In the month of August, a married couple was murdered inside their own house and their own daughter, Lizzie Borden, was accused and trial as if she committed the murder. Lizzie Borden was found innocent even though many found her guilty due to evidence against her. Some might say that justice was done but was it truly done? During the trial, a famous poem about the case was made, “Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”. This poem was written about Lizzie Borden, who was accused of the murder of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892. Both her father and stepmother were violently murdered within their own home at the fall of an ax. Even though the poem did …show more content…
On August 3, Lizzie was seen in Smith’s drug store in Fall River where she attempted to buy poison and prussic acid but she was turned away. Also the night before the murders Lizzie had mentioned that she thought and feared her father had enemies that could possibly try to hurt or kill him. These events are not too fawned of evidence for Lizzie’s case. All these events make Lizzie to look as if she was trying to set the stage for the death of her parents. If Lizzie were to have been able to buy the prussic acid these murders could have been a lot different, and the evidence would clearly be pointed at her. But since she was not able to purchase the poison we do not know what she would have done with it. Lizzie’s fear of her father’s enemies is just so convenient that it happened at this time. Since she did mention it to a neighbor it fits extremely well with who could have murdered her parents but it seems to be too real to be true. Since she could not prove that her father had enemies it once again just made her look bad to the jury. Lizzie Borden basically set the stage for her parents death and was not seeing the evidence that could be put against
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Natalie Wood, who born in San Francisco, was an American film and television actress. Wood is married from Robert Wagner, and they have three children. Natalie Wood died on November 29, 1981, and no one knows how exactly she died. In addition, Wood was with her husband and their friend in the boat, and she argued with Wagner before living the boat. Also, Wood afraid of water her whole life, and she died by drowning on a weekend trip.
... 5, 1893 15 days later the jury returns a verdict of “Not Guilty” (“Lizzie Borden”).
It has been one hundred and twenty-two years since "Lizzie Borden took an axe..", in accordance to the folk rhyme, and Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their home; but still today it remains one of America's most famous, or infamous, unsolved crimes. Although Lizzie was acquitted and no one was ever proved guilty of committing the crime; it is still the popular opinion that Lizzie was, in fact, the murderer. Not many people have in doubts in their mind about Lizzie's guilt, although there is no one alive today who could witness to what happened. The eventful day in August was followed by a very short trial. There are many reasons she could have been proven guilty but also an abundance of rationalities for her acquittal; and it makes sense that it is discussed and talked about in the year 2014.
The evidence between witnesses seeing Lizzie buy poison, washing a brown stained dress, her inconsistencies in the alibis, and her lacking of emotion all pointed to Lizzie Borden’s guilt. Jacob applied society’s outlook on an 1800’s American women as frail, feeble-minded, morally driven individuals who are incapable of a planned murder, to support her argument that Lizzie, no matter how guilty she may have been, would not be convicted of murder. Convicting Lizzie of murder meant opposing the established woman stereotypes which endangered the cohesive mindset of
Lizzie Borden is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of slaughtering her father and stepmother in cold blood.
A little over 100 years ago, a gruesome double murder was committed at the Borden residence. For example, Lizzie Borden and her sister Emma’s childhoods were awful. Their mom died when Lizzie was just three years old (Allard, 2013). Their father got remarried, but Lizzie and Emma did not like their step-mother, Abby Borden, because they thought she was just using their father for his wealth. Furthermore, people think Lizzie did it because she hates Abby. Both, Emma and Lizzie greeted her as Mrs. Borden (Biography, 2017). Abby was also very mean to
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot gives a description of the background of Henrietta,the lacks family,and her death from cancer. Henrietta Lacks was born Loretta Pleasant in Roanoke,Virginia on August 1st,1920.Her mother,Eliza Pleasant died while giving birth to her 10th child. Henrietta's father was unable to handle all ten of the children so he sent them all to Virginia. Henrietta was sent to live with her Grandfather Tommy Lacks in Clover,Virginia where she shared a room with her first cousin David “Day” Lacks they spent most of their childhood stooped in fields,planting tobacco. Henrietta and Day eventually got married on April 10,1941. Henrietta and Day then moved to Baltimore,Maryland;
Henrietta Lacks was a thirty-year-old black woman who lived on a farm, as a tobacco farmer in southern Virginia. She was born in 1920, as Loretta Pleasant, she lived in a house in Roanoke, Virginia with her parents and her eight older siblings. That all changed when her mother died during childbirth and the father couldn’t take care of them, Henrietta was sent to live with her grandfather Tommy Lacks on his farm with her cousin David Lacks. Henrietta Lacks and Day were close with each other, they even had children. As they got older Day went to work leaving Henrietta and the kids behind to make enough money for a house,
In part two of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot explains the Lacks family life after Henrietta had passed. The family received her body after Gey did an autopsy of her organs. Gladys and Sadie prepared Henrietta’s body with a long pink dress, red nail polish, curlers, and makeup. They also laid two pennies on Henrietta’s eyes to keep them closed during the viewing. A few examples of poverty that the family showed were preparing Henrietta’s body themselves and laying her to rest in a plain pine coffin which was all Day could afford at that time. After burying Henrietta in the family’s cemetery, Day had to work longer days to help provide for his children. Ethel and Galen moved in to look after the children while Day was at work. The children were treated badly by them because of the hatred between Ethel and Henrietta. Day was too busy with work to notice the way his children were treated. The abuse Deborah received from Galen didn't stop completely when Bobbette was involved, although it didn’t happen all the time either. This novel has many examples of poverty.
A legacy is something that makes a significant change in future generations, that is passed down to future generations whether it would be an idea or an object. The names of those people who passed these legacies remain unforgetten. Although, not everyone’s legacies are recognized until someone decides to publicize that information. Unfortunately, one of those people is Henrietta Lacks, who made an incredible legacy. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a nonfiction novel by Rebecca Skloot is about Henrietta Lacks who made a legacy that significantly improved modern medicine in the world. Her cells which are cancer cells that replicated around her cervix made cell testing easier, since her cells were able to reproduce in a lab and the other cells died. These were called HeLa cells but no one knew
Lizzie Borden took an Axe and gave her stepmother forty whacks, when she had seen what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. The problem is that Lizzie Borden was accused of murder of her dad and stepmother on August 4th, 1892. Lizzie Borden was not the murderer the day her parents were killed. Lizzie is not the murder because Lizzie deeply cared for her father, at Lizzie's trial she showed a grieving side of her that wasn't described in other sources at their time and because she was framed to be believed to commit murder on her parents. After the murderers Lizzie was treated very differently by MANY people even though she was innocent.
On a hot morning on august 4, 1892, Mr. Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby Borden, were brutally murdered. A daughter of the victims, Lizzie Borden was arrested, tried and acquitted of the crime. “ She was a woman of spotless character and reputation, and more than that she was educated, refined and prominently connected with the work of the Christian church in the Fall River”(Gates 2).The town and the country were divided in their opinions of who could commit such horrifying murders. Many theories have been made to explain that day; the finger has been pointed in every direction- even a Chinese Sunday school student of Lizzies. To this day people are unsure as to weather or not Lizzie brutally murdered her parents.
Although there is much evidence out there that Mata Hari was not a spy, there are people that still believe she committed espionage against the French during World War I. The French police claimed that she had cost the allied fifty thousand troops lives (Edwards 1). Although any information that was passed on between her and her companions could be found in a newspaper in Spain, according to Julie Wheelwright of the University of London (2). Another claim that many people have made is that Mata Hari could never keep her story straight. They claimed that she would constantly change where she was and what she was doing at various times when she was being interviewed at Saint-Lazare prison (Arbuckle 3). Think about if you were in her situation, being constantly interviewed for over four
Sylvia Plath was born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She was the eldest daughter of Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her father was professor of German and entomology at at Boston University, while her mother was a high school teacher. Both of her parents valued education. However, in 1940 Otto died of complications from surgery after a leg amputation.