In the story “Bargain”, by A. B. Guthrie, the question of who caused the death of the sly Slade, is one that could be greatly debated and fought over. First off, Slade might have been responsible for his own ill-fated death. Slade was a man that adored drinking alcoholic beverages. Towards the end of the story, Al finds Slade dead, he informed Mr. Baumer of the catastrophic incident that happened while Slade was transporting goods for the man. The story later went that either Slade froze to death, considering the harsh temperatures, or that he drank the poisonous wood alcohol that was found in the back the wagon he was using. In the text, it states, "One afternoon, when I lit out from class, the thermometer on the school porch read forty-two …show more content…
Baumer. Mr. Baumer in the first place didn’t favor Slade, at all. This is due to Slade usually stealing from Mr. Baumer, he would always treat himself to his bosses goods along the way. Also, maybe Mr. Baumer yearned to get back at Slade after he injured him. In the story it states, “That Slade. He steal whiskey and call it evaporation. He sneak things from his load. A thief, he is. And too big for me. (372) “From behind us, Dr. King said, “I think you’ve broken this man's hand.” “Lucky for him I didn’t kill him,” Slade answered. (374) “Told me this morning to go out and locate him if I could and bring him in...like Baumer had told me to, and there was a quart of whiskey right there in the store for him if he’d come and get it.” (375) Mr. Baumer was having many problems with Slade, I believe that Baumer wanted Slade to have a taste of his own medicine, and use Slade’s disadvantages against him. Mr. Bauner himself said that Slade was too much for him to handle, also why else would Bauner ask Slade to come back and work for him, denying the fact that Slade would most likely steal liquor from him. All in all, there are two sides to the death of Slade. The different sides of the story are that Slade might have caused his own death, or Mr. Baumer caused his death. After reading this short story and analyzing the case, I have come to a conclusion that Mr. Baumer most likely caused the death of his foe,
“Death's Acre” tells about the career of a forensic hero, Dr. Bill Bass, creator of the famous "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee-the world's only research facility devoted to studying human decomposition. He tells about his life and how he became an anthropoligist. He tells about the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, explores the mystery of a headless corpse whose identity surprised police.
A reason Mr. Baumer is guilty of Slades murder is, Mr. Baumer hired Slade back a little afore christmas time so Slade so he could haul his freight. Mr. Baumer had other plans like poisoning the barrel he was hauling so when Slade imbibed out of it he would die. On page 51 of the short story “Bargain” Al says” then, a month and a moiety afore christmas he hired Slade to haul his freight for him. This shows that Mr. Baumer intentionally hired Slade so he could poison his barrel and kill him. Mr. Baumer kenned Slade could not read and he capitalized on that by superseding the alcohol barrel which Slade customarily hauled and superseded with wood alcohol, a lethal poison kenning Slade would embezzle it and drink it without reading it because he could not read.. Withal Albeit
Anybody can write and persuade a certain audience, based on how the writer wants their audience to look at the situation. In Steve Earle’s essay “A Death in Texas”, he persuades his readers that he wants to believe that Johnathan Wayne Nobles was rehabilitated. In the essay, Nobles was a changed man within faith from becoming a religious man within the prison walls. Prison guards learned to trust Nobles with his quick-witted charm and friendliness. Steve persuaded himself that Johnathan was a changed man from the words that they had exchanged over the years on paper. Reality states that no matter how much someone changed in the present, it doesn’t change what they have done in the past. Earle describes in the essay “There he will be pumped full of chemicals that will collapse his lungs and stop his heart forever” (Earle 73). He’s persuading the audience with horrid emotion with facts of a lethal injection that will happen to Johnathan. What Earle doesn’t describe is how gruesomely Johnathan’s murders were. In this world everyone has a chance to know right from wrong, even if someone was brought up wrong in the society. Johnathan was not rehabilitated, maybe at one point accepted his past, but he was still a murderer and a
When people ponder death they wonder about the unknown with trepidation. As a young man, William Cullen Bryant wrote the "Thanatopsis." His thoughts progress from the fear of death to the acceptance of the event. People should not fear death because everyone dies and becomes a part of nature.
To Sacrifice To Sacrifice, Almost every day one decides to sacrifice an aspect of their life but is limited to only so many on behalf of their morals. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch sacrifices his and his family's identity, well being, and time for his beliefs. The book takes place over the course of the Great Depression where racism is a normal day to day behavior. Assigned to take possession of a case defending an African American man by the name of Tom Robinson is Atticus, a highly skilled lawyer. While acknowledging that the usual act of a lawyer being appointed to defend an African American citizen during the Great Depression is to not give effort to the case, but to make the case difficult to win.
From 1608-2002, Louisiana has only executed 658 (ProCon). There have been several different methods from hanging, the electric chair, and now lethal injection. On November 28, 1942, the first woman was executed by the electric chair in the state of Louisiana. Her name was Toni Jo Henry and she suffered in many ways throughout her life. From losing her mother and enduring an abusive father, to working in a brothel where men used her as they pleased, to having her husband locked up in jail with no way out. Does that excuse her killing an innocent man?
In Thomas Nagel’s “Death,” he questions whether death is a bad thing, if it is assumed that death is the permanent end of our existence. Besides addressing whether death is a bad thing, Nagel focuses on whether or not it is something that people should be fearful of. He also explores whether death is evil. Death is defined as permanent death, without any form of consciousness, while evil is defined as the deprivation of some quality or characteristic. In his conclusion, he reaffirms that conscious existence ends at death and that there is no subject to experience death and death ultimately deprives a person of life. Therefore, he states that Death actually deprives a person of conscious existence and the ability to experience. The ability to experience is open ended and future oriented. If a person cannot permanently experience in the future, it is a bad or an evil. A person is harmed by deprivation. Finally, he claims that death is an evil and a person is harmed even though the person does not experience the harm.
Another contribution to him wanting to kill could be him drinking. Alcohol tends to make people be there selves more and be angrier. Drinking for that much and starting that young may have impacted his brain. Making him have really bad anger issues and even driving him to kill. I’ve seen alcohol make people angry before but never enough to
death, even if it wasn’t deliberate. A detail from the story is “that streak of cruelty within me
Born in England in 1946, British most notorious serial killer Harold Shipman became known as Dr. Death. His fascination for the world of medicine can be traced back to as early as taking care of his dying mother. Shipman became obsessed with the positive effect of how morphine was administered. This serial killer killed over 215 of his patients. Shipman lived by the motive, "if you want to become a serial killer, become a doctor." In 1974, Shipman joined the Abraham Ormerod Medical Practice in Todmorden. Until September 1975, when his partners discovered that he had been stealing controlled drugs for his personal usage. Shipman pleaded guilty in February of 1976 at the Halifax Magistrates’ Court of these allegations. There was no disciplinary
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters Jem and Scout, two siblings living in Alabama in the 1930s, initially presume that having courage is to be fearless in overcoming a challenge. As they grow throughout the book, the characters are put into multiple situations that twist their initial view of courage into something more meaningful and more valuable. They learn these important lessons from their father, Atticus, and they fully understand Atticus’s lessons by seeing his example played out in the court case of Tom Robinson, and black man falsely accused of rape, later in the book. Ultimately, Lee uses the characters of Jem, Scout, and Atticus to show the reader that real courage is standing up for what is right in spite of the risk and sacrifice.
In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, there are three people at fault for the death of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence, but the Friar is most at fault. All three people are at fault for different reasons. Romeo is at fault because he knew the punishment if he fought Tybalt. Juliet deliberately stabbed herself and the Friar put the idea of killing themselves in their head. All three of these people are at fault, but the Friar is most at fault.
Edgar Allen Poe, a genius author, has a death that is very controversial. Many people believe that Poe may have died of alcoholism. On the other hand, some believe he died of a case of human rabies. However, Poe died of alcoholism. This simply makes more sense because there are many more supporting facts of this theory than the theory of death by rabies.
Just a few days after his arrival in Baltimore, the illustrious Edgar Allan Poe was found extremely intoxicated near a gutter. On October 7, 1849, he was officially declared dead, yet the cause is still controversial. Some say he drank away his sorrows or died from medical issues, but after examining the facts it is clear the Cooping Theory fits the situation perfectly. Edgar Allan Poe, a famous poet from the 1800’s, was confirmed to have passed away just as the Cooping Theory stated.
In September of 2011, a 14-year-old boy from Williamsville, New York named Jamey Rodemeyer took his own life. Rodemeyer’s suicide may have been the result of years of bullying and harassment, having faced hateful comments and gay slurs in school and online (Praetorius 2011). Rodemeyer was not alone. September of 2010 was particularly deadly for young gay students with a number of suicides: Billy Lucas (15), Seth Walsh (13), Tyler Clementi (18), Harrison Chase Brown (15), Asher Brown (13), and Caleb Nolt (14) (Eliason 2011). According to the American Psychological Association (2013), rates of suicide among people ages 15 to 24 have been increasing at an alarming rate. Risk factors for suicide include depression and other mental disorders. Specifically, young people who are unable to cope with the challenges of adolescence develop a severe vulnerability to mental disorders caused by stressors like disciplinary problems, interpersonal losses, family violence, sexual orientation confusion, physical and sexual abuse, and being the victim of bullying (American Psychological Association 2013). While it is understood that suicide is not unique to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, research suggests that elevated rates of suicidal behaviors exist in LGBT youth (Bagley & Tremblay