Research Paper November 10, 2012 Tracy Latimer Unjustified Tracy Latimer of Canada was born on November 23, 1980 (Semkiw). On a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, Tracy lived with her family of six; she was the eldest of her three other siblings (Semkiw). Due to an insufficient amount of oxygen at birth, Tracy was born with Cerebral Palsy. By the age of 12, Tracy had undergone three corrective surgeries in order to “improve her quality of life” (Pickup). When told Tracy needed a fourth surgery, her…
Case study Halina Paerhati Despite the public’s belief that Robert Latimer’s mandatory minimum 10 years sentence to be “cruel and unusual punishment”, I personally am satisfied with this sentence. In spite of the fact that the love Robert Latimer had for his disabled daughter is what inspired him to put her out of her misery, the judge and jury offered him the constitutional exemption” found him guilty of second degree murder as opposed to first degree. That was enough mercy for this man. It…
Euthanasia and the Robert Latimer Case Euthanasia is undoubtedly an issue that plagues the minds of those living with children or adults who are severely disabled. Rarely is one found to have a neutral' outlook upon it; that is, a side must be chosen, for or against. It is too delicate a topic to be in the middle' about. Over the years, cases involving euthanasia have caused massive controversies as to whether or not it is feasible to take the life of another human being in order to put them…
Tracey Latimer the daughter of Robert Latimer was 12 years old and had cerebral palsy, Because of this she required around the clock care by her parents. She was not dying from this but she was in extreme pain. Tracey went through multiple surgeries. Robert believed that putting his daughter through more surgeries would be cruel and unjust. As a result of this Robert decided to bring his daughter into the garage and put her in his car, he then turned the engine on and poisoned her with…
The reason I chose this case was due to the fact it was a popular case throughout my childhood and because my cousin was a quadriplegic and had a form of cerebral palsy where she was limited to being taken care of by medical and hospital staff I was just a small child at this time my family would have regular visits with her One summer she got extremely sick and went into a coma my aunt then had to make the decision to keep her on life support or to let her go So this case is very relevant to what…
Lewis Latimer Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, six years after his parents, George and Rebecca Latimer, had run away from slavery in Virginia. They were determined to be free and that their children be born on free soil. Because of his light complexion, George was able to pose as a plantation owner with the darker-skinned Rebecca as his slave. Shortly after arriving in Boston, Massachusetts, he was recognized as a fugitive and jailed…
Artist: Who is Tracey Moffatt? (Consider Subjective Frame) 1. Where was she born? - Tracy Moffatt was born on the 12th of November 1960 in Brisbane, Australia. 2. What was her art training? - In 1980, Moffat joined a three- year Diploma of Visual Communications at the Queensland College of Arts. Within this course, she studied photography, sculpture and painting and majoring in film making and video productions. Tracey Moffat was supplied with the finest of equipment and took a great deal of…
Cyclone Tracy Cyclone Tracy has been labelled by many as the most severe Tropical Cyclone to ever affect Australia. A vast majority of Darwin was completely demolished during the 25th of December 1974. Even though the cyclone is considered small in world standards’, stretching with a radius of just 50km, Tracy was very intense. In Darwin Airport, a wind of 217km/h was recorded before the anemometer was destroyed. On the 20th of December 1974, what was soon to be Cyclone Tracy was identified in…
Cyclone Tracy indeed caused a great devastation to the city of Darwin.Bruce Stannard of The Age magazine stated that Cyclone Tracy was a ‘disaster of the first magnitude…without parallel in Australia’s history.’’ it caused great destructions on both the environment and the people which link to one another. First of all, the cyclone caused a great destruction on the buildings where 70% of Darwin’s homes were destroyed or suffered from severe damage. 41,000 out of 47,000 people were homeless.…
that's the case I bet you probably feel like Lewis Latimer. With that being the case I can also bet you never heard of Lewis Latimer. Lewis Latimer was an inventor and engineer, also a very important person that played a key role in inventing the light bulb. Lewis Latimer born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on September 4, 1848. He died in Flushing, Queens, New York, on December 11, 1928. Latimer was born to slave parents, George and Rebecca Latimer. In 1864 at the age of sixteen Latimer enlisted in…