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    "Broken Lives" by Estelle Blackburn is a relevant expository text that through research has lead to a solid argument; 19 year old John Button was wrongfully convicted of killing his 17 year old girlfriend in a hit-run. In her efforts to influence her readers of such views‚ Blackburn has entered into the world of a serial killer‚ presenting a credible‚ solid account of these events and their surrounding matters. In result the reader accepts the book as a genuine explanation of an increasingly explicable

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    The chapter "Another Gun‚ Another Unlocked Door" is a chapter from Estelle Blackburn’s expository text Broken Lives. This chapter focuses on one night of Eric Edgar Cooke’s murderous sprees where he steals a rifle and shoots a baby sitter‚ once again leaving the city of Perth in the hands of fear and danger. The purpose of this chapter is to fight for Cooke’s guilt. It shows that he had no fear of being caught and was a devious man when it came to him stealing‚ killing and the plans he came up with

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    The fourth Chapter of Estella Blackburn’s non fiction novel Broken lives "A Fathers Influence"‚ exposes readers to Eric Edgar Cooke and John Button’s time of adolescence. The chapter juxtaposes the two main characters too provide the reader with character analyses so later they may make judgment on the verdict. The chapter includes accounts of the crimes and punishments that Cooke contended with from 1948 to 1958. Cooke’s psychiatric assessment that he received during one of his first convictions

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    Broken Lives written by Estelle Blackburn is an expository text‚ which through research has presented that nineteen year old John Button was wrongfully convicted of killing his seventeen year old girlfriend Rosemary Anderson in a hit and run. I believe through my reading of Broken Lives that the key factor of expository texts is to explore awkward questions deeply and critically. In this case who was guilty of killing Rosemary Anderson in a hit and run‚ John Button or Eric Edgar Cooke‚ and the effect

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    Why Blackburn is wrong In his paper “God” Blackburn argues the existence of evil strongly suggesting that there is not an entity which can be all-good all-knowing and all-powerful. Throughout this paper I will shine light where Blackburn could not and prove how he was unquestionably wrong. In his Chapter the Problem of evil Blackburn states a God who created a perfect world for his children could not be worshipped as all loving‚ because no parent would ever throw their kids into a harsh environment

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    Elizabeth Blackburn: The Woman With The Cure As time ages‚ new discoveries emerge. As education advances‚ innovations are created. These innovations facilitate our daily lives‚ and cause us to live more efficient‚ spend less time performing certain tasks‚ and accelerate the speed at which we do work. History has proven that one person is sufficient to cause change in the way that we live. The medical field has been innovated countless times and each improvement revolutionizes the way doctors treat

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    Anyway Estelle is the only thoroughly developed character in Margaret Atwood’s "Rape Fantasies." Though she is the narrator and quite thoughtful of the ideas and reactions of the story’s supporting players‚ it is her almost obsessive preoccupation with a singular topic that actually prompts her to fully illustrate her own ideas and reactions‚ drawing a character far more compelling than any of the men or women she will attempt to describe. Estelle begins her story and ruminations

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    Alejandra Flores Mr. Perez GOVT 2306 May 6‚ 2014 Ruiz v. Estelle Ruiz v. Estelle‚ filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas‚ eventually became the most far-reaching lawsuit on the conditions of prison incarceration in American history. It began as a civil action‚ a handwritten petition filed against the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) in 1972 by inmate David Resendez Ruiz alleging that the conditions of his incarceration‚ such as overcrowding‚ lack of access

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    The symbolic significance of Inez‚ Estelle‚ and Cradeau in Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit In his book Being and Nothingness‚ the 20th century french philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre classifies the world into three modes of being: being-for-others‚ being-in-itself‚ and being-for-itself. The first‚ being-for-others‚ is when the self exists as an object for others. They avoid becoming their own subject to avoid self-criticism because they prefer the false reality that others give them. The second‚ being-in-itself

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    death of God’ by Simon Blackburn is an excerpt that challenges the role of religion in the ethical decisions that we face. Throughout the piece the idea that religion has involvement with ethics is never disputed‚ however the article does question this involvement by asking to what extent and why this is the case. By analysing Blackburn’s main message I shall decide upon whether his arguments are justified in conveying this. Taking on the role of an apparent atheist‚ Blackburn demonstrates his place

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