968 Martin Luther King was standing outside of his hotel room in Memphis Tennessee, and was shot by James Earl Ray raciest man who was against his Actions.
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Mr. Hartshorn
English II CP
June 13, 2010
David Dombey
Nothing can be compared to the life of a young teenager living their life without their family next to them. The book ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel is based on the author’s life story during the holocaust in Germany. Elie was a teenager and living his life like any other teen but it all became a massacre when he was taken away from his family and put into a concentration camp. My research was based on another teenager that went through the same life tortures as Elie Wiesel. His name was David Dombey.
David Dombey was a young teenager living at the time of the Holocaust just like Elie. In 1939 he was living with his parents and a younger sister named Beryl, living in Streatham (South West London). His mother once told him that he was born in the London hospital (Aldgate in East London). Since she could hear the bells of Bow Church he was a true “Cockney”. He had just started his secondary year of education at Bec Grammar School at the age of 12.
When David was separated from his family, he went to school in a small village called Chailey, outside Lewes, Sussex in September 1939. Elie was also separated from his family, except for his father. His father was taken with him. As in David’s life, he was the only one that was taken and he didn’t have anyone with him. He had a few chances to see his parents because they were aloud to come to his place and visit him, eat, and spend quality time with him. David’s
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life without his family wasn’t so bad as Elie’s, for the reason that David would see his family and Elie never saw his family ever again.
By the end of the World War II, his mother and sister returned to their family in Streatham, London. His father was demobbed from the army. He managed to pass both Matriculation and Higher School’s Certificate and was due to go to a university in September 1945. Most of the university places were given to returning demobilized troops and he was called up for National Service until 1947. He then became a sergeant in the Intelligence Corps serving in Trieste. Finally, he became an instructor at the school of Military Intelligence.
David and Elie lived similar lives at the time of World War II during the holocaust. Living at the time of the holocaust, wasn’t easy for neither both teenagers. Having to leave their family and being tortured for no particular reason. Elie had to suffer quite more then David, especially seeing his father getting beat up many times and then being killed. They both survived and continued living their life outside the holocaust.
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Mr. Hartshorn
English II CP
13 June 2010
Women Murdering Husbands
Has there been a situation in which your personality was different than your normal personality? Many women could be loyal, devoted and loving wives but their husbands never know when their wives could be the worst people ever. "Lamb to the Slaughter" tells of at least one betrayal when Patrick Maloney's unexplained decision to leave his pregnant wife. Obviously this is not the only betrayal in the story. Mrs. Maloney's killing of her husband is perhaps the worst betrayal and the way she planned her alibi and convincing lies to the detectives. The theme best played in "Lamb to the Slaughter" and in real life situations is revenge.
One case involved a woman, Barbara Sheehan who was a mother of two and a school secretary that killed her husband. Worst of all was that her husband was a New York City Police sergeant with 20 years on the force. Outside home everything appeared to be just fine but the real problem was the moment the family was inside their home. The mother, Sheehan who was 47 said her family lived in fear of her husband. Until finally she just could not stand the situation any longer and Sheehan snapped just like Mrs. Maloney with the leg of lamb. Sheehan admitted shooting and killing her husband with 11 bullets from his own gun. (Woman Says Killing of Ex-Police Officer Husband Was Self-Defense)
Another case is about a mother of 3 daughters, Mary Winkler who killed her preacher husband while he was laying in bed. She was sentenced for 3 years of jail but since she had spent 143 days at jail she could be then set free in 67 days. For her this was great that she now had less time to spend in jail but she would have to recieve mental health treatment which would not turn out so great after all. Unfortunately, after the situation she lost the custody of her three daughters and they are living with her husband's parents. If she really wants them back she would have to fight for her daughters' custody which is not going to be easy. (Mary Winkler Sentenced to 3 Years for Killing Husband, May End Up Serving Only 60 Days)
A third case is about a woman, Sandra Franklin who stabbed her husband after he threatened to kill her. She said that she stabbed her husband for self defense because if she had not stabbed him then she would be the one who would get killed. The argument was due to money, property and infidelity. The jury did not believe her and convicted her of murder therefore she was sentenced for 15 years of jail.(Bainbridge woman gets 15 years to life for husband's murder)
In conclusion, these are situations where desperate women think they have no choice but to kill their husbands. The question of injustice and injustice is directly related to the question of revenge. For example in "Lamb to the Slaughter" Patrick acts unjust in announcing his abandonment of Mary knowing she's pregnant. Mrs. Maloney acts unjust by murdering her husband and getting away with it without getting penalized. The truth is that life could be quite unjust.
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Bibliography Page
Bainbridge Woman Gets 15 Years to Life for Husband's Murder. Retrieved 8 June 2010
Mary Winkler Sentenced to 3 Years for Killing Husband, May End Up Serving Only 60 Days. Retrieved 13 June 2010
Woman Says Killing of Ex-Police Officer Husband Was Self-Defense. Retrieved 9 June 2010
Coleman R.J.
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English II CP
June 13, 2010
Human Nature And Violence
Human nature, it is the one thing that all people have in common. No matter who you are or what you believe, it is the one thing that you and I share. Human nature has a general meaning but apart of human nature would be the want for people to control others. Everyone will want to be able to give orders or have people listen to us, that’s just generally what is encoded us into us. Now I find that these acts of cruelty go beyond human nature. These could be placed in the category of extremism.
For example, the story “Night” by Elie Wiesel and the mass Rwandan Genocide both had to do with people that wanted to feel superior or have control over another group of people. The story night is about a young boy who lives in the time of the Holocaust. He goes through the hardships of being in a concentration camp. This story is about how he survived the Nazi’s control. I find that this for of control is beyond human nature. Human nature does not tell us to exterminate another race or even to murder them. Ironically, the human nature in the case of the young boy Wiesel tells him not to give up on faith. (“Night” by Elie Wiesel)
Now the Rwandan genocide of 1994 was a perilous attempt to gain power by two opposing religious groups: the Hutu and the Tutsi. These acts happened following the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana. This marked the second genocide since Rwanda gained its independence both involved the two major religious groups. The first on in 1972 was the attempt on exterminating the Hutu population. The other was in 1994 on the Tutsi by the Hutu (Rwanda: Wake of a Genocide)
These events are similar because they both involve the attempts by people on exterminating another race. Another way that they are similar is that both acts happened following a new leader coming to power. These events mark some of the darkest days in all of mankind. In “Night”, we get a glimpse at what people in the Holocaust had to go through. One of the books that I found one the Rwandan Genocide was “ The Rwandan Crisis” by Gérard Prunier. He has written several books relating to the genocide as well as other books about the severe problems in countries such as Darfur, Congo, and Rwanda. (Amazon.com: The Rwandan Crisis: History of a Genocide)
In both of these cases human nature is examined it shows how far people are willing to go to have complete control of other people. These events go towards the high end of the spectrum so to speak. This shows that time and time again people will go to any lengths to do what is natural to them. There is no telling when the next event like this will happen. But the one thing that we do know is that if there are people there will always be these types of event throughout the course of mankind. Words cannot describe the actions of these two genocides. But we now are more open to the obvious what people thought was natural before can turn into some as unnatural as another genocide like this.
R.J. Coleman
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Genocide in Rwanda, Human Rights Council retrieved June 4, 2010
Rwanda: Wake of a Genocide retrieved June 6, 2010
Amazon.com: The Rwandan Crisis: History of a Genocide retrieved June 6, 2010
Autumn N. Griffin
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Mr.hartshorn
period 6
Getting away with murder
violence is something the world might not ever be able to break away from. Many different people are victims of violence and abuse. In the peice of literature "Lamb to the Slaughter" a woman kills her husband with a frozen slab of meat. To some it might seem ludacris that she would get away with such a crime, but thats exactly what happened.
Mary Maloney was pregnant and about to be left by her husband. After he shares his intensions Mary gets up to start dinner but instead crushes her husbands head in with a frozen leg of lamb. When the police finally arrive at the Maloney residence they find no evidence that Mary killed her husband. in fact Mary cooks the leg of lamb and serves it to the police.
Kay Penton was not charged after shooting her husband dead at thier residence in Cleveland, Texas. Terrance Penton threatened to kill both himself and Kay Penton. Unlike Mary Maloney, Kays act of violence was seen as self defense. Her intoxicated husband put both their lives at risk. Collected evidence showed that Terrance shot at Kay Penton at least three times with a shot gun. In Compton, California a highway patrol officer alos shot her husband after he was repotedly being "verbally and physically combative". Mrs. Lemon was not charged with murder after past evidence showed that Marcus Lemon was indeed abusive in his relationship with Mrs. Lemon.
Another case was Teresa McKinneys after being found not guilty for the death of Jeffery McKinney. HE was shot in head with a rifle and died a month later. "He beat her like she was a borrowed mule. She acted in self-defense, and it was justifiable homicide." To the jury it was seen as just another case of selfdefense for a helpless woman. The shots were fired after he started verbablly abusing her and beating her. She warned him that if he came back she'd kill him. In this case and Mary Maloneys both women had been abused in one way or another. Both women felt they did what they had to do in order to save themselves.
One could say that these woman just snapped, some people think its unjustice that people get away with murder. It is not luck that helped these woman, it was just how things were to turn out. For many people the thought of killing someone is ridiculous. I know that i dont think i would have it in me to physically takes someones life. These women did not set out to kill their husbands but i doubt they knew they would be pushed to their breaking point. One can only be pushed so far until they snap.
Bibliography Page
Woman who shot husband acquitted
June 2010 <http://www.jacksonsville.com
Deputies: Montgomery County wife shoots, kills husband in front of children
June 2010 http://www.khou.com
CHP officer fatally shoots husband
June 2010 <http://www.abdlocal.go.com
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English II CP
June 7, 2010
Compare And Contrast
The story “Night” by Elie Wiesel and the article “ Rwanda 100 day Genocide” are similar in many ways yet they are different in others. Night by Elie Wiesel is a little piece from the Holocaust bloody genocide in Germany. The Rwandan genocide was a brutal killing between different ethnicities in 1994. These stories are similar because they both had to do with one major group killing another minor group because they felt that they didn’t need them in their country and it wasn’t fare.
Now the article was about two ethnic groups, Hutus and Tutsis. The Hutus was the majority of the Rwandan country but the Belgians gave Tutsis more privileges than them in the economy, way better jobs and ways of living. The killing started when the President of Rwanda, Africa, Juvenal Habyarimana(a Hutu) was killed and the Tutsis rebels, RPF(Rwandan Patrol Front), where blamed for it. The Hutus killed 20% of their countries population in a 100 day series, that is 800,000 people and up too 250,000 graves while the rest of the world stood by and did nothing. Millions of people were raped, disfigured, and a whole generation of children lost their parents. At the end of the worlds most brutal genocide the Hutus gained control and became independent from Belgium.
The story “Night by Elie Wiesel” was about the holocaust in Germany. The segregation between Jews and Nazis. The Nazis put jewish families of four and most likely more or less in two bedroom houses with other families as well. They took Jewish people to concentration camps and split them all up, women from men, weak from strong. The author is a boy that was in the camp with his dad but was separated from his mom and little sister. The jews had to walk everywhere they went with just the shoes and clothes they had on. If you where to weak the soldiers would take and kill the jews and some others would be sent off to another camp. No one else knew about these horrible killings that was going on. The camps that the jews had to stay at where not very clean they where on the ground and it was very easy to get sick. Thousands of people died or shot maybe even injured. At the end of the book the author of the book that experienced this torture lost faith in god when the book started but regained it when the American Army came and rescued everybody in the camps that was going to be killed the next day.
As you see both stories are very brutal to man kind and in my opinion should never happen again! The story and article are similar in segregation and deaths. Hutus, Tutsis, and Jews had to wear tags to identify them of what ethnicity they where in Africa and Germany. The difference in the stories is that the book Night by Elie Wiesel took place 1928 and the Rwandan genocide took place in 1994; one person was really behind the killing of jews and the genocide took place because the killing of one president.
To conclude all this information human nature and violence mix is always happening around the world just depending on what country, what century, and whats leading to these genocides or even wars. Genocides don’t usually happen when planned out from years ago. Citizens of a country get mad at another ethnicity or kind of people and it creates resentment between the two and most of the death, injures, and like in the Rwandan genocide abandon kids or rape victims can be a result of something so crucial.
Bibligraphy
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Rwanda: How the genocide happened. Retrieved June 6,2010
Alex Sanchez
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English II, CP
Period 4
When a wife finally snaps and kills her husband then gets away with it with no punishment what so ever what are the outcomes of that Decision? Roald Dahl wrote a short story pertaining the subject “LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER” this story reflects aspects of human perversity, cruelty, and violence and sometimes things look fine when there not it also shows how somebody can easily get away with big things such as murder. Due to the way people react to bad news.
A pregnant house wife by the name of Mary Maloney who is devoted to her husband. Patiently waits for the man of her life to come home from work each night. Then one night Mary Maloney finally snaps . Just like Mary Wrinkler killed her husband. Both the men were killed brutally by their wives.Mary Maloney killed her husband with a frozen lamb leg. While Mary Wrinlker killed her husband with a shot gun. Both blows to the head. Both bled a large amount of blood. This was a really violent way of killing. The idea of killing another is just so inhumane.
Both wives killed their husbands just to get away from the problems they were getting from them which was a wrong way to take control of things. No one would have ever thought that they would do this. Considering that both couples seemed perfectly fine in the eyes of others. But in reality Mary Wrinklers husband was really cruel to her and her children. Suffocating them when they cried until they remained silent. And making Mary perform sexual flavors with a gun pointed to her head. Who would ever expect a priest to act in such manner? Both acts were wrong and full of hatred toward the people who died in such a unlawful way.
Even though this stuff seems pretty crazy, it usually happens about all of the time. But these wives get away with it. Mary Maloney because she was sneaky and got away with murder because she got rid of the evidence by feeding the lab leg to the detectives that showed up at her house. After what had happened Mary had no regrets of what had happened. Mary Wrinkler was caught in the murder of her husband because she had confessed of what she had done. She had gone to court for murdering her husband but really didnt face any severe punishment that she truely deserved for shooting her husband.
Both stories reflect aspects of human perversity, cruelty, and violence. Although story’s like these are hard to believe they do happen. These murders show what any person on this earth is capable of doing and getting away with.
BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE
Mary wrinkler
June 10 2010http://www.latimes.com/
Mary wrinkler
June 10 2010
http://topics.cnn.com/topics/mary_winkler
June 10 2010
http://mary-winkler-news.newslib.com/
Jasmine Dennis
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English II, Period 4
13 June 2010
Cruelty and Violence
There is a lot of cruelty and violence in the world from one group of people towards another; the Holocaust and many different genocides around the world. “Night” by Elie Wiesel portrays life during the Holocaust though the eyes of a Jewish teenage boy. The Rwandan genocide was the massive slaughter of the Tutsis by the Hutus. The Jewish Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide were very similar, they both were acts of extreme cruelty and violence.
In the book “Night” Eliezer, a Jewish teenager, is experiencing the Holocaust. He is working for no pay, eating scarce meals, walking miles between concentration camps, while separated from his mother and younger sisters. Even though he’s still with his father he still feels incomplete and he is worried about his mother and sisters. Did they pass the first evaluation, are they dead now, were they shot down like animals, or were they cooked to death in the giant ovens. These are some of the many things that were going through his mind all throughout the time he was there. Soon after his father past they were rescued. He never heard from his mother or sisters again.
In Rwanda Africa lives two groups of people the Hutus, the majority, and the Tutsis, the minority. In 1916 the Belgians took over their land, while they were there they favored the Tutsis because they were taller, thinner with lighter skin. But when they left, the Hutus took revenge. They were always telling others to watch out for the Tutsis rebels. April 6, 1994 right after the Hutus president signed a peace treaty the Tutsis shot down his plane and he died. This instantly set off the genocide. The Hutus called out their signal on the radio, “Cut the tall trees”. So the Hutus started to wipe out the whole population of Tutsis. Finally in July 1994 all the Tutsis that were left fled to Zaire and the genocide was over. Unfortunately the Hutus had already killed seven hundred and fifty thousand people, more than three quarters of their population.
“Night” and the Rwandan Genocide were both acts of extreme cruelty and violence. The German’s thought that they were superior to the Jews, and the Tutsis were told that they were superior by the Belgian, so the Hutus took revenge. This was caused by their own insecurity. The German felt threatened by the Jewish people, they decided that they were hindering the country and that they were going to get rid of them. The Hutus still felt jealous of the Tutsis and blamed them for all the problems in Rwanda. So they decided to wipe out the whole tribe.
Both of these events were cruel and unnecessary. Because of people’s insecurity they take it out on others, which leads to things such as holocausts and genocides. Millions of innocent people lost their lives, because of the foolishness between different classes and types of people.
Bibliography
BBC. Rwanda: How the genocide happened. Retrieved June 2010
Genocide Watch Case Study: Genocide in Rwanda, 1994 Retrieved June 2010
New York Times: Children of Rwanda’s Genocide, Retrieved June 2010
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam, 1982.
Kimberly Salazar
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Mr. Harthorn
Period. 4
Human Nature & Violence
Don’t you have those one of a kind friends that you can consider family, you trust them so much that you would trust them with your life? You think they would never do anything to you, that they will always protect you, but what if the person you trust most just turns on you one day… then what?
My essay is the comparison with the tragedy of Julius Caesar and Crystal Faye Todd shocking murders. Crystal Todd was a normal seventeen year old teenager. Crystal was no leader of any country, or Greek. But, she did have a best friend named Ken Register. Ken was very good friends with Crystal so close that Ken became a family friend for years.
Then one day Ken snaps at Crystal and murders her stabbing her about thirty times. Julius Caesar had a best friend as well named Brutus, but Brutus became jealous of Caesars powers and stabbed Caesar to death several times, just like Crystal. Ken was angry because he couldn’t control Crystal like he wanted to, that was what drove him to murder!
It’s cruel and sick to think that someone you trust so much can just take your life within seconds. If you think about it, is that the way you would want to pass or die? Being deceased and knowing the person very well that killed you must make you want to throw up. Right? The last person that you would suspect the least is the one that did the most. But yet it still happens till this day…
Even when you think you can trust someone you never know how they really feel or think about you. Some people may just become friends to do something like that to you. So overall you ca never be too careful.
Biogeography
- http.//cmm.lefora.com/2009/08/22/crystal-faye-tood-johnnie-kenneth-register-the/
- Language Arts book
Carlo Macías
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English II CP
Period 6
June 13, 2010 Human Nature
We as humans are may think we are more evolved than other animals, when this may actually be very untrue. This is untrue, for when animals feel threatened, do they not retaliate? There are many people who think that humans are very warm hearted, and nice. I think that this is very untrue. I believe humans are like any animal. I believe humans are very hostile, and that some learn to get past their hostile human nature.
There have been many instances where there has been an average housewife, who felt threatened in one form or another, and has killed because of her natural instinct of terror or fear.
For example in “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Mary Maloney, a pregnant housewife, kills her husband, Patrick, after he tells her he has fallen out of love with her, and has found a new significant other. After hearing this Mary Maloney tries to persuade Patrick to not leaver her. When he denies her, she feels threatened by the fact that she will have to raise a child alone, and she kills Patrick Maloney with a frozen leg of lamb. She then creates an alibi, and destroys the evidence by cooking the murder weapon. She later on gets away with it.
There have been many instances similar to this one. For example, the executive dean from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, a nationally regarded pediatrics specialist, was murdered by his wife of thirty-three years, Phyllis Nelson. Phyllis Nelson. Killed her husband after she had been spying on him, talking on the phone with another woman. She, like “Lamb to the Slaughter’s” Mary Maloney, was going through a surprise divorce, and killed her husband, feeling threatened by the other woman. After calling the police, she was arrested. Phyllis admitted to stabbing her husband with a knife, out of “self defense” and was given four years probation.
The only difference between Phyllis and Mary? Phyllis admitted to killing her husband, rather than cooking the evidence.
Why did these two women kill their husbands? Was it their natural instinct? Was it because they were scared? Or was it just in their human nature?
Internet-Research Paper Negrete 1
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Mr. Hartshorn
English II CP, P.4
6/13/10
Wife killing Husband
If you see a married couple arguing, what would you do? Would you call the cops or wait for something to happen. This story is going to be about a domestic dispute that turns into a huge tragedy.
Witnesses saw a couple arguing along North Avenue near West Peachtree Street, and then reported hearing four or five shots fired around 10:45 p.m. Witnesses described The women with a nightgown and shower cap, and a MARTA officer stopped her on the North Avenue Bridge over the Downtown Connector. The name of the women was Arelisha Bridges. Bridges was arrested and taken to an Atlanta Police Headquarters for questioning. Bridges is registered with the National Declaration of Domestic Violence Group.
Arelisha (45 years old) was charged with felony murder, murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Anthony Rankins (husband) 26 years old was shot to death on March 1, 2010. Rankins was shot while walking on North Avenue near The Varsity. Arelisha was ordered held without bond in the Fulton County Jail. Witnesses were all running when hearing the gunshots being fired.
Bridges told investigators that she and Rankins had been dating for a few months and were just married on Feb, 24. Warren Van Nus, saw the scene from his ninth floor room in Georgia Tech’s Dorm.
Warren also said “I saw her walking away with the gun in her hand and got in her car in the parking lot.”
Witnesses also “she walked away calmly, like nothing had happen.” Another bystander rushed to help Rankins after the shooting but he couldn’t do anything because the wound was critical.
In conclusion, the wife killed the husband over an argument they had. The wife went to jail for murder of her husband and could not be bailed out of jail. Almost every year the there is domestic violence all around the world and that’s a thing that can’t ever be change.
Bibliography
Morris, By Mike, and Marcus K. Garner. "Police: Wife Shot, Killed Husband in Midtown Then ‘calmly Walked Away' | Ajc.com." Atlanta News, Sports, Atlanta Weather, Business News | Ajc.com. Web. 04 June 2010. .
Crime News 2000: Anthony Rankins." Crime News 2000: News. Web. 10 June 2010. .
Nnenna Agamegwa
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English II
June 13, 2010
Every Race Comes with a Beautiful Color
What makes his race better than mines? Back in the days, that was how people treated others. Well, the article “GENOCIDE-RWANDA” and the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel are very similar and at the same time different. In the story “Night” it was about a Jewish teenager boy living in the time of the Holocaust. During the holocaust the Germans used genocide which means the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group. Not only did the Germans do this, but there was also a massacre between the Tutsis and Hutus. They are both similar because there was cruelty and violence done in these two events. Hutus felt as if they didn’t need the Tutsis race in their country.
How do you think you would feel living in a concentration and always won-dering each second if you will live to see another day? In the book “Night”, a Jewish teenager boy is living in a nightmare of the holocaust. His life is nothing to be excited about because he is separated from his family, he works for no pay, spends his days walking miles, and living in a terrifying concentration camp. When the young boy was living in the concentration camp, they separate your from women from men, and strong from weak. During the holocaust, whoever that fell behind because there were too weak was either killed or sent to another facility. It’s sad because nobody knew about this terrible killing. The author which was that little boy began to lose faith in God and in live until one day the American Army came to rescue the people who were going to die the following day.
In the article Rwanda, it was about genocide between two ethnic groups called Hutus, the majority and Tutsis, the minority. Even though the Hutus was the majority, the Tutsis was favored more by the Belgians because of their appear-ance. They were lighter skinned and taller. The conflict between Hutus and Tutsis all began because the Tutsis shot down the plane of the president of the Hutus and he died. After that, the act of genocide began to rise. Their signal was “Cut the tall trees”. Thousands of Tutsis were killed until July 1994, the Tutsis began to flee to Zaire and the genocide ended.
Both of these events were based on insecurities. “Night” was because the Germans considered themselves more superior than the Jewish. Rwanda was because the Belgians said the Tutsis were more superior, which led the Hutus to rebel and show them that they were more superior. I think each event could have been stopped, but that chose not to. Both stories went through a series of scary times.
As difficult as it was, these people lived a very terrifying life. Waking up each morning to gun shots and seeing people dead while you walk. Could you im-agine all the pain and stress these people went through? Well you will never know until you have experienced it. I feel that genocide and the holocaust was not necessary because thousands of innocent citizens lost their lives. Being inse-cure can destroy your life and others.
Bibliography
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.
GENOCIDE – RWANDA- TALKING ABOUT GENOCIDE – GENOCIDES Retrievied June 13, 2010 http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_rwanda1.html
BBC NEWS | Africa | Rwanda: How the genocide happened. Retrieved June 6,2010
Internet-Based Research Assignment
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English 2 CP
June 15, 2010
THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE
Do you know your lover? Would your lover ever be your killer? Why do women kill their partners? Well it’s because of abuse and or jealousy. In the fiction story “Lamb of the Slaughter” and the nonfiction story “Women kills husband and feeds to children”, a wife kills her husband because their emotions couldn’t take it anymore. As you will later read, there are three key points which make these two stories similar in both human nature and violence.
The first key point is that both of these women killed their husbands because their husbands wanted to end the relationship. In “Lamb of the Slaughter”, the wife was told by her husband that he didn’t want to be with her anymore. In “Women kills husband and feeds to children”, Katherine, the wife, was told that she wasn’t wanted in her husband’s life. So the first reason why these stories are similar is because both of these women share the same motive for killing their partners.
The second key point why these two stories are similar is because the murder happened late at night. The wife from “Lamb of the Slaughter”, killed her husband late at night after she found out he wanted the relationship to end. In the other story, Katherine also murdered her husband at night. So these two women both have the same motive for killing and killed at the same time, which was late at night.
The last key point why these two women in these two stories are similar is because they both hid evidence in the dinner. In the first story ”Lamb Of The Slaughter”, the wife hides the murder weapon in the food. As for Katherine, she hides pieces of her husband’s body in dinner. So these two women both hide evidence in the dinner.
In conclusion, these wives from “Lamb of the Slaughter” and “Women kills husband and feeds to children” share similar events in the stories. The first was their motive, both of their motives was that their husbands wanted them to be out of their lives. The second key point was the time of the killing. They both killed their husbands late at night. The last event that happened in both stories were that they both hid evidence in the dinner.
Jiang Qing
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During the Cultural Revolution Jiang was one of the main leaders that took control of china’s government. The revolution lasted 10 years, from May 1966-October 1976. She had made propaganda posters, showing her husband illuminated and invincible, a symbol to people that he’s a great leader. She had made speeches to younger people to destroyed artifacts, old books, and defaced temples and monuments. She did this because she wanted power over Chinas cultural life. She suppressed professors from china’s colleges and suppressed some of china’s traditional cultures. She had the professors beaten to death, tortured in public, or had them doing hard labor at another school. (chineseposters.net)
While Jiang`s husband Mao was ill, she had formed a group of people and called them “The Gang of Four”. She made the gang during the Cultural Revolution; she was the leader of the gang. She controlled the communist party of china and her gang was then labeled as the “counter-revolutionary forces”. Jiang tried to seize even more power when Mao turned on her and her associates. But on October 16 1976, a year after he turned on Jiang, Mao died. There was a downfall a month after Mao’s death. Jiang then blamed the Chinese government for all the problems that were happening during the 10 years of turmoil. Before Mao’s death, he told Jiang “do not try to begin a gang of four to accumulate power”. (Dragani)
Jiang was responsible for purging key figures in the cultural bureaucracy and criticized writers who criticized Mao in articles they put out about him. She also purged several people from the communist party of china. It was estimated that she executed and imprisoned about 500,000 of activist and her own people. She even bid for power to go up on the “communist ladder”. In September 1976 the gang of four was arrested. In 1980 they were trialed, Jiang was going to get life imprisonment, but she and the other main leaders wouldn’t confess, so the court gave them the death sentence. This led to Jiang committing suicide a couple months after her confinement. The rest of her gang was given lengthy imprisonment. (Marcy)