A coroner says a .38-caliber pistol was recovered where a Delta State University teacher died from a single gunshot to the head after he is suspected of killing a colleague and his ex-girlfriend. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said Tuesday that Shannon Lamb killed himself about a mile south of his parents' house on the northern outskirts of Greenville. Johnson says Lamb died in the wooded backyard of a home where he knew the residents, after abandoning his still running car. She says Lamb's body is being taken to the state crime lab in Pearl for autopsy. A .38-caliber handgun was also used in the fatal shooting of Lamb's colleague Ethan Schmidt.…
In "Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder" by Martin Gansberg, the neighbors of Kitty Genovese watched as she was stabbed three times. Genovese was returning home from her job as a manager at a bar. As she exited her car she noticed a man, Winston Moseley, at the end of the lot. She walked toward a call box to call the police. However, before she made it to the call box Moseley grabbed and stabbed her.…
Reading Response In the article “37 People Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” by Martin Gansberg tells the descriptive story of a woman who gets stabbed by an armed assailant multiple times. Being such a short story this has to be one of the most difficult essays I’ve ever had to analysis with only certain key tails to go off with. But the many emphasis details given tell the story with multiple views on how it had happened.…
Clearly, having a bystander did not change the actions of the detectives that Leo…
What would you do if you saw someone being treated unfairly and they were in need? Would you help them? In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” by Elie Wiesel are examples on why bystanders are guilty. People are obligated to stand up for others in need no matter the cost because it is the right thing to do. Bystanders are guilty because doing nothing and just watching can do as much as go against the victim.…
But they are protected by good Samaritan laws made just for this type of case, stating that if the bystander was acting on good intentions they can't be blamed. As a general rule, when a person physically hurts another person, the injured person sues the person responsible. But these good Samaritan laws protect people from being sued for injuries if their intentions were to help, so there is no reason for a bystander not to help someone in trouble. Another example, in an article written about the murder of Kitty Genovese, it says, “How could people possibly just sit there knowing what was going on and not call the police?…
Martin Luther King Jr. once said “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. In the texts “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech, they both have bystanders that do not help out when it came to harming humans. People just stand around watching others get hurt and that's why no one believes in good people, that leads me to say bystanders are not innocent. In “The Lottery” people gather around every year to watch or join in on stoning people to death which is why none of them are innocent.…
Can someone intentionally walk away from a person in distress on the street? People assume that onlookers nearby will help the distressed person by assisting or phoning emergency services. Yet, most people will not lend a helping hand. For example, in 1964, there was a bizarre crime in New York City; a young woman named Catherine Genovese, commonly called Kitty, was murdered and thirty-eight onlookers witnessed the act and yet nobody came to her assistance or phoned the emergency services. Despite several people witnessing the incident, what is the reason why nobody assisted the woman?…
The average person only helps twenty percent of the time when others are around, according to the University of Minnesota. This phenomenon is called the bystander effect. People are eighty percent more likely to help someone in need when they are alone versus around other people. Everyone would like to think that they would help someone in need, but in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, a small town’s lottery is a symbol of the bystander effect and how no one questions tradition. The children collect rocks to use for the stoning, everyone jokes around before the names are picked, and the way Mrs. Delacroix comments, “Be a good sport Tessie’” (137) implies that the town thinks ritually killing a person is a game.…
Bystanders are forgotten parties in conflict. They are neither adversaries nor formal intermediaries. Bystanders may not be involved within the conflict but they share a big part of it. Bystanders are forced to live in hostile conditions such as children of divorcing parents. They are sounded by many fights and loads of…
Traumatic Brain Injuries in athletes and CTE, Chapter 2 Brain injuries can be as mild as a concussion, and as severe as a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. A traumatic brain injury is diagnosed when a person’s normal brain function has been negatively altered after receiving a forceful trauma to the head (Hockenbury, Nolan & Hockenbury, 2015). Although it is not something we often think about, our brains are highly vulnerable to injury (Hockenbury, Nolan & Hockenbury, 2015). Fortunately most people are able to fully recover after obtaining a concussion, but individuals who experience a lifetime of concussions are more apt to develop Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE.…
There is also something called the bystander effect which is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to situations in which individuals do not offer help to a victim when other people are present.…
The hypothesis based on the findings of Latane and Darley (1968) that as the number of participants increased, help would become less likely was somewhat supported. The results in the graph Percentage of people who helped/did not help highlighted that the bystander effect occurred as the smallest group size had the highest help rate of 100%, and the percentage of participants who helped in the group of 19 was higher than that of the group of 35, 10.5% and 2.90% respectively. However, the groups of 3 and 10 did not support the hypothesis as they had a help rate of 0. The bystander effect model developed by Lantane and Darley (1970) explains the results in the graph Percentage of people who helped/ did not help.…
By choosing to be a bystander may not always have the outcome you envision . Some times you are faced with death and sometimes you are able to help someone in desirable need. As you will find out, your actions and choices of being a bystander will always have an effect in someone else's future. The choice of being a bystander impacts all parties involved because they can help the situation others are in, or otherwise they can be the cause of people's death. The impact on bystanders is sometimes very crucial to the impact of the act being done.…
Bystander Apathy and Effect The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social circumstance that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any type of help to a victim when other people are around them. The possibility of help is related to the amount of bystanders. Basically, the greater the number of bystanders, there is a smaller chance that one of them will help. There are examples of bystander apathy and the ways to abolish it (Wikipedia Contributors).…