The Laramie Project

... recently read your play, The Laramie Project, in my Humanities class while attending Sage College of Albany. I found the read to be quite compelling. It brought me to think of the world in a whole new light and left me with many questions on human behavior. It seems unreal to me that there can be people as cold and heartless as the boys who have committed such ... i'm quite sure it would have been somebody else, it's ignorance at it's best. I had heard of the Matthew Shepard story prior to reading your book, it was only upon reading The Laramie Project that I got the whole story and the...

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... many new hate crime laws to be passed, and also got Moises Kaufman to take members of his Tectonic Theater Project, to interview people in Laramie. He developed "The Laramie Project", a play about the story of Matthew Shepard. What is a hate crime? Is it a crime committed with hate involved, or ... is it a crime committed because of hate. This has been the government's difficult job to determine. Some of the new hate crime laws were defined in the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2000. This also gave the ... like gays. If a group decided that they do not want blacks living on th...

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... Saturday, October 5th, I attended the play, "The Laramie Project". At first, I was not really excited to see this play. It was a Saturday night and I hate going to any kind of theatre, including movie theatres. However, I thought this play was well done and I actually enjoyed the play. The play begins as a research group first descends on the small town of Laramie Wyoming. This western town of ... critic; however I do think that some of the actors were obviously better than the other actors. I"m not sure if this is true for every play, but for the Laramie project there were some actors t...

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... for itself after the horrific murder of gay college student Matthew Shepherd in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. GLAAD members went to Laramie and initiated a national discussion to bring awareness to the often ignored issue of anti-gay violence. Following the Laramie incident, many Americans eyes opened to the atrocities so many people are put through, simply because of who they love. (The Laramie Project) With the guidance of GLAAD, the AP Stylebook ... , lauded as the journalist's bible, added a list of ... ...

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... people to exercise their right to free speech. An example of intolerance can be found in Missoula. This local example of expressing freedom of speech is here on the campus of the University of Montana. A production of The Laramie Project, a play by Moises Kaufman, is based upon interviews with the Laramie, Wyo., residents following the violent death of a homosexual male college student, Matthew Shepard. A theatrical production produced for ... the intent of artistic endeavor is protected by the First Amendment, according to Renz. However, Fred Phelps, the pastor of Westboro Baptist Chur...

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... English class, along with many others, has been assigned to read The Laramie Project, a play about the 1998 murder of Mathew Shepard, a gay college student in Laramie, Wyoming. The book gives a description of what happened on the night of the murder, who was involved, and the reaction of locals in the small town of Laramie. It makes you feel guilty and ignorant if you have biased ... or her belief. But, add the other students in class that already shared the same view as the teacher and the ones who have changed theirs because of the teacher's influence and now there's much more pressure...

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... and it was good, but I got kind of bored with it, and I think I would rather go to a non musical. 6. In the play The Laramie Project I would be cast as one the play members that come from New York to interview the people from Laramie. I would try to put myself in their shoes and try to figure out what really happened to Matthew Shepard that day. Even thought ... . They have daily problems that were a big deal back in the 70's. It's kind of funny because they had many different laws that now a days are illegal. They usually solve their problems by sitting in a circle and smoke weed which ...

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... effect Matthew and his family and friends, but the whole town of Laramie. Media stormed into the town and stayed for long periods of time while persistently galling all of Laramie. As one native of Laramie points out, "Honey, it's still all about Laramie."" Matthew Shepard's story was made into a theatre production, which then became the film "The Laramie Project- in 2002. The film stars Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Clea DuVall ... , Joshua Jackson, and many other very talented actors. Matthew's friends, family, and the world mourned his death that day and ... ...

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... crime is a criminal offense committed against a person or property which is motivated, in a whole or in a part, by the offender's bias against race, religion, disability, ethnicity/national origin, or sexual orientation (2). The Shepard trial and the numerous projects (mainly entitled "The Laramie Project") have changed the way society sees the way courts deal with committers of hate crimes today. Lawmakers have been asked to make these new laws ... that give steeper punishments to hate crime committers, and this is starting to have an effect on the society around all of us. People whom...

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