ELCANO V HILL 77 SCRA 98BARREDO; May 26‚ 1977 NATURE Appeal from an order of the CFI Quezon City FACTS Reginald Hill‚ a minor yet married at the time of occurrence‚ was criminally prosecuted for the killing of Agapito Elcano (son of Pedro)‚ and was acquitted for ―lack of intent to kill‚ coupled with mistake.‖ - Pedro Elcano filed a complaint for recovery of damages from Reginald and his father Atty Marvin. CFI dismissed it. ISSUES WON the civil action for damages is barred by the
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debate‚ I stand for “Yes” side. I think John Brown was not a hero who leads end of slavery. He was a murderer who killed innocent people. Eventhough‚ he affected a lot on end of slavery‚ he used violence to solve the problem. Also the evidence of insane of his family shows that John Brown was not a normal person. I believe that his passion of anti-slavery came from monomaniac‚ not from he’s will and volition. The debate between “Was John Brown an Irrational Terroist?” talks about whether John Brown
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Here is an essay I am writing for my English 101 class. Any advice or criticism would be helpful and very much appreciated. The full text of King’s essay is available at the end of the article for reference. An Excuse for Horror: Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies” The first Stephen King novel I read‚ Christine‚ was chilling‚ weird‚ creepy‚ and strange. But I loved it. The second‚ Carrie‚ was even less normal‚ and I was enthralled
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relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." In his novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Ken Kesey depicts this arbitrary line between sane and insane. By elucidating the oppressive role of the mental institution and portraying its patients as more eccentric than insane‚ Kesey sparks a re-evaluation of what it means to be insane. Throughout the novel‚ the reader is made to question society’s definition and the responsibility of the institution for the mental state of its occupants.
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what role did John have in his wife going insane? John was the main and whole reason for her being sucked into insanity. He did this by locking her in a room secluded from the world and refused to listen to her comments and didn’t allow her to have any emotional release John is the very reason that his wife went insane‚ but he pretends that he is doing the right thing to help her. When John decided to lock her in the nursery upstairs she began to go insane. John sensed that something was wrong with
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have done and to make you pay for what you have done with your sanity. Shakespeare shows this through his main character Macbeth as he kills to gain and keep his place as king but become more and more guilty as the story progresses and more and more insane. Macbeth guilt changes him making him not able to think clearly and making him regret what he had done. After he commits his first murder to claim the throne by killing the king Duncan. He shows signs of guilt and how he
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In William Shakespeare’s‚ Hamlet‚ there are many situations that are enough to bring the character Hamlet to insanity. Although‚ there are arguments to whether or not he was actually insane. When a character such as Hamlet is under inspection‚ it can sometimes be difficult to determine what state he is in at particular moments in the play. In Ace IV‚ scene II‚ Hamlet’s day has been hectic. After Polonius’s death‚ he finally determines that Claudius has killed his father. The chance to kill Claudius
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concluding with the treatment of the insane. As "madness" became part of everyday life‚ people of the time were though to be threatened by "madness". This sense of threat resulted in the hiding of the "mad" in early day asylum or "mad house"‚ whose conditions were inhumane. As medicine evolved‚ and the conditions of the "mad" worsened; There was a distinction made between medicine and reason. Not all that were housed in these "mad houses" were mad. Some indeed were insane‚ but others were sick and their
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If you were an insane person‚ would you do anything to proof you aren’t insane? In Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories “Tell-Tale Heart” and “Black Cat”‚ Poe creates mood using symbolism‚ first person point of view and repetition. These two stories have similar and different aspects. In both stories the eye is a significant symbol. In the Tell-Tale Heart it is what makes the narrator kill the old man and in the Black Cat the missing eye is what reminds him of the old cat and makes him mad at the new
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as “weird” or “strange.” This puts them into stereotypes in which they can never climb out. In the short story “A Good Man is hard to Find‚” the Character of the Misfit is a mentally insane human that was forced into a life of killing in which he does not think of the killings as evil. The Misfit is mentally insane‚ impacting his actions and his choices that were forced upon him. In this short story‚ the Misfit is a criminal that has escaped from prison and is headed to Florida. It is not stated
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