gay college student named Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten‚ tied up and left for dead on a fence off a rural road... and when Laramie‚ Wyoming became the Hate Crime Capital of America. Shortly after midnight on October 7‚ 1998‚ Matthew Shepard was in a local Laramie Wyoming bar‚ the Fireside Lounge. While at the bar‚ 21-year-old Shepard met Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. According to McKinney‚ Shepard asked them for a ride home. Subsequently‚ Shepard was robbed‚ severely beaten‚ punched
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Critique On Sunday‚ September 26‚ I saw The Laramie Project written by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project‚ presented by the Missouri State Department of Theatre and Dance at the Balcony Theatre. This brilliant work is about Matthew Shepard‚ a 21 year-old student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and murdered near Laramie‚ Wyoming. This play is a reaction to the 1998 hate crime motivated by homophobia. The play was derived from hundreds of interviews made by members of
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Loffreda‚ an associate professor of English and the advisor of the Gay and Lesbian rights group at the University of Wyoming‚ stresses for change in her publication "Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder" (2000). Her publication is a study of how the residents of Wyoming responded when Shepard‚ a young gay student at the university in Laramie‚ was brutally beaten‚ tied up to a fence‚ and left to die by the side of the road. Loffreda examines and documents the multifaceted
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a crime is committed who bares the responsibility? Is it the perpetrators who committed the offense or the environment that shaped them into being? While Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were physically responsible for the death of Matthew Shepard‚ the town of Laramie‚ and the U.S. by extension‚ was also to blame because of the subtle heteronormativity ingrained in American culture. Influential Religious Institutions‚ especially in small towns‚ enforces the concept of heteronormativity and
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brief overview of what had happened in Laramie‚ Wyoming‚ but did not know the details. I knew that Matthew Shepard was a gay‚ male‚ college student who was brutally murdered from a hate crime. When I first got to the auditorium‚ I could barely find my seat because the entire place was packed with people‚ and I knew it had been a sold out show. In the play‚ the boy who acted as Matthew Shepard‚ was gay in real life as well. I thought that was very brave of him to volunteer to play Matthew‚ and it really
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the match. I then preceded to drag the mouse to the candle‚ placed the match on top of the candle and lit the flame. The two images‚ the cande and the match‚ created a likely outcome. Cooper & Shepard’s Results • In the Cooper & Shepard experiment (1973)‚ participants were asked to decide whether a stimulus (a letter) was normal (simply rotated in the picture plane) or backwards (flipped to its mirror image before the rotation). Reaction times were graphed and increased
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love/hate‚ and hate/hate relationships. Fortunately‚ all have been left with a set of moral guidelines—the Ten Commandments‚ the seven deadly sins‚ the seven holy virtues‚ etc.—these guidelines shape people whether they acknowledge it or not. Sam Shepard is a famous playwright who has captured this conflict within families‚ which projects the overall conflicts of society‚ through most of his plays. Shepard’s True West captures the struggle between brothers and what could happen when apathy consumes
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Kriefels is cycling in a remote rural area when he sees what at first he believes to be a scarecrow tied to a fence. He looks closer and sees not a scarecrow‚ but a young man badly beaten and close to death. The victims name was Matthew Shepard. On Dec. 1st 1976‚ Matthew Shepard was born in Casper‚ Wyoming. He attended elementary school in the states‚ but after his first year in high school his family moved to Saudi Arabia. He then attended the American School in Switzerland where he was elected as a peer
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Compare and contrast Argument Essay Adam Shepard had $25 dollars and a dream and chris mccandless had nothing but himself and wanting to experience everything on his own. Upon Adam’s arrival in Charleston‚ with only $25‚ a sleeping bag‚ a duffel bag‚ and the clothes on his back ‚ he makes his way to a homeless shelter in a rough part of town. The place looked neat enough from the outside‚ but it had dirty floors‚ unclean showers‚ bathrooms that appeared to have never been cleaned. Even worse‚ the
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In Moises Kaufman’s‚ The Laramie Project the under lying theme of the novel is people are afraid of change. This can be proved from the novel with the character Cathy Connolly and the struggle that homosexuals have to live in there own society. The juxtaposition of anti-gay demonstrations sparked by religion at a homosexual’s funeral‚ and even the physical setting is related to why people are afraid of change. Whether it is start by homophobia‚ religion‚ or opression‚ people are not just afraid of
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