The Dying Girl No One Helped Analysis

Characters, in Heidi Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, force the protagonist, Rachel, to choose between her white and black side. They only acknowledge her black side while only celebrating her white qualities. Consequently, Rachel feels the obligation to accept the roles that have been thrust upon her and ignores part of her race because of the commentary from her family and peers. Rachel adapting to the portrayal of her racial identity to appeal to the normalized opinions of her appearance, demonstrates her tendency to comply with the categorization people of color face throughout society. Ultimately, leading Rachel to pick and choose the parts of her racial identity that most please the people she is with.

When there is an emergency, why is taking out our phones to take a picture or video the very first thing we want to do? Why do we casually walk by a person who is in trouble, and go about our business as if we did not anyone? Why do we not help or act when someone is getting, but instead we just stand in a crowd and watch? Why do we bury our moral instincts during emergencies? “We witness a problem, consider positive action, and respond by doing nothing. Why do we not help in these situations and put our moral instincts in shackles” (Keltner & Marsh, 2017). We as people are bystanders to the world around us daily, but the question is why? The answer to all the “why” questions is the bystander effect.

Social psychology first examined the phenomena later termed “bystander effect” in response to a 1964 murder. The murder of a young woman with as many as 38 witnesses and none who helped until it was too late. The bystander effect is individuals seeing an emergency situation but not helping. There are many reasons why individuals do not respond: diffusion of responsibility, not noticing or unsure if it is an emergency, and not wanting to be liable if the person still dies are a few.

In the 2007 article “the bystander effect” the author Dorothy Barkin’s was talking about the reasons why most people decide not to get involved in complex situations. Many think that the reasons maybe very obvious such as the fear of possible danger to one’s self or having to go through long legal proceedings. However, the author talks about two main reasons for such actions. The first being ambiguity, the fact the most people do not know how to evaluate different situations and there lays most for the decision making. As knowing what the problem that you are facing in that moment, that alone creates a high-pressure environment that most people would not like to be involved in. Not to mention, being able to help effectively

Journalist Martin Gansberg authors the article “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police” reconstructs the murder of Ms. Catherine, a.k.a. Kitty, Genovese. All thirty-eight witnesses refrained from calling the police to aid the dying woman. Gansberg exposes the ugly truth about what results when a group of people or a society becomes apathetic and self-preserving. Society is selfish that watching others to be harmed and or killed is not significant enough to speak against or alert someone else to injustices.

When someone is clearly in need of help you would think people would rush to their aide and help. We’ve seen and heard plenty of stories of people helping others in danger risking their lives. But what about those stories where people just stand by and watch as someone is clearly in need of help. This articles tells of such stories. On March 13, 1964 at 3 a.m., 28-year old Catherine (Kitty) Genovese was returning home to her apartment from work in Kew Gardens, Queens when she was attacked by Winston Mosely. She was raped and stab more than 12 times over a 35-minute time span. As she screamed for help lights in the nearby apartments turned on. People looked out but no one came to help her. More than half of her neighbors heard her pleas for

They assured us, they would be among the first to help [in a real emergency]” (Darley and Latane 770). Then Darley and Latane explained why bystanders act the way they do, with their final example. [It involved an individual in a room and a tape recorder playing simulating an individual having major speech difficulties. More individuals, that thought they were alone, came out to help the person having difficulties (the tape recorder). Every time the individual listening to the tape recorder thought that there were more people with them, they were less likely to respond.]

In a time of dire need for people who actually care about our society, Williams laid out circumstances in which we have failed to put forth the effort to help others, even in desperate situations. She wants our society to understand the extent of how the bystander effect has taken over the way we live in today’s world. In, “Someone Else Will Do It, Obviously,” Williams takes on the point of view of someone who is the adverse of a proactive participant, a passive bystander, and runs through various situations that involves a version of the bystander effect and then implements their response. Throughout the essay she encompasses the realities of the effect; it is more often than not, extremely evident in societal norms. Through Williams’ use of irony

Even though there are a number of instances when people help others who are in need,

Over the year in English, what went well for me were the short stories. Normally, when reading short stories, I don't understand the meaning behind them, but this year I was able to piece things together, and I enjoyed talking about them afterwards. What didn't go well for me is reading the Wes Moore book. When reading it, I was constantly lost and never knew what was going on or which Wes was which. Even after discussing the book in class, I could never seem to figure out what was going on, and I always dreaded having to read the book because of that.

Lost Girl was performed at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre in the F. Loren Winship Building by Texas Theatre and Dance. Written by Kimberly Belflower, the play engaged the audience through its use of projection designs, surprise effects, and sedentary set designs and was well received by adults and students alike. Through these factors, the production was able to relay the message of finding oneself to the audience, and encourage those who are lost to follow Wendy Darling’s path to acceptance.

Alone in rooms they dwindled. They had met online. Skinny inclinations had drawn them together. Young girls, aching to be thin, they connected. Bony fingers clattered at keyboards as they converged in forums to discuss excess fat. They did not know each other’s names, were easily concealed behind avatars and handles. The forums they frequented did not bend exactly to their needs. They splintered. Together they set up an anonymous blog. This digital nook became their sanctuary. A five strong sorority thrived. Online, adolescent insecurities were magnified, exposed to global peer pressure. Fussing over physiques was a viral disease. Beneath the line, images were deconstructed, every inch sifted for flaws.

For some reason many people are afraid to stand up for others. They think, “If I try to help I will just make it worse” or “I could get myself into trouble.” Instead of standing up they avoid the problem, like it’s not even happening. These people are just as guilty as the person doing the evil. Unfortunately, this happens to many people. Most of us have had a time in our life where we’ve been afraid to stand up for someone, especially in a situation where we could be put in danger. It’s also difficult to stand up when you’re standing alone. Just because this happens to many people doesn’t make it okay though. If you are in a situation where something is not right, you can’t just ignore it. If you don’t take action you are just as guilty. You

Social and cultural pressures, as well as beliefs about the self will influence helping behaviors. In an emergency, both informational and normative social influences are impacting whether an individual helps another. People look for queues from others in order to determine if the current situation requires action to be taken. Also, people will do things simply to be accepted by the group (Aronson et al., 2013). In any

Imagine a scenario where you are an 6th grade student being bullied constantly while everyone just watches, or a neighbor knowing that the family next door is abusive towards their children but you remain silent about it. These scenarios are what you call the phenomenon of “Bystanderism” where a person or an amount of people are aware of the situation where a person needs assistance of some sort but does not intervene. This individual remains a bystander as a particular scene unfolds. This can escalate from the smaller incidents mentioned above to massive crimes against humanity where the silence of the majority is deemed as an acceptance to the various actions or sufferings happening. The question is however, how much of the blame do we put on these bystanders who do not take any action? Can we completely fault everyone who hasn’t offered any help to the bullied victims, to those that don’t report abuse? We can answer these questions through looking at the various factors that do affect bystanderism, and how these factors work from various case to case events. Out of the vast number of factor, we can narrow it down to three significant factors, diffusion of responsibility, motivations, and audience inhibition. These three factors play a huge role in determining the actions of an individual to commit some type of prosocial behavior and break the bystander atmosphere. Through these factors, we will see that we can fault those that do fall to bystandersim, but only partially