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    Kew Gardens (short story) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search 1st 1919 edition Kew Gardens is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919‚ then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday‚ and subsequently in the posthumous collection A Haunted House (1944). Originally accompanying illustrations by Vanessa Bell‚ its visual organisation has been described as analogous to a post-impressionist painting

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    Write an essay on Woolf’s narrative art in ‘Kew Gardens.’ For years‚ Virginia Woolf is remembered for her contribution in short stories. She is one of the famous feminist and prolific writers who write in such a way that gives the impression of instantaneous linking between the inner and outer world‚ the past and the present and speech and silence. Kew Gardens is one of her major work. Since‚ a garden is a common place for common people to meet; Woolf has chosen this particular place to paint the

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    Oakland‚ John. "Woolf’s Kew Gardens." English Studies 68.3 (1987): 264-274 In the article "Virginia Woolf’s Kew Gardens" Oakland is trying to examine a short story that few people took the time to do. He says‚ "It is not an expression of meaningless life but‚ on the contrary‚ reveals a harmonious‚ organic optimism." (1) Since she chose to make it such a short piece of work‚ it fits perfectly with her style of writing. She doesn’t make the theme the subject matter‚ but instead‚ reveals it through

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    For more than half an hour 38 respectable‚ law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens. Twice their chatter and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted him and frightened him off. Each time he returned‚ sought her out‚ and stabbed her again. Not one person telephoned the police during the assault; one witness called after the woman was dead. That was two weeks ago today. Still shocked is Assistant

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    Case At 3:20am on March 13th‚ 1964‚ twenty eight year old Catherine Genovese‚ known to most as Kitty‚ returned home from her job as a manager at a bar in Hollis (Histories Mysteries‚ Silent Witnesses). She parked her car in a lot next to the Kew Gardens‚ in a railroad station. She then began to walk the 100 feet to her apartments front door entrance. Kitty noticed a man at the far end of the lot. She halted and began to walk faster to her apartment on Austin Street. She got as far as a streetlight

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    time‚ indirectly causing the victim’s death. This passage from the article reflects exactly my thoughts and feelings about it‚ giving further proof that the victim’s death could have been prevented if only the police were promptly informed: “The Kew Gardens slaying baffles him

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    Sam Kotowski 10-29-2010 Psychology Bystander Effect Essay In New York City around 1964‚ a 29-year-old woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death. Despite hearing cries nobody reported this incident to the police; only because they assumed that someone else would or has already done it. Although murders in New York are not uncommon‚ the circumstances surrounding Kitty’s death have saved her story to be a strangely literal illustration of what is now a well-known psychological effect: the

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    Reading Response 2: 38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police I think the article was written in order to highlight the level of ignorance that had crept into society especially towards violence‚ perhaps in wake of the recent increase of violent imagery on television. I feel it was intended to act as an eye-opener for the readers which shows them how such shameless acts of laziness can claim lives. The tone that Gansberg uses throughout the article is one that is slightly aggressive especially when describing

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    Response Essay to 37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police “Let that girl alone!” was all the effort a bystander‚ witnessing an attack‚ could put into saving a woman’s life; the man couldn’t be bothered with anything more. Miss Kitty Genovese could have survived that night two separate times if someone would have simply lifted the telephone to call the police and report seeing her attacked. At the time of her death 37 people had witnessed her trying to frantically escape from her assailant. There

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    The sad events that took place during the murder of Miss Genovese left many wondering as to the reason why the 38 law abiding citizens did not intervene. However‚ many people sought to understand this occurrence with concerns being raised from all quarters. The sad story got the attention of most scholars among them prominent psychologists such as John Darley and Bibb Latane. The two became interested in understanding the murder of Genovese and in particular the reason why the 38 people who watched

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