Lizzie Borden Argumentative Essay-Final Draft There is lots of evidence in the Lizzie Borden murders, but is it enough to say Lizzie Borden killed Mr. and Mrs. Borden? Mr. and Mrs. Borden were killed in their home on August 4th 1892. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was the suspected killer. She was found to be innocent, yet many people still think that Lizzie borden murdered her parents that day. There is a lot of evidence that points to Lizzie being the killer. A lot of things she did and said were very suspicious. Lizzie Borden is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The first reason that Lizzie Borden is guilty is that Lizzie Borden switched up her story many times. In the inquest testimony Lizzie says “I was in the kitchen” (3). She was asked if she was sure about that and then she changed her story. She said she couldn’t remember if she was in there or in the dining room (3). Lizzie then changes her answer again …show more content…
Lizzie said that she was in the barn during the time of the murders. She had told her Sister, Emma Borden that she was out in the backyard during the time of the murders. In the Hyman Lubinsky testimony he states “Saw a lady come out the way from the barn right to the stairs back of the house, the north side stairs” (1). Hyman Lubinsky had also said that it couldn’t have been the maid because he knew the maid well enough to know if it was her. In the Adelaide Churchill testimony she says that she asked Lizzie where she was during the murders. Lizzie answered “I went to the barn to get a piece of iron” (1). Lizzie had also said that she was on the bottom floor of the barn. She had then switched it up and said that she was on the top floor of the barn. Lizzie had said what she could see from the windows in the barn, and it changed on what she could see. Her story is always changing. There is no way to tell where she was on the day of the murders. The barn was found
My research question has to do with how puritan women are represented by the tried witches, and with background information on what Bishop was accused of as well as the fact the judge did not believe her, I am able to refute the logic of why she was executed. Bishop was not committing any actual crimes (by law) which means she was simply going against social norms. For example, Bishop was accused of murdering children, however there was not evidence found on where those bodies were, or exactly who she killed. There was no proof of any of her accusations being true, accept for the dolls she had in her house. In fact, once these “poppets” were found, “Bishop’s fate was sealed, and she was hanged in June 1692” (Associated Press A3). It seems as if the court wanted used the only source of proof they could find to hang her. The reputation Bishop gained throughout her court hearings scared the people of Salem because she never conformed to the female Puritan way of
In article #2, it explains,” Lizzie Borden cared for her father very deeply. There was a tremendous outpouring of grief in the letters, and that’s a new side of the story.” The letters were from Lizzie’s lawyer’s journal during the trial. The rare journal contained the raw letter’s Lizzie wrote while in her cell. Along with the letters, there were many close family friends that came forward and said that it was highly unlikely for Lizzie to want to kill her parents because they had a good relationship. Some even speculated that Lizzie killed her step-mother because in interviews, she would not refer Abby as ‘mother”. Lizzie used to refer Abby as “mother” but as she got older, it felt wrong. During her interviews, Lizzie showed her grieving side, that many wanted to dismiss and still portray her as someone evil. When really deep down, she was
	Even though most people believe those young girls were the only ones accused, also grown men and women were too. History tells about how a neighbor’s pig fell astray into the Nurse family’s yard and Rebecca Nurse yelled at her neighbor. Soon after the neighbor feel ill and died of a stroke.
Lizzie was well aware of the disadvantages of being a woman condemned to a narrow societal image and used her unrecognized intelligence to her advantage. By murdering her father and stepfather she was able to gain everything she could have wanted; a large house on the hill, tremendous wealth, and rid herself of a detested stepmother. Although it is a morbid circumstance, Lizzie Borden proved herself to be a clever women of her era. She played the male system, knowing that regardless of what the facts say, the male ego was much more powerful. To question moral, innocent Lizzie meant the men in power must question their ways of thinking and everything they had worked so hard to create, the perfect woman.
A basic sense of honesty is another of Mary Warren’s traits. In Act I she goes to Salem to convince Abigail to tell the truth about what really happened in the woods. When the witchcraft scare gets out of hand, Mary joins Abigail and the other girls in falsely accusing women of being witches. These false accusations are motivated by hysteria. There is evidence that Mary really believes that the women in court are bewitching her. She tells the judge that she thought she saw spirits. The other girls were screaming, and before she knew it, Mary was screaming with them. When she realizes that there are no spirits, Mary is willing to be truthful. After Elizabeth Proctor’s name is brought up in court, Mary Warren defends her against the accusation. At the end of Act II, the reader hopes that the basic sense of honesty will remain strong enough to allow Mary to testify on behalf of the accused women in Act III.
“In addition to the testimony, the court also examined the skeletons and cadaver parts found as evidence.” (Wikipedia 5). There is no record or evidence of how many victims Elizabeth actually killed, but there were rumors of a so called book. The book was said to have lists of all the victims that Bathory had. The book was only seen by one person, Susannah, but was never actually revealed to be real. Although there were 32 letters that were found, written from Elizabeth, explaining some cruel acts of
Knox did not stand a chance in court because of the illegal workings within the case, the false evidence shown to the accusers, and the fourth estate portraying Ms. Knox as an iniquitous human being. Ms. Knox was wrongly convicted of the murder of roommate and companion. The Knox Trail, which finally ended with Ms. Knox being proven innocent, will forever be the case that people will have to agree to disagree over, but with the information included above it can be said, Amanda Knox is
Burton's testimony basically tells the prosecutors exactly what they want to hear. She pins the bulk of the conspiring on her masters, the Hughsons, and two slaves, Prince and Caesar. The Hughsons were suspected of fencing sto...
I believe Mary Surratt is innocent from being involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the reason is because there was not enough evidence and she didn’t know what the guns were going to be used for.
According to document E, it could be that the girls were jealous. The land most of the accusers lived on was not as good as the land the accused lived on. It could be that the accused wanted their homes and/or their land. The accused lived on the further east side of Salem Village. This land was a lot better. It was great for growing food on. Hungry little girls living on bad growing land sounds like a decent motive to me. The term for that is jealousy and it is more than possible to be the motive of the gang of young ladies.
Crime manifests itself in various ways in society and oftentimes difficult to pinpoint what drives people to commit certain actions. The Columbine shooting was a particular incident that ended in tears and suffering which resulted in numerous research as to what was going through the minds of these young individuals at the time of the shooting. Therefore, this paper will analyze specifically the role of differential association- reinforcement as altered by Akers in propelling Dylan Klebold to commit such heinous act, while also giving credit to Edwin Sutherland for first formulating the framework of differential association.
When Jim Aiken returned home early from work and found his wife in bed with another man, the mailman, out of anger and hurt Jim Aiken shot and killed the mailman. After killing the mailman, Aiken went and prepared himself a sandwich and watched television while his wife was still in the bed, frozen in fear. After shooting and killing the mailman, two-hours later Jim Aiken went back up the stairs and shot and killed his wife.
During World War II, the Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, attempted to eliminate all the Jews and other “inferior peoples” of Europe. The Nazis and their collaborators killed millions of people, including six million Jewish people and other minority groups, such as 200,000 gypsies and 200,000 disabled people ("Introduction to the Holocaust”). This terrible period in history is now referred to as the Holocaust ("Background to the Holocaust”). A young girl named Anne Frank wrote one of the most notable Jewish texts from this period. Her optimism about the future should inspire the resolution of the modern religious and racial conflicts which stem from WWII era prejudices.
The people in Salem were ruled by the fear being killed. All the lying that occurred in Salem began the build of fear. Abigail is the main character that caused the lying. Her first lie starts in the beginning of the book after being caught dancing with other girls in the woods. Abigail herself feared the consequences she would face if the town found out about what happened in the forest. She made sure to threaten all the girls by saying “...Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you…” (Miller 20). Her threat established a fear into the girls’ heads that would prevent them from their normal action of telling the truth. Following this event Abigail must save her reputation, In order to do this she lies to Reverend Hale saying “She made me do it! She made Betty do it!”(Miller 43). Abigail's accusation toward Tituba also leads to the accusation of Sarah Good and Goody Osburn. The way Abigail acted was a result of fear, if she feared nothing bad would come from telling the truth then she wouldn't have lied. The girls may have set the wi...
Thomson criticizes the “right to life” argument using several thought experiments such as the violinist thought experiment in which a person has been kidnapped by the crazy fans of a violinist who is dying from a failing kidney. The person is expected to stay connected to the violinist for approximately nine months, or longer if required. According to the “right to life” argument, the violinist is a person and deserves to have a life; therefore, regardless of the fact that the person that is hooked up to him is a victim and unwilling, it is that persons’ obligation to stay hooked up and save the life of the violinist. Thomson argues that a person, regardless of circumstance, has the right to control what goes on with their body. She argues that if the person decides to stay connected to the violinist they are within their rights and if they decide to disconnect and the violinist dies, they are in their rights as well.