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Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Jury Trials and Juveniles

Court held in 1998 that a 13-year-old first-degree murder defendant had the right to jury trial because state law allowed juries f...

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse and The Trial by Franz Kafka

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

Student Questions on State and Federal Judiciary Systems of the United States

al, 1998). These case will concern the interpretation of the law in important constitutional issues and the applications of feder...

Importance of the Trials of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

reflect upon. That is, at the time, there was a significant fear of communism. Many can look back to the Second World War when Hit...

Kafkaesque Perspectives on 'The Trial'

is the evidence that supports a link between biographical information and authorship? 3. What are the central factors in Metamorp...

America's System of Justice and the Influence of the British Examples

during the seventeenth century, where jurors were disqualified from judging if they had a precious knowledge of that case (Smith ...

The Dreyfus Affair by Michael Burns

which is epitomized by the extreme anti-Semitism of Madame de Janville (Gyp), who comments on Zolas supporters as men who are not ...

Trial Brief of Michael Ruiz

Illinois to St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Ruiz was eager to retrieve his luggage, which on the Jetstream 31 Turbo prop aircraft had be...

'On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored' by Marita Bonner and 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' by Zora Neale Hurston

what governs their overall behavior. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons ...

Team Concept Transitioning

is true of any firm. However, in the case study at hand, the team members were described as "knowledge workers" (Stewart, Manz & S...

Albert Camus' L'Etranger and Franz Kafka's The Trial Compared and Contrasted

on a rational and predictable outcome. However, as anyone knows, subjectivity can and does come into play in a courtroom. To assum...

Comparing Race Matters by Cornel West with Democracy on Trial by Jean Bethke Elshtain

scholarly texts of this type. Both Elshtain and West have much to say and are never shy about saying it. A debate between these ...

Rwanda, Genocide, and the War Between the Tutsis and Hutus

back layer after layer of incidents and events, it becomes clear that the conflict is not merely a tribal conflict. Nor is it prim...

Real Estate Investment

or selling dependent on the market (2003). Finally, real estate is an excellent investment because there are government benefits i...

Lee Boyd Malvo's Trial in the Beltway Sniper Case

not a stereotypical serial or spree killer--a middle aged white guy with an agenda--nor was it a criminal type. As it turned out, ...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

Trials and Evidence of Previous Convictions

(BBC News, 2002, Wadham, 2002).It has also been argued that with falling rating the government want to increase the conviction rat...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Challenges of English as a Second Language for High School Students

students do when trying to learn English. These special needs students are not routinely given the individualized attention they ...

Media Coverages of Juvenile Sniper John Lee Malvo's Trial

are known, as well as any new information. While, ostensibly, these accounts are straight journalistic accounts, which are presuma...

Race Matters by Cornel West and Democracy on Trial by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Tenured at the University of Chicago, Elshtain is a Spellman Professor of Philosophy and Political Ethics. Her views, consequentl...

French Revolution and Documents' Historical Importance

Enlightenment era and one where fruitful writing came about. In exploring revolutionary France, one can say that certain writings ...

Fairness of the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

been asked to commute the sentence but he refused. He said: "I am convinced that ...the Rosenbergs have received the benefit of ev...

Trial of O.J. Simpson

the jury members were selected, they were not under any direction not to watch the local newscasts and so would have been exposed ...

High Profile Criminal Cases and the Influence of the Media

be true of this case, but the danger of an overzealous media is that it turns the public into heroes. Perhaps not wanting to be em...

Guilt or Innocence in Robert Blake's Murder Case

is important for the student to realize how the inherent fallibility of first-hand testimony has been the focus of myriad debates,...

Wales and Englands' Trial by Jury System

It is this generalised and random nature of the jury that is often criticised. Those making the judgment have no special qualifica...

Small and Medium Sized Companies and Global Marketing

due to the competitive nature of business in general, this again is no longer the case. Small and medium sized businesses must exp...