cause-effect

Examples of cause and effect

 * 1) ===== "I watch Reagan slash funds for prenatal and child care, low income housing, employment training, and food subsidies. And as social programs are slashed, new prisons are built." =====
 * 2) ===== This shows the cause and effect of how taking money from programs that help people eventually goes into building bigger prisons because that is where they end up going. By taking away these crucial programs, the people it should be helping are the same ones ending up in prison, therefore causing the government to spend more money. =====
 * 3) ===== Page 9 =====
 * 4) ===== Alyssa Corbett =====


 * 1) "In the recent gubernatorial election campaign Edward's Republican opponent, David Treen, had put up billboards across the state and run TV ads citing the number of pardons Edwdards had granted criminals in his previous term of office. "Soft on crime," "coddler of criminals"- Treen's accusations had hit Edwards hard. Now Edwards gives serious thought to the political fallout should he commute a death sentence."
 * 2) The cause of Edwards being so strict on the death penalty, is that his opponent made him seem like he didn't support it fully before he was elected. Now he fears the public will view his as a "coddler of criminals" and his approval will go down.
 * 3) Page 58
 * 4) Alex Clark


 * 1) "If he commutes Sonnier's sentence, what about the others? Does he risk his political career to save the lives of a few condemned criminals?"
 * 2) She is talking about the possible repercussions for commuting Sonnier's death penalty. It is his first decision on the topic so it will probably be a sign of what is to come in the future. Because of the state's strong support of the death penalty, anything he does going against it might ruin his political career.
 * 3) Page 58
 * 4) John Kearns


 * 1) "...Patrick had asked why people wanted to kill Mr. Sonnier. 'Because they say he killed people,' Bill answered. 'But Dad,' Patrick had asked, 'then who is going to kill them for killing him?'"
 * 2) This quotes is from the mind of an young boy. He shows that we are punishing murder by murder. He makes it seem that it makes no sense to commit the crime of killing someone because that man killed another human. This quotes shows that this could be an endless cycle.
 * 3) Page 60
 * 4) Sarah Eckstein


 * 1) "In the fall of 1987, immediately after the state of Louisiana executed eight people in eight and a half weeks, the murder rate in New Orleans rose 16.39 percent."
 * 2) Many people claim that the death penalty lowers the crime and murder rates in communities where the death penalty is heavily enforced. However she is show there is no cause and effect between the death penalty and lower crime because in fact in Louisiana, the murder rate increased, even after the number of executions in the State also increased in 1987
 * 3) Page 110
 * 4) Connor Liston


 * 1) "[The] public's view of crime is largely shaped by the media, which are prone to emphasize death from violence while downplaying more prevalent and commonplace threats to life."
 * 2) Sister Prejean is showing how the media has had a huge affect on public opinion of capital punishment, and how it is largely misplaced and uninformed.
 * 3) page 129
 * 4) Kyra McComas


 * 1) "Elizabeth's brother was pretty tore up when he came back from the funeral home. Before he reached his hand into that bag with all the lime in it and fished out Faith's jaw, he said he had always been against the death penalty. But, boy, after that, he was for it."
 * 2) Vernon explains why Elizabeth's brother changed his view on the death penalty.
 * 3) pg 136
 * 4) Justin Brimley


 * 1) "I wonder what will ever be able to heal the Harvey's pain and bring them peace. No, there is no replacing the unique universe of Faith Hathaway. Even if Robert Willie is destroyed, the aching void can never be filled."
 * 2) Sister is trying to explain how the Harvey's are dealing with the pain, or if they will ever get over the pain. She tries to find a something that can sooth their pain and lost of Faith.
 * 3) page 142
 * 4) Ginny Hicks


 * 1) "I get home from an execution about two-something in the morning and I just sit up in a chair for the rest of the night. I can't shake it. I can't square it with my conscience, putting them to death like that."
 * 2) Major Coody explains the effect of witnessing executions to Sister Prejean. This argues how people involved in the executions do not always agree with what they are doing and can be emotionally scarred.
 * 3) page 180
 * 4) Hannah Brodke