Title: Amanda Knox freed after appeal in Italian court
Source: New york times
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/europe/amanda-knox-defends-herself-in-italian-court.html
Summary
This article is about a woman named Amanda she was accused of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher. Her and her ex boyfriend were accused and arrested in 2007. Today she was released from prison. This article is significant because i have a uncle in the same predicament. This article gave me hope that my uncle will also be released.After 4 years in prison and being accused of something she ''didnt do'' she was still able to be proven not guilty.I think that the experience of being in prison is going to make life hard for her because she probably went through a lot and seen a lot for no reason. The reason why i stated ''no reason'' is because she was proven not guilty. I think that this is going to give a lot of people in her situation or worse some kind hope because it gave me hope. I think that she is going to take life more serious and think about her actions before she makes a decision because already knows the affect of he actions and she was also close to losing her life. The reason why I say ''losing her life'' is because she was going to spend half of her life in prison and by the time she was going to be released it would have been too late for her to put the missing pieces of her life together again. I think that other people would not be interesting as much as i am because they are not in the same predicament as I.They probably never experienced what the family was feeling when Amanda was arrested. John Locke would have been the thinker that I chose because he believed that everyone should have the same rights. I also would have chosen Mary Wollstonecraft because she believed that woman and men should have the same rights. The reason why i chose those 2 thinkers is because without there contributions Amanda would have been killed because she was accused of murder and also because she was a woman she would not have had the right to speak up for herself. These thinkers would have been supportive of this article because it was an example of justice that both individuals were fighting for.
Fatima,
ReplyDeleteThere was a lot of information from the article that you failed to include in your summary. Your limited information is really from the opening paragraph of the article and does not include information from the middle to end of the article.
Locke and Wollstonecraft were not the strongest Enlightenment thinkers to use to analyze this article. The issues that Knox had to deal with were not related to Locke's idea of the government's responsibility to their people or to Wollstonecraft's ideas of equality between the sexes (both her and her boyfriend were convicted of the crime).
Grade
Summary 2
Significance 8
Enlightenment 2
Grade 12/25