Summary Of Serial Episode One By Sarah Koenig

Furthermore, she was not only denied the expert testimony of a scientist that could confirm the rare disease as a witness in the trial but the judge Oliver Taft, denied their request for a recusal. A recusal being a request of a judge to step down from a trial, if there is any suspicion that the judge has any bias towards the case. This seems like a great idea other than the fact that no one forces the judge to step down, they get to decide for themselves if they have any bias. In the end Silvo was wrongly convicted, had her other daughter taken away and was thrown in jail for 25 years. It may seem strange that a judge could derive such an extreme verdict without taking all the evidence into consideration but there is a strong chance that Taft had made up his mind as soon as he laid eyes on Rosalin. Rosalin, being a destitute single woman, has the appearance of someone guilt of such a foul act; she stood no chance against the Judge’s bias. Taft later came to a vastly different verdict in a similar case with the main difference being the litigant: A well-off woman in a good marriage, Karen Campbell, molded perfectly to Taft’s image of a good mother. Karen was let off without even a warning and later finished what she started with her daughter, even after a surmounting amount of evidence against Karen poisoning her daughter was brought forth.

Anne was curious about why murders, lynching and mysterious fires were taking place in and around her community. Every time she went to her mother for advice or discussion on race relations, she was immediately redirected to a subject less controversial. If Anne wanted to figure any of these issues out, she was going to have to do it on her own.

The scene in the novel where all the porno cinemas were bombed and burned to the ground was somewhat important in the fact that it showed to state of anarchy our country is in, in this novel. The movie neglected to use that scene in to the movie version of "The Pelican Brief." The burning down of the porno cinemas gave an example and showed how the "Underground Military" worked. This in a sense excluded them from the list of suspects do to there expert use of explosives. If they had indeed were the killers of the two Chief Justices they most likely would of stuck to there area of expertise, explosives.

Amy Tan was born in China on February 19, 1952. She was one of three children to her parents. Amy was born to her mother’s second husband. Later on, her family escaped China on the last boat before the Communist takeover of China in 1949. Her mother left behind three other kids from a previous marriage. Amy finished high school in Switzerland, and fought with her mom the whole time. She went to college at a Baptist college. She then defied her mother by leaving that college and following her boyfriend to San Jose State University. She further defied her mother by abandoning her pre-medical degree for an English and linguistics major. She eventually married her boyfriend, Louis DeMattei, and they moved to San Francisco. Amy Tan started to repair her relationship with her mother, once she was deathly ill and in the hospital. Amy made a promise to take her mom to China to find the children that she left behind. This allowed for Amy to finish her book and get closer to her mother. She went on to write many books and essays after her time with her mother. What caused that dramatic of a change in major for Amy? What caused the rift between her and her mother?

Merits: The respondent, Daniel Murphy, was convicted by a jury in an Oregon court of the second-degree murder of his wife. The victim died by strangulation in her home in the city of Portland, and abrasions and lacerations were found on her throat. There was no sign of a break-in or robbery. Word of the murder was sent to the estranged husband, Daniel Murphy. Upon receiving the message, Murphy promptly telephoned the Portland police and voluntarily came into Portland for questioning. Shortly after the respondent’s arrival at the station house, where he was met by retained counsel, the

Now look at Rosina Townsend who maintained the brothel. Mrs. Townsend’s brothel was a high-end brothel, but her reputation or her word was worth mo more than a piece of dirt in the bottom of your shoe. This was demonstrated the most during the trial. Judge Ogden Edwards spent an entire hour instructing the jury. The judge instructed the jury to weigh all characters involved, victim, accused, and witnesses. He instructed that the prostitutes were not to be believed unless corroborated by respectable individuals. He went as far as to try to establish an alibi for Robinson in respect to visiting the brothel on the night of the murder. If the jury felt Robinson’s guilt was beyond doubt, then to convict him; if not acquit.

Short Plot Summary Tina Fey starts her section off with explaining “One of my five hundred nicknames for my daughter is Miedge, which is short for Midget, because she was a very small baby.” (239) Tina Fey went into a “deep depression” after having her baby. (pg 240) The best thing for moms to do that the author writes about is “carve out a little time for yourself” (243) There can be some weird things in motherhood but it's well worth it.

Lee’s quest ended when the self knowledge she learned was about her refusal to tell the truth. “In Antarctica I decided that was the worst thing I’d ever done, that refusal” (Van Den Berg 325). From her quest, Lee learned that if she had not kept secrets things could have turned out differently. The self-knowledge she gained leads to the theme keeping secrets will result in a person being isolated.

He has a lot of girls!’” (Episode 2: The Breakup p. 37). When someone is going around dating other people, it is apparent that they have moved on with their lives. If this is true about Adnan, he couldn’t have been the one to commit the crime, as people who trust that he is guilty are convinced that his main motive for killing Hae was because he was broken-hearted. This next quotation is from the part of the story when Koenig was discussing matters on the phone with a former schoolmate of Adnan’s, Asia McClain, who is yet another important person in the case. McClain was talking about a conversation she had had with Adnan while she was waiting to be picked up from the library. “And he told me that him and Hae had broke up. And I was like, oh, well, that 's a bummer. And I was like, what happened? And he was like, oh, well, she is seeing this other guy, some white dude, but he was pretty chill about it. He was just like, you know, well, if she doesn 't want to be with me, then that 's fine. I just wish the best for her-- that kind of attitude.” (Episode 1: The Alibi p. 24). In the words of McClain, “...but he was pretty chill about it.” What she meant by this was that Adnan didn’t overreact about he and Hae splitting, because if he did, it would show that he was irate with the fact that his relationship with her ended. Adnan did not show any signs of jealousy or anger towards Hae, thus proving that he didn’t have a motive to kill her.

She didn’t have to generalize, seeing as she witnessed every event that occurred in the story. She was able to prove her thesis by telling her story in great detail. From the moment the Khmer Rouge came through Phnom Penh to the moment where she got on the plane headed to Vermont, the details were vivid and very graphic. The evidence was definitely interwoven throughout the story in a way that was consistent with proving the author’s thesis. The author proved her thesis by describing every event that occurred. These events justify her thesis and result in many lessons being learned by reading this book.

On May 22, 2014 Mrs. Schram had a cognitive examination that was administered by Cynthia Burton, her Speech and Language Pathologist. This examination required Mrs. Schram to accomplish a variety of tasks. After performing the evaluation, Ms. Burton reported that Mrs. Schram was unable to conduct attention strategies for safety and daily responsibilities. However, Ms. Burton noted that Mrs. Schram was able to complete this task when Ms. Burton used oral reading, went at a slow pace, and allowed rechecking. Ms. Burton also noted that Mrs. Schram’s visual attention, organizing and planning skills, prospective and spatial memory, and auditory verbal working memory were improving. However, Mrs. Schram still showed difficulty with auditory selective

To me, what made this book most fantastic was simply the author’s choice of words and how she was able to reveal so much through about a character’s emotions while never simply stating them. So much power comes in an author’s ability to truly make you feel everything the character does, as this keeps the reader engaged in the story and always want to know more. One of my favorite examples of how Egan does this in A Visit from the Goon Squad is during chapter eight when you learn the story of La Doll, or Dolly, as she rebranded herself to escape the shame of her past mistakes. Her daughter Lulu, a young girl who has grown up with no one but her mother, tagged along on one of Coco's risky business trips to take Kitty Jackson, a washed up actress, to her new fake boyfriend, General B. "Twenty checkpoints presaged their arrival at the general's compound. At each, two soldiers with submachine guns peered into the black Mercedes, where Dolly and Lola and Kitty sat in the backseat. Four times, they were forced outside into the scouring sunshine and patted down at gunpoint. Each time, Dolly scrutinized her daughter's studied

Who started it, and when, and why?"(O'Brien 38). Neither is fully positive in the way they write. A point made in both pieces has to do with stretching the truth somewhat to make for a better story. Didion mentions how with a diary, one would have to write exactly what happened, whereas with a notebook, she feels she only has to jot down some things. Like she would be able to expand on what happened later, make it up as she goes along. "And yet it is precisely that fictitious crab that makes me see the afternoon all over again, a home movie run all too often, the father bearing gifts, the child weeping, an exercise in family love and guilt"(Didion 83). She says how part of her story about the cracked crab was untrue, and exaggerated, however it is that part that makes her remember and believe it all the more. O'Brien plays with similar ideas about truth, elaborating on it in the chapter How to Tell a True War Story. The story Sanders tells about the men and the mountain, speaks of strange sounds, almost sounds like it's a story about ghosts, and he mentions how he doesn't really remember all of the details, so some of it may be exaggerated.

This was not accurately portrayed in this episode as well. Some of these things will be pointed out later in this paper. In the end, after all the evidence was analyzed and tested, it was determined that the secretary was murdered by her boss. (2002)

Sarasea drifted down the hall, lost in her own thoughts. She just didn’t understand. At her rank, a lot of important information never ended up coming her way; she was simply expected to complete a given task without asking questions. But, when it came to something with implications as massive as this, who wouldn’t at least want to know why? No one in their right mind would go out and capture a high-profile individual for sheer amusement, so there had to be something that prompted it-- presumably something significant.