An Analysis of A Civil Action A Civil Action is a movie based on a real life case that took place several years ago. Several families of Woburn‚ a small town‚ were alleging that chemicals spilled by local plants had contaminated their drinking water. Reckless‚ careless dumping of chemicals at a tanning plant‚ they discovered‚ must have caused the chemical spill. This contamination‚ they believed‚ caused several children of the town to become sick with leukemia and eight of the children died;
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A Civil Action When multiple children in the city of Woburn contracted leukemia amongst other diseases‚ the parents believed that it was because of contamination from the local wells. The parents wanted an apology from the people that ruined their lives‚ so they filed a lawsuit. Jan Schlichtmann‚ a personal injury lawyer‚ was asked to be the lead attorney on the case. He first went in looking for a settlement. He commented on how the point of civil court is to settle. “They settle. Out of the 780
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the sociological contributions provided by functionalist Emile Durkheim‚ the ideas he posited and the criticisms both internal and external that were prompted by his theory of suicide. Suicide is undeniably one of the most personal actions an individual can take upon oneself and yet it has a deep social impact. Could this be because social relationships play such an important role in its causation? In a sociological study Emile Durkheim produced his theory of suicide‚ and its relationship with society
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evolves through time‚ concepts and perceptions in relation to the construction of deviance are altered as new cultural customs are installed; and when analyzing such topic‚ two different approaches can be analyzed. To a functionalist approach‚ Emile Durkheim argues that deviance is bound to occur through an individual’s experience with freedom‚ once norms developed are distinct in different societies. Conjunctively‚ the sociologist argued that deviance is necessary for a successful society. On the contrary
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they have the duty to do good to the world. In the movie "A Civil Action"‚ Jonathan Harr and Steven Zaillian‚ starring John Travolta‚ you see how hard it is to distinguish who wins when it comes down to social responsibility. Many people‚ mainly children‚ suffered and died in the city of Woburn‚ Massachusetts due to the city drinking water‚ from the river‚ being polluted. They named two companies that are to be held responsible for these actions. The companies who are responsible for the water
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Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was a French sociologist who helped establish sociology by arguing that society had to be studied on its own terms that understanding individual psychology was insufficient. Durkheim believed that societies are held together by shared values‚ which change over time as societies become bigger and more complex. Functionalism‚ theory sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. This theory looks at society based on a macro
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Emile Durkheim – Suicide: A Study in Sociology Durkheim investigated suicide and categorized into four separate types as follows: egoistic‚ altruistic‚ anomic‚ and fatalistic. He explored egoistic suicide through the three religions of Protestant‚ Catholicism‚ and Judaism as well as an investigation into married and unmarried people. He explored altruistic suicide through interpretation of primitive and Eastern societies. He explored anomic suicide by examining economic and financial crises
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Engineer and Bricoleur‚ Religion and Mythical Thinking In his text The Elementary Forms of Religious Life‚ Emile Durkheim is primarily interested in the functionalism of religion within society. Durkheim does not limit himself to religion; he also focuses on society’s structure and its preservation. In The Savage Mind‚ Claude Lévi-Strauss focuses on the theory of mythical thinking. Strauss analyzes and discusses society and how its structure is a result of mythical thinking. Strauss spends a lot
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Emile Durkheim was born on April 15‚ 1858 at Epinal in the eastern French Province of Lorraine. His father had been a rabbi and so had his fathers before him. Growing up Durkheim studied Hebrew‚ the Old Testament and the Talmud‚ intending to become a rabbi himself. Along with his religious studies‚ he also had regular course studies at a secular school. After his thirteenth birthday‚ after his traditional Jewish confirmation‚ he developed an interest in Christianity due to his Catholic teacher. He
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I’m not a big fan of action movies. What bothers me is not that the protagonist is most often chased throughout the movie‚ jumping out of (through‚ onto) moving vehicles‚ dangling from or climbing the walls‚ delivering shots or skillfully escaping various projectile weapons. It’s that once the excitement is done‚ nothing much remains. It gets tired and tiring very quickly‚ and in the end makes me feel that I would have as good of a time trying to cross a very busy Toronto intersection
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