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If something can't be proven UNTRUE with facts...is it true?

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How do you feel about people supporting these girls? Does it make them heroes? Is it ethical?

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One of the professors in the film says, "Beliefs and ideas can be viruses of the mind..." ...What "viruses" do you have?

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How do you personally cope with finding out information that refutes a belief you hold?

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What influence do our beliefs have over our actions?

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How does the internet impact lonely people?

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Did the filmmakers make the right choice to not interview the victim? What might the victim's side of the story added to this discussion?

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What would your internet history say about you?

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why should the girls go to prison if they committed the crime when they was young.

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why did the kids get a longer sentence than people who actually killed people? Why is this unfair?

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Are we ourselves to blame for the acceleration of dissension between ourselves and loners?

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Why does Anissa have to do the same time as Morgan if Morgan was the 1 who actually committed the crime

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Do you think because of cases like this parents should monitor their childrens devices?

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Do you think this incident would have happened if Morgan and Anissa had more friends ?

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Do the parents have partial blame for not watching anissa and morgan while they were in the internet?

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http://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/carter-high-is-a-firsthand-account-of-triumph-and-tragedy-7747176

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Who is the REAL criminal in this situation?

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I wonder how Bella feels about Morgan and Anissa now

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When the investigators interview the girls after the stabbing, why do they speak as if the slender man is real when they know he isn't?

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do parents talk to their children about the things that go on the internet?

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-6988.2004.tb00167.x/full

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https://www.mentalhealth.gov/talk/friends-family-members/

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Why does being isolated cause a person to become crazy?

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Why cant the girls be under house arrest

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if morgan was ill why didnt her parents look more into that while she was on the internet?

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Do you think that letting someone’s imagination run free can cause them to be dangerous ?

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Why is patin having the same jail time as morgan even though she did not try to kill bella?

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If you witness a crime, are you obligated to report it to the police? What if you are aware that a crime is going to be committed, but you do nothing to prevent it from occurring? Can you be criminally charged if you do nothing at all?

Many people are unaware of their legal obligation when it comes to reporting criminal activity. Some don't want to get involved for fear of becoming a victim themselves. There is always the possibility that you risk harm to yourself or a third party if you divulge information about a crime you suspect has already been committed, or know of before it happens.

Others may feel they have a moral obligation to respond as a Good Samaritan and expose criminals for their wrongdoing. However, there is a big difference between a feeling of ethical responsibility and a legal duty to act.

Generally speaking, most people are under no legal obligation to report a crime, whether they knew about it in advance, witnessed its commission, or found out about it after the fact. However, there are exceptions to this law that you ought to know about.

Let's take a brief look at some examples of when you can be held liable for having knowledge of a crime...

Aiding and Abetting a Crime (Penal Code section 31)

In California, you can be charged with the crime that was committed if you aided or abetted in its commission, but did not actually commit the crime yourself. Penal Code section 31 describes the phrase "aiding and abetting" as meaning that you assisted another person to commit a crime. Prosecutors can charge you as an aider and abettor whenever you:

Know the perpetrator's illegal plan,

Intentionally encourage and/or facilitate that plan, and

Aid, promote, or instigate in the crime's commission.

You don't have to be actually present at the scene of the crime to be charged under what is known as "accomplice liability." If you willfully participated in the planning of a crime prior to its commission, you can be held criminally liable as an "accessory before the fact."

If you take a passive role during a crime in progress, such as acting as a lookout or disabling a security device, you can be prosecuted as a perpetrator in the second degree (an accomplice).

Finally, if you help to conceal a crime already committed (hiding stolen money or weapons used in the crime's commission, for example), or give assistance to perpetrators of crime to help them avoid detection, arrest or prosecution, you can be charged as an "accessory after the fact."

In these situations, you are culpable under the accomplice liability theory because you knew of the illegal plan and willfully did something to cause it to be carried out or concealed.

California Mandatory Reporting Laws (California Penal Code sections 11164-11174.3)

Some people have a legal duty to report suspected or actual cases of child abuse or neglect under California's Mandatory Reporting Laws (Penal Code sections 11164-11173.4) . A mandatory reporter does not have to actually witness a child being abused or neglected. Rather, a "reasonable suspicion" from other sources that child abuse or neglect has occurred is enough to trigger this responsibility.

Mandatory reporters are defined under Penal Code section 11165.7, and include over 40 different professionals, such as:

Teachers;

School administrators;

Administrators of youth centers and activities;

Medical care professionals (doctors, nurses, emergency medical technicians, etc.);

Law enforcement officers;

Social workers;

Clergy members, outside of a "penitential communication" (confession);

Firefighters;

Therapists; and

Computer technicians.

California law broadly covers instances of child abuse and neglect, including but not limited to:

Any sexual abuse of a minor, no matter how slight, whether over or under the clothes;

Sexual exploitation;

Physical injury, such as:

Hitting;

Kicking;

Throwing harmful objects or substances; and

Pulling hair;

Verbal abuse;

Failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical attention and education; and

Emotional abuse or neglect.

A mandatory reporter must file a complaint of suspected or actual child abuse or neglect with an appropriate law enforcement or child support services agency within 36 hours of discovery. Failure to fulfill this legal duty to report, or impeding someone from doing so is a crime in itself and may be charged as a misdemeanor.

If you are convicted of failure to fulfill a legal duty as a mandatory reporter, you can be fined up to $1,000 and/or sentenced to serve up to six months in jail. If you willfully prevent someone from filing a mandatory report, you can be punished by a maximum $5,000 fine, a one-year jail sentence, or both.

Failure to Report a Crime under Federal Law (18 U.S.C. section 4)

Federal law prohibits concealing information about specific crimes. Under 18 United States Code, Section 4, you may be obligated to report a crime if you are directly asked during a criminal investigation whenever:

You have knowledge of the commission of a felony;

The felony actually occurred; and

The felony is a federal offense;

If you willfully conceal the commission of a felony federal offense, you can be charged with "misprision of a felony." Misprision of a felony is a form of obstruction of justice. If you are convicted, you face up to a $250,000 fine, imprisonment up to three years, or both fine and imprisonment.

Can You Report a Crime Anonymously?

Privately-operated, anonymous toll-free hotlines and website portals are available to "tipsters" where you may safely report a crime without revealing your identity. Many law enforcement agencies allow you to anonymously report a crime online as well. However, if you call 911 emergency response, be advised that law enforcement agencies may be able to track your phone number.

Additionally, California law requires mandatory reports of child abuse or neglect to remain confidential. A government agency receiving a report from a mandatory reporter may not divulge the source of a confidentially submitted report of suspected or actual child abuse or neglect to a reporter's employer without the reporter's prior consent.

Contact Wallin & Klarich Today if You are Arrested for Failing to Report a Crime

If you have been arrested for failing to provide information about a crime or becoming an accessory to a crime, you need to speak with one of our experienced criminal defense attorneys at Wallin & Klarich today. You could be facing serious state or federal charges if you had a mandatory duty to report unlawful activity or you obstructed a criminal investigation.

Our attorneys at Wallin & Klarich have over 30 years of experience successfully defending our clients facing criminal charges as a result of failing to report a crime. We can help you avoid fines and/or imprisonment by conducting a thorough investigation of the facts. If you had no legal obligation to act, we may be able to persuade the prosecutor to dismiss the charges against you.

With offices in Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks, Torrance, Tustin, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, West Covina and Victorville, Wallin & Klarich is conveniently located near you to make certain you receive the very best legal representation throughout your criminal proceedings. We will help you to receive the most favorable outcome in your case.

Call us today at (877) 4-NO-JAIL or (877) 466-5245 for a free telephone consultation. We will get through this together.

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Can You Be Charged for Knowing About a Crime and Not Saying Anything?

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If you witness a crime, are you obligated to report it to the police? What if you are aware that a crime is going to be committed, but you do nothing to prevent it from occurring? Can you be criminally charged if you do nothing at all?

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did being white affect the way they interviewed the girls

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Why didn't Morgan's parents pay more attention to her if they knew that she had Mental problems???

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Dont you reaized that the way we make people into memes now is the same way that they are making Anissa and Morgan on creepypasta websites? like the cash me outside girl

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https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Murderous-Children-Joshua-Phillips

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will the police take Morgan's situation into effect when in trial.

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because you have mental illness does it mean you shouldn't have the same punishment as someone else that did the same crime.

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Andres Jimenez why do they not send Morgan to a mental hospital

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Andres Jimenez why do they not send Morgan to a mental hospital

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If children are seen as innocent or "not knowing any better", then why are they treated as adults under the rules of the Judicial System?

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Should the fact that Morgan has a mental illness have a factor in punishment?

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Do you believe that we can help stop the negativity on the internet?

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With the recent revelations that alleged movie-theater shooter James Holmes had been seeing a psychiatrist prior to carrying out the July 20 massacre in Aurora, Colo., questions about the link between violence and mental illness have risen once again: What are the root causes of seemingly random violence? Does mental illness provoke it or predispose people to harm others?

Advocates for the mentally ill are faced with a deep dilemma each time extreme and deadly crimes are perpetrated by those with a mental illness. Obviously, such acts are not sane or normal; it beggars common sense to suggest that a person who is thinking straight would choose to kill or wound dozens of strangers. And yet most mentally ill people - even those with conditions that have been linked to violence, such as addictions and schizophrenia - are no threat to anyone other than themselves.

So how can we understand who is at risk for becoming violent without increasing the stigma associated with mental illness, especially when that stigma may account for a large part of the association between the two? Some data may help: people with schizophrenia - a disorder being studied by the psychiatrist who was treating Holmes - are roughly twice as likely to be violent as those who do not have the disorder, according to a 2009 review of research. People who have schizophrenia and a substance-use disorder are at even greater risk: they have a nine times higher risk of violence than people with neither disorder. The association is especially marked for homicide: those with schizophrenia are nearly 20 times as likely to kill another person as people unaffected by the disease.

However, the majority of people with schizophrenia (about 1% of the population) never commit acts of violence. A 2011 review of data on people who had suffered a first episode of psychosis - which is often a sign of schizophrenia (though psychosis is also associated with severe depression and amphetamine or marijuana misuse) - found that 35% had committed some type of violent act. That means that nearly two-thirds were nonviolent. Further, of those who did become violent, fewer than 1% had committed violence severe enough to result in hospitalization or permanent injury.

( MORE: Viewpoint: The Overwhelming Maleness of Mass Homicide)

When looking at the rates of violent crime overall - homicide, for instance - the best estimate is that 5% to 10% of murders are committed by people with mental illness. But a far larger proportion of mass homicides, including the brutal July 2011 attacks in Norway, the Tucson, Ariz., shooting that wounded Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, involve perpetrators with mental illness. The proportion far outstrips the rates of mental illness in the population.

So what leads one person to violence but not another? In some cases, it may be the stigma of mental illness that provokes it, by exacerbating existing symptoms of delusion, disconnection from reality, social withdrawal and lack of emotion. A rare insight into the mind of a patient with schizophrenia comes from a former academic who wrote anonymously about her experience with social stigma from her disease (via writer David Dobbs at Wired). "N" writes:

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia just a month after Steven Kazmierczak (quickly identified as "schizoaffective") shot six people to death on the campus of [Northern Illinois University] ... Undoubtedly primed by this shooting, wary, uncertain, without enough time to think, my doctoral adviser suspended my graduate assistantship, banned me from the university, and alerted all faculty, graduate students and staff to forward all emails [from me] to her and, under no circumstances, respond.

N writes that her adviser had been operating under the wrongheaded assumption that she was planning to plant a bomb on campus. Although the decision to suspend N's position was reversed within a week, it triggered a downward spiral that ultimately resulted in her expulsion. She writes:

Friends - my doctoral cohort, as is often the case, were a close and tight-knit group - abandoned me overnight. Students and faculty passed me in the halls, staring ahead blankly as if I were an undergraduate they had never seen and would never see again. Parties were announced, talked about, and I was never invited. Never again.

The social rejection worsened her disease and she became afraid to interact with people, eventually ceasing to attend classes and campus functions:

For a while I struggled through classes, overwhelmed, perhaps in equal measure, by delusions and this new and unprecedented isolation. Voices took the places of both professors and friends. Following a hospitalization (and consequent withdrawal from a semester's worth of classes), I descended into a state of the most stunning dysfunction, unable (or simply unmotivated) even to walk from my bed to the bathroom.

( MORE: James Holmes Might Be Crazy but Not Legally Insane)

After a review by an academic committee, during which her formerly trusted professors said they saw no chance that she would ever succeed, N was dismissed from her program. She broke down:

Me: Everything I have ever been told was a lie. My one way out - of poverty, desperation, madness - was never more than an illusion. And then disbelief. And then, how will I ever explain this to anyone, to family, to old mentors? And then betrayal. No language this time, no thoughts; crying, crying for hours. Alcohol, unconsciousness, unbidden dreams. Even there: repeating their words, over and over and over again. Isolation so intense, there is no way I will ever bridge it. I am lost. Days go by, weeks.

Eventually:

I fixated on a single vision, me, sometimes hanging, sometimes with gun in hand and a pool of blood on the floor, outside [her former adviser's] office. Suicide, yes, obviously, but also something more: revenge.

Although N did not plan a mass killing, she writes that she understands how someone in Holmes' situation - a former academic superstar and Ph.D. student in neuroscience, who had withdrawn from his program in June after a reportedly dismal performance on an oral exam - might have become so unhinged.

( PHOTOS: The Movie-Theater Shooting in Aurora, Colo.)

Dobbs points out in Wired that outcomes for people with schizophrenia may depend heavily on the patient's cultural milieu: research conducted in the 1970s by the World Health Organization found that while 40% of people with schizophrenia in industrialized countries had severe impairments, less than a quarter of those in the developing world did and that over time, the disease followed a less devastating course in countries without advanced medical treatment.

The difference appears to rest on whether the larger culture views the disorder as a permanent affliction that destroys the person or, by contrast, as a brief possession by bad spirits. In the latter case, families and friends tend to accept affected people, letting them marry and work. (Of course, people with schizophrenia who live in cultures that stigmatize and reject those afflicted by bad spirits may get the worst of both worlds.)

Later studies have shown that medical treatment does improve outcomes in people with schizophrenia - indeed, appropriate medical treatment in the West has been shown to essentially eliminate patients' risk of violence - but it's clear that social support and the cultural environment clearly matter, not only when it comes to violence perpetrated by the mentally ill but also to violent crime in general.

As Eric Michael Johnson writes for Scientific American, the biggest contributor to homicide in the U.S. is not mental illness, addictions or even the accessibility of guns. It's economic disparity: the wider the gap between the rich and poor, the more violence a population breeds. Describing an analysis of homicide rates in 50 states conducted by Harvard's Ichiro Kawachi, Johnson writes:

The results were unambiguous: when income inequality was higher, so was the rate of homicide. Income inequality alone explained 74% of the variance in murder rates and half of the aggravated assaults. However, social capital had an even stronger association and, by itself, accounted for 82% of homicides and 61% of assaults. Other factors such as unemployment, poverty, or number of high school graduates were only weakly associated and alcohol consumption had no connection to violent crime at all. A World Bank sponsored study subsequently confirmed these results on income inequality concluding that, worldwide, homicide and the unequal distribution of resources are inextricably tied.

In other words, the connections we have to one another - our social capital, our ability to seek and receive support from others - is the most important weapon we have against violence. These connections are put at risk when economic inequality rises. Studies show that social cohesion and trust drop when disparities between the rich and poor rise. Since markets rely on trust to function smoothly - and since distrust can provoke political paralysis and polarization - a vicious cycle can ensue.

( MORE: How Economic Inequality Is Literally Making Us Sick)

For the mentally ill, who might be seen as canaries in this coal mine, stigma serves to wall them off from the social support and medical care that are necessary to spur recovery and prevent illness from leading to tragedy. As a society, we need to understand that risk does not equal destiny - and that believing it does is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's not wrong to see schizophrenia as a disease or even to appreciate its association with violence, but to view people with schizophrenia as hopeless can in some cases worsen their course unnecessarily.

Indeed, the greatest individual risk factor for violence is not mental illness but gender - another characteristic over which people have no control. Schizophrenia doubles your odds of becoming violent, but being a man multiplies your risk by a factor of nine. Yet we don't stigmatize or reject men for this risk factor; similarly, we shouldn't treat the mentally ill that way. To prevent future catastrophes, we need to understand the range of cultural, social and medical factors that affect us all.

Szalavitz is a health writer at TIME.com. Find her on Twitter at @maiasz. You can also continue the discussion on TIME Healthland 's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIMEHealthland.

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why are people supporting morgan gesyer on facebook?

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http://www.allthingsdank.com/the-cultural-impact-of-internet-memes/

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Why is the world so messed up? :/

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Should kids be monitored on the internet?

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why do they believe in slenderman?

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Is it wrong to put 2 little girls in prison and 1 with a mental illness and 1 that was under the influence of Morgan

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Does technology really take over our minds?

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1. Shouldn't have the mom gone to the park with them? :l
2. how are they supposed to be treated at adults when they are under age

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If you are new to social media, overall internet culture and image sharing, it may be hard for you to understand what internet memes are. It is actually difficult to define what an meme is because an meme can be anything. It can be a word, a photo, a symbol, a video, an idea, a person, a quote, an animal or a fictional character. Precisely, it can be defined as an activity, catchphrase, concept or a piece of media which spreads from one person to another via the internet. You can also define a meme as a virally transmitted social idea or cultural symbol.
How Do Internet Meme Travel From One Person To Another?
A meme behaves like a cold or a flu virus, it spreads from one person to another in a speed of lightening but transmits an idea instead of a life form. Historically, a meme is a 'package of culture'' that would spread via word of mouth as a humorous story, a joke, a fable, or an expression of speech. Today, the internet speeds up the spread of memes enabling them to travel much faster than a mere speech.

As instant messages, web page links and internet email forwards, memes can move instantly via the internet. By virtue of its immediate communication, the internet provides the best platform for spreading modern memes to one people's inboxes. A file attachment with a Rick Astley video, a link to a YouTube video, an email signature with a quote from Chuck Norris are some of the culture and modern meme symbols spreading through online media.
What Are The Examples Of The Best Internet Memes?
Most memes are humorous e.g. Numa Numa dance, Rickrolling, More Cowbell, Ask a Ninja and many others. However, some of the best internet memes are also about drama and shock-value e.g. Dogs Go To Heaven, Angry German Kid and so on. A few memes involve intellectual absurdity and social commentary and are about deep content e.g. Russell's Orbiting Teapot, Flying Spaghetti Monster among others.

Other memes are myths associated with urban life that gives some life lessons; Man without a Face, The Littlest Fireman are few of the examples. In a very few cases, an internet meme can be a conversational expression e.g. 'You Mad Bro'. In every case, a personal experience or a package of culture spreads among people in a virus-like fashion.

The majority of memes will continue being shock-value curiosities and humor as these can grab the attention of many people more quickly than deeper meme content. But expect memes to become progressively more philosophical and intellectual as people become more sophisticated in their thinking.
Who Are Responsible For Transmitting Modern Memes?
Post-adolescents and adolescents transfer More than half of the current internet memes. The main reason for this phenomena is that these two demographics have a playful curiosity about internet memes and like messaging. However, the average age of meme-spreaders has continually increased as users of more than 30 years of age have discovered the humor and chuckles about sending memes to their close friends.
What Is The Origin Of Internet Memes?
Every single internet meme has its unique origin, they can burst out of nowhere and mysteriously take over your Facebook feed, Twitter feed or any other social network site you might be using. There are websites, however, that you can use to find out the history and origin of a particular meme. Sites like Cheezburger Network specializes in tracking down the entire viral stories behind internet memes- sometimes right down to the photographer of an image, artist or creator of a meme.
What Are The Social Impacts Of Internet Memes?
Memes may look like nonsense, a good way to waste time for those with nothing else to do but surf all day. But in reality, they are a major business. They change the way we live, shape popular culture and continually evolve with the modern society. They hugely influence modern language and culture shaping how the youth and the whole internet user community live. Memes sometimes target specific demographics, such as stoner memes target weed smokers and hippies.

Promotions, advertising, and marketing professionals are embracing memes because they are cheap and trendy not mentioning their unique characteristic of spreading like a virus. These so-called memes have assisted in producing fortune and fame to many people. The meme phenomena subtly represent the tones of modern social etiquette and culture.
What Makes An Meme Go Viral?
Some of the qualities that makes the majority of memes reach millions of viewers or described here below. A recent study indicates that persons reporting strong, effective responses to a meme showed greater intent to spread it. Anger producing memes were more likely to be spread but only when its source was an out-group member. The recent study indicated that the rapidity with which online users spread information enhances contagion. You may probably ask yourself what contagion is, this involves the quick spread of influential information among people.

Emotional contagion, a particular form of contagion, leads to convergence of a person's emotional state with the state of emotions of those with whom is interacting with or observing. That is, when online users watch internet memes, they tend to experience similar emotions as the people in the memes, and by spreading that meme, they anticipate that the recipient will experience similar feelings. The study reports that when an individual is embedded within a network of like-minded persons, this contagion can lead to behavioral responses by many people.

Another recent study indicated that people tended to spread memes with positive effect, anxiety or anger but tended not to spread those that carried sad information. In addition, most people like watching humorous or comedy videos than other categories leading to a rapid spread of such memes. More online users like sharing such memes to increase closeness and liking.

Here is the bottom line; the best memes will always spread like bushfire, influencing the social lives of online users. They arouse various emotions to the recipients being the reason to why their social and cultural impact cannot be ignored.

To learn more about how memes go viral - check the video below"

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The Cultural Impact of Internet Memes - All Things Dank

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do young children know what they do is bad and has a consequence to what they do? if so why don't they think before they do it?

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Shouldn't the mom be aware of what her daughter doing or what she is grabbing (morgan garbing the knife)

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http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/31/mass-murder-and-mental-illness-the-interplay-of-stigma-culture-and-disease/

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why is it that black americans are seen as big predators, but in reality, when you think of big school shootings, the predator are white.

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Is it right to treat two young girls like adults and do not respect that one has mental illness problems?

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why do people believe everything on the internet?

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When someone has a mental illness and don't
know about it, what goes wrong?

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Do prisons and jails make a difference in our lives? If so, good or bad?

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Why would Anissa try to egg on Morgan with killing Peyton and becoming one of "his" proxies?

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/10/pennsylvania.young.murder.defendant/

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Why did Morgan act like she didn't know who Slender was when she was being interrogated?

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Do you think living behind the bars helps morgan with her mental illness?

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Think about this: if the girls tried to murder their friend, who is at fault here? The girls or the parents who let them think that this THING is real?

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Should mentally ill offenders receive treatment instead of jail time?

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Debate.org is a dynamic social community where you can voice your opinion on today's hottest issues.

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Why are people so easily persuaded into thinking that ALL things on the internet is true?

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If the police know Morgan's condition then shouldn't she get a less brutal trial

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If Morgan and Anissa knew that slenderman was fake, then why still go on with this plan and try to murder Peyton?

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what makes people think that slenderman is real?

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Internet memes may seem like nonsense, a complete waste of time. That they're something for people with nothing to do but to surf the net all day. But in actuality, these memes are big business. They shape popular culture, change the way we live our lives, and continually evolve with modern society today.
Table of Contents:

1. What are Internet Memes and Why You Should Care

2. Top Memes of the Past Decade

3. Memes as Promotional and Marketing Tools

4. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn)

What are Internet Memes and Why You Should Care

An internet meme is a cultural phenomenon, spreading like a virus, traveling from one person to another swiftly until it takes on a life of its own. "Meme' is pronounced as 'meem', which rhymes with 'seem' or 'team'. Meme is a term coined by Richard Dawkins.

Memes are usually jokes, urban legends, viral videos, funny pictures or contagious music. Memes today hugely influence modern language and culture. They shape how the youth, and the whole internet user population for that matter, live their lives.

Marketing, advertising and promotions professionals embrace memes, because it's inexpensive and trendy; plus its unique characteristic is to spread like a virus.

The more people go online, the stronger memes will be. Memes equals money. Memes have assisted in producing fame and fortune for many people, transforming nobodies to overnight sensations in the blink of an eye. Memes are a great opportunity; always at work even during your offline hours, always up for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The Science behind the Power of Funny Internet Memes

What is the science behind the power of online memes? The year 2000 onwards foresaw the meme phenomena, which subtly represents the tones of today's social etiquette and culture. Today's culture and humor keeps on evolving everyday. The cultural impact of Memes cannot be ignored. In fact, it can even be a tool for self-promotion, branding and marketing that will ensure your fame and success.

To prove our point, we'll give you an example. One of the most popular memes of all time is the many pictures of the cat with funny, captions that throw grammar out the window. It is created by Hawaiian blogger Eric Nakagawa with girlfriend Kari Unebasami. Do you know how much these cat pictures are worth?

Nakagawa's website dedicated to lolcats is now worth $2 million. It is the most popular internet web site displaying pictures of cats, receiving as many as 1.5 million hits in a day. In a year the page receives over half a billion, yep billion, page visits, making it in league with other major news empires' sites like the Huffington Post or NY Times. They're being extra profitable, just by creating memes. Nakagawa's web site generates images of these adorable cats and kittens with humorous captions. Pretty impressive, for cats.

These memes are outrageously funny, and they don't need a lot of time to enjoy. They take a few minutes of your time, and in the case of the lolcats, only a few seconds of your time. But don't start thinking coming up with a meme is easy. Scientists and researchers have tried to study and understand memes. Every detail is taken into account, to know why this meme succeeded and why another meme failed.

Researchers have difficulty studying memes, because unlike previous cultural phenomenons, the internet meme does not have the problem of lacking cultural artifacts, but rather its exponential growth. Memes spread like wildfire from social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Reddit.

Memes are highly unpredictable and untraceable: there is no hard science on which picture, video, or joke will go viral next. In fact, a meme can be ignored for a long time before it explodes. One good example is Rebecca Black's Friday video, which was uploaded on February 2011 before comedian Michael J. Nelson tweeted about it saying 'Songwriting isn't for Everyone'. It became infamous almost overnight.

The lesson here is that we can't force a meme to become a viral hit. You do have to rely on luck a little bit. Memes may bring you different results than what you expected. To be honest, memes are more of an art than a science.

Top Memes of the Past Decade

I will share with you the top memes of the last ten years (erroneous sentence, because memes didn't exist before that) and why they are so successful. What made these memes click? What did we learn from them and how can we achieve the same success?

1. Planking

Planking, also known as the lying down game, is an activity that consists of a person lying face down with arms at the sides, photographed and shared online. The term 'planking' refers to the activity of imitating a wooden plank. Plankers try to find the most unusual and most humorous places to 'plank'. Some of the most unusual places to plank include roofs, poles, on top of vehicles, even on toilets.

Planking has led to other variations such as owling, jebbing, teacupping,and lately, horsemanning etc. It has its own holiday, 'Global Planking Day'. Even big celebrities like Katy Perry, Chris Brown, Tom Green and Justin Bieber have joined in on the fun.

Although planking seems like a harmless enough game, there are always daredevils out there who seem to want to be in trouble's way. Planking has caused many accidents or issues.

Seven doctors and nurses have allegedly been suspended for 'planking' while on duty. One man has also been arrested for planking on a police vehicle. Worse, A 20 year old man, Acton Beale, fell to his death after attempting to plank on a 7th floor balcony in Australia.

2. Rebecca Black's 'Friday'

Rebecca Black is the epitome of 'Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all'. Her video 'Friday' on YouTube has 3.1 million dislikes (or 87.1% of the total ratings). Despite that, she has amassed 167 million views and hundreds of parodies. It is the 22nd most viewed video on YouTube of all time, before it was taken down on June 16 as per Black's request.

If you take a look at her 'Friday' video, you'll see that the song lyrics are terrible, and the video just mediocre and the use of auto-tune was heavily criticized as well.She's now a millionaire because of her publicity (albeit negative). 'Friday' was hated by the public, but proved to be a commercial success: in a matter of days, iTunes received 2 million downloads and with an iTunes payout of $0.70 per download, earning the singer about US $1.4 million in just a few days. Not bad for a thirteen-year-old.

3. Chuck Norris Jokes

Chuck Norris jokes are about the martial artist and actor Chuck Norris, stating exaggerated claims about Chuck Norris' strength, ability, toughness, endurance, or everything else what makes him awesome. The claims are mostly absurd which is what makes them so hilarious. These jokes have spread around the globe via the internet.

The Chuck Norris jokes first appeared on Late night with Conan O'Brien, and started appearing on the internet. It was a huge hit. Chuck Norris himself was flattered and found them humorous, but tries to not take them seriously.

Some of our favorite Chuck Norris jokes are:

'Chuck Norris counted to infinity... twice.''Chuck Norris has already been to Mars. That is why there are no signs of life there.''Chuck Norris doesn't cheat death, he beat it fair and square.''Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.''Chuck Norris made a Happy Meal cry.'

4. Famous Dancing Baby

The famous dancing baby animation, also known as Baby Cha Cha, is a short 3D animation of a baby, dancing cha-cha to the intro of the song 'Hooked on a Feeling'. This short animation is among the earliest examples of online memes, having spread through chain e-mails.

It has appeared in several shows and parodies, where it became a recurrent hallucination in the 'Ally McBeal' series.

We love babies, they're cute and adorable, ergo babies sell. We love them more if they can do crazy things they normally can't. The Dancing Baby Meme was so popular it even spawned many imitations, parodies, remixes. One such is the viral ad 'Evian Roller Babies' featuring babies dancing and hopping in skates.

5. People of Wal-Mart

People of Wal-Mart features heavyweight, poorly dressed and just plain crazy people who shop at Wal-Mart. The pictures are absurd, silly, weird, and some are just gross. You can check all the funny pictures on their official website. Basically the web site mocks the shoppers of Wal-Mart. This internet meme is not for everyone, as it may offend some people, but you're invited to check it out or just leave.

6. Demotivational Posters

Demotivational posters are spoofs of the often clichéd motivational posters found in corporate offices and such. Like a motivational poster, it consists of a single picture, with a black border, with an all caps title in white, usually a serif font. Most often it is followed by a subheading in smaller font.

The purpose of motivational posters is to inspire, demotivational posters work the opposite: they are pessimistic in nature. These are among the most common memes today, seen all over the cyberspace and shared among social networking sites. There are now dozens of websites dedicated to generating these hilarious demotivational posters.

These posters are effective because they're simple, sweet and fast. They're really funny too. It shows that one strong, single picture can be very devastatingly powerful when paired with witty copy.

Y u no guy is a cartoon featuring a highly annoyed face, with his hands out and palms outward, as if screaming 'Y U NO?'. It characteristically uses 'text' style grammar. It first appeared on Tumblr on LOLTumblrWallpapers, which instantly received 10,000 reblogs.

Y U NO GUY is inspired by a character from Gantz, on Chapter 55: Naked King. His facial expression shows extreme rage and frustration.

Other internet meme characters that are part of the Rage comics include Cereal Guy, Lol Guy, Okay Guy, Forever Alone, PFFFFT, Troll face, Me Gusta and more.

Memes as Promotional and Marketing Tools

Memes should not be seen as a link building tool, but rather as an effective promotional and marketing tool. Viewers can relate better to a meme than a long article. Thus it is effective in creating a loyal online following base, where they can keep on coming back to your website. The meme can create 'trust' and 'loyalty' in your web base, an integral value in marketing.

But memes can travel from one site to another, from one social networking site to another, thus you cannot be the sole carrier of the meme even if you are the owner. How can your site benefit from the meme if this is the case?

Of course you are recognized as the source of the meme. As the internet meme gets more popular, searches increase and thus bring more visitors to your web site. Successful meme marketing is a lot like viral marketing. It builds up online credibility, increasing social popularity. More and more people come to your site web site. If they enjoy it, they share it to their fellow friends. Thus it creates a domino effect, reaching millions of viewers in a short time. Memes are like a self-replicating virus.

Memes may work like magic overnight, or they may take time to spread. Social networking web sites aid in spreading your internet meme. Because of this, social networking is the perfect avenue to test the success of your meme by tracking its popularity and reading comments and reviews. Memes are still largely unknown and mysterious even to the best researchers, but one thing is known: memes are one of the most important tools in online marketing today.

Now let's take a look at some ideas that have gone viral.

12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn)

In this post I'll feature some web designs that went viral on StumbleUpon/Digg/other social media sites and the lessons you can learn from them. As you browse the designs, I'm pretty sure you'll find some common patterns I overlooked. If you see that, let me know in the comments :) For now, let's get started.

One more thing before we start. The lessons I'll share are just principles and observations that come from my 3+ experience in viral marketing and getting over a million people to my websites. Feel free to disagree with some of the principles and let me know why in the comments below. Now, let's REALLY get started :)

What can we learn from this: People want control. That's one of the reasons games are more engaging than videos. This animation makes use of that principle by giving people an incredible control over the flying man. Even if you move your mouse a little bit, you should get him flying immediately. The lesson here is: If you're making a game or an animation people can control, ask yourself how can you make it so even a small move with the mouse (smallest effort people can possibly take while sitting on a computer) can produce a 'wow' results.

What can we learn from this: Appeal to the general audience. Going niche doesn't work if you want to go viral (except if the niche is fascinating for the general public, like astronomy). This infographic is a great example of appealing to the overall mass population. The name is '10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled', not '10 Common Teeth Whitening' or '10 Common Acne' misconceptions. In viral, fun and entertainment are a priority over being informative.

3. Horses Singing

What can we learn from this: There are so many principles behind this viral flash 'game', but I think what's most important here is unexpectedness; when horses open their mouth, you expect that awful and loud voice. But these horses can sing; and they can actually sing in chorus! Imagine real horses doing that; one of the most annoying things in the world? :)

What can we learn from this: As a general rule of thumb, too much text doesn't work in viral (see why in the next lesson). That doesn't mean, however, that text doesn't work at all. This example shows that. If you combine it with something insightful (like quotes), funny (once someone on Twitter made an account named "shit my dad says"), anything that brings emotions, you should have a good probability most people are going to like it.

What can we learn from this: I've actually known this OatMeal guy before he went viral on Digg. I expected his site to be great success, but never expected it would get viral to this extent! (his site is in the top 2500 most visited sites in the world according to Alexa). He taught me one very important thing with his designs. You see, there is a lot of text in some of his infographics. But it's all illustrated, like a comics, and the text accompanies the graphic rather than the graphic accompanying the text. This is a very important distinction to make; if the text accompanies the graphic then you try to illustrate as many things as you can with the graphic, while the reverse is true with the graphic accompanying the text (like in this article, for example).

What can we learn from this: Ah, the power of associations. Combining technology + famous people = win. You could argue that we were making all these 'associations' in the previous examples as well (connecting pictures with emotions etc). But this is different. In this example, there is a politician, a celebrity. Some will like this and some will not. But they would both agree this is 'fascinating'. A lesson/idea: You can take a present trend/famous person and make a creative design out of it. Like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

7. Drawing Example

What can we learn from this: Most people like drawings. If you're a drawing master, why not try and submit your masterpiece on StumbleUpon? Or alternatively you can find a drawing group on Facebook and post it there and see what happens (just make sure the group/page has enough members!) Drawings go viral on StumbleUpon.

What can we learn from this: People love beautiful stuff. Now, aren't different things beautiful to different people? Not really. For example, if you show the 2 pictures above to different people. most will say they're quite beautiful. Maybe 2 in 30 will say they don't like the pictures. But the rest 28 will usually say positive stuff. And not surprisingly, beautiful things often go viral ! They appeal to most (remember the second principle, appeal with information? Well this is same just you're appealing with beautiful stuff).

If you want to see whether something you designed is beautiful or not, try sending it to 5 people (but don't tell them it's your design) and hear what they think.

What can we learn from this: Making a showcase of beautiful pictures/designs used to work quite successfully on StumbleUpon. This isn't the case anymore (they still work, but not so phenomenal like previously), not because of the pictures but other factors. If you show same things to people all the time, they'll become accustomed to those things and they'll lose they effectiveness. The things they see will become ordinary and ordinary is the enemy of viral and buzz. So why am I telling you this? Because you can make twists for these showcase posts and make them 'not-so-ordinary'.

Most people just throw a bunch of pictures for a particular topic, name it 'x beautiful [theme] pictures' and that's it. Boring. Imitation works for getting viral, but not for long. Here are some ideas on twists you can make:

'10 Remarkably Similar, Yet Very Different [theme] Designs'

'10 Designs and Their Ugly Counterparts' (you can show similar designs here, first the ugly one, and then the beautiful one)

What can we learn from this: Simplicity helps a lot. Especially if you have a site where people are just trying to do 1 thing (like search for something). If you've noticed, all the previous examples are kinda simple, they don't have any extra parts that take your attention. They make you focus on the 'meat' and don't do much fluff.

When this animation started, something strange happened to me. I started associating the animation with the What can we learn from this: essence of life, the stars, the universe...and I bet most people also did that when they saw this. Can you do this with your design? Can you insert an element which will help visitors associate your design with the essence of life? Some objects that can help you accomplish this are: stars, galaxies, planets etc. But it's not just about what you present, it's about HOW you present it. Just take a look at this animation and its slow motion. Think on how you can present your static/animation design. Slow motion usually helps a lot in the 'how to present it' part.

12. LAB - Freestyle Creativity

What can we learn from this: At the end, it's important to mention that there are not specific rules for going viral. There is a dose of randomness in the viral formula. The more viral designs you see, the more you can 'steal' from them and then make your own ones. This is an example of what I call a 'freestyle creativity', the guy probably just said 'I found this fascinating and other people will probably find it too' and went with that design. There's no rule that says you can't do the same too.

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The Power of Internet Memes And A Lot Of Fun Along The Way

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Internet memes may seem like nonsense, a complete waste of time. That they're something for people with nothing to do but to surf the net all day. But in actuality, these memes are big business. They shape popular culture, change the way we live our lives, and continually evolve with modern society today.

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Death date: November 19, 2017

Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio

Father: Father's name unavailable publicly

Marriages: Rosalie Jean (Willis) Manson (1955-divorce date unknown); was also married to a woman named Leona in the early 1960s, whose last name is not publicly known.

Children: At least two: with Rosalie Jean (Willis) Manson: Charles M. Manson Jr. (1956-1993); with a woman whose name is not publicly known: Charles Luther Manson.

Other Facts:
Reportedly, during his childhood, Manson's mother sold him for a pitcher of beer to a woman who wanted to have children. His uncle had to find the woman so that he could get his nephew back.

He later took his stepfather William Manson's last name.

According to the California Parole Board, Manson had a history of manipulation, controlling behavior and mental illnesses which included schizophrenia and paranoid delusional behavior.

The killings inspired the best-selling book, "Helter Skelter," written by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi.

At age 12, Charles Manson is sent to Gibault School for Boys in Terre Haute, Indiana, for stealing. Over the next twenty years, he is in and out of reform schools and prison for various crimes.

March 21, 1967 - Manson is released from prison. He tells the prison officials that he doesn't want to be released, "Oh, no, I can't go outside there...I knew that I couldn't adjust to that world, not after all my life had been spent locked up and where my mind was free." After his release, he moves to San Francisco.

1967-1968 - Manson meets Gary Hinman, a music teacher who introduces him to Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.

-- Manson attracts a group of followers. The group moves to the Spahn Ranch, outside of Chatsworth, California.

-- Dennis Wilson introduces Manson to record producer Terry Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day. After initially showing interest in Manson's music, Melcher declines to work with him further.

-- Melcher later moves out of his home on Cielo Drive, and the house is then leased to film director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate.

July 1969 - Gary Hinman is killed by Manson follower Bobby Beausoleil, accompanied by Manson Family members Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins. The murder is committed at the behest of Manson.

August 8-9, 1969 - At Manson's command, a small group of his most ardent followers brutally murder five people at the Benedict Canyon home of director Roman Polanski, near Hollywood. The victims are Polanski's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, writer Wojciech Frykowski, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and celebrity hair stylist Jay Sebring. Also killed is Steven Parent, who was a friend of the family's gardener. The murders are committed by followers Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel. Linda Kasabian accompanies them as a lookout.

August 9-10, 1969 - Manson, displeased at the sloppiness of the previous night's murders, accompanies a group of followers on a search for victims. In the car are: Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel, Kasabian as well as Leslie van Houten and Steve "Clem" Grogan. After several hours, the group comes upon the house of supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary. The couple are brutally murdered by Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Van Houten.

October 1969 - Manson and his followers are arrested at another remote location, called Barker Ranch, on suspicion of auto theft.

November 6, 1969 - Manson Family member Susan Atkins, already charged in the murder of Gary Hinman, tells inmate Virginia Castro that she killed Sharon Tate, "Because we wanted to do a crime that would shock the world, that the world would have to stand up and take notice."

November 12, 1969 - The LA Sheriff's detectives interview Al Springer, motorcycle gang member who had some association with Manson. Springer tells them that Manson told him about killing people days after the Tate murders.

November 16, 1969 - The LAPD interviews inmate Ronnie Howard about her conversation with Susan Atkins concerning the Tate/LaBianca murders.

November 18, 1969 - Deputy District Attorney Vincent T. Bugliosi is assigned the case.

November 30, 1969 - Watson is apprehended in Texas. His lawyers fight extradition to California for nine months.

December 8, 1969 - Manson, Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Kasabian are indicted for the murders of Sharon Tate and her friends. The grand jury also indicts the five, plus Van Houten, for the LaBianca murders.

June 16, 1970 - Trial begins for Manson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Van Houten.

-- Manson appears in court with an "X" carved into his forehead.

-- He defends himself in court with the help from attorney Irving Kanarek.

August 1970 - Kasabian is given immunity in exchange for her testimony against Manson and the others.

January 15, 1971 - After a seven-month trial, jury deliberations begin. The jury finds all the defendants guilty on January 25.

March 29, 1971 - Manson, Krenwinkel, Atkins and Van Houten receive the death penalty.

1971 - Charles "Tex" Watson is found guilty of the murders of seven people and is sentenced to death.

1972 - The death penalty is abolished in California. The sentences for all Manson Family members are commuted to life in prison.

April 11, 2012 - Manson is denied parole for the 12th time. According to the California Parole Board, he has accrued 108 serious disciplinary violations in prison since 1971 and has shown no remorse for the murders. Manson's next parole hearing is set for 2027, when he will be 92.

November 20, 2013 - A 25-year-old pen pal, who calls herself "Star," tells Rolling Stone magazine that she considers Manson her husband. The imprisoned cult leader says, however, that Star's story is "garbage." She began sending letters to Manson when she was in high school.

November 18, 2014 - Sources tell CNN that Manson and Star have, in fact, obtained a marriage license.

February 2015 - The wedding is called off, according to tabloid reports.

June 6, 2015 - Manson prosecutor and author of "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders" Vincent Bugliosi dies in California.

November 19, 2017 - Two days after being transported to the hospital, Manson, 83, dies of natural causes.

March 13, 2018 - After a four month fight over Manson's remains, a Kern County judge rules in favor of Jason Freeman who claims he is Manson's grandson.

Major Players ("Manson Family"):
Susan "Sadie" Denise Atkins:
September 24, 2009 - Dies in prison.

Bobby Beausoleil: Convicted of the murder of Gary Hinman. He is serving a life sentence.

October 14, 2016 - Beausoleil is denied parole for the 18th time.

Bruce Davis:
April 21, 1972 - Convicted of the murders of Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea. He is serving a life sentence.

February 1, 2017 - Is recommended for parole.

June 23, 2017 - Governor Brown denies parole for Davis. This is the fifth time a California governor has refused to release Davis.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme:
1975 - Attempts to shoot President Gerald Ford.

August 14, 2009 - Is released on parole after serving 34 years.

Steven "Clem" Grogan:Grogan is released on parole after revealing the location of the body of ranch-hand Donald "Shorty" Shea, killed in 1969.

Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel:
2014 - Krenwinkel provides an interview for the documentary "Life After Manson," her first on-camera appearance since 1994.

December 2016 - California parole board members delay their decision on freeing Krenwinkel after her attorney raises claims of abuse by Manson, or another member of the cult. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issues a statement that the information presented at the hearing does elicit cause for an investigation.

June 22, 2017 - Krenwinkel is denied parole for the 14th time. She will be eligible again for consideration in five years.

Leslie Van Houten:
April 14, 2016 - A parole board panel recommends Van Houten's release, and the full Board of Parole Hearings will review the decision over the next four months.

September 6, 2017 - A two-person state commission panel grants Van Houten parole for the second time. The decision will go through a 120-day legal review before Governor Brown will have 30-days to decide whether Van Houten will be granted parole and released.

January 19, 2018 - Governor Brown denies parole for Van Houten, citing the horrific nature of the murders, Van Houten's eager participation, and his belief that she minimizes her role in the murders. She will be eligible for parole again in March 2019.

Charles D. "Tex" Watson:
October 27, 2016 - Watson is denied parole for the 17th time.

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If Morgan and Anissa never saw slenderman then what made them so scared to the point were they thought it was still a good idea to try to kill Bella ?

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1.How can we prove that morgan having schitzophrenia caused her to stab her friend?

2.Do you think if Morgan didn't meet Anissa would they be were they are now or would she have got caught up in something else?

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1. Why weren't the girls allowed a phone call or a lawyer before they were questioned by the detectives?
2. Should the girls have gotten as many years as they got even though the victim was not killed by the stabbing?

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An 11-year-old boy in Tennessee is facing first-degree murder charges in the death of an 8-year-old he shot after he asked to see her puppy and she said no. The boy used his father's 12-gauge shotgun, taking it from an unlocked closet, according to a story in the Washington Post. The local prosecutor will decide whether to charge the boy as an adult.

Nobody with a soul can seriously ignore the tragic nature of the death of any child. However, two wrongs do not make a right; prosecuting a very young child for murder and sending him to prison for life is tragic in and of itself. It essentially takes the life of another child and causes unimaginable heartache for others.

For centuries American and English common law held that children under age 14 were not legally capable of forming criminal intent. For any crime to occur, there must be the convergence of what is known as the "actus reus" (the guilty act) and the "mens rea" (the guilty mind, also known as criminal intent).

Without these two necessary pieces, a crime does not exist. State legislatures across America have largely changed the traditional common-law idea that children are unable to formulate criminal intent. There is no national standard in determining at what age a child can be treated as an adult in the criminal justice system. The result is that approximately 200,000 American children are charged and incarcerated every year -- as adults, according to the Open Society Foundations.

Fourteen states have no minimum age at which children can be prosecuted as adults, according to the Equal Justice Initiative. In some cases children younger than 10 have been prosecuted as adults.

I suggest that except for extraordinary circumstances, no child under the age of at least 17 should be sentenced to lengthy incarceration in adult jails. It is beyond debate that the human brain does not reach anything close to maturity until the early to mid 20s.

Therefore it stands to reason that an adolescent or prepubescent child cannot understand the nature and the consequences of their actions. Why, therefore, in a rational society would anyone think it is appropriate to apply adult consequences to the choices made by children?

The answer? Emotional knee-jerk reactions by politicians who pass laws without considering the bigger picture.

For example consider the case of little Amy Yates, age 8 at the time she died, strangled in Georgia in 2004.

At the time it was widely believed that her 12-year-old neighbor Jonathan Adams was guilty of the crime. According to Georgia law at the time the maximum penalty Adams could face was two years in confinement due to his age. He entered a plea without admitting guilt but it is now widely believed he was in fact innocent.

Nevertheless, the Georgia Legislature responded almost immediately and unanimously out of emotion and passed what is known as "Amy's Law" which would have provided for five years incarceration.

Every state in the United States has some procedure in place to prosecute children as adults under certain circumstances.

And there can be no doubt that sometimes it is appropriate to do so -- especially in cases where the offender is somewhat older and it can be shown that person is not capable of rehabilitation and where there is strong evidence of planning. Sometimes there may be evidence the person knew and understood the nature and consequences of their actions, which could justify an adult prosecution

But the fact remains that children are children -- they are not adults and their brains do not work the same as an adult. Just ask any parent. Children cannot enlist in the military. Children -- indeed, adults under 21, cannot legally order a beer. Children cannot enter into contracts. Children cannot make legal decisions for themselves, but they CAN be held to adult standards if they are charged with crimes.

And almost beyond belief, children can be executed for crimes they commit at very young ages.

Setting aside for the moment that the punishment may sometimes fit the crime, it is worth noting that children in adult prisons do you not fare well at all. Approximately 10,000 children are held in adult jails and prisons in the United States.

These are kids who are five times more likely to be raped or otherwise sexually assaulted than in juvenile facilities. The risk of suicide is likewise much higher for juveniles in adult jails. This raises the issue of whether prolonged incarceration of children violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

There is little if any evidence to suggest that treating juveniles as adults in the criminal justice system decreases crime or has any deterrent effect. In fact, what evidence does exist suggests the opposite. Studies show that incarcerating children more often than not results in higher rates of recidivism; essentially, it turns children into hardened criminals.

But I don't need studies to tell me this because I have seen it for myself.

I have worked in and around the criminal justice system for about 28 years. I was trained to believe that juvenile courts were courts of rehabilitation rather than punishment. I was trained to believe that children were salvageable whereas sometimes adults are not.

I still believe that to be the case, but in my lifetime there has been a drastic shift from notions of rehabilitation to quests for revenge and vengeance regardless of the age of the accused.

As a parent I know without question that children do not think about the world around them the way we adults do. They have little if any perspective and they often use poor judgment.

It may not be possible to come up with a bright line rule defining the age at which a child can be tried as an adult. It should depend on a case-by-case analysis based on the child's age and other relevant factors. This decision should be left to judges with the help of psychiatrists and psychologists rather than ad-hoc legislative determinations. After all, that's why we have judges -- to make decisions based on the totality of the circumstances.

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An 11-year-old boy in Tennessee is facing first-degree murder charges in the death of an 8-year-old he shot after he asked to see her puppy and she said no. The boy used his father's 12-gauge shotgun, taking it from an unlocked closet, according to a story in the Washington Post.

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Do you think that parents should tell there kids they might have a possibility of an illness if the parent has an illness?

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Two 12-year-old girls who are accused of viciously stabbing a classmate 19 times have been identified for the first time publicly since telling police that they plotted for months to commit murder.

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier face attempted murder charges after attacking their friend, saying that they did so because they wanted to join the cult of the 'Slender Man' after reading about him online.

The girls told investigators they believed the Slender Man was real and they wanted to prove it by slaughtering their friend after inviting her for a sleepover in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

The two suspects the knife back and forth between them before one girl held the victim down and the other stabbed her 19 times. It is not clear which one held the victim down and which had the knife.

One girl told detectives she regretted it and the other said she was sorry.

Geyser and Weier told police they read about the fictional character on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki, where scary stories are submitted by users.

One of the suspects is understood to have told police a user must kill someone in order to climb into the Slender Man's realm.

When the victim escaped in the midst of the assault, her assailants grabbed her and pulled her into the woods and told her to lay down and be quiet, hoping she would bleed out and die, according to court documents.

'I thought, "dear god, this was really happening"

-Suspect Anissa Weier told police about the moment she saw co-conspirator Morgan Geyser flash the knife she was holding in her waistband as they headed to the park to attempt to kill their friend

She eventually crawled out of the woods, covered in blood after being stabbed in the legs, arms and torso. A passing cyclist saw her and called police. The girl was taken to the hospital and is expected to live, despite being stabbed a dozen and a half times.

Surgeons say she was a 'millimeter from death' - one of the stab wounds nearly sliced open a major artery.

'It was weird that I didn't feel remorse,' one of the girls told detectives.

'The bad part of me wanted her to die, the good part of me wanted her to live,' the other girl said.

Both girls are charged as adults with attempted pre-meditated murder. If convicted, they face 65 years in prison and are being held on $500,000 bail each.

The criminal complaint spells out how the Geyser and Weier initially planned to put duct tape over their friend's mouth while she was sleeping and then stab her in the neck as she lay in bed, but then they thought that a bathroom would be a better scene for the crime because it would be easier to clean up after, according to CNN.

They opted against both of those theories, however, and chose to go for the attack during a game of hide and seek at a nearby park.

'As they left for the park ... (the victim) was walking in front of them and Geyser lifted up the left side of her white jacket and displayed the knife tucked in her waistband. Weier stated she gave Geyser a look with wide eyes and, when asked what that meant Weier stated, "I thought, dear god, this was really happening,"' the report states.

The girls were found walking near an interstate highway shortly after their victim was rescued. They had a backpack full of snacks and a five-inch knife.

They said they had planned to run away and join the Slender Man in his mansion in the woods outside of town. One girl even had a picture of her family with her. She said she packed it because she didn't want to forget what they looked like.

The Slender Man is a prevalent internet myth that has been a viral sensation since it emerged online in 2009. The paranormal creature stalks, abducts and traumatizes children for its own amusement. It can also supposedly control people and communicate telepathically.

The girls said they believed the 'Slender Man' was real after reading stories about him online on a site called CreepyPasta Wiki, where users can submit their own scary stories.

INTERNET MYTH OF SLENDER MAN

The Slender Man is a fictional character prevalent on the internet after originating as a meme in 2009.

The mythical creature is often depicted as an unnaturally tall, thin figure with a blank, featureless face, wearing a black suit.

The character is said to have long, tentacle-like arms, which can be extended to capture prey.

It is said to stalk, abduct and traumatize children and, depending on interpretations of the myth, can cause memory loss, insomnia and paranoia.

It is also said to be able to create distortions in photographs and teleport.

It is understood to have originated in a photoshop contest on the Something Awful Forums in 2009.

It then went viral with numerous works of fanart and short scary stories published online known as 'creepypasta'.

Every student at the middle school where the girls attend had recently been given iPads. Parents say officials promised to monitor the students' online activity, but never did.

'I recognize their young ages but it's still unbelievable,' Court Commissioner Thomas Pieper said during one of the girls' initial court appearances Monday.

Both girls appeared in court wearing shackles and jail jumpsuits. They were surrounded by sheriff's baliffs, who towered over them. Family members of one of the girls wept openly as reporters snapped photographs. The other girl's family sat stone-faced.

According to the criminal complaint, one of the girls told an investigator they began planning to kill their friend in December. The other girl told police they decided to kill her so they could become proxies of Slender Man, who would accept them and let them live with him in his mansion in the Nicolet National Forest.

The other girl said she sees Slender Man in her dreams. She said he watches her and can read her mind and teleport.

'It's extremely disturbing as a parent and as chief of police,' Waukesha Police Chief Russell Jack said at a news conference ahead of the court appearances Monday.

The girls invited their friend to a slumber party on Friday evening, the complaint said. They planned to kill her during the night so they wouldn't have to look into her eyes, one girl told police, and then run away.

They decided to put it off, but the next day, during a hide-and-seek game in a wooded park, they attacked their friend with a knife. One girl told the other to 'go ballistic, go crazy,' according to the complaint.

The victim began to scream that she hated them and started stumbling away, one of the girls told police.

The girls left the victim lying in the woods. She crawled to a road where a bicyclist found her lying on the sidewalk. Police arrived and she gave them the name of one of the girls who attacked her.

She was rushed into surgery, police said.

One of the girl's attorneys, Donna Kuchler, asked Pieper to remove reporters from the courtroom because she planned to attempt to get her client waived into juvenile court. Pieper refused. Kuchler escorted the girl's family out of the courtroom, telling reporters only that the family was horrified at what happened.

The other girl's attorney, Joseph Smith Jr., led her family out of court. He declined to comment.

Both girls are due back in court on June 11 for a status conference.

STATEMENT FROM CREEPYPASTA: 'SOMETHING ELSE HAS TO BE GOING ON THERE' FOR THE GIRLS TO JUMP FROM FANS TO ATTEMPTED MURDERERS

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Girls, 12, stab friend after becoming obsessed with 'Slender Man' myth

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Two 12-year-old girls who are accused of viciously stabbing a classmate 19 times have been identified for the first time publicly since telling police that they plotted for months to commit murder. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier face attempted murder charges after attacking their friend, saying that they did so because they wanted to join the cult of the 'Slender Man' after reading about him online.

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How was she so excited when she was in jail?

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Why didn't they take Morgan to a therapist or something ?

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What happens when a person has a mental illness and doesn't know ?

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Click the "plus" button on the right to add something new. You must add 3 questions for our socratic seminar (your questions are already written on your worksheet, I hope). You must also add a link to the article you found from the google classroom. Make a different post for each individual item. See my example. You can also link to video, btw, which can be a creative way to ask questions!

Make a SEPARATE post for each question and your link.

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How can we distinguish reality from fantasy?

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This video describes the difficulties kids have of telling fantasy from reality

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After the 'Slenderman' case, parents question when kids can distinguish between reality and fantasy.