Essays on Murder

Various Means to Tackle School Shootings Various means have been proposed as ways to tackle school shootings. However, none of them guarantees complete solution to the problem of school shootings. In fact the statistics are on the rise with a minimum of one shooting per week according to a report by...

In any criminal case there is always a motive behind the crime. Some of these crimes can sometimes be intentional while others can be caused by biological causes like being mentally unstable. In other words, criminal behaviors are driven by mindsets criminals place in their heads in ways that an...

In the US, gun violence is a significant societal issue. The main demographic that is most impacted by the vice, both as victims and as perpetrators, is youth. In essence, young people's propensity for violence has grown recently. According to estimates, there were 3,374 gun-related incidents in 2014, most of which...

World War I Despite the fact that the world has seen many conflicts, World War I is still the one that people remember the most. The war was fantastic because it encompassed so many European nations. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 marked the beginning of the conflict. During...

Based on Thomas Harris's book of the same name, The Silence of the Lambs is a horror-thriller movie. Clarice Starling, a young federal bureau of investigations agent, is charged with locating a serial killer who harvests the skin from his victims after they have been slain. The youthful FBI cadet...

Introduction Humans have a persistent belief that they are entitled to consume other creatures and to kill them. However, according to Pollan and Singer, this idea is debatable and, to some degree, untrue. Peter Singer argues in his essay, "All Animals Are Equal," that the basic principle of equality should be...

Nehisi's Criticism of the Obama Administration's Response to Donald Trump's Suggestions Nehisi details the criticism that the Obama administration leveled at Donald Trump's suggestions that Muslims be expelled from the United States. The Obama administration's reaction is that Donald Trump is damaging America's reputation abroad, with Vice President Joe Biden issuing...

In the year 1929, there was a mass murder event in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America. The main event occurred on February 14, 1926, and was known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Unarmed gangs from Chicago carried out the crime. At the time of the incident,...

Territorial disputes caused the war between Serbia and Austria-Hungary to erupt into World War I. Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, was killed toward the end of June 1914 while traveling on formal business to Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was an Austria-Hungarian province with a large Serb population that sought...

American Law papers go into greater detail than new articles and provide citations for cases supporting both sides of the issues at hand. Bennett, No. 05-CR-6050 CJS, 2015 WL 3879875 (United States v. (W.D.N.Y. November 21, 2015) The defendant was judged guilty of involuntary manslaughter but not first-degree murder by the jury. Enter...

Since quite some time, there have been numerous shootings and other crimes The Oregon College shooting, which resulted in ten fatalities and numerous injuries, is one of the most shocking incidents. Similarly, it is impossible to avoid reading news articles about homicides that have occurred in different places. Politicians and commentators...

According to news accounts, police shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. Officer Darren Wilson killed him by shooting him six times in total, four of which struck Brown's right hand and two of which struck his cranium. According to a witness, Michael Brown was unarmed and...