I believe that is best answered through the movie “12 Angry Men”. “12 Angry Men”‚ is a movie that shows one of the many ways to defend justice. This movie represents‚ how we can defend justice‚ what can interfere with finding justice‚ and how some key elements in the justice system give everyone a fair fight. How we can defend justice is definitely the main theme shown throughout this movie. It shows one juror‚ amongst a group of 11 other men‚ refusing to allow one boy’s life to be taken away
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Sociology 12 Angry Men “12 Angry Men” focuses on a jury’s deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father‚ where a guilty verdict means automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming‚ saw the killing or
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focusing on each actor’s faces giving equal importance to all characters‚ which helps viewers to relate to the back stories each character‚ holds. Juror 8 appeals to the rational‚ sensible side of each of these personalities believing that they all men are able to question the social system if it has an alternative reality. What appears to be thwarting the rational thinking is; reluctance to go that extra mile beyond our own selfish
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The trial takes place on the ‘hottest day of the year’. This inevitable heat sets the stage for the aggression that arises in the most of the men hence the title ‘12 Angry Men’. Aggression can be described as any form of behavior that is intended to injure someone physically or psychologically. This suggest that aggression like any other behavior is provoked by many internal as well as external factors. Heat produces an uncomfortable arousal that may facilitate aggression. This is further defined
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Minority Matters: 12 Angry Men as a Case Study of a Successful Negotiation against the Odds Eirini Flouri and Yiannis Fitsakis In his famous book‚ Social Influence and Social Change‚ celebrated social psychologist Serge Moscovici contended that minorities influence change by creating conflict. Because people wish to avoid conflict‚ they will often dismiss the minority position. But when the minority refuses to be dismissed by remaining committed to its position and maintaining a well-defined and coherent
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12 Angry Men Themes What’s the most important thing when working in a group? In the play Twelve Angry Men‚ there are a lot of themes‚ but there are a couple that stuck out to me. Three themes that did are: honesty (if you want anything to work‚ there must be honesty) forgiveness‚ (someone can not hold a grudge over something that happened a long time ago.) cooperation(if there is no cooperation‚ nothing will get done). If you do not have these you‚ won’t get anything done. Honesty can mean many
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12 Angry Men Analysis The movie 12 Angry Men is a very abstract movie. It gets the audience thinking about the clues and the fact of the matter which is if the boy is actually guilty. This movie shows many of the concepts that are talked about in our book and in our class. The movie is about an 18 year old boy whose mother has died when he was 9. He has lived in many orphanages and has a juvenile record. His father has been in and out of jail for many things‚ and on one night that the boy
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12 Angry Men Constellation of Variables In group communications theory‚ there are labeling terms for each contributing member of the group‚ and how the group interacts among one another - the result is group communication. These contributing factors of situation‚ goals‚ roles‚ norms‚ and cohesiveness make up the constellation of variables. The film 12 Angry Men depicts the constellation of variables. In the film‚ twelve jurors in a hot room‚ forced to deliberate the fate of a man accused of
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The movie 12 Angry Men is about the jury deliberation in a criminal case against an eighteen year old Latino who is accused of stabbing his father to death. It starts after the defense and the prosecution have presented all the evidence and the jury goes to the jury room to decide the guilt or innocence of this man. The whole movie takes place in the jury room. The case was supposed to be an open and shut case with all the evidence proving the Latino was guilty. Eleven jurors found the man guilty
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the law of their civil rights‚ without discrimination. Justice is one of the great concerns of humankind. It is something for which people over centuries have been willing to struggle and even die. Examples of Justice are novels 12 Angry Men and The Green Mile. 12 Angry Men is a novel written by Reginald Rose in 1955. The story takes place in 1957 in the jury-room of a New York Court of Law. It is about a young delinquent who is on trial for the murder of his aggressive farther. Eleven jurors are
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