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Your assignment: write 4 pages rubric  Your name is   Milton. You worked late at your office. It was 10 p.m., when you left your   office building.  As you entered   your poorly lit parking garage, your attention was captured by the sight of   three high school-aged boys kicking and beating a shabbily dressed elderly   man. He cried out for help, but the boys continued to pummel him with fists   and kicks.  As the boys   caught sight of you entering the garage, they abandoned the man and ran off   to the lower floors of the garage by the exit stairs.  You cautiously   approached the man. You saw that he was bleeding profusely. Fearing that the   boys would return to the scene, and extract the same abuse on you, you ran to   your parked car and screeched your tires as you shot through the exit gate. You   did not notice that the heel of your custom-made (by the only shoemaker in   the city) right shoe had trod on the blood pool of this unfortunate victim.  Upon your panicked   departure, another person, a woman, walked toward her parked car. She saw   your car whiz past her. She took note of the model of your car but not your   license plate number. Her eyes immediately lit on the mound of dirty clothing,   which was the victim, and the rapidly expanding pool of blood around his head.   She assumed that since you had parted he scene so hurriedly, that you   had beaten this man.  Fearing that   since she had not noted the departing car’s license plate number, she soon might   become “a person of interest” if she called the police. She ran to her car   and sped off. She did not notice the missing metallic button missing from her   designer suit. The button, with the designer’s logo on it, lay next to the   victim’s filthy coat.  Your name is Sam or Samantha Watkins. You are a reporter   for “The Big City Gazette.” It is the next morning and you have been called   to this parking garage to report on this brutal murder. You think to   yourself. This is America! Citizens stop to help even strangers. This poor   man was beaten to death by one of the witnesses to this scene, or by a group   of thugs. Why didn’t any of these people call the police? You intend to   write a newspaper story explaining to your readers, two possible reasons for   the witnesses and thugs to enact the “bystander” effect.  Your article   will also explain at least two possible courses of actions the witnesses   could have possibly taken to shake off their initial “bystander” roles,   play a more proactive role, and summoned help for the victim.  Your article   will be called “You’re an American! Never Be a Bystander.”The Bystander Effect How The Murder Of Kitty Genovese Created The Bystander Effect By Katie Serena Published December 9, 2017 Updated December 20, 2017 The Kitty Genovese murder inspired one ugly theory that is present in virtually every psychological textbook to this day. Kitty Genovese whose murder would inspire the psychological phenomenon known as the bystander effect. At approximately 3:15 a.m. on March 13, 1964, a woman was murdered Her name was Kitty Genovese. She was 28 years old, “self-assured beyond her years,” and had a “sunny disposition.” However, on that Friday evening, none of that mattered.  As Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in an alleyway outside her home, the friends and neighbors she had lived next to for several years stood by, choosing not to get involved as she lay there dying. The actions of these neighbors thrust a small town crime into the international spotlight, sparking a highly public discussion, and coining the term for what they had done, “the bystander effect.”  Around 2:30 a.m. on the night of her attack, Kitty Genovese left the bar she worked at and headed for home. She had been working as the manager at Ev’s Eleventh Hour Bar in Hollis, Queens for the past few years. Her home, an apartment she shared with a friend, was in Kew Gardens, roughly 45 minutes from her apartment, a commute she took via car. A few minutes after she left, she stopped at a traffic light. As the light changed and she pulled away, she never noticed a car pull out of a nearby parking lot, and onto the road behind her. She also never noticed that it followed her all the way home. At 3:15, Genovese pulled into the parking lot of the Kew Gardens Long Island Rail Road station parking lot, which was about 100 feet from her front door. The car that had been following her pulled into a bus stop parking lot down the street. Getty Images Kitty at work at Ev’s bar. The man inside was named Winston Moseley, a 29-year-old man with a wife and three kids, and no criminal record. Until that night.  As Kitty Genovese made her way the 100 feet to her apartment, Moseley approached her, armed with a hunting knife, and stabbed her in the back, twice.  Upon being stabbed, Genovese screamed, running toward her home. Several neighbors heard her scream, though only one, Robert Mozer, recognized it as a scream for help, and he didn’t do more than tell Moseley to “leave that girl alone.” After stabbing her, Moseley ran away, leaving Genovese to crawl to the door of her building alone. However, though witnesses claimed to have seen Moseley get in his car and drive away, within ten minutes, he was back, searching for Genovese. Winston Moseley He eventually found her, half-conscious, lying in a hallway just inside her apartment building. Before anyone could see her, Moseley stabbed Genovese several more times, raped her, robbed her, and ran away, this time for good. An ambulance arrived at 4:15 a.m. to take her t