Memories of Murder

The numerous ups, downs, and controversies surrounding the life of former star football player OJ Simpson have led to a strangely divided collective memory of the man. The term collective memory refers to a shared pool of information held in the memories of a group from aggregated individual recollections. The story of OJ Simpson’s life is both sad and puzzling after overcoming adversity to become one of the best football players of all time and a public figure beloved by many Simpson would go on

process by depicting Hamlet's changing emotions, coping mechanisms, and relatability to others. Hamlet later becomes unpredictable, illustrating the complex nature of grief. Hamlet’s initial reaction to his father’s murder was pure devastation. He believed that it was an unjustified murder and driven by evil motives. When visited by the ghost of King Hamlet. Hamlet expresses his sorrow, “Ay, thou poor ghost,

The tractors are slowly replacing the black community who farmed the land, meaning there is no need for very many people to cultivate the land. The old men feared that if they did not do anything, the memories of their loved ones would soon be gone, “I was scared if I didn’t do it, one day that tractor was go’n come in there and plow up them graves, getting rid of all proof that we ever was” (92). The change of times becomes another hardship on the black

Glaspell’s most memorable one-act play, Trifles (1916) was based on murder trial case that happened in the 1900’s. Glaspell worked as a reporter, where she appointed a report of a murder case. It was about a farmer, John Hossack who was killed while he was asleep in bed one night. His wife claimed that she was asleep next to him when the attack occurred. No one believed in her statement, she was arrested and was charged on first degree murder. In Trifles, the play takes place at an abandon house at

she uses the setting of Bunny's murder site to divulge the deceptive and dangerous life Richard Papen starts for himself in Hampden. Will this life he has chosen lead him to the life he wanted or will he be haunted by regrets? The Sunday of the murder, in April, stood still and oppressive. A silent and musty forest, a deep ravine with deeper secrets and at last a purifying snow that would soon melt away leaving a shocking revelation. When seen in Bunny's murder site, Richard's underlying emotions

when discussing the historical significance of the murder of six million European Jews by the Third Reich? Emotion is the expression of thoughts and beliefs affected by feeling and sensibility of an individual regarding a certain event or individual. In terms of the Holocaust, emotion is overwhelmingly prevalent in the survivors’ tales of their experiences, conveyed in terms of life, death, and

Introduction: This investigation examines the biological causes for serial killers’ psychopathic tendencies and examines those same biological factors in both men and women to find the correlation between a higher rate of male serial killers and the biology behind their actions. It is imperitave to first know what a serial killer is, and what makes them such a cold fish. There are sections of the brain that do have control over a human being’s personality, where that individual can either develop

Unconscious Slaughter “Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”(Stephen King, Under the Dome). This quote is portrayed in the story “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King, Springheel Jack is a serial killer where it does not just end with one death. As a reader we rely on the narrator to guide us through the story, in the three stories the narrators hold information back from readers which makes them unreliable. Unreliability is shown in a narrator when their mental state is poor

is from mainly the sheeps’ point of view. They can talk to each other and are very naïve, taking everything literally. For instance, at a point in the book the sheep were talking about fixing their lead ram’s memory, “If it’s a hole in his memory we ought to stop it up with more memories,” said Cordelia. “You stop up a hole in the earth with more earth” (Swann 159). The sheep also take God to be an ordinary person. They discuss how God moves in mysterious ways and how he could have killed George

Elizabeth Loftus is a psychological scientist who discusses memories, specifically false memories, in her TED Talk “How reliable is your memory?” Ultimately, Loftus explains that it is possible to not only have false memories, but it is also possible to feed people misinformation that in return alters one’s memory. This concept of false memories, and more broadly one’s remembered past, is evident in a few films we have studied in class. In both Solaris (Soderbergh) and Memento, improving one’s self