Andrea Yates Paper Linda J. Hernandez PSY 303: Abnormal Psychology Professor Lisa Prince Rutsky August 21‚ 2011 Andrea Yates Paper In 2001‚ Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in her home. This was very disturbing news. I am a native Houstonian. I was at home that day. The television was on and will never forget the news breaking announcements that broke the story of a homicide in Clear Lake. All the information the reporters had was a mother killed all her children
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Robert Browning’s use of the poetic speaker in dramatic monologues allows him to objectively create a dramatic situation while removing himself as a personality from the poem. This is accompished through a process called double masking‚ in addition to the primary creation of the character or speaker‚ there exists a secondary creation‚ a mask which the speaker uses in dealing with the dramatic situation at hand (Garratt 116). The nature of the poetic speaker in Browning’s dramatic monologue demonstrates
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Play’s Exert: “Andrea?” May called out‚ peeking into the eerie dark room. The blinds had been closed‚ and the bed untouched. The only sound came from the rapid writing of Andrea. Abnormal and futile. “Andrea?” May repeated. Andrea stopped her obsessive writing and looked up. Her paper looked like wild chicken scratches. Her pencil dented by her nails. What had they wanted! Couldn’t they see how she had been writing. Writing to their father. He had lived underneath the earth’s surface but she had
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The San Andreas Fault is an intense‚ significant geological feature that greatly affected the passionate study of earthquakes. The San Andreas Fault influenced the notable geological characteristics such as wealthy minerals and created rare‚ breath-taking sceneries. This catastrophic geological feature motivated scientists to learn more of its powers and what we can do to better prepare for it earthquakes. I chose this geological feature because it constantly changes and affects the reoccurrence
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Amy and Andrea are similar in two major ways. One of these similarities are their immigrant parents. Amy’s Parents immigrated from China to the United States. As Amy states in “Two Kinds” her mother came to San Francisco in 1949 after losing her mother‚ father‚ home‚ and twin daughters. Andrea’s parents had immigrated to the United States from Bolivia in the 1980’s. The other major similarity is their strict mothers. For example‚ Amy’s mother wanted her to be a prodigy. At first her mother wanted
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The song “Stan” by rap artist Eminem fits the dramatic monologue format popularized by Robert Browning‚ because in Eminem’s song‚ Stan fits all of the characteristics of the Duke in My last Douches. Stan is extremely obsessive; in the beginning of the song he dies his hair and is trying to actually become Slim Shady‚ even his outfit and style are the same as Slim and is screaming in his girlfriend’s face because she keeps calling him Stanly when I would imagine he would want to be called Slim‚ or
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Around 10:00am on June 20‚ 2001‚ Rusty Yates received a startling phone call from his wife‚ Andrea‚ whom he had left only an hour before. "You need to come home‚" she said. Puzzled‚ he asked‚ "What’s going on?" She just repeated her statement and then added‚ "It’s time. I did it." Not entirely sure what she meant but in light of her recent illness‚ he asked her to explain and she said‚ "It’s the children." Now a chill shot through him. "Which one?" he asked. "All of them." He dropped everything
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will tell you why I agree that Andrea Yates‚ 44‚ is not guilty by reason of insanity. I believe that Andrea Yates had a very serious sickness‚ and it should have never been able to get that out of hand. Andrea Yates was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and was losing control over herself. Rusty - Andreas husband -‚ her family‚ and the many doctors she had been working with should have took control about her acting’s. Rusty was a very controlling husband to Andrea while they have been together
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What is your assessment of Andrea Jung’s performance as chief strategist at Avon products? What has done well? What grade would you give her for her work as CEO? My assessment of Andrea Jung’s performance as chief strategists at Avon products is that she has done excellent job. Her first task was to hit the streets of her neighborhood‚ ringing doorbells‚ to better understand the desires of customers and needs of sales agents. She pushed for the addition of attractive new products to Avon and
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A. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District‚ 393 U.S. 503 (1969). The students were suspended from school for showing their support of the anti-war movement. Wearing the armbands was protected by the First Amendment. It is implied that there are limitations to free speech in a school area‚ but the principal lacked the reasoning for imposing the limitations in this case. It was not shown that the conduct from the students would substantially interfere with appropriate school discipline
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