my death penalty presentaion link

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Last day of class

Thanks professor Tailbird for an amazing semester! I really enjoyed taking your class because of your teaching methods. It really tested me, by having to write essays every 2 weeks. I didn't think I would be able to do it at first. 

What is one thing we have read in our class that stood out to you the most?

Death at the door

Carlos did not deserve to die we have there is no one to blame but the system but we can also he was just at the wrong place wrong time

At the Door of Death

Another reason why the death penalty must be improved.

Final Posts

For this final week of the blog, I would like you to respond to your classmates' readings. Which did you like best and why?

You may also use this forum to reflect on what you've learned in the class this term. How has 101 affected your writing and/or reading skills? In what ways have you learned to think differently? What was new for you this term? And what do you hope to continue working on as you transition to ENGL 102? 

Essay Prompt

In Death of Innocence, Sister Helen is sculpted by the cruelty of Death Penalty. In Best American Essays, narrators are sculpted after certain events. How does ideas and events shape our lives?

Post Death Penalty Debate POV Opinion

It was interesting to hear what both sides had to say about the death penalty and how some took this topic more serious than others. The simple attendance of this debate from the start of class had educated me partially on this topic, away from the simple inhumane argument.

However one subject that wasn't brought up in this debate was; the death penalty is another way for fate to claim lives. What I'm saying in my opinion is how the death penalty is similar to dying in other ways; fate controls the situation in determining the outcome. Determining a person to live is by chance; to continue to live or start over somewhere else where their actual real life is. Like for instance, there are three chances for an outcome after a life threatening event. 1/3rd chance is to be killed off and the other 2/3rd chance is to continue living without injury, the latter is sustaining a random injury (ranging from a scar to possibly a severe injury that will permanently affect the individual's daily life) and lets the individual to choose one of the two aforementioned options by them-self. Why do some live past 100 years old while some die too early? The same applies to natural illnesses, some can survive while some pass away. As well as accidents; some people have been known to survive the impossible and get away as if nothing happened (various recorded footage that were Real). Others, not so much...

Sister Helen mentioned how there was a petition(?) in Italy that led the pope and a million civilians to forcefully prevent someone from being executed via the death penalty in the U.S.. This relates to my statement as this could have been performed to other victims as well, but why did it only happened to only ONE person? 

By the way, what IS the difference in executing a dangerous wild animal that has claimed the lives of humans while our kind can essentially perform the same thing, but can dodge the scythe of Death more easily (e.g. put in confinement rather than executed)? I've recently found an article regarding to kill off a sole predatory creature that was responsible for the death of humans. There was an infamous case involving a huge crocodile in Burundi (Gustave) racking its kill count of humans up to 300 in 2008 that possibly still lives to this day. The team that were sent to capture and conserve this creature had spent 15 years. To be unsuccessful... Brady Barr who was within that team had stated and pointed out: "People have to get their water, do their laundry, fish for a living," says Barr. "If a croc does take a person, villagers may slaughter a few crocs after an attack—enough to feel as if they've done something—and then they go back to doing what they have to do." Had they focus on weapons than snares and traps, guaranteed there would be less innocent lives from both sides becoming a statistic. Like the infamous Panar leopard of Northern India, it's fate was to die because of Jim Corbett's wild bullet in 1910 after killing and mostly eating 410 humans. And another pair whom which were both gun downed by the same hunter after sharing 500 kills between them.

This also applies to other predators such as lions, tigers, alligators, cougars, and even sharks (in fact, the Jaws movie was inspired by a 1916 case involving a SINGLE huge shark). Same could be applied for humans, disregarding the media's idiotic love for spreading propaganda and exaggerating inaccurate sugar coated information. People tend to attack and censor innocent people that relate to attacks by individuals of the same group, feeling that they would become more safe by doing so because anyone they see who fits the group could either be the culprit or a servant. More so if the leader of a corrupted group was to remain alive in jail instead of being dead.

  

Source:

Landers, Jackson. "When AnimalsAttack, We Must Kill Them." Slate. N.p., 11 July 2012.Web. 07 Dec. 2015.  

Film

Today's film was interesting how Carlos DeLuna's sister was making a point that her brother was injected with an injection that was "too harsh", when Mr. Pickett said that he had asked a center for veterinarians and said they don't even use to injections for animals because they are too harsh, that why would they use it on humans? This scene caught my attention

DNA testing

Professor. Talbird asked a question in class, I was not able to post it

How does this excerpt support or challenge your views on the death penalty?

"DNA testing proved that inoccent people were being sentenced to death, this prompted a grassnotes re examination oof capital punishment"

DNA should be tested multiple times and explained rather than convicting people right away for death penalty.

Readings

We will  have class readings on 12/14  during class time. Everyone will read some of their own writing. You can read something you’ve written for ENGL 101 or some other writing (poem, story, etc.) of which you feel proud. You may read an entire piece or just a portion.

Please prepare for this activity. Don’t rush. Read slowly and clearly. Project. Show pride in your work by practicing your reading at least once in advance.

Arbitrariness

Knowing that there is a high level of arbitrariness in the death penalty, would you guys still support it knowing that a close friend or relative was a victim to a murder and his assailant got life in prison instead of the death penalty?

At the Death House Door

This week, I'd like you to blog about the documentary At the Death House Door (Dir. Peter Gilbert, 2008). This doc examines the death penalty in Texas, as you know, the state that has executed the largest number of prisoners by far since the reinstatement of the dp in 1976. There are two main characters in this film, Carroll Pickett, a retired death house minister who archived a series of audio tapes about his reactions to the executions he witnessed, and Carlos DeLuna, an executed convict who was tried, sentenced, and put to death under suspicious circumstances.

I'd like you to write about how you reacted to this film. What emotions? What did it do to your thoughts on the death penalty? What place does race play in this story? Faith?

Debate!

The death penalty debate in class on Wednesday was definitely interesting. It really showed me how passionate some of my classmates were about the topic of the death penalty. It also prepared me for future courses I will take in college such as speech class, because I will have to present in front of the class. 

Death Penalty

I think we need to do this again professor before the semester ends a rematch 30 minutes and that's it.

Free write

In the last chapter of the death of innocents sister Helen mentions the statics of the death penalty. It's really great that the death penalty has declined. Hopefully soon they will be able to get rid of the death penalty for good.