In this article, “Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8”, Ethan Brown, the author, attempted to solve the murder case and prove the police authorities to being wrong and being responsible for the murders of the town. The main problem of this article is determining who is responsible for the murders of those eight women everyone’s contradicting stories. In an attempt to figure out what really happened Brown includes factual evidence from interviews and shocking statistics to inform the reader of what’s going on in the article. By providing such information, Brown indulges the audience into the full experience of solving the murder case. In this article it is very important to have facts from credible resources. Brown shows his credibility by …show more content…
When it comes to the presentation of the information in this article Brown excels in crediting himself. When he references the many interviews, he has with different people involved within the case this increases his credibility because it shows that he took the time out to individually interview each of these people to discover the truth behind what happened in the case. In an attempt to appeal to the audience’s emotion, Brown presents information that influences the audience on an emotional level and helps them connect with the article from a personal aspect. Stating what was seen upon finding the women, Brown writes, “Both Patterson and Brown had their throats slit; the other bodies were in too advanced a state of decomposition to determine the cause of death, though the coroner often suspected asphyxia. The victims were mired in poverty and mental illness; and all had hustled Jennings’ south side streets for drugs and sex.” After reading this it creates a graphic image in the readers mind and allows the reader to be able to imagine what it would feel like to walk in the room and picture people with their throats slit. By visualizing what’s going on in this specific part of the article the reader can then imagine themselves or someone they love being in that same position. Another instance that appeals to the readers emotions is when in an interview with witness, Jerry Jackson, Brown
It was a time in the city’s history to get the perpetrators of the crime committed and to be recognized as solving the greatest crime of time. Media and public presence played a huge role in pressuring law enforcement to figure out this awful incident. The demand from the public was pushing from all sides of this story to get answers.
The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime forover on hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby Borden. The bloodiness of the acts in an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-
In the article, “Dangerous Minds” Malcolm Gladwell first grasps his reader’s attention via crime stories, then goes on elaborating the criminal profiling processes. He defines the types of criminal profiling, whodunit and hedunit. In whodunit, “the traditional detective story…centers on the detective search for the culprit” while in hedunit, “the nest is narrowed. The crime doesn’t initiate our search for the killer. It defines the killer for us.” He emphasizes on the profiling type with the best advantage and explains its significance. Using the FBI agent John Douglas’ investigation stories and profiling techniques to support his claims, he explains the structure of criminal profiling and how it is applied to cases. However, is this type of profiling effective? The author raises this question to evaluate the FBI criminal profiling. He asks a rhetorical question, “but how useful is that profile, really?” to make the readers think and follows up this question by a counter argument which set the author’s state of neutrality in the article. With analogies, crime stories and group research analyses as supportive evidence; the author informs and explains the flaws of FBI profiling, its problems and its ineffectiveness. As a result, the author uses the counter argument to refute his previous claims
In the article, Everything you think you know about the death of Michael Brown is wrong, and the man who killed him admits it, written by Michael Harriot from The Root, the author uses evidence directly from the Michael Brown case and demonstrates that he sides with Brown by constantly attacking the police officer’s claims of being guilt free. While McCoy’s article castigates the unreasonable decision to fire upon Brown by placing a huge emphasis on Wilson’s discrimination against African Americans through the usage of unclear evidence and straw man, Pearce’s article presents the event in a neutral tone by utilizing testimonies from witnesses; In Harriot’s article, the author conveys bias perspective towards Wilson’s story as shown through authority. Consequently, this emphasises the necessity for the audience to observe both sides of the situation and judge with a calm rational mind in order to differentiate the falsities from the media to
The “Death List Shows Few Identified” article provoked an emotional response in the reader, also known as pathos in literature. As the reader, I was irate at the Triangle Fire Company for allowing 146 people to be killed in the fire. By listing each victims’ name (or description of a body), were also feelings of sorrow and pity for those that were victims and the victims’ families of the fire as well as incredulity at how atrocious the event actually was (with all the unidentifiable, burned bodies). I could not believe how young some of those killed in the fire were. The article wanted me to prevent anything like this from ever happening again. The emotional response was what the author was aiming for.
Jonathan Schuppe, the author of “Charleston Victim’s Kin Says Trial Revealed ‘Radical Truth’ About Racism”, is an NBC News writer with expertise in the areas of criminal justice and urban issues. Schuppe has received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and has been nominated for a PEN Literary Award for one of his books, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news coverage, and was honored in 2008 with the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. NBC News is a national broadcasting station that delivers international news to millions of people daily. News covered ranges anywhere from trending YouTube videos to national crises.
Far too often the news is full of crime and death. Some authors take these crimes and turn them into stories. Truman Capote did this in his novel In Cold Blood, a story about the mass murder of a family. Similarly, Brett Logiurato and Henry Blodget wrote an article, “Boston Massacre” for Business Insider telling the story of the Boston Bombing and the terrorist hunt thereafter. In both “Boston Massacre” and In Cold Blood the authors use comparable writing techniques to tell the story and create suspense, yet they remain unique from one another to best accommodate their stories..
And lastly, Michael Harriet who wrote the third article “Everything You Think You Know About the Death of Mike Brown Is Wrong, and the Man Who Killed Him Admits It” tries to persuade the whites that WIlson is guilty of his crime and should be punished for his crime for not admitting that Michael did not try to take his gun. His article reveals his fury towards WIlson by concluding the article about how Michael’s friends and family mourns about him while Wilson’s family is living a peaceful happy life. Articles shouldn’t be created by emotions and opinions to persuade the whites that the police systems are corrupt. Instead they should be informal and inform the evidence of WIlson’s crimes instead of utilize wild emotions to easily gain and persuade the audience to be on their sides. Articles needs to let the whites to choose who they want to side and how to feel about this situation instead of being persuaded to side with.
In this article, it discusses how a man by the name of Daniel Furlong murdered an eight year old girl, Jodi Parrack. Furlong attempts to lure this young girl into his white pigeon garage. At that moment, there was no information on what furlong did to Jodi, but the last day she was seen was on November 8, 2007. Later, it was revealed that she was strangled. Another person named Raymond McCann was charged with perjury for lying more than a few times about what he was supposedly doing on the night of Jodi's murder. Why did this have to happen to Jodi? She didn't know any better and there is no possible way that this is going away.
Abstract This paper explores seven in-depth questions that are on the subject of the Cleveland Abduction. The suspect that perpetrated these criminal acts had a traumatic childhood. This may have changed his way of thinking where it would allow him to cause these girls pain. Each girl has an individual story of how they were kidnapped, but all are fairly similar.
He begins with an intriguing opening, immediately catching his reader’s attention. His use of exclamatory sentences gives a sense of lightheartedness and energy to the article. As the audience reads the first line, the reader can imagine a cheerleader chant on the unbelievable, fascinating job of perforation. At that moment Baker already has his reader’s full attentiveness, allowing him to continue making a strong case. Baker also emotionally involves his audience through the use of questions.
In the news article, Six Dead After Church Bombing By a Washington post reporter the author's purpose is to is to inform the public of the horrors of the Birmingham bombing. The first way the author did this is by using powerful word choices such as “dripping blood”, “staggered”, and ”crushed”. These word choices helped me feel like the story was more believable and true. The next thing that this reporter did to inform us of the traumas of the bombing was with all of the little details. All of the teeny-tiny details that just added a little extra oomph. Things like every little descriptive word like “As police struggled to hold back the crowd,” makes me feel like I was there and watching this process.The last thing that the reporter did
While she was clearly intrigued by the story, as many would be, she wanted to accomplish so much more than just writing an interesting, page turning novel. With her lengthy research she was able to educate herself on the true events leading up to an innocent woman’s murder, as well as the disturbingly tangled web a Saskatchewan Police Officer wove himself. Since then, the novel has helped students in their Grade 12 curriculum and in writing the ELA30A Departmental. Each reader who picks up the book is sent back into the past with Simmie’s impeccable attention to detail, and are able to imagine a time that John Wilson hid behind a trusting badge in an attempt to hide an awful crime that he committed. The novel leaves an impression on the reader’s mind and one cannot help but question, how many more of these secrets lie hidden in the dark and when should we be expecting the
On a white background, playful, colourful fonts and coloured images are utilised to direct the reader’s attention to the story. The images of the victim, and his sisters, span the width of the article to intrigue the reader and emphasise that the story is real. These visuals are utilised to keep up with Cosmopolitan’s usual entertainment value found in their articles, despite the seriousness of the story. The article begins with a brief introduction to the story about to be told to help reader gauge whether this will be a story that interests
Police and government officials using their power to control the outcomes of investigations and obscure justice is at the heart of the articles presented in this essay. “Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man” a traditional essay written by The Atlantic reporter Andrew Cohen centers around the case of a man, Carlos DeLuna, executed for a murder he did not commit. Walt Bogdanich and Glenn Silber, reporters for the New York Times, wrote a multimedia article titled “Two Gunshots on a Summer Night”. This article, and it accompanying documentary. exposes a corrupt