Murder Book Reviews Samples For Students

The doctrine of double effect concerns moral conflict, and it is based on a suggestion that every action generates two outcomes usually good and bad (Shafer-Landau, nd.pg 170). However, the question as to whether the actions are ethical or not depends on their results. Therefore, bad actions can still be perceived morally acceptable if their results are good. This doctrine is related utilitarianism, which promote the argument that an action is acceptable if it is of the greater social wellbeing. The doctrine of double effect could be a source of guidance in a case where murder results from self-defense. If a robber is ...

Cold blood is one of the best classical non-fiction books and was written by Truman Capote in the year 1966.This author is one of the best in screen writing. Many of his short stories, plays and nonfiction have for years been recognized like novella breakfast at Tiffany’s. In that era the American justice and legal system was heavily biased and only few writers were ready to criticize these acts. In this book, Capote goes into details about the murder of Hubert clutter who was a farmer from Holcomb and also how his two of the four children and wife ...

The children’s book that I will discuss in this assignment is The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John Erikson. In this book, Hank the Cowdog is the main character and goes through several adventures. The book presents glory, guts, danger, and sacrifice in the life of Hank, who is the head of Ranch Security. The setting of the book is probably in the 1980s in Texas where it was written. In the beginning of this book, Drover, who is Hank’s assistant, comes to awakening him to the news of a murder of a chicken in the ranch. ...

The novel ‘ABC Murder’ reflects around a serial killer, ABC, who kills individuals alphabetically. The killer, with an unknown identity, sends provoking letters to Poirot, who is identified to be a detective. However, ABC covers his act with Cust, whom he takes advantage of because of mental disability. He offers Cust a job on behalf of a stocking company and arranges for his presence at each murder scene. ABC, who privately kills individuals in different cities, is however identified to be Franklin Clarke (Christie, 2010). On the other hand, The Big Sleep features Marlowe, a detective, who is hired ...

Book Review: The Village of Cannibals, Rage and Murder in France

Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Introduction

Historian Alain Corbin explores the political and social significance of the killing of a young French nobleman in the remote village of Hautefaye in France. Corbin’s chronicle describes the gruesome event that happened in broad daylight involving the villagers accusing the young nobleman of shouting republican slogans that angered the villagers. What followed in the trail of events is the sparked indignation of the entire country. Rumors of cannibalism have circulated in the country and the author’s fascination of ...

Faith Mcnulty was the author of the book, The Burning Bed. The Burning bed was a non-fiction book that tackled family problems and at some point, the possible consequences of an unresolved husband and wife conflicts. This book later on was adapted to a film. The film won several awards and nominations because of the boldness of the story which revolves around the story of Francine, a battered wife.

The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book which represented the life of Francine Hughes. She was basically subjected to a great deal of violence from her husband. It was a book that staged how human rights ...

I. Summary
This is a story about Richard Kuklinski, a psychopath who killed people for a living without remorse or compunction. And as he had told the book author, he liked what he did.
A hit man for the Mafia, he did jobs for the crime syndicate for two decades --murdering maybe more than a hundred people in New York and other states and in a career that spanned more than two decades.
But more than a hit man, Kuklinski, who was Polish, also killed people sometimes out of rage as he had a violent temper. He would kill people simply for disrespecting ...

Culture is one thing that we human beings all have. Conversely, different ethnic communities are associated with different cultures. This is in most cases an added advantage as diversity caused by the different cultures is usually one that contributes to the fun in life. In the case that we all had the same cultures, then there would be nothing to learn. We would be waking up in the same routine day in day out and, in the long run, life would be rather boring. However, with the diversity created by the vast number of ethnical groups, it becomes fun ...

This book is piece that highlights the vulnerability of the justice system. The book is based on the modern society where corruption and other ills are part and parcel of our society. In the book the author is keen to note that the justice system is filled with social ills and it becomes for anyone to get justice. According to the author the jury is body where one with power or money can influence its decisions. In the modern society it is a general opinion that courts and the justice system is controlled by the mighty and powerful. The innocent ...

The Haunting of the Hill House Shirley Jackson

“The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent (Jackson 1.49)”
The car journey to the haunted house means a lot more than just a road trip. She defies her sister’s rule about taking the family car and going to Hill House and gets out to be on her own after a long time. Eleanor lives a repressed life even after the death of her mother curtailed by her family who smother her and refuse to let her grow up. This act of defiance and the car ride gives Eleanor a sense of freedom. ...

Abstract

This book review examines the book Criminals in the Bible by Professor Mark Jones. It examines the bases and features of criminal justice and the criminalizing process across different timelines and eras. The review examines the constitutional elements of different criminal justice systems and generations and how it relates to specific aspects of society.
The book review assesses and evaluates some of the elements of society including chapter analysis and how serious crimes occur. The main discovery of this book review is that crime and criminalizing is done within the context and framework of dominant constitutional processes and generally ...

Source

The book “The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield” by H.W Brand tells about the real life murder of Jim Fisk by Josie Mansfield’s lover, Edwin Stokes. In 1867 Josie was an unemployed actress who made her way in the world by using her looks and charm. This set her apart from most other women who were wives and mothers by Josie’s age. She had a penchant for playing the victim and getting men to “save” her. She had previously lied about her parents using her in a blackmail scheme. This led to ...

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. By Author, Anderson, Jon L.
Anderson Jon evokes Che Guevara’s intricate character in describing his role and myth, in one of the darkest periods of the cold war. Notably, the book completes the heroic saga of an outstanding life. Anderson begins by breaking the account of the entire event, particularly after Che’s body was secretly hidden after his assassination in Bolivia in 1967. He gives an account of how Che’s body was discovered, and brought back to Cuba after thirty years of murder. He further analyzes how Che’s body ...

A lot of fuss has been raised over this severe penalty for some felonies in many nations around the world. Great debates have been held over the same on whether to legalize it or not. Very strong, convincing reasons have been put across, both at national and international levels, supporting the mentioned topic of discussion and also its discouragement. Capital punishment has quite a number of reasons for its legalization but under well elaborated system of its administration. For crimes such as aggravated murder, there is no other form of punishment that would satisfactorily account for it other than the ultimate ...

The novel “Daughter of Time” written by Josephine Tey and published by ‘Simon and Schuster’ is one of the most interesting literary works well-disguised as a novel. The classic, published in the year 1951 for the first time dates back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gives an account of Richard III . The story has a fascinating plot with likeable characters. The most interesting part of the book is the way Tey presents history in the form of a mystery. She portrays history as a science, which involves a constant effort to analyze and learn from the truth rather a mere recitation of names, ...

Philosophy

Like a large number of people I thought that serial killers were just Ramon people who lose their minds and start committing violent acts of random murder. The River man by Robert Keppel went a long way in enlightening me and changing my mind about the mindset of a serial killer and the reasons why serial killers do what they do. The book tells the story of the investigations that led to the capture of the serial killer that came to be known more famously as the green river killer.in order for Keppel to fully understand the things that motivate serial killers ...

Meursault is the main character of the novel “The Stranger,” in which Camus wanted to emphasize the problem of belief in contemporary society. According to Camus, the most serious issue is the inability to believe in reality, observe what happens in the moment, and the inability to live life as it is rather than being concerned with nihilism and contemplating the absurd (Francev, 2010).
The novel shows three stages of development, through which Meursault eventually learns to deal with the lack of meaning in life. In the first part of the book, Meursault is an isolated being who ...

Does the author's have a biographical sketch to include the proper APA documentation?

In text, if author used in signal phrase, author (year).
End text (author, year, p. # --if it applies)
Birth and death (if applicable)
Education
History of novel publication - when published, where published, and by whom.
The author used proper APA citation format for both in text and bibliography list. Just as it is required to site the authors surname, year of publication and the page numbers, the author has followed al the required APA format. In the bibliography list, the author is also required to site the surname, initial of his first name. ...

The Lake Ladies was written by Paul Gullen and it is a fiction novel which deals with mystery and crime. It is a detective story involving two main characters, Bates and O’Rourke who belong to different generations of detectives. Captain O’Rourke and Bates team up and to solve crimes, but their personal stories are equally as interesting as their professional life.
O’Rourke and Bates meet during a case which could not be solved which happened in Chicago and involved the murder of a female violinist. Bates solves the case because he is a genius as well ...

12 Angry Men is a play written by Reginald Rose which deals with various topics describing human nature. People have to deal with prejudice, misconceptions and intuition by being devoted and taking time to find the truth. Serious decision cannot be brought quickly because forming a strong opinion about anything takes time and effort. There is much to learn from this play because it makes people question the possibility of human beings to grasp the truth.
Prejudice gets in the way of truth, distorts a person’s mind and makes them think in a way which is biased. It ...

The story of Bigger Thomas, by Richard Wright, was an evidence of a social and economic disconnects which was prevailing between the Negro and the white Americans. The setting of the book was in the South, and the closeness between the black and the white brought about hostility and hatred among the two races. Bigger who was living in the Southern part of Chicago is portrayed as a black who had both hatred and fear towards he white. In his every action throughout the book, Bigger portrays an obsessive fear that existed between the black and the white in ...

“Macbeth” is one of the greatest literary works of William Shakespeare. This play proves why Shakespeare is still the most influential English author. Shakespeare has tried to portray mordant psychosomatic and political effects when people do not hesitate in taking help of evil for fulfilling their aspiration of power. The play is believed to be written in the beginning of the seventeenth century but it still pleases people who love English literature. This paper intends to discuss the “Macbeth” and presents a succinct analysis of the play along with discussing all other related aspects.

The play takes place ...

The Outsiders is a story that took place in Oklahoma. The novel describes complicated relationships between teenagers that belong to different social layers. In the beginning of the book one of the main characters, Ponyboy Curtis became a victim of a group of upper-class adolescents from the West Side. Both belligerent parties had their nicknames: the boys from the East End were called greasers because of their long greasy hair and the boys from the West End were called “Socs” that was short from “Socials”. The conflicts between greasers and Socs arose further several times based on their social background. Sometimes their ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

Graham Greene’s The Confidential Agent (1939)
1. What sense do we get on how D’s character is changing as he remorselessly pursues K. and the manageress in part 2, chapter 1?
D’s character change can be analyzed and evaluated from different perspectives. While pursuing Mr. K, there is a change of heart and tact in the manner in which D perceives the events that culminate into the tracking of individuals whom are seen as offenders. D becomes aggressive to a greater extent in the sense that he quickly traces the people whom he thinks are the ...

Book Review: Bringing Adam Home, the Abduction that Changed America

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This paper gives a review on the book Bringing Adam home: the abduction that changed America. It also considers not only the main themes of the story but also gives examples of how this horrible case changed the society and the whole system of searching missing children. Adam’s parents made a great job for the American society: they changed the system, made TV lineups telling about the most dangerous murderers, created different organizations. The main conclusion is that this story is an example of an eternal love of parents to their children and how they can be brave ...

Morrison Toni’s Beloved (1998) is concerning an African-American family unit in 1800's whose values and beliefs have been affected by slavery. It is a narrative of how the family toiled against slavery effects as well as against the impacts of the FSL (Fugitive Slave Law) of 1850” I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing inbetween but the daughter I'm holding in my arms.” Sethe. Moreover, it discusses the status of slave masters and their capacity to bring back escaped slaves. Besides, it is a narrative of Sethe, a character who fled from slavery and haunted ...

Book Review: Destiny of the Republic

Candice, Millard. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President. New York: Random House, 2011.

Introduction

In both her books that she has written about American presidents, Candice Millard has concentrated on historical events that other authors have largely overlooked. Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic, follows her superb first book, River of Doubt (2005). She conduct the same interesting research to the life and assassination of Garfield, the same way she did to Theodore Roosevelt’s exploration of more than a thousand unknown and potentially lethal river miles in Brazil. Candice Millard is a ...

A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill

A saint on death row is a story that was written by an Irish-American author Thomas Cahill. In this tragic and heart wrenching story of a death row inmate known as Dominique Green, Thomas brings out the injustices and flaws that surround the American legal system. The issue of racism also comes up because the death row inmate (Dominique Green) was African American.

About the Author

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar born in New York in 1940 to Irish- American parents. Cahill grew up in Queens and the Bronx. He studied at Greek and Latin Literature, scripture and theology as well as medieval ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Book review of The Woods
“The Woods” is a thriller penned by Harlan Coben and was first published in the year 2007. Coben is known for his detective thrillers and out of the 20 books published by him so far, 10 feature the famous character of Myron Boitar. Harlan is based out of USA and some of his bestsellers include “Gone for Good” and “Tell No One”.
The story of “The Woods” revolves around an incident which took place in a summer camp, in which four teenagers (Doug Billingham, Gil Perez, Camille Copeland and Margot Green) venture into the ...

Genocide involves the mass killing of certain ethics, race or group of individuals. The motive of mass killing may be due to political difference, religious difference, culture difference and mistrust among different group. Increase in frequencies of the genocide has made historian explore on the main causes of the genocide. Their researches are aimed to prevent cases of genocide. Jan Gross, the writer of the book Neighbors has done extensive analysis of what led to the Jewish genocide. The book exposes the perpetrator of the Jewish genocide. A contrast to the historical believes that the genocide was facilitated by ...

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Introduction:
Viktor Frankl’s seminal book was written in 1946 and draws on his experiences in four different concentration camps but particularly during his time in Auschwitz, that great factory of mass murder where over 1.5 million Jews and other political prisoners were exterminated. Frankl had to suffer several of his family’s deaths including his pregnant wife while he had to continue labouring and blocking out the suffering from his mind.
Frankl’s encounters with the terrible and almost unreal experiences in the concentration camps truly prove to be harrwoing reading. Yet he is constantly searching ...

Throughout the book, several characters discuss the differences between Western and Eastern ways of painting. Two major parts of that difference are style and anonymity. One initial difference lies in the purpose of painting. As Enishte says, “Every picture serves to tell a story If there’s something within the text that our intellect and imagination are at pains to conjure, the illustration comes at once to our aid But painting without its accompanying story is an impossibility” (Pamuk, 27). In the Eastern view, art exists to serve the story, not as something worth existing in and of itself. Likewise, ...

- In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” the author frequently comments on the play itself. For example “To Be or Not to Be" (Shakespeare) is a comment made by Hamlet to the outside audience and doesn’t represent Hamlet’s thought at that moment.
- A. I do feel that there is evidence that Hamlet was jealous of Claudius. This statement made by Hamlet is telling of his relationship with Claudius, Such an act /That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, /Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose /From the fair forehead of an innocent love /And sets a blister there, ...

Introduction

The Chinese government adopted free market economy in early 1990 and since then the country has experienced enormous economic growth. The rate of urbanization has also been increasing and this has brought new forms of crimes which the government must devise new ways of handling. The increased crime rate across the country is attributable to increasing economic inequality, disruption of traditional social control mechanism, massive rural urban migration, and introduction of western values, change in demographic features and decreased social interaction. In Caribbean countries the authorities have been unable to tame the increased criminality fueled by increased drug and ...

Write a response to Clarice Lispector's short story, “The Body” and Rick J. Santos's article, “Forbidden Fruits in C.L.'s ‘The Body’”
Bigamy, homosexuality, murder. Clarice Lispector’s short story, “The Body” is both brave and shocking. Brave, because the author chooses to deal with controversial and often taboo subjects and shocking because she does it with boldness and honesty and makes no attempt to present a beautified version. The story is a critique to modern society and, through the use of symbolism, aims to convey a series of messages to the reader.
“The Body”, published in 1974 is critical of society, ...

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to analyze the non-fiction short story "The Price of a Dream" by Andrew Lukonis. The analysis is conducted on the basis of correspondence of the short story to the contemporary reality and accuracy of the described issues. Attention is also paid to political, psychological, sociological and personal matters of the topic. Place of entrepreneur's action in the story is analyzed from the point of its correspondence to cultural traditions of his society.

Compassion - Hope of Humanity

With the development of human civilization, each society liked to consider that its rules and customs were more advanced and civilized ...

The Hunt for Red October Annotated Bibliography

Part I

“The Hunt for Red October” by Tom Clancy highlights the fact that submarines played a significant role in cold war politics . It is particularly significant that this book reflects real world events, the mutiny aboard the Storozhevoy and the defection of Captain Jonas Pleskys of the Klaipeda . Tom Clancy’s approach to war is an intellectual power game rather than a horrifying detailed recitation of physical injuries . It shares aspects of underwater strategies like crazy Ivan where a ship tries to discover if another is following it, and move into battle position if it is. It is also about the ...

Introduction

The devil in the white city is one of the literatures by Erik Larson, which highlights some developments in the eighteenth century. This was a defining moment in United States where various architectural designs wee being adopted. Technical education had just hit its peak as many more people acquired skills. With the knowledge, they looked for creative ways of beautifying the city (Johnson, 73). They realized the need of planning everything and ensuring that both buildings, roads, rails and parks were placed at their right positions. One of the weaknesses that such architectural designs and designers had was the fact ...

On reading Shirley Jackson’s most renowned story “The Lottery,” the reader is left feeling somehow betrayed, because she does not offer her readers a world of black and white, where everything is straightforward. Quite the contrary, her world is a world of opposites merging into one confusing unity of meanings, where the good merges with the bad, resulting in an ironic portrayal of reality and what good actions can lead to. The world of “The Lottery” is a world of individuals who work together as a unity, erroneously believing that they are doing good for themselves and their community, while objectively perceived, ...

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a trio of witches predicts that Macbeth will be made king of Scotland. Despite his own doubts as to this prophecy, his wife, Lady Macbeth, schemes with him to kill the current king, Duncan, so that he can take the throne. He simply follows the orders of his wife blindly, even though she is clearly interested only in her own ascent to power. In this essay, we will explore the idea that Macbeth could have taken different actions, and that the result of his own activity leads to a play that is quite difficult to watch or ...

An overview of the book

The book “Oliver Twist” was written by Charles Dickens and was published in 1938. It has been adapted as a film and a long running Broadway musical. Initially the book appeared as a serial as each chapter was published separately. The author uses the characters and situations in the book to give social observations that attacks the double standards and imperfections of the institutions in the society. The government, how it handled the poor, laws governing the country and criminal system of the country are some of the issues addressed in the book. Contrary to the expectations of many, he doesn’t ...