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Summary Of In The Unlikely Event Of A Water Landing

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In the story “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing" by Christopher Noes, it explains the murder of Catherine Genovese. In 1964 Kitty was brutally killed by Winston Moseley. The murder took place around 3a.m. The crime lasted 35 minutes with three separate attacks. She screamed so, 38 witnesses saw the scene and offered no assistance. Moseley attack Kitty in three different occasions. The first time he saw the lights flickered on in the crowded urban neighborhood so he left. The second time someone yelled “leave the poor girl alone” and left again. But since he noticed that no one was helping he came back a third time, to rape and finish killing Kitty. Two young psychologists did a study on “Crisis Management”, the experiment was done by

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